As soon as the sixteenth day of the first lunar month dawned, Youyou was called up by her grandmother to run Bailing. The proverb: "On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, you will not get sick for a year", which fully reflects people's good wishes for health and longevity.

The three brothers and sisters followed behind their grandfather and grandmother, first ran to the old well at the head of the village, circled the well three times, and threw a stump into the well, saying that it would not hurt their eyes for a year.

Running Bailing to the north, on the north-south road in the west of the village, groups of villagers went all the way to the north, and bent down from time to time to pick up firewood.

On the way, occasionally there was a small silver dollar (coin) of 1 or 2 cents, and my grandmother told me not to pick it up, saying that it was thrown by people with chronic diseases to sell sick money, and whoever picked up the money and sold it to whomever the disease was sold.

It was the first time for Yoyo to go to the north of the village, and at a glance, there were sparse wheat growing on the square and flat land. Willow trees are planted on both sides of the road, and there is a long causeway more than 3 meters high in the north of the village, which is connected with the Yellow River embankment in the east, and willow trees are planted on the south side of the embankment.

Grandma told Youyou that this embankment is a production embankment, which can prevent many small floods in the Yellow River in summer and keep more than 1,000 acres of cultivated land in the village from harvesting.

When people reached the south side of the production embankment, they stopped, lit a few fires with the firewood they picked up on the road, turned around to roast the fire, and chanted while roasting: "Roast the head, the head does not hurt." Roast and roast your waist, and your waist doesn't hurt. Grilled legs, legs don't hurt. ”

Didi pouted his ass and roasted his cheeks, shouting in his mouth: "Roasted and roasted, it doesn't hurt." was pulled out by his grandmother and slapped him twice, and everyone teased him: "Didi, does it hurt?"

Many people used branches to put a steamed bun on the fire to roast, and my grandmother also took out a steamed bun from her waist and roasted it until it became a golden brown dumpling (ge zha), broke it open and handed it to the three brothers and sisters, saying that they had eaten it strong.

You ran to the production embankment and looked north, and you could see the mother river of the Chinese nation - the Yellow River at a glance. The wide Yellow River meanders like a giant dragon. It's so spectacular, and I jumped up excitedly.

In winter, the Yellow River flows quietly, the yellow river glows golden in the morning light, and occasionally a few snow-white waves dance, like a gentle mother, tolerant and warm.

The beach on the banks of the Yellow River has been washed into ripples, and there are already scattered wild vegetables showing a faint green. A little farther away, clusters of shady willows left only a few inches of roots, and dry weeds were scattered in patches.

The production embankment is about 300 meters away from the river, and most of the nearly 100 meters of land near the production embankment of the river beach is plowed, and the rest is a wasteland.

To the east of the triangular beach left by the turn of the Yellow River, there is also a production embankment, which runs north-south, separating the Yellow River beach area of Hongcheng and Pingcheng counties.

This triangular beach alone has hundreds of acres, because it is located in the north of Hantun Village, it is cultivated by Hantun. Since the harvest is not guaranteed, the area of cultivated land is not counted.

Youyou looked at the large barren river beach, and thought that among the scientific pig breeding plans provided by Zhi Brain, there was a green feeding method using alfalfa and oats, and his heart suddenly turned upside down.

Originally, you still wanted to sprinkle as many alfalfa oat seeds as possible on the side of the ditch and road in the village, and provide forage for the villagers to raise pigs.

Now with these idle river flats, sister's breeding plan can finally be implemented, these hundreds of acres of idle land sister are sprinkled with oats and alfalfa, pigs and sheep spring is coming, open stomach to eat.

From the wisdom of the brain, we know that alfalfa is a perennial herbaceous plant, known as the "king of pasture", in which the protein content is particularly high, and easy to plant, like warm and semi-humid climate, strong cold resistance, and the soil requirements are not strict.

Alfalfa grass can also be processed into dry green fodder, so that the storage period can be extended, and in the winter can also provide sufficient plant feed to livestock, to meet the nutritional needs of livestock, alfalfa is generally harvested in the early flowering period, when the yield is high and the grass quality is good.

Alfalfa can generally be harvested 1~2 times in the year of sowing, and 4-5 times a year after two years. The peak growth is reached two or three years after sowing, and the life span can be maintained for 10-20 years, or even 40 years.

Oats are rich in nutritional value and are annual herbaceous plants. Seeds are the best forage for livestock and poultry, with juicy and tender leaves and stems, and high digestible fiber content. Oats like light, moisture, barren and thin, and have not strict requirements for soil.

Oats can be sown and reproduce by themselves, and the growth period is short, generally about 90 days, and can be used as green fodder or harvested dry straw. In later generations, it was a high-quality nutritional health product sought after by people, and now it is a weed in people's eyes, commonly known as "bell wheat".

Oats and alfalfa are suitable for early spring sowing in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and now that the season has arrived, it is ready to be sown.

At breakfast, you saw that in addition to dumplings, there were dumpling wrappers and noodles in the bowl, so I asked my grandmother to solve my doubts. The answer is: "Under the sixteenth year of the first lunar month, dumplings are equivalent to ingots, dumpling skins are equivalent to coins, and noodles are equivalent to money skewers. ”