Rebirth, Starting from 2005

Yan Xin's family has more than four acres of paddy fields and two acres of dry fields, adding up to a total of six acres and seven acres of fields.

However, the paddy field is a discounted field, because the terrain is relatively low and is often flooded, so a 40% discount is given, and only the turned-in area of ​​more than two mu is counted.

Now that there is no need to pay agricultural tax, it doesn’t matter whether there is a discount or not. When the tax was heavy, with such a discount, you can save a lot of money in a year—compared with a year’s net income.

Cotton is grown in dry fields, and rice is grown in paddy fields.

The other land is the bamboo grove behind the house, and a vegetable garden in front.

Their family lives off these lands.

Now agricultural products are worthless, even if there is no agricultural tax, they will not earn much money a year.

Yan Xin's father sometimes helps other people with work, such as picking cotton, planting rice seedlings, and harvesting rice, for twenty yuan a day.

The work is very tiring, the money is very little, and life is tight.

If you don't help other people's homes, your life will be even more difficult.

In the eighteen years since Yan Xin was born, this man suffered the death of his parents and his wife, and he had to raise Yan Xin to study for him until he finished high school.

I have no culture or skills, and I mainly rely on the few acres of land at home, and occasionally do odd jobs for others.

One can imagine the hardships of life.

It's just that the former Yan Xin didn't understand the sufferings his father had endured. He only despised his father for being useless and unable to let the family live a good life. He couldn't even get the money for his mother's medical treatment and was driven out of the hospital.

For this reason, he disliked his father, and even had some hatred.

The root cause of the rebellion that started in junior high school is also here.

It wasn't until he stepped out of the society, stumbled and walked for a few years, and realized the hardships of life, that he realized how difficult his father was.

It's just that it was too late to regret it at that time, his father had already become a lame man, and since then he has been living with illness.

Until his father died of illness, he did not enjoy his blessing.

This is something that Yan Xin felt guilty when he thought about it in his previous life, and sometimes he even wanted to slap himself twice.

He and Feng Xi were at odds, but he was always grateful to this woman because Feng Xi took care of his father in the last few years.

In his previous life, he thought that if there was an afterlife, he would treat his father well and not let his father live so hard.

Now reborn, he wishes he could do just that.

The Yan family grows rice in more than four acres of paddy fields. The father and son cannot eat that much food, and the extra food will be sold.

It is rare to plant two crops of rice in the village, and basically one crop of rice is grown.

Because the yield of early rice is not high and the price is relatively low, planting two crops of rice can earn one or two hundred yuan more per mu than planting one crop of rice, but it is much more tiring.

That is to say, the Yan family is too poor, so they live on these few acres of land, so they can only work harder and earn more money.

It is the end of June now, and in ten days or so, it will be time to harvest early rice.

After harvesting, the land has to be plowed and seedlings planted.

This is called double grabbing, and it has to be done in a hurry, otherwise the farming season will be missed.

At this time, it was the hottest time of the year, and it was quite hard work. If I was not careful, I would suffer from heat stroke.

When Yan Xin was very rebellious in the past, he had a bad relationship with his father, and would help his father in double robbing. Otherwise, relying on his father alone, he would definitely not be able to keep busy.

He suffers from heat stroke every year.

The word "double grab" was like a nightmare to him, and it was the hardest time of the year for him.

But there is no way, hard work has to be done.

What's better than before is that in the past two years, cattle have not been used for plowing the land. You can use machinery to plow the land, which can save a little trouble. Otherwise, if you borrow other people's cattle, you have to return to work.

Other villages have already begun to use harvesters to harvest rice, but I heard that the effect is not good and it will waste food, so not many people use it.

In Yan Xin's memory, it took another two or three years before rice harvesters were generally used in the village to harvest rice, and now it is still done manually.

Not to mention rice transplanting. In Yan Xin's memory, the rice transplanting in his hometown was done by hand until he was reborn.

In the evening, while eating, Yan Xin couldn't help but said to his father: "Dad, next year, don't plant two crops of rice, just one crop. There is no need to be so tired."

Yan Xin's father is only in his forties now, but he looks very old like someone in his fifties or sixties.

This is the result of overwork combined with malnutrition and chronic anxiety.

Farmers in that era generally looked much older than their urban peers.

And he looks much older than his peers in the countryside.

In the city, a man in his forties who is in full bloom, the so-called man with forty-one flowers has nothing to do with the word "old".

But in Yan Xin's eyes, his father was never young.

In the past, when the father and son were eating together, they basically did not communicate.

It was only after Yan Xin was reborn that he treated his father better, but he was not too affectionate - the father and son had been estranged for such a long time, and suddenly they were too affectionate, he couldn't do it, and his father couldn't accept it either.

In fact, when Yan Xin called him "Dad" a few days ago, his father was taken aback. He hadn't called him that in several years, and he thought it was because of Yan Xin's bad college entrance examination results.

It took a few days to get used to it.

Hearing what Yan Xin said, he knew that his son was unwilling to engage in double robbing, so why not: "However, if you grow rice for one season, your income will be much less."

Planting a season of rice, the income is only about 1,000 less, but this can already be described as "a lot" for the Yan family.

Yan Xin curled her lips: "How much less income will that mean? I'm not studying now, and I'm going to work in a while. You can't do double grabbing by yourself. It's better to plant a crop of rice to save trouble. You won't let me ask for leave to go back Let's help you do a double grab, shall we?"

Father Yan was stunned for a moment: "Are you going to work?"

"Otherwise?" Yan Xin smiled, "Are you still farming at home?"

The son who has always been lazy and rebellious actually thought of working to earn money, which made Yan's father a little surprised. At the same time, he was also a little relieved and worried - his son's rebellious personality could really survive in the outside world ?

Yan Xin looked at the roof and said:

"This house is too dilapidated. Let's save more money and try to build a new house in the next two years. Otherwise, it will collapse one day and it will be dangerous."

Speaking of this, he still felt very guilty.

In his previous life, he also went out to work after double robbing this year, but at that time he had no awareness of saving money at all, and spent as much as he had. For more than two years, he had no savings at all.

As a result, the snowstorm that year collapsed the house and caused his father to suffer so much.

When Yan's father heard his son say this, he felt a little happy, but also a little sad.

——The son has grown up, is sensible, and knows that he needs to earn money to support his family.

——But if I have the ability, how can I let an eighteen-year-old child bear these?