After walking along the path for about ten minutes, the group of three people came to a farmland with a very wide view. Standing on the ridges and looking up, the green farmlands here are connected together. When the breeze blows, the green waves composed of seedlings fluctuate with the wind, which looks quite spectacular.

In the breeze, the green seedlings swayed in the spring breeze, a few butterflies danced over the farmland, some unknown small wild flowers filled the fields, and the colorful flowers bloomed. They were like a beautiful scroll, slowly stretching in front of Zhang Ran.

"Oh, there are so many grasses growing in the fields! It's going to be trouble now!"

"Uh" Zhang Ran, immersed in the spring breeze, was suddenly disturbed by a burst of exclamations. He frowned and looked in the sound, and found that it was his sister Zhang Sui'er who made the sound.

At this moment, Zhang Sui'er was wearing a bitter face, staring at the green field in front of her, and her small face was actually covered with a little sorrow...

Sui'er grabbed the handle of the stone hoe and looked at the field in the distance and sighed: "When will it take to clean up so many weeds?"

"Aran, what's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable again?"

Just as Zhang Ran was slightly stunned, a gentle word rang out in Zhang Ran's ears, and then a cold and soft hand touched Zhang Ran's forehead.

"My mother, I'm fine! Let's go, it's getting late, let's go to the field to work!" After struggling slightly, Zhang Ran pushed away his mother's palm, shook his head, then raised the hoe in his hand and signaled like his mother.

Zhang Li observed Zhang Ran with confusion and found that his son's face did not seem to be too bad. So he felt relieved and told him softly: "Okay, Ran'er, if you feel uncomfortable, you must tell my mother early! Don't show off and be exhausted!"

"I understand, mother!" Zhang Ran nodded slightly and replied.

When he followed his mother and sister Suier with a hoe, he walked into his own field. Only then did Zhang Ran realize that his sister's sighing look just now was really not a funny thing to pretend to be a joke!

When he walked closer, especially after seeing the scene in the field, even though Zhang Ran was already prepared, he couldn't help but feel trembling!

It's so miserable! Is this really farmland?

In the lush greenery, Zhang Ran stared at her eyes and tried hard to find it. He worked so hard, but he still couldn't tell which tree was a seedling or a weed. He just felt that his eyes were green, as if there was no crop at all!

Unwilling to give up, Zhang Ran reached out and pulled open the weeds in front of him, and carefully identified the grass one by one. Only then did he finally find the figure of the seedlings surrounded by weeds.

The seedlings that appeared in front of Zhang Ran were only about ten centimeters tall, and they could only be described as cold and cowardly. Under the invasion of weeds, they not only grew shorter, but most of the leaves also appeared tender yellow. This is obviously because the seedlings were robbed of living space by the surrounding weeds and lacked nutrients and light.

In this case, if these weeds are not processed in time and eradicated, the seedlings will soon wither due to lack of sunlight and nutrients. By then, the Zhang Ran family will probably have no grains this year.

Moreover, what's worse, given the current damage to the seedlings, even if Zhang Ran's family can eliminate all the weeds that hinder the growth of seedlings in time, it will inevitably lead to a reduction in production this year.

My family is already very poor, and it is all about this little land harvest to make a living. If the yield is reduced, then... when Zhang Ran thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a little heavy.

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Ran asked his mother, Zhang Li, and said, "Mother, our seedlings don't seem to grow very well? Shouldn't they reduce their production this year?"

"Well, judging from the current situation, you probably need to collect a lot of food!"

When he spoke, Zhang Li also frowned and looked a little embarrassed. Zhang Li knew very well that if the ten acres of irrigated fields (irrigated land) by the river reduced their yields, it would not be a matter of less food.

There are only a dozen acres of land in my family, all of which are used to grow millet. The millet grown is also used for food by itself. It is used to sell money and pay taxes to the government. Once the pellets are not collected or the amount is less collected, it is an unbearable thing for my family. If it is not done well, the entire family will encounter serious difficulties.

However, despite the worry in his heart, Zhang Li still comforted Zhang Ran and said, "Cross less, just harvest less! It's not a problem. Anyway, our family has more than 30 acres of land, in addition to the more than ten acres of irrigated fields by the river, there are also more than 20 acres of dry land and mountain fields with many beans (general name for beans). The bean seedlings are both drought-resistant and insect-resistant, so they should be fine. Together, they can also feed a lot of grain and will not go hungry."

"Oh" Zhang Ran felt much more relieved when he heard that his family had more than 20 acres of beans to plant, so he was much easier to serve than these seedlings. Even if there were a little weed, it would not be a problem. It's amazing to eat less millet porridge in the future and eat more bean soup.

......

Because he had not taken care of for a long time, there were a lot of weeds in the field, so after a few chats between Zhang Ran and his son, they started working in the fields under the leadership of Zhang Li.

Just as soon as he got off the ground, the gap between Zhang Ran and the three of them immediately appeared.

My mother, Zhang Li, was fine. She was always in charge of farm work, so she was weeding very quickly. A stone hoe that didn't look sharp did not appear to be dull in her hands. Every time she waved her arm, she could accurately remove the weeds around the seedlings without hurting them at all.

Even her younger sister, who is only ten years old, is very good at doing farm work, and is only a little slower than Zhang Li's.

Poor Zhang Ran, although he grew up in the countryside in his previous life, this is the first time he did a farm work like weeding in his life.

Although farmland in later generations is called farmland now, there are great differences between them, whether they are planted crops or management during the planting period.

Because later farmlands have basically been widely used in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Every year, after spraying the herbicides before the seeds germinate, all kinds of weeds will die in just a few days.

When the seeds germinate later, they grow into wheat seedlings or corn seedlings (north), there are very few weeds. Even if there are occasional residual weeds, it is basically difficult to affect the growth of crops.

Therefore, there is no need to remove weeds by yourself, just apply fertilizer, irrigate, and spray pesticides on time.

Although Zhang Ran also has many memories of "original" working in the fields, it was Zhang Ran himself for the first time, so when he did the work, he seemed extremely clumsy in all kinds of movements.

In order to cover up his clumsy movements and avoid the sight of his mother Zhang Li, Zhang Ran deliberately slowed down the weeding speed a lot (actually not fast). In this way, he quickly fell behind several positions of Zhang Li's mother and daughter, and was left far behind by the two of them.

At the same time, Zhang Ran quietly stared at Zhang Li's every move, tried to imitate her movements, and tried to adjust her posture to learn how to weed...

Occasionally, when Zhang Li turned around, he also saw Zhang Ran's clumsy and incongruous appearance when weeding. However, Zhang Li did not take this seriously for the time being, thinking that it was caused by Zhang Ran's serious illness and his body was still very weak.
Chapter completed!