Chapter 7 007. Listen once and I'll kiss you
Every family has a field and is busy with spring planting.
Lei Li declined, but an aunt still stuffed a few fresh wild cucumbers into her mouth.
Lei Li broke the wild cucumber in half and gave half to Zhou Yi. "We have cucumbers at home, but they don't grow as fast as the ones at my aunt's. I only got a few small cucumbers."
“It’s quite sweet.”
It is much sweeter than what we eat nowadays.
Zhou Yi ate a wild cucumber and looked at the people bending over to plant rice seedlings. He asked, "Isn't there any transplanting here?"
"Throwing rice seedlings?"
"You can just stand and throw the seedlings directly into the field without bending over. Compared with transplanting, it has the advantages of 'one reduction, four savings, and two increases', which means it reduces labor intensity, saves labor, seedling fields, seeds, and water, and increases production and income."
"sound……"
Lei Li chewed his cucumber and glanced at him. "That sounds like a charlatan."
Zhou Yi: “…”
Lei Li asked again, "Do you all do rice seedling throwing over there?"
"It is in many places," Zhou Yi said. "Because transplanting is less tiring than planting, and the rice produced is about the same weight, it's more popular."
“Why not everywhere?”
“Maybe it’s because of the different regions?”
Zhou Yi thought for a moment and said, "It may have something to do with the local culture, customs, climate, habitat, information gap, rice variety, etc. Some people don't know that they can transplant rice seedlings."
"The ancestors transplanted rice seedlings, so the later generations followed suit. As time went by, we got used to it and didn't even think about whether we could also transplant rice seedlings by throwing them."
“…”
Lei Li looked at him, took a big bite of the cucumber, and said as he chewed, "I don't quite understand. You can plant seedlings just by throwing them, right?"
"right."
"Throw one for me to see."
"good."
Zhou Yi nodded, rolled up his trouser legs and sleeves, and went down to the field. "I'll go pick the rice seedlings first."
The green seedlings are placed in a corner of the field ridge and need to be picked up and thrown into the field in batches.
Lei Li watched Zhou Yi start planting in the field with a serious expression, looking very professional, and then casually planted about an acre of seedlings.
The thrown seedlings were lying here and there, looking as lifeless as a lazy man, as if they would die in the next second.
Lei Li: “…”
Lei Li took the last bite of cucumber and clenched his fists, crackling them. "Zhou Yi, are you kidding me?"
"I don't."
Zhou Yi shook his head. "You're used to seeing the rice seedlings planted neatly, so you think they're crooked. But this is only temporary. The seedlings tend to be phototropic and will slowly grow upwards."
"Because broadcasting is shallower than transplanting, the seedlings rely on their own rooting, tillers emerge earlier, and low-node tillers account for a larger proportion. This not only ensures the number of ears required for high yield, but also increases the number of grains per ear."
Lei Li: “???”
Lei Li was completely bewildered. "What do you mean by sex, birth, and production? Does it mean it can increase the rice crop? Hey, don't try to fool me by relying on my lack of education."
"I didn't trick you."
Zhou Yi said, "When I was in the army, I helped farmers transplant rice seedlings. They couldn't explain why transplanting was better than transplanting, but I read the Encyclopedia of Agriculture."
"The book says that if the tillering rate is high, the yield will increase by about 5 to 10 percent."
Lei Li: "...There are a few words in every sentence I don't understand. Anyway, throwing rice seedlings is good. It's not an excuse for you to be lazy, is that what you mean?"
"Of course not an excuse."
Zhou Yi's expression was serious and stern. "If you don't trust me, you can continue to plant rice..."
Lei Li: "I can't trust it."
"All right."
Zhou Yi followed his lead. They only had two mu of paddy fields, so even if they were to transplant rice, they should be able to finish it by tomorrow at the latest. "But I haven't transplanted rice in many years. I need to learn from you. I'm afraid the way you transplant rice here is different from ours."
"Okay."
Lei Li pulled up his trouser legs and sleeves, then went down to the field and planted a few seedlings for him to see. "Did you see clearly?"
"Understood."
Zhou Yi diligently planted the seedlings he had just thrown straight. He was slow at first, but soon got the hang of it and was planting as fast as Lei Li.
Lei Li raised an eyebrow, "You didn't hit your head, did you? You learned it quickly, and you can thrust it in quickly and well."
There is some ambiguity in this statement.
But Zhou Yi didn't hear it.
He looked up at his masterpiece. The green seedlings were neatly arranged, like rows of high-spirited recruits, which was very pleasing to the eye.
Lei Li was already one of the fastest rice planters in the village, but it used to take him two days to work on a two-acre field by himself, and he would suffer from back pain and heat.
Now with Zhou Yi, I haven’t gotten too tired yet, but when I turn around, I see the fields are full of seedlings.
For the first time, Lei Li felt that farm work was so easy.
It's good to have more animals. There's nothing much to say except that it's not good.
"Zhou Yi."
"Um?"
"How old are you?"
"28."
"Eight years older than me."
"28 isn't that old, is it?"
"Other people have children running around everywhere when they are 28, no wonder they haven't gotten married yet, it turns out you can't do that."
“…”
Can't we just not mention this?
Zhou Yi was a little speechless and a little surprised, "You are only 20 years old?"
Wasn't that when he was in the army, Lei Li was only in elementary school? He thought that if Lei Li wanted to get married and have children so much, she must be in her twenties like him.
"how?"
Lei Li squinted his eyes and said, "You think I'm too old now? It's a bit late."
"no."
Zhou Yi shook his head. "I just didn't expect you to be so young... 20 years old, just an adult not long ago, in our place, you're still at school age."
“You become an adult at 20?”
Lei Li finally looked over and said, "In our village, men aged sixteen or seventeen are considered adults, and boys and girls are all looking for husbands and getting married. Twenty is just the beginning of adulthood in your place, isn't it?"
Zhou Yi frowned. Sixteen or seventeen years old is really too young. He is having sex before his sexual development is mature. Isn't this a disease?
"how?"
Lei Li chuckled and said frivolously, "Twenty is considered an adult in your country. Does that mean his family will have to support him forever? He doesn't even earn a penny from doing any work?"
"Generally speaking, people in our area study until they are 22 years old. Most of them don't have independent financial resources and need money from their families to support them. Only after they finish their studies and enter the workforce can they earn money to support their families and parents."
Zhou Yi paused and continued, "For various reasons, some people are lucky enough to be able to support themselves after entering society. Add to that mortgages, car loans, and children, and they may still need their parents to continue to provide money."
"That's pretty much the same as ours, except you can study."
No one in Lei Li's village could afford to send their children to school because they had no money. However, he had seen scholars at the town market and in the county town. It would have been fine if they were not pedantic, but those who were pedantic could neither pass the exams nor earn money, and had to be supported by their families for the rest of their lives. It was really a waste of their time studying.
But what are these house and car bags? Could they be bags for the deeds?
Lei Li didn't quite understand, but he didn't want to show weakness in front of Zhou Yi.
"come over."
"What's wrong?"
Zhou Yi walked over upon hearing that, and just as he stood still, Lei Li's muddy hands held his neck and kissed him.
Zhou Yi: “???”
Seeing Zhou Yi's bewildered look, Lei Li felt relieved. He touched his face with a smile, and a spot of mud was stained.
"If you keep saying these incomprehensible words, I'll kiss you every time I hear them."
Zhou Yi was completely bewildered by this self-righteousness. After a pause, he said, "If you don't understand a word, I can explain it to you. Don't... always make moves."
"I'm happy to get my hands dirty."
“…”
When you live under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.
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