"Aunt Xia, I want a piece of land and grow something by myself. ”

On this day, Zhou Ming found Aunt Xia and told him something.

"There's a lot of land, but what do you want to plant?" Aunt Xia asked.

"Grow some food. ”

"There are still several jars of food at home, enough to eat for a while. ”

"I'm not here to grow, I'm going to build a test plot and do yield tests. ”

"Experimental Field...... Yield experiments?"

Aunt Xia looked confused, not knowing what Zhou Ming was talking about, but she still took him to the land, and among the many abandoned lands, he chose a piece.

Originally, Zhou Ming was worried that these wastelands were owned by owners and could not be planted casually, but Aunt Xia told him that the wasteland in the village could be planted casually, but good land would not work, and you had to wait until the wasteland was abandoned, if the original owner did not continue to plant, you could use it casually.

At this time, Zhou Ming knew that because this plane is endlessly vast, the land is quite cheap and not valued, as long as you plant it, you can circle the land as much as you want, the landlord class has it, but the tenant farmer class has almost none.

In order to compete for hunting grounds, Limburg Village and several surrounding villages often have friction over the ownership of prey.

So in a large area of wasteland, Zhou Ming found a piece of good land with acceptable residual strength and less than 10 meters away from the stream, circled one acre, and began to do yield tests.

Farming is just two words, but when it comes to doing, it is a systematic project.

The first is ploughing, which is a heavy physical job.

Because there were no large ploughing cattle to use (and even if there were, they were mainly used to pull goods, and they would not plough the land at all), Zhou Ming first used a kind of hard wood, built a wooden plow, and then carried it to the ground, and acted as a "manpower ploughing ox" to complete the ploughing work.

In this process, Xia Xiaoyan, who was in charge of supporting the plow, was extremely distressed, and said several times when Zhou Ming stopped to rest: "Shanhe, let's stop doing it, there is more wheat at home, so you don't need to plant it anymore." ”

She thought that Zhou Ming didn't want to see her father's face and planned to be independent.

"I'm not tired. ”

Zhou Ming shook his head, he has been cultivating for a short time, and it has been quite effective, and the power of a bull in the explosive state can be used, but it can't last long.

So it took him two days to plough this acre of land.

The second is seed selection and sowing.

I borrowed 100 catties of wheat from Aunt Xia, and through several methods, I selected 10 catties of good seeds, and then used a small sowing cart made by myself to get to the ground, and the sowing work was completed in less than half a day.

After the seeds were sown, Xia Xiaoyan thought that this was the end, but she didn't expect that the busyness had just begun.

Manure.

For more than a month, Zhou Ming has been working on this kind of thing every day.

First, a latrine was built to collect human and animal excrement (there are toilets in this world, but only in the city), then the yellow mud by the river, the humus from the forest, and the ashes of plants and trees left from the stove...... have become the object of collection.

These things are then proportioned, stirred, dried, and condensed into fine particles, and then released into the wheat field, just in time for the jointing period of wheat seedlings.

Xia Xiaoyan, who was busy with these things with Zhou Ming, complained a little that he didn't take her to play around, and he had to endure the gossip of the villagers.

"Is Zhang Shanhe in the middle of an evil spirit? Recently, he has been doing some strange things. ”

"He must be crazy! The excrement on the ground was picked up and taken home like a treasure. ”

"Uncle Xia, take Zhang Shanhe to the monk to have a look, he must be a demon protector, he even dug up the mud in the river and went home. ”

"Could it be that because of Tian Nier's matter, he was completely crazy?"

Xia Xiaoyan also cared many times with deep worry: "Shanhe, are you okay?"

"It's okay, don't pay attention to what others say behind your back, in two months, everyone will understand. ”

Zhou Ming said lightly, giving her a reassuring look.

Of course, in the remaining two months, Zhou Ming was not idle for a moment.

The grass in the wheat field should be hoeed frequently, at least twice, and the wheat field should be watered during the drought and at key growth points (such as the heading stage).

Therefore, Zhou Ming used his master carpentry skills to make a manpower pumping machine, which was called "water hose machine" because it resembled a flying dragon, which was used to water the wheat field.

The advent of the water dragon machine, although there are still most villagers who think that Zhang Shanhe was possessed by the demon, but some villagers feel that things are not so simple, if the demon possesses, people can become so smart and powerful, they also want to be possessed.

Seeing Zhang Shanhe "clanging" and "clanging" in the backyard of the Xia family all day long, tinkering with some strange things, giving people a feeling of uncertainty, many villagers who are more familiar with Zhang Shanhe began to feel that he had become stranger and almost unrecognizable.

And in the last half month since the wheat field matured, I could hear the exclamation of tsk from the edge of the field almost every day.

The shrill exclamation characteristic of young and old ladies.

"Oh my mother! The wheat in this field grows too tall, a lot taller than ordinary wheat, and it is very strong!"

"I counted the grains on this ear of wheat, 1, 2, 3...... 88 or 86? I'm almost dizzy, and it's good to have forty or fifty grains of wheat in the average wheat! And every grain is so full!"

"When this land is harvested, I don't know how many catties of wheat can be harvested? 700 catties, 800 catties? It seems that it is more than that. ”

"Is this really the land that was planted by the mountains and rivers? Isn't he a man who has never worked in the field much? He can plant any kind of land like this?"

"My mother is a good hand at planting land for more than 40 years, and someone has planted more land than my mother, and she is still a man?"

"Look at the land planted by Zhang Shanhe, what kind of demon possession is he, it is clearly a fairy possession, and a land cultivation immortal possession!"

Wait until the day when the golden wheat in the test field is fully ripe and ready for harvest.

The sun is shining and the sky is refreshing.

It was very comfortable with a gentle breeze.

The old and young ladies of the whole village, as well as some of the old and young masters, there were three or four hundred people, gathered around this wheat field, talking to each other, sighing, and guessing the output.

"800 pounds for sure. ”

"900, at least 900 pounds!"

"More than 900 pounds, but not more than 1,000 pounds. ”

"I think it's going to be more than 1,000 pounds, and it's over 1,300. ”

"1300? This is impossible, we will receive 500 catties for planting one acre of land, this piece of land is worth two of us?"

"The old lady also doesn't believe it, at most 1,000 catties!" the woman hugged her arms and looked unconvinced.

Zhou Ming, who was holding a sickle in his hand, stood on the ground, looked at the wheat field in front of him, which was full of gold, and then nodded to the aunts who came to help next to him, and said, "Start harvesting!"

"Okay!"

Several aunts leaned down, wielding scythes, grasping the roots of the wheat stalks, and cutting them down one by one, with a crisp and neat hand, with smiles on their faces.

The scene was in full swing, and even attracted many onlookers to itch, and they also brought sickles and joined the harvesting army.

Halfway through the wheat harvest, because of Zhou Ming's early reminder, Uncle Xia and his son Xia Hu carried the two wooden devices at home and put them in the wheat field.

Two units, one is a thresher for the rapid threshing of the wheat and the other is a windmill that processes the mixed crushed leaves and empty grains in the wheat kernels to obtain cleaner wheat grains.

As soon as the two units appeared, they attracted a lot of attention and were very surprised, because the efficiency of the threshing machine is more than ten times that of the ordinary threshing machine, not to mention saving a lot of effort, and the threshing is more thorough.

The windmill has given people a lot of inspiration, and the debris in the original wheat grains can still be treated in this way, which is both efficient and labor-saving.

Half a busy day is over.

It's time for an exciting time!

After all the golden wheat of this acre of land has been harvested and threshed, it has become 16 sacks placed on the ground, and the yield has become the thing that people are most looking forward to.

Even though someone had roughly guessed the size of the output based on experience, they still carried the stone scales over, weighed them bag by bag, and then added the quantities.

Total output: 1580 catties.

Rumble~

As soon as the data was announced, there was an uproar around.

The old and young masters who usually don't go to the ground are okay, but they just think that the yield is very high and amazing.

The young and old ladies who often work in the fields were shocked, and then completely exploded.

"More than 1,500 pounds, this ...... How is this possible?"

"This acre of land is equivalent to three acres for us to plant, and it will cost dozens of catties more?"

"How did this do it, how did it do it?"

"Zhang Shanhe, come over and tell your aunt, how did you grow so much food in your land?"

"Zhang Shanhe, my daughter Qiao'er is your daughter-in-law, if you don't think it's enough, I'll take my youngest daughter Yunyun again, and both daughters will marry you!"

"The old lady is convinced, this kind of land, the old lady is really not comparable to the mountains and rivers, but the old lady will not be reconciled, the old lady must learn the farming method of the mountains and rivers, and then defeat him! If he doesn't teach, the old lady can sacrifice the hue appropriately. ”

This stout woman in her fifties, with a thick black face and a crooked yellow tooth, smiled secretly.

……

After this day.

All the villagers of Limburg Village have undergone earth-shaking changes in their perception of Zhangshanhe.

From being idle and not doing business, to being smart and capable, diligent and hardworking.

Possessed by demons, it became possessed by gods.

The annoying poor boy has become a "good boy" who is warmly greeted by everyone.

Xia Xiaoyan's troubles increased even more, because in one day, the number of her "love rivals" increased innumerable, and the matchmaker who came to the Xia family to propose marriage was even more likely to ruin the threshold, which made her feel a great sense of crisis in her heart, and she also felt a little inferior.

After the particles were returned to the warehouse, Zhou Ming's shock to all the villagers of Limburg Village was not yet over.

The human hulling machine he invented is hundreds of times more efficient at hulling wheat grains than Shi Chung.

The stone mill he invented can grind the hulled wheat grains into flour, and then add water to knead them into noodles to make delicious noodles.

He also built a bakery and baked the dough into fluffy bread, which changed the texture and taste of the original wheat rice.

When he taught the methods and eating methods of noodles and bread to the housewives in the village, in just a few days, noodles and bread quickly occupied a dominant position in the food structure of the villagers and spread rapidly to the surrounding areas.

In short, in the short past four months, Zhou Ming's various actions have created sensations again and again in the village of Limburg Village, making all the old and young masters and young ladies stunned again and again......

Farming maniacs, well deserved!