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"Mother, I don't bother you about this, I already have arrangements."

Yang Duanwu led the three of them to the firewood room to settle down, and made detailed arrangements the next day.

At night, the moon rises in the treetops, and the yard is exceptionally quiet. The rest of the people had already fallen asleep, and in Yang Duanwu's room, the candle flame was still flickering.

Since getting so much land, Yang Duanwu is thinking about how to gradually expand the scale, Yang Duanwu will draw the fields on paper, and then take a pen to draw on the paper, and divide more than ten acres of fields into mulberry area, rice area and other areas.

Early the next morning, Yang Duanwu and Xie Yun arranged three laborers to the homes of those who had free rooms in the village, and gave the villagers some subsidies, and these people settled down.

Yang Duanwu believes in his vision, but he still has to test the labor ability of these three laborers.

Yang Duanwu took the three men to the field and motioned for them to turn over the three uncultivated fields.

The three of them worked hard for the first time, and soon, before lunch, the three of them sorted out the soil. Yang Duanwu saw it in his eyes, and he was also satisfied in his heart, if this piece of land was turned over by himself, it would definitely be in the afternoon.

According to the topography of Yang Duanwu, the five acres of land in the east are turned into rice areas, and the left side of the original mulberry tree, plus five acres of land to plant mulberry trees, there are a total of ten acres of mulberry land.

To grow rice, water is key. Yang Duanwu placed the rice area in the east, and what he fancied was that there was a mountain in the east, and the spring water on the mountain flowed down, which could just be used for irrigation in the fields.

Although there is spring water, aqueducts in the fields are necessary for even irrigation.

After the meal, Yang Duanwu brought three laborers to the field again. As long as you work quickly in the fields, you can still hurry up and harvest a season of late rice.

Yang Duanwu and the three of them dug up the spring on the mountain and strengthened the rocks around the spring, and at the same time, strengthened the trees on the edge of the spring. Because Yang Duanwu knows that trees can be used to stabilize the soil. Protecting the springs is the key to stabilizing the water source.

With a water source and good soil, Yang Duanwu likes to eat rice before he is reborn. I know that the taste of rice produced in different places is quite different.

This kind of rice field is in special need of nutrients.

Yang Duanwu had three laborers carry a lot of hay to the ground, and then a fire burned all the hay to ashes, which contained a large amount of nutrients needed by the land.

According to tradition. The five acres of land were to be divided into five pieces and separated from each other by ridges, but Yang Duanwu was not prepared to do so. Yang Duanwu wants to do large-scale, since these five acres of land are all his own, he will turn the pieces into a whole and cultivate them simultaneously.

In order to ensure the automatic regulation of irrigation, Yang Duanwu dug two diversion channels on both sides of the field, one of which diverted the spring water from the mountain to the field, and there were drainage holes between the diversion canal and the field. When the spring water flows through the aqueduct, it automatically flows into the fields through the guò drainage hole.

On the other side, there is also an aqueduct, but this aqueduct serves a different purpose. This is also the result of Yang Duanwu's careful thinking.

Whenever the rainy season is combined with spring water, the water in the field will easily overflow the seedlings, if it cannot be drained in time, then the seedlings will drown, and the whole field will not be harvested.

The aqueduct on the other side is much higher than the field. This drainage hole is also as high as an index finger higher than the field. This height was carefully calculated by Yang Duanwu.

In a rice field, the highest water level is the height of an index finger, otherwise. Rice seedlings will drown.

The drainage canal is set up so that as long as the water level in the field is higher than the standard, the water in the field will be automatically drained out.

As soon as he was ready, Yang Duanwu asked three laborers to rush to plant the rice in the field. In just one day's work, all five acres of land were planted.

"Let's all come and eat." Xie Ling calculated that Yang Duanwu must be busy with things in the field. I didn't have time to go home to eat, so I took the food to the field, and by the way, I brought the food of the three laborers with me.

"Dragon Boat Festival, we haven't planted this rice before, if you plant so much at once, will it be ......" Xie Ling wanted to speak again, she was worried that if the rice harvest was not good, she would waste so much labor, and she might lose money at that time.

Yang Duanwu saw Xie Ling's worries, and said with a smile: "Mother, don't worry about it, I am also familiar with this rice." ”

Xie Ling didn't know that before Yang Duanwu was reborn, he had deep feelings for rice and rice.

On the other side, according to Yang Duanwu's meaning, Xie Yun has already found someone to help bring the mulberry saplings from outside, and Yang Duanwu is going to plant mulberry trees in the remaining fields.

Because he has accumulated experience, when planting mulberry trees, Yang Duanwu seems more confident. With the help of a few laborers, the mulberry trees were soon planted.

Looking at more than ten acres of painstaking land, Yang Duanwu felt a little emotional, but more excited, as long as he took care of it carefully, in a few months, the fifteen acres of land would be green.

Since he hired labor, Xie Ling had more time. But looking at Yang Duanwu's busy daily appearance, the more idle Xie Ling became, the more uncomfortable he felt.

"Mother, I'm back." Yang Duanwu stood at the door and patted the plaster on his body before entering the door.

"Come back, Dragon Boat Festival, you sit down and rest first." Through the door, Xie Ling shouted.

Yang Duanwu was a little surprised, in the past, Xie Ling would come out as soon as possible, and he was handing water and asking long and short questions, why is it different today.

After a while, Xie Ling came out with a clay pot and a smile on his face.

Suddenly, an intoxicating fragrance came to the nostrils. Yang Duanwu suddenly became energetic.

"Mother, what a good thing is this, so fragrant!" Yang Duanwu admired and greeted him, stretching out his hand to take it.

"Be careful of the heat, let's put it on the table first." Xie Ling put the clay pot aside steadily, then took Yang Duanwu's hand and said, "Now the things in the field are almost the same, these two days, just rest well, don't get tired." ”

Looking at Xie Ling's loving eyes, Yang Duanwu's heart felt warm.

"Mother, I'm fine, I have a few labors to do everything, I'm not tired."

But Xie Ling knows that sometimes, thinking about things is more tiring than doing things, and his heart is tired.

"Okay, it's good if you're not tired, come, this is specially made for you by my mother, eat it while it's hot."

Yang Duanwu opened it and took a look. It's a hodgepodge in this clay pot, with a whole chicken, a lot of peanuts, and goji berries. There are codonopsis slices, and some walnut grains and the like.

Looking at the layer of oil floating on the rich chicken soup, Yang Duanwu knew that this must have been simmered over a slow fire. It will take at least three hours.

"Thank you, mother!" Yang Duanwu closed his eyes and took a deep breath. A look of satisfaction.

"Eat quickly, it's cold, go back to sleep after eating, look at you, you've lost a lot of weight." Xie Ling touched Yang Duanwu's face and said distressedly.

That night, a strong wind suddenly blew away, and several pieces of roof tiles flew away.

Yang Duanwu took a shallow nap and was soon woken up, but in Yang Duanwu's heart. Even more worried are the newly planted mulberry trees.

The next day, Yang Duanwu rushed to the field early in the morning, and sure enough, the strong wind blew several mulberry trees crooked. However, the seedlings in the rice fields were not greatly affected.

Soon, several laborers also arrived in the field, and according to Yang Duanwu's arrangement, several people immediately began to tidy up.

The seasons change, the weather changes unpredictably, and there may be strong winds again in two days.

How to strengthen mulberry trees. It has become the most urgent problem of Yang Duanwu.

It is obviously unreasonable to cut off the excess branches; It is not a good idea to plant mulberry trees deep in the soil, and you may even kill them. Think about it. Yang Duanwu used a local method, but it was a good method.

Yang Duanwu asked three laborers to go to the mountain to cut a lot of bamboo, and then cut the bamboo into a length of about three feet, and then, these bamboo segments of uniform length supported the mulberry tree from three directions, and this triangle was the most stable. In this way, with the support of the three sections of bamboo, the mulberry tree is also more upright.

After the devastation of the strong wind, the mulberry tree needs more care, Yang Duanwu organized several laborers, in addition to stabilizing the mulberry tree, but also further built branches on the mulberry tree, and increased the supply of fertilizer.

Yang Duanwu asked the laborers to cut a lot of firewood and grass and spread a layer of mulberry trees. It is hoped that in this way, the survival of the mulberry tree can be improved.

Gradually, the eastern sky is slowly obscured by clouds, and soon, it will rain.

It was really a timely rain, Yang Duanwu's face showed a relaxed smile, this rain will make the mulberry roots stretch out quickly, tightly grasping the surrounding soil.

Before the heavy rain, Yang returned home. Xie Ling hurriedly took Yang Duanwu in.

"Why did you come back, my mother is worried about you." Xie Ling took Yang Duanwu's hand and said, "Look at the weather outside, it will rain heavily soon." ”

After Yang Duanwu saw Xie Ling, he walked straight to the silkworm house, this sudden change in weather is not a good thing for the silkworm baby in the silkworm room.

Before the heavy rain came, the air in the silkworm house was filled with heavy moisture, perhaps because the humidity was too heavy, so that the silkworms seemed to move slowly, and it took a long time to move to the body.

The humid air also coats the mulberry leaves with a layer of dew, which can make the silkworm babies sick.

Yang Duanwu took a look, and the lime in the corner of the silkworm house had already been soaked in humid air.

Soon, Yang Duanwu asked the laborers to send a lot of lime, in addition to charcoal, which can absorb excess water, and charcoal can also remove some foreign matter in the air.

With the gradual hatching of silkworms, it is important to build another silkworm house for silkworms.

With the previous experience, the newly built silkworm house is more moisture-proof and more ventilated, and Yang Duanwu also specially set up a mouse trap, as long as there are rats infested, one will be caught.

More and more silkworms, more and more cocoons. Yang Duanwu is alone, and he is completely busy.

Although these laborers were dull, Yang Duanwu still successfully taught them.

Collecting cocoons may seem simple, but there is a lot of attention to detail in the process.

It takes about a month for the silkworm to form a cocoon, and after that, it only takes about three to five days to break out of the cocoon. If the cocoon cannot be processed in time, then once the silkworm chrysalis bites through the cocoon, the cocoon after the cocoon is broken, there is no value of silk reeling.

After Yang Duanwu got so much land, he had already planned everything for next year.

These cocoons are the key to it.

Yang Duanwu personally went to the silkworm house and selected a batch of silkworm cocoons with a hard appearance. This appearance is hard, indicating that the nutrition of the cocoon is good, which means that the silkworm chrysalis inside is relatively healthy, then, after these silkworm pupae break out of the cocoon, the silkworms that are mated with each other are important breeding objects in the coming year.

In addition, most of the cocoons need to be treated.

Yang Duanwu asked laborers to carefully take out the silkworm pupae that were spun into cocoons, and these fresh cocoons not only have surviving silkworm pupa, but also have a lot of water that is not conducive to the long-term preservation of silkworm cocoons.

Yang Duanwu needs to let the chrysalis inside the silkworm cocoon die, prevent the silkworm chrysalis from breaking the cocoon, and in addition, remove the water inside as much as possible.

There are many ways to do this, but the best one is cocooning.

It is said that this cocoon baking is a kind of technical work, and many people can't grasp the scale or method, and even directly burn the cocoon.

Conventional cocooning is either dried in the sun when the weather is good, or dried in a steamer.

This can also serve its purpose, but it is time-consuming, and the results are mediocre.

Yang Duanwu is not casual, on the road of raising silkworms, Yang Duanwu has to take the road that others have not walked.

Yang Duanwu made a special cylinder with bamboo, and built nearly 100 grids up and down with thin bamboo pieces, and in the middle of the cylinder, there was a round bamboo tube.

Yang Duanwu carefully put the collected silkworm cocoons one by one into the lattice on the cylinder, and then put the cylinder into a hollow iron tool.

This ironware is also carefully designed by Yang Duanwu, the four walls of this ironware are relatively thin, and the lower wall is directly used for heating, so it is made relatively thick.

After sorting out a batch of silkworm cocoons, Yang Duanwu put the bamboo tube stuffed with silkworm cocoons into this hollow ironware, and then put this ironware directly on the fire to roast.

Another important purpose of this baking silkworm cocoon is that the silkworm cocoon can be heated evenly inside and out, so that the silkworm cocoon can be smoothed and relieved, laying a good foundation for the next step of silk reeling.

In order to ensure that the cocoons in the bamboo tube can be heated evenly, Yang Duanwu also added a handle on the bamboo tube, and in the process of heating, the bamboo tube was rotated by the handle of the labor force, and later, Yang Duanwu improved this device, and the labor can easily rotate the bamboo tube.

In this way, the dried cocoons can not be affected by the weather, and can be dried in large quantities at one time, which greatly improves the efficiency.

But Yang Duanwu still found a problem, the dried cocoons take a long time, and the upper and lower layers of cocoons are still prone to uneven heating.

"Dragon Boat Festival, this is already very good," Xie Ling persuaded on the side, "Your method is much better than the method I used before, what I had to do in a day before, you can now dry so many cocoons in just a quarter of an hour." (To be continued.) )