Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 72 Promoting advanced experience
The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the day when the dragon raises its head.

From this day on, everything in the northern land recovers, the rain increases, and the lively spring plowing begins.

However, the spring in the Loess Plateau seems to be much later than other places. It is still minus seven or eight degrees at night, and the ice on the Dongla River has not melted yet.

However, the barber shop in the town started to get busy. Early in the morning, people crowded side by side and lined up in a long line, wanting to take care of their hair that had accumulated for dozens of days.

If you can't get in line, you'll cut some hair with scissors yourself, in order to get a good head in the new year... shave the dragon head.

Even the orchids are not immune to the vulgarity, they were made early, and twelve longan sockets were steamed out.

There is also a pit on the top of each nest, which represents twelve months. After marking, put it in a pot and steam it.

When it comes out of the pot, look at which nest has more water vapor, which means that there will be abundant rainfall in that month... Wang Manyin naturally would not believe this kind of nonsense prediction method, but he did not stop it.

In a word, respect tradition.

In the early years, people held a rooster meeting on the night of February [-].Kill a rooster, offer incense, light firewood, sacrifice to the old dragon, and pray for good weather for a year.

But now is the new society, so naturally no one does this.

After February [-], the production team went out to work more often.

As he gradually integrated into this era, Wang Manyin was not very resistant to going to work in the production team.

Now there is not much farm work in the fields, except for transporting manure and plowing furrows to plow the spring fields.

You don't need to work hard, just spend time mixing work.

Chatting and laughing with the villagers, squatting on the ground and talking nonsense, without feeling tired, and deepening the relationship by the way.

The reason why Wang Manyin went to work was another consideration.

Although there is a consignment store at home, I can't just stay at home with Lan Hua.

It's okay if the time is short... If you don't work all year round, you just point to the consignment point to live, eat and drink every day, and the villagers must discuss it behind your back.

Over time, things will happen.

The reason why the predecessor can be so chic after marriage and still run around here and there is mainly because Lanhua came out of the mountains to earn work points to support his family.Coupled with the continuous support from her natal family, it is possible to barely maintain this rotten family.

Now Wang Manyin is naturally unwilling to do this, for the sake of safety, he still decided not to make his house look obtrusive.

Of course, he takes time off every few days.

The reason is also resounding... go to the supply and marketing social network to replenish the stock.

On the contrary, Lanhua wanted to go to the production team to work with her several times, but was rejected by Wang Manyin, and she was only asked to greet the agency and her family.

There is nothing to do at home except cooking.Lanhua planned to read and study in her spare time, but soon found that it was impossible.

Some time ago, there was typhus in the village, and with the snow, the consignment point was quite clean.

After the first month, most of the aunts and old ladies recovered and began to become active.

After they had eaten, they came to sell some reports on an agency with their needlework on time.Instead of sitting in the cave, I just squatted on the cliff face to bask in the sun.

A group of people chatted while busy, and occasionally drove a few express trains that made Lanhua blush.

They won't pack up and leave until the men are about to get off work.

Lanhua is also very depressed, they are all fellow villagers, and there is no way to drive people away.

Helpless, she had to follow along with her needlework.During this period of time, two pairs of insoles were successively made for Manyin, plus a pair of mille-soled cloth shoes.

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A few days after starting work, another heavy snowfall decorated the entire Guanzi Village.

Now the climate on the Loess Plateau is much colder than in later generations, and snow is common in February.

Peach blossoms and snow in March, Qingming is windy and cold.

Even in March and April, there is still the possibility of snow.

After a snowfall, the production team stopped again.

Zhao Jianhai was not idle. After holding a meeting in the commune, he called a meeting with villagers in the evening to publicize the advanced farming experience newly invented by farmers in a certain place... called "plowing furrows and slipping seeds".

Wang Manyin still had a very upright attitude, leaning against the wall and listening with his ears, without expressing any opinion on it.

Listening to the long introduction on the stage, Liu Xiangyang couldn't help asking curiously: "Brother Wang, can this kind of experience really increase crop production?"

He had never planted land before, so he instinctively felt that something was wrong.

"Hehe, I don't have any experience in farming, you have to think about it yourself." Wang Manyin said ambiguously, and continued to draw circles on the ground with branches.

The so-called "plowing the furrows and slipping seeds" means that the front is plowing the field with oxen, and the rear is dedicated to sowing seeds along the furrows.

In theory, this can artificially control the density of seedlings, thereby saving seeds.

Of course, if your hands are shaking, there is nothing you can do.

On the contrary, Wang Shouchang didn't have any scruples, and replied in a low voice: "It's completely nonsense, plowing furrows and slipping seeds, our ancestors have invented it since the time of Qin Shihuang... Now that the production team has wooden columbine, isn't it more troublesome and labor-saving than this? And once Three lines can be planted, and one labor less..."

Before he finished speaking, he was slapped on the back of the head.

It was my brother Wang Fuchang who beat him.

"Every time you have a meeting, you talk a lot, and you are full, showing whether you can do it."

"Brother, I can't speak well if I have something to say. I think I'm going to be a master soon, and you still fight?" Wang Shouchang replied depressedly.

In a word, the people around him burst out laughing.

Wang Shouchang's son, Wang Junshan, just got married a few days after the new year. When he gets married this year, he will be a grandfather.

It's a bit embarrassing for a man who is almost 50 years old to be beaten by his brother in public.

"It means that if you are a master, you should fight and fight. If you don't fight, you won't have a long memory. You just talk nonsense."

Wang Fuchang repeatedly beat and reprimanded him, and finally made Wang Shouchang shut up.

They were far away from the stage and crouched in the dark, which did not attract Zhao Jianhai's attention.

After Wang Manyin and Lan Hua had breakfast and dealt with a few shopping customers, they went back to their natal home early.

Wang Manyin was still holding a cloth bag in his hand, which contained four or five catties of vermicelli and several corn nests.

Of course, candy is indispensable.

Since he opened the consignment point, Shaoping and Lanxiang have hardly broken candies.

Every once in a while, there will be a meal of meat.

With sufficient nutrition, the faces of the two little guys are obviously more moisturized than other children.

As for the vermicelli, it was made by Wang Manyin in the space a few days ago.

There are two types, the potato vermicelli is slightly lighter in color, and the sweet potato vermicelli is brown.

While going to the supply and marketing agency to purchase goods, he brought back more than ten catties and said he bought them from the black market.

Orchid is used to it and has no doubts.

Wang Manyin did not have much experience in doing it for the first time, and he did not master the skills well.

Therefore, the vermicelli are made of different thicknesses, and there are many bumps in them, which look like "toad tadpoles".

But the taste is awesome, especially after frying with lard residue.It is absolutely delicious when you eat it in your mouth.Taking advantage of the time today, I happened to send some to my father-in-law's house.

When the two entered the courtyard, they found that a new hole had been dug on the surface of the kiln in the courtyard.

The progress is just three feet deep, and Sun Yuhou is busy inside.

"Dad, is our family building a new kiln?" Lan Hua shouted.

It seems that after listening to his man's persuasion, my father finally turned his mind around and planned to build a new kiln.

Hearing the sound, Old Man Sun quickly turned his head and greeted him: "Man Yin, Lan Hua, are you here?"

The voices in the courtyard also startled Shaoping and Lan Xiang, who rushed up and shouted enthusiastically.

For the two little ones, the brother-in-law has become the most popular person in the family, bringing them delicious food every time he comes.

Then, the hostess Liu Erni also went out to greet her.

The family entered the cave, greeted grandma, and chatted for a while, Wang Manyin followed the old father-in-law to dig the cave together.

These days, it's normal for a son-in-law to work for his father-in-law's family, and he has to behave well.

Wang Manyin had dug a cave for his own family, so he was considered experienced, and he just started doing it.

Sun Yuhou helped to shovel and transport the earth, and talked about the experience of digging the kiln.

According to him, the cliff that his family occupies belongs to the top class... Mr. Yin Yang from Mijia Town used a compass to look at it.It is said that the soil veins and Fengshui of this place are the best in Shuangshui Village, and college students will be born in the future!
Knowing that his son-in-law is tight-lipped and has no outsiders, the old man is not afraid of being called superstitious.

In the final analysis, this is the simplest expectation of the bottom farmers.

I hope that my descendants can change their destiny and no longer need to dig food from the soil.

Wang Manyin felt that Mi Yinyang's calculations were really accurate, and later Lan Xiang was admitted to a national key university, which was considered a golden phoenix flying out of Tugelao.

If Shaoping hadn't been for various reasons, with his academic performance, it should be easy for him to be admitted to university.

The two chatted while working, and when they were eating at noon, the cave dwelling moved more than two feet into the cave.

For lunch, I scrambled eggs, added a large bowl of sauerkraut, and drank vermicelli soup.

With the standard of living of the old father-in-law's family, he definitely treats distinguished guests.

After eating and taking a rest, Weng and his son-in-law continued to work.

In order to prevent accidents, they didn't dare to dig too much, and stopped when they reached three feet.

The snow has not yet melted, and the production team will not be on work for the next few days.Wang Manyin and Lanhua went to Shuangshui Village to report every day, and of course they brought their own dry food every time.

As a result, the quality of the food at the father-in-law's family has been greatly improved.

In a few days, the kiln was dug to a depth of more than four meters, barely able to put some farm tools and so on.

(End of this chapter)