Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 170
He followed his father to the edge of the paddy field, and told his father about the matter from beginning to end.

Knowing that this group of outsiders had lied to Caogou Village for so many years, they were so angry that they wanted to snatch the bamboo whip from Tie Dan and beat those liars.

"San'er, you are right. This group of people should be beaten up. If I was young, I would have been dragged to the old forest and buried."

Seeing the murderous look on his father's face, Li Hongbing was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that his father, who was like a gourd all day long, also had a bloody side.

At this time.

The phone rings.

Sanpao called to ask how much money was inexplicably added to the account, and Li Hongbing's name was left on it.

After a brief chat, Li Hongbing asked Sanpao to take out all the money and take it when he went to the town to go to the market tomorrow.

After talking on the phone, my father took out a shovel and a hoe out of nowhere and handed them to Li Hongbing.

"?" Li Hongbing was at a loss.

"I brought back all the land, go and dig it." The old man picked up the shovel and looked at his son with contempt.

Digging?

Li Hongbing's first reaction was not to go, but his second reaction was to call for reinforcements immediately.

"Let the blind and idiot go, I'm busy."

After finishing speaking, he was about to turn around and leave, but he heard the bleak voice of his father behind him, "Father, my son is sorry for you. The land of our old Li's family will be cut off when it is handed down to his son. Your grandson is not filial! Wait until your son goes down. Kowtow to you to apologize, I am a sinner of the Li family!"

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Reluctantly, Li Hongbing returned to his father, picked up the shovel, and said, "Let's go, plant the land. This is what we're talking about. If I don't go again, grandpa will probably beat me up in his dreams at night."

When the old man saw this, his expression instantly changed from worry to joy.

"Father! As long as you use the tricks of tormenting me on my mother, your life will not be so miserable."

The father looked arrogantly at the listless youngest son, and instead of being ashamed, he boasted proudly.

"You know what I'm asking, I'm hurting my mother-in-law, hurry up, don't worry!"

Caogou Village belongs to the mountainous landform, and it is famous for its high mountains and few lands. The Yuanbao where it is located is even more high and steep. The fields are mainly terraced fields. The terraced fields coil from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Two or three rows of rice seedling terraces are like chains like belts, hills like snails, and big mountains like towers.

These terraced fields were dug out by the ancestors along the mountain with hoes in the early years. As a result, some fields are long and narrow, with a length of more than [-] meters, and their width is sometimes less than one meter, and the smallest one is only as big as a dustpan.

It can be roughly divided into three fields: belt field, bamboo hat field and river toad field.

Belt fields, as the name suggests, are just like belts, long and short, curved.

The bamboo hat field is as big as a bamboo hat, and usually only a few corn plants and a few clumps of green vegetables can be planted.

Once the river toad jumps over three fields, it is even simpler. It is used to describe the field is very narrow, and a river toad can jump over three fields with a light jump. Potian can plant two rows of rice and one row of corn.

However, these terraced fields with different shapes and graceful lines contrast with the rolling green hills, the silvery water surface, and the antique Caogou village buildings, forming a beautiful pastoral landscape painting, which is too beautiful to be absorbed.

I still remember when I was a child, every autumn, the terraced fields turned into golden rice and yellow rapeseed flowers. The scenery was so beautiful, not worse than the terraced fields in tourist areas.

At that time, Li Hongbing and his friends took the iron basin in their hands, led the dogs, and yelled and beat the iron basin on the ridge of the field, and pheasants and hares with full belly would startle out of the field.

When the dog sees these pheasants and hares that can't fly or run, he will kindly pick them up and give them to the children to take home, take a hot bath, put ginger, and put them in the pot to take good care of them.

But now, weeds are overgrown in the terraced fields, and occasionally you can see seasonal vegetables planted in a few fields. As for rice, corn and other food crops, there is no trace.

The reason is simple and helpless.

The forest area belongs to the middle zone between the north and the south. The environment and climate can be used regardless of rice, wheat, or corn. However, if you want to grow good crops in Caogou Village, you need to pour a lot of hard work and chemical fertilizers. In the end, you are not only tired but also unable to earn money.

Now a catty of rice in Songbai Town is more than 1 yuan per catty, and almost less than 1 catty. Corn is even cheaper, a few cents per catty.

Over time, everyone gave up farming, and went to other villages to do part-time jobs during the busy season, and went to the city to move bricks during the slack. After a year of busy work, it was better than farming and not tiring.

"Go quickly."

Under the urging of the father over and over again, the father and son came to their field.

In view of the status of Lao Li's family, the terraced fields allotted are five points, two ridges of belt fields, two ridges of river toad fields and one field of bamboo hats.

Facing the waist-deep weeds, Li Hongbing really wanted to throw away his farm tools and leave if he hadn't been supervised by his father.

Pooh!
The old man spat into the palms of his hands, rubbed them together, and raised his hoe to dig down hard.

It takes a lot of strength, but the effect is quite average.

As soon as the hoe went down, some grass roots were dug out.

On land that has not been touched for more than ten years, the soil is completely occupied by grass roots, especially goosegrass, a weed with a well-developed root system.

"It's a donkey, it's urgent and difficult to dig." The old man rubbed his hands while swearing, ready to use all his strength, vowing to kill all the weeds in the field.

"Let me do it! Don't hurt my waist."

Li Hongbing shook his head, took off his coat and threw it on the ridge of the field, took the hoe, spat into his palms, and rubbed his palms together.

As for why you spit in the palm of your hand, it is said that it can increase the friction of the tool, and it can be more powerful to grasp after lubrication.

It is also said that this is a mysterious oriental ancient ritual, which gathers the essence of heaven and earth and can attract the attention of the girls in the village of Qiaotun in the next door with two sounds of "呵呵". Although this action is silent, it is tantamount to shouting : Give Lao Tzu a good look!Yahe...

It is also said that a protein in saliva called REB58 is decomposed into two small subunits, REB58α and REB58β, which can bind to specific receptors in the stratum corneum of the palm skin, conduct sensory nerves to the posterior medial temporal lobe of the brain, and activate After P34 neurons, the efferent nerves are excited, leading to increased mitochondrial activity and increased muscle contractility.

Spitting foam increases friction and prevents slipping. If it is planted for a whole day, it will not spit out all the blood.

Li Hongbing thinks that the second theory is more reliable, just like taking a breath before throwing a paper plane, which is the plane for gathering soul rituals.

As for the third statement, it's pure shit.

Young and strong, but also improved by his natural heart, Li Hongbing must be many times stronger than his father.

As soon as the hoe went down, the blade of the hoe sank deeply into the soil, and when it was turned up, there was only the sound of cracking roots and stems.

This field is ruined!
As a small farmer, Li Hongbing also knows the dangers of weeds in the ground. These grasses must be removed. Weeds have strong vitality. As long as there is a root system in the soil, they will persist for several days. When the soil is moist, they can grow rapidly. , reproduction, on the one hand absorb the nutrients in the soil; on the other hand cause poor permeability.

Weeds vie for a large amount of cultivation, which will affect the planting of crops, lead to poor growth of crops, and cause the occurrence of diseases and insect pests, resulting in reduced production.

There are only two ways to plant this land well, one is to use herbicides, and the other is to turn the soil to dry.

Herbicides pollute a lot. Although weeds can be quickly killed, there is no way to remove the root system, and it will grow again after a few months.Turning the soil to dry in the sun is relatively more environmentally friendly, but the process is very long and tedious. It needs to continuously turn up the entire land and expose it to the sun until 80% of the weed roots are completely dried out. In the later stage, regular weeding is required.

The old man knelt down and saw that the soil dug up by the hoe was covered with white roots. He frowned and said hesitantly.

"San'er, why don't you kill me with medicine!"

With herbicides?

Nonsense, that thing will pollute the land, the harm is not small, and the residual period can exceed three years.

I'd rather not grow it than get hit with herbicides.

Not only that, in the future, we will lead the villagers to grow vegetables without using any pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or herbicides, and stick to the brand of green, natural, and organic.

Li Hongbing rejected his father's proposal unceremoniously, and continued to raise the hoe, digging out the soil one by one, smashing the clods, and exposing the grass roots to the sun.

Even though Li Hongbing doesn't usually work, he still has some strength, and without much effort, half of the land was dug out.

But after a vigorous effort, it will decline again, and it will be exhausted three times. After the exciting period, Li Hongbing doesn't want to dig the ground even if he still has the strength.

Boring, tedious, repetitive mechanical labor.

It's no wonder that farmers don't farm the land anymore, and they are so tired and boring if they don't earn money.

The more Li Hongbing thought about it, the angrier he became, he threw away his hoe, and looked at his father who was doing nothing but admiring the great mountains and rivers of the motherland, feeling extremely unbalanced, "You can't help with some work, you can't dig the soil, you can turn it down!"

Cough!

The old man curled up, coughed twice with a weak expression, "The mountain wind is too cold, I seem to have a cold."

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Li Hongbing was speechless for a moment, and said quietly, "Just now at the rice field, you and Aunt Haifen had a good chat. I heard from Dakui that you two were childhood sweethearts back then. I don't know if my mother knew about it."

"Shut up, unfilial son!" The old man's face changed drastically, and he ran to Li Hongbing in two or three steps, reached out to pick up the shovel on the ground, "Go and smoke a cigarette for a while, my arms and legs are stiff from standing for a long time, it's time to move gone."

Ha ha!

Li Hongbing sneered.

Before the old man could work, 7 or 8 villagers appeared on the ridge of the field, some men and some women, walking towards this side with farm tools on their shoulders.

Among them were Mrs. Guifeng, a scholar, and a few idlers who looked familiar but couldn't remember their names, and Mrs. Guifeng yelled at them from afar.

"Uncle Red Soldier, Lord National Day, we are here to help."

The Li family father and son looked at each other blankly, as if they were saying that they didn't look for anyone, why did they come here.

Wait for the two sides to meet.

A middle-aged man snatched the hoe from Li Hongbing's hand, "Uncle Hongbing, let me do the rough work, you sit there and rest."

Another villager also took away Dad's shovel, "Master Guoqing, you also rest, we will do it."

"Sister-in-law Guifeng, how did you come here? Those foreigners don't accept it?" Li Hongbing asked curiously.

Aunt Guifeng hurriedly waved her hands, unable to hide the smile on her face, she took out a towel and patted the dust on Li Hongbing's body courteously, saying at the same time.

"Admit the account, accept the account, I have settled more than 1 yuan! Go to my house for dinner at night."

The action of shooting ashes is a bit out of line. Generally, married women will only do it to their own men and children, but to shoot other men, the meaning is different.

If it weren't for the mushroom money.

Li Hongbing was really afraid that what he ate at night was not wine, but dumplings.

"Sister-in-law Guifeng, my mother said that Uncle Hongbing should come to my house for a drink at night!" Xiucai hurriedly interjected.

"It's going to my house."

"Go to my house. If it wasn't for Uncle Hongbing, Mushroom Qian will decide whether to come back."

Others also joined in. After all, this incident caused a lot of trouble in the village, and almost every household could get some money back, ranging from three to four thousand to four thousand to ten to twenty thousand.

Who would have thought that the hearts of foreigners who come to collect mushrooms every year would be so dark, and mushrooms worth dozens of yuan per catty were taken away for only a few dollars.

In fact, Li Hongbing was a little unreasonable in this matter. In the market economy, I will do whatever I want. If there is no extremely unfair contract, Li Hongbing really will not come forward to ask for money to make up the difference.

Guifeng's sister-in-law saw that everyone was blushing, and said quickly.

"Okay, okay, let's talk about digging the land of Uncle Hong Soldier's house after dinner tonight, and someone will come over later."

The others suddenly remembered the business, and laughed and invited the Li family father and son to watch the scenery aside, picked up the hoe, and turned the ground with the shovel.

Sure enough, as Mrs. Guifeng said, villagers came to help with work one after another.

The five-fen land is not big, and dozens of people crowded together to work, and it was finished in a short time. The villagers still felt sorry for it, and turned the turned soil back again, and cleaned out the grass roots in the soil by the way. , save the time of drying the ground later.

Just as everyone was working in full swing, Tie Dan ran to the ground sweating profusely, put his hands on his knees, and gasped for breath a few times.

"Grand...Grandpa, there is...some work...the police are looking for you."

Work safety?

The eyes of the villagers who were helping with the work fell on Li Hongbing, and the old man asked nervously in a low voice, "San'er, are those traffickers looking for someone?"

"It's okay, I called the police."

Li Hongbing walked to the edge of the field, picked up his coat and took out his mobile phone. There were three missed calls from Captain Xu.

After dialing back, I briefly chatted with Captain Xu, and said to my father and the villagers who came to help.

"I'll go back to the village, Captain Xu is here to arrest people."

……

Waiting to return to the rice field at the entrance of the village.

Still in those two broken vans, Captain Xu and his men have already controlled the mushroom seller.

Zheng Xi squatted on the ground with handcuffs, put his head in his hands, saw Li Hongbing appeared, stood up angrily, and cursed.

"Li Hongbing, you don't follow the rules and promise not to call the police if you make up the price difference."

"Squat down, who told you to stand up." An inspector scolded Zheng Xi and pushed him down again.

Li Hongbing approached with a smile and looked down at Zheng Xidao, "I really didn't call the police. These comrades are forest workers' security. They came to inspect the wild animal rescue station in Caogou Village. You are unlucky to be hit by comrades from the workers' security."

"That's right, that's right, we're passing by Caogou Village, let's stop by and have a look." Captain Xu smiled like a flower.

Recently, the above-mentioned documents have been issued to carry out anti-fraud and anti-fraud laws in forest areas, and to protect farmers' pocketbooks.

Zhengchou had nowhere to start, unexpectedly Li Hongbing sent a big pillow right away.

"Thank you, Doctor Li, thank you very much."

As he spoke, Captain Xu shook Li Hongbing's hand vigorously.

"It should be." Li Hongbing responded cooperatively, and casually mentioned the two eagle owl cubs.

Captain Xu wanted to bring these swindlers back as soon as possible, so he asked Li Hongbing to take care of the two eagle owl cubs first, send him a video and report the situation, and come back to pick them up in a few days.

Continue to raise?
Those two eagle owl cubs are big eaters, they can eat four catties of meat a day, and it must be fresh meat.

Li Hongbing thought Captain Xu could subsidize some food expenses.

"The food expenses..."

"Ah, this...Xiao Wang, put them in the car, this matter can't be done, I'll come, Dr. Li, we will talk later."

Captain Xu hurriedly stuffed the man into the van, kicked the accelerator and disappeared at the entrance of the village.

Li Hongbing stared blankly at the van that was about to disappear from sight.

only three words in mind
"shameless!"

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(End of this chapter)