Chapter 289: Preparation for Wintering in the Field
Lin Zhu's worries were dispelled by Chang Shiyi's words.
"Girl, with your current connections, no one will be bold enough to want to go against you, and besides, the fields are all yours, isn't it up to you? Do they dare not listen to you? ”
Lin Zhu thought about it, too, the contract of this tenant land is signed once a year, and many people are afraid that she will take back the field this year, so they have sent the village chief Wang Dashan to ask early, and if this is the foundation, the people of Wang Village dare not have different intentions.
After being woken up at ten o'clock, Lin Zhu told Feng Yuanbo of his decision, "Uncle Bo, let the people in Wang Village sign a contract, and all the grain purchased from me must be sold back to me." And Lin Zhu also decided that she couldn't let the people of Wang Village feel that this grain was easy to grow, so she only provided half of the seeds. The remaining half is still up to them.
After Wang Dashan got the news, he was not dissatisfied, on the contrary, he was very happy, since this year's grain harvest, he had a decision in his heart, that is, he must follow the Lin Zhu family, as long as it does not violate his conscience, it is not wrong to follow her family.
So he happily took the lead in signing a contract with Feng Yuanbo. With the village chief in front, the villagers of Wang Village also quickly signed it.
Their actions naturally can't hide from the neighboring Xiaolinzhuang, plus the two villages have relatives and have contacts with each other. Therefore, soon Lin Youcai, the village chief of Xiaolinzhuang, also learned about this matter.
He also came up with the idea of buying grain seeds from Lin Zhu. At that time, I thought about asking his relatives in Wang Village to help buy more, who knows. It didn't work at all, because Lin Zhu only supplied half of the grain seeds for each field, and his relatives didn't have enough for themselves, let alone helped him buy them, and they wouldn't even give him a share, because these seeds were recorded in Lin Zhu.
couldn't get through this trick, and Lin Youcai couldn't give up his old face to beg Lin Zhu. Naturally, there is a secret hatred in the heart.
But even if he was willing to beg her, Lin Zhu would not agree, because in her opinion, the people of Xiaolinzhuang were completely two-faced and three-faced. Such people cannot be trusted. She wasn't going to waste her energy on the grass on the wall.
The villagers of Xiaolinzhuang also knew that they had no way to ask for it. While jealous of the people of Wang Village, he also resented Lin Zhu. However, through the people of Wang Village, Lin Zhu seemed to know some powerful people, so they did not dare to blatantly do evil. Because someone has indeed seen it. Lin Zhu's family has come to the carriage of some officials in the capital.
They cast rat traps. It's been a while.
However, Lin Zhu was busy because he had other things to do. Besides, the people of Wang Village didn't realize that there was anything wrong, so Lin Zhu didn't know anything about what happened in Xiaolinzhuang.
She is now busy mainly for her herd of cattle to survive the winter.
There was still ten ploughing oxen, and there was no increase. However, the number of beef cattle has increased from ten to thirty, mainly because Lin Zhu asked Feng Yuanbo to keep an eye on the cattle market, and whether there is such a cattle, as long as there is such a cattle, they will be bought back immediately, regardless of the amount of money.
So it quickly increased from 10 to 30.
Because it was the first year, Lin Zhu didn't want to kill them, but let people record their situation separately.
But it's October, and winter is about to begin, and the grass is still ripe, and it is the ripening period, and it is far more than the cattle need it as fresh feed.
But it's also time to plan for winter fodder. After all, it takes a long time from the winter when the plants are dormant to the spring when the grass is edible. During this period, forty cows needed fodder was not a small amount.
Not only should the forage be prepared and stored as winter fodder, but even the straw forest and bamboo were ordered to be kept in case of emergency.
In fact, the matter of Lin Zhu's cattle raising is still in the stage of secrecy. Besides, as a farmer, cattle are a great fortune, and ordinary people will not kill cattle that grow well and eat meat. Although Lin Zhu has the certificate of the government in her hand, it will still have an impact on her reputation, so she is still in the stage of standing still.
Lin Zhu came to the slope again to direct the work.
Lin Ping and Lin Yi manage the cattle very well, and they are very dedicated. Each cow looks robust.
"Thank you for your hard work." Lin Zhu smiled at them and nodded, affirming their efforts.
Lin Ping and Lin Yi were both a little embarrassed to be praised by their masters.
"You don't have to be here in the winter." Lin Zhu saw that the weather was a little cold, and the house they lived in had no heating facilities. "A new cowshed has been built next to the compound, and when the time comes, the cattle will be driven there, and you will go back to live in the compound."
"Xie Lu, Miss Xie." Lin Ping and Lin Yi were both very happy.
Lin Zhu saw that the two of them did a good job, and thought that he would find a time to discuss with Feng Yuanbo and see what rewards they would give them.
"The crops in the fields have been harvested, and now the matter is to harvest and store the pasture." Lin Zhu lightly assigned tasks to them.
"Don't worry, girl, we will arrange it." The two nodded in unison.
"Not only that, but the winter storage feed has to be reprocessed."
The winter storage fodder of forest bamboo is not simply to cut the grass, dry it, and then store it. Instead, the grass is dried in small finger lengths, and then some concentrate feed, such as soybean cakes, is mixed together for the winter feeding of cattle. And the ratio of forage to concentrate is six to four.
If it was a veteran cattle breeder who saw Lin Zhu raising cattle like this, he would definitely say that she was too extravagant. In winter, the cattle do not have to work, and they do not need to eat concentrate feed at all.
But Lin Zhu has his own ideas. Now she is not going to slaughter cattle to sell because of the small scale of cattle raising, but in order to let her partner Muyue Trading Company push the beef to the market in the capital, in winter, she is bound to kill one or two cows as a preliminary test work.
Because ordinary pork dealers don't dare to take over the beef business.
And Lin Zhu is not ready to push beef to ordinary people, or those rich and noble families, who can eat beef, and dare to eat beef without care.
Everything needs a good timing.
Feng Yuanbo knew Lin Zhu's plan, and admired Lin Zhu's boldness very much, and even more admired Lin Zhu's effective feeding methods for raising cattle. Each of the beef cattle is much stronger now than it was when they first arrived. The fur is also oily and smooth. Feng Yuanbo is sure that as soon as this kind of beef is launched, it will be very popular with the rich and noble.
Lin Ping Lin Yi took people to harvest pasture.
Lin Zhu took Feng Yuanbo and Minglu and went to the orchard.
The wolfberries have all been picked, and there are still a trace of unfallen leaves on the branches, which have gradually turned yellow.
Lin Zhu here has nothing to worry about, because there is experience in planting wolfberry trees in Linjia Village.
After the wolfberry orchard, there are apple orchards and pear orchards. Now the two fruit trees are no longer in the state of saplings, but more like two-year-old fruit trees.
The trunk of the tree is much thicker.
"Uncle Bo, I wonder what the winter weather is like here in Ludao? Will it be colder than Linjia Village? Lin Zhu asked as he walked around.
"I don't know. But I heard from the villagers. There's a lot of snow here. Feng Yuanbo didn't know why Lin Zhu asked this, but he still said what he knew.
Lin Zhu listened, nodded, and had a plan in his heart. She asked Minglu to write it down. How many fruit trees are there.
After the most walk to the vineyards. The grapes have been harvested. The leaves on the vine have also withered a lot. The whole garden was much more depressed.
The vines must be prepared for winter before winter comes, otherwise it will affect the growth, yield and quality of the following year. Although the vines of the forest bamboo are nourished by the space. But for this perennial plant, forest bamboo is not confident enough to keep their characteristics unchanged.
So to be on the safe side, the vines must be prepared for winter. All vines must be buried in the ground. And preferably before the land is frozen.
Because he didn't know exactly when the road would freeze, Lin Zhu decided that the vines had to be buried in the ground in November.
There are still more than 20 days to go, so you have to prune the branches first, and then tie them up in the direction of the branches. Not too tight and not too loose.
To move away from the roots of the vines, dig a frost-proof trench first. Avoid digging when the soil is frozen, and even if you do, the soil is not suitable for burying the vines. If the cover is not tight, there will be large gaps, which will also allow the vines to freeze.
There is no plastic film here, so Lin Zhu thought of preparing some curtains made of straw, which are tied about one meter above the roots of fruit trees on the one hand, and covered on top of the grapevines on the other hand, pressed with soil, which can play a certain role in keeping warm.
These were all experiences that Lin Zhu had seen in his previous life.
At first, Feng Yuanbo and the others didn't understand Lin Zhu's approach, because for a long time, no one would do this for fruit trees, they thought that it was all born and grown, and it all depended on God's help.
Therefore, Lin Zhu's practice made them feel very novel, in order to test the practice of Lin Zhu, whether it was right or not, under the persuasion of Lin Zhu, first did what she said, and then waited until the second year, and then compared with other people's fruit trees, to see whether Lin Zhu's method was useful.
By the time all this is done, it's almost the end of October.
Lin Zhu was also idle, and began to have time to care about the homework of Fu Douer and others.
Basically, Lin Zhu didn't worry about handing over Fu Douer and the others to Chang Shi, because Chang Shi was too doting on them, and if they didn't like to write, they could not write, and if they didn't like to read, they could steal.
Several times, Fu Douer was caught by Lin Zhu because he was stealing and did not complete his homework.
Because he was young, Lin Zhu didn't force him to do too much homework, just fifty to one hundred big characters a day.
Because Feng Rongxuan would do a good job, Lin Zhu relaxed his attention to Fu Dou'er when he was busy with farming.
So now Lin Zhu made a serious face at Fu Dou'er.
"Write all the homework you didn't finish in seven days." Fu Dou'er hadn't finished writing big characters for about ten days, so Lin Zhu gave him a little more time.
"Yes." Fu Douer knew that she was wrong, flattened her mouth, and reluctantly walked to her study.
Originally, Lin Zhu wanted to communicate with Chang Shi to see if he could change his relaxed attitude towards Fu Dou'er, but he didn't expect that before she could speak, someone had already said it for her, and he taught Chang Shi a hard lesson. (To be continued......)