Chapter 150 - Open the land and farm
At lunch, Zhou Yu broke his promise. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
I said last night that I showed my hand today, but when I got home, Tina and Angie had already brought all the food to the table.
The boulder is also there.
After lunch, Zhou Yu didn't immediately go out to continue his morning work, but turned on the computer first and placed an order - the stone slabs needed for Baokan and paving the floor needed to be purchased.
The size and type chosen are the kind of natural bluestone slabs that are one meter wide, two meters long, and one inch thick.
The amount is nine hundred.
According to Zhou Yu's calculations, the ridges on both sides of the ditch are about 150 meters long, and 150 stone slabs are needed here. As for the ditch, after thinking about it, I am still ready to lay stone slabs on the left and right sides, after all, only one side is laid, which is not very beautiful and not beautiful enough. As for the bottom, forget it.
Here, too, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Then, Zhou Yu also prepared to pave the rice fields and vegetable fields on both sides of the canal, as well as the surrounding roads, with stone slabs to facilitate walking. It is estimated that it may cost 500 yuan.
That adds up to 800 pieces. As for the extra 100 yuan, just in case.
For example, it was damaged in the process of laying, for example, Zhou Yu's estimation was not accurate enough.
In order to ensure that the delivery speed is fast enough, Zhou Yu also talked to the contact person of this factory online, and was willing to pay a little more money so that they could ship it over tomorrow.
On the American side, online shopping, in one word, slow.
In Great Xia, orders are usually delivered within three days. And in the United States, seven days is the earliest, and ten days and half a month are not impossible.
Therefore, Zhou Yu emphasized online that he would rather spend more money.
As for some of the things that Jushi ordered online, including yellow eels, they all came according to the usual rules, and there was no additional money required to be fast. After all, the ground hasn't been renovated yet.
After placing an order, Zhou Yu called the boulder and prepared for the afternoon to finish the rest of the work as soon as possible.
And Tina and Angie, who had just placed an order in the morning and were still idle and had nothing to do, also took the tools. The four of them went to the ground.
Standing on the path around the lake, Zhou Yu pointed to this piece of land and said, "I and the boulder will dig the channel first, and the two of you will be responsible for cleaning up the weeds on this land." We'll help you when we're done. β
"Actually, we can ask someone to do it. Alternatively, mechanics can be used. Tina's hands went a little weak as she looked at such a large plot of landβshe had never done such a large amount of farm work. And it's completely manual, without even half a machine involved.
You know, in the United States, all aspects of construction, machinery is the mainstream, manpower? What is that?
"If you use machinery," Zhou Yu glanced at Tina: "I might as well just stay at home and read, what else are I busy doing?" β
"Well, you're too idle." Angie made a final decision, and then said to Tina, "Maybe we can try it and feel the joy of labor?" β
Tina shrugged.
And the boulder, he couldn't wait for a long time, he ran over by himself, looked at the ditch dug by Zhou Yu in the morning, and understood what to do.
Zhou Yu saw it at a glance and hurriedly stopped: "Don't dig there!" β
But unexpectedly, the boulder was about to start drying at the place where Zhou Yu dug up in the morning. And there, already close to the mouth of the stream. Once dug through, the water comes in.
A few brisk steps rushed over, and Zhou Yu hurriedly said: "Don't dig through here, let's start from the other side of the river." β
"Oh." Boulder scratched his head.
Both of them are inhuman beings, and they are not much slower than machines when they do their work. As soon as the shovel went down, a large piece of dirt was pried out, flew directly to the sides and was built up, blinked, and the second time came again, without the slightest pause.
Seeing that Zhou Yu and the boulder had already started, Tina and Anji glanced at each other, and had nothing to say, let's do it.
...
The afternoon went by.
Zhou Yu's behavior surprised the employees of the farm. They don't know what the boss wants to do. Or do you want to grow vegetables?
After all, the vegetables used on the farm today are grown on the farm itself.
It was also initiated by the boss Zhou Yu at the beginning.
Passing by, he also asked Zhou Yu if he needed help. But they were all rejected by Zhou Yu.
He was indeed too idle to panic.
If you ask the people on the farm to help, then what is the difference between using machinery and using machinery?
It seems that among them, there is Zhou Yu's own fun.
The remaining section of the ditch was dug in just two hours. Except for the two sections that are close to the mouth of the water, which have not been dug through, the rest of the places have been regularized.
After the completion of the work, Zhou Yu went home and took a tape measure, measured it, and came to a precise conclusion - the total length of the ditch is 157 meters.
But the ditch was dug out, and it wasn't over yet. Clearing this patch of weeds is no less labor-intensive than digging a ditch. Only Anji and Tina, the two freshmen, waited for Zhou Yu and the boulder to be completed, and they cleared out about a cent of the area.
Compared to the entire piece, it is only one-tenth.
One is because the hand is raw and slow. One is because there are too many weeds. Located on the edge of a lake, it is full of water, and with the influence of the jade seal, all kinds of moisture-loving wild grasses grow extremely luxuriantly. The rhizomes are almost densely networked, and it is very troublesome to clean.
However, with the participation of Zhou Yu and Jushi, the speed suddenly increased.
Just watched Zhou Yu grab the turf and lift it hard, and a large piece of the net tangled by the grass roots was overturned. As for the boulders, the cleared turf is carried on the side.
Using a wheelbarrow, the cleared weeds were transported to the other side of the lakeshore path, and soon piled up into a hill.
Zhou Yu's efficiency alone is more than ten times faster than that of Anji and Tina combined!
By dusk, the sun was about to fall from the orchard, and the ground, which was about an acre of land, was already very neat. The original green color is gone, revealing a moist black brown earth.
If viewed from the sky, the land resembles a black-brown crescent, set between blue and turquoise. The blue is the lake, and the green is the weeds.
Seeing that the time was almost up and the weeds had been cleaned up, Zhou Yu clapped his hands and stretched.
"It's so exciting!"
He couldn't help but say, "It's been a long time since I've had this pleasure." β
At that time, he was still in his hometown of Rongshupo, and when he was in charge of planting and breeding alone, he had this experience. But since then, there hasn't been any. Two or three years later, that feeling finally returned.
But compared to Zhou Yu, Tina and Angie are tired and can't believe it.
Although they are also physically strong, they are not men after all, and they are far from the physical strength of Zhou Yu and Jushi. At the end of the afternoon, I was tired of back pain, forehead corners between sideburns, sweat stains, and even grass blades and mud on my face, like a flower cat.
was pinching his waist to rest on the side, and when he saw Zhou Yu's appearance, the two women snorted.
"Brute!"
Zhou Yu was deaf and clear-sighted, and he couldn't help but laugh and say, "Isn't a brute beast good?" Otherwise, how can I satisfy my two babies? β
The two women's faces turned red, and they all gave him a blank look.
"Alright." Zhou Yu clapped his hands: "That's all for today." Tomorrow, we'll sort out the ridges, canals, and ditches again. β
"Now, go home!"
There was nothing to say all night, whether it was Zhou Yu or Tina and Anji, this night, they slept very sweetly.
I got up early the next morning, had breakfast, and then called the boulder, and a group of four people went to work again.
When he arrived at the ground, Zhou Yu assigned work.
"The rough outline of the land has been formed. On the other side of the ditch near the lake, there are rice fields. Here, it is used to grow side dishes such as onions, garlic, peppercorns, and chili peppers. β
"I guess at the most in the afternoon, the slate I ordered yesterday will be shipped. So, I first leveled the ridges on both sides of the ditch with the boulders to facilitate the laying of stone slabs. Tina and Angie, let's divide the vegetable plot first. According to the cultivation of different kinds of crops, this vegetable field is divided into independent areas. β
Tina and Angie frowned slightly.
Tina said, "In that case, how do you divide it?" For example, how much area should you plant shallots? For example, Sichuan pepper should be a kind of tree, how to plant it? β
Anji also nodded: "We have to know this situation, otherwise we can only divide it evenly." β
Zhou Yu listened, and knew that he was negligent, so he groaned for a while, and said: "For example, shallots and garlic, the demand for these two side dishes is not very large, and for shallots, the planting area of three square meters is enough, and garlic is five square meters." Well... Let's plant it in the corner, isn't this crescent shape, these two crops are planted in the hooks on both sides. As for the peppercorns... In this way, it is enough to plant a row along the ridges of this ditch that I dug with the boulders. The rest of the land will be divided equally. β
βOKγβ When the two women heard this, they made a gesture and started work.
"By the way, you just need to draw the line, and I will do it with the boulder. Don't get too tired. Zhou Yu finally instructed, and together with the boulder, he prepared to start work.
The two took shovels, bulldozed the piles of dirt dug up yesterday one by one, and then beat them flat with shovels to make the ridges firm and smooth.
It's also thanks to the strong bodies of the two of them, and it's fast to do.
However, the shovel is a little unbearable, especially the handle, although it is all-metal, but halfway through, it is bent. I had to break it back, then bend it again, and continue to break it back, and bend it again.
By the time the two had leveled all the ridges on both sides of the ditch, the two shovels had been scrapped.
I had to go to the supermarket and buy four more.
And Angie and Tina have already divided the vegetable plot.
Seeing that Zhou Yu and the boulder were going to build another ridge along the water's edge to completely enclose the rice field, they would not be busy with the vegetable field for a while, so they both picked up the shovel and painted the scoop according to the gourd, imitating the appearance of Zhou Yu and the boulder, and building the ridge in the vegetable field.
When it was almost twelve o'clock, the ridge adjacent to the water on the other side of the rice field was built.
After all, the soil near the water is too wet, and it is not as dry as the ditch side, and it is not easy to build the soil.
At this time, Angie and Tina also built two ridges.
At lunchtime, a call came from the stone processing factory - the nine hundred stone slabs ordered yesterday had arrived. (To be continued.) )