Reborn with the Infinite World Panel-Chapter 138 - 137: Farming 1

The remaining six guests are in different places.

Lan Jin is holding a hoe, which has been introduced before, but some changes to the hoe were discussed this time.

Tao Zilu is holding a sickle, which has also been featured on the show before, and mentioned the changes to the sickle now.

The four guest stars are in the courtyard of a household, with Zhang Gang and Tao Zilu holding flails for threshing rapeseed.

This rapeseed is a new species that can be harvested in March, as well as the old species which is harvested in late April to May.

Nan Chu is holding a sieve, which is mainly used for sorting particles or materials of different sizes. By using sieves with different mesh sizes, it can separate particles of different sizes from mixtures, such as screening dust, grass tips, crop seeds, etc.

Song Xiaomin is holding a dustpan, which is mainly used for winnowing grains and collecting garbage, focusing on removing impurities through shaking and bouncing.

The four of them are working very diligently, this isn’t just a short filming segment.

They have to thresh all the harvested rapeseed.

By the time it’s busy until eleven, Lan Jin and Song Xiaomin start cooking.

This variety show is filmed over two days, and the meals are prepared by themselves. They have already drawn lots to pair up for cooking.

Nan Chu and Wang Liuxi, Qiu Maosen and Tao Zilu, Zhang Gang and Shi Shang.

Lan Jin and Song Xiaomin are cooking using a traditional clay stove.

Lan Jin has experience using a clay stove, so he starts the fire, letting Song Xiaomin tend to it, and then begins to boil water and wash rice to cook.

The steaming is also done with a wooden steamer.

This was widely used in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Chongqing before, while in the north more often a big iron pot was used.

The crew intended to help modern children understand how the older generation lived, so they let the guests use traditional tools for cooking.

Nowadays, most cooking uses electricity, natural gas, solar energy, etc., such traditional clay stoves are rarely seen.

Once Lan Jin and Song Xiaomin finish cooking, Nan Chu and the others return to eat.

Lan Jin and Song Xiaomin made five dishes and one soup.

Qiu Maosen: [This amount of food is definitely not enough, we’ve been working all morning, going to starve.]

Zhang Gang: [Why are there so many vegetables, not much meat. Feels like the meat’s gone after a few chopsticks.]

"Everyone serve yourselves, there’s plenty of rice." Lan Jin considered that there are six big men, their food intake is not small, so he cooked plenty of rice, fearing they wouldn’t be full.

If they’re not full, they won’t have much energy for work in the afternoon.

Though the show filming has breaks, the crew won’t provide food for the guests.

Moreover, the farming show doesn’t allow assistants, and they’re filming in the countryside, can’t even order takeout if they wanted to.

As it begins, Lan Jin and the four regular guests serve food quickly.

A plate of twice-cooked pork is gone halfway in an instant.

Qiu Maosen and Zhang Gang reached for the twice-cooked pork but didn’t get many pieces.

Nan Chu and Song Xiaomin were taking the vegetable dishes, the big pot of rice and dishes were all eaten up by the eight of them.

After lunch, everyone rested for an hour before continuing filming.

Nan Chu and the others switched tasks, learning together with a 66-year-old grandpa how to sow grains.

After learning for over forty minutes, they pretty much got it, and once learned, they split into pairs as per the cooking groups.

The group that sows the most and best gets a special dinner provided by the villagers.

Nan Chu and Wang Xiliu began sowing seeds.

With Nan Chu, their group finished sowing the seeds first, and after finishing, they started inserting bamboo sticks, laying plastic film over the curved bamboo.

This film is to keep the seeds warm, so they can germinate better. Once the seedlings grow to five to six centimeters, the film needs to be lifted.

Nan Chu and Wang Xiliu sowed five rows, other groups sowed two.

Nan Chu and their speed was also the best, thus earning the specially prepared dinner from the villagers.

Dinner was cauliflower with smoked meat, cold chrysanthemum greens salad, small chili peppers stir-fried with meat, and twice-cooked pork.

Four dishes, three of which are meat.

Nan Chu and Wang Xiliu didn’t hog the food but shared it with the other six guests.

After dinner, they went to chat with the villagers and learn paper-cutting.

While learning, the elder villagers shared stories of their past life.

There was an old lady who, because of poverty, only ate sweet potatoes every day, and now in her old age, doesn’t like sweet potatoes at all.

She got sick of them as a child.

She also mentioned that not many young people nowadays know how to farm, and in the future, maybe no young people will return to the countryside to farm.

Her son and daughter have both settled and work in the city.

The son and daughter know a little, but her grandchildren don’t know a thing.

When they come to the countryside, they can’t tell wheat from scallions.

Not to mention recognize other vegetables.

Amidst the elder villagers’ tales, Nan Chu and the others learned paper-cutting.

After cutting, they pasted their paper cuts on the windows.

Filming for the day concluded.

After, Nan Chu and the others went to stay at a villager’s house in the village.

This villager is an old lady, whose son is a big boss in the building materials business.

Her son spent a million to build a house for her here in the countryside, a three-story villa.

The crew paid rent and arranged for the guests to stay in rooms there.

This house has bathrooms in each room, so the guests can wash at their leisure.

After washing up, Nan Chu called Si Junyan and talked about the day’s filming while Si Junyan also shared his work, chatting for an hour and a half before they hung up and Nan Chu went to rest.

The next morning, as dawn broke, Nan Chu got up.

When she got up, the house owner, the old lady, was already up and had prepared breakfast for the eight guests.

Nan Chu quickly went to help set the table.

When the others got up, they saw a table full of breakfast.

The guests promptly thanked the old lady and Nan Chu, happily enjoying breakfast thereafter.

Today, they were going to plant corn in the fields, divided into two groups of four.

Nan Chu, Wang Liuxi, Qiu Maosen, Tao Zilu were one group.

Zhang Gang, Shi Shang, Lan Jin, Song Xiaomin were another group.

The two groups experienced different planting methods.

Nan Chu’s group experienced sowing, while Zhang Gang’s group was planting.

Wang Xiliu suggested, "Nan Chu and Tao Zilu, you two ladies throw the corn seeds, while Qiu Maosen and I use hoes to dig holes and cover the seeds with soil."

Nan Chu said, "I’ll dig the holes and cover the seeds, let Qiu Maosen throw the seeds. Didn’t you twist your back a bit yesterday? The work of digging, covering with soil is heavier, let me do it."

Qiu Maosen didn’t expect that when he casually mentioned it during paper-cutting yesterday, Nan Chu remembered it, which moved him quite a bit.

"Thank you."

"No need to be polite."

Then the four of them started sowing corn.

Meanwhile, Zhang Gang’s group had a heavier task.

They had to dig holes, pour manure, apply fertilizer, and wait for it to dry before planting cornmeal.