Upon hearing this, Boss Ye said: "There's nothing wrong with farming. If we don't farm, what will we eat and drink?
“We didn’t know this before when we were outside the Great Wall. I only heard about it after we entered the Great Wall. It turns out that the imperial court also commends and rewards those who are good at farming.
"Third brother, do you still remember that back when we were outside the Great Wall, the crops your second brother took care of grew much better than those of other people?"
When talking about this, Ye Lao Er immediately opened up.
"They just want to plant the crops and leave them there without taking care of them. It's a wonder they can grow well!
"I've observed the land here before. Although it's warmer here than outside the Great Wall, the soil here is far inferior to the black soil outside the Great Wall.
“So fertilizing and tilling the soil are even more important.
“The soil should have been plowed last autumn. As the saying goes, a scratch in autumn is better than a few plows in spring.
“But we didn’t take care of it last autumn, so we’ll just have to put in the effort to turn the soil over a few more times in the spring.
"I have to go back to the city to buy a cow and some farm tools..."
Ye Laoer doesn't talk much usually, but when it comes to farming, no one can stop him.
Both Ye Lao Da and Ye Lao San were already getting impatient.
Hearing him say this, Boss Ye immediately seized the opportunity to interrupt and said, "Think carefully about what you need to buy, and then ask mother to get the money for you from the public fund.
"Let's hurry and get all the manure to the fields today. If you need anything else, I'll go to town with you tomorrow to buy it."
The three brothers worked for most of the day before they finally transported all the fertilizer that Ye Laoer had accumulated in the backyard over the winter to the fields.
Ye Dongkui was originally worried that his family did not have enough fertilizer, so he came over to see if he needed any help.
I didn’t expect that the Ye family had more fertilizer than my own.
"That's great! I was worrying too much. The second child looks like a man who knows how to live."
"I have a big family, plus two mules. My second son also went to the mountains in the fall to get a lot of fallen leaves. I mixed them all together and here are all the leaves I have." Boss Ye said with some pride.
"How many times did you turn it over?" Ye Dongkui asked again, "If you don't do it well, the roots will be burned."
"Uncle Dongkui, don't worry, I've turned it over several times."
"That's good, that's good." Ye Dongkui nodded with satisfaction. "When you came to chat with me last night, I felt that you must be a good farmer!"
Ye Dongkui suddenly came up with an idea and said, "If you ask me, how about this? This year, let's have a competition and see who grows the better crops in the fall.
"How about it, do you dare to compete?"
If it was something else, Ye Lao Er would definitely be humble.
But when it comes to farming, he has never been defeated by anyone, so he immediately accepted the challenge and said, "Let's compete, there's nothing to be afraid of!
"But Uncle Dongkui, let's be frank. Don't get angry if you lose!"
"Hey, you little brat, do you really think you can beat me? I should be the one saying this."
After the Ye brothers transported several carts of manure to the fields, they asked Ye Dongkui, "Uncle Dongkui, which shop in the county sells reliable farm tools?"
"That's exactly what you asked," Ye Dongkui said enthusiastically. "When are you going to buy it? You can take me with you.
"It just so happens that I have a hoe that needs repairing at home. I'll take you there to find out where it is. From now on, when you buy these things, just look for his store."
"Okay, then we'll pick you up early tomorrow morning." said Mr. Ye.
When they talked about this after returning home, Mrs. Ye suddenly remembered when she heard that they were going to buy a cow, "It's almost the beginning of spring. You should hurry up and get the chicken coop and pigpen ready. It's time to catch the piglets and chicks in a few days."
My family had lived outside the Great Wall for so many years that they were used to not starting spring plowing for another month or two after the Chinese New Year.
Now that the date has been advanced so much, everyone feels caught off guard.
Mrs. Ye said with some emotion: "It's spring now, and the work at home has suddenly increased."
Mrs. Ye San also said: "That's right, after raising pigs and chickens, we have to feed them every day."
"It's only been half a year since we came back from outside the Great Wall, yet it feels like all this work is so far away from us." Sister Ye said, "It's good that spring has arrived. Our lives can finally return to what they were before.
"Isn't this how we farmers live? A down-to-earth life."
Having said that, everyone feels in their hearts that some things are now very different from before and it is difficult to go back.
Ye Lao Da and Ye Lao Er took Ye Dongkui to the city to buy cattle and farm tools.
After buying everything, Boss Ye remembered that he had said before that he would report Ye Laizi's situation to the clan leader.
He blurted out the words in a fit of rage. Now that he was asked to talk to the clan leader about this matter, he really didn't know how to start.
But since the words were spoken, Boss Ye still went to Ye Dongming's house with gritted teeth.
As soon as they saw that it was the Ye brothers who came, the attitudes of the men were completely different from before.
Ye Dongming thought they were here to rush the family tree. Just as he was about to explain, he heard Boss Ye say that he was in town to buy cattle and farm tools. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not that I'm delaying the process. It's mainly because the old man who is responsible for writing the family tree has caught a cold these days.
"He's old, so I can't rush him."
"Clan leader, Qingshan and my fourth son have already returned to the capital. He didn't urge me to leave before he left, which means he's not in a hurry. Please take your time."
Upon hearing this, Ye Dongming immediately asked perceptively, "Did the fourth brother also go to the capital?"
This wasn't something to be ashamed of, and they might run into each other again in the future, so it couldn't be concealed. So Boss Ye nodded and said, "Qingshan said it's not a good thing for the fourth child to stay idle at home all the time, so we should take him to the capital to try his luck."
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