In the muddy paddy field, a big buffalo walked slowly in front of the front door. Half of its body was covered with mud spots. Behind the big buffalo's butt, Yunshan held the plow with one hand and the nose rope with the other to control the direction of the buffalo and plowed the field.
Not to mention how easy it is.
In the past, when his family plowed the fields, Yunshan would drag the plow at the front door, pretending to be an ox. Now, his family finally uses real oxen.
In the paddy fields not far away, there are villagers from the same village who are still plowing the fields with manpower as they did in previous years. The ropes that are close to the flesh, the red cheeks, the hot sweat, the bulging veins...
That's what Yunshan once looked like.
The villagers who plowed the fields with manpower looked at him with envy from time to time, and then continued to face reality. No matter how hard and tired they were, they could not stop.
Without cattle, we had to work hard, otherwise we couldn’t plow the land, so we couldn’t plant rice, and there would be no food to eat.
Facing those envious glances, Yunshan was not at all proud, nor did he feel that he had much superiority, because he had suffered through such hardships. He was just like them last year, so what right did he have to feel that he was superior to them?
"It's great to have cows..."
Yunshan sighed in his heart, feeling that the cow butts in front of him were so friendly.
Using oxen to plow the land is several times faster than what he used to do on his own. He can plant crops faster and has more time to do more other work.
There is no time when a poor family is really relaxed, and there is always endless work to do. When a cow enters the family, it just adds a capable laborer, and it will not reduce the heavy farm work that should have existed at all, or even
You can say more. After all, the time you save on this matter will definitely be made up for on another matter.
"Xiao Shan, stop for a moment. Let's eat and let the cows rest."
Yun Lin said on the field, he picked up the dung bucket and poured the dung water into the field. The dung water would be mixed into the ground as Yunshan cultivated the land, providing nutrients for the seeds to be planted in the future.
Yunjing and Jiang Susu also came.
Jiang Susu was here to deliver food, but Yunjing, who was more than three years old, was at the time when he was naughty and making trouble, so his family couldn't trust him to stay at home alone.
Jiang Susu not only came to deliver food to Yunshan, but also came to deliver food to the cows.
That's right, we are giving food to the cows, not fodder.
The rice for the cattle is packed in a large wooden basin. It is rice cooked with husked rice, and the whole basin is full.
For poor farmers, it goes without saying that food is very valuable, especially in this lean season. Yunjing's family is not so rich and luxurious that even cattle can afford to eat.
In fact, in this busy farming season, although the cow is strong, it also does heavy physical work. If it is not fed well, it will be as weak as a human being. If things go on like this, the cow will become thin, shorten its lifespan, and even die.
It's possible to die from exhaustion.
So the saying that cows are more valuable than people in a farmer's family is really not a joke.
Looking at his father's relaxed posture in the field, and recalling the scene of him dragging a plow to cultivate the land, Yunjing's heart was filled with a huge sense of accomplishment.
This family is finally getting better.
Although this so-called improvement may seem trivial to many people, for poor farmers, this is already a huge improvement that was once unimaginable.
Silently improving his family's conditions, Yunjing looked in his eyes and his heart was filled with joy.
He didn't feel how great he was, and he didn't even mean to take credit, because this was what he was supposed to do.
We are already part of this family, do we need a reason to make the family better?
In the same way, as a member of this family, isn’t it natural to find ways to make the family better?
It's just that he didn't do it well enough, he thought silently in his heart.
Take your time, you won't become a big fat man after one bite.
"This year we have cows at home, so we can finish all the work in the paddy fields in a month at most, and then we will have more time to help our children in the dry fields."
After washing himself a little, Yunshan said as he sat on the field to eat, not caring about the mud all over his body.
"His dad doesn't need to be in such a hurry, the work in the paddy fields is more important," Jiang Susu said.
Yunshan took a bite of the pancake and grinned: "It's not that I'm in a hurry to help you. It's mainly because I have a cow at home this year. I'm so energetic that I can work very quickly."
"Then you can't be too tired," Jiang Susu nodded.
Yunlin glanced at the villagers in the distance, frowned slightly and said: "Every household is using farmyard fertilizer this year. Our farmyard fertilizer is not as much as last year, and I am afraid our grain output is not as much as last year."
There was nothing we could do about it. Last year, only his family was using farmyard manure, so there was no shortage of it. This year, everyone in the village needed it, and there weren't many livestock in the village, so naturally there wasn't enough.
After a pause, Yunshan forced a smile and said: "It will get better in the future."
"Yes, it will get better in the future." Yun Lin nodded, and then looked at his big buffalo not far away.
At this time, the big buffalo was eating rice and rice leisurely, slapping its tail from time to time to drive away mosquitoes and flies.
With that cow, the family will have no shortage of farm manure in the future.
This is just his home.
As for other villagers, if they don’t have large livestock, how many can they have throughout the year just relying on people to pull them?
Originally, Yunjing was also struggling with this problem for other villagers, but what Yunshan said next made him understand that there are always more solutions than difficulties.
Just listen to Yunshan say: "I heard that someone in the village has gone to the town to collect night incense, and then brought it back and put it in the fields. The town doesn't know how to deal with that kind of pickled stuff, so the villagers are eager to collect it.
They even provided money for processing, but the journey is a bit long.”
Yun Lin was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "They actually came up with this method. All in all, it's a bit tiring, but the benefits are obvious. It can fertilize and earn some hard-earned money. It kills two birds with one stone."
"Yeah... Brother Sanzhu and the others have been running to town at night regardless of their own safety these days. They can get back one or two hundred kilograms of night fragrance each time. They only sleep for two hours every night and have to do it during the day.
Work," Yunshan said with a somewhat sad tone.
Yun Lin was silent. If there was still some farmyard fertilizer accumulated last year, and if it was barely enough for this year due to the conscious collection before, maybe his family would go to the town to get night fragrance to use as farmyard fertilizer like other villagers...
After they had eaten and drank enough, and the cows were almost rested, Yunshan patted his butt and got up and said: "Father, go and do your work. I can do it alone in the paddy fields."
"Well, I'll go back and pick up the manure. It's not convenient for your wife to look after Xiao Jing when she goes to the fields, so let him be here and keep an eye on her." Yun Lin thought for a while and looked at Yun Jing.
"Okay", Yunshan nodded, then picked up Yunjing, came to the big buffalo, put him on the back of the buffalo and said: "Come on, Xiaojing, ride the big horse"
Yun Jingxin said it was a cow...
Then he was slightly surprised. His big buffalo was really docile. He showed no sign of anger when he was riding on its back. Instead, it snorted and glanced at him.
Yunshan, who was originally wary of the buffalo's anger, breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Haha, Xiao Jing, from now on you will be responsible for herding the buffalo when our big buffalo is not working."
Is it appropriate for you to give me such an important task when I am only three years old?
On this day, Yunjing was watching Yunshan driving cattle to plow the fields at the edge of the field. He only rode the bull for a while. No matter how smart Yunshan was, he was not careless enough to let him ride the big buffalo back and forth in the paddy field.
If you fall unsteadily in the field and get trampled by a cow, the consequences are no joke...
In one day, Yunshan drove the buffalo to plow three paddy fields. In the past, such a workload would have required Yunshan and Yunlin to work together for at least a week!
In the afternoon, before dark, Yunshan and Yunjing drove the cows into the stream. While the cows were eating rice, he also used a brush to carefully wash their bodies.
With his appearance, Yunjing seemed to see those drivers in previous lives who had just bought a new car. In the first few days, they treated the car better than their wives. However, as time passed, hey, that thing can still drive away...
