“Chiji…Chijiji…” “Ah~Ah~~”
The noisy sounds of birds could be heard overhead from time to time, causing Qin Xiaoxia to look up in the direction of the sound.
The vast farmland outside the secret realm is already a golden expanse.
The trees near some fields grew particularly lush, and in many places saplings sprouted up like bamboo shoots.
The most exaggerated thing is that some small trees have actually grown in some vegetable, fruit and rice fields, not to mention the trees that were originally in the fields or by the river.
The sounds of birds singing come from nearby trees of all sizes, the ground beside the rice fields, and the roofs and corners of some buildings in the village.
This year's autumn rice matured a little later than in previous years, but generally it cannot escape this season.
It attracts farmers as well as birds.
Many farmers from nearby villages were going in and out of the rice fields, not to harvest rice, but to pull out some protruding small trees.
This is much more difficult than pulling out weeds, as the roots of trees are intertwined and deep in the soil, and some need to be pried out with a fine shovel.
Where there are trees, they will inevitably affect the surrounding rice, causing that small piece of golden color to look like it has been bitten off and replaced with a touch of green.
Compared to trees, this year's rice is actually different. It is taller than in previous years, and the grains are fuller and stronger.
"Come on, come on, let me help you! Give me the shovel!"
Doudou happily snatched the small shovel from an uncle. The slender handle and palm-sized steel head were just right for removing small trees.
"Hey, Doudou, stop swinging your arms around or you might hurt yourself. Slow down! You're not much taller than the rice now, be careful not to get lost in the field!"
Uncle Lu, whose shovel was snatched away by Doudou, is not a full-time farmer. He just has fields at home and grows rice and vegetables. Except for the busy sowing period, the harvest is now done by machines.
Some villagers still have fields but they are left idle and no one is planting anything on them. At most they have reclaimed small plots to grow vegetables. People like Uncle Lu simply lease the land from them and plant some together since they have the free time anyway.
There are just some small trees popping up in the fields, and they have to be removed before the harvester comes in.
Doudou, as a well-known little devil in this vegetable patch, has long been a familiar face to the uncles and aunts around him. Qin Xiaoxia, the older brother, often buys some seasonal vegetables from the part-time vegetable farmers nearby, and the quantity is often not small and the price is generous.
Therefore, people around him showed enough kindness to Doudou's occasional naughty behavior, and the little guy was cute in appearance, so they became quite familiar with each other after a while.
"Hey, hey, hey, be careful, don't step on the rice!!"
Uncle Lu found that he couldn't even keep up with a child in the field, so he had to shout to be careful. As a result, he saw mud flying around a tree in the middle of the field that was as thick as a baby's arm. With a few strokes of the fine shovel in Doudou's hand, the tree was removed.
He knocked down the small tree, dragged the tree and its roots, and excitedly ran out of the field and threw it aside. Then he rushed into the field again with a small shovel, having a lot of fun.
The rice is very flexible. Even if it was dragged down by the crown of the small tree, it would straighten up again like water waves and continue to sway with the breeze.
After staring blankly for a while, Uncle Lu decided to walk to the edge of the field to drink some water.
"Uncle Lu, I'm afraid the harvest this year will be affected?"
Qin Xiaoxia was sitting by the field, staring at the birds flying around. When he heard Uncle Lu coming out of the field, he turned around and asked without thinking.
"Yeah, this year is pretty weird. The trees are growing out of the fields. They look a bit small, and normally it would take two or three years for them to grow this big."
After being startled a few times, he got used to it. Uncle Lu unscrewed the teacup, took a few sips, and wiped his mouth.
"I don't know how it grew. There are no trees of this type nearby!"
Qin Xiaoxia, on the contrary, changed her serious expression before chatting with Lao Lu and answered with a smile.
"It was brought here by the wind!"
Old Lu drank his tea and glanced at him.
"How do you know that?"
The latter answered again half-jokingly.
"Of course, the wind told me that!"
Uncle Lu was also a humorous man. He laughed and cursed the charlatan a few times, then looked at the rice fields and thought for a while before speaking.
"But the harvest is going to increase. The rice is growing very well!"
After saying that, Old Lu reached out and pulled down a rice ear and handed it to Qin Xiaoxia.
"Look at this rice. I've been growing rice for half my life, and I've never seen one this big!"
The rice ears in Lao Lu's hand are only one size smaller than the white popcorn made by an old hand-cranked popcorn machine. It would take two or three ordinary rice grains to equal one millet today.
"The rice stalks are also growing taller than the beans... I'm afraid the sky is really going to change!!"
The old farmer knows the weather by looking at the land, and Uncle Lu's tone could not hide his worry.
"So you're not going to sell rice this year?"
Qin Xiaoxia asked again with a smile, and the wind around them became gentle because of this smile.
When Old Lu heard this question, he also laughed.
"I originally thought so, but the village party secretary has contacted me twice, saying that the town wants to buy rice, and the price is much higher than in previous years. I plan to keep enough for my family to eat for a year, and sell the rest to the government. With this harvest and quantity, I think it is equivalent to half a year's salary at the factory."
Although they are worried about the changes, they are still happy to sell the millet at a high price. Perhaps this is a reflection of ordinary people.
"Okay, enough talking, I have to weed, er, and remove the trees!"
After Old Lu put down the bottle and walked back, Qin Xiaoxia flicked his index finger in the air, and an invisible air belt seemed to pass through the dense rice in the rice field, separating and closing to both sides.
There was a soft "dong" sound.
Doudou held his forehead and rubbed it.
"Cousin! What are you doing!"
"What are you doing? Give the shovel back to the owner. We are leaving."
Old Lu naturally didn't see all this. He thought Doudou had hit his head on the shovel handle and was very worried. However, the playful child dropped the shovel and ran away happily, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
This day, it is indeed going to change...
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“Tatttatttatttatt…”
The orderly footsteps came from the soldiers marching in formation.
With a gun in hand, fully armed.
This is a special full-strength battalion of 300 people. The soldiers are not all ordinary infantry, but a mixture of various arms.
Their integration training has been going on for almost half a year.
The battalion commander and the battalion commander ran on one side of the team, moving in unison towards a corner of the camp.
"Stand still!"
The commander shouted.
Swish, all the soldiers stood still.
In front of them, in addition to a number of troop carriers, there were also many container trucks.
"Get on the vehicles according to firepower groups. Leave in three minutes! Get on the vehicles!"
The soldiers quickly boarded the troop carriers. A firepower group consisted of 30 people, including 2 armored personnel carriers and 5 container trucks.
The driver was naturally one of these soldiers.
“Woo… woo…”
Three minutes later, vehicles of all sizes drove out with the roar of their engines, and even the pebbles on the concrete ground were bounced, which showed how heavy these vehicles were.
This change can be seen in many military camps and even warehouse areas during this period, with soldiers running and cars driving.
These vehicles all have a considerable degree of off-road capability. In addition to wheeled vehicles, there are even special tracked ones. However, tracked vehicles cannot currently run on their own and most of them are transported by train.
The response deployment plan of the mobile assembled defense station has finally begun in full swing.
A special map of China serves as the overall guidance for this deployment, with deployment points covering many key areas of the country connected together to form a star-like structure on the map.
Perhaps it was some factory area on the edge of the city, or perhaps it was some steel sheds. The resettlement site for the military station had already been arranged before it was deployed.
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