Chapter 107: Farming
Princess Qin felt that it was okay, so she took Xiao Lizhi and followed Fang Jing to the field, although there was a lot of dew on the grass and leaves on the road, it did not affect their interest, and they looked curious about everything.
When they came to the field, Chen Erlin had already taken a few little babies to work, Chen Erlin was moving bean seedlings, and they would use them when planting bean seedlings for a while, and they would dig them for later use.
Fang Jing picked up the hoe and continued to dig a small pit along the path of planting bean seedlings yesterday, Da Chu and Datou carried a basket containing bean seedlings, and put three or four bean seedlings in one pit after another, Fang Jing's speed was fast, so the two little babies basically couldn't keep up with the speed of Shang Jing.
Princess Qin didn't understand how the bean seedlings were planted, but watching Fang Jing and his group doing farm work, they were basically separated, the physical work of the adults came, the light work of the little baby, and the division of labor, I felt quite interesting, I wanted to come down to help, but I looked at my clothes and shoes, and thought about it in my heart.
Gao Ming Qingque and Xiao Lizhi looked a little moved, and wanted to try this bean seedling planting, Gao Ming is the eldest brother, and also tried to take a handful of bean seedlings, learning to sort and put them in the small pit with the appearance of the big beginning, and the learning is the same, although the speed is slower, and the bean seedlings have to be counted when sorting, which is indeed not as good as the big beginning and the big head.
"Big brother, is it fun?" Xiao Lizhi watched her eldest brother sorting bean seedlings, ran to Gao Ming's side and lowered her head and asked.
"Beauty, it's not fun, it's a little tired, and it's easy to get dirty hands, and it's not as good as them." Li Gaoming was a little tired of this matter of releasing bean seedlings, and he didn't want to do it for half an hour, but as a county king, he still had to persevere, otherwise he would be looked down upon.
Fang Jing has been digging a small pit, not raising his head, nor looking at others, just thinking about digging this small pit quickly, and then he has to go and fetch some water, water the bean seedlings and cover the soil, even if it is planted, there is no fertilizer, no compound fertilizer, and no urea, so it has to be so, come and water it again after some time to see, whether it can grow or not, it depends on the sky, Fang Jing doesn't know much either, but if the beans are a little watery, they can grow.
"Sir, when will this bean seedling be planted before it can be harvested?" Princess Qin saw that Fang Jing was almost finished digging the small pit, so she asked Fang Jing.
"If you plant now, if the growth is normal, you can almost harvest a batch in November, just after the rice is harvested, you have to plant soybeans, and the time can only be like this, if you plant rice, the time is also a little insufficient, and it should be possible to plant soybeans without being strong." Fang Jing replied while digging a small pit.
"Isn't that kind of soybean just a bean? Why do you need to get bean seedlings to plant? Wouldn't it be a pity if this bean sprout died? Princess Qin didn't understand farm things, so she had to ask Fang Jing to understand more clearly.
"This bean planting is also possible, planting beans and transplanting rice seedlings is the same principle, one is to increase the yield, the other is to reduce the time, because I am afraid that the time is not in a hurry." Fang Jing continued to answer Princess Qin's questions, but also looked at the planting of bean seedlings from time to time.
"Is it possible that if you transplant soybean seedlings like this, the yield can be increased, so how much can you increase?" Princess Qin asked Fang Jing again.
"I don't know about this, because it's the first time we've tried to plant bean seedlings like this, anyway, the land is barren and barren, and it's not much to lose if you try, and you can't lose much if you want to produce beans per acre, and if you want to plant beans like this, it should be possible to produce eighty catties, and then the bean seedlings can also be replanted when they die, so that the yield can also be increased a little bit." Fang Jing stopped what he was doing, looked at Princess Qin and said slowly.
"If you add a little more fertility, it should be more able to make the soybean seedlings survive, as well as grow, the yield is estimated to be able to increase some, planting hemp is a little uneconomical, if you really want to pay the silk and hemp tax, it's a big deal to pay the copper money sold by soybeans, so that you can earn it, and people don't have to be so tired." After Fang Jing finished speaking, he began to dig a small pit again, a small pit with a hoe, and the speed was very fast.
"When we came to Fangjia Village yesterday, we saw that the fields were full of people working, could it be that they were all planting soybean seedlings?" Princess Qin thought about the scene she had seen when she came yesterday.
"Well, yes, the whole village is basically planting soybean seedlings, some time ago I finished harvesting the millet, and I was in a hurry to plant the bean seedlings, which is also a helpless thing, the villagers are basically busy working every day, if you don't do it, how can there be food? In this day, the most bitter and tired is the farmer's family, there is no rest all year round, has been busy farming and plowing the land, in the end you have to be hungry, the food grown is for the whole world to supply the non-farmer people to eat, but also suffer from all kinds of people oppression, really have no food to eat to eat the bark, no bark to eat to eat the soil, no to eat to have to wait for death, so ah, this world, the farmer people are the most bitter. Fang Jing didn't stop the work in her hands, but her mouth was chattering.
Although Fang Jing's words were a little harsh among Princess Qin, she also heard that there were words in Fang Jing's words, and she didn't defend herself or speak.
"Fangjia Village a year ago is not what it is now, alas, it's a long story, let's not talk about it first, Dachu Datou, you get it first, I'll go fetch water." Fang Jing stopped talking halfway, dug the small pit, and went to fetch water in the ditch not far away with the wooden bucket.
Fang Jing carried a lot of buckets of water and poured a little water into each pit, and then planted the bean seedlings with the big head of the beginning, holding the bean seedlings with one hand, and filling the dug soil with the other hand, so that the bean seedlings could remain upright, and the soil filled in should not be too solid, otherwise it would be easy to crush the bean seedlings, and they should be softer, so that the bean seedlings could thrive.
Li Gaoming and Li Qingque also learned to do, although slow, but also a small helper, although the technique is not too good, mainly because they are not used to it, but they are listening carefully and seriously, and they are also careful and serious, although the first two are very fast, it is also because they do more naturally faster, plus they are used to doing farm work, for them, this can only be regarded as a small job.
From the early morning to the present hour and a half, it is completely finished, only a small piece of bean seedlings on the edge of the field is left, in preparation for future replanting, Fang Jing looked at the five acres of beans planted, and his heart was also relieved, hoping to have a good harvest in the autumn.
"Okay, the work is done, I'm going to go home for breakfast, uncle, clean up and go home, princess, let's go home." Fang Jing walked home with a hoe and raised her legs, and the people behind her also walked home.
After the group returned home, they went to the ditch to clean up, Zhang Xiaoxia had already made breakfast, and in the morning it was soup cakes with her own pickled pickles, and then fried a large plate of mutton slices, with an absolute appetizer.
"Princess, you see that our family now has food and drink, in fact, a year ago, my little sister and I basically ate a bowl of gruel to live, and often starved, if it weren't for the neighbors in the village, from time to time to give our brothers and sisters a bowl of gruel, our brothers and sisters would have been gone a long time ago, in fact, now in the village, every family just drinks a bowl of porridge, but not like my family now, there is no man in every household in the village, and if you want to eat some meat, it is basically impossible." Before Fang Jing had even started the meal, she told Princess Qin about the past and the current situation in the village.
Princess Qin didn't speak, she just listened to Fang Jing quietly, she couldn't see it, this was something she knew, listening to Fang Jing unilaterally, it was really impossible to prove the current situation in the village, but as long as she had time to ask Li Shan, they would know.
"This year's rice harvest is higher than in previous years, and I think that next year's green and yellow crops will not be out of grain." Fang Jing helped Zhang Xiaoxia bring over the pot of soup cakes, put them on the top of the square table, took two long chopsticks, sandwiched them in each bowl, and then from the plate on the table, sandwiched some mutton slices and pickles with them, sprinkled some green onions, and then scooped some soup and poured them on, it was over.
"Let's all eat the soup cakes, my uncle's craftsmanship is also good, princess, you can taste it." Fang Jing pointed to the bamboo bowl containing the soup cake and said to the princess
"Gao Ming, Qingque, you two are tired all morning today, these two bowls are for you, and you will eat them." Fang Jing put two bowls of soup cakes with more side dishes in front of the two little babies.
A group of little babies in the family have already sat on the chair with their own bamboo bowls and chopsticks, and they don't need Fang Jing to open their mouths at all, nor do they need others to shout, eating is a big thing for them.
After Princess Qin's family thanked Fang Jing and Zhang Xiaoxia, they began to eat soup cakes, perhaps because they were used to eating soup cakes in the past, and they had no hope for the taste of soup cakes at all, and they thought about eating something at will.
Xiao Lizhi stirred the soup cakes in the bowl with chopsticks in her hand, and just ate some mutton at random, but she didn't eat the soup cakes, but the little girl was smart, and looked at a group of little babies on the small table, all holding the bowl and eating the soup cakes, thinking that this soup cake was really that delicious?
Xiao Lizhi tried to put some soup cakes in her mouth, I don't know if I don't eat it, I really can't stop eating it, after the little girl eats the dough cake, she can't stop at all, this soup cake is the best soup cake in the world, there is no one.
Princess Qin, Gao Ming and Qingque also looked at why Xiao Lizhi was so anxious to eat this bowl of soup cakes, and they all picked it up to try the taste, another completely different delicacy, stirring their taste buds, and thinking in their hearts, the soup cakes they ate in the past were definitely eaten by pigs, and now they are called real soup cakes.
One bowl per person is not enough to eat, Fang Jing added another bowl to everyone, and he also took a bowl to eat quietly, this soup cake with lard and soy sauce is not good, but it is not bad, at least for Fang Jing, eating noodles, and Chongqing noodles are delicious, what you want is spicy to taste.
After breakfast, everyone sat under the orange tree to rest, but Chen Erlin and his wife did not sit and rest, Zhang Xiaoxia was busy cleaning up, Chen Erlin went out after eating, probably to see the situation of the donkey and horse, thinking that he wanted to change places to give him some grass, and Daying also helped Zhang Xiaoxia clean up.
Xiao Lizhi followed Fang Yuan and them together, and Xiong Er was lying on the side, Xiong Er also ate a lot of soup cakes today, and drank a lot of soup, which would be estimated to be overwhelmed, otherwise it would have been too much trouble.
"Cousin, I saw a grass eagle flying in and out of the big banyan tree a few days ago, is there a nest in the big banyan tree?" Da Chu remembered what he had seen the grass eagle a few days ago, and said to Fang Jing.
"Grass Eagle? Did you read that right? Is there really a grass eagle? Fang Jing heard Da Chu's words and hurriedly asked.
"Cousin, I'm not mistaken, I really saw the grass eagle and heard the call." Da Chu nodded to make sure he saw the grass eagle.
"Okay, then let's go to the big banyan tree in a while, catch a few grass eagles to raise, maybe when the time comes, we can really raise them." Fang Jing was also a little happy after hearing this, so she agreed to Da Chu's idea and went to the big banyan tree to catch grass eagles.