"Mother, let me tell you something, today I was carrying shrimp by the river next to our dry land, and I saw a white-haired, energetic old man, who said to our family: "If this land is fertile, the yield will be very high," and when I looked at the place where he shook his head and pointed at our land, I ran to him and asked: "How can I see that this piece has a high yield?" “

The old man touched his beard and said with a smile: "This place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the sun is abundant, and the water source is continuous, it is a good land,"

I asked him again, "Is there anything that can be done to make this land more productive?" “

The old man told me how to fertilize and what kind of grain to plant in the first year after fertilization.

Tang Qing'er felt that it was time to start talking nonsense, and she had to let her father start fertilizing the land in this season, if the time passed in Wowo, it would be a waste of time to get it. "You girl, when did you learn to lie?" Li didn't believe what her daughter said at all, Tang Qing'er hugged her mother's thigh, and said with a look of urgency on her face: "Mother, I really don't lie to you, he really told me the specific method of fertile land, so I also gave him more than half a pot of shrimp?" "If you see a villager in the village in the future, you must take a detour, you don't believe what they say, in case it is a crutch, they will abduct you, and then you will not see your mother?" Usually see that the girl is smart and clever, but she will be deceived by strange passers-by, this is a fluke, in case she really encounters a kidnapper, the consequences can be unimaginable, busy telling her.

Although it is a nonsense made up, who would have thought of it into her mother's ears, it was so effective, looking at her mother's face full of persistence, her face was full of black lines and said crisply: "Mother, I know, but the old man really told me the method, you must believe what I said, the two acres of dry land divided by our family can't grow anything at all, even if they grow food, the yield is very small, you just try the method I heard today, if it doesn't work, it's not a big deal, I'm saying that you have any way to make our two acres of land fertile, even if there is, It's also to get some poultry manure to spread in the ground, but how can we have so many poultry, it's better to do what I say, if the land is really fertile, then our family will be able to harvest the food we grow at this time next year, and we will be able to eat enough in winter, so we don't have to starve, mother, the old man told me a lot of ways to make money, I am too young to remember, just remember how to make the land fertile, mother, you believe me,"

Tang Qing'er said that her mouth was going to be worn out, so her mother agreed, only said to talk to her father, if he also agreed, he would serve and serve according to her method, if her father did not agree, he was not allowed to say this in the future, Tang Qing'er nodded like a chicken.

The dish on the lunch table is fried river shrimp with sauce, boiled fish soup, it is really fragrant, fortunately, Li is afraid to come to the room to ask, so he made Tang Qinger's shrimp into a dish.

Because Zhang's was in a bad mood today, when Tang Qing'er delivered the food, she didn't ask for it as usual, she was greedy for cheap, and the third uncle praised her because her mother helped take care of the third aunt last time, and she had goosebumps when she heard it, and the fourth aunt took it without smiling, and didn't say anything, only when she sent it to the second uncle's house, the second aunt took it unceremoniously, and said that if it was delicious, she would go and ask for some, Tang Qing'er liked such a refreshing second aunt, and nodded with a smile and said okay.

After lunch, the Li family, who was free, asked the owner: "What does Master Zhou think of the two babies?" Is it the material for reading? “

Tang Tiezhu said with a smile: "Master Zhou asked a few questions, I didn't hear them too far away, but when Master Zhou led them out, the smile on his face continued, I guess Master Zhou was always satisfied with the wood and stone, and when he came out of Master Zhou's house, he also said to me: Let me cultivate these two babies well, it is the material for reading, the eldest is steady, and the second is smart,"

Li Shi listened to a little more smile on his face, and then he didn't know what to think, and the smile was gathered again: "We patronize and are happy to let the two babies enter the hall, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone have not been bought for them, and they have to pay the bundle of money in the past few years, and my mother-in-law has saved privately in recent years, as well as some of my mother's frequent supplements, a total of three or four taels of silver, and two months is winter, I have to buy some cotton clothes for the babies to spend the winter, these calculations will cost the money saved by the family, the bigger the babies, the more and more expenses at home, What can I do in the future?" "You see you think a lot, maybe at that time, wood and stone will be admitted to Xiucai, the county government will give them monthly silver every month, and there is no need to pay taxes on food, I have the strength, do more hard work, and I am afraid that I will not be able to earn money, do you say?" Tang Tiezhu never wanted to think about things too complicated, so let it be, and Li Shi smiled again when he heard it.

Some time ago, Tang Qinger couldn't sleep at night, lying on the kang in the middle of the night pondering the matter of fertilizing the land with plant ash, I remember that in the previous life, in order to raise flowers, I heard that natural plant ash was put in a flower pot as fertilizer, and the flowers would grow luxuriantly, so I collected some dead branches and leaves and saved them, and burned them once in the flower pot on the roof of the building. And what you didn't deliberately seek came to you again, and then I happened to read in a book: "There is an earthen stove for cooking rice in rural homes, and stove ash will be produced in the stove pit when the fire is burned, and the overnight stove ash will be sprinkled on leeks or green onions, which is a good fertilizer." “

Looking back now, Tang Qinger couldn't help but sigh: Fortunately, in her previous life, she liked to get some flowers and plants, and she knew how to make the soil for raising flowers fertile.

Now that the dry land at home is short of fertilizer, if my father and mother start to store the ashes of the house as she said, put them in the ground, and wait for the winter to be covered with snow, then in the spring, the land will become very fertile.

I don't know what her mother said, that night her father also came over to ask her to ask the specific method, and when she finished speaking, his father felt that although this matter was a bit unbelievable, but also with the idea of giving it a try, if it could really fertilize the land, then next year, the food of these estates would be enough for the children to eat.

Because Tang Tiezhu's brothers' land is together, the last time the land was divided, the second brother had to exchange his two acres of relatively good two acres of land for himself, and he didn't want to go, he always felt that this was the younger brother who was standing cheap, if Qing'er said the method, Tang Tiezhu felt that it was feasible, and told the second brother about this method, but the third brother and the fourth brother did not tell them. Second, if it doesn't work, you have to complain, especially now that the third brother and sister are pregnant, the third brother guards the third brother and sister almost all the time.

Tang Tiexiong has always followed the eldest brother, what the eldest brother does, he also follows together, the land of the two families is at the foot of the mountain, and the stove ash accumulated at home is paved in the ground, but the stove ash is still not enough, and then Tang Tiezhu saw the dead leaves on the mountain, and he had an idea, and went directly up the mountain to take some leaves that had not dried out and slightly water, packed several bags, put them on the ground of his house, picked up the fire fold and lit it, about two quarters of an hour, all the leaves became stove ashes, and Tang Tiezhu brothers turned the ground over again with the ashes. The two brothers worked hard for three or four days, and finally turned over the four acres of land, and then waited for the winter to snow.

Old man Tang is also a banker, see the eldest and the second day and night with a hoe to work in the field, a little surprised, after all, the farm has passed, there is no work in the field, so he followed them to see, only to see that they put the leaves from the mountain bag and carry it, put it on the crop ground, began to burn, and then put the burned ash into the ground, began to turn up the ground, planted for so many years, the first time I encountered such a situation, I asked the boss: "What kind of method is this?" “

Tang Tiezhu didn't want to say too many complicated words, he only said: "This is a soil method from other people's hearsay, it is for the purpose of fertilizing the land, I don't know if it is good or not, anyway, this land is thin, it is better to try, what if it becomes fertile?" After Old Man Tang nodded his understanding, he didn't ask anything more, and helped the eldest and second to work.