The spring rain continues.

However, the farmers all looked happy. Spring rain was as expensive as oil. When crops were planted, they needed rain to nourish them. Zhang Chao wore a raincoat, a hat, and barefoot with his trousers. He walked on the ridge of the field with several crops from the Zhang family.

The seedlings grew gratifyingly, because they applied another top dressing, and the seedlings had turned green and grew very gratifyingly. Rows of straight seedlings stood straight like those soldiers.

The few cropped people were all full of joy. They were considered the foreman of the Zhang family's parents and old farmers in their fifties. Although they were not as strong as young people, the Zhang family was interested in their farming experience.

They had never planted rice before, but in fact, they had always learned to plant rice with Sanlang in the Zhang family.

Following Saburo's selection of seeds and soaking seedlings to planting seedlings, step by step, watching the original rice seeds, now growing up with turbulent growth, green and verdant, I feel very proud. Not only did they plant rice in the bathing ditch, but they also planted so well.

"It's raining well, so don't worry about losing water and saving traffic."

Zhang Chao was also very happy to be wandering in the fields.

"When the rain is over, apply some fertilizer and pull out the weeds in the fields."

When the rice seedlings grow at this time, they may have loosened the soil. However, rice is different from dryland plants, and you cannot use a hoe to loosen the soil in the fields.

There is a method of loosening the soil of rice fields in rice fields. When you walk into the field, you will take your feet to wading the ground between the rice seedlings, apply the mud several times with your feet, and step on all the growing grass into the mud, so that these grasses will not snatch the fertilizer of the seedlings, and also loosen the soil.

If you chase the fertilizer again, the seedlings will grow faster and better. In the pine fields, there is another very important thing, that is, in the rice fields, there are often barnyard grasses accompanied by the seedlings. This grass grows very similar to the seedlings, but it can always grow stronger than the seedlings. If you don’t pay attention, they will steal a lot of fertilizer and end up being higher than the seedlings, but they only produce grass seeds.

Before the seedlings grow, they have to go through at least two pine fields. This is also quite time-consuming and energy-consuming. Every inch of rice fields has to be smeared with stepping.

There are many frogs in the fields, and you can see loaches and eels from time to time, sometimes you can see some small fish and snails.

It's a very good ecology, no comparison with later generations, fertilizers and pesticides. Later, these things were no longer visible in the fields.

Zhang Chao felt that the fish he could raise in these rice fields, crucian carp or carp were good, and he could raise the fish as long as he dig a few ditches in the rice fields.

After a while, the seedlings grow taller, and the ducks from the Zhang family can be put into the fields.

However, geese cannot be put on it. The most powerful thing is to eat green, whether it is grass or rice seedlings.

But the ducks are fine, eating some insects and loaches in the fields will not hurt the rice. After the rice is grouted, don’t put it in the fields again.

When they arrived at the river below, they came towards them, but they were the brothers of Daniu Erniu.

"Big Niu, come and collect the cage again! How is the harvest?" Zhang Chao asked with a smile.

Daniu and Erniu each carried a bucket and came forward to Zhang Chao with a smile. There were fish and shrimps in the bucket, as well as loaches, mostly small fish, but there were also several crucian carp and yellow croaker that were more than three fingers wide, as well as grass carp.

Fish are the most popular activities when it rains.

When the Zhang family first built terraces, they dug many ponds on the hillside to accumulate rainwater to prepare for the time being when the rice fields need time. Now the pond is full, and when it rains, some of the fish inside will swim out.

The two big bulls weave some bamboo cages. The two big bamboo cages have pointed at the middle, leaving a hole in the middle, and placed a special funnel-like import. They put the cage in the canal and blocked it on both sides, and the import is facing downstream.

The fish can get into the hole, but once they enter, they can't get out, because the import is like a funnel, with bamboo strips crossing underneath, which does not affect when they go in, but when they want to get out, the bamboo strips are blocked.

This kind of fish cage, big fish, small fish, and even water snakes, loaches and crabs can all be locked up.

Because these bamboo cages are placed in small ditches, the middle of the cage is higher and exposed to the water surface, the fish and shrimp can also breathe oxygen after being locked up. When the cage is raised, the fish and shrimp are basically alive.

Usually, when the cage is collected, people will put the small fish and shrimps that are still alive back into the water to let them grow up.

"This must be seven or eight kilograms." Zhang Chao estimated that the two big brothers had a good harvest. They were usually weaving cages, which were placed in the evening, and collected once in the morning and evening. When you are lucky, you could collect twenty or thirty kilograms a day. Generally, you could collect ten kilograms a day.

With so many fish, of course, the big cows would not keep them all for themselves.

Now Daniu is a long-term worker in the Zhang family. He has a free status and has married seven daughters. The seven daughter is still pregnant. Daniu will stew crucian carp soup for seven daughters every day to nourish her body.

The other larger fish will be sold to the canteens of several workshops in Zhangjiagou, and sometimes to restaurants and hotels outside the village. Anyway, there is no need to worry about sales, because the fish and shrimp are very fresh.

As for those dead little fish and shrimps, as long as they have not smelled, they will take them home and then dry the fish. On rainy days, sometimes the kang will dry, and sometimes they will be directly given to the chickens and ducks raised at home.

Anyway, it won't be wasted.

Zhang Chao would not interfere with the big bull brothers who came to fish every day. Even if Erniu was still a slave of the Zhang family, he would not be too scrupulous. As long as it did not affect normal work, the Zhang family's slaves sometimes went to catch some fish and hunt, or the maids and maids did some needlework and craft some extra money, but Zhang Chao would not care.

It’s not good to be too strict. As long as they set work tasks, work time, and then the time they spend outside of work, Zhang Chao will regard it as their private time.

The big cow wanted to give the two yellow croakers to Zhang Chao. These two fish were actually yellow thorns. They had thorns on their bodies. The thorns on their bodies would make a duck-like cry, and in some places they were also called yellow duck-like cry.

This fish has no scales and is tender in meat. It is the most delicious when stewed and eaten. There are also places where it is called yellow and spicy diced.

The two fishes of Daniu and the others are quite big, each of which is more than half a pound. You can get a large bowl of yellow thorn stewed with tofu.

"You can keep it for yourself and stew it with two pieces of fresh tofu, it's absolutely delicious."

Zhang Chao walked towards the reservoir with a smile, where there was a simple floating dock built, and a small boat was tied to it.

He took a few farmhouse dealers on the boat. Zhang Chao and the others rowed the boat in the drizzle and swayed upwards. Zhang Chao also went down the cage, but it was not like the big bull and the others. He was down the cage.

A ground cage of hundreds of meters.

The ground cage is actually somewhat similar to the bamboo cages of Daniu and others, but the fishing ability is very strong. Daniu and others can only be in small canals, while Zhang Chao can throw it directly into the river and reservoir.

Although the water storage ditch is not deep, it is less than ten feet deep, there are still quite a lot of fish. In this era, there are no pollution in the water quality and there are no various fishing methods, so there are many fish.

Once the dam was blocked, the bath ditch became a reservoir. Zhang Chao called it the Whale Gow Reservoir. It has a water surface of more than ten miles. Upwards, the river surface becomes narrower and the water becomes shallow, but it is still alive.

This water can always be traced to the Lantian Mountains of the Qinling Mountains, and it is a clear and good water.

Now this water surface is unique to Zhang Chao, and the fish in the river are also his. However, he is allowed to fish just for everyone, as long as they don’t drag the net.

Others are not allowed to go online, but Zhang Chao comes online every day.

He made two 100-meter-long ground cages, which were placed every evening and came to collect them in the morning. He could collect them once in the evening, twice a day. With these two lattice cages, Zhang Chao could harvest two or three hundred kilograms of fish every day.

The Zhang family has fresh fish and shrimps every day, and can often be supplied to the workshop and canteen.

The floor cage is actually quite fun and not tired.

Several old men rowed and pulled the net, and Zhang Chao stood there today to watch the scenery.

Only a small part of the bathing ditch was developed, but it was already quite good. There were thousands of acres of rice fields on both slopes, green. Further up were the ponds and vegetable fields, which were also green. Further up, there were the newly planted trees this year.

This year, Zhangjiagou planted 2,000 acres of mulberry trees, and several nurseries were also built, including vineyards, vineyards, pear gardens, tea gardens, oil tea gardens, oil tung gardens, etc. When these nurseries are set up, there will be enough seedlings to plant the slopes.

The harvest was good in the morning, at least more than 100 kilograms.

The fish in this reservoir are incredibly simple and can be thrown anywhere, and it will always be full after a night.

There are no Futian snails that you hate, nor are there crayfish that you hate. The ones you collect include crucian carp, small white strips, yellow spicy diced rice, etc., and many small shrimps. Although these shrimps are small, they are much more delicious than crayfish.

There are still several turtles today.

Pure wild turtles, if they were later, would be hard to see, and they were quite big, and they would have to be more than three pounds per person. However, they would have to be two thousand yuan per person in later generations.

Zhao Bartou looked at the three big turtles in disgust.

"Why did I collect three shells today?"

"Forget it, I'm too lazy to lift it back." Wang Batou didn't like the turtle either.

Zhang Chao was speechless. This is a pure wild turtle. Judging from the quality of the water, it is so good. This turtle is so big. This is a good thing.

Great tonic.

Zhang Chao quickly stopped Wang Bartou who was about to throw the turtle back to the reservoir.

"Don't throw it away, this is a good thing. Take it back and stew it, but it's a big tonic."

"This turtle shell is not delicious. It's just a piece of shell and has no meat. It's still fishy when stewed."

Zhang Chao did not defend them and left three big turtles. Wang Bartou and the others still stayed on the concept that pork was only fat, and they disliked lean meat in front legs. As for the ribs, they were even more disliked.

In their eyes, the best big turtle is just a turtle shell without meat.

"Okay, put the cage and go home."

The boat was sailing across the river bank, and Zhang Chao looked at the open space, which was where he planned to build a vacation house. It had not yet been reclaimed, and it was still a wasteland, but it had been initially leveled.

After this spring rain time, the weather turns hot and everyone is free, so Zhang Chao is preparing to officially build a resort here. At present, the preliminary plan is to build 36 small courtyards for the first phase. In summer, it will definitely be very lively here!
Chapter completed!