No matter how tired I am, I still have to eat dinner. I eat it in a hurry, grab a basin of water to wash it off, and then fall on the bed. In summer, the weather is not only sweltering, but also mosquitoes are rampant. I can no longer take care of these. I may even slap my hands on my body in my sleep, but this is not within the control of my consciousness.
Within a few hours, I had to get up again and repeat yesterday's actions.
If the clothes are not muddy and cannot be worn on the upper body, then continue to wear them, because it is the same for heavy labor, no matter what you wear. If it's really dirty and there's nothing you can do about it, the woman can take it to the pond and rinse it a few times. There's no need to wash clothes with it. At best, they can beat it on the washboard with a mallet.
The man was doing some preparations at the door, and the woman quickly prepared breakfast. After a good meal, she picked up the farm tools and continued to go to the fields. Harvesting rice is a laborious job and cannot be done alone. Usually several families cooperate in harvesting. Everyone works together to finish the Zhang family's work first, and then work together to finish the Li family's work. After all families' work is finished, it is almost the same. One week.
At this point, we have completed the first grab in 's double grab of - the grab.
The next task is still arduous. First, we need to ask people to use oxen to turn over the soil with straw roots in the field, and then pump water into the field to soak the turned soil. After two to three days, the soil in the field has been soaked and softened, and the soil in the field is plowed with a rake, that is, the soaked soil is smashed into a paste so that the new seedlings can be easily inserted into the soil.
Before the early rice matures, there is usually no heavy rain. At that time, heavy rain is also feared because it will affect the harvest. The fields where the early rice is harvested are often dry. After harvesting the rice, farmers have mixed feelings about the rain. They are looking forward to rain but also worried about it. We are looking forward to rain because the fields after harvesting the rice are in great need of water. But the wet rice is at home, and I am particularly worried that it will germinate due to rain.
In most years, it is relatively dry during the double harvest. Therefore, the work of pumping water into the fields after harvesting the rice is very arduous. I get up early and stay up late for a long time. There are just some shadows of water in the fields, and I even dig several rivers in succession. Ditches can bring water from far away.
It was a day of racing against time. Each process sounds very simple, but each step must be followed according to the inherent process. When the soil in the field is almost soft, the rice transplanting begins.
I planted green rice seedlings all over the field with my hands, and when I lowered my head, I could see the sky in the water.
The six pure roots are the way, and retreat is actually forward.
Going down to the fields to plant rice is not so poetic. As the water temperature gradually rises, people will undergo several torments in the water, not to mention that they have to be bent at all times. The water has been heated by the sun. The most unbearable thing is that the water surface becomes a mirror under the sun's rays, reflecting the sun's temperature from underneath the body upward. This is the moment when the whole body is fully exposed to the heat. From time to time, people will appear Feeling of dizziness. People often fall into the mud because of fainting.
If you can sit on the field ridge at this time, and there is a shade of trees on the field ridge, then you will feel that the field ridge is no longer a hot mound, but the dragon bed of Jinluan Palace . It may be at that moment in life that you feel the happiness of leisure, but this happiness is too short-lived, because there is still a lot of work ahead of you, and you really don't dare to be lazy.
After half a month of hard work, when the last handful of seedlings were planted in the field, the farmer finally breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, he suddenly thought, had the rice he carried home been dried? Is the rice husk full? What exactly is the harvest?
Carry a bag of sun-dried rice to the mill to see what the rice grains are like, and you can cook new rice porridge when you get home. If the grains are full, you may then twist a few bags and give them to relatives who donβt have new rice at home.
The late rice seedlings are planted in the fields. This is the end of the double rush, but it is not the end of the year, because the maintenance of late rice has just begun. Next, there will be an endless series of work such as tilling the fields, fertilizing, spraying pesticides, and weeding. Waiting until late autumn when the weather is cold and the cicadas are silent, we start to harvest the late rice. At this time, we are no longer afraid of the heat, because the temperature is already very low. When we go barefoot in the fields, we sometimes step on the accumulated ice in the fields.
My mind is no longer on my feet, I just want to harvest the rice and take it home as soon as possible.
(The following pictures are from the Internet, thank you!)
