After Uncle Xia Yu ordered the guards to escort the wizard and his party into the official mansion, he immediately arrested Kong Mao, the commander behind the scenes, but he didn't expect this guy to flee when he heard the wind and disappeared.

And the news of the wizard's arrest made Secretary of State Fan Rui very embarrassed, because the wizard was introduced to Xia Mansion by him, and he didn't expect that the deception tricks of these rice buckets were actually picked up by Xia Mansion.

Fan Rui made a special trip to Chen Gonggong to plead guilty for this matter, claiming that he was deceived by this wizard, and Chen Gonggong asked him to go to Xia Mansion in person to apologize and ask him to thoroughly investigate the facts of the wizard's deception.

Fan Rui went to the Xia Mansion with a heavy gift and sincerely apologized to Uncle Xia and his wife, who accepted the apology very generously, but politely refused the heavy gift brought by Fan Rui.

After dealing with these things, Natsuhime finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The haunting event subsided, and the advent of spring began to add new troubles to her: as the temperature rose and her clothes gradually decreased, Xia Ji's gradually bulging belly began to be unable to hide the information that this new life was about to come into this world.

After obtaining the permission of Uncle Xia Yu, Xia Ji handed over the management of Xia Mansion to Jiang Lu, and took a few close maids and Jiang Wei and several other male entourages and guards to the Xia Mansion Villa ---- Zhuyuan, which was far away from the center of Zhuye City, where she began to give birth and rest, avoiding people's attention.

After coming to Zhuyuan, Xia Ji specially gathered all his entourage and gave them strict discipline: they were not allowed to spread all their circumstances, and if they violated it, they would be dealt with by family law.

At this time, it is mid-spring, the soil exudes the breath of spring, and many unknown grasses have stretched out their stems and leaves from the soil, eager to show their high-spirited posture, and the bamboo garden is full of spring.

After living in the bamboo garden for two days, the laid-back Xia Ji felt that it was a good place to raise chickens, ducks and goats: it was surrounded by mountains and rivers, the environment was comfortable and livable, like a paradise, there were many grasshoppers and other insects in the forest and meadow, the stream was murmuring, the lake was quiet, and the site and climate were very suitable for raising some animals to keep her company.

Pig farming cannot be farmed on a large scale because pigs compete with people for food, but it is much better if it is poultry and herbivores.

But Natsuki knows that it is unrealistic for chickens to eat grasshoppers completely, grasshoppers are just their snacks, and the staple food has to be supplied by people.

Xia Ji remembered reading an article before, introducing the story of a female college student raising native chickens, and the reason why this article specifically introduced this college student raising native chickens was because the local chickens she raised did not eat feed and grain, but maggots from flies, and the process of raising native chickens was largely the process of breeding flies and letting flies breed maggots.

This sounds a bit disgusting farming is actually not difficult to operate, but most people can't stand the harsh environment of fly farming, because flies like foul-smelling places the most, and flies have amazing reproductive ability and adaptability.

Natsuhime's biology teacher once said that if two flies, one male and one female, breed in a suitable environment, and all their offspring survive, then the number of these breeding flies can completely cover every inch of the entire earth's land within two weeks.

Because of its strong reproductive ability, its ability to grow solid protein is also amazing, although the environment in which the maggots of flies grow is indeed disgusting, but it seems that the chicks and ducklings do not care and like this high-protein nutrient.

On top of that, this solid protein grows without the need for food resources, which is an important reason why it can be used as chicken feed. Natsuki is convinced that this is the most feasible way to convert animal protein at a time when food and feed are in short supply.

Xia Ji did not hesitate to think of this, and wanted to experiment with solving the feed problem of chickens and ducks without food, and could only accept the foul-smelling breeding environment.

She asked her subordinates to immediately go to the workshop of the Zhuye Market to order two very dense nets, so dense that not a single small fly could escape, and then buy fresh eggs and duck eggs at the market.

500 chickens and duck eggs were bought, then a room was vacated, hay was spread, eggs and duck eggs were placed on top of the hay, covered with a winter quilt and raised the room temperature with a brazier.

Xia Ji knows that temperature control is the key to egg hatching, and with the example of hens naturally hatching eggs, Xia Ji judged that chicks will not hatch at room temperature, otherwise there may be chicks on the shelves of supermarkets where eggs are placed. The incubation temperature should be slightly higher than the hen's body temperature, which is 38 degrees Celsius, so Natsuki ordered the temperature of the incubation room to be raised to the temperature where people would sweat when they entered, and maintained it.

It takes time to make a custom-made net, and Xia Cicada told her that it would take about twenty days to hatch chicks and ducklings.

Preparations for raising chickens are underway, and arrangements are also beginning for rice cultivation on the other side.

At this time, the spring season has also begun, and the farmers have begun to cultivate their fields, tidying up the ditches and fields and starting to sow rice in the moist land.

The two acres of experimental fields that Xia Ji used for comparative planting are also ready, one acre is moist but not flooded, and the other is flooded.

Xia Ji interrogated the old farmer and Xia Cicada how many rice seeds to sow per mu, and the answer was forty catties, that is, equivalent to about twenty catties of modern rice seeds, so Xia Ji instructed Xia Cicada to start sowing on that one acre of moist land with this weight of rice seeds, and the other mu will be planted in the way of transplanting, and the same weight of rice seeds will be concentrated on a small piece of moist and fertile land.

Indoor cultivation of loaches has also begun to bear fruit---- and some loaches have begun to reproduce offspring, which is also key to the success of Xia Ji's experiment, and the use of loaches to fertilize and turn the soil for rice is an important part of maintaining the rapid growth of rice.

Although Xia Ji has not done farm work, but in the biology class has also learned some knowledge of how to cultivate plants, her own theory coupled with Xia Cicada's actual farm experience, the rice seed germination and seedling raising is quite smooth, the seedling rate is very high, and the mu of rice used for comparison because of lack of management, the germination rate is obviously much lower, and those rice seedlings are growing in a weed.

Once the rice seed germinates, the growth of the seedlings is left to time.

On the one hand, the growth of rice seedlings and the incubation process of chicks and ducklings, and on the other hand, the busy and fulfilling bamboo garden is waiting for the growth of children, and Xia Ji is slowly adapting to her new life.