Before the end of the first month, the spring rain began to fall. Except for a brief sunny day on the day Erlong raised his head in February, the rest of the time was either raining or brewing.
This year's spring seems to have come very early and very fast.
When the spring rain comes and the spring breeze blows again, the green grass in the field grows up just like taking the nutrient that Keke said. Obviously, the weeds on both sides of the road only sprouted a little before Manbao went to sleep. When he woke up, the grass on both sides of the road It is already a piece of emerald green.
Then Man Bao went to school with his small bookcase on his back and an umbrella that was much bigger than her.
The Zhou family brothers were not treated as well as she was. Although there was drizzle in the sky, they had to go to the ground.
Put on the coir raincoat, carry a hoe and a plow and go to the ground.
Even the old Zhou Tou was wearing a coir raincoat and a straw hat, so Liu Lang naturally went too.
Zhou's family has a lot of land, and it is difficult to do the meticulous work that Keke said, even the rich white landlord's family can't do it.
The fields with good water and soil are all planted with rice, the lesser ones are planted with wheat, and the non-fields, which are dry land, are planted with various beans and melons and fruits.
For example, Manbao dislikes winter melon, zucchini, pumpkin, etc.
The Zhou family has a lot of land, but also a lot of labor.
Plowing is almost a man's job, but occasionally Xiaoqian and the others will carry a hoe and go down together to level the land.
In addition to the good fields at home this year, the three pieces of wasteland they opened up must be more careful, because the valuable ginger and yam will be planted there.
Especially ginger, even Zhou Zhoulang, who has just entered the industry, is very knowledgeable. He spent several evenings in the dark to spread fertilizer in the field, trying to make the field fatter before planting.
In order to suppress the growth of grass in the field, Zhou Zhoulang and his colleagues sprinkled a thin layer of straw on the wasteland.
This is the secret that Manbao discovered when he planted ginger and yam last year.
Last year, because the temperature fluctuated greatly, they sprinkled a layer of straw on the ground to keep warm after planting the seeds, and finally found that there were not so many weeds in the place covered by the straw.
So this year they also do the same, and when planting, they will pull away the straw where they were planted, so that they will be exposed after planting.
In this way, the ginger will grow after it germinates, and the weeds will not grow, which buys them a lot of time.
After all, this period of time is busy in spring, and they are really busy.
This year, the family has an additional 20 mu of land from Zhou Zhoulang, so they probably won't be able to work part-time at Landlord Bai's house.
This means that they will lose one item of income at the beginning of spring. Of course, now that the income is reduced, they will get higher income than in previous years when the wheat, beans and rice are harvested in autumn.
In theory, if God is good enough, this year can be as smooth as the past three years.
But the weather this year is really weird.
In the beginning of spring, it began to rain continuously, and the water in the field gradually increased. Old Zhou Tou had to take his sons to drain the water. When he looked at the sky with a sad face, the sky cleared up within two days .
Old Zhoutou hardly dared to be negligent, and immediately took his family to plant the raised seedlings. Even Ertou and Erya had to go to the field. Besides, even Mrs. Qian was very busy.
Because everyone in the family has to go to the fields, she naturally has to take care of the housework. Even if she can't do heavy work, she can do things like cooking and cleaning the yard.
In addition, there are several small helpers from Manbao, so that one is sick and the other is weak, and the four are young, and they can help the family.
Grabbing seeds in spring is as tiring as harvesting in autumn. The family members are losing weight at a speed visible to the naked eye. Man Bao is very distressed. He opens his money box, counts the copper coins in it, and then counts out twenty coins to buy. Meat.
She thinks pork is not as good as mutton, but it is cheap.
In the long run, it is more cost-effective to buy pork, but I feel a little embarrassed, after all, her future fourth sister-in-law's family will sell mutton, and the two meat stalls are located together.
The big head who took the money and was in charge of buying the meat obviously knew this too. Every time he went to buy meat, he would ask Zhou Zhou if he had something to pass on.
On Thursday, Lang Chun was so busy that he couldn't think of anything more. Hearing this, he randomly pulled a bunch of wild flowers from the side of the road and stuffed them for him, "Give it to her for me."
Man Bao likes to put flowers and plants in his own room. When there are no flowers, weeds can be placed there, even Da Ya and Er Ya, who pester Second Brother to make bamboo vases for them every day.
So Zhou Zhoulang came to a conclusion that girls like flowers and plants.
He doesn't have other things, but there are many flowers and plants, everywhere on the road and on the mountain.
When all the flowers on the road are ripped off by him, he will casually pull some beautiful flowers from the mountain back when he is resting at work, and let Man Bao choose the remaining ones and throw them into a basin to soak in water. Big head, ask him to bring it to Miss Fang when he goes to buy meat.
Therefore, since the spring rush, Datou has to go to Daji every day to buy meat, most of the time to buy pork, and occasionally to buy mutton.
But no matter what meat he buys, he will send a bouquet of flowers to the future fourth aunt instead of the fourth uncle.
Not to mention the Fang family, even the entire Dali Village knew about it, and everyone said after dinner, "Don't say it, this week's four boys still value Er Niu very much, and Er Niu's husband is a good choice."
As for Zhou's behavior of always going to the butcher's stall next door to buy meat, some people still murmured in their hearts in the first few days, even Fang's family felt a little uncomfortable, but after more than ten days after the flowers were delivered, everyone only felt comfortable .
As for not buying meat from Yue's house 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 companies is different, and the price is also very different.
On the one hand, everyone felt that the conditions of the Zhou family were not as good as that of the Shang family, so they could only choose cheaper pork meat, but on the other hand, there were not many families in this rural area who could afford to eat meat every day.
At least the village head of Dali Village is not willing to eat like this.
From such a comparison, it seems that the Zhou family's family background is not bad.
Anyway, Mrs. Cheng was relieved a lot, she said: "Although their family only buys meat every day during the busy farming period, maybe there are not many people who do this, obviously they still have some money."
At least it's not worse than the few houses they looked at before. The families of those houses seem to be richer than Zhou's, but they seem to be reluctant to eat meat every day on such a day.
Fang's family is a butcher, and the villagers in the nearby villages basically come to Dali Village to buy meat.
Therefore, they know best about who's family situation.
Butcher Fang arrived: "It's only been two months, and she will go out as soon as the spring busy is over. During this time, let her go out less and cover her. Maybe she can cover up a little bit. I think it will be better on Thursday. Nothing else, kid, just that face and that mouth."
Obviously, Fang Tuhu also wanted his daughter to match Zhou Zhoulang in terms of appearance.