Next year will have plans for next year, but this year, at this moment, Old Man Li is in the vast rice fields, with the same dazed look in his eyes.
So... what's going on? Are the rice harvesters so clean now
In the entire rice field, he didn't even pick up a complete ear of rice!
It wasn't that I got nothing. There was a rice ear buried under the straw, and there were three rice grains on top - it was so shabby!
He has been farming for so many years, but he has never heard of the rice fields being so clean in any year!
Old man Li was unwilling to give up, so he simply called the old ox over. While rummaging through the rice fields, he collected all the scattered rice grains and looked at them again... In the end, he simply let the old ox lead him and walked slowly towards Song Tan's house.
The Song Tan family was just about to store the rice in the warehouse when they saw Old Man Li coming with the big yellow cow. They couldn't help but feel a little surprised:
"Grandpa Li, how come you have time to come here?"
"And this straw, why is it so hard for our Da Huang? Why don't we go back and get some on our tricycle?"
"It's not that hard." Old man Li didn't care: the straw was piled aside for threshing, so it wasn't too hard, but it was hot and I couldn't help sweating.
Besides, he didn't come here just to deliver straw:
"Tan Tan, give me two bundles of straw. I'll soak them in salt water and feed them to this old man."
"Okay!" It was just straw, so Song Tan was very generous: "You can eat as much as you want."
Old man Li laughed and said, "No, that won't do. It doesn't have much nutrition. I just like it. Let's eat it as a snack to whet its appetite."
Then we got to the point:
"Tan Tan, aren't you going to plant another crop of rice? Have you started breeding here?"
"I'm working on it!"
It snows here in winter, so the time for planting two crops of rice is quite tight and needs to be managed well.
Old Man Li thought for a moment and said, "How about I burn the rice stubble in the fields when I have time?"
When the rice is harvested, a portion of it is left rooted in the soil, which the locals call rice stubble.
It may look insignificant, but experienced farmers with years of farming experience have experience. As long as you pull aside the roots of the straw, you will find that they are filled with insect eggs.
He hasn't seen these by Song Tan, but he guessed they were similar.
Song Tan was stunned: "Are you in such a hurry? You don't want the rice ears in the field anymore?"
She remembered that Old Man Li was very excited at the beginning!
"What rice ears!"
Old man Li was furious: "After searching all over, I only found three grains of rice. The rice harvest in our village has never been so clean!"
Song Tan: …
Looking up again, Old Man Li also saw the place in Song Tan's yard where rice was drying. There was a strange-looking large fishing net set up on top, surrounding it on all sides.
"You..." He was also a little surprised: "You fenced your yard so tightly, are you afraid that people will steal it?"
He laughed.
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the flock of birds surrounding him jump and chirp anxiously again...
Good job!
Old man Li finally realized, "I was wondering why the field was so clean. It must have been eaten by birds last night. If I had known, I would have picked them up yesterday."
Song Tan was helpless - who could have thought of this
They are just scattered rice ears. If you can't pick them up, then you can't pick them up. Anyway, their family promised that old man Li will not lose anything.
As for burning straw in the fields...
"Don't worry, Grandpa Li. The village isn't calling it air pollution right now. They say there's satellite monitoring. I'll have to ask for clarification later."
"What is air pollution?"
Old man Li didn't care: "What a waste! If you don't burn the straw, there will be so many insect eggs inside. How can you plant rice in the second half of the year? You will have to spray pesticides all over your field next year!"
Old man Li said this directly, but there is really nothing wrong with it.
There are many insect eggs accumulated at the roots of the straw. If it is not burned, the number of insect pests will suddenly increase next year or in the next crop of plants after plowing and digging the soil.
In addition, some areas promote the crushing of straw to increase nutrition in the fields, but crushing also costs money. Secondly, if the crushing is not thorough, it is easy to affect the soil quality, which further increases the cost.
Nowadays, you only earn a few hundred yuan by growing one acre of crops
Because of this, I don’t know how much income I will lose. This is also partly the reason why more and more people are abandoning their land...
In short, these are what Secretary Xiao Zhu talked about.
What Old Man Li said was indeed the current situation. However, Secretary Zhu was an exceptionally qualified village cadre and had already given instructions:
"We have to report it. There is a new policy this year that says that after reporting, the straw in the fields can be burned."
"That's right!"
Old man Li, who was still grumbling just now, changed his expression quickly: "I said the government should not cheat people - we are not burning all the straw, we are just burning the short stubble in the fields, what is the air pollution or not."
"The weather is good these two days. If you trust me, I'll take the opportunity to burn it."
What's so believable about this
Song Tan didn't know whether to laugh or cry:
"Okay, I'll tell Secretary Xiao Zhu, and we can make the arrangements ourselves."
After burning, you need to wait for a few days, then plow and till the soil... irrigate...
After finishing all the processing, her new seedlings should be almost grown, and then it will be the second crop of rice.
However, having said that, Old Man Li is old after all, and the old ox is also quite old, so everyone simply helped to collect the straw, piled it into haystacks, and then went to the rice fields to help.
As for the rice, it’s evening now and it’s almost done drying. We can husk it tomorrow.
…
However, the next day, when Ulan opened the door of the warehouse, he was surprised to find that there was a hole in the sack!
The rice was scattered everywhere.
Although the total number doesn’t seem to have decreased much, this behavior is particularly abominable!
Looking more closely, I found that a hole had appeared in the screen window.
"There are mice in our house?!"
She shouted angrily.
"How is that possible?"
Song Tan absolutely disagrees.
She checked on the first day of moving to see if there were any mice nearby - the house had just been built, and the mice hadn't had time to move in yet, so how could it happen so quickly
It was this little thief who was not careful. Even if she didn't use any tricks, she could follow the spiritual energy all the way to the back mountain.
With such a small hole in the screen, it was definitely not a chicken raised at home, and it was definitely not a bird... A bird would not leave so many traces on the ground along the way.
That only...
Song Tan raised his head and looked at the little creatures peeking out from the woods in the back hills.
"OK!"
Song Sancheng, who followed, was also very angry: "What kind of people are thieves? It turns out to be these squirrels!"
"I think they are useless, not good to look at, not good to eat, and now they are wasting our food!"
"Your mother and I weighed them when we took them over to shell them, and they were a full pound and an ounce less!"
Good job!
Song Tan also looked up at the treetops: This thing has a big appetite!
If we don't teach him a lesson, what will happen if he becomes a repeat offender in the future? !