Chapter 706: Terraces, rice fields, stone rolls

In the next two days, Li Tian didn’t go there either. The [Tao Talisman for Heaven] still made him feel a little uncomfortable. Although he was extremely decadent and thought of death, in essence, he was still an ordinary person. Pursue, like running freely under the sunny sky.
He really didn't like to touch such dark things.
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Fortunately, after using this terrible spell once, Li Tian's life was not disturbed.
His mood gradually eased.
He once again focused on upgrading the system. In fact, Li Tian's system was updated with two system tasks at the same time on the second day after the Tianxing Taoist incident.
That's right, two!
System tasks, random tasks, and special tasks are different.
Before level 10, the system tasks can only appear at the same time with two tasks at a time, and they are not completed and cannot be updated. It is simple at the beginning and completed quickly, and the number of updates in a week is also limited.
I'm done this week, so I have to wait for next week.
After the system level 10, it is obvious that not only a dark attribute "walking for the sky", but also the system task has also been updated. In the case that the previous 15 vegetable greenhouse tasks have not been completed, the system has been updated at the same time. 2 new tasks.
[System task 1: Task requirements, plant at least 10 acres of rice, modern, reasonable and long-term planting, from planting in spring to mature harvest in autumn to complete the task. 】
[Complete the task: reward 100,000 cash red envelopes, 1,000 draw points, and 800 experience points. 】
[The task is not completed: It will occupy 1/3 of the system task bar. 】
When Li Tian saw this task, his head was big.
The current fertile agricultural garden is very bloated. The agriculture involved ranges from vegetables to strawberries, to pigs and aquatic products. Nowadays, in addition to Guoshan, it also involves 10 mu of rice.
'God! ’
It is not difficult to grow rice, to modernize, and not to be difficult. At present, Li Tian still has more than 20 million in cash available.
The difficulty lies in the 10-mu rice field!
You know, there were people who grew rice when they were young, but now there are basically no people who grow rice. Moreover, their mountainous areas are still terraced.
It’s terraced fields, one with one storey higher than one storey. When Li Tian was a child, every family farmed. At that time, water was the most important resource. Water was drained from the large pond above and then flowed through the terraces, layer by layer down. put.
Because the climate here in Litian is not suitable for growing wheat, only rice is grown, and rice needs water to grow. Therefore, if the drought catches up with that year, farmers will have to worry about graying their hair.
Li Tian remembers the hardest year, when the drought was particularly severe.
The water in the pond is dry, so I can only dig the foundation, because they are very old ponds. There are a lot of silt in the ponds, which are all black. Because of the hot weather, the black silt is dry and cracked piece by piece.
There is no water in some wells, and there is absolutely no water for domestic use.
Every family can only divide a piece in the big pond, dig, dig a big hole, it is very deep, some can only use a ladder to go down, some water will seep inside, and sometimes God will pity the poor people. Save a little, that's how you spent that dry summer.
It was very bitter in retrospect.
When Li Tian was a child, he also played rice.
At that time, there were no machines. All were planted and harvested manually. The rice was picked by hand with a pole. Bundles of rice were picked up and dried in the sun. It must not rain at this time.
In addition to being afraid of drought, rice is also afraid of floods. If it rains too much that year, the harvest of rice will not be good.
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After the rice is dried, it is spread on the rice field.
The term rice field is now almost unknown to many rural young generations, just like white candles, kerosene lamps, matches, etc., slowly becoming history, fading out of the vision of the general public.
At that time, the rice fields did not have extravagant cement floors, but were rolled with stones on the flat soil and pressed side by side.
Nowadays, the stone mill used to grind tofu and the stone roller used to make rice are quickly fading out of public life.
There is still news now that some selfish farmers put rice, wheat and other crops on the road to dry them and let the cars to and fro crush them.
But that's a very small number. Most rice farmers have already used some small machines, and those living in the plains are happier. There are hundreds of thousands of large machines that are fully modernized and integrated for harvesting. Very convenient.
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Li Tian was not so happy when he was a child. At that time, after the rice was dried, it was spread on a very flat soil rice field. Then at this time, the buffalo that was rarely seen in the countryside appeared. It was the countryside of that era. An indispensable existence.
He is a good helper for farmers. Almost every village has several cows. The most terrifying thing is that the buffalo have to lie down in the pond in summer, and sometimes the two bulls will fight.
Cattle fights are extremely scary. When two cows fight, it is a major event in the village. Many people will gather together, not to watch the fun, but to find a way to separate the two cows.
Li Tian naturally let go of cows when he was a child. What I remember most was that he had a cow when he was a child, and other children were not allowed to ride it, but Li Tian dared to ride. When the cow was passing a cherry tree, Li Tian was hung directly on the tree because the branches were relatively short. It was very dangerous. Since then, he dared not ride the cow anymore.
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The role of the buffalo is to plow the field. At that time, there were no machines, and farming tools were put on the neck of the buffalo to plow back and forth in the rice field.
The rice is harvested and placed on the rice field. At this time, the water buffalo will be brought up. Also put on two rock rolls that are difficult for adults to move. Let the water buffalo pull the rock roll and run over the rice side by side. Finally, the rice with the husk is ground down.
The whole process is tedious and tiring.
The straw has to be and used to feed the cows in winter. It can also be used for cooking. Li Tian's family used firewood for cooking last year.
It's basically all gas now. I heard that because of the South Asian resort next door, the government has planned to connect a gas to the poor mountain valley on Li Tian's side.
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Rice hulling is also a process. In that era, Li Tian used to shake the rice blower by hand when he was a child. It was very troublesome, but it was also one of the childhood joys of that era.
Because of the underdeveloped technology of that era, the rice husks were broken together with the rice and had to be separated. The rice blower is this function. Pour the rice in from above, and then the bottom will be like an hourglass, slowly falling down. The fan here is turned manually, and the wind on the side will blow the broken rice husks. In the past, the white rice would fall.
It can’t be blown clean once, it has to be repeated several times, so it is particularly troublesome and cumbersome.
The rice husk will be kept, and some people will eat it during the famine.
When Li Tian was a child, there was no famine, because there was still broken rice in the rice husk, which could be used to feed pigs or chickens.
In short, in that era, no one dared to waste it.