Chapter 698: Treasure-like Farm Manure
“Okay Aunt Wang, we will do whatever you ask us to do today.”
As expected, upon hearing Wang Fang’s words, the three of them The man returned to the ridge from the rice field very energetically, letting go of the seedlings in the field, and then picked up Wang Fang and the others, tied them into handfuls, and carried them to the empty field next to them.
But sometimes I threw them in a hurry, and although they didn’t scatter, they still fell in a mess in the paddy field.
"Boss Lu, when you put the seedlings into the field, you should put them upright so that they won't pour water when they are planted later."
A few people came to help. When the villagers saw it, they smiled and reminded them.
Chen Ze has always lived in the village, and the fat guys would come to the village from time to time, especially Lu Cheng, who was the big boss who specially gave them money, so they were already familiar with each other and talked with each other. There is no restraint in coming.
“Ah, there is something like this.”
As soon as the three of them heard this, they went back and stood up the seedlings that had been knocked down.
When I carried the seedlings over later, I didn’t throw them away directly. I put them down after walking into the field.
The speed of plowing the paddy fields again is very fast, much faster than when plowing the fields in the first place.
In addition, Mr. Zhang An and his wife led the horses to the fields very early in the morning, so when the clock came around nine o'clock, several acres of paddy fields had already been plowed. It happened that Wang Fang also brought people to plow the fields. After pulling out the seedlings that need to be planted, everyone starts working in the fields.
“Zhang An, you don’t need to spread fertilizer in your field, can you just plant the seedlings directly?”
Several villagers who came to help saw Zhang An’s field being plowed After planting the rice seedlings directly, he asked curiously.
Because in their home, before transplanting the rice seedlings, the paddy fields are plowed and fertilizer is spread before the rice seedlings are transplanted.
“We have already spread it, but what we spread is not urea, but the manure from home. We moved it in when we were plowing the fields, so there is no need to spread it again today.”
Zhang An He smiled and explained that in the past few years, his family had not used urea or compound fertilizer as the base fertilizer in their fields. It was all farmyard manure that had been retted at home.
In the past few days of plowing the fields, Zhang An and his father moved the soaked fertilizer to the fields. After these two plows, the fertilizer applied to the fields had already penetrated into the soil. It was truly Became the base fertilizer.
By doing this, the fertility of the field will be more fertile than spreading compound fertilizer.
This is one of the reasons why Zhang An’s family has been increasing production in their fields in recent years.
"Isn't this the method used in the past? But the crops in the fields were not very good in those years."
Several villagers present are all old farmers, each of them has been there for at least 20 or 30 years. farming experience.
As soon as they heard what Zhang An said, they immediately remembered that this was the method of applying base fertilizer before planting rice ten years ago.
Because in that era, the country's industrial level was just beginning, and the fertilizer industry was simply in short supply.
That’s why chemical fertilizers used to be very expensive and not easy to buy.
The farmers at that time were in the most difficult and poor time. It could be said that they had to tighten their belts and had to live hungry.
So don’t say you can’t buy fertilizer. Even if you can buy it, you don’t have the money to buy it.
So when farming, all farmyard manure is used, which is the same method used by Zhang An’s family.
“The effect is definitely there. Not to mention many, as long as it is well-drained fertilizer, the harvest when used to grow crops is no worse than fertilizer.”
Farmyard manure and chemical fertilizers are just the same. In terms of fertility, farmyard manure is definitely closer to the interests of the land and can better release its own fertility, but the premise is that it must be remedied well.
Otherwise, if it is not soaked well, it will not only be a problem of insufficient fertility, but also cause burning of seedlings.
Here, Zhang An wants to explain the era of big pot rice.
Many people say that there were no chemical fertilizers in the past, and the crops planted did not yield well, which led to so many people going hungry.
But in fact, the fact that so many people were hungry had nothing to do with whether the harvest was good or not.
Once before, when Zhang An and Mr. Huang went into the mountains, the old man and the young man talked about old things.
From Mr. Huang’s mouth, Zhang An learned some things that he had experienced in that era.
In fact, at the beginning of the big pot rice era, most people were still very motivated and passionate.
At that time, serious farmyard manure was used in the fields, and the fields were taken care of with the utmost care.
But the harvest at that time was not bad. It can be said to be the best harvest in history.
Although it cannot be compared with the past few years, it is a problem of the seeds and nothing else matters.
After all, in recent years, the country's investment in seed research has already begun to show results. If nothing else, take hybrid rice as an example. The current yield is much higher than before.
Some people want to say that the harvest in those years was so good, why can't relevant records be found.
Zhang An only found the answer to this after asking Mr. Huang and the others.
Take Changqing Village as an example. The harvests in the first few years have already exceeded the target.
But what is very helpless is that the teammates around me were too exaggerated at that time. They were all very brave and dared to brag about anything. They reported every game one by one.
So in this case, the real situation was completely obscured by the waves of history.
But there was no Zhang An at that time, and Wang Fang and her generation were still young.
What they remember is already the period of drought that followed.
It’s normal to not be able to remember the first few years.
But several old people have said that this time is enough to prove that in the first few years, the crops in the fields were really good, and the year was much better than before.
Take the paddy field in Changqing Village as an example. The normal output at that time was about six to seven hundred kilograms.
But Grandpa Er and the others would reminisce every time they celebrate the New Year, and told Zhang An with certainty that at that time, one acre of rice harvested in the village had already exceeded the yield of one thousand kilograms per mu. .
It is enough to show that in the first few years, everyone still gained something by releasing all their energy on the land.
"I remember, it seems that for two years, the harvest in the fields in our village was really good. I was only seven or eight years old at the time. It was only after the drought that there was no harvest. But at that time No matter how good it is, it is not as energetic as your family has been in recent years. "
The speaker is a woman named Zhang Chunyan. She has been a villager in Changqing since she was a child, and she also married in this village when she grew up. Many things, She knows more than others who marry in from outside.
Although Zhang Chunyan was only that old at that time, she had already worked in the fields with the adults, so she clearly remembered that the harvest of the same blood rice back then was not even half of what Zhang An's family has now. .
“Haha, maybe it’s because our own fertilizer is better, and blood rice hasn’t been planted in this field for many years, so it’s so good.” In this regard, Zhang An I just had a haha and dealt with it casually.
Because his family knew about his business, in everyone’s eyes, the blood rice they grew was still the same old variety of rice.
But in fact, this blood rice is no longer the blood rice that everyone knows before. Zhang An has used space to optimize a new variety. Not only has the yield increased, but it has also become more delicious.
Moreover, the farmyard manure produced by Zhang An's family is not the grass manure produced by simply locking animals in pens and letting them soak for a period of time.
After their farmyard manure was cleared from the pen, Zhang An processed and fermented it again, and the fertility was definitely different.
In addition, Zhang An's blood rice, from germination, to breeding, to transplanting, Zhang An used the magical thing of space spring water in almost every process.
Maybe when the water is released for irrigation later, he will have to fill the fields with space spring water several times.
Space spring water is a good treasure. Watering any crop can increase its yield and ripen it, not to mention Zhang An's blood rice that has been soaked in space spring water since it has never germinated.
If you do this and the output is not high, that would be a real weird thing.
But Zhang An will definitely not explain the reason to others.
"Well, Zhang An, you raise so many animals and produce a lot of manure. I'm afraid you won't be able to use it all. Forget it this year, wait until next year and sell us a car." ”
The others had no doubts about Zhang An’s words, but it was also because of this that they began to play with the farmyard manure produced by Zhang An’s family.
The sale of farmyard fertilizer has been around for decades, and it requires a ticket.
Although the trade in farmyard manure has faded out of everyone's sight in recent years, since deer were raised in the village, this trade has returned to everyone's sight.
In addition, in Changqing Village now, there are many people planting orchards, and the farmyard manure produced in their own circle is definitely not enough.
So the current trading of these manures , is very common in the entire Changqing Village.
Furthermore, it is a fact recognized by the village that Zhang An’s family has good fertilizers. Let’s not talk about growing crops, just talking about the vegetables grown in daily life. With the same seeds, the vegetables grown by Zhang An’s family are better than those grown by other families. tasty.
"If you really want it, I will give you a few cars. You just see that my family has more livestock, so the more fertilizer it produces, but you don't think about it. I have so many fields and dozens of acres." My third uncle has said it many times, but it’s just not enough.”
Zhang An spread his hands and explained to a few people helplessly.
Actually, the various fertilizers at home are not so important. After I use them up, I can give some to my third uncle Zhang Jianye’s family.
If it was just one person talking privately, Zhang An felt that it would not be a problem to give someone a car or two.
Of course, the cars here are horse-drawn carriages, and there is not a lot of fat in one car.
But the problem is that there are so many people who have spoken, and there is simply no way to deliver them.
Furthermore, they are all in the same village, and no matter who it is, it is impossible to hide the matter. Today you gave this person two cars, and tomorrow another person comes to ask for it. Although everyone said that he bought it with money, you are asking for it. To give or not to give.
I want to give, but I don’t have that much. If I don’t give, I will offend many people. I am not worrying about scarcity but inequality.
So Zhang An decided that no matter who spoke, he would find an excuse to get rid of them all, so that no one would be offended.
"Okay, when you have extra time, remember to keep us even."
Hearing Zhang An's words, several people were suddenly disappointed.
But I’m not too discouraged, because I don’t have it, and neither do others. Everyone is still starting from the same starting point.
"Okay, when there is really extra, I will give you some."
No matter what, people have said so, Zhang An can't refuse directly, so he has to agree first. .
But after arriving, it is not up to you to decide whether there is any left.
Although everyone is chatting, the hands planting rice are not slow at all.
Chen Ze and the fat man only learned for a while, and they had already planted the rice seedlings in a decent manner. After all, they were planted by pulling a rope, so they looked quite neat.
If you don’t use the rope, it will probably start to twist if it exceeds two rows or more.
The three of them were still novices, so Zhang An only gave them a small area, where each person could plant five seedlings, and treated it as a place for them to play around.
Although each person only has a small amount of territory, the three of them combined are equivalent to one skilled worker, so it can be considered a big help.
In less than one morning, a field of rice seedlings was planted.
It was still a little early, so Wang Fang went home early to cook, and everyone continued to work in the fields.
"Old Chen, look at what's on your leg. It's been digging into your flesh, and it's bleeding."
When changing to the next field, the fat man Walking behind Chen Ze, the next moment, he called out to Chen Ze in front of him in horror.
"This is a leech. Why is it so big? Zhang An, please swat it away for me. I don't dare to do it."
Chen Ze looked down and found something on his calf. It does have a leech attached to it.
Last year, he had already seen this thing, and he was not very scared. Moreover, he also knew that he could not pull the leech, but could only use a pat to capture the leech.
But the leech sucked on his leg this time was not small. Even if it was huddled together, it was the size of a little finger. He was a little scared just looking at it. He was worried that if he went to take a picture, he would take the leech. The leech slapped me from my legs to my hands, so I didn't even dare to make a move.
“Don’t tell me, you may not encounter a few such big leeches on a normal day. You are lucky, Old Chen.”
Don’t look at the many paddy fields in Changqing Village. , there are also a lot of leeches, but leeches that can grow to such a big size are really uncommon.
Zhang An didn't want to tease Chen Ze, but just slapped him to take down the leech.
But such a big leech is suitable for catching and making medicine, so Zhang An found a leaf and picked it up from the ground.
"My leg is still bleeding. Is it okay?"
Although the leech is gone, there is still blood oozing out from the place where it was bitten. Chen Ze hurriedly went to Zhang An asked.
"It doesn't matter. This is because the leech is a bit too big, so the wound caused by the bite is slightly larger, but it's okay. It will solidify and scar in a while."
In fact, it's just It's just a drop of blood, maybe not as much blood as a thorn injury, so it's not a big deal.
(End of this chapter)