Song Tan's Notes

Selling flour and barley tea will come later.

Nowadays?

Song Sancheng stared at his phone solemnly to check the forecast for the next few days, and then announced happily: "We will harvest the wheat tomorrow!"

Qiao Qiao cheered and asked, "Dad, the wheat is harvested. Chen Chi and I will take the chickens, ducks and geese to the fields to stay for two days."

The harvester certainly cannot harvest so cleanly, so the broken wheat needs to be turned over in the field, and the chicken and duck manure can be used as fertilizer.

Song Sancheng shook his head: "If you want to carry it, just carry it for one day. When the straw is crushed, we have to collect it. We can mix it with fodder in the winter."

Even one day is fine!

The Big Red family and the ducks must love this treasure hunt feeling.

Wu Lan was still staring at the phone group: "I have to find two more meticulous people. The broken straw needs to be collected and sorted, and then pulled back to the riverbank. According to Chen Xi and Yan Ran's arrangements, we will do this and that."

She was talking about the pre-treatment of wheat straw. This thing has coarse fibers and is too hard to eat directly, which is difficult for cattle and sheep to digest. Generally, it needs to be chopped up and stored for a month before use.

Other families usually harvest the wheat when it still has a high water storage capacity and make it directly, but they just use it as a side dish. It won’t be used as a staple food for cattle and sheep anyway, so they just handle it properly when they use it later.

The weather has been good in the past two years. At the end of May and approaching June, the temperature has successfully risen to above 5°.

Song Tan thought for a moment and said, "Mom, you might as well hire four people. More people means faster work. After the harvest, we can turn the soil over and prepare to plant corn."

They have already planted a batch of early-maturing corns, including glutinous corn, fruit corn, and milk corn. Next, they will use the 5 mu of land to plant ordinary high-yield sweet corn, which will just be able to keep up.

In fact, planting corn doesn't take just one or two days, but thinking about what she has to do next month, Wulan nodded:

"Row."

Anyway, they have several tilling machines at home, which are very useful!

After she finished speaking, she looked at Qiao Qiao jokingly and said, "Qiao Qiao, if you plant the five acres of corn well this year, I'm sure you can make your sister plump and white."

This was a joke on him because he wanted to plant everything the same way he would plant corn. Song Tan sprinkled astragalus seeds on the ground, which made him cry!

Qiao Qiao has fair skin, so her blushing is particularly obvious.

But he didn't hide it at all, instead he said seriously: "I learned a lot of knowledge this year, I'm not like that anymore."

Ok.

My son was so sensible that my mother couldn't laugh at him anymore. She just asked him, "Can you go with Xiao Yang to plant the corn later?"

As for sowing corn, Yang Zhengxin can do it too.

At this moment, he proudly responded: "Of course!"

"Oh, by the way," Song Tan remembered something else: "Mom, tell my uncle to find a car when he can and bring back a few carts of wheat straw."

Their family's cattle and sheep, together with their breeding and production, have now expanded in scale, but the number remains at around 400 as they need open space on the river beach.

With so many cattle and sheep, they only need some roughage mixed in winter every year, and the family has not only wheat straw, but also corn stalks and rice straw...

It really can never be used up.

To be honest, my uncle took some back, their family stored some, and the rest was just right for fermenting fertilizer.

Wu Lan said casually: "You asked your uncle to come and pick it up, but he doesn't have a car, so why don't you drive your pickup truck to deliver it to him?"

"That won't work."

Song Tan shook his head: "My uncle doesn't have a car, so let Brother Wu Lei find a way to borrow or rent a tricycle - but if I need to deliver the straw myself, who will raise the cow for?" To be precise, they will let Wu Lei pull the cart tomorrow.

Otherwise, we can ask someone to collect, pick and bag the things. It’s impossible for them to pack everything up and then deliver it to your door, right?

When the wheat is ground into flour, Song Tan will definitely drive it over personally, but this is different.

Wu Lan was stunned for a moment, then she reacted: "Okay, okay, I'll call Lei Lei now to see if he has made any progress in raising cattle."

Song Tan listened with his chin in his hand, feeling that there should be a surprise.

After all, her brother Lei Lei is really a simple-minded person.

Simple, easy to deceive, knows what they say and is particularly good at blending into the environment.

When I first came home, I followed the big data and complained that there was no elevator in the house.

Later, he was persuaded to farm and get tanned, and he actually persisted.

Later, his family suggested raising cattle, and he agreed to do it without hesitation.

Now that he has been raising cattle for half a year, he communicates directly with Chen Xi when there is any problem with the cows. Twice, he even rode his bike over at night to take Chen Xi to see a doctor.

As soon as Wu Lan called, Wu Lei immediately agreed, "Aunt, I also bought an electric tricycle that can pull. You can hire two fewer people to work tomorrow. I will go with my dad!"

The implication is that even if they don't pay, they can't also not contribute their labor, right?

After hanging up the phone, Wu Lan was quite surprised: "This Wu Lei - Tan Tan, did you ask your Aunt Zhang Hong to arrange a blind date?"

Song Tan nodded: "Chen Yuan told me that they are far away from home and no one is in charge of introducing people to each other, so they want to arrange a chance for contact."

Wu Lan quickly instructed: "Go talk to your aunt later and ask her to put Lei Lei's name on the list - there is a good girl left for us!"

After thinking for a while, he added: "Lingling should have graduated by then, right? Leave two boys for Lingling as well!"

Song Tan: ...

"It depends on fate!" she emphasized. Don't talk like there's rice in the pot and you can keep it if you want.

The group chatted and laughed as they headed home. They ran into the square manager, Old Xu, wandering outside the courtyard. He couldn't help but wonder, "Why don't you come in and sit down?"

Old Xu looked at the big cherry tree in front of him - it was the wrong season, and there was not a single fruit on it!

He said with a sad heart, "You said we had a project, why didn't you tell me earlier? I could have come by the end of April."

The end of April happened to be the season when local cherries were ripe in their area, and Old Xu's abacus beads were almost falling to the ground.

Song Tan smiled and said, "If the quality of the square is satisfactory, I will give you a watermelon before you leave."

Old Xu: Why didn’t you say so earlier!

He could almost promise with confidence: "You can check it at will. We have brought a lot of materials here. You can check the cement grade now!"

Then he asked, "Yesterday, a worker under me asked, since we are going to build an activity plaza, why don't we just build a large auditorium? It would save us the trouble of having pillars around it and tying up and down the awning later."

“All those wealthy out-of-town villages are built like this.”

Song Tan didn't say whether it was okay or not, but only asked him: "After such an auditorium is built, will it belong to the village, or can the villagers just stroll around?"

“Can outsiders come in and participate in activities at will?”

Old Xu is stuck.

Since it is a proper auditorium, the cost of using and maintaining the venue must be high. If the door is locked when it is not needed, will the villagers still shout to open the door when they come for a stroll after dinner?

He then added: "That's true. Anyway, your village office is quite spacious. Big things can be discussed over there, and the activity square is purely for entertainment. It's pretty good." (End of this chapter)