Chapter 109: Field Rat

After dinner in the morning, Lelang took Sanlang and Sanjiu to the village. Yesterday, Shenmin came over and told him to harvest rice today and ask him to come and help. Anyway, he agreed.

Next to the stream in front of Xiaoxi Village is a plain washed out by mountain torrents. With the cultivation and hard work of ancestors in Xiaoxi Village, this plain has now become a fertile land.

On the other side of the stream are cliffs and steep hills that cannot be cultivated. In addition to the plain, Liulangjia is often flooded and unable to plant, leaving only a field near the village and the downstream, which is about 300 acres. This land has been bloomed and rice has been planted. Now the rice is ripe, and a piece of golden yellow is sprinkled in the fields. A joy of harvest is imprinted on people's faces.

The embankment of this field has been raised and consolidated by Xiaoxi Villagers in all dynasties. Until now, no flood can be flooded here.

Xiaoxi Village is located in a remote location and no agricultural machinery is willing to come here. Even if it comes, it has missed the harvest season. In view of this, Xiaoxi Village invested to buy a rice harvester. When harvesting rice, it would cut rice for its own village for free. After the harvest, the village would go to other villages to help with the harvest. It was forty yuan per mu, and it made a lot of money during the busy farming season.

The rice in Fujian is ripe twice a year. The rice harvester bought by Xiaoxi Village has already recovered in about a year. After deducting labor and oil costs, the others are recorded in the village department’s account book. When the year is over, we will see how much money the village department has earned this year. The money from the village department will be deducted next year, and the rest will be distributed to the villagers.

No one in Xiaoxi Village dares to use the villagers' money. By the end of the year, he will write the income, expenditure and surplus of the year on red paper and paste it on the entrance of the village department, so that everyone knows that if he is greedy for this money, he will get out of Xiaoxi Village and never interact with each other from now on.

A person who even has to swallow the money of his tribe is not worthy of staying in Xiaoxi Village. This is what every tribe of Xiaoxi Village must remember.

After the rice is harvested, it must be placed in the warehouse to dry. There is a dryer in the village, which mainly allows villagers to dry some grain. In this season, the weather is changing rapidly and I don’t know when it will be drying. Sometimes it will rain for a few days in a row, and sometimes it will take a dryer in a flash. So the village has a vision to buy a dryer, so that some nearby villages will take the rice here to dry when they harvest rice.

Of course, other villages need to charge money to dry here. Although it is only a small amount of money, it is also an income.

If the rice is dried, some people are waiting to buy it. They are all wine-making families in Linjia Village. Some people even ordered it with others before the rice is ripe. The price of rice they buy is usually higher than the market price, so the people in the village are happy to sell it to them.

Shenmin called Lelang to help him wait for the rice to dry in the warehouse and then put it into bag. His father is the village chief and has no time now. His wife wants to look at the pharmacy and his wife wants to take care of the children. Without time, he is the only one left in the house. His uncle followed his son to sports car again, and his son was working in the city again, so he had to find someone. Otherwise, if there was another rain or a typhoon, these rice would not know what to do.

Lelang placed Saburo with Nannan in Shenmin's house, and walked to the fields of Shenmin's house.

When I arrived at the field, I heard a roar of a machine, but the rice harvester was cutting the rice. After cutting the rice, I had to find someone to plow the field and then plant the rice, otherwise it would be a mistake to harvest in the autumn.

Farming in Xiaoxi Village is almost mechanized, with machines for cutting rice, drying machines, and transplanting rice. With these machines, everyone is happy and can spare more time to do more things.

Otherwise, like before, it took seventy or eighty people to cut a rice, and the whole family was dispatched. Sometimes there was no one to help. A few harvested rice, a few feet stepped on the rice cutting machine to thresh, then put it in a bag and carried it home, and then placed it on the road and dried slowly. If the sky bow is not beautiful, the rain will rain for a week or intermittent for half a month, these rice may sprout, which is really terrible. The ancients said it well, "The people suffer; the people suffer." It is the same forever.

On the cement road beside the field, Lao Qi drove his broken truck and quietly stopped there. After the rice harvester finished cutting the rice, he would put the rice into the truck and then take it to the warehouse to dry. "Oh, it's better for our village. Look at some villages who are still cutting rice with sickles, and don't know when it will be cut." Lao Qi said with emotion at the rice harvester.

"No, I remembered that I helped my family harvest rice during holidays when I was a child. At that time, the weather was cold and my feet were so cold that my feet were cracked and lying on the rice. I felt very moved. Life is much better now than before." Shenmin also said on the side.

"Why, I'm so idle, I haven't seen him for a few days, but Shenmin has experienced much vicissitudes and will remember the bitterness and sweetness." Lelang walked over and said to Shenmin.

"Why did you come? Even later, people will finish work." Shenmin glanced at Lelang and said.

"What's the matter? It's only eight o'clock now, it's already very early, okay?" Le Lang said.

"At 8 o'clock, they came at around 6 o'clock."

After hearing Shenmin's words, Lelang quickly swallowed the words he was about to say. At around six o'clock, he probably was still sleeping. But sometimes he woke up at around three o'clock, but fell asleep again, mainly because he was woken up by the cries of chickens at home. I don't know if the roosters were too energetic, but sometimes they screamed at around three o'clock, which was so annoying that he was wondering if he should give them some sleeping pills to make them sleep a little better.

The sky was blue, white clouds drifted, and in the fields, there was a golden sea of ​​rice. There seemed to be a different kind of breath floating in the fields, which was the fragrance of rice. The breeze was caressing, and the sea of ​​rice was swaying, rolling like a undulating wave.

Lelang looked at all this quietly, thinking with emotion that it was better to be home, but there was no such friendly scenery in a foreign country.

He turned around and saw that in some fields where the rice was being cut, a group of little kids were fishing for frogs with bamboo poles. Some used small knives to cut a rice pole and made a grass flute. When he blew it gently, a familiar sound suddenly sounded in his ears.

Lelang was happy when he saw the hunting, so he also broke a rice stalk and made a grass flute and started playing it. However, he didn't do it well and it tasted a little ruptured. Lao Qi and Shenmin laughed at him. Seeing Lelang's appearance, they couldn't help but think of the scene of childhood and learned to make a grass flute and started playing it. It has to be said that their hands-on ability is much better than Lelang, and the sound of the flute he ate is also beautiful and beautiful, which made him recall all the things he had during his childhood.

When they were young, Lelang and the others were like a bunch of kids in front of them, fishing frogs in the field with fishing rods. Fishing frogs was just fun, and they were put back after fishing, and some were taken back to feed chickens and ducks. Fishing frogs was actually very simple. They tied a bamboo pole with a rope to tie a small insect. When they saw the frog, they held the bamboo pole and hung the small insects and swayed in front of them.

Frogs have myopia. They can’t see quiet things, but they can see moving things very clearly. They can catch frogs like this. In the past, Lelang and the others liked to do this, and in addition to fishing for frogs, they also caught field mice.

Field mice are a disaster for farmers, and they start to harm crops when they are not harvested.

After the rice was harvested, the fields were clean. A bunch of them ran into the fields with bags. When they saw the hole of the field mouse, they surrounded them. Everyone stood in place to prevent the field mouse from running out and unable to catch them in a hurry.

There are three ways to catch field mice. The first is to irrigate water, but it is a little tired of lifting water; the second is to smoke, this method is good, there are a lot of straw in the field, and it is very convenient to grab a lot of straw in the field, and it is very convenient; the third is to dig the soil, but if you don’t see this, you must chase it to your house to complain, because field mice always make holes on the ridges of the field, and they will dig a large area. If you dig the ridges of the field that others have worked hard to make, it would be strange if you don’t complain to your parents.

Find a good hole for the field mouse, block the excess hole, leaving only one for it to breathe. People say, "The cunning rabbit has three holes." This cunning field mouse has three holes, and it cannot be caught without blocking it. After blocking the hole, place dry straw on the hole, and then put some wet grass on it, and the smoke will rise. Fan the rising smoke into the hole vigorously. If there are rats in the hole, it will run out 100%. But be careful, snakes often appear in the mouse hole. Have you ever heard of snakes and rats in a nest?
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