The weather is heating up extremely fast this year. It’s only mid-to-late May and the temperature has already risen to over 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 cool down until late at 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 refrained from buying an air conditioner. Instead, she brought back a few fans and placed one in each room.
That's okay, but Qiao Qiao has a strong fire and has to blow it 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 fall 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 him at night, they realized that blowing his stomach was not good!
So early the next morning, Song Youde called the siblings:
"Tan Tan, Qiao Qiao, take a sickle and go to the village to look for rushes. Cut two handfuls and come back, and I will weave 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 house have been cracked from the seals and become twiggy.
It can be used, but it's hot now and there's not much farm work, so there's no need for it.
rush...
Song Tan thought to himself: The last time I wandered around the village, I only managed to get a handful of them, and they were still born.
I will need enough for weaving straw mats this time...
She pushed Qiao Qiao back: "Grandpa, it's hot outside, tell Qiao Qiao to study at home, and I'll do it."
"By the way, lend me your tricycle for a ride."
After saying that, he took the key directly from the house and then got on the red tricycle.
Song Youde felt distressed: "Ride slower! Don't drive my car into a ditch."
What answered him was Song Tan's booming voice that sped up.
There are still a few clumps growing where the rushes were cut last time. These clumps can grow long and big in one clump, 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 the sickle and bundled a lot of them in two or two strokes, and then filled the back seat with them.
It was still early, so I went to the vegetable garden under the bright sun to have a look——
The cucumbers are already ripe, feel free to touch two and eat them directly!
Hold the cucumber with your left and right hands, twist it forward and backward, and twist off the slightly rough thorns on it, and then pat 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, and when she lowered her head, she saw that the Three Treasures and Four Treasures were looking up at her eagerly.
Okay, these two greedy dogs.
There is plenty of food 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, but 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 own family.
On the contrary, the pepper seedlings that were planted before are now growing lush and green, with white flowers and green peppers that are luxuriant and can be picked, but the yield is not large yet.
And 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 didn't plan 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 is looking back and forth in the rice field with his hands behind his back. The rice is growing vigorously, with full grains and a lush green color.
When the wind blows, continuous green waves spread in the fields. Old Man Li's heart and eyes are full of joy when he sees it, and he dreams of planting rice flowers.
"Tan Tan," he said with considerable experience: "You planted your 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 when the time comes."
Song Tan answered readily.
“You little girl, you don’t even know how to care about money.:
Old man Li said to her: "On these two fields, no matter what kind of harvester you want, the big men in your family can come up and click a few sickles, and it can be done in a day!"
Song Tan:......
Just, it’s not like we don’t have money, right?
It’s a hot day, why bother?
"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 don't care."
Old Man Li was instantly surprised: "Really give it to me?"
"Give!"
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 such a bad old man, how much does he eat in a year?
"Okay," he chuckled, "I'll pick up rice ears, so don't send rice to my house. It's enough to eat."
Song Tan chuckled and didn't respond - she had the final say whether it was enough or not.
Seeing that the time was almost passing, Ka Ka finished the cucumber in his hand, then turned onto the cement road next to him, got on the 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!
Once these 600 kilograms of tobacco leaves are cured in the curing room, they are almost 200 kilograms of flue-cured tobacco.
Song Youde had a treasure, and it was windy even when he walked!
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 then 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've run out of tobacco, I'll cut some and smoke it first."
Fine.
When it comes to smoking, her grandfather couldn't be more positive.
Look, there's a lot 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.