Chapter 380

Next year has next year's plan, but this year, at this moment, Li old man was also confused in the vast rice field.

Just... what's going on? Are the rice cutters so clean now?

In the whole rice field, he didn't even pick out a complete rice ear!

It's not that there was no gain, there was a rice ear buried under the rice straw, and there were three rice grains on it—shabby to the point of being outrageous!

He has been farming for so many years, and has never heard of any year when the rice field could be so clean!

Li old man was not reconciled no matter what, simply called the old yellow cow over, while picking through the rice field, while listlessly collecting the scattered rice grains and looking at them again... finally simply let the old yellow cow carry it, and walked slowly towards Song Tan's house.

Song Tan's family was preparing to take the rice back to the warehouse, and was a little surprised to see Li old man coming with a big yellow cow:

"Grandpa Li, why do you have time to come over?"

"And this rice straw, let our big yellow work so hard? Just ride the small tricycle to pull it later."

"This is not hard work." Li old man didn't care: Rice straw was piled aside when threshing, it didn't take much effort, it was just hot and inevitably sweated.

Besides, he didn't come just to send rice straw:

"Tan Tan, give me two bundles of this rice straw, I'll soak it in salt water later and let this old partner eat it."

"Okay!" Rice straw is nothing, Song Tan was exceptionally generous: "Eat as much as you want."

Li old man laughed: "That won't do, this doesn't have much nutrition, just see that it likes it, use it as a snack to open its appetite."

Then he entered the topic:

"Tan Tan, aren't you still going to plant the next batch of rice? Is there any breeding here?"

"It's being done!"

It will snow here in winter, so the time for planting two seasons of rice is relatively tight, so it must be grasped well.

Li old man thought about it: "Then should I take time to burn the rice stubble in the field?"

When cutting rice, there is still a part of the distance left rooted in the soil, and the locals call it rice stubble.

It looks inconspicuous, but old farmers who have farmed for many years have experience, as long as you pull this root of the straw, it is definitely full of insect eggs.

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Song Tan hasn't seen these, but it's estimated to be about the same.

Song Tan was stunned: "Is it so urgent? Don't you want the rice ears in the field?"

She remembered Li old man's expectation at the beginning!

"What rice ears!"

Li old man was angry: "Turning over and over, only three grains were turned out in total, when has the rice cutting in our village ever been so clean!"

Song Tan:...

Looking up again, Li old man also saw the place where Song Tan dried rice in the courtyard, and also built a large fishing net in a strange way, surrounding all sides—

"You this..." He was also a little surprised: "You surround it so solidly in your own courtyard, are you afraid of people stealing it?"

He laughed.

As soon as the words fell, I saw the group of birds surrounding it densely again, jumping and chirping anxiously...

Good fellow!

Li old man then realized: "I just said how the field was so clean, it must be that they tasted the taste after eating it last night! If I had known, I would have followed to pick it yesterday."

Song Tan was also helpless—who could have thought of this?

But it's just sporadic rice ears, if you can't pick it, you can't pick it, anyway, the things promised to Li old man in their family won't be less.

But, burning the straw in the field...

"Don't burn it in a hurry, Grandpa Li, the village doesn't call for air pollution now, saying there is satellite monitoring, I have to ask clearly later."

"What air pollution?"

Li old man didn't care: "Tossing around! If the straw is not burned, how many insect eggs are inside, what rice will be planted in the second half of the year? Next year your field will have to fight for its life to spray medicine!"

Li old man said this directly, but there was indeed no problem.

The root of the straw has many insect eggs accumulated, if not burned, then after plowing and digging the soil, the number of pests next year or the next batch of plants will increase sharply.

Again, some regions promote crushing straw back to the field to increase nutrition, but crushing also requires costs. Secondly, if it is not crushed thoroughly, it is easy to affect the soil quality, and further increase costs.

How much money can you earn by planting one mu of grain now?

Because of this, I don't know how much income will be lost, and there are also reasons for this part, leading to more and more people abandoning farming now...

In short, these are all things Secretary Xiao Zhu has been nagging about.

What Li old man said is indeed the current situation, but Secretary Xiao Zhu is an exceptionally qualified village cadre, and she has long warned:

"Must report. This year there is a new policy saying that after reporting, the straw in the field can be burned."

"That's right!"

Li old man, who was still grumbling just now, changed his face quickly: "I just said the government can't pit people—we don't burn all the rice straw, just burn those short stubbles in the field, what air pollution or not."

"The weather is okay these two days, if you trust me, I will arrange it while taking advantage of the opportunity."

Is there anything to trust or not?

Song Tan was dumbfounded:

"Okay, I'll tell Secretary Xiao Zhu, we can arrange it ourselves here."

After burning, wait a few days, then plowing, fine plowing... irrigation...

After all processing is finished, her new seedlings will be almost grown, and it will be the second batch of rice.

However, that's what she said, Li old man is old after all, and the old yellow cow is not young, everyone followed to help in the rice field.

As for this rice, it's evening now, it's almost dried, let's thresh it tomorrow.

However, the next day, when Wu Lan opened the warehouse door, she was surprised to find that the sack was broken!

Rice was scattered everywhere.

Although it looked like the total amount didn't lose much, this behavior was particularly hateful!

Looking carefully, the screen window was broken at some point—

"Are there mice in our house?!"

She shouted angrily.

"How is it possible?"

Song Tan absolutely didn't agree.

Whether there were mice nearby, she looked at it on the first day of moving—newly built house, mice hadn't had time to come over, how could it be so fast?

But this little thief was not careful, even if she didn't use means, she could follow the spiritual energy all the way to the back mountain.

Such a small hole in the screen window, it's definitely not the chickens raised at home, and it's definitely not the birds... birds won't leave so many traces on the ground all the way.

That's only...

Song Tan looked up, looking at the little things poking their heads in the woods on the back mountain.

"Good!"

Song Sancheng, who followed, was also angry: "What thing is being a thief? It turns out to be this group of squirrels!"

"I just thought they were useless, neither good-looking nor edible, and now they are ruining our food!"

"Your mom and I just weighed it when we carried it over to thresh, it was a full one jin and one liang less!"

Good fellow!

Song Tan also looked up at the treetops: This thing has a big appetite!

If this doesn't give a lesson, what if it becomes a habitual offender later?!