Chapter 416 416. Thief
There are plans for next year, but this year, at this moment, Old Man Li is in the vast rice fields with the same blank eyes.
Just...what's going on? Are all the rice harvesters so clean now?
In the entire rice field, he didn't even pick out a complete ear of rice!
It’s not like I found nothing, there was an ear of rice buried under the straw, and there were three rice grains on top - it was so shabby!
He has been farming for so many years, but he has never heard of a year when the rice fields were so clean!
Old man Li was unwilling to give in, so he simply called the old scalper over. While rummaging through the rice fields, he collected all the scattered rice and looked at it again... Finally, he simply let the old scalper take it with him. , walked slowly towards Song Tan's house.
The Song Tan family was preparing to take the rice back to the warehouse. When they saw old man Li coming with a big scalper, they couldn't help but be a little surprised:
"Grandpa Li, why are you here free?"< br>
“There is also this straw, why is it so hard for us Dahuang? Let’s go back and ride the tricycle to pull it.”
"Why is this hard work?" Old Man Li didn't care: the straw was piled aside for threshing. It was not difficult, but it was hot and it was inevitable that he would sweat all over.
Besides, he didn’t come here just to deliver straw:
“Tan Tan, give me two bundles of straw. I’ll go back and soak it in salt water for this old guy to eat. "
"Okay!" Song Tan was extra generous: "You can eat as much as you want."
Old man Li laughed: "That's not good, it's not nutritious. , I like it just looking at it, let’s use it as a snack.”
Then it turned to the main topic:
"Tantan, don't you want to plant the next crop of rice? Have you done any breeding here?"
"We are working on it!"
It snows here in winter, so the time to plant two crops of rice is tight, so we have to make good time.
Old man Li thought for a while: "How about I come and burn the rice stubble in the field?"
When the rice is cut, some distance is left to take root in the soil. The locals call it rice stubble.
It looks inconspicuous, but experienced farmers who have been farming for many years have experience. As long as the roots of the straw are pushed aside, they will definitely be densely packed with insect eggs.
He has never seen Song Tan, but he is probably close to it.
Song Tan was stunned: "Are you so anxious? You don't want any of the rice ears in the field?"
She remembered that Old Man Li was looking forward to it very much at the beginning!
"What ears of rice!"
Old man Li said angrily: "After turning it over and over, I found only three grains of millet. The harvesting of rice in our village has never been so clean before!"
Song Tan:...
Looking up again, Old Man Li also saw the area where Song Tan was drying rice in the yard. There was also a strangely large fishing net set up on top, surrounding it from all directions - —
"What the hell..." He was also a little surprised: "You still have such a solid fence in your yard, are you afraid that others will steal it?"
he joked.
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw the densely surrounded group of birds jumping and chirping anxiously again...
Good guy!
Old Li then realized: "I just said why the field is so clean, the birds must have eaten it last night and tasted it! If I had known, I would have picked it up yesterday."
Song Tan was helpless - who would have thought of this?
It's just a few scattered ears of rice. If you can't pick it up, you can't pick it up. Anyway, their family promised that Old Man Li would have plenty of things.
But the matter of burning the straw in the field...
"There is no rush to burn it, Grandpa Li. The village does not call it air pollution now. It is said that there is satellite monitoring. I will ask later." "
"What kind of air pollution?"
Old man Li didn't care: "It's a waste of time! If the straw is not burned, how many insect eggs will it contain? What kind of rice will you be able to plant next year? Tiandu has to work hard to spray medicine!”
Old Man Li said this directly, but there was really nothing wrong with it. There are many insect eggs accumulated at the roots of the straw. If it is not burned, the number of insect pests will suddenly increase next year or in the next crop of plants after plowing and digging.
Furthermore, some areas promote crushing straw to add nutrients to the fields, but crushing it also requires costs. Secondly, incomplete crushing can easily affect the soil quality and further increase costs.
Nowadays, you only earn a few hundred yuan by growing an acre of grain?
Because of this, I don’t know how much income will be lost. It is also part of this reason that more and more people are abandoning their homes now...
In short, these are all what Party Secretary Xiao Zhu has talked about.
What Old Man Li said is indeed the current situation. However, Xiao Zhu, the party secretary, is an extremely qualified village cadre. He had warned him early:
"It must be reported. There are new policies this year. It is said that after reporting, the straw in the field can be burned."
"That's right!"
Old man Li, who was mumbling just now, quickly changed his face: "I just said. The government can't cheat people - we don't burn all the straw, just burn the short stubble in the fields. It's not air pollution. ”
"The weather has been fine these two days. If you can trust me, I will take the opportunity to burn it."
How can you believe this?
Song Tan couldn't laugh or cry:
"Okay, I'll tell Party Secretary Xiao Zhu, and we can make our own arrangements here."
How long will it take after burning? God, next we will plow, till carefully...irrigate...
After everything is done, her new seedlings will almost be ready, and it will be the second crop of rice.
However, having said that, Old Man Li is old after all, and Old Scalper is not young either, so everyone simply took back all the straw, piled it into a haystack, and then went to the rice field. Help me.
As for these rice grains, it’s evening now and they’re almost dry. Let’s shell them tomorrow.
......
However, when Ulan opened the door of the warehouse the next day, he was surprised to find that there was a hole in the sack!
Rice is scattered everywhere.
Although the total seems to be not much less, this behavior is particularly abominable!
Looking carefully, I don’t know when a hole was broken in the screen window——
“There are mice in our house?!”
She shouted angrily.
"How is that possible?"
Song Tan absolutely disagrees.
Whether there were mice around here, she checked it on the first day she moved - the house had just been built, and the mice had not had time to come over, how could it be so fast?
But this little thief is not cautious. Even if she doesn't use any means, she can follow her all the way to the back mountain by following her spiritual energy.
With such a small hole in the screen window, it is definitely not a home-raised chicken, and it is definitely not a bird...birds will not leave so many traces on the ground along the way.
That's only...
Song Tan raised his head and looked at the little things poking their heads in the woods behind the mountain.
“Okay!”
Song Sancheng, who followed, was also very angry: “What kind of thing are thieves? It turns out to be these squirrels!”
“ I just thought they were useless, they didn’t look good and they didn’t like food, and now they are wasting our food!”
"Your mother and I weighed it just now when we took it to shell it, and we found it was missing a pound or two!"
Good guy!
Song Tan also looked up at the treetops: This thing has a big appetite!
If I don’t teach you a lesson, will you be a habitual offender in the future? !
Good night my Phalaenopsis Chanel.
(End of this chapter)