In February, the dragon raises its head, the ice and snow melt, and all things come back to life.
The villagers start to get busy from February, and the busy farming season will last until October or November at the end of the year.
During these days, Hua Shi looked through the open courtyard gate and saw many people carrying hoes and loosening the soil in the fields.
Most of the wheat and rice in the village are planted in March. This month, the soil must be loosened early, water must be irrigated, and the fields must be prepared for planting.
At the end of February and the middle of March, the rice seeds are dried, selected, soaked, and germinated. Some people choose to process the seeds later, but no later than April...
Hua Shi was not familiar with farmland operations, but vaguely remembered that rice in the south usually started to be planted in April, transplanted in May, matured in late July, and then the harvest began, and then sowing and transplanting began again. The harvest ended in late October or November, that is, before the beginning of autumn. This is also called double harvesting.
After all, before this, she was an authentic southerner. After graduating and working, she moved to Kyoto and didn't know much about these things.
But from what she'd learned from the women chatting under the banyan tree, the sowing season was somewhat similar to that in the south. Some villagers planted only rice year-round, harvesting it in July and late October. Others planted rice for the first half of the year, harvested it in July and August, and then started sowing winter wheat around September, harvesting it around late February or March of the following year.
She had thought that the snow here was so thick in winter that it would not melt until at least April. However, she had expected that the snow would gradually stop at the end of January after the Lunar New Year. At this rate, the thick snow would completely melt into snow water by the end of February.
When the weather got warmer, birds on the walls and treetops flew over from somewhere, landed on them, and chirped.
The winter snow has begun to melt. Looking up from afar, the snow that originally covered the branches on the mountaintops has turned into water as the temperature rises. The greenery is lush and the breath of spring is getting stronger.
Outside the gate of the Hua family's courtyard——
"Hua Li, I'm going to school tomorrow. The next time I come back will be in mid-to-late June, when the harvest is ready."
In front of the bare doorway, a little boy in a blue shirt with a ruddy complexion squatted on the ground, stroking the little white dog with one hand, while looking up at Hua Li who was standing not far in front of him.
Hua Li stared at his hand on Xiao Bai's head, blinked, and then turned to look at him: "Okay, I understand."
Xie Wanyuan picked up the little white dog with both hands and held it in front of Hua Li. Although they were the same age, he was almost a head taller than Hua Li.
"I don't want to go to school. I don't understand what the teacher teaches. He keeps talking about all sorts of things all day long. I don't know what he's talking about. I don't know what the point of going to school is. What's the point of learning all that stuff?"
Xie Wanyuan kept complaining.
Hua Li just listened, looked at him, and said nothing.
He didn't know what the school looked like, nor did he know who the teacher was. He had never been to school, so Hua Li couldn't resonate with what his good friend said.
"Oh..." Xie Wanyuan touched the little white dog, sighed, and frowned, obviously very worried.
He suddenly paused, his eyes lit up, and he said, "Hua Li, why don't you go to school with me? Before, your grandmother wouldn't let you go, but now your grandmother is gone. Now you can at least go with me, right? If you go with me, I definitely won't find it boring anymore."
Xie Wanyuan came to say goodbye to his friends today. Since he started going to school two years ago, he would run over to say goodbye to Hua Li every time before going to school.
Because once I go, it takes several months to come back...
Hua Li reached out and took the little white dog from his arms. After hearing what he said, her expression did not change. She just shook her head and said reluctantly:
"I'm not going. You already said it's not fun anymore, and I don't want to go."
"Okay then. I have to go back and pack my things. My mother should be looking for me."
Xie Wanyuan stretched out his hand reluctantly and said goodbye to him.
Hua Li nodded, then turned to look towards the north of the alley, tiptoed, and looked around curiously, as if waiting for something.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, as if he had discovered something. Without waiting for Xie Wanyuan to walk away, he ran back to the yard with the little white dog in his arms.
"Here they come! I see people coming!"
Xie Wanyuan had not walked far when he retracted his raised arm and looked around in confusion.
What is coming...? ?
By the well in the yard, three people were busy washing various things. Hearing Hua Li's noisy voice, Hua Xiao looked over with a wooden ladle.
"What's coming?" Hua Xiao asked in a daze.
Hua Li's face flushed with excitement. "There were people selling chicks and other things. I saw them from a distance, pushing things towards our alley."
He still remembered what Hua Shi had mentioned a few days ago, that he wanted to buy a few chicks to raise, and that he had also ordered the old hens...
He remembered everything. In previous years, after the snow melted for a day or two, people would push things into the village to sell, such as chicks and other things.
Hua Li raised her excitedly red face, her big eyes flickering as she looked at Hua Shi, and said anxiously, "Do you want to go and take a look? Do you want to go and take a look?"
Hua Shi shook her wet hands. Although the weather was getting warmer, the cold had not completely gone away. The well water, which had been left for a long time, was still icy cold, and the knuckles of her hands were frozen red.
"Wait at the door. When they arrive, call them over. I'll go back to the house to get the silver and be right back."
Hua Shi said this and stood up and walked towards the inner room.
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