I am a 49-year-old single stick who lives in the hilly area of southern Henan and has been wandering outside for more than 20 years. It was on the 19th of La yue in 2013 that I returned from shenzhen to my hometown that I had not returned to for 6 years.
When the train came to the county seat that day, it was already more than 5 p.m., and after I got off the train, I was anxious to find a rickshaw and take me to our passenger station.
If it wasn't for the new year, the last train that was temporarily added, I would only have to pay a hundred and ten yuan to take a taxi home.
My village was only 3 or 4 miles from the street, and it wasn't long before I reached the north end of the village.
When I walked into the village, it was only about 7 o'clock, and there were no lights and barking dogs in the village.
I walked to my door in wonder, and there was a dog barking in the yard, but the yard was pitch black.
I slapped the iron door in the aisle with my hand and shouted "Mommy."
At this time, the electric light in the yard was on, and the mother was walking, yelling not to let the dog bite again, and asking in her mouth: Who is it?
After my mother opened the door, I saw that she was much older than 6 years ago, and although she wore a hat on her head, her sideburns were all white, and her back was arched like a bag.
Before I could talk to my mother, my 7- or 8-year-old yellow dog pounced on my two front legs, its mouth tickling me with a pestle.
At this time, my mother was overjoyed and asked, "Yo, is Quanming back?" ”
I said, "Yeah, why are you very old?" mother. ”
Mom said she was 83 years old, how not to get old.
Yes, time has passed really fast, and in the blink of an eye, decades have passed, and the old man in my family is already in his 40s.
I have 3 older brothers and 2 older sisters, for a total of 6 sisters. At that time, the family was relatively poor, in order to make the eldest brother not play singles, he went to be a door-to-door son-in-law in his 20s.
The second brother was more than 20 years ago, and a wife who went to the southwest with others to get a wife, has already given birth to 2 girls and a son.
The brother is a wife he talked about when he was working outside and has two daughters.
Both sisters are already married and have a family.
Listening to my mother, I heard that the second brother and the younger brother worked outside all year round, and two years ago, like the people in the village, they bought land on the street, built 2 two-story buildings, and moved to the street, and there were only a few old men and mothers in the village.
I am the kind of blind goods that are often scolded by rural people, "impatient to do things, what to do, and what not to do." ”
After dropping out of junior high school, he followed his neighbors in the village to work on the construction team, and after several years of intermittent work, he did not save much money.
When I was in my 20s and reached the age when I was talking about marrying a wife, my father and mother were always willing to quarrel with the neighbors in the village because of some trivial things such as the seedlings in the field and the edge of the field. After a long time, neighbors have said that my parents have bullied others with their sons, and the reputation has been bad.
Mother's personality was also too strong in the past, and it is reasonable to say that the second brother had a hard time getting a daughter-in-law back from other provinces, and should cherish it well and be kind to others. But she didn't know what she was thinking, she always looked at the second sister-in-law unfavorably, quarreled with her when something was wrong, scolded people who were black and short, and didn't look like a person.
The labor rod in our family, the second sister-in-law's farm work is very busy, she does not help to set up the handle, and the children are rarely brought to her.
After a long time, the neighbors of the village are saying behind their backs that their parents are in-laws' ignorance, and in today's words, the human design has collapsed.
Even the second brother and sister-in-law have a very big opinion of their parents.
It is reasonable to say that I, as a son, should not say that my parents are not, but what my parents sometimes do is a little too much.
Seeing me grow up day by day, my parents also built 6 red brick tile houses for the three of us, but no one introduced me to the object.
The boys in the village who were about the same size as me, introduced by matchmakers, and talked outside with part-time workers, were all married and started a family, and I was still a bare stick.
So, I went to the south and also went to work in an electronics factory to see if I could talk about an object.
However, the only chance I had also messed up.
I was 28 years old at the time, there was a girl in the same production line who was 3 years younger than me, we had contact with each other for a few months, and we often went out shopping together after work, although the number of times I bought things for her, not as many times as she bought me things, but we also got along well and are developing in the direction of hot love.
One day after the night shift, I led her out shopping, just out of the factory entrance not far away, there are 4 young men who don't look like good people, walked to us, there was a curly hair taller than me, reached out to flirt with the girl, and the other three people also surrounded.
The girl cried and called out to me, "Quan Ming, save me." ”
I just thought about the past when a young fierce god glared at me viciously.
I took a few steps back in fright, and watched the girl being dragged farther and farther away by the 4 gangsters, at this time, from behind me, a co-worker pushed me and said, "Don't hurry up to save people." ”
I chased after the 4 gangsters behind the co-worker's ass.
The co-worker shouted loudly as he chased.
At this time, many people came out of the factory and chased in that direction.
The gangsters saw that there were many people, let the girl go and ran.
The girl never paid any more attention to me, but became the co-worker's girlfriend.
In the years that followed, I either felt that the salary was low, or that it was too tiring to work overtime, and sometimes I had to jump several times a year, so I didn't save much money until 2013, let alone talk about my girlfriend, and I saw that I was more than 40 years old, and I was getting closer and closer to the age of playing single sticks.
That night, when I listened to my mother's introduction of the changes in the village in recent years, I slowly had the idea of planting fields at home, and to be honest, I didn't want to run outside.
The 3 brothers did not live in the village, and there was no one around her mother to take care of her, so she, an old man in her 80s, lived alone in the old house, in case of sudden illness and death in the house, no one knew.
Therefore, in the spring of 2014, I called the second brother and the younger brother to discuss it, and then I asked for their fields and my own fields from others, a total of more than 20 acres, and began to cultivate themselves.
Because I have been working part-time and can't farm, I have no experience in farming in the first two years, except for the miscellaneous things such as seeds and fertilizers and the cost of hiring people, I only earned 10,000 yuan.
In 2018, I subcontracted more than 40 acres of land in the villager group, plus more than 60 acres of my own.
We are here in the hilly area, the fields are relatively scattered and fragmented, the water conservancy is not very good, therefore, the rent is also very cheap, the rent of 2 acres of fields is only about 150 yuan.
At that time, more and more people were farming crayfish here, and almost every village was digging fields with hook machines to change rice fields to lobster shrimp fields.
Therefore, in the spring of 2018, I also subcontracted more than 30 acres of white field to the hook machine to dig a trench to cultivate crayfish.
When the hook machine first started digging the field, someone in the village called the leader of the villagers and said that I was digging the field to raise lobsters. The leader of the villagers in his 60s knew about it and ran over to stop the hook machine on the spot.
I was not convinced, so I quarreled with the group leader, and I said: The state now advocates farmers to engage in diversified management and develop the economy, so why don't you let me dig up fields and raise shrimp.
The group leader said: You are not engaged in diversified operations, you are destroying basic farmland, this is the first-class white field in our village, and it is the best fertile land. More than 20 years ago, when the last round of land division was divided, the villagers in our villager group signed a contract: no one was allowed to dig up fields to change ponds, no to dig fields for breeding, no lotus roots were allowed to be planted in the fields, no trees were allowed, and only grain and fruits and vegetables could be planted. Even your dad has a handprint on it, you dig up a good field like a look, how will others grow crops in the future.
If you want to dig up the field to raise shrimp, first go to the soil management office to report for approval, and the villagers have signed and agreed to it before you dig the field to raise shrimp.
Finally, the leader of the group said to me in a serious voice: Quan Ming, the water in the south of our rush is particularly large, and when it rains a little, it will turn over the fields and flood the water, and it is not okay to raise things.
The old man is an old team leader who has adhered to the principle for 2 or 30 years, I saw that he had a resolute and tough attitude, and I couldn't do it when I came, so I had to temporarily stop digging.
After more than half a month, the 60-year-old team leader and another old man followed a pile machine boss to drive piles.
I took this opportunity to dig those fields into deep ditches, and the machinery cost nearly 40,000 yuan, and successively bought more than 8,000 yuan of lobster fry and put them into those shrimp fields.
Who knew that in the summer we had a heavy rain here, and the water from the east and west of the village was pooled into the field below the village, forming a flood of ploughing fields, and the fences and lobsters in my shrimp field were washed away.
At that time, I even lost 60,000 or 70,000 yuan for the 30 acres of rice that had not been planted and shrimp fry for machinery.
The year before, I subcontracted more than 20 acres of land, plus more than 80 acres of land before.
Over the years, my lobster fields have not been planted with rice, but have grown wild grasses such as wild reeds, wild artemisia and water weeds, which has become a veritable wasteland.
Coupled with the bad weather of three droughts and two droughts, the rice paddies and lobsters also lost to the sky, and the villagers said that I had ruined the best fertile land in the village.
Others plant dozens of acres of land are cultivated by husband and wife, they have their own rotary cultivators, seeders and rice transplanters and other machinery, and a large grain grower in the village also buys a harvester.
And I planted these 10 years of the field are all cultivated by myself, there is no machinery, all of them are paid for other rotary cultivators, harvesters, ploughing and harvesting, planting seedlings are all artificially planted, last year's drought, rice and corn are basically dry to death, tired to death did not earn money.
Mom is 89 years old and can't help me with anything. I was alone in the slope and out of the slope, and I had to do everything I needed to do everything, and my tired bones were like loose racks every day.
People in their 40s have gray hair and fall out, they have no strength to walk, and people in the village say that I am old like a little old man, and they all say that if I grind like this for a few more years, I will live at least 10 years less.
It is said that I work outside all year round, and if I do a good job, I can earn 30,000 or 50,000 a year.
The day before yesterday, I heard some villagers say: I have planted all the good fields and good land in the village over the years, and it hurts people to look at them. He said that the group leader was contacting the big farmer in the village and was ready to take back the land that I had subcontracted to others to let the big grain grower plant.
The couple of the big grain growers are only in their early 40s, and they can earn 100,000 and 200,000 yuan a year from farming. His company planted hundreds of acres of land. He has rotary cultivators, planters, harvesters, rice transplanters and other machinery, and last year the government subsidized him with a grain dryer, and there are only 3 in an administrative village, including one of his.
Most of the land I subcontracted from others was subcontracted over by others, and I did not even have a contract for land circulation, so I did not know what the future would be like.
Alas, I am also a year old, a bare stick almost 50 years old to plant so many fields, no help, no machinery, people are not only tired to death, but also very expensive. It may be a relief for me that the field was actually taken back and planted for the grower who had the ability to grow.
I summarize the reasons why I don't make money farming as follows
1. There is no one to help the farming, a person fights alone, seriously overdrafts his physical strength, and makes himself exhausted.
2. A person plants too many fields, and there is no variety of farming machinery, all rely on the machines and labor of others, the cost is too large, in the words of the people, "in addition to the house money, there is no gang money." ”
3. Now the government has a variety of preferential subsidy policies for large grain growers, if you want to make money from farming, one must have someone to help you, the second must have large-scale planting, and the third must have a variety of agricultural machinery, so that larger scale farming can make money.
Finally, to tell you the truth, my main purpose in farming at home is to take care of my 8 or 90 years old mother.