Chapter 359
Canghai brought two buckets of water-soaked water seeds outside the house, grate the water in the bucket, put the water-soaked watermelon seeds in bamboo baskets and spread them on and dry them, preparing to sow seeds today.
Shi Wei then opened the curtain and walked out of the house: "Are you okay?"
"It's going to be fine soon. Why are you so impatient? Have you put your car in peace?" Cang Hai hurriedly didn't look back.
Shi Wei raised her head and looked down the slope to see Ping'an rushing the ugly donkey toward this side, so she said, "Here, isn't that Ping'an?"
Cang Hai looked up and said, "Okay, get ready to go!"
Shi Wei looked at the big bags of things at the entrance of the kitchen and asked, "Why are we going to work, not camping?"
Canghai sorted out a lot of things in the morning, including tents, folding tables, etc. If it weren't for the difficulty of getting into the car in Fenghuanggou, she would have suspected that her man would have set up a camping RV there. In Shiwei's opinion, this was going to grow watermelons in the field, not on an outing, why are you bringing so many things?
Cang Hai said with a sarcastic remark: "It was tiring to work, so can't you let everyone eat a hot meal?"
Shi Wei was speechless. Which family did not rush to work in spring? Only this one of them seemed to be the biggest meal. In his eyes, such a big thing as spring farming seemed to be as hot as before.
Seeing that Ping An came over, Shi Wei had no choice but to help carry the things at the kitchen door to the cart without saying a word.
Wu Hui walked out with Meng Meng. When he saw the cart coming, he helped to do the work. When Meng Meng saw that it was coming, he diligently helped to move some small pieces to the cart. When Meng Meng moved the iron head, he also started to work.
Canghai put two baskets of watermelon seeds on the cart, turned around and took a few fertilized drills from the house. The head of this thing was an iron awl. There were not two ears of the awl that could be stepped on. The big head of the awl was empty, and a handle was inserted inside. In this way, the foot stepped on the ear and exerted force, and the pointed cone head could be inserted into the soil, and a small pit appeared on the ground.
At that time, throw a watermelon seed in, and then use your feet to bury the surrounding soil into the hole, and the watermelon planting work will be completed.
After putting everything on the cart, Cang Hai bent down and carried Meng Meng first on the cart. Then he looked at the things on the cart. He saw that there were a lot of pots, pans, and so on, so he said to everyone: "Everyone get in the cart. Let's set off early and we can come back early in the evening!"
After hearing this, Shi Wei and others sat on the cart with their butts on their side.
Canghai was about to wave a whip, but Aunt Wei Qin, the third aunt, walked out of the kiln. Seeing Canghai's pose, she opened her mouth and asked, "Haiwazi, wait a moment, your third uncle and I will go with you today."
After hearing this, Cang Hai waved his hand and said, "Uncle and Aunt, there is no need to do it at all. Our watermelon field is easy to grow."
Canghai didn't want his third uncle and aunt to come and help. Not only his third uncle and third aunt, but also his uncle and his family were planning to help Canghai's family while the melon seedlings in the village were not planted yet. However, Canghai could not ask everyone to help this. Now it's spring, and each household has a lot of things to do. Spring farming is not a waste of time. Even if you don't plant watermelons, you still have to flip them into the fields to plant food or something?
Shi Wei also knew that everyone wanted to help, but considering that there were land planting in every household, she also advised: "Aunt San, Cang Hai knows this, so you should concentrate on doing your own work."
Since the third aunt and his wife decided to help their nephew, there was no way they could persuade them. Wei Qin shouted at the house, and Cang Shiyuan came out of the house, and she was already wearing a worn out dress. It seemed that this was the work clothes of the third uncle Cang Shiyuan.
Canghai had no choice but to let everyone move their seats and let the third uncle and aunt sit up.
When I drove the cart to the entrance of the village, I found that my uncle Cang Shigui was driving a cart with several old men and women sitting on it.
Canghai was about to ask, but when he heard Li Licheng driving the car say to him: "Canghai, why are you slowing down early in the morning? We have been waiting for you for almost a quarter of an hour."
"I said, where are you guys joining in? You don't have enough homes to grow? I appreciate everyone's feelings, so let's do your own business," Cang Hai asked with a bitter face.
Hu Shijie smiled and said, "Okay, I'll help you this day. In the past, we didn't have time to help. Now, the children at home are back and there is no work to do today. Just wait for the seedlings and other things to come to your door to collect..."
After hearing this, Canghai thought about it for a while and had to nod in agreement, so the two carts headed to Fenghuanggou one after another.
This is the best place around Sijiaping Village. Even if the rain is heavy, as long as the sun comes out for a day or two, there will be no moisture in the soil. In other words, the land will not be muddy, not to mention the cart or trucks, there will be no problem.
The snow was heavy last year, and Sijiaping seemed to be surrounded by snow all winter. The snow in winter slowly melted at this time. The snow near the village melted earlier and the ground had already dried up, but in other places, such as the sun on the shady slope, the snow melted slowly.
There is always snow melting, and the snow water will naturally converge along the terrain into streams and ponds.
Along the way, Canghai and his group would encounter some streams whenever they reached the bottom of the valley. Fortunately, the stream was not big, the largest one was more than two meters wide, not even twenty centimeters deep. Therefore, as long as the people on the car got off, the animals would easily pull the cart and wade through the stream.
When the two carts arrived at Fenghuanggou, the plants and trees in Fenghuanggou had already begun to sprout, and the entire valley was full of flourishing green, and the body temperature in the valley was at least five or six degrees higher than other places. Because the trees in the valley sprouted, many of them had small leaves, and even some wild fruit trees bloomed, the air in the valley was always filled with a faint fragrance of flowers.
"Phoenix Valley is really a treasure land. I didn't expect you to have such a vision!" Hu Shijie waited for the cart to stop, and said with a smile at Canghai.
"Yes, the trees around the village are just plum blossoms. The buds have just started to grow, but the Canghai has sprouted. It is estimated that it will be ten days short of this time," Li Licheng got off the cart with his butt tilted and smiled.
"You two are not here to enjoy the scenery, are you working quickly?" Wei Wenkui smiled and joked.
When the two of them laughed twice when they heard this, they walked to Canghai's cart and helped Canghai unload things.
There is nothing to say. Everyone works here. Although Canghai doesn’t have many tools, since the elderly are here to work, they certainly have their own tools and other things. The older generation is much more particular about farming than Canghai.
Rolling up their sleeves, everyone started working. Canghai demonstrated it. The old men in the village took a look and they got to know it. Everyone started working in groups in groups.
Canghai soaked two baskets, and green melon seeds appeared at the tips of the melon seeds, and put them on the slope, so that everyone could use them at will. He took Shi Wei to start planting melons.
Cang Hai tied the awl to the ground, gently lifted it and walked to a place two meters away, and then laid a small pit. Shi Wei bent over and threw the melon seeds in her hand into the pit, and then gently covered the pit with her feet.
Ping'an and Wu Hui's group, and the same place as the couple about four steps away from Canghai, was like the couple. Ping'an built a pit, and Wu Hui threw melon seeds into the pit and then covered the pit.
Next to Ping'an and Wu Hui are the two brothers Li Licheng and Li Liren. Going up the slope, Hu Shijie and Li Lida, and Wei Wenkui is responsible for carrying a water kettle to make some water where everyone planted watermelons, and keep the moisture in the soil to create conditions for the seeds to germinate.
Li Liren used up all the seeds in his hand and turned his head to walk towards the basket on the ground. Before he got close to the basket, he saw some green-bottomed and yellow-headed, white circles, and a beak of about five or six centimeters long surrounded by the basket, constantly pecking in the basket.
Seeing this situation, Li Liren thought that these birds were stealing melon seeds to eat, so he immediately accelerated his pace and stretched out his hands to make a yo-sounding sound to drive away these thieves.
The thieves were not afraid of Li Liren. Seeing that Li Liren was rushing over, they spread their wings and jumped outside the basket. Some guys who had picked up watermelon seeds spread their wings and flew up the slope, about ten meters away, pecked his pointed long mouth on the ground, and threw the watermelon seeds in their mouths in.
Li Liren had a good look. Seeing that this beautiful bird was holding melon seeds not for eating, but burying them into the soil, he shouted at the crowd: "Canghai, Canghai, come and take a look, this bird is holding seeds and burying them in the soil!"
Canghai was actually waiting for someone to shout, and after hearing this, he immediately leaned on the cone handle and wanted to respond.
This is actually Canghai’s small plan. The night before yesterday, Canghai discussed this matter with the Tree of Life. All birds will grow sounds too scary, so he had to choose one kind of bird, and the plantings did not have to be as organized as last year, and it looked more "reasonable".
Otherwise, it would be too scary for a few people here to plant melons that are thousands of acres in more than a week. So after planning the Canghai and the Tree of Life, this long-billed bird was used as a whistle.
Canghai hadn't spoken yet, Ping An spoke: "Grandpa Li Er, stop caring about birds, let them hold them. We discovered last year that these birds do not eat melon seeds, but will bury seeds into the soil..."
Ping An can't remember that all birds can grow. For Ping An, birds are different from species.
When he heard Ping'an say something, Canghai shut up and let Ping'an speak. The effect was much better than Canghai, because everyone thinks Ping'an is "silly". For the older generation in the village, foolish words are sometimes much more trustworthy than normal people say.
Hearing Ping'an say this, the villagers in the village turned their heads and looked in Li Liren's direction, and some even ran to the side and started to look.
What bird species show today is that they are not regular and very scattered. Some are empty and some are smaller. As an old crop style, some people soon discovered the shortcomings of bird species.
"It's so messy! This watermelon seedling takes about four or five steps away. The seeds of birds are so messy that they waste a bit of a waste of seeds!" Wei Wenkui said.
Li Liren smiled and said, "What are you afraid of if you are a little confused? Then you can get rid of it!"
Ping An happened to come back to get the seeds, and he smiled and said, "Where is the hoe? Brother Hai said that the seeds with strong vitality can grab the sunshine and water. The seeds with weak vitality can die soon. The surviving melon seeds are all strong, and the melons given are also big!"
After hearing this, everyone thought, this is really the case!
"Then let these birds grow!" Hu Shijie began to think as he said.
Ping An shook his head and said, "We will stop doing it, and this bird will stop doing it. Only when we plant these birds will we bury seeds like this. It seems to be learning to play for them..."
When everyone heard Ping An say this, they couldn't help but be amazed.
"Let's stop what you are doing!" Hu Shijie shouted loudly.
After hearing this, Canghai looked at Hu Shijie with awl.
After everyone stopped for about five minutes, the birds flew back to the branches not far away, and kept chirping, and no more of them flew into the basket to hold seeds and bury seeds.
"Interesting, interesting!"
A group of old people found it interesting and said.
Chapter completed!