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Chapter 4 Father

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

However, paddy fields are discounted fields. Because the terrain is relatively low and often flooded, a 40% discount was applied, and only a little over two acres of land was counted.

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

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

The other land is about half a dozen acres of bamboo forest behind the house, and a vegetable garden in front.

Their family lives on these lands.

Agricultural products are not valuable now. Even if there is no agricultural tax, we will not make much money in a year.

Yan Xin's father would sometimes help others with work, such as picking cotton, transplanting rice seedlings, harvesting rice, etc., for about twenty yuan a day.

Life was tiring, money was little, and life was tight.

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

In the eighteen years after Yan Xin was born, this man suffered the death of his parents and his wife. He also raised Yan Xin and provided him with education until he finished high school.

He has little education and no skills. He mainly relies on the few acres of land at home and occasionally does odd jobs for others.

One can imagine how difficult the life is.

It's just that Yan Xin didn't understand the suffering his father endured in the past. He only despised his father for being useless and unable to let the family live a good life. He couldn't even pay for his mother's medical treatment, so he was kicked out of the hospital.

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

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

It wasn't until he stepped out of society and stumbled around for a few years that he realized how difficult life was, and how difficult it was for his father back then.

It was just that it was too late to regret it at that time. His father had become a cripple, and he had been living with illness for the rest of his life.

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

This is something that Yan Xin felt guilty whenever he thought about it in his previous life. Sometimes he even wanted to slap himself twice.

He and Feng Xi were not on good terms, but he had always been grateful to this woman because Feng Xi had taken care of his father in the last few years.

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

Now reborn, he hopes he can do this.

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

There are very few people in the village who grow two-crop rice anymore, and they basically grow one-crop rice.

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

That is to say, the Yan family is too poor and lives on these few acres of land. They can only work hard to make more money while being tired.

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

After harvesting, the land must be plowed and the seedlings planted.

This is called double grabbing, and you have to do it in a hurry, otherwise you will miss the farming season.

This time of year is also the hottest time of the year, so it is quite hard, and you may get heat stroke if you are not careful.

In the past, when Yan Xin was very rebellious and had a bad relationship with his father, he would also help his father with double robberies. Otherwise, his father would never be able to do it alone.

Every year he would suffer from heat stroke during double raids.

The word "double robbery" is like a nightmare to him. It is the most difficult time of the year for him.

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

What's better than before is that in the past two years, we no longer need oxen to plow the land. We can use machinery to plow the land, which saves a lot of work. Otherwise, if we borrow other people's oxen, we have to work again. One and a half laborers can equal the labor of one oxen.

Other villages have started to use harvesters to harvest rice, but I heard that the effect is not good and will ruin the grain, so not many people use it.

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

Not to mention transplanting rice seedlings. In Yan Xin’s memory, until he was reborn in his hometown, rice transplanting was done purely manually.

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

Yan Xin's father is only in his forties now, but he looks like a man in his fifties or sixties, making him look very old.

This is caused by overwork, malnutrition and chronic anxiety.

Farmers of that era generally looked much older than their counterparts in cities.

And he looks much older than his peers in rural areas.

In the city, when a man is in his forties and in his prime, the so-called "forty-one flowers" of a man has nothing to do with the word "old".

But in Yan Xin's eyes, his father has never been younger.

In the past, when father and son had dinner together, they basically had no communication.

It was only after Yan Xin was reborn that he had a better attitude towards his father, 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 shocked. He hadn't called him that way for several years, and he thought it was because Yan Xin was irritated by his poor college entrance examination results.

It took me a few days to get used to it.

Hearing what Yan Xin said, he knew that his son was unwilling to engage in double robbery, so he said, "But if you grow rice for one season, your income will be much less."

After planting one season of rice, the income is only about one thousand less, but for the Yan family, this can be described as "a lot".

Yan Xin curled his lips and said, "How much income will be lost? I'm not studying now, and I'm going to work part-time in a while. You can't do it by yourself, so it's better to plant a season of rice to save trouble. You won't let me ask for leave."

Come and help you with the double robbery?"

Yan's father was stunned for a moment: "You want to go work?"

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

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

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Yan Xin looked at the roof and said:

"This house is too dilapidated. We have to save more money and try to build a new house in the next two years. Otherwise, it will be dangerous if it collapses one day."

Speaking of this, he still felt quite guilty inside.

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

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

When Yan's father heard what his son said, he felt a little happy and a little sad.

——My son has grown up, become sensible, and knows that he has to earn money to support the family.

——But if I have the ability, why would I let an eighteen-year-old child take on this?

(End of chapter)