Chen Mo and his father were walking, but they found that the road seemed wrong. This road was not the way to their fields.
"Dad, isn't this the path to the family fields?" Chen Mo asked in surprise.
"Yeah!" Father Chen Jianguo replied in a low voice.
"Dad...?" Chen Mo shouted.
"We'll wait until we get to the ground before we talk," said his father, Chen Jianguo.
Hearing his father speak like this, Chen Mo could only stop asking questions for the time being. He knew his father's character, that he was a relatively kind but somewhat stubborn farmer, and his father had his say in everything at home, so Chen Mo could only keep silent.
Mouth.
We walked a short distance along the foot of the mountain, crossed a small stream, and arrived at the northwest corner of the village's hillside, which is considered the innermost part of the village. It was about a few hundred meters away from the village road, and we turned around a cliff edge.
A few miles away along the winding mountain road is Qinggang Village.
"We're here!" said the father.
Chen Mo looked around and found that this was the land closest to the foot of the mountain in the village. It was a little more inconvenient than the land next to the road before, but fortunately, the land was basically the same. But because it was the land closest to the mountain, it was also the closest to the village.
Inside, if you walk along the dirt road for a while, it will all be wasteland and mountainous land.
"Dad, this is..." Chen Mo asked, pointing to the field.
"Well, last year, because the village planned a group of homesteads, all the land south of the road was occupied by 50 meters, and my family's fields were also within the scope of expropriation. After the replacement and adjustment, all 10 acres of land here were allocated to our family.
Since you didn’t come back last year, I didn’t tell you anything,” said his father, Chen Jianguo.
Chen Mo looked at the surrounding environment and couldn't say anything. After all, compared with the previous fields, there wasn't much difference here. It was just that the traffic might be a bit bad. Other than that, it was relatively close to home. And it was at the foot of the mountain.
, there are some village woodlands on the hillside, and a winding valley looms.
"It's good here, it's relatively close to home." Chen Mo replied with a smile, said nothing more, and started working with a hoe.
"However, the land here must have been raw land before, right?" Chen Mo asked.
"Yes, so there are four more acres of land." Dad replied.
"So after passing here, the land will still be undeveloped or what?" Chen Mo asked.
His father, Chen Jianguo, was a little surprised when he saw that Chen Mo was very curious about the land at home. He had never been so curious before.
My father pointed to his own land and said, "Our land is the furthest outside, so the land beyond our home is wasteland, which has been abandoned for many years." He pointed to the west-facing position of the land and said, "This is
Next to it is 200 acres of wasteland that the village used to contract to others. After a few years of cultivation, it fell into disuse. Even now, no one has contracted it, and it has always been left like this."
"Why are you asking these questions?" asked his father Chen Jianguo.
"Oh! I just want to ask out of curiosity!" Chen Mo smiled and replied.
Chen Mo knew that his parents and brothers together had 6 acres of land in the past, and two acres belonged to his sister. However, after her sister got married, the village took it back, leaving only 6 acres of land. Although now 10 acres of land have been replaced,
But relatively speaking, it is definitely not as good as the 6 acres of mature land before. But it has been planned for a year, so it is impossible to worry about it anymore.
The father and son didn't say anything more. They gathered the fields and weeded them. After noon, they were almost done. The fields were planted with spring wheat, which was sown in spring and harvested in summer, and then corn was planted. A rotational planting method was adopted to alleviate the stress.
Pressure on the land. Spring wheat will not be ready for harvest until the end of August or early September.
His father, Chen Jianguo, is a taciturn person. He doesn't talk much and just keeps his head down while working, so the two of them work very quickly.
In fact, if it were in the past, it would be tiring to work ten acres for one person. Ten acres of land is already the limit of a farmer's labor, and he may have to use livestock. But now in rural areas, it has been more than ten years ago.
It's better. Whether it's spring sowing or autumn harvest, there are people driving agricultural machinery to do the work. They can plow the land and sow it for a little money. What's left is watering, fertilizing, weeding and other easy tasks. When it's time to harvest,
Agricultural machinery comes again, and then collects and packages the goods in a unified manner. What farmers have to do is to drive a walking tractor and take the packaged grain from the field home to dry and store it, or sell it directly to purchasers.
After finishing their work, the two of them returned home one after another. They were busy working in the fields in the morning and basically didn't have to go to the fields in the afternoon.
After lunch, Chen Mo talked to his parents and then went out for a walk. Mainly to see the wasteland near the mountain, as well as places such as Hulu Valley where he used to play when he was a child. He spent the entire afternoon walking,
I also took a lot of photos with my mobile phone.
Chen Mo's old house is here. There are several neighboring houses, all of which are old houses built with adobe bricks. They are very dilapidated and no one lives in them, making it look a bit desolate.
To the west of the old house is a 200-acre field, but it has been idle for a long time and is all covered with grass. To the north of the old house is a hillside less than 100 meters away, which is covered with some bushes and some sparse trees. In the past,
When I was at home, someone was contracted to plant fruit trees on the hillside, but somehow they probably lost money. After working for a few years, all the fruit trees were cut down, which was a great pity.
To the east of the old house, and in front of the gate of the old house, is a rural dirt road, which is about 6 to 7 meters wide, and next to it are dozens of acres of wasteland and gradually rolling hillsides. This dirt road used to be the village's
The main road connects to the newly built provincial highway for less than one kilometer at one end, and disappears at the foot of the mountain. It turns into a small mountain road that goes directly to the entrance of Hulu Valley.
The mouth of Hulu Valley is located not far from the northeast corner of the old house. After entering, there is a relatively large valley. However, the valley is shaped like a gourd, so the locals call it Hulukou. Chen Mo often played here when he was a child.
The valleys inside Hulukou are all barren mountains. There is a small stream in the middle of the valley, which is not very big. It flows directly out of the valley mouth in the southeast direction, winding along the mountain col, and finally turns parallel to the provincial highway.
After passing a big mountain pass, you are heading towards another village at the intersection of three forks. That village is called Liying Village. One road of the mountain fork road is the main thoroughfare to the town and connects the county and the city. The other road
It is the road leading to Qinggang Village after passing through Chenjia Village.
After entering along Hulukou, there is only a few kilometers away, and there is no very wide terrain. It is just undulating mountains of various sizes. If you keep going in, you will enter the Qinling Mountains. However, the mountain road is steep and steep.
No one lives in it.
There used to be people living in the Hulu Valley, but they all moved to the village homestead planning area in front of Chen Mo's old house more than ten years ago. Now no one lives in it. The entire Hulu Valley, including the slopes and valleys on both sides,
There are probably tens of thousands of acres, but it may not be easy to develop, and it doesn't have any good scenery, so until now, no one has contracted to develop it.
Chen Mo walked around the old house and Hulukou. If he wanted to go home and contract the land, of course he had to make certain preparations. He really couldn't talk nonsense without actually inspecting it.
When I got home, it was already dinner time, and my parents didn't ask anything. The family of three gathered around the dining table to have dinner.
After dinner, Chen Mo pulled his father and mother into the main room of the house and wanted to talk to them about his plans.
"You said you don't want to go to work in the city?" His father, Chen Jianguo, lit a cigarette and became somewhat silent when he heard that his son planned to return to the village to farm.
"Dad, employment is very fierce for college students now. My major is biology, so it's not easy to find relevant jobs. So I want to go back to the village to farm," Chen Mo said.
"No! I'm sending you to school because I want you to leave the land and live a glorious life in the city. I don't want you to go to university and then go back to facing the loess and become a farmer!" said his father Chen Jianguo angrily.
"Dad! Listen to me first." Chen Mo thought for a moment and then said: "I majored in biology, so I studied a high-tech farming technology in school and wanted to go home and experiment."
"High-tech farming? I have been farming all my life, and this is the first time I have heard of high-tech farming," said his father Chen Jianguo.
"Dad, don't look down on high-tech farming. In the past few years, the village didn't engage in side business and introduced cash crop cultivation. Didn't the technicians at the Agricultural Science Station have technical support?" Chen Mo said.
"Shit! All the imported peach trees have been cut down by the village for firewood. It's high-tech shit." His father, Chen Jianguo, looked down upon these things.
"Dad, can't you just let me try? What if it works?" Chen Mo stared into his father's eyes and said firmly.
My father didn't speak and kept smoking.
"Dad, what are you talking about...? Why don't you let your child try it?" Chen Mo's mother, Fu Huili, saw her son winking at her and could only beat the drum beside him.
"What about your studies?" His father, Chen Jianguo, was a little worried about Erwazi's studies. After finally getting into college, he came back to farm, which definitely made him angry and heartbroken.
"My studies have been completed. I can apply for a diploma after submitting my graduation thesis in a few months!" Chen Mo told the truth.
My father nodded, but didn't say anything. He just took out his cigarette, lit it, and smoked dully.
"Dad, please say something!" Fu Huili, her mother, waited for a long time and then urged her in a hurry.
"If you come back to farm and conduct experiments, that's up to you! But you also know the situation at home, so don't let your family pay for it!" said his father, Chen Jianguo.
Chen Mo smiled and said to his mother: "Mom, thank you. If you hadn't interrupted, Dad would have refused."
"Coming back to farm is the path you chose, so don't regret it." Her mother, Fu Huili, was not sure whether her child would be able to persevere, so she could only say this.
"Don't worry, it will definitely surprise you." Chen Mo said.
"Hey! How much money do you have? If it's not enough, the family still has some!" His father, Chen Jianguo, was still talking about the lack of money at home just now, but seeing that his child had made up his mind to go home and farm, he had nothing to say.
, I can only support, no matter what, they are all my own children, if I don’t feel sorry for them, who will?