Chapter 303: Homecoming
"I think their late rice is different from ours, but it is very similar to our early rice." Xiaohu looked at the ears of rice that had turned yellow in the field and said to his daughter-in-law.
Erya is squatting on the ridge of the field to carefully inspect the rice ear, the ear is very small, the rice particles are very small and very small, but they are all full, and there are few deflated seeds! It's just that this maturity is too early, right? Their late rice is only ripe and harvested in mid-October, and the rice is already full yellow before October. Seeing that it can be harvested, this is either like Xiaohu said, the seeds are wrong, or the planting season is not right. The temperature here is a little higher than that of their house, but not much, not so much that there is such a big difference in the maturity of the plants.
Erya stood up and asked Feng'er's cousin: "How many stones can you harvest in one acre of rice this season?" ”
Feng'er's cousin laughed and said, "What a few stones!" For as long as I can remember, I have never heard of a time when two stones were collected! ”
Erya and Xiaohu both felt incredible and glanced at each other. They also use the transplanting method, and it is not too dense or sparse. The growth is not cold, but this yield is indeed too low, and it is beyond the norm!
The two of them counted several ears in succession, and found that the most of them did not exceed fifty grains, which was too much worse than the normal ears of one hundred to one hundred and fifteen grains.
After Er Ya counted the ears, she grabbed a handful of mud from the field bed. The color of the mud is indeed good-looking, pale red, pink and white, although it is not a saline-alkali soil, but it is not the color of fertile soil. In the paddy fields of Wangjiazhuang, the worst mud should also be green. Even the fattest soil can be black and bright.
"You guys are too 'heavenly', aren't you? Why is there no fertilizer in this muddy water? ”
"We also know that we need fertilizer. But our family can't support livestock, and how much fertilizer can a family of people have! ”
Erya shook her head and smiled, and said, "This is still something you never thought about solving the problem of this fertilizer. Otherwise, these would not have been a problem a long time ago. Let's not talk about manure, just use young grass with water and soil to make manure, how simple is this?! Simpler is to shovel the humus next to the roots of the trees in the mountains and pour it into the paddy fields, which is also a good fertilizer.
Then say this manure! You are so close to the county seat, although there are few people on this part of the road in your house, but you have built a few more toilets on the side of the official road in the east of the county. For people who come and go, the manure saved in a year, I'm afraid you won't be able to use it. The rest can be sold for money. ”
"That's not where we live. How could someone else be willing to let us build a toilet there? ”
"You can go to the people in the field and buy a piece or half of the land on the side of the road, and then build separate latrines for men and women, dig the manure tank outside, and build another house. It is also good to attach a large wooden board and cover it. The inside of the toilet should be cleaned every day. Get it clean, and over time, more and more people will pass. In this way, I am afraid that there will be too much manure for you, and you will not be able to use a single Zhuangzi! ”
Cousin Feng'er was dumbfounded when he heard it, yes! How come none of them have thought of such a simple thing in their generations? People just passing by here can solve this problem so easily! It seems that people are still incomparable.
"Also, don't let the water in your fields always flow from top to bottom like this. Although everyone says that running water is good if it doesn't rot, but for us who grow crops. Non-rotting running water is not good, because the crops need something that can cause the plants to rot into fertilizer. There is one more problem. Even your family seems to have some problems! ”
Feng'er's cousin nodded again and again, he really recognized this cousin-in-law's relative in his heart. This is a rare all-rounder in the world who can fight tigers in the mountains, plant crops in the fields, enter the hall, and enter the kitchen.
Erya saw that their paddy field was not a special soil such as salt and alkali, so they no longer wasted their time here. The three turned back to the village.
Most of the people in Zhuangzi went to the mountains to pick peppers, but when they went back, they still saw a lot of people gathered around their carriages. When he got closer, he heard Xiaolong, who was surrounded in the middle, say: "If these children really want to go with us, then we still have to go through a procedure and go through a procedure in the government, they can't just follow us in a daze." ”
An old voice said, "Okay! As long as you are willing to feed these poor children, I will do whatever I tell me to do! ”
Erya and Xiaohu looked at Wu Zhicheng and them who were standing on the periphery, Wu Zhicheng also saw them, and hurriedly stepped forward to explain: "Big brother, sister-in-law! You're back! This Zhuangzi had seven or eight children who either had no father or mother, and their lives were very hard, often without food or clothing. The old village chief in this village saw that you had brought a lot of children, so he wanted to beg you to bring these children back as well. Originally, Xiaolong said that he would wait for you to come back, but the old village chief thought that Xiaolong deliberately shirked it and begged for a while. ”
Erya nodded and said to Xiaohu: "You can deal with this matter!" As Xiaolong said, you can take it away. But like those children, you have to go to the county office to go through the whole procedure. Otherwise, forget it! ”
"Good!" Xiaohu agreed, and went to Xiaolong's side to deal with the matter. After saying that, the old village chief took everyone's household registration and was taken by Xiaohu in a carriage and went to the county government to handle the deed of change of the child's permanent residence! Erya stayed at home and waited for the people who went up the mountain to pick peppers to come back and buy peppers.
There was a ridiculous thing that night, which embarrassed Luo Fenger and didn't know how to face Erya. It turned out that there were a few little girls in the Luo family, and they also wanted to go with Erya. took advantage of the darkness to find Erya, saying that he was also an orphan without father and mother, and begged Erya to take them away. happened to be touched by Luo Feng'er, who came to talk to Erya about going tomorrow morning, and those girls were nervous and suddenly stuck, and Luo Feng'er's face burned red all of a sudden. The girl of her Luo family did such a thing, as if she did it herself, and she felt very embarrassed. However, there is nothing that these girls can't solve for Erya, and her family is now a serious shortage of people, and in the end, these girls were able to get their wish. Because they are different from orphans who need to be raised by Erya, they don't need to go to the county government to go through any formalities, they packed their clothes that night, and they were at the door of Luo Feng'er's house early the next day, waiting for Erya who was practicing martial arts in the distance.
On the way back, Erya did not relax, she has been vigilant that those bandits may have accomplices. Therefore, she has to guard against the retaliation of these accomplices, so many children, girls, and county gentlemen and Xiucai are all people who need to be protected.
She was nervous, and Xiaohu was not easy. Always go to the front station to find out the situation, and then come back to tell the daughter-in-law that there is no situation ahead, don't worry. Although the toss along the way was not light, I arrived home safely.
Because the letter had been sent to Steward Shi and Hu Sanjin in advance, the children, girls and Luo Feng'er had already arranged for their residences to be closed.
Luo Feng'er saw Hu Sanjin, and the whole family cried bitterly for a while, so let's not mention it for the time being.
But they said that Erya and Xiaohu finally breathed a sigh of relief, safely sent the students and gentlemen in the county to the county college, and settled the children and girls they brought back, and then returned home with their children in a down-to-earth manner!
Wen Chao, Qingzhu, Aoki, and Minghao are already playing outside, and when they return home, they are not happy, but pouting and displeased. Wen Yue was not happy or unhappy, jumped out of the carriage, and played with Xiao Hei who came to greet him. This little black was probably too excited, jumping and spinning and shaking his head and wagging his tail, and in a moment he did everything he could to please the little master.
Wen Yue took Xiao Hei to play for a while, and then shouted: "Mother-in-law! Mother-in-law! How did my little black become so thin, didn't you give it meat? ”
The nurse is greeting the host family and is busy greeting the hosts. Hearing Wen Yue's call, he defended himself aggrievedly: "Little owner! How dare the old woman not give it meat! It's that it doesn't eat on its own. She then turned her head to the second girl and said in detail: "The owner lady! Ever since you left in the carriage, this little black has been waiting at dawn at the intersection where you have walked, and it will not come back until it is dark. I bring food to it every day, and sometimes it eats a little bit and sometimes it doesn't move at all. It's raining, and you have to go and bring it back, or it won't come back, and it's still lying there."
Erya was moved by what the nurse said, so she bent down and called Xiao Hei, who was playing with Wen Yue, over, and Xiao Hei came over with his tail wagging vigorously and rubbed around on Erya. Er Ya touched its head, brushed its back along the fur, and reproached: "Little Black! We're going out for a few days and coming back, how can you skip a meal! You see you've lost weight like this. Not in the future! Er Ya naturally knew that Xiao Hei didn't understand, but when he said it, he seemed to feel a lot more comfortable, and the main thing was to seek his own peace of mind.
Xiao Hei was stroked by Erya, his tail swayed even more, and his mouth whined with joy. Even Xiaohu bent down to touch Xiao Hei and said, "The hair is no longer bright, the hair is prickly, it's really bad to look at!" Ming'er will give it some good supplements! ”
Wu Zhicheng saw Xiaolong and his family serving a dog like a human, he only felt a toothache, and secretly grinned with Xiaolong.
The couple appeased Xiao Hei, and let it follow Wen Yue and wagged its tail inch by inch to please the little master. The two put the carriage and the horse in the stable, and then sent Aoki and Minghao back, and by the way, they went to see the hydraulic workshop that had been built and put into use. (To be continued......)