Chapter 42 Start Breeding [There is another chapter at 8 am today]
"Rumble--"
"Crack-"
The lightning in the distance was like a silver snake scurrying in the dark clouds, and the muffled thunder rolled over the top of the mountain and rolled down from the orange grove halfway up the mountain.
Seeing that a heavy rain is coming.
This forced Luo Xuan, who was busy catching eels in the rice fields, to run home quickly.
It seems that I won't be able to catch eels tonight.
Luo Xuan could only hope that it wouldn't rain tomorrow, otherwise he would have to waste another day's work.
Just as he ran back to his own courtyard gate, he saw a figure turning around and leaving the fenced courtyard gate.
"Hey, who is it?"
Since there were guests coming to the door, Luo Xuan had no choice but to say hello to them.
When the figure heard Luo Xuan's voice, he turned around and walked back.
Amidst the lightning and thunder, it was not clear who it was for a while.
It's just that the lightning shines on the person, the long hair, and the pale face, which makes people feel a bit creepy!
Luo Xuan hesitated, and when she got closer, she saw that the person was Dai Hongmei.
"Hey, Sister Hongmei, what are you doing here in a place like mine?"
Luo Xuan held the fish basket in one hand and pushed open the courtyard door with the other. He turned sideways and asked her, "Sister Hongmei, would you like to come in for a drink of water?"
Dai Hongmei laughed: "Do you have a thermos kettle or an antimony pot at home? You don't even have a bucket, so what can you give me to drink from?"
Luo Xuan smiled awkwardly and did not dare to answer her question.
"Here, I brought you a pair of small buckets and a pole."
Dai Hongmei pointed at the pair of buckets in the yard across the fence and said: "Those were used by my brother when he was a child. Now that he has joined the army, I am an adult too. There is no need for these small buckets. You can use them first."
Bar."
Her brother Dai Jun is now the only serving soldier in the entire 6th production team and is away from home all year round.
Luo Xuan thanked Dai Hongmei, pointed to the silver snakes scurrying in the sky, and said: "It's going to rain soon, Sister Hongmei, you..."
Dai Hongmei is a young widow.
She is a young man again, Luo Xuan is reminding her: It's time for you to go back...
"Pfft——"
Dai Hongmei stretched out her legs and lightly kicked Luo Xuan, then laughed and cursed: "You are a big kid! Okay, it will rain tonight. I will lend you the big net bag that my brother used to use at home to catch fish and shrimp tomorrow!"
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Few households in the production team have nylon nets in their homes. Even if they want to catch fish, they use bamboo "chicken covers" and dustpans as fishing tools.
This bamboo-woven tool is very inefficient at catching fish.
Dai Hongmei's brother used to like catching eels, loaches, fish, shrimps, turtles and crabs.
So she has a pair of these good net bags at home.
Luo Xuan thanked Dai Hongmei, but did not dare to ask her to come in and sit. He could only stand at the door of the courtyard and laugh a few times, waiting for her to take the initiative.
"Okay, I've brought the things to you and I'll go back."
With that said, Dai Hongmei smiled at Luo Xuan, turned around and left.
only.
Because when she smiled, a bright lightning flashed in the air.
The pale face, the white teeth, the long hair blown by the wind...
Luo Xuan was so frightened that he almost peed his pants on the spot!
After seeing off Dai Hongmei, Luo Xuan took off the net bag hanging on the bamboo fence wall and went back to the house to hide from the rain.
There are many heavy rains in summer.
Once there is a heavy rain, floods will break out in the entire Zhengxing canals, large and small canals, rice field breaches, and creeks.
At this time, it is a good time to grab a dustpan and fishing net, go to the ditch and go to the breach in the rice field to catch fish.
You may not believe it if you tell me.
During this period, although it was easy to catch fish, not many people were willing to do such a thing.
One of the reasons is that everyone has no oil at home.
Each month, the rapeseed oil quota for an adult is only 2, 28, 3 yuan, which is not enough for future generations to cook a plate of vegetables.
Because there is no oil, it is difficult to make those small miscellaneous fish, small crucian carp, carp, loach and snails delicious.
Just like snails and river mussels, if they cannot be stir-fried over high heat but boiled in water, their meat will become too chewy to bite.
There is no oil to fry the small fish, and the cooked fish will become rotten into a fish soup, which is not only not delicious, but also easy to get stuck by fish bones.
There is another very important reason why people are reluctant to fish for small fish, horses, shrimps, snails, river mussels, etc.: our bodies generally lack oil and water.
This leaves everyone without enough physical strength to do these trivial things.
If members go out to catch fish and shrimps, the physical exertion required is often much higher than the energy loss that the catches can provide to the human body.
In the water.
The human body loses body temperature very quickly, but eating horses, shrimps and other fish does not replenish much energy.
Not many people are willing to do things that are not worth the gain.
In this period.
The members had to work during the day, and from time to time in the evening they had to gather to "study" or attend "literacy classes."
When there is a little slack in farming, the commune members will not go to the countryside, but will go to the county to "volunteer workers".
Just to do the winter farmland water conservancy construction organized by the brigade and the production team, how can the members still have so much physical strength and energy to catch fish and shrimp?
Compared with the protein that these catches can provide, the members actually need to supplement nutrients such as starch, sugar, and vitamins.
Eat those shrimps and miscellaneous fish?
In the words of the members of the production team: The more we eat, the hungrier we become, and the more we eat, the more consumptive we become!
Therefore, instead of fishing in the river, people prefer to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and fruits to satisfy their hunger.
Among the river delicacies, only the larger carp and grass carp are of interest to the members. Occasionally, they would get one and make some fish soup to drink.
In this era, there were actually quite a few large carp and grass carp in the ponds in the creeks.
But many people can only look at the fish in the stream, puffing bubbles leisurely there, and most of them can only stare.
Because everyone seriously lacks fishing tools. After all, there are very few people who can catch fish with bare hands.
Nets made of nylon chemical fiber are very expensive, and members may not be able to save enough money to buy a pair even if they live frugally for a year.
——Even if you buy it back, it will be a big trouble!
Today Zhang San came to borrow it, and tomorrow Li Si said that the family was out of food and needed to use it...
They are all neighbors and relatives.
So should I not lend it to them, or should I not lend it to them?
Everyone offends people.
As time goes by, no one has the time to buy these things.
Luo Xuan only caught a few eels tonight and had to run home to hide from the rain.
When it rains outside on a summer night, there are more mosquitoes in the house. They are buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, and fleas are infested. They lie on the bamboo bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
It's raining heavily tonight, and Xiaocao will definitely not come to visit in the rain, so I don't have to prepare food for her tonight.
Luo Xuan used his hand as a pillow and stared blankly at the roof that was shaken by lightning like monsters of various shapes.
Aunt Zhang and Third Sister-in-law brought the bamboo bed to me in the afternoon.
Luo Xuan was not at home at that time, so the two of them put the bed in the yard and went back on their own.
Luo Xuan dragged the bamboo bed into the room, spread fresh straw on the bamboo bed, and then placed a half-new old straw mat given to him by Aunt Zhang on top of the straw. A simple bed was ready.
Someone else made a bamboo bed for me, and a bamboo table, bamboo chairs, etc. will be delivered to me in two days.
Luo Xuan originally wanted to thank him.
It's a pity that I was so busy that day that I didn't bother to go to Dai Hongmei's agency store, buy two packs of cigarettes, and send them to Sanniangzi's husband and Uncle Zhang.
After thinking about it,
Luo Xuan felt that if he wanted to buy cigarettes to give to others, it would be better to wait until the frog market opened the day after tomorrow, sell the eels himself, and then find a way to buy some deboned meat.
When the time comes, we will send some meat to the third sister-in-law and Mrs. Zhang's family as a thank you gift.
That would be more practical.
I lay in bed thinking about it for a long time, and the mosquitoes became more and more rampant.
Luo Xuan was really disturbed, so he had no choice but to duck into the space and prepare to sow corn and rice in the ground.
These two days.
As soon as Luo Xuan has some time, he will go into space to farm.
But there have been a lot of chores for a while, and now Luo Xuan only had time to plant carrots and white radish.
Varieties such as green peppers, rice seeds, and corn require breeding. They cannot be buried directly in the soil like white radish seeds.
There are several bowls in the space, filled with seeds of Luo Xuan Pao.
Picking up the coarse porcelain bowl and taking a closer look, the rice seeds soaked in warm water have not changed much, and only a few spores have emerged.
The rice planted inside the space germinates faster than outside, but this progress is far from satisfactory to Luo Xuan.
Luo Xuan did know a little bit about the "greenhouse seedling cultivation" methods of later generations.
But now I can’t build a greenhouse without the film on hand.
Luo Xuan found some space to find some straw, and then started to prepare a home-made greenhouse.
A shed made of straw is opaque, and the growth rate of seeds inside is definitely not as fast as that of growing seedlings in a plastic greenhouse.
This kind of opaque soil greenhouse needs to be opened from time to time to allow the seeds inside to receive light.
This will cause the temperature in the greenhouse to drop, thereby slowing down the germination of seeds.
Build a small greenhouse with straw, spread soil and sawdust on the straw mat, and then spread rice seeds and pepper seeds evenly on it.
Then fill the casserole with water and cover it with a wooden lid with holes.
A bamboo pole with its knots opened was used by Luo Xuan as a water pipe to drain the water vapor in the casserole into the straw shed.
This simple steam equipment consumes high energy and has a high water vapor loss rate, but it is free of charge.
Luo Xuan planned to rely on this most primitive set of equipment to germinate rice and pepper seeds to accelerate their growth.
As for the corn seeds, Luo Xuan dug a long shallow pit on the ground and pressed the seeds into the soil one by one.
A simple shed is built above with bamboo strips to increase the temperature inside the pit.
After working for a while, resting for a while, Luo Xuan finally finished all these things after working for a long time, and then he left the space with peace of mind.
Then, surrounded by countless mosquitoes and flies, I slowly fell asleep.
