When he got home, Leng Yi came out to open the door.
"Today I told Haozi about the cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese we want to keep alive. Later, I thought we could also raise fish." Yang Qing said to Leng Yi.
"Sure, I'll dig the fish pond." Leng Yi nodded.
"Then you guys go in, I'll go cook." Lu Lin said with a smile.
The two entered the space, "Where do you want to keep the fish pond?" Leng Yi asked.
"Is it better to raise them next to the fields?" Yang Qing said.
The one hundred acres of rice planted before have grown very big after more than a month. They are green and beautiful.
"By the way, does the land where we bred crops previously need to be transplanted?" Yang Qing suddenly thought of this.
The high-quality seeds taken out of the biological refrigerator were sown after they germinated. They have now grown very tall, but they still need to be pulled out and transplanted before they can be planted in the fields.
"I'll do it." Leng Yi said.
He has specially allocated one acre of land to grow this batch of rice for breeding.
"Let's do it together. You teach me." Yang Qing said. She had never done it before and didn't know how to do it at all.
"Okay!" Leng Yi smiled, took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and held out his hand, "Come, go to the fields with me."
Yang Qing also took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and took Leng Yi's hand to the field.
The water in the fields was a little cold, and my feet sank slightly in the mud. The feeling of the mud coming out from between my toes was a bit strange.
Yang Qing had never felt this way before.
"There won't be leeches in the fields, right?" Yang Qing suddenly thought.
"It shouldn't be. It's only been a few days since life could grow here. It shouldn't happen that fast." Leng Yi shook his head. "The insects we saw before were probably eggs in some vegetable seeds. They hatched when the opportunity arose."
"It shouldn't have appeared out of nowhere. If there weren't leeches in the field before, they wouldn't have appeared out of thin air."
"That's good!" Yang Qing breathed a sigh of relief. Although she was a little fearless, she was most afraid of those software animals.
Leeches will also burrow into people's legs to suck blood, which makes my hair stand on end just thinking about it.
"Like me, get close to the roots and pull up the rice seedlings." Leng Yi explained while demonstrating.
Yang Qing nodded, reached out to pull out the seedlings, but with one pull of force he broke the leaves.
"Oh, what should I do? It's broken!" Yang Qing's face turned red.
Leng Yi chuckled, "It's okay, the roots are still there and can still be used. Move your hand a little lower, hold the rice stalk and pull it up, not too high."
"Oh!" Yang Qing nodded, his fingers almost digging into the mud, and he pulled them out, "It's done!"
Leng Yi smiled, "That's it. Put it in your hand first, pull out a handful and put it aside, then plant it in the field over there later."
Yang Qing nodded, and after a few minutes he became proficient at it, but his waist was sore from being bent over all the time.
Yang Qing stood up and pounded his waist with his hands.
"Are you tired?" Leng Yi asked.
"I didn't expect my waist to be so sore." Yang Qing nodded, "It's so hard."
Leng Yi smiled and said, "We are lucky, it's just this little. Before there were seed drills, hundreds of acres of land in the village were planted manually, which was very tiring."
"When the harvest season arrived, it was the hottest time of the year, with the sun shining brightly. The water was scorching hot, and we had to cut the rice in the scorching sun. The rice bark was almost sunburned, and we sweated like rain, soaking our clothes."
"It was indeed very hard." Yang Qing frowned, a little afraid to imagine, "You must have had a very hard life before, right?"
Leng Yi smiled faintly, "It's okay, all the kids in the countryside go through this. Physical suffering is not a problem, the most important thing is the mental suffering."
"At that time, my stepmother treated me badly. Even after a day's work in the fields, she was not happy with me. She only gave the delicious food to my younger brother. Even if I was suffering or tired, I would still pick up what was left by my younger brother."
"She still calls me useless from time to time, but actually I do more than anyone else."
Yang Qing suddenly felt distressed, "Leng Yi..."
Leng Yi smiled and said, "Fortunately, I met my coach later, who took me to a sports school, and later I was specially recruited into the army. I am actually very lucky."
Leng Yi looked at Yang Qing, his eyes full of tenderness, "I'm even luckier to have met you, to be able to start a family, and to have such a beautiful and capable wife!"
Yang Qing smiled, but also felt a little sad, "The days ahead will definitely get better and better!"
"Well, I believe it!" Leng Yi smiled, his eyes sparkling.
Soon, all the rice seedlings were pulled out. Leng Yi loaded the seedlings into a bamboo basket and walked to the other side of the field and planted them in the specially designated area.
Yang Qing watched from the side. Without any help, he planted the seedlings in rows flat and straight. He was really good at growing crops.
The one acre of land was soon planted, and Yang Ting heard Lu Lin calling for dinner outside.
"Let's go and have dinner!" Yang Qing called Leng Yi.
The two washed their hands and feet by the canal and left the space together.
After dinner, the three of them went into the space together to dig a fish pond.
"How big do you want to dig?" Yang Qing asked.
"Let's dig half an acre of land first. If we raise more in the future, we can dig more. Anyway, there is still so much land here." Leng Yi said.
"Half an acre is more than 300 square meters, which is quite big," Lu Lin said. "I don't know how many fish Haozi will be able to find for us by then."
"It's okay if the pond is a little bigger. If it's too small, just dig another one." Leng Yi said, taking three hoes to instruct the two of them how to dig.
"How deep should we dig?" Lu Lin asked.
"One meter deep is enough for an ordinary rice paddy pond," Leng Yi said. "If it's a pond specifically for fishing, the deepest point should be three to four meters."
"Then let's dig one meter!" Yang Qing said, and the three of them started digging.
Leng Yi dug very quickly. Yang Qing and Lu Lin had never done this before, and blisters appeared on their hands after a while.
"It hurts!" the two men cried out. They never thought that even digging the ground would be so difficult.
"You guys take a break, I'll do the digging." Leng Yi smiled, "You've never done farm work before, your hands are too tender, and they'll be worn out if you rub them against the hoe a few more times."
"Go back and apply some medicine. It's best not to get wet for the next few days."
"Oh!" Yang Qing responded, "Didn't you get your skin broken while working before?"
"Of course." Leng Yi said as he dug the ground. "Even if you get hurt, you still have to keep working. If you do it enough, your palms will get calluses, and then they won't hurt anymore."
Yang Qing and Lu Lin looked at each other and thought that being a farmer really had a hard life.
After the fish pond was dug, Leng Yi diverted water from the nearby canal and filled the pond.
"Can we raise fish like this?" Lu Lin looked at the fish pond with excitement.
"Yes, it's OK." Leng Yi nodded. "That is, inside. If it's outside, the newly dug fish pond needs to be exposed to the sun and disinfected with medicine, otherwise the fish will easily get sick and die."
"Fish can get sick too?" It was the first time Lu Lin heard of this.
"Of course." Leng Yi nodded. "Some fish farmers didn't properly disinfect their ponds, so whole swaths of fish died, causing heavy losses."
"It's the same with raising chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep. You don't think they'll grow up just by raising them, do you? Sometimes they'll all be wiped out if they get sick."
"People in the past didn't have the concept of insurance. If it happened once, they would lose everything. Later, with experience, they learned to buy insurance, so that if they died, they could recover some of their losses."
"It's the same for all aquaculture, including those that raise shrimp, eels, and crabs."
Yang Qing and Lu Lin nodded. Leng Yi knew so much.
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