By the time the group rushed home, it was already dark. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Liu Yao was physically and mentally exhausted, and he didn't want to speak. Thinking that I am still a person who insists on fitness, my physical strength is so low, I don't feel a little depressed, but fortunately, I don't have to rely on physical strength to eat, otherwise there is no way to survive at all.

Mrs. Mei and Mei Xiang brought the meal. Mrs. Mei sat down at the table and said to Yao Ying: "Sister, you were tired from Jiaju's injury a few days ago, and you have been working day and night. There was no rest in the kitchen. Now it's okay, it's no longer so chaotic, and in the future, you can eat by the meal, and you don't have something to eat at any time. ”

The two didn't react for a while, and Yao Ying responded in a daze: "It's okay for us, as long as we can eat enough for two meals, my son and daughter just have the kind of porridge you made for Xiaomei." ”

Mrs. Mei smiled and didn't say anything, chatted a few words about daily life and left.

In the early morning, Liu Yao's family woke up early in the midst of the chirping of birds and beasts. Yesterday's experience and the calculation of rations made Liu Man, who likes to sleep very lazy, get up at dawn, and after running with his father, he went directly to the vegetable garden to pull weeds.

Seeing Liu Man working, Yao Ying habitually went to the kitchen to get breakfast. When I walked to the kitchen door, I remembered that there was no breakfast to eat. Just as he was about to go back, he saw Mei Xiang come out with a big bowl of porridge and say to Yao Ying: "Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Mei cooked porridge for Miss and Gongzi."

Yao Ying gratefully took back the porridge, served a bowl to her son, and gave the big bowl to her daughter. Watching the two children drink porridge, Yao Ying complained worriedly: "Not only do we have breakfast, but we also have to order eggs for our son and daughter." You see, there is no milk powder now, there is no protein at all. Before we came here, we were fed with all kinds of complementary foods and all kinds of DHA, and now we drink some porridge, it will definitely not work. ”

Liu Yao was also a little difficult. It is said that the Mei family has a lot of chickens, and there should be eggs, but in today's situation, food, clothing and housing are provided by others, and it is indeed a little embarrassing to open up again. Even for breakfast, I don't know how to get it. The Mei family never eats breakfast, everyone gets up at dawn and goes to work when they get up.

Looking at his daughter pulling weeds in the yard, Liu Yao sighed and went out to find Mei Xianzhuo, but was told that he had already gone to the field. As he walked to the ground, he saw a group of people shouting cattle in the paddy field, and they were already in full swing.

Liu Yao's face was a little unbearable, he walked to the ridge beside Mei Xianzhuo, and asked loudly: "Brother Mei, is it time to sow seeds now?" ”

"Originally, this place was summer all year round, and I heard the old man say that you can sow seeds at any time of the year, and there is no difference. But since I became governor, it is only in the spring that the first one is sown, and the second one is sown in late summer, and it is two crops a year. It's early spring, and it's a good time to sow seeds. Mei Xianzhuo was already sweating and walked up to the ridge to sit and rest.

"Then I'm going to start preparing to plow my fields."

"Yesterday, I asked Sun Zhenggang's family to go to the field to help put water, and today and one day, you can soak it thoroughly, and tomorrow I will go to plow." Mei Xianzhuo waved his hand, pointed to the people in the field, and said, "These brothers have worked together for many years, and they are all good at work. Plough this field today, and tomorrow you can go to your field. ”

Liu Yao was very grateful, greeted everyone one by one, took off his shoes and rolled up his trouser legs and went to the ground to learn farm work with Sun Zhenggang. Liu Man and Yao Ying followed Mrs. Mei to learn how to breed rice seedlings. It is customary that men cannot interfere in the matter of raising seedlings, but must be done by women.

While plowing the ground, Liu Yao chatted with Sun Zhenggang, an old friend. Sun Zhenggang was the first person the Liu family met in this time and space, and Liu Yao always felt that he was very kind. But Sun Zhenggang said very little, and he looked a little unreasonable. This person is less than 40 and already has two sons, the eldest Sun Qiang is 18 years old and will marry a wife next year, and the second Sun Zhuang is only 14 years old and can't help. Talking about his son, Sun Zhenggang talked more: "In a few years, the second child will also marry a daughter-in-law, and I will be relieved." The year is not as good as before, and the weather is getting colder and colder. Fortunately, the boundary of Qiongzhou is still warm, with two crops a year, and the harvest in the field is good. ”

"Brother Sun, I saw it all the way, the leaves of the crops in some fields are blue, and the seedlings are small, somehow?"

"It is said that there is enough water and fertilizer, and it should grow well, but some fields just can't grow, I really don't know why."

"What kind of fertilizer do you use?"

"The things that fertilize the fields are dung and weeds, and ashes, right? It is the mud of the river mud pond, and the effect is similar. ”

These days, the family is lying on the bed to watch the "civilized DIY description", and Liu Yao knows that the soil in this area is mostly lacking in phosphate and potassium fertilizers. In rural China, there has always been an emphasis on the application of manure, and nitrogen fertilizer is sufficient, but phosphate fertilizer is often not understood. Liu Yao asked Sun Zhenggang to try to collect some bones, fish and shrimp and other things to grind flour and rot the field after rotting, which is directly said to be an overseas habit. Sun Zhigang agreed with suspicion.

Ploughing is a farm work that requires a lot of skill and strength, and in just half an hour, Liu Yao sat on the edge of the field sweating profusely, and he didn't have the strength to lift his hands. Fortunately, soon all the fields were plowed, but the breeding ladies were not over after the bamboo forest. The men were not in a hurry to go back, but sat on the ridges to rest, talking about the harvest and paying taxes. Liu Yao led Sun Zhenggang to walk around the fields, asked for some advice on farming, and also taught some modern agricultural techniques by the way, the more Sun Zhenggang listened, the more he admired, and looked at Liu Yao's eyes differently.

The sun had just set, and everyone got up and went home. Liu Yao pondered as he walked, and asked Yao Ying to raise his own rice seeds tomorrow. But who will do the work of plowing the fields? Then I thought about what I could do in the months leading up to the first crop. You can't just sit idle every day. The breakfast problem has not been solved, what should I do?

Thinking about it, I arrived at Mei's house. The tables that had been scraped off the surface had been painted, set out in the yard, and the meals had been set. The meal really returned to its usual appearance, fried a few pieces of tofu, cooked a few vegetables, and fortunately the rice was enough. Liu Yao picked up the dishes and chopsticks, thinking that he had to achieve high grain yield as soon as possible, otherwise the development of his son and daughter would be affected. When I thought of this, I remembered that I hadn't seen my field yet.

The family hastily ate dinner, Yao Ying went to clean up his son to sleep, Liu Man bored with a wick branch and burned to play, raised his head and said, "Dad, in the dark background, this flame is so beautiful." ”。 Liu Yao took the branch, turned on the oil lamp, held up the land deed, and said with great interest: "Look, this is our first asset!" Liu Man and Yao Ying became happy and carefully looked at the real estate documents of this time and space. After watching for a long time, Yao Ying put the title deed into the space. Suspended in mid-air, this space is a source of confidence for the family, and its faint glow illuminates everyone's eyes.

"The space is our treasure. Now there are more things, and the list of treasures has been added. Liu Yao said to his wife and daughter.

"But I still don't feel safe." Yao Ying said.

"That's because you don't have your own house yet," Mr. Liu replied. "We Chinese must have our own houses to feel safe. In fact, you have to have your own army to be truly safe. ”

"Forget about the army. When are we going to build our own house? Yao Ying is still obsessed with the living environment, always thinking about building a house to improve the quality of life.

"A year. It takes us a year to build a house. Liu Yao pondered for a moment and replied.

"Dad, Mei Yuan is here." Liu Man came back from washing at the well, his face covered with water. She still didn't like the rough cotton towels and the troublesome wooden basins, and would rather go to the well and scoop up the water and wash it indiscriminately, and then let the water on her face dry naturally.

Mei Xianzhuo sat down at the dining table, took the teapot and poured a glass of water, and said to Liu Yao: "Your field is about to be cultivated, and this labor must be arranged well." Even if you are good at farming, sir, you are not well manned. ”

"Yes, besides, I'm not good at it, and I'm worried. Do I have any money in my name to hire men? ”

"The salary is set aside, but not much. The commercial price of the hired workers here is 3 catties of grain per day, and if it is a large worker, it will be increased. ”

"My field may need to be remediated, is it not good for ordinary people?"

"Exactly. The Zhao family in the village, Zhao Shilu, has four sons, usually some civil engineering and water conservancy work is done by them, and they don't say that they do the work, but they either have a very high salary, 5 catties and 7 catties a day, or they take one out of ten to renovate the land. ”

"The asking price is not low. Brother Mei must have a way to move them. Liu Yao said with a smile.

"I can't help it, you do." Mei Xianzhuo also laughed. "Zhao Shilu told me that they want you to take in an apprentice and study medicine with you. It's just that I saw that you drove everyone away when you practiced medicine that day, and I'm afraid that your family heirloom skills will not be leaked. ”

"If that's the case, it's better to settle the matter. I welcome anyone to study medicine, but now I don't have the equipment and I can't teach. You see if this is good, I promised to teach his children to study medicine, one by one. When my clinic opened, I accepted him to study medicine. Not only that, but tomorrow I can also teach some civil engineering techniques to the Zhao family, which is free of charge. ”

"That's very good. If he is willing to teach, his Zhao family is willing to accept the market price of 3 catties a day, and he can pay half of it after the autumn. Mei Xianzhuo said very happily, drank the teacup, got up and said goodbye.

Seeing Mei Xianzhuo away, Liu Yao asked his daughter to turn on the oil lamp, took out the secret book and looked at it.

The next day, Liu Yao got up earlier than the day before, and hurried to the door when Mei Xianzhuo was packing up, followed by his yawning daughter. The family consciously did not go to the kitchen to get breakfast, but only picked up a few raw sweet potatoes in the place where the miscellaneous items were piled up, and walked towards the line with a creaky bite.

Mei Xianzhuo introduced Zhao Shilu and his four sons who are around 20 years old, and they are all big shoulders and round waists, and they are good at work. The youngest one is Zhao Fei, a 14-year-old boy who helped Liu Man catch golden chickens that day. Everyone greeted each other for a while, and it was considered familiar.

After a while, when I arrived at the field, I looked up and saw that the land surrounded by dense forests was a land that had been simply groomed, divided into many irregular small fields with the terrain. The Shiroku River flows through the center of the field in its original state and is the source of irrigation for the entire field. Due to the size of the river, it is not possible to do anything to improve it, so the whole plot of land is slightly higher and the river water is not used, and it becomes a low-yield dry land. These drylands are clearly even less well cared for, with undulating land and weeds and shrubs everywhere, almost untouched.

In the distance, the river gushes out of the mountains, and the volume of water is huge; There is a big difference in the section, it is simply a falling waterfall, the white waves are very beautiful, not only has the advantage of irrigation, but also has a lot of water power can also be used. On the left bank of the river is a flat land about 1 meter above the surface of the river, sparse vegetation, and it is estimated that there is no soil, and it is a large area of stony bedrock. Liu Yao had already named it an industrial zone in his heart. Sandwiched between a river and a low hill parallel to the river, the industrial area is a long and narrow massif with a width of 50-100 meters depending on the terrain and a length of about 1 km. The topography on the right bank of the river is slightly more complex, with towering ridges jutting out from the depths of the rainforest, forming a gentle slope in front of the valley, which is large in size, probably a few square kilometres. Liu Yao has already named this place Freedom Mountain. The slope of the free hill is gentle, more like a plain. It is bordered by a circle of steep cliffs, about ten meters high. Beneath the cliffs are gentle river valleys, half of which can be reclaimed as dry land, and half of which are mirror-like paddy fields with smooth bottoms and wetlands near river banks.

"The land under your name is on the bank of the river, starting from the gentle slope under the forest, the gentle slope is connected to the flat land, and the flat land is connected to the paddy field, and there is no other person's land in between. On both sides of the river are stone wasteland, and there are no crops to grow, so it should be in the name of the congratulatory official. Mei Xianzhuo seems to be quite satisfied with this land.

"I don't have to be afraid, I have a way to improve fertility." Liu Yao said slowly and confidently, and then asked, "Is there a place name here?" ”

"Not really."

"Oh. That gentle slope is called Freedom Mountain. That cliff is called the Boundary Cliff. ”

"Brother Tai's land has never had a name, you can call it whatever you want. It's just that this power boundary cliff is not very catchy. ”

"Well, the name, if you call it too much, it will be smooth." Liu Yao said, looking at his land, his thoughts fluctuated, and when he turned around, he saw that a group of people had already set up incense cases, put up candlesticks to pay tribute, and babbled and worshipped. Mei Xianzhuo pulled Liu Yao over to offer incense together. Liu Yao didn't say much, and he held up three sticks of incense and bowed them and inserted them into the incense burner. He noticed that the incense case was also made of rosewood. Not only did I sigh that these people were so religious, that they had to carry such a heavy thing over, and they would have to move it back in a while.

After the worship, Liu Yao asked Zhao Shilu: "How to renovate this field, does Brother Zhao have a plan?" ”

"When diverting water upstream, try to get as much water out of the paddy fields as possible. It's just that if the canal is built too upstream, the workload will be too large, and if it is built too downstream, there won't be many paddy fields. ”

"How does Brother Zhao deal with it?"

"Empirically estimated." Zhao Shilu did not hide it, and said bluntly: "Sometimes it is necessary to change the direction of the canal, or even negotiate a total salary with others, and it is difficult to say if you do more work." He laughed.

Liu Yao also laughed, and said in his heart that this person was real. "Brother Zhao, I have a method here, which can do some calculations, which cannot be said to be very accurate, and can ensure that eight or nine are not far from ten."

Zhao Shilu's eyes lit up, and he bowed and said, "Please Mr. Liu teach me." Liu Yao nodded habitually in response, seeing that the white head in front of him had been lowered, he hurriedly bowed in return, and went to help Zhao Shilu's arm, and the sweat also came down.