Yan Xin’s family has more than four acres of paddy fields and more than two acres of dry land. Together, there are a total of six acres and seven cents of land.

However, paddy fields are discounted. Because the terrain is relatively low and often flooded, it is 60% off, and only the area of ​​more than two acres is paid.

Now there is no need to pay agricultural tax, so it doesn’t matter whether it is a discount or not. When the tax was heavy, such a discount could save a lot of money a year - compared with the net income of one year.

Cotton is planted in dry fields, and rice is planted in paddy fields.

In addition, the land is a bamboo forest about five or sixty minutes behind the house, and a vegetable garden in front.

Their family lives on this land.

Nowadays, agricultural products are not valuable. Even if there is no agricultural tax, they will not earn much money in a year.

Yan Xin's father sometimes helps others work, such as picking cotton, planting rice, harvesting rice, etc., which costs about twenty yuan a day.

Life is very tiring, there is little money, and life is very tight.

If you don’t help others’ work, your life will be even more difficult.

In the eighteen years after Yan Xin was born, this man suffered from his parents' death and his wife's death. He also had to raise Yan Xin to support him in school until he finished high school.

He has no education or technology, so he mainly relies on the acres of land at home and occasionally helps others with odd jobs.

The hardships of life can be imagined.

However, Yan Xin did not understand the suffering his father endured. He just despised his father for being useless and could not let his family live a good life. He could not even take out the money for his mother's treatment and was kicked out of the hospital.

Because of this reason, he disliked his father and even had some hatred.

The rebellion that began in junior high school is also the root cause.

It was not until he left society and stumbling for several years that he understood the difficulties of life, and that he realized the difficulties of his father back then.

But it was a bit too late to regret at that time. His father had become a cripple and has been associated with illness since then.

Until his father died of illness, he did not enjoy his blessings.

This is something that Yan Xin felt guilty when he thought about it in his previous life, and sometimes he even wanted to slap himself twice.

He and Feng Xi had a disagreement, but he always felt grateful to this woman because Feng Xi took care of his father's last few years.

I thought in my previous life that if there was a next life, he would treat his father well and not let his father live so hard anymore.

Now reborn, he wishes he could do it.

The Yan family planted rice in more than four acres of paddy fields. The father and son couldn't eat so much food, and the extra food would be sold.

There are few rice planting in the villages, and basically they plant rice planting in one season.

Because the yield of early rice is not high and the price is relatively low, the money earned by planting two seasons of rice is only one or two hundred yuan more than planting one season of rice, but it is much more tiring.

In other words, the Yan family is too poor and lives on these acres of land. They can only work hard to get a little tired and earn more money.

It is the end of June, and in ten days, it will be time to harvest early rice.

After harvesting, you have to quickly plow the land and plant the seedlings.

This is called double grabbing. You have to hurry up and do it, otherwise you will miss the farming time.

This is the hottest time of the year again, and it is quite hard and you may get heatstroke if you are not careful.

When Yan Xin was very rebellious, he had a bad relationship with his father and would help him fight for double robbery. Otherwise, he would definitely be too busy to rely on his father alone.

He will suffer from heatstroke every year.

The word "double grab" is like a nightmare for him, and that was the hardest time of the year.

But there is no way, you have to do it even if you work hard.

What is better than before is that in the past two years, no cattle is needed to cultivate the land, but mechanical farming can save some trouble. Otherwise, borrowing other people's cattle will have to pay back the labor, and one and a half labor will only be worth a cattle worker.

Other villages have started to use harvesters to harvest rice, but they heard that the effect is not good and will waste food, so not many people use it.

In Yan Xin's memory, it took another two or three years before the village generally used a harvester to harvest rice, but it is still artificial.

Not to mention transplanting rice seedlings, in Yan Xin’s memory, until his hometown and rural areas were reborn, they were all transplanting rice seedlings manually.

In the evening, during dinner, Yan Xin couldn't help but say to his father: "Dad, don't plant two seasons of rice next year, just plant one season, there's no need to be so tired."

Yan Xin's father is only in his forties now, but he looks like a person in his fifties and sixties, and looks very old.

This is caused by overwork, malnutrition and long-term anxiety.

The peasants of that era generally seemed much older than their peers in the city.

And he looks much older than his peers in the countryside.

In the city, I was in my forties and was in my prime. The so-called man's forty-one flowers has nothing to do with the word "old".

But in Yan Xin's eyes, his father has never been young.

In the past, when the father and son were having dinner together, they basically had no communication.

It was only after Yan Xin was reborn that he had a better attitude towards his father, but he was not too intimate. The father and son had been unfamiliar for so long, and suddenly they were too intimate. He couldn't do it, and his father couldn't accept it either.

In fact, when Yan Xin called him "Dad" a few days ago, he was shocked by his father. He hadn't called him that for several years. He thought that Yan Xin was so excited that he was not good at the college entrance examination.

It took me a few days to get used to it.

When I heard Yan Xin say this, I knew that my son was unwilling to engage in double robbery, so I said: "But, if you plant rice for a season, you will have much less income."

If you plant rice for a season, the income will be about 1,000 less, but for the Yan family, this can be described as "a lot".

Yan Xin curled his lips: "How much money can you earn? I haven't studied anymore and I'll be ready to go to work after a while. You can't do double robbery by yourself. It's better to plant a season of rice to save trouble. You won't ask me to take leave and go home to help you get a double robbery, right?"

Father Yan was stunned for a moment: "You want to go to work?"

"Otherwise?" Yan Xin smiled, "Are you still staying at home to farm?"

The son, who has always been lazy and rebellious, actually thought of going to work and earn money, which surprised the strict father, at the same time he was a little relieved and worried - with his son's rebellious personality, can he really survive in the outside world?

Yan Xin looked at the roof and said:

"This house is too dilapidated. We have to save more money and strive to build a new house in the past two years, otherwise it will be dangerous if it collapses one day."

Speaking of this, he felt quite guilty.

In his previous life, he went out to work after the double grab this year, but at that time he had no idea of ​​saving money. He spent as much as he could. He had no savings for more than two years.

As a result, the snow disaster that year crushed the house and caused his father to suffer so much.

When the stern father heard his son say this, he felt a little joyful and sad.

——My son has grown up and is sensible, and knows he wants to earn money to support his family.

——But if I have the ability, how could I let an 18-year-old child bear these?

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!