Rebirth Space Farming

Chapter 80 The Great Interlude Before Spring Ploughing
"After the rain stops, shouldn't it be time to sow seeds?" Village head Jin Dafu has been asking the same question since the first day of the new year.

Compared with the blizzard at Cornell University, the rain in the mountains is still subtle.The rain is not heavy, but it just keeps falling, starting from the beginning of the year until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month.

When every household made sesame seeds and prepared glutinous rice balls for the 15th Lantern Festival, the village chief Jin Dafu sat in the dining room of the Zhu family, still sighing this sentence.

Xiao Xian sat aside, peeling the peanut shells in his hand, preparing to make glutinous rice balls with peanut kernels.

"It's almost there. Last year, I remember that Xiaoxian planted the rice after the new year. I also said that the rice is so cold-resistant. It turns out that the seeds are good." Sisters of Lian held a pestle in her hand and tossed the fried black sesame seeds. Pour it into a rice pounder, pound it, and the fragrant sesame smell makes people's nose itchy.

The glutinous rice flour is made by grinding the glutinous rice grown by Wang Mazi’s family in the village. There is a shortage of everything in Gecun, except the tools for hand-grinding rice and pounding sesame seeds.

The color of the newly ground glutinous rice is grayer than those sold in the city, so you can’t be so picky when you eat it at home. When kneading glutinous rice balls, you need to add some rice flour into it. People have endless aftertaste.

"No, I'll go to the temple to ask for a lottery and choose an auspicious day to plant the rice." After the village meeting last year, the village head distributed the rice seeds to each household at a rate of [-] catties. up.

Waiting for the beginning of spring this year, it can be sown.Just as he was talking, the door of the Zhu family was knocked open.

"Village chief, I heard from my sister-in-law that you are here, so I came here." How big is Ge Village, and there are only so many old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the village. , pulling two seven or eight-year-old children by himself, one of them was Xiaoxian's classmate, a short, dry-looking girl.

"Sister Wangcai, come in, it's windy and rainy outside, Sister Lian's glutinous rice balls are almost ready, let's come in and eat together." Except for a few specific households, the villagers in Ge Village rarely get close to Zhu's family Yes, in their eyes, Zhu Shijun is still somewhat mysterious.

An old man took his granddaughter with him. Not long after he came to the village, there was a big commotion, and he was farming and getting closer to the Miao people.Many people passed by Zhu Shijun's house and had to take a few steps around.

Mrs. Wangcai looked a little hesitant, but it was Sisters of Lotus who pulled her in and asked her to sit down.The glutinous rice balls were on the table soon, and Xiao Xian couldn't wait to take a bite, and happily swallowed the tongue-burning pork lard, sesame and peanut stuffing.

"Village Chief, I came here today to ask if I could have another twenty catties of rice seeds." Mrs. Wangcai held the mouth of the bowl with frostbite marks on her hands.

"Sister-in-law Wangcai, the men in your family left early, and you only have five acres of land, and fifty catties of rice seeds should be enough to distribute." of.Originally, the family paid [-] catties for adults and halved the share for children, and Mrs. Wangcai's family could only distribute [-] catties of rice seeds. The village head deliberately treated her boys as adults.

"It's all my fault for being confused. When the rice seeds first came out, I didn't take good care of them. When I saw them at the beginning of the year, they were all eaten by mice," Mrs. Wangcai lowered her head, her nose turned red, and she twitched.

The village head had no choice but to get fifty catties of rice seeds for her, and repeatedly told her to be careful this time.

Before leaving, Mrs. Wangcai took away the bowl of glutinous rice balls, saying that it was a big festival, and the two children in the family hadn't eaten the glutinous rice balls yet, so she took them back for the children to eat together.

After hearing this, Aunt Lian couldn't help wiping the corners of her eyes, "It's hard for her." Xiao Xian lost her appetite after listening to her words, and the last dumpling in the bowl was just in her mouth. Not even spit, just worried that if I was not careful, I would tell the truth.

Before the bowl of glutinous rice balls was removed, there was another knock on the door of the Zhu family. This time it was the oldest lady in the village, Bai Granny, who was 87 years old. Regardless of the rainy day, she dragged a walking stick to the door. up.

"Little Jin," Grandma Zhao opened her toothless mouth. All the people of Jin Dafu's age in the village were raised by Grandma Zhao. "I'm here to ask you for rice seeds. You also know that there is a rain leak in my house, and the twenty catties of rice seeds are all soaked in water. It's impossible to grow them."

After finally helping Granny Zhao away, the village chief hadn't sat down to say a word to Zhu Shijun when another person came.

Xiao Xian pretended to yawn, saying that she was going to sleep first, but she muttered in her heart: "They are lying."

The rice seeds she planted with her own hands, she still doesn't know that when she was sowing, she happened to meet the iron car and "ate" the iron cart, and the rice seeds that were stained with the aura of the iron space were first-class pest-proof, The rice husk is as hard as iron sheet.

Mrs. Gangwang Cai said that the rice seeds were eaten by mice, and she was already suspicious. If the mice really wanted to eat such rice seeds, they would definitely not be able to digest them and would swell to death.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, more than [-] groups of people came from the neglected families. From being stolen by mice to being soaked in rainwater, the most outrageous statement is that when you wake up early in the morning, you can see that all the rice seeds in the rice tank are gone. Without a shadow, even the village chief, no matter how simple and honest he was, could tell something was wrong.

"What's going on, what's going on here, there are more than [-] households, and nearly [-] catties of rice seeds, why are they all gone." The village chief shook his head anxiously, and Zhu Shijun remained silent.The rice seeds were bought from Zhu Shijun at a discounted price of one yuan per catty in the village, and it was almost half sold and half given away.

But it still cost several thousand yuan for rice seeding, plus the farm fertilizer money that the village will subsidize in the later stage. Before the rice seed is planted, Ge Village will go bankrupt.

"No, I have to ask about tonight," the village head got up and said goodbye, without even holding an umbrella, he approached the night, looking at his back, very pitiful.

In Ge Village, the more than 20 people who had been begging for food all entered the house of the same family one after another.

Qian Yongfu took the last bag of rice seeds, counted out 100 yuan, and sent away the last group of villagers.

Wang Chunhua lit a field full of rice seeds, "Father, what do you do with so many rice seeds? Didn't you tell Jin Dafu not to farm? What's so good about farming? It's bitter and tiring. Hands of mud."

"What do you know, this is imported rice, and it's wasted when it's used for seeding. The hulled rice is sold for four yuan a catty in the market. Once we change hands, we'll make double the money. We'll ask Duoduo to come back tomorrow. Once it’s sold, it’s another sum of money,” the branch secretary glared at his wife, because there are too many stupid women and children like her in Gecun, so it’s still poor until now.

"What a village secretary, if you are willing to devote half of your mind to the affairs of the village, Uncle Jin won't have such a headache." Xiao Xianjian went into the back room under the pretext of sleeping, and followed Granny Zhao to find the money Party secretary, after all, it was because of Party secretary Qian that he was doing bad things. He is really a heartless and black-hearted dog.

"Pile all the rice seeds in the corner, and when my son comes back, I'll transport them to the foot of the mountain and sell them for a good price," Qian Zhishu and his wife groped in the house for a while, and when the lights in the house were turned off, the little fresh thief laughed. .

Early the next morning, Zhishu Qian was pushed awake, "Old man, it's terrible." It was the first time that Zhishu Qian, who had spent most of his life with Wang Chunhua, heard his wife use such a tone.

"What are you yelling, it's early in the morning, it's like going mad," Qian Zhishu turned over, only to feel that the bed was cold, the ice was nothing, the secretary didn't even have time to pull on his cotton trousers, Get up.

His tile-roofed house actually leaked, but it was just built at the end of the year before last, and he was going to settle the score with Jute, who built the house in the village.

This waking up was even more terrible. Qian Zhishu's magnificent tile-roofed house, which is one of the best in the village, was completely soaked in water.The reason for the flooding was not because the house was not well repaired and water entered, but because the roof of their house had a big hole.

"Old man, what is that? A lot of rice," Wang Chunhua was so frightened that she couldn't even close her mouth.

"It's rice. How come there are so many rice? Or did it grow overnight?" Qian Yongfu scrambled out of the bed and ran to the corner where the rice seeds were piled up last night. The 800-jin rice seeds disappeared. It flew away, the house was covered with calf-high straw, and for some reason there was a big hole in the roof, and the rain kept pouring in.

"Oh, it can't be that the Bodhisattva knew that we had moved the rice seeds in the village and came to repay it," Wang Chunhua said in the mouth of Amitabha. She has never seen rice grow into rice overnight when she is so old.If it weren't for the half-foot-deep water under her feet, she really thought it was a dream.

In the water under the feet of Qian Yongfu and his wife, there was an invisible layer of green floating.

"What nonsense, did you eat shit and eat your brain last time, didn't you? What are you doing in a daze, go find a sickle, and chop up those things before no one in the village finds out. It's a hell of a thing." Secretary Qian yelled and cursed, seeing that all the furniture in the room was soaked in water, even the rice jars were filled with water, he was so anxious that he just wanted to scold his father.

There was a big hole in the roof, and it would cost a lot of money to repair, and the furniture was flooded again, which was another sum of money, and the worst thing was the rice money that was spent for no reason, which cost him almost 2000 yuan.

The village head, Jin Dafu, also woke up early, wanting to go door-to-door to the villagers’ homes to ask specific questions about rice seeds. On the rice seeds above, a mouse was drawn with a pen.

"Could it be that the mouse who stole the rice brought the rice seeds back?" The village chief looked around, no one was there, and then looked at the rice seeds, weren't they the same rice seeds he had distributed to the villagers earlier?
After more than half a month of rain, it finally stopped. The village head got the rice seeds again, not to mention how happy he was. If you lose the rice seeds again, you won't have to pay for it.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, when the cold spring was warming up, the sun came out in the sky. On the ground in Gecun, Zhu Shijun twirled his beard, looked at the fertile soil in the field, and kept nodding his head. The spring sowing was about to begin. up.

(End of this chapter)