Chapter 123 - Stocking of Fish Fry
Mrs. Zou's cold question made the other two mothers-in-law stunned.
The thinner mother-in-law wondered: "Everyone is doing things together, who has a minor illness or disaster, or encounters some difficulties, shouldn't they all help each other?" ”
"yes." The rough-skinned mother-in-law was also puzzled, and the two of them went to the kitchen to find the steward and said all the good things, so they borrowed brown sugar and red dates and boiled porridge for Zou Pozi.
While talking, he also reached out and touched the forehead of Zou Pozi, trying the temperature, this Zou Pozi will not be sick and confused.
Mrs. Zou's eyes were sharp, and she looked at the faces of the two mothers-in-law, but she didn't find the slightest.
It's okay.
The rough-skinned mother-in-law withdrew her hand and glanced at her companion.
"Drink." The thinner mother-in-law fed Zou mother-in-law brown sugar jujube porridge again.
Zou Pozi lowered her eyes, opened her mouth, and drank it one by one, somehow, she felt that this bowl of ordinary brown sugar jujube porridge that she didn't disdain to drink when she was in the Lin Mansion was very delicious at this time, with a hint of a different kind of warmth.
It flowed directly into the lungs.
Whoever has a minor illness or disaster, or encounters some difficulties, shouldn't they all help each other?
This sentence also echoed in Mrs. Zou's heart.
weishenme back then, but no one helped him?
Mrs. Zou's eyes gradually moistened, and her vision blurred.
"The gray wolf king, smiling proudly on the green grassland...... This king will be back! ”
In Lin Ya's small courtyard, Jiang Long told the story of the gray wolf and the pleasant goat to the girls, and the girls listened happily and laughed.
Jiang Long finally recovered and was in a very happy mood, so he told three stories to the girls in one go.
Then he picked up the teacup and took a sip.
"Little master." The treasure bottle hadn't heard enough, and stepped forward to pull Jiang Long's sleeve and shook it gently.
The jade hairpin also looked at it with a blank eye.
Jiang Long was deliberately teasing, as if he hadn't seen or heard.
In the end, Lin Ya chuckled, "Husband, you can talk about it again, or you can talk about that Monkey King, otherwise I'm afraid the treasure bottle and the jade hairpin won't be able to sleep tonight." ”
"yes, yes."
The vase shook Jiang Long's arm violently.
Yuchai also reached out and gently pulled Jiang Long's other sleeve.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you another paragraph." Jiang Long raised his hand and rubbed the head of the treasure bottle.
then told a section about the gray wolf, and then told the story of the Journey to the West that I wrote in a hurry last night.
At this time, it was not early, Jiang Long left with the jade hairpin treasure bottle and turned back to his small courtyard.
The next day, Jiang Long got up early in the morning, feeling light and refreshed, and after his body recovered, he would no longer have the feeling of being always tired, and waited until he finished his punch before the jade hairpin and the treasure bottle got up, and then served Jiang Long for breakfast.
The second daughter went to work on puppets and embroidery again.
Jiang Long also had something to do, and came to the side of the fruit forest with Tudu, Gunty Buck, and a few guards.
Yesterday evening, the cattle, sheep and pigsty were all covered.
Today, Jiang Long is going to teach the tenant farmers how to prune and graft the jishu of fruit trees.
When he came to the fruit forest, Zheng Zhi and Yang Qiang had already called the tenants early and asked them to bring scissors, sickles and other tools and wait here.
After Jiang Long came, there was no nonsense and went straight to work.
There are 580 acres of fruit forests, and the time is extremely tight to rush the work.
Fortunately, after buying cattle and plowing the land instead of people, a lot of manpower can be saved.
There are many methods of grafting, according to the utilization of scion, bud grafting and branch grafting; According to the different grafting parts, it is divided into root grafting, rhizome grafting, double grafting, ventral grafting, and high grafting; From the form of interface, there are splitting, cutting, insertion, insertion, insertion, tongue, and so on.
But the basic grafting methods are bud grafting and grafting.
Bud grafting: The cultivation method of using bud pieces as scion, including "D" shaped bud grafting, embedded bud grafting and square bud grafting.
Grafting: A cultivation method that uses branches as scion. The grafting season is mostly around the time of the sting to the valley rain, and the rootstock buds begin to germinate but have not yet germinated. Some species are grafted from bud break to foliage or later, such as chestnut grafting, walnut grafting, or grape green grafting.
The advantage of grafting is that the survival rate is high and the seedlings grow quickly, but it is more expensive to shoot and require the rootstock to be thick.
The orchards here are all mature old trees, so Jianglong uses the grafting method.
In fact, the grafting technique is not too difficult, as long as you look carefully, and be more careful when you do it.
And it doesn't matter if the grafting is slow at first, practice makes perfect, and after half a day, the speed of grafting can be much faster.
Then Jiang Long divided the tenant farmers into two groups, the one with the largest number of people was grafted, and he took the smaller one with a sickle and pruned and shaped the fruit trees in front.
Pruning and shaping is of great help to increase the yield of fruit trees and improve the quality of the fruits produced.
However, because the fruit trees have already sprouted, it is not suitable to have a big action this year, otherwise it is easy to hurt the fruit trees, so that the branches of the fruit trees will dry and wither, and it is also easy to cause pests and diseases.
was busy until noon, so that Jiang Long no longer needed to do a demonstration by himself.
The fruit trees in the orchard had never been pruned before, the branches were dense, and the dust was also large, and when it was time for lunch, Jiang Long walked out of the orchard, and his body was already covered with dust.
But he didn't care at all, just patted the floating ash on his body lightly.
And when the tenant farmers saw that their little master was doing his own work, and he was not dirty or tired, they all admired Jiang Long again.
Because the time was relatively tight, Zheng Zhi and Yang Qiang instructed the women who helped to cook the food to lift the meal directly to the side of the fruit forest, Jiang Long originally wanted to eat with everyone, but today the striker also followed, this big guy is meatless.
It would be strange if it was willing to drink brown rice porridge.
And if the kitchen had sent someone to bring the food to the tenant farmers, it would have been difficult to predict how the tenant farmers would feel.
Jiang Long didn't want to put too much distance between himself and the tenant farmers.
For one, his soul comes from modern times; Second, when the distance is really opened, it will not be possible to hear the truth from the mouths of the tenant farmers at the bottom.
Can the former Hu steward weishenme be powerful in the farm?
Not only is it covered by Mama Jiang, but the real reason is that the owner and main stewards of Jingfu are not aware of the current situation in the farm.
Even Mama Jiang was deceived by the caretaker.
Tian Dazhuang is okay, but Zheng Zhi and Yang Qiang are both more thoughtful people, and Jiang Long doesn't want to be deceived in the future.
Back in the courtyard, Jiang Long had dinner, and Tian Dazhuang and Steward Li asked to see each other together.
But it turned out that the two of them found a seller who could buy fish fry.
"Where do they get their fry?" Jiang Long is just curious, no one should have cultivated fish fry in this era.
Tian Dazhuang replied respectfully: "They caught it from the river themselves, and I heard that they also let some adults and children go to the river to fish a lot of fish, and then pay for it." ”
"Little master, why don't we go and fish it ourselves?" After seeing the form, Steward Li no longer objected to Jianglong's idea of raising chickens and fish, but still wanted to save money as much as possible, "I heard many people in this place say that when the ice on the river surface thaws in spring, there will be a large number of fish fry in the river, which is easy to catch." ”
Tian Dazhuang nodded approvingly.
"Let's buy it, we have a total of eight ponds here, the smallest two put less fry, raise more geese and ducks, and how many fry do we need in the remaining six ponds? The number is too large to catch on your own, and there are a lot of things going on in the farm lately, and there are not enough people to catch fry in the river. ”
Steward Li wanted to refute, but after hesitating for a moment, he swallowed his words back.
"Then little master, how many fish fry should we buy?" Tian Dazhuang asked.
"How many acres can there be in six large ponds?" Jiang Long asked rhetorically.
Tian Dazhuang estimated it for a moment before replying: "There can be a total of thirty acres." ”
"According to the calculation of 2,000 fish fry stocked in one acre of pond, 60,000 fish fry should be stocked in 30 acres of pond." Jiang Long knew that in his previous life, the number of fish fry that could be stocked in one mu of pond was between 1,500 and 3,000, and there were more fry stocked in the living pond.
Because of the first raising, the number of Jianglong is lower.
60,000?
The corners of Steward Li's mouth twitched, and he felt distressed that he would have to spend another sum of money.
Tian Dazhuang scratched his head, "The seller that the little one has found now, I'm afraid that the fish fry at home are far from enough." ”
Rely on yourself to catch in the river, and also buy what others catch, not to cultivate it yourself, and the seller should also know that many people want to get rich by raising fish, but they all lose money, so the number of fish fry stored in the seller's home is naturally not too much.
It's good to have five or six thousand tails.
"Then go ahead and find a few more." Jiang Long instructed, "Well, buy all the fish fry in this house first and put them in the fish pond." ”
Generally, it is best to disinfect the pond once before putting fish fry, but because these ponds in the farm are living water, they used to only store water, and there is no pollution, so Jianglong is saved.
When the fish grow up and can be caught, all of them will be sold out, and the next time the fry are stocked, they will be disinfected.
"Yes."
Tian Dazhuang didn't dare to be careless about what Jiang Long explained, and without saying a few words, he left in a hurry with Steward Li.
After punching in the courtyard and lying down to rest for a while, Jiang Long once again led the guards to the side of the fruit forest.
The tenant farmers had eaten before, and without slowing down, they immediately began to work again.
Jiang Long pointed for a short time, and saw several ox carts with wooden barrels slowly coming from a distance.
The barrel is a man high, the road is uneven, the ox cart is upside down, and the water splashes above the barrel from time to time.
Tian Dazhuang and Steward Li both rode their horses and followed the ox cart.
Because he often had to go out to run errands, Tian Dazhuang learned to ride a horse, which was newly bought and relatively short.
It was far less tall and strong than the horses ridden by the guards of Jingfu.
When the ox cart arrived and the people helped carry the barrel down, Jiang Long stepped forward to watch.
I saw that the small fish in the barrel were swimming around, most of them were more lively and cheerful, and from the body shape and color, there were many types of fry.
It just so happens that Jianglong also wants to be polycultured.
Jiang Long led people to build a strong and dense network of wires where the pond and the river communicated.
Then there was an order, "Put all the fry into the pond." ”
The tenant farmers lifted the barrels, came to a pond, and dumped all the fry and water in the barrels.
Seeing the small fish swimming happily in the pond, the tenant farmers pointed and pointed.
At this time, a guard strode to Jiang Long's side, leaned over and whispered a few words.