Chapter 307 307. Brushing Tobacco Leaves
The weather is heating up extremely fast this year. It is only mid-to-late May and the temperature has already risen to more than 30 degrees.
Although the village is much cooler than the city, the temperature has increased so high that now the fan has to be turned on every day when eating.
It doesn’t get cooler until the second half of the night, especially the older guys, who are really afraid of the heat. If they want to sleep in the first half of the night, they also need to turn on the fan.
Considering that her grandfather’s house had to be cleaned up in the summer, Song Tan could not bear to buy an air conditioner. Instead, she brought back a few fans and put one in each room.
That's okay, but Qiao Qiao has a lot of firepower and has to blow all night long. I turn on the fan in the first half of the night and don't know how to turn it off when I'm asleep. In the second half of the night, I touch the quilt all over the bed.
He slept in the room next to Song Youde. Originally, the old couple felt sorry for their grandson, but when they took a look at it at night, they realized that blowing their stomachs was not good!
So early the next morning, Song Youde stopped the siblings:
"Tan Tan, Qiao Qiao, take a sickle to the village to look for rushes and cut them. Bring back two handfuls and I’ll make some straw mats for you.”
Nowadays, every household has air conditioning, but bamboo mats and straw mats are gradually becoming less useful. The edges of several bamboo mats in Song Youde's home have been cracked from the seals, and their branches are tangled.
It can be used, but it's hot out now and there's not much farm work, so there's no need for it.
Rush...
Song Tan thought to himself: Last time I wandered around the village, I only got a handful of them, and it was still born.
I will need enough for weaving straw mats now...
She pushed Qiaoqiao back: "Grandpa, it's hot outside, tell Qiaoqiao to study at home, and I'll do it."
"By the way, lend me your tricycle for a ride."
As he said this, he took the key directly from the house, and then rode on the red tricycle.
It made Song Youde feel distressed: "You ride slower! Don't drive my car into a ditch."
The one who answered him was Song Tan who speeded up. sound.
There are still a few clumps growing where the rushes were cut last time. These clumps can grow long and large, and the place is remote and is a wasteland...
Song Tan gave some spiritual energy and waited patiently for a while, and soon there was a big fluffy green ball in front of him.
She waved her sickle and bundled a lot of them in two or three strokes, and then filled the back seat with them.
Looking at the time, it was still early, so I went to the vegetable garden under the bright sun to have a look -
The cucumbers were already ripe, so I touched two of them and ate them directly!
Hold the cucumber with your left and right hands, twist it forward and backward, and the slightly rough thorns on it will be twisted off, and then slap it on your body nonchalantly...
Gee, she doesn’t look like a fairy at all.
When your hands are refreshed, you just "click" and bite into it. This moment of refreshment soaks into your mouth, and you can feel the refreshing fragrance of cucumber in your throat and eyes.
She ate it in three or two bites. When she lowered her head, she saw that the three treasures and the four treasures were raising their heads and looking at her eagerly.
Okay, these two greedy dogs.
There is a lot to eat in the vegetable garden.
She smiled, stuffed the remaining cucumber heads into their mouths, turned around and pulled two more on the cucumber stand: "Eat slowly, and find a place to rest when it gets hot."
Turn around and look at the eggplants in the field.
Now some of the green eggplants have matured, while the purple eggplants will take some time. The Chinese cabbages have been sold out, and there are only two rows left. You can eat them as you go and supply them to your home.
On the other hand, the pepper seedlings that were planted before are now growing lushly with white flowers and green peppers. They are ready for picking, but the yield is not large yet.
There are also cowpeas.
Good guy, this thing looks as if it's life-threatening. The strands are as long as hair hanging down, and you can easily grab a handful of them.
However, Song Tan was not going to sell these vegetables directly. She wanted her seventh cousin to take everyone to help pickle them into sour cowpeas and then sell them.
Let’s get some sun-dried cowpeas and wait until winter to stew meat... Just thinking about it makes my mouth water.
Here, Old Man Li was looking back and forth in the rice field with his hands behind his back. The rice was growing vigorously, with full grains and a lush green color.
When the wind blows, continuous green waves spread across the fields. Old Man Li's heart and eyes are full of joy when he sees it, and he dreams of planting rice flowers.
“Tantan,” he said with considerable experience: “You planted this rice early, and it’s growing surprisingly well... I’ll wait and see, it will be harvested in June.”
"Okay, I'll find someone to drive the harvester then."
Song Tan answered readily.
“You are a girl, you don’t even know how to care about money.:
Old man Li said to her: "On these two fields, what kind of harvester are you looking for? If the big men in your family come up and use a few sickles, they can finish it in one day!"
Song Tan:...
< br>Just, it’s not like we don’t have money, right?
Why bother on a hot day?
“Grandpa Li,” she laughed: “My family works, and I’m afraid you can’t help but do it too. It’s so hot today, and I can’t explain it to you if you get sunburned later. ”
"It's okay. I'll ask someone to drive the harvester when the time comes. If you really care about money, there are some leftover ears of rice in the field. You can pick them up and clean them up yourself. I won't care."
Li The old man was instantly surprised: "Give it to me?"
"Give it!"
How many ears of rice can be collected from two fields!
But Old Man Li doesn’t think so.
He showed Song Tan the rice fields and the vegetable garden, but knowing how delicious the food at home was, how could the rice still be unpalatable when the cucumbers looked like that?
He is a bad old man. How many pounds does he eat in a year?
"Okay," he chuckled: "I'm picking up rice ears, so don't send rice to my house. It's enough to eat."
Song Tan giggled and didn't respond. ——She has the final say whether it’s enough or not.
Seeing that time was almost passing by, Kaka finished the cucumber in his hand, then turned onto the cement road next to him, got on his tricycle and ran home again.
When I returned home, I saw Song Youde spreading a clean plastic sheet on the floor and sitting on the bench, picking out tobacco leaves one by one.
It is worth mentioning that Song Tan only planted about two acres of tobacco, but because of his aura, it grew exceptionally strong. The yield can be said to be the peak that can only be achieved by people who have extremely good water and fertilizer management. —
A total of 600 kilograms of tobacco leaves were harvested!
When these 600 kilograms of tobacco leaves are cured in the curing room, they are almost 200 kilograms of flue-cured tobacco.
Song Youde has a treasure, and it feels windy even when he walks!
At this moment, he was taking out a few roasted golden tobacco leaves, then he pinched the stem in the center of the leaves, moved his hands left and right, and pulled off the leaves, leaving only a bare stem aside.
This action was obviously done very quickly. After a few swipes, a small handful of tobacco leaves piled up next to it.
Song Tan stood there and looked at it: "What are you doing?"
Song Youde was cheerful and full of expectations: "I have no tobacco. Let me cut some first. Smoke it.”
Okay.
When it comes to smoking, her grandfather couldn't be more positive.
Look, I can’t care less about the pile of rushes in the back seat of the car now.
The yield of fresh tobacco leaves per mu is 800-1800 kilograms. Note that it is fresh leaves, kilograms.
Most information says that the yield per mu refers to the yield of flue-cured tobacco.
Everyone, please be careful not to misunderstand.
(End of this chapter)