Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 204 Harvesting Rapeseeds

Qin Dahe was overjoyed when he heard this. This boss was really particular.

He went straight to the car, took out two packs of Double Happiness and threw them to the boss.

He was not afraid of doing things when others were generous, so he gave him thirty yuan for the barbecue.

"Brother, one pack of cigarettes is enough. Why can't I ask you for two packs of cigarettes?" The barbecue ingredients themselves are spices and seasoning powder, which cost only a few dollars.

"Haha, here you go. We're welcome. After my wife gives birth, I'll definitely come to eat at your place twice."

At this time, another customer came over, and he stopped talking, nodded, and left with his things.

When he got home, Yanyan was still waiting for him in the main room.

"Let's go upstairs and give you something delicious to eat."

The little girl's eyes lit up when she heard that, and she went upstairs immediately.

Qin Dahe took the barbecue out of his arms, it was still a little warm.

"Barbecue, this is delicious."

"Why don't you light the charcoal and heat it up before you eat it?"

"Yeah, I'll do it."

Looking at the silly woman, he smiled faintly and took out the barbecue ingredients.

"This is barbecue material. We can grill it and eat it later."

"Hmm." The little girl's mouth puffed out.

As soon as the charcoal fire was lit, she couldn't wait to eat one.

"We'll buy some lamb and pork and roast them later."

The two were busy when Qin's mother called out from below.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

"Are you feeling better?"

"Okay, it's okay this time. It's not a bad cold."

The little girl stuck her head out guiltily. "Mom, Dahe brought back some barbecue. Do you want some?"

"I won't eat it. You eat it to replenish your body." Mother Qin said with a smile.

"Dahe, tomorrow the three of us will go to the fields to harvest rapeseed." Now that his son was not fishing, he followed him to the fields to work.

"Oh, I see. I'll get up early."

After saying that, Qin's mother went back. Barbecue is so expensive, so let the young couple eat it.

"Brother, it smells so good."

The barbecue smells delicious after being heated. This way of grilling lamb skewers seems to be only available in Xinjiang. I don’t know how the boss learned it in Lu’an.

Qin Dahe had already eaten it, so he tasted another string and gave it all to the girl.

The scones are also delicious, soft and fluffy.

It was already ten o'clock when they had eaten and drunk their fill. The moon was so bright at night that they simply turned off the lights and admired the moon on the balcony.

"Brother, I haven't seen such a bright moon in a long time." The little girl buried her head in his arms.

I burped again without noticing and felt a little embarrassed.

"Look at it more, there will be less in the future."

It seems that there will never be such a bright moon in later generations, the kind of light that can make every detail visible at night.

"Oh." The little girl didn't think about why the brother said that. Anyway, what the brother said was right.

"It's so comfortable. I wish it could stay like spring forever."

"Haha, there's a city in the south called Kunming, where it's spring all year round. I'll take you there when I have time."

"it is good."

At this time, Sang Biao suddenly jumped down from the eaves, and Qin Dahe almost jumped up in fright.

"Ce, there's no sound when you walk."

"Brother, kittens make no sound when they walk." Yanyan put the cat into the house with a smile. The charcoal fire was still warm, and Feifei was sleeping soundly under the charcoal stove.

When he saw Sang Biao coming back, he opened his eyes slightly and then closed them again.

It is very fierce now. It was beaten by a black bear a few days ago because the person who stole the cassock tried to settle upstairs and was driven away.

No matter how tall or short, fat or thin, there is not a single cowardly cat in the countryside.

Qin Dahe held the little girl in his arms, and his anger grew stronger and stronger. His wife's figure was too exaggerated.

"Come."

"What's coming?" Before the little girl could react, her shirt was gone.

"Wait a minute, draw the curtains." She was a little embarrassed because the moonlight at night was too bright and the two kittens could see it.

"Shit, it's a waste of time. I have to get up early tomorrow." He lowered his head and took a bite.

There is no time to waste on such a profound truth.

"Well!"

The two cats looked at each other and lay down at the same time.

Humans are so weird. They are still in heat even when they are pregnant, which wastes their energy.

The next morning, the family of three started working in the fields, and Yanyan stayed at home to make morning tea for them.

When we arrived at the field, we saw a field of golden rapeseed flowers.

The rhizome is slightly green and starts to turn yellow upwards.

When the wind blows, it makes a rustling sound.

"Dahe, rapeseed can usually be harvested when it grows full. It depends on the cotton. We need to make room for the cotton." Some families nearby have already cut their rapeseed and spread it on the ground to dry. Everyone's harvest time is determined by the growth of their own rapeseed.

"It can't be too ripe, or the grains will fall off when harvested."

"You also have to harvest in the morning when there's dew on the ground. This will reduce the chances of cracked corners and grains in the rapeseed pods."

"Come with me now, and be gentle, okay?"

Qin's father slowly taught his son some farm work. As he said, you can not farm, but you must know how to farm.

"Ah."

A family of three took sickles and started cutting. After cutting the rapeseed from the roots, they placed it neatly on the ground and took two or three days to dry in the sun.

This job is not easy, you have to bend down to reach it.

The fruits of rapeseed are thorny in nature, and it hurts when they poke your hands, so it is better to wear gloves.

After working for half an hour, his waist began to ache, but he still gritted his teeth.

We worked from six to seven and most of the work was done.

Looking behind me, the thick rapeseed field has become empty, and the rapeseed stalks are neatly spread on the ground.

By half past nine, this area was basically done.

Three strong laborers can work very quickly, and if there are children following behind to clean up, it will be even faster.

When he was a child, he and his elder sister helped to tidy up the crops in the back, while his parents were cutting the crops in the front.

"Take a break, Lan'er, go back and get some food." Sitting on the edge of the field, the father and son lit up cigarettes.

This job is very tiring, it requires heavy physical labor that requires bending over the whole time.

The rapeseed is not fully mature at this time, and the roots are difficult to cut.

After the rapeseed is piled up, there is something even more tiring to do, which is to hoe the roots.

It is best to hoe now, when the soil is still soft after a few days of rain.

At ten o'clock, Qin's mother came over with food.

It's been a lot of heavy physical work these days, so the meals have to be oily and rich.

Even the hot rice we eat now contains a lot of lard and pickles, and it can only be eaten with a lot of oil and salt.

They didn't dare eat too much, so they ate a bowl of rice to fill their stomachs and then lit a cigarette. During this time, Qin's father kept teaching him when to plow the soil and when to apply weed killer.

"Weeding is usually done at noon when the sun is strong. Otherwise, the weeds will be killed by the sun when they are dug up."

Of course people are also exposed to the sun, but they just can’t die from it.

Planting two crops is like this, it's exhausting.

After finishing a cigarette, the father and son began to dig the roots of the rapeseed and weeded at the same time.

This work was slow, so Qin's mother also joined in. At eleven o'clock, she went back to cook, and the father and son continued to work.

"Is your waist tired?" Qin's father took a breath.

"I'm so tired. Farming is really tiring." Not only was he tired, but blisters started to form on his hands again. However, he gritted his teeth and persevered throughout the whole process.

"Haha, it's right that you're tired. I have to farm for a whole year to cover your tuition for one semester."

Qin Dahe curled his lips and didn't want to study anymore.

The sun was a little bigger at noon, and the old man had taken off his clothes long ago and was working with his bare chest.

The maroon-colored pieces of meat were full of power, and sweat flowed down along the muscle lines.

His abdomen is actually covered in fat and muscles, and he looks like a good fighter.

Qin Dahe looked at him with envy, as his own figure was not as good as his father's.

He was now soaked, but he didn't take off his clothes and kept wearing a straw hat for fear of getting sunburned.

After hoeing only one-third of the area, the two had to go back to eat and rest.

When he got home, Qin Dahe washed himself first, rubbed his clothes briefly with water, and hung them up, and then continued to wear them to work in the afternoon.

As usual, we cooked grass carp at noon. Qin's father and his friends caught a lot of them in the past few days, and we also raised a mandarin fish to eat in the evening.

The family of four ate up a big pot of rice at noon, and everyone, including Yanyan, had a good appetite.

I can only mix silver carp and bighead carp bait for the four little ones to eat.

After dinner, they rested for an hour, and at half past one they continued to work in the fields.

Today, the father and son have to finish hoeing the entire field. Qin's mother has to use a shovel to level the middle. After the rapeseed is dried, she can go to the middle and start threshing the rapeseed.

"got windy."

"Haha, it's good to have wind." Father Qin wiped the sweat from his head.

Even though it’s only around 20 degrees Celsius now, the sun is very strong.

"Dad, if we just spread it out on the ground to dry, won't it wear out too much? It will crack in a few days."

"It's normal to have some losses when harvesting rapeseed. Every family has some losses."

The two of them taught farming while working.

"Then we'll use a rapeseed beater to beat the rapeseed on the waterproof cloth little by little, repeatedly, to get the seeds out."

“Some small fruits fall off and cannot be threshed, so they have to be collected separately and threshed again to remove the shells.”

Qin Dahe listened carefully and felt a sense of empathy. There are many things to pay attention to when farming.

Looking around, the ground is covered with rapeseed stalks, golden yellow, and the surrounding farmland is much the same.

Digging out the roots is quite tiring, so some people just ignore it and let it rot in the field.

In fact, the best way is to turn the roots over, so that the roots can be removed more cleanly.

If you hoe the roots, there will be some residual roots in the soil, which will affect the growth of cotton.

But in order to save effort, this is the only way.

The three of them worked very quickly and finished the whole area by the time it was getting dark.

There are three plots of land at home, so it will take at least several days to work on them.

Many people make enough money from growing cotton, so they don't grow rapeseed much.

Qin Dahe thought about it and realized that growing rapeseed was indeed laborious and the money earned was very little. He could make a lot of money by fishing with that time.

After I finish harvesting the rapeseed, I’ll calculate the yield and tell my dad that I won’t plant it next year.

After dinner in the evening, he lay on the bed like a dead dog, and the little girl helped him massage his waist.

"Brother, you won't be tired after this is done."

"I wonder what the rapeseed yield will be like this year."

"Of course there are a lot. Mom said the climate is good. The climate has been good in the past two years." The little girl said with a smile.

Then she started to roast some chestnuts, saying that her brother was tired and needed to eat more to replenish his energy.

After thinking about it, he went to pour another glass of snake wine and drank it to relieve his fatigue.

Qin Dahe struggled to stand up and ate a little with them. He didn't care about the snake wine and took small sips, feeling very comfortable.

No wonder many farmers like to drink alcohol, it really relieves fatigue.

After drinking a glass of wine, my body felt warm and I even started to sweat slightly.

"Yan'er, come and sit for a while."

The little girl was confused for a moment. Wasn’t she sitting next to him?

However, when he saw the direction the prince pointed, he immediately spat.

"Aren't you tired?"

"Waist type, so I want to rest and don't want to move, but I also want to enjoy it." He said with a smirk.

The little girl turned off the charcoal stove when she heard that. "Brother, what a fool! How could you like this way? It's so uncomfortable."

As the rustling sound faded away, the two people who had been facing each other honestly came together.

The sun is getting bigger and bigger, and the weather is about to warm up.

After harvesting the rapeseed in another field, the family breathed a sigh of relief, as there was still one last field that needed to be weeded.

The fields have been cleared, and the view under the blue sky and white clouds is refreshing.

After the rapeseed is harvested, you can actually call cows or tractors to plow the land, but it was plowed last year, and since there was plenty of rain this year, they didn't do it. Just turn it over with a hoe.

Two more days passed, and today was the last day. Father Qin went to check on the growth of the cotton embryos. It was almost time to plant the seedlings.

"When cotton seedlings are growing, they absorb less nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. At that time, using compound fertilizer plus urea is enough."

“When the fruits grow, all kinds of fertilizers need to be applied.”

The sun continued to shine in the sky and the temperature was estimated to be around 30 degrees.

It is okay to fish for silver carp and bighead carp at this time, because the water temperature difference between morning and evening is not much, and this situation will continue until autumn.

After reading so many books on fishing and fish farming at home, combined with his own experience in his previous life, his understanding of fish has become deeper and deeper.

The father and son worked until 6:30 in the evening, and only returned home when it was completely dark, just in time to finish hoeing the several plots of land at home.

"Dad, is there any work left to do?" Qin Dahe asked with a little trepidation.

"There's a lot going on. We're threshing rapeseed, planting cotton, and spreading fertilizer. Cotton is the biggest part. It's best to wait until the rapeseed is harvested and then it rains. That way, we'll be fine."

"Hopefully."

Qin Dahe felt a chill in his heart after hearing this. There was still so much work to do.

Since Qingming Festival, except for the few days when it rained, the couple has been busy working in the fields. Now they have to continue working and can only take a break until at least mid-May.

"You've done the rest. When the cotton grows above your knees, you have to fork the branches at least two or three times."

Looking at the constipated expression on his son's face, the old man smiled and thought that young people had never experienced such hardships.

"The final step is picking the fruit and peeling the cotton. That's basically it. Once that's done, the cotton crop is basically done and it's time to plant rapeseed."

Qin Dahe really admires Ce. When farming is idle, it is really idle, but when it is busy, it is life-threatening, especially when it comes to the second crop.

At dinner time in the evening, Tiedan and Erhu came on a tricycle.

The day before yesterday, a tricycle modification job came in. Seeing that Tiedan had good skills, he helped to draw the blueprints and didn't care about anything else.

Tiedan was actually made.

He had been so tired these past few days that he hadn't paid any attention to it, and only now did he have the time to check it carefully.

(End of this chapter)