After a night's rest, my physical strength has recovered a lot.

Get up quickly and prepare to take care of the paddy field. Prepare the meal and ask the brothers to get up and eat and go to work. But the brothers may be exhausted. They said they have to do homework and want to sleep for a while.

Okay. They are students. A student’s job is to study. Then let me go alone.

Growing rapeseed in paddy fields is not very good. Growing beans and peas is better. However, growing beans and growing rape have different soil requirements. Relatively speaking, growing beans requires lower soil, and the soil does not need to be dug so finely.

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Based on previous experience, if you want to grow beans in paddy fields, you need to use a big knife to cut out drainage ditches. But I don’t have a big knife at home. So I need to borrow a big knife.

This broadsword should actually be a guillotine. In rural areas, only those who raise cattle and horses have guillotines. They are used to guillotine fodder or wrap grain stalks for cattle and horses to eat. The guillotine is usually made of shock-absorbing steel plates from tractors or cars, and is passed through a blacksmith.

It is forged by a blacksmith in the shop. The blade and the handle are integrally connected. There is a round hole in the front of the blade, which is used to pass bolts to connect to the guillotine holder. The broadsword can be removed by simply unscrewing the bolt. In order to facilitate cutting ditches

, you also need to wedge a ruler-long hardwood handle into the hole of the handle. Then wrap it with a red cloth strip and tighten it. In this way, you can spread your arm and swing the knife to cut the ditch. However, although this big knife can chop the soil quickly,

It feels like tofu, but after all, this big knife weighs almost ten kilograms. If you don’t have the strength, you really can’t swing it well.

I went to Master Liu's house and successfully borrowed a big knife. I was in a good mood. I carried the big knife and returned home. My brothers hadn't gotten up yet.

Maybe he heard the door open. Xiaojie asked alertly: "That one?"

I said: "It's me."

Hearing that it was my voice, Xiaojie said, "Brother, why are you back again? We'll get up right away."

Me: "I'm going to borrow a big knife, and I'll get a hoe when I come back. You can sleep in your own room. When you get up and have dinner, do your homework. Don't forget to cook and feed the pigs and dogs."

Xiaojie: "I understand."

I put on a pair of wellies and went out carrying a machete and a hoe.

When we came to the paddy field, Master Liu was true to his word, and the field had already been plowed. However, the paddy field did have more water than the dry field. Looking at this large field, and then looking at myself alone, I felt mixed emotions.

Go ahead. This is my life right now. What can I do?

Put down the hoe, pick up the big knife and chop towards the field. One knife to the left, one to the right, about half a foot apart in between. Repeated actions, boring labor. Although the field is only about eight minutes long, it still takes a long time to cut out the ditch.

It is not an easy task. Because the soil in the field is very soft due to sufficient water content, it is unsteady for a person to stand on a large piece of plowed field soil. The soil will collapse under his feet. So try to step on the gaps in the field and chop.

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Although wearing wellies protects your feet, they are still very cold. The most painful thing is that when you cut the soil hard, your rain boots also sink deeply into the soil. And the soil is like a suction cup,

The soles of the shoes are sucked tightly, making it difficult to pull out the feet wearing rain boots. Just pulling out the feet is very laborious, and there is also the cutting of the ditch, and you have to move forward after two cuts. It is really hard and strenuous.

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Accidentally, I used too much force, and even the shoelaces fell backwards and fell to the field. Get up quickly. This damn field soil. I cursed in my heart. My clothes and pants were covered with mud. I just took off my rain boots.

Dry.

It seems that we can't clear the ditch today. The progress of cutting the ditch is really slow. In addition, the big knife is borrowed and cannot be used forever. Others need to use it. Keep cutting hard!

After a lot of effort, eleven side ditches and two side ditches were finally cut out. Then four gaps were cut out in the field ridges below with a knife, so that the water seeping out of the fields and rain and snow water could be drained easily.

In the ditch below.

Although I was very tired, I still had to grit my teeth and dig out the ditches on all four sides. This is when the hoe came in handy.

In fact, it's quite sad to think about it. I have been working alone in this cold paddy field for a whole day, and no one has brought me a bowl of rice or a sip of water. What am I doing this for?

Standing in this bitingly cold paddy field, I couldn't help but think about life. I couldn't help but think about the relationship between brothers.

Have they not eaten yet? This is impossible. Their lives are still very regular. When studying, they get up, wash their faces, brush their teeth, eat, and go out to study; come back from school at noon, eat, and then go back to study; come back from school in the afternoon, do

Homework, eating, resting, playing, helping with housework, watching TV, washing feet, and sleeping. You need to eat three meals. You also need to eat when you sleep in on weekends.

Am I not hungry? Am I not cold? The more I think about it, the angrier I get, and the more I think about it, the less strength I have. However, we can’t stop planting the soil, right? We can’t let it go barren, right? Let’s do it!

Although there was still some time before dark, I was really tired and hungry, and I really felt like being hungry and cold. I secretly said to myself: clear out the surrounding ditches and leave.

After finishing the side ditch, I said to myself, let’s do it! Let’s do it! Anyway, we are here and we are too hungry anyway, so I will finish one more side ditch before going back.

Finally, we worked until dark. I washed my feet and found that the water in the ditch was not so cold anymore. I washed my feet and cleaned the big knife and hoe. I put on my rain boots and picked up the big knife and hoe and went back.

When you get to the door, push the door gently, put the hoe inside the door, quickly return the big knife to the person, and then go back.

When we arrived at home, our two younger brothers were turning on the lights and TV, doing their homework seriously.

Brother Jun: "Brother, why did you come back?"

Xiaojie: "Brother, have you eaten?"

When I heard this, I really wanted to laugh and cry. Have I eaten? That’s a good question. Where can I eat? It’s almost like eating rubbish.

I have not eaten yet."

Xiaojie: "We saw that you didn't come back for dinner, so we thought you had bought something to eat, so we didn't go out. There was a lot of homework, so we took the time to do it."

Me: "Well, it's right to do your homework. Do it well."

I thought I would lose my temper. But why should I lose my temper at two teenagers? Who should I blame? Who should I blame? Not me. If I come back to eat, will I be hungry? I have to do it till the end.

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Okay. Take a shower, eat some food, and go to sleep.

Brother Jun: "Brother, you don't watch TV anymore?"

Me: "You guys watch slowly. I won't watch anymore."

Humans are really strange animals. This TV didn't offend me. It's just that for some reason, I didn't like watching TV from then on. I don't know why.

I had a dreamless night. When I woke up, it was raining.

The brothers went to study, and I sifted the dung residue in the kitchen. After sifting, the rain stopped. Regardless of whether it was noon or not, I cooked some more rice and ate it to my heart's content. Then I picked up the hoe and went out to clean the ditch.

Clean up the ditch and go home to rest. The next day, take out the pesticides, pour a few bottle caps and put them in the beans and pea seeds. This will prevent both insects and voles. Carry the dung residue, a dustpan, liters, beans and peas on your back.

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Let’s go! One person can still plant. There are more ways than difficulties. Put the beans in a basket, then use a spatula to pick up the dung residue, and then put the basket on top. First throw two or three seeds into each nest.
Chapter completed!