The first lunar month has not yet passed, and the spring rain has begun to fall. Except for a brief sunny day on February 2, when the dragon raised its head, it was either raining or brewing for the rest of the time.
This year's spring seems to have come extremely early and very quickly.
When the spring rain comes and the spring breeze blows again, the grass in the field grows upwards as if it has taken the nutrients Keke said. Obviously, before Manbao went to bed, only a little weeds sprouted on both sides of the road. When he woke up, the grass on both sides of the road grew.
It is already green.
Then Manbao went to school carrying her small bookcase and an umbrella that was much bigger than her.
The Zhou brothers are not treated as well as she is. Although there is drizzle in the sky, they still have to go to the ground.
Put on the raincoat, carry the hoe and plow and go to the fields.
Even Lao Zhoutou was wearing a raincoat and a straw hat, so of course Liu Lang went too.
The Zhou family has a lot of land, and it is difficult to do the fine workmanship that Keke said. Even the rich white landowners cannot do it.
All fields with good water and soil are planted with rice, others with poor soil are planted with wheat, and non-fields with dry land are sown with various beans and fruits.
For example, Manbao doesn't like to eat winter melon, zucchini, pumpkin, etc.
The Zhou family has a lot of land, but also a lot of labor.
Plowing is almost a men's job, but occasionally Xiao Qian and the others would go down to the ground together with hoes to level the land.
This year, in addition to the good fields at home, they also need to be more careful with the three pieces of wasteland they opened, because the valuable ginger and yams will be planted there.
Particularly ginger, even Zhou Lang, who had just joined the industry, was very fond of it. He went to the ground in the dark for several evenings to spread fertilizer, trying to make the ground fatter before planting.
In order to inhibit the growth of grass in the field, Zhou Lang and others spread a thin layer of straw into the wasteland.
This is the secret that Manbao discovered when he planted ginger and yams last year.
Last year, because the temperature fluctuated greatly, they spread a layer of straw on the ground to keep warm after planting. In the end, they found that there were not so many weeds in the areas covered by the straw.
So this year they did the same thing, and then when planting, they pulled apart the straw where they were planted, and exposed it after planting.
In this way, the ginger pieces sprouted and the weeds did not grow up yet, which bought them a lot of time.
After all, this period is busy in spring, and they are really busy.
This year, the family has gained another 20 acres of land from Zhou Lang, so they may not be able to work as part-time workers at Landlord Bai's house.
This means that they will have one less income in the beginning of spring. Of course, with the lower income now, when wheat, beans and rice are harvested in autumn, they will get higher income than in previous years.
Theoretically, this is true. If God is generous enough, this year can be as smooth as the past three years.
However, the weather this year is indeed a bit strange.
It began to rain steadily at the beginning of spring. As the water in the fields gradually increased, Lao Zhoutou had to take his sons to drain the water. When he looked at God with a sad face, the sky cleared up within two days.
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Lao Zhoutou hardly dared to neglect, and immediately took his family to plant the cultivated seedlings. Even Ertou and Erya went to the fields. The whole family except Manbao, Santou, Sanya and Sitou, the four little ones,
Besides, even the Qian family is very busy.
Since everyone in the family works in the fields, she naturally has to shoulder the housework. Even though she can't do heavy work, she can do things like cooking and cleaning the yard.
In addition, there are several children like Man Bao who are helping out. In this way, one is sick and four are young, and they can still help the family.
Raising seeds in the spring is as tiring as harvesting in the fall. The family members are losing weight at a speed that is visible to the naked eye. Man Bao feels so distressed that he opens his money box, counts the copper coins inside, and then counts out twenty coins to buy.
Meat.
She thinks that although pork meat is not as delicious as mutton, it is cheaper.
In the long run, it is more cost-effective to buy pork meat, but I feel a little embarrassed, after all, her future fourth sister-in-law's house sells mutton, and the two meat stalls are located together.
The boss who took the money and was responsible for buying meat obviously knew this. Every time before buying meat, he would ask Zhou Lang if he had anything to say.
On Thursday, Lang Chun was so tired from work that he had no brain to think about anything else. Hearing this, he casually pulled a bunch of wild flowers from the roadside and stuffed them at him, "Give them to her for me."
Man Bao likes to put flowers and plants in his room. When there are no flowers, he can put wild grass there. Even Daya and Erya do the same. They pester their second brother to make bamboo vases and arrange flowers for them every day.
So Zhou Lang came to the conclusion that girls all like flowers and plants.
He didn't have anything else, but there were plenty of flowers and plants everywhere on the road and on the mountain.
When he had torn all the flowers on the road, he would pull some beautiful flowers back from the mountain while he was taking a break from work, and let Manbao pick out the remaining flowers and soak them in a basin with water. The next day, he would stuff them with water
Datou, ask him to bring it to Miss Fang when he goes to buy meat.
Therefore, since the spring rush, Datou has been going to the market every day to buy meat. Most of the time he buys pork, and occasionally he buys mutton.
But no matter what kind of meat he buys, he will send a bouquet of flowers to the future fourth aunt on behalf of his fourth uncle.
Not to mention the Fang family, everyone in Dali Village knew about it. After dinner, everyone said, "Don't tell me, the fourth son of the Zhou family still values Erniu very much. Erniu is a good husband."
As for the Zhou family's behavior of always going to the butcher stall next door to buy meat, some people were still muttering in their hearts in the first few days, and even the Fang family felt a little uncomfortable. However, after more than ten days of sending the flowers, everyone only felt comfortable.
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As for not buying meat from Yue's family and going to the meat stall next door, everyone also expressed their understanding from the bottom of their hearts. After all, the meat sold by the two families is different, and the price is also very different.
On the one hand, everyone feels that the conditions of the Zhou family are not as good as those of the Fang family, so they can only choose cheaper pork meat. But on the other hand, in this rural area, there are not many people who can afford to eat meat every day.
At least not even the village chief of Dali Village is willing to eat like this.
From such a comparison, it seems that the Zhou family's family background is quite good.
Anyway, Mrs. Cheng felt a lot more relieved. She said: "Although their family only buys meat every day during the busy farming period, there may not be many people doing this, but obviously they still have some financial resources."
At least it was no worse than the families they had seen before. Those families seemed to have a richer family than the Zhou family, but they seemed unwilling to eat meat every day on such a day.
The Fang family are butchers, and villagers from several nearby villages basically come to Dali Village to buy meat.
Therefore, they know best about whose family's financial situation is.
Butcher Fang arrived: "It's only been two months. She will go out as soon as the spring work is over. During this period, let her go out less and cover herself up. Maybe it will make her whiter. I'll see what happens on Thursday."
That kid's face and mouth are all right, if nothing else."
Obviously, Butcher Fang also wanted his daughter to match Zhou Lang in terms of looks.