The time entered June, and it suddenly became hot. The gunshot wound on Gao Mingcheng's body had already healed, but he was too lazy to move. At this time, he was staring at the watermelons in the field, wondering when the watermelons would ripen.
This year he also planted a small area of watermelon and cantaloupe. There were only about a dozen seedlings in each of them, which were just enough for his own consumption. After all, he had no intention of selling them.
Other families in the village have a lot of crops, and they plant three or four acres of each type. When the watermelons mature, they will be loaded on flatbed trucks and sent to the town and county for sale.
As for the old market in Junling, when the watermelons mature, this old market will be the hardest hit area for watermelons. It is difficult to sell them, so local people in Junling will sell them here. If they want to sell in large quantities, they can sell them well. When the price comes, you have to go to the county to sell it.
In addition to selling them in the county, there are also dealers who will go to the countryside to buy watermelons. However, the price will naturally be much lower. If the family is short of labor, they will sell them. After calculating the accounts, there is no profit from the watermelons on several acres of land. Too much money, but this money is also one of the main incomes of many families.
While he was staring at a watermelon flower in a daze, his third brother Gao Mingwan came over.
"Second brother, you haven't been to the county recently?" Gao Mingwan said it quite cryptically, but Gao Mingcheng understood it as soon as he heard it.
Only then did he remember that he had promised to find Gao Mingwan a job in the county.
So he stood up, held up the straw hat on his head, and said, "Tomorrow is the county's market day. I'll go there tomorrow. Will you go with me?"
When Gao Mingwan heard this, his eyes lit up instantly and he couldn't wait to say: "Go!"
After the agreement was made, Gao Mingwan went home contentedly. He dug out the wardrobe, took out a new set of clothes, and gesticulated on his body. These are new clothes he made specially and have not been worn yet.
Seeing his actions, Gao Yuanyuan knew that the second child would take the third child to the county tomorrow.
Putting aside his worries, Gao Yuanyuan summoned his son and said, "Third brother, come with me to work in the fields. The sugar cane field needs to be cultivated."
"Hey." Gao Mingwan put down his new clothes, picked up a straw hat, and carried a hoe, and went out with his father.
The sugar cane they grow here is considered summer sugar cane. It was not planted until May. Now it has six or seven leaves and has begun to tiller. At this time, it is time to cultivate the soil for the first time. While cultivating the soil, you also need to Weeds are also hoed.
The father and son were walking on a country road. Gao Yuan said: "If you go to the county tomorrow, let Brother You take you to have your head shaved first. This will make you look more energetic."
"You brothers also played with Gao Hong and Gao Yue when you were young, and we have some friendship. When you meet Gao Guobing, don't be frightened and call him uncle affectionately. Do you understand?"
"Hey." Gao Mingwan responded, with a somewhat expectant look on his face.
They were similar in age and lived in the same village when they were young. They did play together, but Gao Hong and Gao Yue preferred to play with their second brother, and often left them and went to other places to play.
Well, to be precise, Gao Hong has the best relationship with his second brother. Gao Yue is Gao Hong's follower, so the three of them play together.
The place where Gao Yuanyuan grows sugar cane is far away from the village. You have to climb over the back mountain to get there. When it was possible to open up wasteland, the land near the village was occupied by people. If you want to open up more wasteland, you have to go further. So Gao Yuanyuan led his family to open a piece of land on the hillside here.
After crossing the back mountain, we saw a large area of gently sloping land covered with sugar cane.
Not all of this belongs to their family. Their family occupies two acres of land, and the rest belongs to other families in the village.
The reason why everyone chooses to plant sugar cane here is not because the soil here is good, but because it is far away from home. People will choose to grow vegetables and melons near home, which is convenient for timely management and picking to sell for money.
As for sugar cane, this is a task for the hard-liners. It must be planted, and the variety used for sugar extraction is sweet. It is sweet, but it is too hard to bite. In addition, every household has it, so it is almost impossible to get it. steal.
If it is a fruit like watermelon, you have to be careful. Every time it matures, you have to keep a close eye on it. Although most people in Gaojia Village have the surname Gao and their ancestors are from the same family, it does not prevent some people from stealing it in every village. People who take other people’s things.
Especially children who are half-grown will steal food when they are greedy.
When they arrived at the sugar cane field, the father and son began to work. This was the first time to cultivate the soil in the sugar cane field. It did not need to be cultivated too high, only about three centimeters. When the tillers were in full bloom, they would have to cultivate the soil a second time. , this time it takes six centimeters.
But this is not over yet. When the sugarcane is in the early stages of growth, it will be necessary to cultivate the soil for the third time. This time it will need to be twenty to thirty centimeters high!
In addition to cultivating the soil three times, you also have to weed, fertilize, water, and remove dead leaves from the bottom of the sugar cane. The whole planting process is a lot of work, and the sugar cane leaves are prickly, which is very uncomfortable.
But the most uncomfortable thing is that the price of sugar cane is very low, and because it is a hard-core task, the sugar factory will send people to purchase during the autumn harvest every year, but the time is not determined. Sometimes it is on time, sometimes it is delayed for more than a month. go!
Whenever this happens, there will be complaints in the village. Almost no one wants to plant sugar cane, but they have to.
Gao Ming's Cheng family didn't plant any crops this year because he had just separated and only asked for one acre of land from his family. He had no land and had to clear up land by himself. Although he cleared several acres of land, no one from the brigade came. If you find him, he will pretend to be stupid and not plant sugar cane.
Growing sugar cane is a thankless job. He remembers that in 1992, the villagers went on strike collectively and had a long quarrel. Then they were no longer given the hard-core task of growing sugar cane. Since then, no one has been seen in the village for several years. Having grown sugar cane, it can be seen that I hate sugar cane deeply.
Although Xi Nainai’s family planted sugar cane this year, they did not plant much. At the beginning of the year, she went to the village committee and said that she was getting older and the family had less labor and she no longer wanted to plant sugar cane.
But the people in the village committee refused to let her stop planting. They were afraid that if she didn't plant, others would not plant, so they agreed to let her plant less, and the young lady planted half an acre of land. .
At this moment, she and Gao Zhuang were also cultivating the sugar cane here. He Xiuman also came, but he didn't let her do the work and only let her stand under the shade of the tree to rest.
He Xiuman's physical condition is not bad. After pregnancy, apart from losing much appetite, she has no other discomforts.
At this time, she stood in the shade of the tree and watched Gao Zhuang working. Although Gao Zhuang was shorter and weaker, he was diligent and down-to-earth and had no other bad habits. The more He Xiuman watched, the more satisfied he became.
However, He Xiuman frowned slightly when she thought that her mother's family would come to give her money in two days.
Hey, she has to find another reason to coax her parents!
(End of chapter)
