Reborn in the 70s / Reborn in 1978

My brother walked slowly to his side, and suddenly stabbed the spear head in his hand towards the ground. The grass on the ground moved, and it turned out to be a long insect, more than ten centimeters long, reddish-brown. People in the mountains called it Dipizi. A bite will swell and hurt for days.

The elder brother's pistol head was piercing Dipizi's body, and it immediately turned to the pistol head with its mouth wide open.The elder brother dropped the basket he was holding in the other hand, reached over and pinched its neck, loosened the pistol head, and the long worm coiled into his hand.

"Take up the lapel of your clothes and tighten it." My brother said to Zhang Xingming.

Zhang Xingming understood what he meant, he had done this trick in his previous life, and immediately stretched the lapel of his clothes with both hands, his elder brother handed the snake's head to the taut lapel, the snake bit it with one bite, and his elder brother pushed hard Pulling back, I saw brown-red snake teeth pierced on the taut front of the clothes. Looking at the snake again, it has become a toothless old lady.

My brother was still worried, so he let it bite a few more times, and after a closer look, he found that he had no teeth, so he handed the worm into Zhang Xingming's hand and said, "Take it and play with it, don't let grandma watch it, look at it. I will beat you soon."

Zhang Xingming took it over and took a look. It was as thick as an adult's index finger, and his body was slippery. He was spitting out the letter, fiddled with it a few times, but it didn't make any sense, so he handed it to Changhong: "Give it to you."

Changhong was very happy to take it, and played with it in her hand. If this is a child in the city, let alone a girl, even a boy would not dare to do it.Changyan also came over, looked curiously, and even touched it a few times, she was not afraid at all.

In this way, I will dig out a bird's nest, dig an ant grave (the nests of ants in the mountains are all underground, and raise a mound like a tomb), and pick up a pine cone (the tower of fruit pine, which contains pine nuts).

There are no pine nuts in the tower of ordinary pine trees, and the fruit pine trees in the natural forest are mixed with ordinary pine trees, it is difficult to distinguish), the afternoon of talking and laughing passed, Changhong has already picked a basket full of wild vegetables, Changyan and her brother After picking most of the baskets, my brother still has seven or eight bird eggs and two big pine cones.

And Comrade Zhang Xingming only picked a little vegetable from the bottom of the covered basket, and Songta picked up seven or eight, which is easy to recognize.

The pine cones I picked up at this time were all fallen from last winter, and they were all dried out. I guess the squirrel I picked was also a careless guy.

Look at the sky, the four of them walked back, playing all the way and picking all the way, almost crossing the bar (the top of the mountain), and walking out is more than ten miles, which has already been counted into the mountain. If it gets dark, it may not be possible dangerous.

When I walked to the door of my grandma's house, it was getting dark. My grandpa stood outside the fence and looked at them. He didn't scold them when they came back, so he said, "Going up the mountain? How much did you pick?" Zhang Xingming picked from his brother's basket Li grabbed a few handfuls towards himself, feeling a little ashamed.

Watching the Changhong sisters cross the small bridge and enter the courtyard, several people turned around and entered the fence gate. Grandpa tightened the fence gate, and then topped it with thick wooden poles, in order to prevent people from falling asleep at night. In the courtyard, when I was at the door, I heard Changhong's mother scolding Changhong on the other side of the river. She came back a bit late, so how can adults not worry about it.

After entering the house, grandpa poured out the vegetables that my brother and Zhang Xingming had picked, sorted them out, and packed them up. Then grandma moved the table to prepare for dinner. Then she put down the table and patted her brother's buttocks twice. It was very fierce: "If you come back again in the dark day, I will beat you to death."

The elder brother had a good time, took off his shoes and climbed onto the kang, grabbed a piece of corn flour and stuffed it into his mouth.

After eating and washing their feet, grandma and elder brother took the quilt from the Kangqin cabinet and spread it out. A few of them lay down, and grandpa began to sing a song for the three mothers. No matter where he sang, my grandfather sang with great enthusiasm and flavor.

Zhang Xingming lay on the pillow and listened quietly, and fell asleep in a daze. When he woke up, it was already the next morning. The room smelled of brains and scrambled eggs, and he couldn't help drooling.

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Chapter 10 Spring Plowing Lalagu

The days go by day by day. For children, every day is fresh, fulfilling and happy.

Zhang Xingming still insisted on exercising his mental strength every day, just finding a place where no one was around to drill back and forth a few times until he felt tired in his head.

When I have nothing to walk, I just lock something and move it in and then take it out again, and replace the water in the tank with the stream water in the space while grandma and grandpa go to the field (to work in the field).

In addition, consciously exercise the flexibility and coordination of the body, split legs, lower the waist, high jump and long jump. Most of the time, I pull my brother to do it together. Children can play with everything. It takes a few hours to make an idea, and it takes a day to compare. .

Most of the time, the two brothers played, and Changhong came over to play together, and the children in the castle sometimes went to Nangou to play for a day. Most of them were children from some uncle's family, and they were all connected by blood relatives.

Farming is bounded by the Yellow River. The south of the Yellow River is called turning the ground, which means turning over the soil and breaking up the clods of soil, so that planting can be done. However, to the north of the Yellow River is not only turning the soil, but also turning the field with a plow. The plow plows into straight ridges.

From one end of the field to the other, there are furrows more than ten centimeters wide between the ridges. After the land is planted, people walk in the furrows so as not to step on the seedlings.The land in the northeast is harder than that in the south, and plowing depends on cattle and horses.

When the spring sowing season comes, the cattle and horses in the team get busy. Since they are cattle, everyone likes to use them to plow the fields. The cattle are honest and obedient, and the strength of the cattle is strong and steady. Not easy to manage.

Put the plow on the ox plow and bring it to the field. When you call out to drive, the ox starts to move forward in a stable and straight way. People only need to support the plow behind the plow. Horses can’t. Someone has to be pulling and pulling, or it will go crooked, or the force will be uneven, and the plow will have to be heavy.

The plow for plowing the ground must be laid on the last year's ridge, and the entire ridge is broken and turned out. After the two ridges are plowed, the soil on both sides will come together to form a new ridge, and the place where the plow is placed is the new furrow.

Grandpa held the plow, while the old cow chewed and walked slowly in front. The ground was turned under the iron plow like water waves. The newly dug out soil was dark and dark, exuding a unique smell of soil, not a fragrance. But it smells good.

The elder brother took a thin stick, knocked on the old cow's buttocks a few times, then grabbed the grass and handed it to the old cow's mouth, touched its neck a few times, and the old cow shook his head slowly, Sometimes it mooed.

Grandma called all the chickens at home here.The old chickens that have been raised for several years are like dogs. They listen to the call of their master very much. When they hear the call, they coo and run over, and the young chickens and new chickens also run over, and soon scattered into the newly plowed fields. , lowered his head, and scratched it with his paws from time to time, and then he pulled out a bug and ate it.

The ground needs to be dried after being turned over. In just a few days, the chickens can pass the ground several times, at least killing more than half of the pests in the ground. Chickens are quite good at finding bugs or insects in the soil. Ten It can be dug out to a depth of several centimeters.

However, there is a sequelae. When farming, the chicken must be kept in the yard for a few days, otherwise it will habitually come to the field when it gets up, and in the end it even digs out the seeds and eats them.

After being locked up for a few days, the old chickens will know that they can't enter the vegetable field, and they will take the chickens to other places to plan food.

The chickens raised in the countryside will not harm the vegetable fields.When the vegetables grow, the chickens will go into the garden to find bugs to eat, no matter whether they are in the soil of the roots or on the leaves of the vegetables, none of them can escape. At this time, some chickens will eat the leaves of the vegetables. After repairing it, the chicken became an old chicken a few times, knowing what to eat and what not to eat.

My brother is an expert at snatching insects. He digs insects with a bottle in the chicken flock, feeds the chickens after digging, and is really good at squatting in the vegetable field all day long.

After plowing the land, you have to use a hoe to break up the clods in the field, trim the ridges and make them straight, and then start planting.

Repairing ridges is a laborious task. Hold a hoe weighing seven or eight catties in your hand and bend your waist. A ridge can be tens or hundreds of meters short and one or two kilometers long. Spit on the hand, and then hit back from the second one, and so on, most people are really tired and lie down.

Therefore, the old farmers we often see are all strong and strong, but their waists are not good, and they can't straighten up when they get old.

Working in the field is all about working hard, and you can't stop in the middle. Once you stop breathing, you will lose your breath, and you will be even more tired.In fact, this is the same as our reasoning for doing things. If you set a goal, you will push forward in one go, and worry about gains and losses repeatedly in the middle, and you will not succeed.

When the ridge is well laid, it is planted. Planting is planting potatoes. Potatoes have no seeds, and they are planted by rhizomes.It is to cut the potatoes harvested last year into small pieces according to the bud eyes. It is a technical job to select the bud eyes and cut the seeds. If the wrong choice does not sprout, the potato will rot in the ground and be planted for nothing.

Cut the seeds and put them in baskets, press them into the soil along the ridge with the buds facing upwards, and then cover them with soil. Each seed is more than ten centimeters. It takes half an hour to plant a ridge quickly, and the hands and feet are still halfway there. Akira.

Planting potatoes is a very tiring job. To plant a ridge, you have to bend down dozens of times, and you have to carry a basket to hold the seeds. People with weaker waists can't do it at all.

There is no need for children to plant potatoes. The main reason is that if the plant is planted upside down and the buds are covered, the seeds will easily rot, and it is too tiring for children to do it.

When planting potatoes, children carry a small basket to pick up stones that have not been cleared out in the ground, grass roots, because they are grass roots, the vitality of this thing is stronger than potatoes, not a star and a half, just slow down and eat some water to grow strong When it grows up, it will compete with potatoes for land fertilizer.

In one ridge, my elder brother jumped up and down in front, picking up stones and digging grass roots, and my grandfather planted along the back, and then Zhang Xingming followed my grandfather to water the planted sprouts. Don’t water too much, or they will rot.

Grandpa picked the water from a well one mile away and put it on the ground. Zhang Xingming filled a ladle with water, tapped the seeds one by one, and went to the ground to scoop the water when the water was gone. I don't feel tired from running back and forth, but I sleep very soundly at night.

The land of my grandma's house is in front of and behind my house, and the land in front is smaller, only 30 meters long and more than ten meters wide.

The land behind the house is much larger, with a width of 30 meters and a length of more than 100 meters.There is not just one thing to grow in the field, which cannot be sold for money. It is only grown to be eaten by the family. It must be adjusted according to the needs of the family. The land is divided into pieces and different things are planted.

With so many people and quick hands, the potatoes were planted in half a day. After eating at noon, they all slept for a while and worked hard. In the afternoon, they had to plant corn, that is, corn.

Seeds are used for planting corn. The seeds are usually selected the previous year. When planting, they should be soaked in water first, so that it is easy to germinate. When planting, first step on the ridge with your toes to make a pit, five or six centimeters long. Deep, and then put three or four corn seeds in the pit and cover it with soil. For skilled hands, it is just a matter of throwing hands and feet, while for beginners, it takes a long time to tinker.

Children are generally not allowed to participate in planting potatoes, but it is just the opposite when planting corn. It is mainly the children's business. When it comes to planting corn, the ground is full of children, carrying a small basket containing seeds, bouncing around. Jumping seeds.

Zhang Xingming still remembers one incident. One year, the younger sister of the fifth uncle’s family went to plant corn in the field. In order to finish planting quickly and play with the children, she put a handful of seeds in a planting hole, but it was fast, and a basket of seeds did not drop a few times. That's it.

Uncle Wu was puzzled, thinking that this child was not so cold-blooded, why did he plant so fast? He went to the field and saw that a few ridges were planted in one piece of land, and about twenty seeds were planted in one pit. At that time, I couldn't laugh or cry, so I had to stand on the ridge and plant it again.

At that time, quite a few children did this. Girls were fine, they could scold at most, but boys would inevitably be beaten violently, until they were beaten like father and mother.

The elder brother dug a hole in front, using his hands for a while, his feet for a while, and occasionally squatting on the ground to study something. Zhang Xingming followed behind with a small basket to plant seeds, and his grandfather followed to get water at the end.

Farming in the later generations is all about irrigation. When the pump is turned on, it is either to irrigate the ridges, or to hold up the pipe to spray.

But there is no way, poor. Fortunately, the water source in my grandma’s house is not a problem, and the farthest is only one mile away. In some places, the water source is several kilometers away from the ground. , in case the seeds die slowly.