Chapter 11: Purple Jade
After returning to the city, two days later, Chen Wenhui asked Feiguang to invite Ziyu from Bai's side. For a while, Ziyu came. Chen Wenhui looked at Ziyu, combing her double buns, just wearing a few small silk flowers, looking at it without eyesight, but looking at it seriously, the silk flowers were very delicate. Ears with a little oil of golden cloves. Wearing a royal blue cocoon silk gown, Lan Bian embroidered with 10,000 words of palindrome. It looks very comfortable, elegant and delicate. Chen Wenhui asked, "Sister Ziyu, how old are you this year?" Ziyu said: "I am the same age as Feiguang next to the girl, we are both fifteen years old, and we are the same year." Chen Wenhui nodded. He asked Ziyu again: "Sister, I heard that you are proficient in farming?" Ziyu was a little shy: "It must be Feiguang's tongue chewing in front of the girl." Where am I proficient in farming, I just help my wife manage the grange, but because I have more contact, I like those flowers and animals, where I am proficient. Chen Wenhui was very happy, the ideal thing is to be interested, hearing that Ziyu was interested in this, Chen Wenhui immediately said what she thought in her heart: "Since my sister likes it, I have a few small recipes that I read in miscellaneous books here, and I want to pass them on to you, but you have to keep it a secret, okay?" Ziyu smiled: "Don't worry, girl, I will keep it a secret for you." ”
Chen Wenhui asked Feiguang to bring the pen and ink that had been prepared earlier, and let Ziyu record it. Ziyu is very strange, what is still to be recorded. The girl's young age is getting more and more mysterious. But the girl is the master, so she should play with her. I took the pen and ink and recorded it. Chen Wenhui told what she said she knew in her previous life. First of all, how to hatch chicks, that is, use your own arm to test the temperature at which the hen hatches chicks, and after grasping it, burn the kang and burn it at that temperature to see if you can artificially hatch the chicks. Ziyu's pens fell off in surprise. Oh my God, what does the girl think, can a man hatch chicks instead of a hen? But Chen Wenhui asked Ziyu to pick up the pen very strictly, and asked her to listen carefully. Ziyu had no choice but to restrain the surprise in her heart and record it carefully. Chen Wenhui said: "This method of burning kang can hatch chickens, ducks and geese, but the temperature of each animal is different, so you need to carefully observe and record." This is not difficult, it is to waste some eggs, this is easy to do, I will tell my mother, let her give you a special allocation, buy eggs. Once successful, it is a great profit. Now it is necessary to buy more poultry seedlings and let the tenants keep them. I also have to discuss with Li Laoshi to dig a pond in the village to store manure, now there is less, the village has a common one, and after the house is built, every family should have one, and accumulate leftover meals, human manure, poultry and livestock manure together, and after the grain is harvested, the straw should also be used to soak, and the crops should be fertilized regularly. I also have a way of raising earthworms here, and I will pass it on to you. Ziyu was even more surprised: "What is the earthworm raising him, that one is available anywhere, and it is useless." Chen Wenhui said: "It's useful, if you raise earthworms, you can use earthworms to feed poultry, so that the poultry grows fast, they will lay eggs early and eat poultry meat early." After speaking, I told the method of raising earthworms with straw that I saw on the Internet in my previous life. After finishing speaking, he looked at Ziyu's record, nodded and ordered: "What I said is what I read in the book." You also need to know to be flexible. The method is to be more real, not afraid of wasting things, and if there are too many things, it will naturally succeed. And every time the practice is over, no matter whether it is successful or not, every detail must be carefully recorded, so that it can be easy to improve and succeed quickly. ”
Ziyu now looks at Chen Wenhui with admiration in her eyes. Chen Wenhui is still talking to herself: "You should also take more notes when planting, and record the time and quantity of each fertilization, so that you can find out the best way to get the crops in comparison." There is also a knowledge of planting saplings on the mountain, and a toon tree should be planted in each row between the fruit seedlings. In this way, there are not only toons to eat, but also to avoid insect pests. This year, the seedlings are still small, and soybeans can be nestled between the woodlands. In this way, soybeans can be harvested and the land can be fertilized. Ziyu was surprised: "I can understand what the girl said about toon insect repellent, because the smell of toon is strong." This is indeed a good method, and it turns out that the ancestors have already discovered it. Interplanting is also a good method, so that when there is no fruit in the first two years, there will be a harvest, and there will be no loss of money to buy the mountain. But soybeans can fertilize the ground, but I don't understand, but do you want to sprinkle beans into the ground to fertilize the ground? Chen Wenhui didn't know how to explain to Ziyu that bean plants are natural nitrogen factories, so she could only say vaguely: "I read in the book that some predecessors found that the land that has planted beans is better when planted with other things in the second year." So, I'm guessing that beans can fertilize the ground. You don't need to sprinkle beans, you just need to plant them. It's simple. ”
Chen Wenhui thought for a while and said: "I can't think much for a while, so I just made my mother clear and asked you to go to the field with Steward Chen and Li Zhuangtou during the day, and come back at night and tell me in detail, I will tell you something useful." It's just that you can't pass it on to others. Well, it can be taught to Li Zhuangtou and his three sons. When Ziyu heard this, she said, "Girl, don't worry, I will never pass these things on." Chen Wenhui said again: "If others ask you how you know so much, just say that our Chen family would have known this." Forgive others and will not think that I read it from miscellaneous books, they will only think that our Chen family is worthy of being a big family. Speaking of this, Chen Wenhui smiled and thought: It's better to have your back against the big tree to enjoy the shade, my mother knows how to scare people with the name of our big family, the Chen family, of course, I also have to follow the example and put this knowledge beyond the times on the head of the Chen family. In this way, others will admire our Chen family even more.
Chen Wenhui saw that Ziyu had almost written, so she took Feiguang and Ziyu to Bai's room. Bai was still talking to Chen Yuanheng. Chen Wenhui told Ziyu about letting Ziyu supervise the farm, and asked Ziyu to show her parents what she had recorded. Chen Yuanheng watched it first. Surprised, he handed it to Bai and asked, "Hui'er, where did you know this?" Chen Yuanheng is no longer an ordinary family child, through guò has been in the position of Ancheng County for most of the past six months, he can see at a glance that these pages are a huge reform of agriculture, and these are from the mouth of a six-year-old daughter, can it not be surprising. Bai Shi also finished reading it, and Bai Shi was also shocked, of course she understood the huge economic value represented by these pages, who had managed property all year round.
Seeing the reaction of her father and mother, Chen Wenhui pursed her lips and smiled: "It's what I said in my father's study when I read those travelogues." There are also some things that are said in the old legends. I didn't know it would really work. Now that I have come to this farm, I will naturally know that it can be used when I compare it with reality. Thinking that we want to make our village better, I will tell Sù Ziyu to know. In this way, when we have more harvest, we will naturally have more money. Bai smiled: "You are a girl's family, why do you think about money every day at such a young age." Chen Yuanheng said: "Thinking about the money, my good daughter is the jade girl who sits down under the God of Wealth, and she was born to bring money." Looking at the super guardian father, Chen Wenhui was very happy. When Bai Shi saw it, he said: "Okay, how can I be the opponent of your father and daughter alone, just do what Wen Hui said, let Ziyu go to Zhuangzi to live for a few days, and then bring two mothers-in-law to call, and we have a house in Zhuangzi." Originally, I also wanted to send Ziyu to Zhuangzi, but I originally said that I would ask for a doctor for Li Zhuangtou. It just so happened that Ziyu was going, so I took the doctor with me. Tomorrow Ziyu, you go to find a doctor and go to Zhuangzi with you. Just stay a little longer, and take a look at the methods that the girl taught you. Ziyu hurriedly agreed.
The next day, Ziyu first asked the Bai family to see if she could invite Dr. Li, who often saw doctors in the house, to the village. This Dr. Li is a local, and his medical skills are not bad, at least in the local area, he has always treated rich and noble families. Therefore, Chen Wenhui was able to see a doctor before. Bai Shi pondered for a while: "You go and invite Dr. Li to go, and tell him that I invited him to go this time." The government gave him double the money for the carriage and horses. Please watch it carefully, as for the medicine, don't worry, it's all paid for by the government. Sue him, Li Zhuangtou's lady is the lady of the big steward in my house. Ziyu hurriedly agreed. I went out and asked Dr. Li to go.
At noon, the doctor was invited, and Ziyu led the two mothers-in-law to the Zhuangzi in a carriage and was escorted by the housekeeper Chen Cai. After they left, Chen Wenhui thought about it for a long time in the study, and felt that it was still unreliable to test the temperature with her arm, and it would be easy to do it if there was a thermometer. But where to find a thermometer? Just as I was thinking, I looked up and saw the window. The sunlight outside the window was good, shining on the desk through the glass window. By the way, glass, thanks to Emperor Guanglie Fusu, he invented glass, and there is glass in this era. Chen Wenhui was busy drawing the thermometer with a pen on the paper. Let Feiguang take it to find Chen Cai, and let the glass shop outside do it very well. The paper also indicated that mercury should be put in, the scale is easy to do, the ice water is mixed with zero degrees, and the boiling water is 100 degrees, and two points are set, and it is good to divide 100 parts. Chen Cai was surprised when he saw this piece of paper, and it was not surprising that he thought that it was a girl's idea again. Chen Cai and Feiguang said: "Sister Feiguang, you see that the girl is very smart at a young age. The chair that made me a carpenter last time was a good one. The carpenter said that he had a good idea, and he wanted to buy the pattern and make it easy. Feiguang remembered the chaise longue with the shampoo and smiled. Girls are afraid of washing their hair when they are young, and since they have a shampoo chair, it is really much more convenient. Now there are several of them in the house, and everyone uses that to wash their hair, which is really convenient. The old man and lady are all praised. The last time you said that, I told the girl, and she said I'd give the drawings to the carpentry workshop. There's a lot more to do in the future. However, it can't be given in vain, let them make a few good ones carefully, and the girl will take it and give it away. It is also given to the girl's house, so it is best to be meticulous and engrave the pattern. Chen Cai hurriedly smiled and agreed.