Chapter 441: Planting rice
Chen Ze didn't know how to pick, it was a complete torture, so Zhang An strode forward, wanting to take over the burden.
“No, wait until I finish this trip.”
Chen Ze didn’t agree. How can a man admit that he can’t do it? He must finish this trip no matter what, a real man Never quit halfway.
But fortunately, Zhang An’s paddy field is not far away, just two steps from the gate.
Chen Ze gritted his teeth and carried the load of rice seedlings to the field ridge before putting it down.
“Why is this thing so difficult to pick? I see other old people in the village picking it up with no effort at all.”
Chen Ze rubbed his painful shoulder with one hand. This guy is thin. It was tender and tender, but the skin on the shoulders was almost worn away just by picking it once.
At this time, he felt that although he saw everyone laughing and laughing on the road, farm work was really not easy to do.
“And this pole is too soft, it’s not strong enough at all, and it’s uncomfortable to swing around.”
"What do you know? The softer the pole, the easier it is to carry. If it's hard, you can't carry much. When carrying a pole, you must learn to find a balance point. When walking, you must keep your body straight and follow the rhythm of the pole. It will become very easy.”
Picking a pole seems very simple, but there are also many things to pay attention to. People who know how to pick it have completely different ideas from those who don’t.
People who don’t know how to use it feel that it is easier to use a rigid pole that does not bend. When walking, they will unconsciously bend down and let their back bear the unloading force.
But the people who know how to choose are different. Men, women, old and young in the village are accustomed to using soft poles, so when making poles, they try to choose trees with softer wood. Some people even use bamboo to make them. When walking with a burden, always walk upright unless it is time to rest.
This is because the soft shoulder pole has an advantage. When walking, the burdens on both ends will sway up and down rhythmically.
During the process of swinging upward, this part of the gravity is offset, thus saving everyone a lot of effort. ,
That's why Chen Ze felt that he saw the people in the village being very relaxed when they were carrying burdens, and some of them were even able to chat with others while carrying burdens.
Even a young and strong man wouldn't be able to get very far if faced with a straight fight.
As for how to make your shoulders more comfortable, you have to find a balance individually. Others cannot teach you.
After spending some time, Zhang An and Zhang Jianguo scattered all the seedlings in the paddy field.
Although it is said that there are nearly six acres of paddy fields near the door, there are actually only three of them, all of which are very large.
"Xiao An, please pull the rope over, we will fall from here to the back."
Zhang Jianguo divided one end of the rope on his hand and handed it to Zhang An, and the two of them stood on one end. Pull up the rope in the field.
The reason for pulling the rope is because it can control the distance between the rice plants and it also looks good. Everyone in the village does this.
Although these fields are large, they are all rectangular, so the width is not too large, and the total distance is less than two feet.
Among the people planting rice seedlings in the fields today, only Chen Ze is a novice. He has never done this work before. He was called over by Mr. Chen today.
The old man didn't know how to do it at first, but he helped his old friends a few days ago, so he has already started.
The nanny’s family is a farmer, so she is no stranger to this aspect.
So when it was time to transplant the rice seedlings, Chen Ze was wrapped in the middle of the field and given maybe two meters of space, which was enough to plant four to five rice seedlings at most.
“Look, you have to do this like me, pinch the roots of the seedlings with your fingers, and then insert them into the mud in the water, so that their roots come into contact with the mud and they will sprout.”
At this time, Mr. Chen was teaching his grandson how to plant rice with a proud look on his face.
He learned this from his old friend a few days ago, and he happened to be applying it to Chen Ze.
What else can Chen Ze do, he can only study hard. After all, this is his biological grandfather, and he does not dare to disobey him in the slightest.
And if he messes around casually, he will be embarrassed to serve the bowl when he goes back.
When the others saw this, they just laughed, but they did not disturb the teaching process of their grandfather and grandson, and the movement of planting rice in their hands did not drop half a step.
Today, Saturday, Su Ying did not go to school. At this time, she was watching everyone planting rice on the field ridge.
She wanted to experience the industry because she was not in the village when the rice planting was done last year.
I caught up today, but Wang Fang sternly rejected her idea of going to the fields.
She has a big belly now and it is difficult to walk. How can she be allowed to go to the fields?
The daughter-in-law from another family was trying to make excuses and would not go to the ground if she could. It would be better to come to her place, and she even asked for it.
Zhang An was amused by her and advised her that it was indeed inconvenient for her this year and that she would wait until later.
Marrying a rural person like him will give you many opportunities to do farm work in the future.
"Teacher Su, Uncle An, we are here."
Before the seedlings in the field were even planted, several students from Su Ying's class came together. They were all There are children in the village who have gone to junior high school.
"Why are you here? It's finally Saturday today, why don't you go and play by yourself."
Su Ying was very curious. Her group of students are usually very playful. Is it good today? It's easy to have a weekend off. Why don't you go play and come here instead?
"Haha, we saw Teacher Su planting rice seedlings at home, so we came to help."
The children were all twelve or thirteen years old, and it was when the sun was shining. Lively smiles on their faces.
"Oh, you guys go and play by yourself. How can I ask you to help? Besides, if you come to my house to plant rice seedlings, if the adults at home can't find them later, they will be punished when you return home."
Su Ying didn’t expect that students like her would take the initiative to help her family with farm work, so she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
However, her first reaction was to refuse, because she was afraid that the adults in the student's family might have other ideas and say behind her back that she was using her status as a teacher to ask the students to help them with their work.
This kind of thing is very common in the countryside. When Zhang An and the others were in primary school, the teachers were basically people from the village.
At that time, when the farming was busy, the teacher would give everyone a holiday and let everyone go home to help with the work. Naturally, it was also a common phenomenon to help the teacher at home.
Usually it is not a heavy job, usually when planting small and large rice seedlings, all the children in the family who are over six or seven years old have to go to the fields.
But regardless of whether Su Ying agreed or not, the children had already rolled up their trouser legs, took off their shoes and went straight to the fields.
"Don't be afraid, Teacher Su, my mother called us here, so we don't dare to play."
Several children said in unison, and it was basically the adults at home who asked permission. of.
This is because Su Ying is not only responsible for students at school, but also very kind.
I often spend my own money to buy a lot of stationery to motivate students to learn.
Nowadays, junior high school students are relatively young. If they receive praise from the teacher, they must show off to the adults when they get home.
So when they got the reward, they proudly showed it to their adults when they got home.
Of course those parents were very happy to see their children praised by the teacher, and they were even more happy when they also received stationery for study. They couldn't stop thinking about showing off their children to the neighbors. After all, these things are necessities for children's learning, and they cost money to buy. This can save the family a lot of money.
At first they thought these rewards were given by the school, but after a long time, they found out that Su Ying bought them for the students with her own money, so these things they Parents keep it in mind.
No, today I saw Zhang An’s house was about to plant rice seedlings. Su Ying’s big belly was definitely inconvenient. It was not convenient for them to come over to help, so they called their children over to help.
Firstly, it can repay Su Ying's kindness to children like them. Secondly, it can also make her children get closer to the teacher in the class. They will definitely be more attentive to learning than other children in the future.
Although the paddy field was originally two feet wide, it was still a bit spacious. Zhang An alone had to take care of half a foot.
But now that there are four or five more children, the field seems a bit narrow. Everyone only needs to insert a few seedlings to plant a ditch.
Chen Ze next to him became very happy when he saw these children coming to help.
After all, in this field just now, the seedlings planted by others looked like ditches horizontally and rows vertically.
Even the ones his old man planted were not very good, but they were still passable.
Only the seedlings he planted looked crooked at first glance.
In the beginning, Zhang An’s mother still needed help to rework the ditches, but later it became easier to do without rework.
Now he saw several children joining in, and felt that he was not the worst offender.
But after these children started taking action, he just glanced at them and froze.
Because the seedlings planted by others are similar to those planted by Zhang An's family, and they are also fast.
In this comparison, he realized that he was really worse than a child, and his face was somewhat embarrassed.
I can only silently lower my head and bend over to plant rice, without looking anywhere.
Zhang An is busy planting rice now, but he doesn’t know that his mental activities are so rich at the moment.
If he knew, he should be advised not to compare with these children.
Do you understand the value of Brother Xiaozi? Children in the village are not just for fun. After they are six or seven years old, they have to work in the fields with their families.
Even on school days, after school every day, I would either go to the fields to help, or go out to cut pig grass with a basket on my back. When I came back, I would be responsible for cooking and waiting for the adults to come back.
Though these children are only twelve or thirteen years old, they have at least four or five years of working experience and are much more skilled than him.
The distance between the seedlings of large seedlings is relatively large, and there are more people today. In just one morning, a field was planted.
"Then don't plant it now, go back and have dinner and come back in the afternoon."
When he was about to change a field, Wang Fang shouted in the yard.
After all, with so many people working, someone must prepare meals, so around ten o'clock, Wang Fang took Su Ying home to prepare lunch.
"Okay, let's come back in the afternoon. Let's wash our feet and go back to eat first."
As the host, Zhang An came out of the field first and took everyone to the river to wash their feet. Mud on top.
Although there is a water pipe in the yard, it is inconvenient to wait in line with so many people.
The river was full of water, and there were only a few steps. I could wash myself off after just two trips to the river.
"Old Chen, didn't you notice that you have a big baby on your leg?"
Zhang An was walking behind Chen Ze and saw at a glance that there was a big baby on his calf. Green-brown leech.
And this leech is not small. It seems to be at least one centimeter wide. Even if it shrinks into a ball, it is still two or three centimeters long.
"Ah, what?"
Chen Ze still didn't know what was going on. After listening to Zhang An's words, he lowered his head and looked back in confusion, only to feel a squirming feeling on his legs.
“What the hell, what is this?”
As soon as he saw such a big thing sticking to his leg and squirming, Chen Ze stretched out his hand to pull out the leech. Lose.
"Uncle, this is a leech. You can't pull it off like this. You have to use your big mouth to swat it, and it will be captured in one go."
A few people nearby also said He had seen Chen Ze hurriedly trying to pull off the leech, so he kindly reminded him.
The leech is a stubborn creature. It's fine if you don't move it. The more you pull at it, the more it will burrow into your flesh.
In some serious cases, it may even penetrate into the blood vessels.
Chen Ze was originally afraid of this thing. After listening to the words of several children, he immediately shouted at his calf with a few big mouths.
But for some reason, I just can’t get the location of the leech right.
“Um, uncle, doesn’t it hurt when you slap me like this?”
Seeing Chen Ze being so cruel to them, the children suddenly felt that this uncle is really a cruel person. ah.
“It hurts, but you said, do you have to do this to take a photo?”
It doesn’t even matter whether Chen Ze hurts or not, because his calf has already been taken. redness.
“Yes, but you don’t need to hit it so many times, and you don’t need to use so much force. Look, won’t it just come down like this?”
In the end, the child couldn’t stand it anymore and stepped forward. Go and slap the leech to the ground with a gentle slap.
"This guy is sucking my blood. How much blood did he suck with such a big mouth?"
Looking at the huge mouthparts of the leech on the ground, Chen Ze went crazy towards it. output, and even picked up a stone and cut it into two pieces.
“Okay, this leech is not afraid of you breaking it into pieces. If you do this, it will turn into two pieces. Just leave it in the sun and it will die after it dries. ”
When Zhang An saw this thing, he thought of Xiaoyao Hou, it was so disgusting.
Back home, Zhang An greeted the children first. Su Ying also went to Zhang Xinmin's house to buy two bottles of high orange soda, because this kind of soda was their favorite.
Because of work today, Wang Fang not only killed chickens and fish, but also got a rabbit.
This time I have conquered some of the kids. After all, at home, except for New Year celebrations and banquets, we can’t eat such good food.
But despite this, no one wolfed it down and everyone ate slowly. This is how rural families educate their children.
The little ones said it was delicious, which made Wang Fang very happy.
(End of this chapter)