"That's the reason. I'm afraid that people only see the few years when our family has been successful in farming and don't see the unsuccessful ones before, so they think it's easy." Ye Yuran said, "Even my daughters-in-law talk about it.

When I was young, I kept forgetting the hard days in the past, making the good days now seem like I picked them up for nothing. How can I pick them up for free? I have been carefully serving them and getting through them step by step."

"That's how young people are, they forget the sweetness as soon as it comes."

"I'm afraid that I will get carried away and things that could have been avoided cannot be avoided. Then my suffering will really be in vain."

…

The three of them were talking very lively.

Old man Zhu was busy in the fields, but when he looked up and saw his old lady chatting happily with others, he became unhappy and hurried up after washing his feet.

And he didn't come alone. He also called Mr. Zhu and Mrs. Zhu over, making it seem like he wasn't coming alone.

Of course, he didn't doubt that Ye Yuran had anything to do with the family leader and the clan leader. He was just afraid that the three of them would talk about "business", so he left him alone.

When the patriarch saw old man Zhu coming, he asked him with a smile: "Why did you go to the ground yourself? You have so many sons, just let them be busy. Why do you need to go down to help?"

"I'm just a hard worker. I'm okay if I rest for a while, but I feel bad all over my body when I rest." Last year, Mr. Zhu fell down, and his family stopped letting him go to the ground. As a result, he felt uncomfortable that year.

There was a new addition to the family this year, and the son would stop doing it if he tried to stop him. He would have to go to the fields to do it.

Even if he doesn't do much, he has done it.

He also yelled: "How old am I, why can't I go to the ground? Didn't you see that your uncle Zhu Jia is two years older than me, and he still goes to the ground?"

The patriarch smiled and said: "We farmers, who are not hard-working, can't live without us in this life. Whenever we leave him, it's like something is missing. Nothing is right."

By the way, he also praised Old Man Zhu's sons. Those who can study, those who know how to farm, and they also do a lot of part-time jobs for the villagers to supplement the family income. Each one is more capable than the other, which makes people extremely enviable.

Old man Zhu was happy when he heard people praise him, but he still said: "Well, their mother is the only one who has strict control. If they don't live up to expectations, their mother will take care of them again..."

"Hahahahaha... It seems like only Aunt Zhu's credit is due and not yours." Li Zheng laughed and said, "What's Aunt Zhu's belongs to Aunt Zhu, and what's yours is yours. A cane cannot make a boat.

You have so many sons in your family, but without the hard work of both of you, this son would not be as promising as he is now."

When they were "praising" Old Man Zhu, Ye Yuran just raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

This is the tragedy of women. No matter how much you contribute to the family, in the eyes of outsiders, the backbone of the family is still the man, and the man who has contributed the most is the man.

Even though Ye Yuran is usually very capable and upright, the clan leader will always come to her if something happens, but if you really want to talk about it, which one of them is not praising Old Man Zhu?

The awkward psychology of men is really...

The four seasons are distinct at the foot of Taidang Mountain. March to May is the season for rice sowing, and a sweet potato is inserted into this season. Which one comes first and which one comes last depends entirely on the arrangements of each company.

However, Zhujia Village is different. Whether it is paddy fields or sweet potatoes, they are basically organized by Li Zheng, the clan leader, and then the Zhu family takes the lead and leads them together, so they have already planned to plant them from the beginning of spring.

In January, before rice breeding, the sweet potato seedlings were raised first, and then they continued to clean up the paddy fields.

The first thing to be sorted out is the rice field used to raise seedlings, because it was already planted last year, and this year it is just a matter of changing one end of the field to the other, which is easy and does not require much effort.

But for this paddy field, because most of it was still dry land last year, they had to put in a lot of effort.

During this period, people had to be dispatched to do the "retting". Although preparations had been made last autumn, we still had to check and check again, and then find ways to retting it a little more.

This farmyard fertilizer is never enough for them. They wish they could get more of it and fertilize the land more. Whether it is paddy field or sweet potato field, if it is really tidied up, the most indispensable thing is this "fertilizer".

But there are only so many animals and people at home, and no matter how much we save in a year, we can't save much. In previous years, there were incidents of "stealing" fertilizer from other people's farms.

There are also conflicts over this matter in every village. You stole my family's fertilizer, and I picked up your family's fertilizer.

Since the Zhu family invented "retting", such things have been avoided to a certain extent, only "a little". Whichever company retting a lot of fertilizers and retting it well will easily attract people's attention and make people jealous.

No, after Zhu Da picked out the retting fertilizer with his front feet, someone got sore on his back feet: "Why do I think the retting fertilizer from Old Man Zhu's house is better than ours?"

The man next to him rolled his eyes at him: "Isn't this normal? Their family originally taught us this fermentation. They have a lot of experience, so it's normal to make it better..."

"Do you think they are hiding something secret?"

The man: "..."

I was too lazy to pay attention to him, finished my things, and left.

But what he didn't expect was that as soon as he walked away, the man in front of him actually exchanged his own manure for Old Man Zhu's.

Zhu Da and Zhu Er took turns picking the retting fertilizer. At first they didn't think anything was wrong, but as they continued to pick it up, Zhu Si, who was responsible for spreading the fertilizer on the fields, muttered: "Brother, have you dug it again?"

Is there a piece of retting? Didn’t my mother say that if you want to use it, just use a piece of land, don’t trade it back and forth, if it has been opened, the retting effect will not be as good..."

What he means is that the kind that is retted half way through is not as good as the kind that is retted from beginning to end.

Although the retting was not sealed in a single package and was not opened and turned over in the middle, it was all done with a "plan" and it was not like digging it up casually as if it were to be used now.

"What? It's always been the same piece, we haven't changed it," Zhu Da said.

"You haven't changed it? Then why is the color wrong?" Zhu Si happened to have some left, so he grabbed a handful and showed it to Zhu Da.

Although they are all retting fertilizers, the retting materials are different. The smell, color, and texture of the retting fertilizers are somewhat different. People who often do farm work are often exposed to these things, and they will know what their own retting fertilizers look like as soon as they get started.

Zhu Da and Zhu Er were just picking and didn't pay attention. When Zhu Si picked it out like this, they realized that something was wrong: "Isn't it right? A piece of retting fertilizer can produce two colors?"

Of course they didn't believe it, so the two brothers deliberately returned some time early to catch the man who was secretly exchanging fertilizer.

"Zhu Sijiao, you are sick, why don't you change the fertilizer?!" Mr. Zhu was so tall and strong, he grabbed Zhu Sijiao's collar and became angry.

Their retting took a lot of effort, and they even reserved the old retting from previous years as a starter. It took more than half a year to get it to this state.
Chapter completed!