vstars Chapter 314 Start of Construction
Chapter 314 Start of Construction
It's time to go back to work, and the alarm clock that hasn't been used for a long time is finally useful again.
Nowadays we are not rushing to harvest, we just need to plow and prepare the land. We don’t have to work very early like in the autumn harvest, and the gathering time in the morning is more than an hour later.
In the morning, after the alarm clock outside rang, Liu Jingxue was awakened by Tuanzi.
After washing up and making herself some shredded pork noodles, Liu Jingxue slipped out of the space after eating.
It is not the busy farming season now, and the villagers all go home for lunch, so there is no need to prepare lunch in the morning and bring it to the fields.
In addition, Liu Jingxue only planned to work half a day, so there was no need to bring lunch.
After leaving the space and putting on equipment for going to the field, such as a water bottle, towel, gloves and a sun hat, Liu Jingxue picked up a hoe and walked towards the drying dam.
At this time, the whistle for work was blown for the second time.
Liu Jingxue came to the drying dam and found the gathering place of the fourth production team members.
They worked together for twenty days last year. Although they were not in the same job, they were in the same area and Liu Jingxue had become familiar with them.
Liu Jingxue asked the familiar aunt beside her, "Aunt, what are we going to do in the next few days?"
“The first thing is to plow the soil, dig the soil, and clear away the stubble of sorghum and corn left over from last year.
Next, spread the manure and inject base fertilizer into the soil.
Then comes the land preparation, leveling the soil, making ridges and ditches.
Finally, water the plants to allow the soil to fully absorb the water.
The next step is planting.”
At this time, someone nearby added, "Before planting, some crops still need to be raised as seedlings.
However, these tasks will be handled by experienced farmers, and we will only be responsible for planting when the time comes."
Liu Jingxue nodded. She knew how to grow seedlings.
If you read novels in modern times, it is written in the novels that when planting rice, you must first soak the seeds in water and wait until they sprout before sowing them in the rice fields.
When the seedlings grow up, they can be planted in paddy fields by transplanting.
Thinking of the large field of the production team that she had seen before, Liu Jingxue asked, "Were all those fields turned over manually with hoes?"
"Most of it was turned over with a hoe, after all, our production team only had one cow.
If we have to wait for the cows to turn the fields, either the cows will be exhausted to death or the sowing time will be delayed.
But now it’s different. We now have six cows, three big and three small. Although the three calves cannot go to the fields now, the three big ones can be of great use.
We can turn over less land in the future."
“You haven’t told me about the tractor our village is going to buy.
If we buy a tractor, drag a special tillage tool, and make two trips back and forth on the field, we can finish the tillage in a short time using it, which would take us a day.
It saves us a lot of trouble."
A team member nearby said with longing, "It would be great if our production team could buy a few more tractors."
"Come on, that thing is not cheap, one costs more than a thousand yuan.
It took us several years to produce just one tractor, so how could we possibly get several tractors?
Besides, that thing uses diesel. Diesel is not cheap, and you need a ticket. Our production team can't get that much diesel to supply a few tractors." A team member poured cold water on it.
"Why are you so stubborn? Can't I even think about it?"
"You'd better go to bed, you can dream about anything.
Besides, the tractor only helps to turn the soil, and we still have to do the rest ourselves."
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Liu Jingxue hurried to smooth things over.
“It’s better to have a dream than to have no dream at all.
Our lives are getting better and better, and maybe in the future the production team will really be able to have several tractors.
Not only are there tractors, but there might also be harvesters to help harvest crops.”
When the people around heard Liu Jingxue say this, they all laughed.
"Liu Zhiqing, you are thinking too well.
Why not just use machines for everything from sowing, fertilizing, watering to harvesting, instead of manual labor?
Then we country folk don’t have to work in the fields anymore, we just need to learn how to operate these machines.”
Liu Jingxue thought to herself, then you don’t know, everything I said will be realized in a few decades.
The Great Northern Wilderness in the Northeast became the granary of later generations, and the endless fields were all cultivated mechanized.
It would definitely be impossible to do it if we really rely on human power.
They chatted for a while, and then the team leader, Secretary Xu and other village cadres on the high platform came over with the leaders of four production teams.
I guess after the small meeting, tasks were assigned to each production team.
The team leader was never one to procrastinate, and after simply speaking a few words to encourage everyone to work harder, he announced the disbandment of the group, asking everyone to follow their respective team leaders to go to today's mission site.
The task for the next few days was to plow the soil. The team leader simply divided the land to be plowed into four parts, with each production team responsible for a part. In this way, there was no need to assign tasks in the next few days.
Because Zhang Pingan and Liu Jingxue from the fourth team were turning the soil for the first time, team leader Li Jun brought his team members to the mission site and assigned Aunt Sufen and another male team member to teach Liu Jingxue and Zhang Pingan respectively.
Aunt Sufen carefully taught Liu Jingxue how to hold the hoe, how to stand, and how to use force, and then let her try it several times.
"Xiaoxue, this first round of turning the soil is actually pure physical work, which is not difficult for you.
Just be careful not to hurt yourself when turning the soil, and make sure the turning depth meets the standard.
If you come across weeds, rocks, or stubble from last season’s crops, just pick them out and throw them away.”
"Aunt Sufen, how deep do we usually turn the soil?"
"For the land we are responsible for now, you only need to turn it 30 centimeters deep."
After successfully learning the skills, Liu Jingxue found the team leader and asked him to allocate a ten-centimeter piece of land to her.
It is not the autumn harvest now, so no matter how much she works, she will only get ten work points. Liu Jingxue has no plan to work more, just to get the full ten work points.
She had tried it just now. Turning the soil was very simple for her, but sometimes it took some effort to bend down and clear the weeds.
However, for me who has a space cheat, I don’t need to bend down to clean up those things. After turning them out, I can just put them into the space with a thought.
As for whether others would see her putting things into the space, Liu Jingxue said there was no need to worry about it.
Firstly, the area that each person is responsible for is a certain distance away from other people. In addition, there is the turned-over soil blocking the view, so others cannot see whether there are any grass roots or something in the turned-over soil.
Besides, everyone is busy working, so they don’t have the time to pay attention to whether others are bending down to pick up things.
When things are put into the space, they will disappear directly on the spot. There will be no situation where things fly into the air and then disappear, and no one can see it at all.
Well, just bending down to pick something up occasionally is enough to hide it from other people's eyes and ears.
Besides, if someone really thought her spiritual sense was just for show, she wouldn't be able to detect whether others had noticed her or not.
At worst, when someone is paying attention to her, she will just not put things into the space.
With the help of spiritual power, divine consciousness, and space, as well as the assistance of divine power, after Liu Jingxue deliberately slowed down her pace, at around 11 noon, she had finished completing the ten-centimeter task area that she had received today.
After calling the team leader and checking the work, Liu Jingxue received ten work points and completed her task for the day.
After the team leader recorded her work points and announced that she could go home and would not have to work again today, Liu Jingxue carried her hoe and walked back slowly.