Chapter 56 After transplanting rice seedlings, it’s Qingming Festival (please collect and recommend)
Author: Han Ming
Chapter 56 After transplanting rice seedlings, it’s Qingming Festival (please collect and recommend)
During the third month of the lunar calendar, people in the village start to get busy.
At this time, every household must start preparing to sow rice seeds and cultivate seedlings.
The rice fields reserved for rice planting at home must also be plowed with water.
Zhang An's family has a lot of paddy fields, so the rice fields are large, about four or five times the size of a field.
Because the rice fields of Zhang Jianguo's three brothers' homes are all next to each other, it is actually a large paddy field allocated to the three families.
So after Zhang Jianguo hitched the plow to the family's big black horse, while plowing his own family, he also plowed the fields of Zhang An's two uncles.
There is no water in the rice fields in winter, because the time for transplanting rice plants conflicts with the time when rapeseed matures, so most people like to use it for growing vegetables.
At the beginning of the year, all the vegetables in the fields have been cut, and it is just the time to transplant rice seedlings, so that they can be seamlessly connected and the fields will not be wasted.
By the time the rice seeds are sown and grown into seedlings that are ready for transplanting, the planted rice field will be almost complete.
At this time, it is time to transplant the small seedlings from the vegetable garden to the rice field.
When Zhang An's rice was soaked, he used the spatial spring water that Zhang An poured into the water tank, so it grew quickly after being spread.
When I first transplanted the rice seedlings, they were not very big, mostly about ten centimeters in height.
Therefore, there is no need to leave any gaps when transplanting, just insert seedlings into the paddy field one by one.
When Zhang An's family moved the rice seedlings, the second aunt's family and the third aunt's family came to help, because Zhang An's father helped cultivate the fields at home.
My own seedlings haven’t been transplanted yet, so I have some time to help.
Zhang An was also barefoot, pulled his trouser legs up to his knees, and went to the fields.
There were a lot of leeches in the paddy field at this time, and I got stuck by them if I wasn't paying attention.
Not long after Zhang An went to the fields, he was tagged with two leeches that sucked his blood.
This made the two aunts say that Zhang An's legs were too white and leeches liked to stick to him.
Zhang An is not afraid either. There is no rural child who has not been sucked by a leech.
I slapped it on my leg and it was taken down. You can't pull this thing. The more you pull it, the more it will burrow into your flesh, and the suction cup on its head will suck you hard.
Transplanting small seedlings is a task that tests your patience. You need to bend down to insert small seedlings in the field.
At the end of the day, my waist couldn't stand it, so Zhang An took a high stool from home and put it in the field.
The water was not even up to the legs of the stool. I sat on it and slowly planted rice seedlings. This time my waist and back felt much more comfortable.
Everyone followed suit and carried a high stool from home to the fields to plant rice. It was indeed much easier than in previous years.
The price is just to go to the river and wash the mud off the stool when you come out of the field.
After the seedlings were planted on the shore, we waited to harvest the rapeseeds in the fields, plowed the paddy fields at home, and transplanted the second row of seedlings. At that time, it was called planting big seedlings.
Basically, it will take more than twenty days for the small seedlings in the rice field to grow into large seedlings more than one foot tall.
In the free days later, Zhang An's family also helped relatives move rice seedlings.
It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, which is true.
Around the time of Qingming, one of the twenty-four solar terms, the weather is basically cloudy and rainy every day.
In the evening, Zhang Jianfeng, the uncle of the fourth grandfather's family, came to the house and asked Zhang An to discuss some matters with Zhang An's father, Zhang Jianguo.
When we arrived at Fourth Grandpa's house, many people were already there.
I called everyone here to discuss the major and minor matters of ancestor worship tomorrow during the Qingming Festival.
Qingming Festival is a relatively grand day in the countryside.
Although Qingming Festival has not yet been included as a national statutory holiday.
But people in the countryside attach great importance to it, and unlike the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival is celebrated at home.
On the Qingming Festival, the whole family will spend time together and worship their ancestors together.
Here in Changqing, ancestor worship during the Qingming Festival is called hanging paper, which means inserting grave marking paper on the tomb, which means hanging green.
Because Grandpa Zhang An is no longer here, it turns out that this matter was organized by the Second Grandpa’s family, because their family is Ding Xingwang.
But later, several uncles in the Second Grandpa’s family had a huge quarrel and were at odds with each other, so the Fourth Grandpa took over the matter and let their family organize it.
Although only one person from each family came, except for Zhang An's family who came two, the main room of Grandpa Fourth's house was almost full.
For such a family event, unless there are special circumstances in the family, everyone will come here.
Anyone who doesn't run actively will be beaten with a cigarette pole by the old man.
The aunt held the teapot and poured tea for everyone one by one. When Zhang An saw it, he took the teapot and poured it for all the uncles.
After everyone had arrived, the Fourth Grandpa and the Second Grandpa began to talk.
The juniors below just listen. Of course, if you have any questions, you can raise them in front of everyone.
But this method has been used for many years, and everyone actually has no objections and has become accustomed to it.
The main thing is that we need someone who can come forward to organize and organize everyone.
Then each household collects money per capita and uses it to purchase everything for hanging paper on Qingming Day, including incense paper, cannons, candles, and food for everyone.
Although the Zhang family is a common surname in Changqing, most of them have already left the fifth server.
So this kind of thing is actually organized by people in my own lineage.
Other relatives, that is, if someone's family has something to do on weekdays, everyone will help.
The Zhang An family has a large population, but it is actually the second grandfather's family that has made a big contribution.
Why...
Because of the Zhang An family, there are only eleven people in the three families in total.
As for the fourth grandfather's family, several aunts have already gotten married, so there are only five people left.
But the second grandfather’s family is different. Their family is prosperous.
The second grandfather has five sons, five daughters-in-law, and eight grandchildren.
By this calculation, there are more than thirty people in their lineage.
In the evening of that day, everyone pooled their money together so that they could go shopping the next morning.
The price is 5 yuan for adults and 1 yuan for children.
When the time comes, more will be refunded and less will be replenished.
Early the next morning, it was just dawn.
Zhang An was called up by Zhang Jianguo. Since his family had a car, Zhang An would definitely go shopping with him today.
After getting up, washing up, and eating noodles cooked by Wang Fang, Zhang An went to the fourth grandfather's house.
Today we have to prepare for the fire at Fourth Grandpa's house, because their house is next to the well in the village, so water is more convenient, otherwise fetching water would be a hassle.
Finally, it was decided that the fourth grandfather, Zhang Jianguo, and the second grandfather’s uncles Zhang Jianzhong and Zhang An would go shopping.
This is why Zhang An was interested in pickup trucks at that time. They could carry a few more people and also haul goods. Although no one cares about it now, people can also be accommodated in the truck bed, but safety is still important.
Zhang An drove very steadily. Because there was an old man in the car, Zhang An didn't drive too fast.
Come down the mountain road in the village, enter the county road, and arrive in the town in a short while.
The fourth grandfather lamented that with this car, it was much more convenient to get into the city.
Many families in the village are also organizing hanging paper today. Seeing that Zhang An's family always drives when they go shopping, but they still have to walk to town, they are all teaching their children to study hard.
When I grow up, I want to make a lot of money and buy a car to go home like Zhang An.
In the eyes of most villagers, this is already regarded as a glorious ancestor.
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