Chapter 524 The Big Hole in the Cornfield

Chapter 524 The Big Hole in the Cornfield

The next day.

It’s time to water the ground.

Chen Ling got up early and rushed back.

I dug a diversion ditch with my uncle.

It hasn't rained much recently, and there are fewer mushrooms in the mountains. Wang Qingwen is too lazy to go today.

I watered corn with my brother-in-law at home.

Fortunately, there has been no drought in the past two years. There is water in the rivers and ditches near the farm, and there are more springs on the mountains, and the water flow is not small.

There is no shortage of water for irrigation.

Otherwise.

The foot of the mountain in the north of the village is far from the reservoir, and there is no stone canal leading to the ground. Groundwater has to be pumped out with machine wells, and ditches have to be dug from the Tutu Temple to bring the water here, which is very troublesome.

"Fugui, I told you that you must get up early before the weather is cool and start working. Your sister-in-law still doesn't believe it, saying that you drank too much and can't get up... Hehe, let's help you."

Chen Ling and his wife were digging trenches, while Wang Jusheng and his wife came over carrying shovels, wearing black glue shoes and straw hats, and brought their daughter and son over.

It's still early, and the show ended late last night. The two little guys behind them were still yawning as they walked.

When I saw him, I called him Uncle Fugui in a daze.

"Hey, what are you doing here? Go and do what you should be busy with. I heard Bo Ming say that pickles are on sale right now."

Chen Ling said helplessly.

"It's okay, it's not enough for a day or two. You have few people here, and you two can work on twenty acres of land. You must be very tired."

Wang Jusheng chuckled.

Zhang Qiaoling also laughed and said: "Yes, we two don't know anything else, but we still have the strength."

Chen Ling waved his hand: "I didn't think about watering it all in one day. I just watered it in the morning and evening when it was cool."

He looked at Dandan and Datou again: "It's still early, it's just now It’s past five o’clock, why are you waking up the baby? Look at Da Tou, who is still rubbing his eyes. Come and take a nap at home, our sofa is very soft.”

Da Tou is still a three-year-old. The year-old baby raised his head when he heard this and said, "Uncle, is Ruirui awake?"

"Ruirui hasn't come back, she's still in the county seat."

"Ah. ?”

The little guy was suddenly confused.

“What’s wrong?”

Chen Ling asked with a smile.

Dandan smiled shyly at this time: "Uncle, we want to come over and help you look after Ruirui."

"Oh, that's right, he is such a good boy. ”

Chen Ling smiled and touched the two little heads, one tall and one short: "Come out of the house and sleep for a while. Come and call us when the meal is ready, okay?"

"Okay."

The two little guys nodded obediently and walked into the farm holding hands.

Wang Jusheng smiled naively when he saw it: "You, the uncle, still love the baby. When I see you, I, the father, won't even kiss you."

"It's okay if I don't kiss you. I don’t know how to play with my baby, how can I get close to you if I only know how to train?”

Zhang Qiaoling snorted and urged impatiently: "Okay, okay, stop talking. I'm here to work, not for you to gossip. It's okay to work more while the weather is cool.
< br>Look at Fugui, he dug a long ditch while talking.

You are also doing work for others?”

While talking, he picked up the shovel. Chen Ling dug a trench opposite.

“Yes, it’s okay if I don’t say it.”

Wang Jusheng muttered, smiled helplessly at Chen Ling and the others, and quickly lowered his head to work.

When it comes to his mother and his brother, he has been tolerant in the past, but now that things are going on like this, Zhang Qiaoling should see that he is angry.

Chen Ling laughed quickly and said: "Haha, sister-in-law is very resolute, and with your skills, these twenty acres of land are no small thing."

Wang Qingwen also compared himself with others. Thumb: "My brothers and sisters are familiar with it at first glance. I can dig ditches well, but watering them is laborious. We don't have such a big land in the mountains over there. We basically rely on the weather for food. I hope the sky is familiar. You can follow me later. Ju Sheng needs to keep an eye on me.

Ling Zi is working so hard that he won’t be able to care about me for a while. ”

"It's easy. I'll help Brother Qingwen repair the ditches and weirs later."

The ditches are used to divert water to farmland. If the ground is not watered normally, lush weeds will grow in them.

When watering crops, shovel them out in advance, clear the debris aside, and repair the furrows.

Because there are many weeds in this season and their roots are deep, they can be said to be numerous and strong.

This is not an easy job.

In addition, weirs must be built in each row of crops.

As the name suggests, this weir is designed to retain water just like a weir dam.

Although the land here is large, the farmland also has slopes, unlike plains where there is a large area of ​​flat land.

So weirs should be used to block water in places with slopes.

It’s just like the stretch of earth that blocks water outside the terraced fields.

This weir was built when the corn was harvested. Now that the corn has grown taller, we only need to water one row of water to build a row of weirs and repair them.

Otherwise, water cannot be stored in sloping areas, and it will accumulate in low places, flooding crops in low places.

“Okay, this is my first time doing this kind of work.”

Wang Qingwen said with a smile.

He said this verbally. In fact, there are very few people of his generation who can’t do farm work. Even if there is no farmland in the mountains, they are not people who are industrious and have no regard for grains. They can teach someone casually. It can be taught.

The more people the work is, the faster it will be.

The four people dug together and quickly dug the ditch. All that was left was to get into the corn field and build the furrow.

This division of labor is good.

Wang Qingwen and Zhang Qiaoling shoveled along the ditch.

Chen Ling and Wang Jusheng just need to divert water for irrigation and repair the weir at the same time.

In other words, diverting water and building weirs is not as easy as building furrows and weeding, and requires experienced hands to do it.

"Hey, we just dug the trench, Brother Xian and his family are here too. If the water can flow faster now, we can finish it in one day."

I just said to go into the corn field. When I got there, I saw Wang Lixian's family carrying shovels, wearing straw hats and water shoes, arriving in full gear.

Of course they are a family, but not all of them are here. Except for Da Nier and Liu Nier, no one else is at home.

So that’s four people.

But among these four people, three of them are good at work, so there is nothing more to say.

“Yes, once Brother Xian’s family comes over, we can dig two ditches on the east and west sides and water the ground together from the east and west.

It will water the ground faster this way. "

Wang Lixian didn't say much. After asking Chen Ling for his opinion, he walked to the foot of the west mountain, where his family was digging ditches to divert water.

Then the east and west sides proceed simultaneously.

Later, other people from the village also came over, such as Chen Baoshuan and Wang Wenchao. They heard what Chen Ling said and listened to. They also made a lot of money by following Chen Ling. Knowing the situation of Chen Ling's family, few people could take care of them, so they came to take a look. Take a look.

It’s just watering the ground. It doesn’t take many people.

When they saw Wang Jusheng and Wang Lixian's family here, they said a few words briefly and watched Zhao Yubao herding sheep for a while. The old ladies from Zhao and Zhong were also helping Su Ligai pick up sheep on the mountain. The rest of the eggs were of no use to help, so they all went back. Had dinner at around eight o'clock in the morning.

It’s getting hot in the cornfield.

This kind of heat is stuffy and airless.

Some people who don’t understand the countryside will think that in the fields, there are flowers, trees and crops everywhere, and there are green plants everywhere, and corn is not wheat. The tall and big corn can provide shade, so it shouldn’t be very Is it cool?

This is not the case.

Although the corn is tall, the corn field is too dense.

Sunshade not only blocks the sun, but also blocks the wind.

It's said to be airtight, but there really isn't even a breath of wind.

Watering in the corn field.

If a mountain breeze blows, you will only hear the sound of corn stalks shaking, but you will not feel a trace of cool breeze.

Just because the wind blows from above.

People can’t enjoy it if they are stuck in it.

Of course, this is for adults.

Those little kids, they don’t care about this at all.

In the corn field at this time, I saw a wide furrow passing between the tall dark green corn stalks. The turbid water flowed slowly in it, and then followed the curve at the front of the furrow. Open it and pour it into a field of corn.

It is said that it is a curved opening. The front of the furrow is blocked with soil, and then a gap is dug in the weir of a corn field that needs irrigation.

The gap in this weir is where water is diverted for irrigation.

Whenever a cornfield is filled with water, use the soil in front of the curve to shovel it open, and then use the shoveled soil to block the gap in the weir that has been irrigated, and the water in the furrow will continue to flow. Flow forward.

The adults led the water and worked like this.

The little kids found it amusing to watch.

They compete to play with some small paper boats on the water in the ditch, or chase some small animals that are disturbed by the water.

For example, a wet field mouse cannot run anywhere when flooded, and can only wait to be caught by the little kids.

Hare, mountain raccoon, pheasant, and some random snakes also sputtered and jumped around after the water came over.

This group of monkeys chased him everywhere.

Of course most of them can’t be caught.

But as long as they can be caught, they become the meal for these little kids. They just find a place to build a clay stove with stones, bake them, and eat while playing.

The adults are too lazy to care about them.

Just chatting among themselves to relieve the heat and boredom.

“I’m talking about wealth, you see, this eldest daughter is already a eldest daughter, and she will become an old girl if she delays it any longer. Do you have any ideas? Help Brother Xian and his family, and give it to eldest daughter too. Talk about your husband's family."

Washing the ground and chatting, Zhang Qiaoling said softly.

"Come on, sister-in-law, you think too highly of me. How can I do this? I am still a matchmaker for others."

Chen Ling shook her head, speechless.

"I'm telling you to look for childcare workers outside to see if there are any good families?"

"Fugui, please ignore her. My mother-in-law's family is not sensible. It's so bad for Brother Xian to hear this." Ah, if Brother Xian doesn’t ask us for help in such a matter, we’d better not get involved.” It will get harder to find in the future.

Zhang Qiaoling felt that the three families were close to each other, and she ended up chatting here. She felt that Chen Ling knew many people and had more solutions than others, so she thought of solving this matter. It was considered a big deal. Good thing.

Actually, it’s just chatting and has no other meaning.

When Wang Jusheng heard this, his expression changed. How could he get involved in this matter? No matter how good the relationship is, you can't ask questions rashly or take care of other people's family matters.

Zhang Qiaoling thought the same thing and felt that she was taking it too much for granted. She smiled sheepishly, "Then let's not talk about this. After Fugui moved to live outside the village, he rarely returned to the village.

You don’t know, but the old lady’s two sons are back in the house across from you.

The Dongmei couple have been having a lot of trouble lately.

When you go back to the village, if you encounter an old lady asking you to borrow something or go to her house to do something, you can just ignore her. ”

"Yes, your sister-in-law is right about this. The matter at Second Aunt Wang's house is much more troublesome than the matter between Chun Yuan and Dong Mei. If I ask you to do it, don't bother me."

Listen to them When the couple said this, Wang Qingwen suddenly asked strangely: "I heard someone said that Wang Chunyuan's parents are moving back from the county? Why is this the neighbor's problem behind?"

"What the hell? Those two immortals are coming back too? What’s wrong with me? I don’t live in the village anymore. I don’t seem to know anything anymore!”

Chen Ling felt that she was suddenly too ignorant. .

"Hahahaha, the main reason is that Aunt Xiulan has not been here recently, otherwise you would definitely not know about this."

Wang Jusheng laughed and said to Wang Qingwen: "This is all a matter of old age. Brother Qingwen, you are not from our village. You don't know the inside story. In short, you are full of bullshit and very annoying.

Just stay away from these two families.”

These two families, as well as Chen Erzhu’s father, used to be in charge of the village. The three families said that they were not considered to be in the fish and meat village, but they were domineering in the village. , greedy for money in different ways, bullying this one today, isolating that one tomorrow, that is indeed the case, very unpopular.

Later, the old man in Aunt Wang’s family died early, leaving Chen Erzhu and Wang Chunyuan’s wife to move to the county town without the shame to return to the village.

In fact, the two sons of Aunt Wang’s family also moved to the county seat.

I don’t know what happened this year, but one after another, the mice seemed to be moving, biting their tails with their front and rear legs, and came back.

While several people were talking, Liu Nier suddenly shouted outside.

"Uncle Fugui, Uncle Fugui, come here quickly, come here quickly, I found a big hole over there in Dada, water is flowing in, and there is no way to water the ground."

" If there is a hole, just plug it. It’s normal for wild things to dig holes in the field.”

“If you can’t plug it, the hole is big. Do you want to go take a look?”

"Yes, Uncle Fugui, the hole is cracked and deep inside. I don't know if it's a badger hole."

"It's not a badger hole, it's a fox hole."

Others A group of little kids were already shouting and guessing what kind of thing made the hole.

"Okay, I'll go over and see what was left behind?"

Chen Ling walked out of the cornfield carrying the shovel.

Then they went around to the west where Wang Lixian and others were watering their fields.

Wading in the water with water shoes, I saw Wang Lixian and his family standing in front of a large hole. The turbid river water flowed into it. Listening to waves of ethereal echoes, the hole seemed to be very deep.

I saw Chen Ling coming over.

Wang Lixian said: "I don't know what dug the hole. Come and take a look. There is a lot of grain stored here. I estimate it weighs hundreds of kilograms."< br>
“What? Still have food stored?”

Chen Ling was a little stunned now: "Isn't this a gopher hole?"

Gophers, also known as voles, have the habit of storing food in their holes, such as corn, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, They can even divide them into categories and build their own granaries.

There are big rat holes.

It can even dig out two to three hundred kilograms of grain.

So when Chen Ling heard Wang Lixian's words, he immediately thought of field mice.

"It's not a ground mouse, how could it be a ground mouse?"

Wang Lixian shook his head: "I filled in a few shovels of soil, but it didn't work at all, it couldn't be blocked... Take a look inside , It feels like you can get into a calf, but you think there can be a mouse as big as a calf? >