After the beginning of spring, the earth is soon lush and full of flowers.

In the fields, in the mountains and forests, there are not only the small animals that have been holding back for a winter, but also the industrious figures of the people, helping the old and the young, calling children and daughters, or picking wild vegetables and wild fruits, or tidying up the fields, or busy with spring planting......

Croppers always have endless farm work.

Under Wollongong, a wave of wheat.

Zhuge family's thirty hectares of wheat fields have already been tasseled. Perhaps in another twenty days, the wheat will be ready to be harvested.

Because of the region, the wheat ripens in the early and late seasons.

For example, in Changsha and Jiangxia, wheat can be harvested in mid-April; In the Guanzhong area, wheat can not be harvested until after the Dragon Boat Festival. Near the left of Xiangyang City, the wheat ripening season is at the end of April.

The wheat of the Zhuge family grew well, and after the wheat was tasseled, the tenants all laughed.

After the croppers saw the ears of wheat, they were sure that there was no problem in increasing the yield of this wheat field of the Zhuge family by fifty percent.

No, a few old farmers in their sixties among the tenants spent the whole day wandering around the wheat fields, for fear that some wild animals would spoil the wheat fields.

The young men among the tenants are digging dung pits.

The three manure pits dug in the autumn and winter of last year were barely enough for 30 hectares of wheat fields.

However, when the wheat is harvested, thirty hectares of wheat stalks is not a small number.

Wheat straw is put into the manure pit, and then animal manure is added, and water is added to ferment for a period of time, which is the best farm fertilizer.

Zhuge family's wheat field is growing so well precisely because of the farmer's fertilizer. Therefore, now there is no need for Zhuge Liang's supervision, and the tenants spontaneously began to dig manure pits, preparing to bury all the wheat straw in the manure cellar for manure after harvesting.

As for the firewood needed to cook rice?

The mountains are full of firewood, and it depends on whether you have the strength to go up the mountain and cut down.

is also digging a manure cellar, naturally there is more than one Wollongong.

In Longzhong, near Xiangyang City, and even the entire Jingxiang, the big households basically know the power of farm fertilizer.

Who told the Zhuge family's wheat field to grow there?

On the day of Zhuge Liang's wedding, although there were not many guests present, the news that Zhuge family's wheat field was growing well quickly spread throughout Jingxiang. Then, people kept coming to Longzhong to watch the wheat fields of the Zhuge family, and by the way, they also inspected the big dung cellars dug by the Zhuge family.

There is no secret to farm fertilizer, and it cannot be kept secret, so Zhuge Liang simply taught the common sense of farm fertilizer.

Farm fertilizer can increase grain production, even if the increase in output is only three or five percent, looking at the whole Jingxiang and the whole world, this is not a small number. The same is the countless merits of the living, and they will also be affected by luck, and Zhuge Liang will guide them.

As a monk, Zhuge Liang never dislikes too much luck!

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The sun is just right, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant.

Zhuge Liang took his wife and strolled through the wheat field, followed by several old farmers.

Standing next to an abnormal ear of wheat, Zhuge Liang pointed to the ear of wheat and said: "Such ears of wheat are found in every wheat field, pay attention to them when harvesting, select them separately, and keep them for the next year to be used as wheat seeds." ”

Several old farmers said with a smile: "Kong Ming rest assured, we have never made a mistake in the things explained by the master's family." ”

"When the time comes, a few of our old men will be responsible for harvesting such ears of wheat."

The ears of wheat that Zhuge Liang refers to are about half an inch longer than other ears of wheat, and there are naturally more grains of wheat on the ears. Ordinary ears of wheat have only 367 grains of wheat, and most of the grains on this long ear of wheat are more than 50 grains.

These old farmers are all veterans of growing crops, and it is common for them to have abnormally growing ears of wheat and rice in their crops.

It's just that I used to dig in the ground, so I didn't have the heart to think about what use these ears of wheat and rice were.

Now, Zhuge Liang just mentioned that he wanted to collect these well-growing ears of wheat together and leave them for the next year to be seeds. The old farmers are not stupid, and if the whole wheat field is such excellent ears of wheat, it is not a problem to increase the wheat yield by another five CD this year.

Therefore, they vaguely felt that this might be Zhuge Liang's move to benefit the people.

Although it is said that the credit will be Zhuge Kongming's at that time.

But in the end, aren't they the farmers who plow in the fields?

Therefore, what Zhuge Liang explained, these old farmers responded happily.

Besides, Zhuge Liang is still their master's family, and the farm work assigned by the master's family, the tenants must also be completed, isn't it?

Ears of wheat grow abnormally, and naturally not only grow well, but also ears of wheat that grow longer and become more frustrated.

Such frustrated ears of wheat are naturally not in the discussion between Zhuge Liang and the old farmers.

A few old peasants happily searched for ears of wheat, and thirty hectares of wheat fields were so big that they didn't dare to leave them out.

Zhuge Liang took his little wife and continued to stroll in the wheat field.

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After the spring flowers bloom, and meet the wind and sunshine, in this wheat waves rolling, birds singing and fragrant fields, the husband and wife take a slow walk, very warm. Zhuge Liang enjoyed this feeling very much, and Huang Yueying was also very comfortable.

The girl has become a young woman, and now she has become the head of the Zhuge family, but she is more attached to the relationship between husband and wife.

In particular, Zhuge Liang will always play tricks and get some delicacies for her to taste, and the girl likes this warmth very much.

At this time, several urchins rushed down from the hill and spread wild fields along the ravines, which provoked the old farmers who took care of the wheat fields to laugh and scold. The laughter of the naughty boy and the scolding of the old farmer are also very pleasant at this moment.

In the midst of the naughty laughter, a few naughty children seemed to have just discovered Zhuge Liang and his wife, and they came to him with a smile.

"Mr. Kong Ming, I invite you to eat plums!"

"Madame, taste my plums, they are delicious!"

The naughty boys were chattering, stretching out their little hands, and there were one or two green plums in their palms.

These urchins are all children of tenant families, and they are mostly favored by the Zhuge family on weekdays. After marriage, Huang Yueying was in charge of the family, and when making toffee, there were always a lot, in addition to being sold in Xiangyang, there were also some bad ones, which were all rewarded to these children.

Milk candy that is not in good condition, that is also sugar, is a luxury.

Therefore, this group of children in Wollongong is also very grateful to this young couple. On weekdays, when they picked a bunch of Yingshan red or some wild fruits in the mountains, they would also send them to the grass hall on the hill.

Huang Yueying took out a handkerchief, took a green plum from each child's hand, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and then smiled: "Okay, my sister has accepted your wishes; Before the sun goes down, everyone goes to the cottage to wait, there is a surprise! ”

The green plum is sour and astringent, which can make people feel relished, and girls also like to eat it. However, now you can't eat it right away, and the green plums given by the children are all stained with mud, and you can only eat them when you go back to wash them later.

When they heard that there was a surprise before dark, the urchins were very happy, and after a moment of thanks, they all ran away to play.

At this time, Huang Yueying opened the handkerchief as if offering a treasure, and said with a smile: "Why don't we try it?" ”

Looking at the green plum in Huang Yueying's hand, Zhuge Liang was thinking at this time:

Green plums, finally ripe!