My 1995 Small Farm - Vol 2 Chapter 451

Chapter 451 Smoked house

Stayed in the city for eight days, and spent one day on the road.

During this period of time, the family has changed quite a lot. The road in the county has been repaired, but it has not yet opened to traffic.

At Zhao Yubao’s side, the river channel has also been dug. It surrounds the village and flows into Dayan Pond, which is very beautiful.

Just haven’t built a bridge in front of them yet.

Next, the villagers want to plant corn, but it’s too late.

We have to wait until the end of this period of work.

This year, many people came to Chen Ling’s house to exchange seeds for planting corn.

In the countryside, we will not spend money to buy grain seeds.

It is not easy to collect money from folks in the village.

That is to use the same catty of seeds in exchange.

Of course, if your own seeds are dry and crumpled, then you should give more to make them look better.

After all, it is hoped that planting other people’s seeds will have a high yield.

There is another difference this year.

It is time to pay public food.

The failure to pay in the past two years was due to floods in the vicinity.

The harvest is gone, and no one has to hand in the food.

But there is no rush now, just wait until after the autumn harvest to hand in together.

In fact, the public grain is handed over in the north, usually in the twelfth lunar month.

It’s not good in the mountains. It’s easy to block the mountains with heavy snow after it snows in the twelfth lunar month.

Still have to take this into consideration.

…

“ah!”

Chen Ling stretched his waist and yawned: “It’s still comfortable at home.”

After planting the corn, Chen Ling got up very late today.

Not only did she get up late, but even breakfast was made by Wang Susu.

Wang Susu doesn’t have as many cooking tricks as he does, so he cooks porridge, spreads a few egg cakes, and pickles are all ready-made, just eat them with salted duck eggs.

Wang Susu served him a bowl of porridge, and said with a smile, “What’s comfortable, I’ve been busy for two days since I came back, and I haven’t seen you slacking off and resting, sweating and working hard in the field.”

“Hey, you don’t understand. The golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as our own kennels. Although the city is pretty good, for me, I still feel a little bit aggrieved and can’t let go of my body. Why do I go home and sweat a lot from work? , drink a little wine at night, sleep, and feel very at ease.”

Chen Ling walked into the kitchen shaking his head, kicked a ponytail over and sat down.

In fact, it’s because the farm is too cool. After taking a rest, in such a hot summer day, it is really relaxing and comfortable. For a certain night when the weather is cool, a thin quilt should be covered at night.

Wang Susu thought for a while, “That’s right, there are still mosquitoes upstairs in the city. There will be no mosquitoes in our farm this summer, and the small mosquito net I prepared for Ruirui is useless.”

“Sure, don’t you look at how many birds, frogs and toads are outside, it’s only strange that there are mosquitoes.”

Chen Ling certainly couldn’t say that he planted those powerful mosquito repellent plants, but he was indeed affected by birds and frogs. Even if those mosquitoes were not close to the farm, there were much fewer mosquitoes than in previous years.

All became the dishes of birds and frogs.

While talking, he ate a large bowl of white rice porridge. Perhaps because of his hard work these two days, Chen Ling’s appetite was unusually good. He drank three big bowls of white rice porridge and ate seven or eight egg pancakes before he felt the pain. full.

But he didn’t eat any more, wiped his hands, and called two big dogs to the village.

In the past few days when I came back from the city, I have been busy planting corn, and I haven’t visited Zhao Yubao much, but he often comes here every day to enjoy the cool, catch up with the meal and so on.

So Chen Ling went over to visit when he was free today.

Most of May has passed, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

But the fields in the morning are very lively. There are figures of corn seedlings everywhere. Men, women and children, wearing straw hats, towels, and shovels, are busy back and forth in the stubble field after the wheat has been cut.

No matter adults or children, they all hold a big or small shovel in their hands, step on the shovel with their feet and kick in the field ridges, shovel out a small hole, push the shovel in their hands, and the hole will show a gap , sprinkled three or five corn seeds, then pulled out the shovel and stepped forward.

The pit where the corn seeds were sprinkled in the rear has been trampled firmly by the feet.

The more experienced the old farmer is, the faster he will be.

Chen Ling was walking on the path in the field, seeing this scene, it was like seeing a landscape painting.

“Uncle Laiyun, are you busy?”

Walking downhill, it was the field of Wang Laiyun’s family. It happened that the old man came from the west side of the field, step by step, lighting up the corn.

“Hey, Fugui has finished ordering the corn, and he’s wandering around again.”

“Haha, I just finished working yesterday evening.”

“…Tsk tsk tsk, it’s terrible, your son has been too capable in the past two years, 20 acres of land, you planted corn faster than sowing, and my family’s 10 acres of land have not been finished yet. .”

Bug grains are ordered according to the wheat ridges, that is, according to the stubble after wheat harvest, between two rows of stubble.

Naturally, it is much slower.

“Hey, I’m just messing around, just trying to make it fast, otherwise if it rains heavily later, it will delay the good time.”

Chen Ling waved his hand, indicating that it was not worth mentioning.

In fact, after he came back from the city, he was in a happy mood and had nowhere to use his energy. Even if the sun was shining, he was not afraid, and he continued to work, and he worked very fast.

With great strength and endurance, willing to work hard and sweat, naturally the busy work will be over soon.

As for the other family, it is only when the morning and evening are cool that they plant the ground.

Of course, the working time like this is not short.

It is very cool in the morning in the mountains. Basically, every household in the village goes to the fields at five o’clock in the morning, and works until nine o’clock in the morning, and works for two hours in the evening, so the working time is not shorter than other times.

But this is not as good as Chen Ling working from morning till night.

“Hahaha, that’s what your son said. If other companies earn so much money a year like you, who would want to go to the farm?”

Wang Laiyun smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, turned a corner on the ground, and continued to walk westward with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Wang Laishun’s two sons and daughter-in-law followed closely from the west and also greeted Chen Ling with a smile.

Further forward is the field of Wang Lixian’s family.

The whole family was also busy with work, but at this time Ernier had already rushed over with a big belly and told them to go back for dinner.

“Uncle Fugui, are you free tonight, we asked you to catch a cicada…”

Liu Nier cried out from afar.

Chen Ling was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly realized that he had been calling for a long time.

nodded and smiled: “Okay, you guys have breakfast early in the evening, and we will meet up at the threshing field after the meal is finished.”

Although his orchard is good, it was a wasteland three years ago, with no trees, and no conditions for the growth and reproduction of cicadas, so even if Chen Ling used spiritual water to moisten it in the past two years, it was diluted spiritual water, which attracted many cicadas. Cicada monkeys were not hatched in a short period of time.

So if you want to catch the cicada monkey, you still have to go outside to find it.

“I have something to do with Fugui…”

Wang Lixian came out of the field wiping his sweat, and several people walked towards the village together, talking at the same time.

“Didn’t my greenhouse be uncovered? I planted it for two years and want to fertilize it. Can I get some quail manure from your family?”

Other things in Chen Ling’s house, such as cattle, horses and sheep, are left all day long, and there is not much excrement accumulated.

Quails are always flying around, and they are not released all day long. They are all raised in captivity, and with ten litters a year incubating, the scale is not small now.

Those quail manures are cleaned up in time every day, and they are piled up near the vegetable garden, and there are already big piles.

Wang Lixian, who often visited Chen Ling’s house, naturally knew about it.

“Quail manure, I’m useless, you can just take it all away, I have piled it up, ready-made.”

Chen Ling smiled: “Brother Xian, it seems that you still want to grow vegetables in a greenhouse this year.”

After all, if you grow mushrooms in the shed, you don’t need to fertilize them.

“Well, I want to grow vegetables. I heard from Bo Ming that last year, there were a lot of mushrooms, and some places couldn’t sell them. Vegetables are better. Winter vegetables are easy to sell even in our small county.”

When Wang Lixian talked about this, he couldn’t help showing a smile on his tanned black and red face: “What’s more, there are a lot of greenhouses in our village this year to grow vegetables. If I don’t serve snacks, I don’t try to grow vegetables better. Have you been compared to others?”

“Haha, that’s true, that’s true, you are the first person in our village to eat crabs, take the lead, you can’t be overtaken later.”

“What’s the big brother who takes the lead? When it comes to the big brother who takes the lead, you should be the big brother in our village, our township, and our county… Now the county heard that you raise cattle, and that guy has a bunch of cattle this year. In the village, every household has cattle.

Hey, by the way, there is something I haven’t told you yet, that is, the village used to raise ornamental fish with you, but now I plan to raise some domestic fish crayfish in the pond. Apart from your family, only Mr. Zhao and his family raise ornamental fish . ”

The village no longer raises ornamental fish. It is understandable to raise other aquatic products and crayfish instead. It is still a bit troublesome to raise ornamental fish.

But Chen Ling didn’t expect that Zhao Yubao’s two families would follow behind to raise them. Of course, they must be just for fun.

Talking and laughing with Wang Lixian’s family, they parted ways at the elementary school, Chen Ling turned a corner and walked along Dayantang.

A dirt hillside covered with green grass and green trees appeared in front of my eyes.

The hillside stretches for a long time, from the east of the village to the west of the village, but the section in the village is already very gentle.

And in spring and summer, the vegetation is lush and full of greenery. Walking here in the hot summer will immediately give people a feeling of freshness and coolness.

Especially this year there is a small river before the grassy slope.

There are two more thatched huts on the half **** on the other side of the small river. There are a few big trees behind the huts, and a small courtyard surrounded by fences outside the huts.

The small yard also cultivated two vegetable gardens and raised chickens and ducks.

Standing by the small river, Chen Ling looked around, and felt that the grassy **** of the village had been transformed into a much more beautiful place. In his joy, he cheered like a half-baby, backed away, and then accelerated suddenly, dexterously Jump across the river.

His actions startled the people on the slope, and the cattle and sheep barked.

“My good fellow, I fell into the river at that time, Ling Zi, why are you so grown up?”

The grass was very deep, and Chen Ling didn’t see anyone sitting on the slope. It turned out that the old man took Rui Rui to herd sheep here.

Several old men were sitting in the shade of a tree, lighting matchsticks and playing cards. Zhao Yubao was still making a pot of tea. That guy was very comfortable.

Ruirui and two children of about the same age were holding branches and pounding the ant nest with one heart and one mind.

Chen Ling walked over and grinned: “Hey, isn’t this the little baby of Shuiwazi and Yubin’s family? He also ran off to the ground, can he talk?”

“No way, what can you say at only one year old, compared with Ruirui, he is as stupid as his grandma.”

Old Tired smiled and said in disgust.

Chen Guoxing followed closely: “I can’t blame my grandma even if I’m stupid, you are a grandfather, when will you be able to compare yourself to rich guys, your grandson must be as smart as Ruirui.”

Chen Guoxing is the brother of Chen Guoping, a village doctor. Their brothers are almost carved out of the same mold, but Chen Guoxing has been ill in the past few years, and he has aged rapidly in the past three or four years.

It was also affected by the old turtle this year, everyone saw a lot of extra income, and their complexion improved a bit.

I also feel like bickering with people.

“By the way, Fugui, I heard they said that your smoked material smoked the new house, and there were no bugs in the house. Can you also help us with some of your smoked material?”

Zhao Yubao poured him a cup of tea, and said, “This thatched cottage is comfortable to live in, but it always attracts bugs. I don’t know how many of them are trampled to death every day in the house. The soles of the shoes are full of dead bugs. If it wasn’t for your father-in-law I sent two dozen matchsticks, and lit it every night to smoke it, and maybe even crawled on the bed.”

Old man Zhong nodded while playing cards: “Yes, yes, especially grasshoppers and crickets. At night, when they see the lights, those guys fly into the house. It’s better to have chickens and ducks running around during the day, and chickens and ducks run around at night.” You have to sleep too.”

The two residences designed by the two of them are poetic and full of style.

But the weeds that are half a person tall can’t hold up the slope, the bugs in that guy are no joke.

“That’s true, I’m just going to go to the mountains to dig some medicinal materials, and pick some spices along the way to repel insects.”

Chen Ling thought for a while, and then said to Wang Cunye: “Father, don’t your insect repellent powders work in this place?”

“Ang, it’s useless. There are so many insects in the grass, how can the powder be useful? My powder is half insect repellent and half insecticidal. After killing the insects, it has no medicinal effect. It won’t last for a few days. I still have to use your spices to make it work.” , light it up and burn it, even scorpions and centipedes dare not enter the house, let alone woodworms.”

Wang Cunye said without raising his head.

Rural smoked houses are usually wormwood and mugwort, or some pines and cypresses.

This kind can repel insects, but the effect is not so obvious and the duration is short.

Chen Ling’s spice surprised Wang Cunye. After taking it out at the Dragon Boat Festival, he smoked it and it still works.

…

The farm does not attract insects, and the houses in the village do not attract insects. After a long time, the family will naturally feel strange.

So Chen Ling took advantage of this year’s Dragon Boat Festival to bring out some spices that he had thought about to repel insects.

Wang Cunye has been dealing with medicinal materials for a long time. After looking at it, he didn’t understand what his pitch-black thing was.

But it is really easy to use, the smell is quite fragrant, not pungent, and after fuming the house, it does not attract insects at all.

“All right, then I’ll go for a walk in the mountains now and pick some herbs and spices.”

“Go to Nanshan, don’t go to Beishan and Xishan.”

“I know.”

Chen Ling touched his son’s head, then turned and returned.

“Hey, don’t go, drink two cups of tea first, it’s not nine o’clock yet.”

Seeing that he was in such a hurry, Zhao Yubao hurriedly stopped him.

Chen Ling waved his hand, and walked across the river in another step: “Go early and come back early, this is the right time.”

“Hey, this is troublesome, just leave as soon as you come, as if I specially ordered him.”

Zhao Yubao slapped his thigh.

Wang Cunye pulled him to sit down, and said with a smile: “Haha, don’t worry about him, he has been in the city for seven or eight days, and he is exhausted. He can’t be idle for a while.”

He is often at home and knows that Chen Ling has long wanted to go to the mountains.

Furthermore, many medicinal materials in pharmacies are really not enough.

(end of this chapter)