1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 106: Training in Adversity
Dadadadada... Ding ding~
The sounds of tricycle engines and bicycle bells came one after another, and Li Xiu knew that the person she was waiting for had returned.

Turn around, go back to the house, pick up the bucket, scoop hot water, take the clothes, and when someone arrives, hand over the bucket and clothes, and take the shoulder bag back~
The whole set of actions is completed in one go.

"Go take a shower first."

"It didn't rain last night."

"You're sweating. Take a shower and change clothes to feel more comfortable."

"Row."

Chen Jiazhi hadn't seen Li Xiu looking at him at the door in the morning for a few days.

I came back too early a few days ago.
But it is also heartwarming to see, as not everyone has access to a hot shower as soon as they get home.

When I finished taking a shower and returned to the house, Li Xiu had already put the money away and left a few dozen yuan in her bag.

After a few days, although Li Xiu had become accustomed to earning more than 2,000 yuan a day, he was still a little uneasy.

"Jiazhi, we have another 16,000 yuan at home. Why don't you deposit it in the bank first? I feel anxious leaving it at home. I miss home even when I go out to work during the day."

Chen Jiazhi smiled. "Why don't you just stay home and don't do the farm work? We've hired four temporary workers anyway, and I think they're doing a good job. They've been weeding and thinning out the seedlings. You don't have to work so hard. Just stay at home and take time every day to check on the quality and progress."

Li Xiu said seriously, "If no one works together, they will cheat and act slyly. You don't know, they are very talkative. Once they get together, they just chat and stop what they are doing."

Chen Jiazhi: "That's definitely not comparable to you. You can even use both hands to control seedlings at the same time while chatting. Most people can't do that."

Li Xiu: "I just want them to go a little faster."

Chen Jiazhi: "Don't worry, I know what's going on. I'll find a way to adjust it later. Just stay home and take care of the baby. I'll keep an eye on the money."

Li Xiu: "I still feel it's not safe to leave it at home. I have to go out sometime."

Chen Jiazhi: "Promise me to stay home and take care of the baby. I'll deposit the money in the bank later."

Li Xiu: “…”

His eyes were wide open, showing some resentment and some joy, and he couldn't help laughing as he stared.

"You deliberately didn't save money these two days, because you didn't want me to go out to work?"

"Yeah, the sky is clearing up now, but the sun will be even more scorching later. It's hot and humid. It's uncomfortable to stay at home, let alone in the fields. How can I dare let you go out?"

First he recruited workers, and now he deliberately doesn't save money, just to make her work less.
Li Xiu's eyebrows curved again, "Okay, then I will only go out in the morning and evening from now on, and I won't go out when the sun is out."

Chen Jiazhi: "Don't do any work when you go out, just take a look."

Li Xiu: "Okay, I'll listen to you. You can deposit the money later."

Just as Chen Jiazhi was about to nod, there was a knock on the door. The door was open and the person who came was Yi Dinggan.

"Come over for breakfast."

"Follow me."

"Going to save money again?"

"Ah."

"You should have gone a long time ago. I don't know how many eyes are watching you. You have to save another ten thousand this time, right?"

"..."

"When will you change the car?"

"It's almost time, do you want to drive a tricycle?"

"Well, why don't you change cars later?"

"What's wrong?"

"It's all because of these bugs. I just came back and told them there were too many bugs on the leaves and I should be careful when harvesting. Your second sister got angry and said I didn't finish spraying the pesticides quickly enough the day you sprayed them, so now the vegetables aren't looking good. She's blaming them for not taking good care of the crops after harvesting them."

As soon as the two stepped into the door, they were met with Chen Jiafang's angry glare.

"Am I wrong? Jiazhi finished applying the medicine that day, and now the vegetables are so beautiful."

"You're right, it's all my fault."

"Don't buy this tricycle. I can't even grow vegetables properly. What's the point of buying it?"

They had noodles for breakfast. Chen Jiazhi and Li Xiu picked out noodles from the pot and added seasonings. Brother Yi and Second Sister were still arguing with each other, but they were already used to it.

My second sister is just like that. She feels uncomfortable if she doesn’t find fault with others.

He keeps mumbling all day long, cursing this and that.

She was a bit like a typical rural shrew, and was later called the Sichuan-Chongqing Tyrannosaurus.

Chen Jiazhi didn't like this word, nor did he like this kind of people. Most of them were not as kind-hearted as his second sister. If he met a wife like this, the relationship would definitely not last long.

He doesn't like being controlled.

I am also used to saying what I mean.

Fortunately, he met Li Xiu, who was willing to listen to him in everything, so the two of them could live peacefully in their previous life.

After dinner, it was just past six o'clock and the sun shone through the clouds onto the vegetable fields.

I just took a shower and I'm sweating again.

Chen Jiazhi took the black and white dog to inspect the fields again. The days of growing vegetables seemed to be repeated day after day, boring and tedious.

As the saying goes, most people die in their twenties or thirties, because after this age, they are just shadows of themselves, and spend the rest of their lives imitating themselves.

If you are a professional vegetable farmer, this experience will be even more profound.

Day after day, year after year, more mechanical, more numb, every year there are the same solar terms, similar climate and disasters~
Many years have passed, yet it feels like only a moment.

Only the increasingly dark and aged skin and rough hands remind you that another year has passed.

Life is short, just a blink of an eye.

Few people can grow vegetables for a lifetime.
But Chen Jiazhi doesn't think this is a simple repetition. Growing vegetables is not without fun, but it requires finding the source of happiness from the details, and you can also discover it yourself.

In other words, life is about finding trouble when there is nothing to do.

Just like him, he was obsessed with breeding and teaching dogs to patrol the fields.

In a few days, the two dogs had become adept at identifying his scattered vegetable fields one by one.

"Don't rush me. You can run faster on four legs."

The black and white dogs stopped at the edge of the loofah field and barked at Chen Jiazhi, who was about twenty meters behind.

He walked up.

The two dogs, one in front and one behind, shook their butts and drilled into the loofah vines.

There are more diseased spots on the vines, covered with scabs, and there are also various rotten ulcers on the loofahs left for seeds.

Even a layman can tell that the patient is sick.

Anthracnose, downy mildew, powdery mildew
Melon fruit fly, red spider ~
Most of them may be infected with diseases and pests. Anyone who sees this vegetable field will say it is disgusting.

Chen Jiazhi turned a deaf ear to it, looking at the vines and loofahs one by one, searching among the many torn loofahs.

Not every loofah is doomed.

In adversity, there are always some loofahs that stand out, some have only a few spots, and some insects don’t like to eat them.

These are his goals.

When it comes to breeding, he is a layman.

But decades of life experience have taught him that there is a rainbow after the wind and rain, and when the sky is dark enough, the starry sky will shine brightly.

The same is probably true for vegetables; good seeds may emerge under adverse circumstances.

He didn't know how certain this 'maybe' was, but wasn't that part of the fun?
Life needs some expectations to be interesting.

For him, wealth is the accumulation of irreplaceable days of growing, harvesting and selling vegetables.

The same is true for breeding, which requires accumulation.

Maybe you need luck~
one two three…

After finding three decent loofahs in succession, Chen Jiazhi saw the loofah with edges as hard as bones.

He looked around from top to bottom and from left to right.

Still intact.

Very beautiful!

"Not bad."

Chen Jiazhi nodded repeatedly, very satisfied.

The other melon selected by Li Xiu was also okay. After all, they were all carefully selected good melons. They might be the two best melons in the whole field. It was not surprising that they could survive until now.

But the melon is still green, and it will take nearly a month for the seeds to mature, which is late July.

There is still a very difficult road to go.

People are afraid of difficulties, and so are vegetables. Adversity is not so easy to overcome.

Afterwards, Chen Jiazhi went to look at the bitter melon again. It was still covered with spots and holes, but the melon was still resisting.

"Farmer Chen, you're not managing these loofahs and bitter melons well. It's not like your level."

Just as Chen Jiazhi came out of the bitter melon field, Hong Zhong came towards him, wearing a short-sleeved white T-shirt with a loose collar, gray shorts, and a pair of plastic sandals.

Chen Jiazhi hadn't seen Hong Zhong for a while, so he said with a smile, "What a rare visitor, Boss Hong! I'm bringing these melons to plant."

Hong Zhong asked in confusion, "Why save the seeds? Can't you just buy them? Besides, your melon field is already in this state, full of disease spots and insect holes. How many seeds can it produce in the end? You've wasted so much effort, it's not worth it."

"I'm going to try to see if I can grow better seeds."

"You still have this ability?"

Hong Zhong was stunned for a moment. "You don't think that just because you read a little bit of books, you understand breeding, do you? I have acquaintances at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Their breeding doesn't involve the same problems with pests and diseases as you do."

"I'll give it a try."

Hong Zhong obviously did not think highly of Chen Jiazhi, and his words were full of doubt.

But Chen Jiazhi was not surprised. He was just trying out an idea he had come up with.

"By the way, Boss Hong, what are you doing here? Has the insect net arrived?"

It has been twelve or thirteen years since the deal was reached with Hong Biao. Hong Biao and Hong Zhong are together.

"Well, it's just for a couple of days. I came to say hello in advance, prepare the money, and pick some dishes."

"Why do I feel that picking vegetables is your purpose?"

Since the insect-proof net would not arrive for another day or two, it was hard for Chen Jiazhi not to suspect that Hong Zhong was here to extort money.

As expected, Hong Zhong scratched his head awkwardly and took out a cloth bag from his shorts pocket.

"Oh, the vegetables I bought these past two days are not good, there are many wormholes, and my family keeps complaining. Isn't this thinking of you?"

Hongzhong waved his pocket, as if afraid that he hadn't seen it.

"Chen, the vegetable farmer, which piece of vegetables is better? I haven't sprayed any pesticides recently. Don't tell me that your vegetables are all full of wormholes."

"You'll know when you go and see it. Come along."

Chen Jiazhi pursed his lips and took Hongzhong to site No. 6.

It will take two or three minutes to get there.

Half of the bed was cleared after harvesting, with only vegetable roots and a few old leaves left.

The other half is covered by a sunshade net.

"That's it."

Hong Zhong lifted the sunshade net and was amazed when he took a look.

"Wow, this vegetable is so beautiful, you are worthy of being the vegetable farmer Chen!"

(End of this chapter)