Chapter 109: The Yield of Wheat
In the evening, Erniu and their people who worked in the fields did not come back until dark, saying that they had already cut half of it today, and they could cut the remaining half tomorrow. In the evening, Lin He also made several dishes, steamed a bowl of tamales in a bowl, some spare ribs left at noon, and braised pork were also hot, and stewed pork knuckle soup in the evening, and the vegetables were made of cucumbers and fried pumpkin shreds.
Lin He brought out the food for them to eat, and the meal in the evening was still very rich, the soup stewed together with the pig's feet and soybeans and lotus root was very thick, and the fragrance emitted made people drool, the Huang family had never done this before, but they didn't know that the original pig's feet soup could also be stewed like this, and it looked very good.
Everyone sat down at the table and devoured the meal, saying that although they were tired today, they had so many good things to eat, and it was worth it no matter how tired they were. Everyone has eaten, arranged tomorrow's things, washed and slept, tired for a day, everyone in the family fell asleep as soon as they lay on the bed, even Chen'er and Xiaobao.
The next day, it was dawn again, and the family got up again. It's about to start a new round of busyness again, Lin He really can't even open his eyes, fortunately, he doesn't have to be so busy every day, otherwise his body will definitely be unbearable, it seems that he still has money and is comfortable, how can he be a landlord to suffer this kind of sin, just buy a large piece of land, collect rent and don't worry about food and clothing.
Lin He didn't plan to cook anymore in the morning, and there was still some pig's knuckle soup left over last night, so he made a bowl of noodle soup with some noodles by himself, and with pig's knuckle soup, he was full. It won't take a lot of effort, and there were a lot of dishes left over last night in addition to the pork knuckle soup. Lin He was afraid that the vegetables would be bad, so he used well water to ice them, and this morning he just ate noodles to solve those dishes, or they would be bad.
Then the family was busy all day, and finally the wheat in the wheat field was harvested, and at this time, many families planted sorghum, and the sorghum was also harvested at this time. In addition to harvesting wheat, many families also harvest sorghum, but Lin He's family did not plant it. All the wheat is planted, and the harvest will be completed in two days, and the two cattle will be harvested for everyone to rest at home for a day before going to threshing.
In the past two days, everyone has been busy and wants to sleep as soon as they fall into bed. Thinking about the weather these days anyway. The wheat is drying in the wheat field, and it is okay to dry it for one more day, and everyone plans to rest for a day after harvesting. The sun is very fierce in these two days, and tomorrow it will be dried for another day, and the wheat from the first day should be threshed, and there are so many people in the family, and the wheat threshed on the first day will be eaten at home, and then go to the mill to grind it into flour. That's pretty much it. Most of the wheat in the back was to be rented to the landlord's family.
The landlord's field is rented to 60% of the rent, that is, the grain that has been planted hard for a year. Most of the rent needs to be paid, and Lin He feels that this rent is really too expensive, and it is a little inhumane, but at this time, it is like this, and no one thinks it is inappropriate.
On the morning of the third day, the wheat was dried in the wheat field, and occasionally went to see, Lin He let everyone rest at home, especially Dabao, who was young, and it was indeed hard these two days, so he rested at home for a few days, because it was a wheat harvest, so the school had a few days off, and Dabao also asked for leave in the store and came back to help with the work.
Lin He felt that Dabao was the most tired person in the family, usually outside in the morning to study, in the afternoon to go to the store to help, only two days off a month, this is still a little hard for an eleven-year-old child, although the eleven-year-old child is not young at this time. Lin He asked Dabao to rest at home, and asked him what he wanted to eat, and made it for him to eat.
At noon, Huang was also at home, helping Lin He make lunch, and the vegetables bought at home were almost the same, and there were still some marinated pig water and dried tofu, as well as a chicken, and at noon Lin He asked Huang to dispose of the chicken. Lin He himself is not very good at killing chickens, but when he really can't do it, he also does it himself and directly cuts off the chicken's head.
Lin He watched Huang and Erniu kill chickens, she was a little unbearable, Huang they killed chickens, caught live chickens, and then plucked out some fine hairs under the chicken's neck, cut off the chicken's throat with a kitchen knife, and then threw the chicken aside, every time Lin He saw the chicken struggling on the ground and then dying, and finally dying, she felt a little unbearable, she felt that it was better to chop off the head with a knife, so she would not do this kind of thing until she had to do it.
Lin He chicken at noon or stewed soup, because it is an old hen, so the old hen stewed early, afraid that it is too late chicken stew is not rotten, at noon there are some pigs in the water, marinated, Lin He fried with chili peppers, fried a large plate out, plus some dried tofu, also fried a large plate out, at noon everyone eats, rest for a while, in the afternoon to thresh the wheat.
In the afternoon, everyone was busy all afternoon, and they came back when it was almost dark, saying that they would go to the mill tomorrow to grind the wheat, and Lin He also heard Erniu say that the weather this year was not bad, and the yield of wheat was also good, and the three acres of land had harvested almost 900 catties of wheat, and in addition to the rent, there were still more than 300 catties of wheat left in his home.
Lin He smiled in his heart, only three hundred catties of wheat were harvested per acre of land, and it was said that the harvest was good, if he knew that the yield per mu in his previous life was thousands of catties, he was afraid that he would be shocked, Lin He also knew how to increase the yield of wheat in his previous life, so he said to Erniu: "Dad, I have read in the book, you choose the wheat seed well, and if you fertilize the wheat well when it grows, the harvest can be improved a lot, I don't know if it's true, you try it." ”
Erniu's eyes also widened, and he said, "Really? But the wheat seed is the one we all use, and there is no other choice, but what are you talking about fertilization? ”
In fact, Lin He didn't know how to choose wheat seeds, she was a southerner in her previous life, and she didn't grow wheat there, but she had seen wheat seeds and fertilization in books, so she told Erniu, and replied, "Then there is nothing to choose from wheat seeds, fertilization is after the wheat is planted, put some manure into it for a certain time, and it is okay." ”
Lin He remembered that the book he read in his previous life wrote that there were two best fertilization periods for wheat, one was when planting, and the next planting and fertilization was to ensure the survival rate and winter rate of wheat seedlings. The other time is the vernal equinox, the vernal equinox fertilizer is used to increase the amount of wheat land, if the fertility is enough, it can greatly increase the yield of wheat land.
Lin He told Erniu what he knew, Erniu firmly wrote it down, and said that next year will be his family's field, if the yield can really be improved, next year's family will have a large income from food alone, Erniu also asked Dabao to write it down, saying that it is not to forget.
The next day, it was Erniu, Father Qin and Huang's went to grind flour, and it didn't matter if the wheat on the wheat field was more sunburned, anyway, most of them had to pay rent, as long as they were threshed, it didn't matter if it was late. (To be continued.) )