Rushing to the sea: I can see the prompts

Chapter 39 Digging Sweet Potatoes

Including the income from pufferfish, Zhang Yaohua's account amount is close to 50 yuan.

If you want a villa close to the sea, you have to keep working hard. Such a small amount of money is not enough!

The next day, Brother Zhang Yaohua took a nap.

"Can you eat faster?" Azhen, who was standing next to her, finally couldn't stand the speed at which Zhang Yuanhang was eating breakfast, so she resisted making a move.

These little guys always take their time eating before going to school.

To put it bluntly, I just don’t want to go to school.

Zhang Yaohua can understand. He used to think that heavy rain and typhoons were good!Only then, you don't have to go to school.He is good at studying, but he doesn't necessarily like going to school that much.

When I was in junior high school, I often thought about how it would be nice if the power was cut off during self-study at night.

At that time, the power supply was not stable and power outages were common.Unlike now, even if there is a typhoon, the power supply will still be normal.I have to say that State Grid is really awesome.

"If you have nothing to do today, help me dig sweet potatoes." Mom said to brother Zhang Yaohua.

The land in their village is not very fertile, and there are relatively few paddy fields. The dry land is mainly sandy land, and almost every household grows some sweet potatoes.

In fact, there are not as many sweet potatoes planted now as before.

In the past, in addition to humans, pigs also ate it, so we had to eat more.In addition to sweet potatoes, there are also corn and cassava.Cassava, in particular, is basically grown for pigs to eat.

Nowadays, few people raise pigs, so who grows so many sweet potatoes?

Cassava has disappeared from their village.

The main reason is that pigs cannot be raised casually in rural areas.

Zhuan Jia said that raising pigs by farmers is unhygienic and unscientific, polluting the environment and so on.

In addition, private slaughtering is now illegal.This stick completely stunned the country people.I have never heard before that it is illegal to kill your own pigs.

For example, a few years ago, someone in their town killed a pig during the Chinese New Year and was fined [-] yuan.

It was a big deal.

Since then, no one in their village has raised pigs.

If you can’t kill them, why raise them?
Zhang Yaowei: "If you ask me, don't plant sweet potatoes next year. We rarely eat them and let them rot every year."

In the past, sweet potatoes were eaten to fill the stomach, but now they are just a taste. Who can eat those things every day?Zhang Yaowei doesn't eat much. Every time he cooks sweet potatoes, he never touches them.

"If you don't eat, don't others eat? You don't grow anything, but you have to buy it when you want to eat?" my mother asked.

This guy dared to deny the fruits of her labor, wasn't he looking for scolding?

"Even if people don't eat it, chickens and ducks won't eat it?" Mom added.

Zhang Yaohua said: "Grow a little and have enough to eat. This year, let's dry some sweet potatoes!"

"Yeah! Okay." Mom nodded.

Azhen looked at the time and kicked Zhang Yuanhang out of the house, regardless of whether he had eaten enough.The primary school in the village does not need adults to send it.

If you are not available, the teacher will come to look for you. If the teacher comes to look for you in person, then the matter will be serious.

After Zhang Yaohua and the others were full, they took their tools and set off towards their sweet potato field.

Zhang Yaowei carried a rake for digging sweet potatoes, Zhang Yaohua held a snakeskin bag, rope, and pole, and his mother held a sickle.

"There are rats eating!"

As soon as he arrived at the field, Zhang Yaohua saw several exposed sweet potatoes showing signs of being eaten by rats.

"So you have to stop talking quickly." Mom said.

Once the mice have eaten, they will come back every day. Not only are they full, they will also steal back and store it.The ability of mice to store food is amazing. A diligent mouse can hide dozens of kilograms.Mom first cut the sweet potato vines along the furrow and put them aside.

When planting sweet potatoes, they must be ridged, otherwise the harvest will be much worse.

This is one of the reasons why Zhang Yaowei hates growing sweet potatoes because it takes a lot of effort to make the ridges.

"Azhen, I said you don't need to come here." Zhang Yaohua said.

"It's okay, just help pick the sweet potatoes. It's not a heavy job, how can it be so delicate?" Azhen said with a smile.

My mother agreed with this. When she was pregnant with Zhang Yaohua, didn’t she also work in the fields?I didn't take a few days off after giving birth, so I helped with farm work.

The hardest time was when I was pregnant with Zhang Yaowei, with one child in my belly and another one tied to my back.

It was easiest when I was pregnant with my daughter, because Zhang Yaohua had grown up by then and could help take care of his younger brother.

Zhang Yaowei and Lao Zhang do the heaviest work.

Mom cut the potato vines, Zhang Yaowei dug them, Zhang Yaohua and Azhen packed and bagged them, and Lao Zhang picked them home.

"Brother, wear gloves, sweet potato juice is difficult to wash off." Azhen reminded.

I almost forgot to put on the gloves that Zhang Yaohua brought.

Zhang Yaowei said while digging: "I heard that in some places in the north, sweet potatoes are used to make yams."

In his mind, yam should be Huaishan, which is the deep potato in their local mouth.Because they grow very deep underground and are difficult to dig, they are called deep potatoes.

"What's weird? There's something called taro."

Even the mother who was cutting potato vines in front turned around and was very surprised.

"Ah! What's the name of their taro?" Azhen asked in surprise.

Zhang Yaohua said with a smile: "The taro in our eyes is called woolly taro. We call potatoes potatoes, and some places call them potato. In short, the names are different in each place."

When he was in college, Zhang Yaohua had a classmate from Shandong. Once he went out to buy roasted sweet potatoes, which meant he wanted a roasted taro. Not only were Zhang Yaohua and others dumbfounded, but even his boss was stunned for a long time.

Afterwards, they asked Azhen the same question.

Sweet potatoes are called taro by you, but what about the real taro?

"Damn! There are so many red ants, I'm so annoyed." Zhang Yaowei accidentally dug up a red ant nest.

"There are more and more of these ants, and their bites are painful and itchy." My mother obviously doesn't like these ants either.

Zhang Yaohua: "Set fire later to eliminate them."

As far as he knows, red fire ants are an invasive species, to be precise, red imported fire ants, originally native to South America.

Fire ants have a mixed diet. They can eat soil-dwelling animals in the soil environment such as earthworms, as well as farmland pests. They can also eat seeds, fruits, buds, tender stems and roots of crops, affecting the growth and harvest of crops.

Therefore, when encountering such ants, do not be merciful and kill them if you can.

"When I was a kid, there didn't seem to be such ants."

Zhang Yaohua explained: "This kind of red fire ant only entered our country in the past 20 years. It did not exist before."

You will find that many invasive species come from the Americas, such as Brazilian tortoises, snails, bullfrogs, scavengers and other animals, as well as plants such as goldenrod and water hyacinth.

It must be said that America is rich in products.

In addition to invasive species, potatoes, corn, peppers, tobacco, etc. are all species over there.

Zhang Yaowei couldn't stand it, so he immediately went to get a pile of hay, put it on top of the fire ants, and lit a fire.

This method is considered to be relatively humane. Zhang Yaohua saw on the Internet that some people burned it with gasoline, exploded it with firecrackers, filled it with aluminum water, etc.There is no need to pay attention to any means when dealing with these invasive species. Only the mentally retarded will cry out for invasive species.

(End of this chapter)