Age: My Small World

Chapter 80 Planting Rice
"Uncle Qi, what are your plans?"

After finding the person, Yang Jun took the initiative to speak.

Cheng Xiaoyu stood aside without saying a word, like his little tail.

When the two of them came over, Fan Xinhe naturally knew what was going on.

Looking at the two bookworms in the village, he nodded with satisfaction.

"Xiaoshan, Xiaoyu'er, you are both good kids in the village. Logically, your uncle shouldn't assign you any tasks, but this is the standard of your superiors. If you don't work together, some people will gossip."

"Uncle Qi, Xiao Yu'er and I understand all this, and we hope you won't make it too difficult for us. Just follow my instructions. We are both members of the village, and more importantly, members of the farmers. We won't change anything just because of studying."

He doesn't want to be known as someone who is away from the masses because of his studies. That would be serious.

Xiao Yuer nodded and said, "Seventh Uncle, I can do the work."

"They are all good kids." Fan Xinhe took a puff of his pipe.

"Okay, then starting tomorrow, when you're free, go help the village collect some firewood. On weekends, you can catch some earthworms to fertilize the soil."

The tasks of the teenage children in the village are mainly simple tasks such as collecting firewood and cutting grass for pigs, which are not complicated.

In addition, the two of them had to go to school, so Fan Xinhe did not have any strict requirements.

But you must achieve something on the weekend and not give people the impression that you are lazy and playful.

"Okay, thank you, Uncle Seven."

Yang Jun knew what was right and wrong, and it was obvious that his seventh uncle was taking care of the two of them.

Uncle Fan smiled and waved his hand: "We are all family, why be polite?"

Then he thought of something and said, "Xiaoshan, I know you caught fish and sold them before, but you won't be able to do that anymore."

After a pause, he continued, "From now on, whether it's prey from the mountains or fish from the river, they all belong to the village. If the Wang brothers see them, it will be a big trouble. At the very least, they'll be charged with theft or something. I can't quite remember what it was."

Embezzling the village’s common property is a serious crime.

A change in a system brings with it new laws and regulations, and it is impossible to remain the same as before.

Yang Jun was silent for a moment after hearing this. It seemed that he could no longer use the excuse of selling fish.

But there's nothing I can do about it. I can't tell my mother and the others that I'm fighting the system every day and selling fish secretly. That would scare my mother half to death.

For a country woman, abiding by the law means peace and security. She would rather live a hard life than see her son take risks.

Uncle Qi will definitely popularize these systems to everyone soon, so Yang Jun also plans to tell Li Xiaohua to prevent her from worrying too much.

"Don't worry, Uncle Qi. I won't slack off anymore. I won't be able to do it anyway if I come back."

Thinking that everyone had collected most of their things by now, Uncle Qi also laughed.

"Alright, alright, you two go ahead. I don't have anything else to say."

The sky gradually darkened and everyone started to go home.

Yang Jun saw his mother waiting for him at the intersection, so he quickly went to meet her.

She quickly asked, "Wait, what did your seventh uncle say?"

Yang Jun replied, "Nothing serious. I just need to help collect some firewood and catch earthworms. It's not busy work."

"Seventh Uncle also said that we should do it when we have time and not delay our studies."

Li Xiaohua breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good."

The two of them walked home briskly.

When I got home, there was no familiar crowing of roosters to welcome me.

The chicken coop on the side of the house was empty, and the two rabbits were nowhere to be seen.

"The old hens I've raised for years are gone just like that." The old woman couldn't help but mutter a few times. But then she became cheerful again.

"I heard that Wang Laosi's family raised three pigs, but they were all driven into the big pigpen. Fortunately, I listened to you, kid. Otherwise, the piglets I bought wouldn't be my own."

As he spoke, he still felt a lingering fear.

Yang Jun was concerned about the big pigpen, which should be where his mother and the others were busy.

"Mom, where is the big pigpen? Is it far from the village?"

Li Xiaohua said indifferently, "What's so far? It's just the courtyard where the old mansion in the village was converted. Dozens of pigs are now herded together."

The big house my mother mentioned was a house built by a wealthy family in Fanjiazhuang in the past. Compared with ordinary households, it was just a bright house with green tiles and red bricks. Now it has been confiscated and turned into a production team meeting room, and the yard is used to raise pigs, making full use of it.

Yang Jun had also been to that big house and it was indeed not far from home, so he didn't have to worry about his mother's work.

"What are the positions of the eldest and second sisters for?"

He asked about his two older sisters.

"What else can we do? We've been helping with the ramie crop these past few days. Now that we're about to plow the soil and plant wheat, we need to get some fertilizer back quickly. So the younger girls are helping with the ramie crop, and the men are plowing the soil. This way we can divide the work up faster."

There was not much difference from his previous job, and Yang Jun had nothing to worry about.

As soon as I entered the house, there was a sudden sound of wind outside.

"The weather changes so quickly. It's probably going to rain tomorrow."

Li Xiaohua closed the door tightly to prevent any draft from entering the front room.

"Son, if it rains heavily tomorrow morning, don't go to school. Just stay indoors all day."

"I know, Mom." Yang Jun knew that his mother was still worried that he would catch a cold.

The last time he caught a cold, it almost cost him his life, and it made the whole family worried.

Because there was a strong wind outside, we didn't chat much in the house. We boiled some water, washed our feet, and then took a rest.

Yang Jun was alone in the back room. After thinking about it, he sneaked into the space.

After a few days, it's time to plant new crops.

The rice seedlings planted earlier have become green and are about twenty centimeters long, ready for transplanting.

Three acres of paddy field was not a lot, so it only took him about ten minutes.

Transplanting rice seedlings is not complicated. Even if you have never eaten pork, you have seen a pig run.

The remaining four acres of land were soon planted with corn and wheat.

However, the two acres of land that Yang Jun deliberately left for growing sweet potatoes remained vacant for a while because he did not have any sweet potato seeds yet.

If it were in July or August, we could pick the sweet potato vines and plant them, but that’s not possible now.

It will take about a month to dig the sweet potatoes.

"How about we steal some and plant them?"

He was quite confident that he could dig without being discovered. After all, he would just need to put it in the small world, and if no physical evidence was found, he would be dead without proof.

But everyone's fields were right under his nose, so it was difficult for him to find time to dig.

"Let's wait until the weekend."

At worst, you can plant corn or pumpkins later.

He didn't want to plant too many pumpkins. Although he could harvest a lot of them, they wouldn't satisfy his hunger after eating them. They were much less filling than corn and sweet potatoes.

"Then I'll plant soybeans and pumpkins on the remaining half acre of land. They're sweet after all, so it's necessary to supplement the sugar intake."

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