Chapter 165: It's a joke
As the days passed, the rice turned yellow day by day, and the autumn harvest was approaching. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The villagers who went out to find a living in the village also came back one after another.
Judging from the look of everyone's return, some of them are not bad outside, and some are down.
However, at least they all have to live with all their tails, and they are lucky not to starve to death.
As long as the autumn harvest is over, this year of famine will be over.
Xie Yujiao looked at the golden rice in the yard and estimated how much harvest she could get.
Because more than half of the acres of paddy fields were wild seedlings when they were first planted, more than half of the rice ears would not bear rice.
According to the original yield of three stones per mu, this time more than one stone can be collected.
However, if you calculate the yield of 2,000 catties per mu after more than a thousand years, you can collect almost eight or nine hundred catties, which is eight or nine stones!
Wow! If there really is an output of eight or nine stones, it will be amazing!
However, Xie Yujiao never even dreamed that she could increase her output several times at one time.
She doesn't ask for much, as long as she can still collect three or five stones this time, she is very, very satisfied.
The village chief also often came to see the Qu family's rice, and when he saw the seedlings that most of them did not bear grains, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
He said, only grain is not so easy to tinker with, no matter how many old tricks of serving crops can't increase grain production, he actually believes in such a little girl who is less than ten years old.
He felt like he was crazy!
Xie Yujiao's failure this time also made many other people secretly laugh.
said that she was whimsical, thinking that she was lucky to make paper and ink, so she looked at her hands and tried to save the people of the world.
Growing crops is not something that can be achieved by talking about it, she is a little girl who has never taken a hoe, and she is ashamed to say that she wants to increase grain production! If she can succeed, then what kind of face will these old tricks who have grown crops all their lives!
Among them, the one who laughed the most was Zhang Dequan, the old lady of the Zhang family.
Because in the first two years, Xie Yujiao's luck was made into paper and ink, and she also found a way to make money for the village, which made Zhang Dequan feel that his family's status was threatened, and he was very angry.
Now that Xie Yujiao has failed to toss rice, how can she not let the Zhang family raise their eyebrows and ridicule them.
Because of the loudspeaker propaganda of the Zhang family and the Fu Tang clan, many people in the village were waiting to see the jokes of the composer.
Xie Yujiao had never planted the land, and she didn't know when to harvest the rice, and finally under the guidance of the village chief, the rice ears in this acre of field were harvested back in bunches and threshed into grain.
When the rice is harvested, many people come to watch.
Because the freshly harvested rice still needs to be exposed to the scorching sun, it can only be weighed when it is put into the warehouse.
According to the experience of many people dealing with grain all year round, the harvest of this acre of land of the Qu family is at most two stones after drying.
This is more than 30% less than the harvest of ordinary people's three stones.
Whoever knows this result will shake their heads and sigh that it is a pity that this acre of good land has been wasted.
Old man Qu doesn't care, this acre of land is considered free, and how much he harvests is his own free.
He was worried that the little girl was still young and couldn't bear the frustration of failure, so he walked over and comforted: "The two stones of grain all go into our granary, and if you don't pay taxes or rent, it's not bad." ”
Xie Yujiao shook her head, showed a reassuring expression to her grandfather, and explained: "Grandpa, I am not disappointed with this harvest, on the contrary, I think the results are good. ”
The old man thought that the kid didn't want him to see the unhappiness in his heart, and he didn't mention the grain, and he was already thinking about how to dispose of the two paddy fields, "Well, you can just open it if you think about it!" After all, we haven't tended to the crops, and we have no experience, so it's common sense that we can't make trouble. If this paddy field looks an eyesore, grandpa will fill it back, if not, we can also use it as a fish pond, raise fish, and get some lotus flowers is also good! ”
Xie Yujiao couldn't laugh or cry, these two fields were her test fields, and they were of great use.
She said to her grandfather seriously: "Grandpa, I really think that the results of this harvest are very good, and I am not unhappy." Look! ”
Xie Yujiao grabbed a handful of rice in her hand and asked the old man to take a closer look.
"I compared our grains with those of others, and our grains are significantly larger and fuller than those of others."
Xie Yujiao looked at the rice in this field and said confidently, "I want to keep all this rice and use it as next year's rice seed." Wait for next year's autumn harvest to see the production. ”
As soon as the autumn harvest passed, everyone was idle again, and in the first half of this year, some of the people who were mixed outside began to go out.
However, most remained in the village.
In fact, last year's harvest was a mild famine, but fortunately no one died, at least there were no deaths in Dongshan Village, and I heard that there were still many people who died of starvation in other places.
If there is a great drought followed by a great flood, and then a plague, if that is the case, the dead will be in patches.
There have been several times in history when there were ten rooms and nine emptiness, or even ten rooms and ten emptiness.
Luckily, this time it was okay.
As soon as the autumn harvest is over, winter will be soon.
The people who had stored the grain were in the mood to knock their teeth again.
In particular, Fu Tang began to boast about how his son was appreciated by Shangguan in the barracks, and he would definitely come back to pick her up and take her to the city in the future.
He also said that his son is the destiny of a big official, and he will definitely marry the daughter of a big family as a daughter-in-law in the future, and she will not look down on some families even if they are pasted, and so on.
As soon as someone heard that Futu had the fate of being a big official, they also began to think about it, and began to move around with Fu Tang's family, and then chewed the root of each family's tongue from time to time.
Fu Tang's favorite thing to listen to is that some people say that the composer is not good, especially that Xie Yujiao is not.
No, some people are laughing at Xie Yujiao's failure to plant rice.
"I'll just say, she's a little girl, she actually started to grow crops, and she said that she wanted to study ways to increase yields. Hum! It's really a toad yawning, what a big breath! The woman said.
The second woman echoed: "That's it, a girl, don't think that if you can read a few words, you think you have how much ability you have, and you don't look at how many pounds and taels you weigh, you don't know how thick the sky is!" ”
The woman answered: "Isn't it?" thinks that she has a good skin, bewitching and charming, and a group of Fugui sons who have been hooked all day long ran to her house, don't you still want to marry into a rich and noble family as a young grandmother? ”
When the other woman, who had not spoken, heard this, she snorted and said, "She is delusional, do you think that the rich and noble are so easy to enter?" Not to mention that she is a wild girl, she is a country girl from a serious family, and if she wants to enter a rich family, she is not a slave or a maid, at most she is a concubine. Marry? You think it's that easy to marry? ”
This woman went out with her husband to beg for a living in the first half of the year, and she thought that she had gained some knowledge outside, at least she felt that she knew more about the world of flowers outside than these women.
"Oh? Are the requirements of rich and noble families to marry their daughters-in-law so high? Fu Tang, like everyone else, was also curious when he heard her say this, and wanted her to speak more carefully. Especially the rich Tang family, I really want to hear her talk about what kind of rules it is for rich and noble families to marry, and in the future, I can't say that she will follow the rules of others.