Chapter 80: Family Division of Labor
"This car is still convenient!"
Lin Guodong, who has always been pragmatic, sincerely exclaimed when he saw the brand new pickup truck: "Unlike those cars, you can only pull individuals. You can't pull something. This car can pull people and things, and it has a lot of horsepower, which is just right for use!"
"Dad, you have to learn a driver's license!" Lin Hai joked with Lin Guodong, "Otherwise it would be so uncomfortable just watching others drive!"
Before we knew it, the relationship between the father and son of the Lin family had some subtle changes. Lin Guodong was no longer the image of a strict father who was stern and strict. When encountering some things, he would ask for opinions from his two sons. As for what Lin Hai and Lin Tao decided, Lin Guodong often did not make many requests to show the majesty of his father like some fathers in the village, and the relationship became much closer.
Originally, it was just a joke, but Lin Guodong nodded seriously and said, "Yes, I have to learn it. Otherwise, if you two are busy and are not around, and you have to use a car at home, would you still have to find a driver?"
Lin Hai was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Then I'll pack this up on me! When I'm free, I'll find someone to take you. The package will be passed at once!"
"No hurry, no hurry." Lin Guodong waved his hand and said, "There are still many things at home! The cotton land at home and the more than 50 acres of land wrapped by Xiao Tao, at least the poles must be knocked out, and it will take several days! You have to plow the wasteland before freezing, I am not in a hurry!"
Lin Tao had already checked the pickup truck, and after hearing what Lin Guodong said, he said, "Dad, I'll leave the pole to me and I'll do it in one day. Then I'll call my cousin and my brother-in-law, put the pole together, and let him take it back, and just feed the sheep."
"One day?" Lin Guodong looked at Lin Tao in confusion. After harvesting more than 70 acres of land in one day, this was completely unreasonable, but Lin Guodong did not refute immediately. He was waiting for Lin Tao's explanation.
"I asked my classmates to build a pole machine." Lin Tao explained: "It was driven by the small four-wheel drive and the fight was very fast. Now it's time is tight, otherwise if you use a forage baler, you don't even have to follow me and just wait to pull the grass."
"Play the rod machine?" Lin Guodong was already a little immune to Lin Tao's new creation, so he just asked: "Can it work?"
"No problem." Lin Tao pointed to the small four-wheel tractor parked in the yard and said, "Transfer it behind, and the power is adjusted, and you can hit it directly. Dad, think about it, if we plant cotton in the two or three thousand acres of wasteland, how long will it take to hit it by manual poles? These machines have appeared in some places and are very useful."
"It's fine." Lin Guodong thought about it, and then Lin Tao had thought about it so fully. He also secretly lamented that his son had learned a lot of good things in college. He suddenly remembered something and asked: "Do you have a machine for spraying medicine? If you have to plant cotton for these two thousand acres, then spraying medicine is a big job!"
Cotton planting requires preventing a variety of pests, so applying cotton to the most is the crop. Nowadays, people don’t grow much cotton, twenty or thirty acres of land. The conventional way to spray medicine is to carry a sprayer on humans. When there are high temperatures and winds in summer, there are often reports of poisoning in spraying medicine.
If you use manpower to spray medicine, it is okay to have fewer plots, but if you have more plots, you can't get it. The latest medicine spraying machine now comes with humans, but it is driven by gasoline engines and does not require people to compress the gas. It's just that the weight is much heavier than ordinary artificial sprayers and can hold more water, but it is still limited by manpower and has low efficiency.
Since Lin Tao can make a rod machine, can he also make a spray machine?
"Some." Lin Tao nodded as Lin Guodong expected, "But we can't do it now. Let's wait for next year. There are still many things before the end of this year!"
"Leave the plowing matter to me!" Lin Hai said first: "Dad and I have sorted the land in the past two days. Xiaotao, you need to prepare to plant cotton. Then we will act as soon as possible and plow the land. If we can take advantage of the water in Donggou that has not been fully loaded, we will flood the water and soak the saline-alkali land well. It will be better to plant it next year."
In 1998, most of the farming in rural areas were based on experience. The treatment methods for saline-alkali land were usually flooded and watered. Store water and soaked it well, and wash away the saline-alkali from the surface or seeped into the depths of the ground with the water. In this way, it would be better to plant the ground. However, many crops still do not grow, such as common wheat, sunflower, and not to mention corn. Such crops require good land.
However, cotton is not very picky, and it is OK to plant it directly on saline-alkali land. As long as it is supplied with water, it can still grow. It is just that it does not grow tall and does not make cotton bolts well.
In fact, in later generations, the best way to deal with it is water rinsing, which can cure the root cause. Fertilizer neutralization can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. After all, saline-alkali land usually accumulates saline-alkali for many years. How many fertilizers are needed to neutralize such a large plot?
"Brother, don't worry about plowing the land first." Lin Tao said: "We have to find a well drilling team first, dig three wells in those three plots, try to dig deeper, and then use a tractor to circle the stems around the ground, water the well, first press down the saline and alkali, and also lead the water outlet to the downstream reservoir, soak it while rinsing it, and do it for ten days and half a month, then dry it and plow it. It will be better."
"Since you have solved the problem of playing the pole, then my brother and I will do this." Lin Guodong heard Lin Tao say this and then took over the sentence: "After playing the pole, call Du Bing to pull the cotton pole away. You are busy with your own affairs, and you don't need to operate the family matters. Just tell us if you have any ideas!"
Lin Hai also nodded and agreed with his father's statement, so Lin Tao didn't say anything else.
The next day, Lin Tao pulled the rod machine back from Qin Youquan, and then called Du Bing to the ground.
Du Bing also drove a tractor, but there were racks around the bucket behind him, so that he could pull more cotton poles.
"How fast can you hit the pole machine?" Du Bing was very curious about the pole machine. "Can you hit it clean?"
Lin Tao stopped the tractor and adjusted the height of the blade of the rod-driving machine while saying, "The tractor can be driven as fast as possible. The rod that has been driven is not very neat. Don't rush to install it on the car first. You can install it after I finish a few rows. This is efficient."
Du Bing nodded and said, "Okay! More than 70 acres of land, it's great now. After two days, I have to go to the mountains and pull some more sheep back-by-By the way, that Borico gives you time to go to the mountains and say there is something to bring to you."
Lin Tao thought that Borico and the others were about to make a transition, and he should bring him something to the mountains.
The two people divided the work and cooperated, and the work of playing poles began.
Chapter completed!