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Chapter 142 Like Grandpa Pulling Your Ear
"Mobile sprinkler system?" asked happily.

"That's right." Yu Fei nodded and said, "It's very similar to the one in the cattle farm, but it can be moved. It can be removed after the entire growth period of the bellflower is over, so that it will not delay the digging of the bellflower. matter."

"That's a lot of money?" asked happily.

"It's not too expensive. I asked about it. It costs about five or six hundred for an acre of land. After the construction is completed, it basically costs nothing. If you use a pipe to water the land like before, it will cost more than ten yuan an hour. , the calculation is quite appropriate." Yu Fei said.

After listening to it, he said with joy and emotion: "It seems that in the future, I will have to follow you when planting land."

Yu Fei nodded and said, "Follow me, don't get lost."

He quickly looked at him with the eyes of a mentally retarded person and said, "It's not that I got lost, I just took it to the pit."

This time Yu Fei had enough hits, and wanted to go up and kick him, but he dodged him, and shouted meanly: "I can't hit me, I can't hit me."

Yu Fei said angrily: "Hurry up and get on the cart. If you can't finish today, I will find you ten or eight women for you to plow deeply. If the plow is not penetrated, you will not get out of bed."

While climbing on the tractor happily, he said: "If this is the case, I really can't finish it for you today, and I have to wait for your punishment."

"Why are you so ink-stained?" Yu Fei said: "I'll find you a few after you finish your work today, and I will take you with me next time I go to the county town or the medicine capital. If you don't let me When your legs come out weak, I will give you a few more for you to repeat."

"Then it's settled." Said happily while starting the tractor.

Although he has always been unreliable in his words, he is very serious in his work, and the legs of the building are basically in a straight line, followed by a round roller to flatten the gully that was just opened. Bury the bellflower seeds shallowly in the soil.

"With this, it's much easier." The old man Zhang, who was attracted by the noise of the tractor, said: "In the past, it would take a lot of people to work all day just to sow seeds in these fields. Now, one person and one machine It can be done in a day.”

When Yu Fei was young, he saw his elders planting platycodon grandiflora. They would level the ground in advance and break up the larger soil, then mix the platycodon grandiflorum seeds with some crushed soil and sprinkle them on the ground with hands. in the field.

When sowing seeds, you have to watch the sky. Do not scatter when the wind is too strong, because the wind will wrap the seeds unevenly, and even form a large blank area. When the wind is low, you must pay attention to the direction of the wind, otherwise it will be easy. Will repeat.

At that time, the task of sowing seeds was handed over to some more experienced elders, while others used a wide rake to pull them in a certain order behind them, so as to turn the newly sown seeds into the soil. below the layer.

Platycodon grandiflora is a superficial plant that cannot grow if it is buried deep, so it only needs to be covered with a thin layer of soil. Even if the weather is better, it can germinate and survive on the surface of the soil layer.

In the past, when the platycodon was planted, it was selected in the season of the previous year. At that time, the weather was relatively cold, and it was necessary to cover the newly planted platycodon seeds with a thick layer of heat preservation, that is, to cover them with a layer of wheat straw, and wait until When the weather warms up, the seeds germinate and then hug them.

Later, it was developed to use mulch for covering, but due to technical reasons, it was quickly given up. Later, when the weather was not so cold in the next year, the temperature began to rise when the seeds began to germinate.

Yu Fei handed old man Zhang a cigarette and said: "This shows that the times are progressing. When I was a child, I still had to get up early to cut wheat with a sickle, and then use stone rollers to grind it in the field. , How many years has it been since the combine harvesters have already gone to the ground.”

"Yes." Old man Zhang said with great emotion: "It used to take several days to harvest wheat every time, and it was necessary to build a farm in advance on the field, and we could chat while working on the nearby fields. Now it takes about 10 minutes for an acre of land, and then find a place to dry the wheat."

Yu Fei also experienced the kind of life that old man Zhang said when he was a child. Whenever the wheat season came, the family would pick out a piece of land with a wider body in advance, and first use a sickle to cut out a small open space on the ground. , and then sprinkled with wheat bran, which is the layer of skin on the top of the ear that wraps the wheat.

Then sprinkle water on it and roll it back and forth with stone rollers until the ground becomes smooth and firm. When Yu Fei was young, he liked to walk barefoot in the freshly ground ground. It was cool and not prickly. Very comfortable.

At that time, there was no such thing as a combine harvester. When harvesting wheat, it was basically cut off one by one with a sickle, and then pulled to the field by a cart.

The cart is a magic tool for pulling goods in the plain area. It has a panoramic sunroof and fully automatic stepless speed change. It is rumored that the fuel consumption per [-] kilometers only needs four to six steamed buns. It depends on the appetite of the cart puller. It can also be converted into a donkey cart, horse cart, etc. , but at that time the most power input was still mainly manpower.

After a few horizontal sticks are tied to the cart, its carrying capacity is greatly increased several times immediately, but it is limited to pulling some wheat straw with wheat ears, as well as bean seedlings and sweet potato seedlings, which are relatively light but occupy a relatively large area. Many crops.

After pulling the wheat ears to the field with a cart, they began to scatter them, trying to let each ear of wheat get the sun as much as possible, and sometimes turned it back and forth several times under the sun.

When the sun slant westward to a certain degree, it is time for the walking tractor to enter the field, hang a stone roller behind it, and grind the wheat in the field back and forth several times, and the adults will turn the wheat back and forth with a wooden fork to ensure Every ear of wheat can be crushed.

After the tractor leaves the field, the adults will use a wooden fork to pick up the crushed straw and pile it in a corner of the field, leaving chaff and wheat on the ground, as well as some crushed straw and leaves. mixture.

Using tools to push all these to the middle is what Yu Fei likes to do most. It is very fulfilling to push out a clean passage in a pile of messy inner mixture.

When those mixtures are piled up in a pile, it is the time for father to show his prowess. Yangchang (chāng) is a technical job. After determining the wind direction, use a wooden shovel to scoop up a shovel of mixture and throw it into the air, drawing an arc. That was a skill that Yu Fei had never learned.

The light debris is blown away with the wind, and the wheat and some heavier straws fall down. At this time, the mother will wear a straw hat and go to the field with a big broom in her hand, and gently pull the straws floating on the wheat To the side, but the father would not stop the movement of the field. When the wheat fell, it hit the mother's straw hat, making a sound like raindrops.

At this time, if you stand in a proper position, you will see arcs rising one after another in the air, and under each arc there will be a figure wearing a straw hat and holding a broom, waving non-stop.

Whenever the field is over, it is time for the whole family to play, pick up the bags and pots that have been prepared a long time ago, and put the wheat that has been cleaned on the ground. This year's harvest.

This kind of day will last for several days during the busy wheat season. Sometimes if it is cloudy and rainy, it is the most nervous thing for the whole village. As soon as you see such a dark cloud floating over, take a plastic sheet and go to the field run.

After that busy wheat season, people began to look forward to the rain again.

When a rain wets the ground, every household will plant the prepared bean seeds in the ground, because the field at the end of the field is relatively hard, so they can only put some corn on it, and wait for the next year to plow the land. Time to plow together again.

I still remember that there was a unique smell in the air at that time, which smelled very good. My mother always said that it was the smell of a good harvest.

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"When did your irrigation system start to be installed?" Old man Zhang's words brought Yu Fei back from his memories of the years.

Gathering his mind, Yu Fei said: "The installation will begin after all these platycodons are planted."

Old man Zhang glanced at him and said, "Did you ask any questions after the sprinkler is installed? Will it cause compaction of the upper layer of soil when watering the ground? It will be troublesome if the platycodon grandiflora buds don't come out at that time."

"I've asked. It's the company that installed the sprinkler irrigation last time. The water produced by their sprinkler irrigation is completely simulating a rainy scene, and will not cause soil compaction due to a temporary excessive water flow." Yu Fei affirmed Speaking of.

Old man Zhang nodded and said, "That's good."

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Because Yu Fei was the first person to work in the field after the Chinese New Year, the sound of the tractor soon attracted several people to watch, including Yu Fei's father, who came with Guoguo.

As soon as they met, Guoguo threw herself into Yu Fei's arms, saying that her father would not take her to play and so on.

"I'm not working. Look at the cheerful tractor running in the field, helping us plant the land." Yu Fei pointed to the tractor in the field and said.

Guoguo looked at the tractor and didn't know what he was thinking. He unconsciously gnawed on his fingers, and suddenly turned to Fei and asked, "Can I ride on that tractor? It looks fun."

Yu Fei flatly refused: "No, that's too dangerous. If you want to take a car, our family has two cars for you to take."

Although Guoguo nodded obediently, she still said unwillingly, "That looks really fun."

Yu Fei had no choice but to divert her attention and said, "Can you help Dad find out the big dog and the little dog, I haven't seen them until now."

This trick is very effective, Guoguo asked anxiously: "Will they get lost?"

"They are in the farm, but they don't know where they are hiding, so you need to find them." Yu Fei said.

As soon as Guoguo heard that they were not lost, Guoguo immediately relaxed: "I'll go find them, if they don't listen, I'll grab their ears, just like grandpa pulled yours."

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(End of this chapter)