Chapter 416 416. Thief
There are plans for next year, but this year, at this moment, Old Man Li is in the vast rice fields with the same blank eyes.
Just...what's going on? Are all the rice harvesters so clean now?
In the entire rice field, he didn't even pick out a complete ear of rice!
It’s not like I found nothing, there was an ear of rice buried under the straw, and there were three rice grains on top—it was so shabby!
He has been farming for so many years, but he has never heard of a year when the rice fields were so clean!
Old man Li was unwilling to give in, so he simply called the old scalper over, and while rummaging through the rice fields, he collected all the scattered rice and looked at it again... Finally, he simply let the old scalper take him, and walked slowly towards Song Tan's house. .
The Song Tan family was preparing to take the rice back to the warehouse. When they saw Old Man Li coming with a big scalper, he couldn't help but be a little surprised:
“Grandpa Li, why are you here free?”
“There is still this straw, why is it so hard for us Dahuang? Let’s go back and ride a small tricycle to pull it.”
“What’s so hard about this?” Old Man Li didn’t care: the straw was piled aside for threshing. It wasn’t hard, but it was so hot that he inevitably broke out in a sweat.
Besides, he didn’t come here just to deliver straw:
“Tantan, please give me two bundles of straw. I’ll go back and soak it in salt water for this old guy to eat.”
“Okay!” It was just straw, Song Tan was extra generous: “You can eat as much as you want.”
Old man Li laughed: "That's not good, it's not nutritious, just look at it and like it, let's use it as a snack to appetize."
Then he turned to the topic:
“Tantan, don’t you want to plant the next crop of rice? Is there any breeding done here?”
“We’re working on it!”
It snows here in winter, so the time to plant two crops of rice is tight, so we have to make good use of it.
Old man Li thought for a while: "How about I come and burn the rice stubble in the field?"
When the rice is cut, some distance is left to take root in the soil. The locals call it rice stubble.
It looks inconspicuous, but experienced farmers who have been farming for many years have experience. As long as the roots of this straw are pushed aside, they will definitely be densely packed with insect eggs.
He has never seen Song Tan, but he is probably close to it.
Song Tan was stunned: "Are you so anxious? You don't even want the ears of rice in the field?"
She remembered that Old Man Li was looking forward to it very much at the beginning!
“What ears of rice!”
Old man Li was very angry: "After turning it over and over, I found only three grains of millet. The harvesting of rice in our village has never been so clean before!"
Song Tan:…
Looking up again, Old Man Li also saw the place where rice was drying in Song Tan's yard. There was a strangely large fishing net set up on it, surrounding it from all directions -
“You…” He was also a little surprised: “You still have such a solid fence in your yard, are you afraid that others will steal it?”
He joked.
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw the densely packed group of birds jumping and chirping anxiously...
Good guy!
Only then did Old Li react: "I just said why the field is so clean, the birds must have eaten it last night and tasted it! If I had known, I would have picked it up yesterday."
Song Tan was helpless—who would have thought of this?
However, sporadic rice ears, they can't pick it up, anyway, their family promises that the old man Li will not be less.
It’s about burning the straw in the fields...
“Don’t worry about it, Grandpa Li. The village doesn’t call it air pollution now. It says it has satellite monitoring. I’ll have to ask later.”
“What air pollution?”
Old man Li said this directly, but there is really nothing wrong with it. There are many insect eggs accumulated at the roots of the straw. If it is not burned, the number of insect pests will suddenly increase next year or in the next crop of plants after plowing and digging the soil.
Furthermore, some areas promote crushing straw to add nutrients to the fields, but crushing also requires costs. Secondly, incomplete crushing can easily affect the soil quality and further increase costs.
Nowadays, you can only earn a few hundred yuan by growing an acre of food?
Because of this, I don’t know how much income will be lost. This is also part of the reason why more and more people are abandoning their jobs...
In short, these are all things that Party Secretary Xiaozhu talked about.
What Old Man Li was talking about was indeed the current situation. However, Xiaozhu Party Secretary was an extremely qualified village cadre and had already warned him:
“You have to report it. This year there is a new policy that says that after reporting, the straw in the field can be burned.”
“This is right!”
Old man Li, who was muttering just now, quickly changed his expression: "I just said that the government can't cheat people - we don't burn all the straw, just burn the short stubble in the ground. It doesn't pollute the air."
"The weather is fine these two days. If you can trust me, I will take the opportunity to burn it."
How can you believe this?
Song Tan couldn’t laugh or cry:
“Okay, I’ll tell Party Secretary Xiaozhu, and we can make our own arrangements here.”
After burning, you have to wait a few days, then plow, till carefully...irrigate...
After everything is done, her new seedlings should be almost ready, and it will be the second crop of rice.
However, that being said, Old Man Li is old after all, and Old Scalper is not young either, so everyone simply took back all the straw together, piled it into haystacks, and then went to help in the rice fields.
As for the rice, it’s evening now and it’s almost dry. Let’s shell it tomorrow.
…
However, when Ulan opened the door of the warehouse the next day, he was surprised to find that there was a hole in the sack!
Rice was scattered everywhere.
Although the total doesn’t seem to be much less, this behavior is particularly abominable!
Looking carefully again, I don’t know when a hole was broken in the screen window——
“There are mice in our house?!”
She shouted angrily.
“How is it possible?”
Song Tan absolutely disagrees.
Is there a mouse near this? On the first day of her movement, she watched the house just built. The mouse hadn't had time to come. How could there be so fast?
But this little thief was not careful in doing things. Even if she didn't use any means, she could follow her all the way to the back mountain by following her spiritual energy.
With such a small hole in the screen window, it is definitely not a home-raised chicken, and it is definitely not a bird...birds will not leave so many traces on the ground along the way.
That’s only…
Song Tan raised his head and looked at the little things poking their heads in the woods behind the mountain.
"OK!"
Song Sancheng, who followed, was also very angry: "What are you talking about as a thief? It turns out to be these squirrels!"
“I just thought they were useless, they didn’t like them, they didn’t like food, and now they are wasting our food!”
“Your mother and I weighed it when we took it to shell it, and it was a pound or two less!”
Good guy!
Song Tan also looked up at the treetops: This thing has a big appetite!
If I don’t teach you a lesson, will I be able to repay it if I become a habitual offender in the future? !
Good night my Phalaenopsis Chanel.
(End of this chapter)