Chapter 191: Unexpected
After arranging the children's whereabouts, the villagers finally got free, and from now on, they could completely relax and enter an emergency state of busyness.
First of all, what Li Yuqing asked them to do was to plant the cultivated seedlings into the ground. Li Yuqing asked the young people to first sort out the acres of land one by one, and then each household dug out the seedlings they had cultivated by themselves, one by one, and wrapped the roots with wet soil, so that it would be convenient for the later investigation and ensure that the seedlings dug up in advance would not die.
Li Yuqing handed over all these trivial tasks of digging seedlings to the village chief, and asked the village chief to supervise the work, and she taught the villagers how to plow the land in the field.
To transplant the seedlings of peppers into the ground, the first thing to do is to lay out the ground, and then pile up the soil to ridge the ground, and the ridge is high in the middle of the depression on both sides. In this way, the peppers are planted on top of the ridge and on the top of the ridge, and the bottom can be easily stored.
In this way, the seedlings were dug out two days in advance, and then the seedlings from a piece of land were pulled over for planting.
Li Yuqing was busy with things in the field and didn't care about planting seedlings. Let the village chief take notes on the number of seedlings cultivated by each household, and after remembering them, let them send them to the field one by one for easy planting.
Tomato cultivation is similar to that of chili peppers, except that chili peppers are planted in one row and tomatoes are planted in two rows per ridge. However, in order to facilitate management, a month ago, let them dig out the seedlings of the peppers, and wait for the tomatoes to dig up after the peppers are planted.
Planting seedlings is very laborious, not only digging pits to plant them, but also watering each one. Don't think that you just need to water it once, the survival rate of the newly planted seedlings is not very high, and you have to water it regularly for the first two days. It is usually before the sun comes out, or at night when the sun is about to set.
Time is pressing, and the villagers are busy in the fields day and night, just to plant the seedlings in the field as much as possible, because no, it will be time to harvest the wheat in a long time.
After the peppers and tomatoes were planted, Li Yuqing settled the account of how many seedlings each family cultivated according to the village chief's account book (only he could understand the ghost drawings). The village chief planted it in his own house, two or three thousand, plus the people he found, and the commission he got was almost 5 taels of silver.
The village chief took the five taels of silver and was speechless with excitement. It's just that from the seedling to the planting, in just one and a half months, he can earn five taels of silver, which he never thought of at first. Thinking of Li Yuqing's later plans, the village chief decided that in order to make this family live a better life, even if he was not the village chief, he would continue to work with Li Yuqing.
There are still more than half of the people in the village, who plan to sell the land to Li Yuqing after the wheat is harvested, but they still have wheat planted in the field, and when it is time to harvest, they have to go home to work, so they can't help Li Yuqing work, so they can only take advantage of the time to do it quickly.
Although more than half of the people in the village are helping Li Yuqing work, they can't bear to have one village, and there are one or two hundred people in dozens of households, of which thirty or forty people are already busy in his processing plant. There is also a small and half-old, weak, sick and disabled who cannot help. So in this way, there are not many people who can use it.
After more than half a month of intense busyness, all the seedlings were finally planted in the ground before the wheat was harvested. In order to thank everyone for such a long time and time help, Li Yuqing specially gave them a few days off and let them rest at home.
From Liu Changyu to the present, more than half a year has passed in a blink of an eye. During this period, Li Yuqing not only planted tomatoes and peppers, but also bought the remaining half of the land after harvesting the wheat in June, and by the way, the household was also well-lived.
Because Liu Changyu told Li Yuqing before leaving, if there is anything, you can go to Liuji Department Store to find Shopkeeper Jia. So after the title deed was collected, Li Yuqing went to the town the next day to find the shopkeeper Jia and asked him to go to the county office to help her transfer the property.
Because before Liu Changyu was about to leave, he had already reminded him that if Li Yuqing came to him for help if something happened, no matter what happened, he had to find a way to help her do it, and what the consequences were, I would help him deal with it when he came back. So when Shopkeeper Jia saw Li Yuqing coming over and asked him to help with the transfer, he didn't say a word, took the title deed and went to the Yamen, and helped her finish it all in less than a cup of tea, and the speed was simply superb.
Originally, Li Yuqing thought it would take a long time, but she didn't expect it to be done so quickly. took the title deed handed over by the shopkeeper Jia with her name written on it, Li Yuqing put it in her hand and touched it very happily, sure enough, there is someone who is easy to do, if it is her own past, not only will she have to give silver, but also waste a lot of time, and in the end I don't know if it can be done.
During this period, Li Congwen was admitted to the children's school, and later although he wanted to help them with their homework in school, he did not get into the exam, although he felt that it was a pity, but even this was enough for the village chief's family, because everyone knew that Li Congwen had been in the college for less than a year, and it was very rare to have such results.
Li Congwen returned to Lijia Village after finishing the Xiucai exam, but he came with him, as well as his master Xue Zhongxiang, because Xue Zhongxiang had already told Li Yuqing that Xue Rui would come over to substitute for two months, and when he was done, he would come over to officially attend the class, and now he was busy, so he came to fulfill his promise.
At this point, everyone may think that Xue Rui will leave because of Xue Zhongxiang's arrival and return to the original place, Hongru Academy, but the truth is beyond everyone's expectations, Xue Zhongxiang actually left Xue Rui behind, and the explanation given is that he is alone in Lijia Village, he is not familiar with the place, and there is no one to talk to, so he left Xue Rui to accompany him.
Hearing the news, Li Yuqing was very happy, but there were still people who were happier than Li Yuqing, that is, some of the older people who had previously held Xue Yue's daughter-in-law had no hope, but now that Xue Rui was left by Xue Zhongxiang, then their opportunity came again, and they were gearing up one by one.
In July, the potatoes were almost finished, during which Liu Changyu asked people to bring back a letter, telling Li Yuqing that the starch she made was very popular, and many people were interested, asking her if she could pull it a little more, Li Yuqing knew that her starch was very popular, but she kept the starch and did not plan to continue to sell it, so she wrote a letter to Liu Changyu to explain the situation, and I don't know whether Liu Changyu received it or not, and since then, Li Yuqing has never received any information from Liu Changyu.
At first, I was more worried, but then there were more things, and I slowly forgot about it. Later, the peppers and tomatoes are ripe one after another. Li Yuqing asked the villagers to pick the chili peppers that were already red and put them on a bamboo rack that had been woven in advance to dry, so that they could be easily stored after drying.
The peppers are done, but the tomatoes are not so easy to preserve. Li Yuqing planned to make tomato paste, put it in a clay pot, cover it with oiled paper, seal it with mud, and store it in the cellar for future years.
However, because Li Yuqing has planted dozens of acres of tomatoes, as long as the tomatoes grow, they will turn red quickly. The newly picked tomatoes are not stored for a long time, at most for two or three days, and after two or three days, they will rot, but the processing of tomato sauce is more cumbersome. Even if you count all of them, you won't be able to use them all at all. Not to mention, there are also some people who pick peppers, tomatoes, and dry peppers. (To be continued.) )