Yang Hongwen also heard about this girl using a sheep to pull a plow in the past two days.
I heard last year that she had a marriage plan. I didn’t expect it to actually work?
"There are two of them at home, go and pull them yourself."
"Uncle, can you lend me all of it? That sheep should be fine. I used it long ago and your family needs it too."
"Okay, go ahead and pull it."
"Uncle, I want to open up wasteland near my home, is that okay?"
"Can."
Su Yuanyuan happily went to the brigade captain's house. There was only an old man at home. When she heard that he was here to borrow a roller, she happily lent it to her.
One person and one sheep pulled the rollers, which were actually made of stone. Su Yuanyuan thought that she would buy two if she had time, and also prepare a small stone mill, so that she would not have to go to the stone mill in the village to grind grain, which would be less.
A lot of trouble.
Now every family in the village has more than 20 acres of land, and every household, old and young, is working in the fields. Even those who have no ability to work are also cooking and cleaning at home.
Su Yuanyuan worked until after eight o'clock in the evening, and there was still one third left. It was too late. She should continue working tomorrow before going back.
After feeding the three sheep, I went into the space to take a bath and eat.
If there is no space, I really don’t know what to do.
Lying on the kang, I didn't have time to think about anything, so I fell asleep instantly. I was too tired.
The next day, she again pulled a roller, and the sheep pulled another. The two went to the fields.
In fact, it's really early now, it's just six o'clock, but there are already many people working in the fields.
It’s really hard work. The effort is not proportional to the income at all. But there is no other way.
Everyone was watching a little girl working with a sheep.
Several people wanted to try it today, but how could this sheep walk in a straight line? So they all ended in failure.
By nine o'clock in the morning, Su Yuanyuan had finished working on the two acres of land. She did not stay here. After returning the roller to Yang Hongwen's house, she went home directly.
Now is the time to open up wasteland on her own. To be honest, Su Yuanyuan doesn't want to do this, she's too tired.
But if there is a natural disaster in a few years, we will definitely need to diversify our food supply in the next few years.
If you can harvest one thousand kilograms of corn from these two acres of land, it would be good.
Su Yuanyuan sighed resignedly and decided to just do it. Plant sorghum and sweet potatoes. If she doesn't need them in the future, she can exchange them for money.
In my previous life, I had a lot of money, so I could live as I pleased.
I plan to do this in this life. If I don’t have money, I feel uneasy. When I get home, I will have three sheep to eat.
I have already said hello to the village chief, so I can open up wasteland outside my home.
Su Yuanyuan drank the last sip of milk and stood up despite the pain all over her body. The two lambs were no longer young, but Su Yuanyuan never gave them water from the spiritual spring. The mother of the sheep was enough.
This is at the foot of the mountain. So the reclaimed land is full of rocks.
This is really too laborious. It's still a sheep's job, but there are too many stones. To clear a ridge, you have to pick up stones.
It was not until noon that Su Yuanyuan took a rest and looked at the rocks on the ground. Su Yuanyuan felt like crying. How long will it take to open up wasteland?
Fortunately, the head is made of steel, otherwise it would have been broken long ago.
Go home, go home, take a nap before talking, she is too tired. There is no one around her, not even anyone to talk to, she is all alone.
After feeding the sheep, she went back to the house. She sat on the kang and found a portion of chicken leg rice. She was so tired that she didn't even feel good eating anymore.
After eating, I just lay back and now I no longer have mysophobia.
Two hours later, one person and one sheep started again. For most of the day, not a single piece of land was cleared.
Su Yuanyuan stood at the edge of the field and looked at it, sighing. When will an acre of land be opened? Fortunately, sweet potatoes can be planted later.
The space was used to collect the stones on the ground in preparation for paving a corridor. Otherwise, when it rains, we won’t even want to go out.
It was the same operation the next day, but I was obviously much more proficient than last night.
After working hard for five days, I finally cleared an acre of land.
The next day the land was not cleared, but sorghum was planted.
After ten busy days, two acres of sorghum have been planted.
Looking at the remaining sorghum seeds, there should be enough for one acre of land, so I had no choice but to continue.
However, the corn and soybeans in the two acres of land have already been buried in the soil. Su Yuanyuan walked around carefully. The germination rate should be quite good.
All the good land in the village has been planted. Every household is busy planting sorghum, soybeans, cotton, peanuts and other miscellaneous grains.
Su Yuanyuan thought that she should also grow some cotton. After all, it would be used in the future.
Ten days later, one acre of sorghum had been planted. Su Yuanyuan planned to plant cotton on the remaining one acre of land.
But in the end, I gave up the idea and decided to plant sweet potatoes. I still had time to buy cotton.
She knew how to plant sweet potato seedlings, so she was busy clearing out the sweet potato ridges in this acre of land.
In the evening, I went to Hu Chunhua's house and bought three hundred sweet potato seedlings for one yuan.
After returning home in the evening, I specially soaked the roots of the sweet potato seedlings in diluted Lingquan water.
Because she found that the corn seeds and soybeans she soaked in water were stronger than those of the two families next door.
The next day I planted sweet potatoes. Fortunately, they were planted in front of my house, otherwise water would not have been able to get through them.
The sorghum has come out. It looks good. But it has been too dry these past few days. Su Yuanyuan sat on the ground crying.
Really, we still need to water it, but it is so far away from the reservoir. There is no way to rely on the well in the yard.
After crying enough, I got up and continued to work. Three hundred seedlings of sweet potatoes were planted. I continued to open up wasteland non-stop.
It's mid-May now. Everyone's sweet potatoes have been planted.
Su Yuanyuan bought another three hundred sweet potato seedlings and planted them on the last acre of land.
It will be June soon. She has no wheat field, which is better. But the seedlings will be thinned out soon, and the weeds will come out. The wasteland will not be planted. After all, these five acres of land need to be taken care of.
This is really the most tiring job. You always have to squat or squat.
Su Yuanyuan arrived at the field at five o'clock. She squatted down and started weeding with a small hoe, pulling out the excess corn seedlings.
"It would be nice if it rained heavily after I finished hoeing. Then the crops would have grown better."
There are many people in the fields next to her doing the same job as her. However, they are all from the same family, and she is the only one.
It wasn't until after eleven o'clock that Su Yuanyuan dragged her heavy legs home.
He didn't care about the three sheep tied outside in the morning. They didn't even want to eat. They lay on the kang and fell asleep after a while.
Su Yuanyuan didn't know that everyone was watching her performance, and they were all impressed by this orphan who was not an orphan.
