Chapter 66 Planting Cotton
After everything was ready, Pei Qingrin and Yu Shu lit incense together and worshipped, and there were also land fathers and Tai Sui Bodhisattvas on the table.
After the husband and wife worshiped together, they poured tea on the ground to show that the tea and some melons and fruits were tributed, and the eldest son of the village chief saw that Pei Qingrin had finished worshipping, so he took out a string of firecrackers prepared and set them off on the side.
Sacrifice in the sound of firecrackers
The ancients attached great importance to the upper beam, and the old saying said that the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, which shows that the beam is a thing that affects the feng shui of several generations, and the book says: "The upper beam is like the crown of a person." It can be seen how much the ancients attached importance to it.
The upper beam is the most important part of building a house, and the general time should be selected at the time of "full moon" and "high tide", so as to reunite with the family and bring money like a tide.
At noon, that is, at the auspicious time, the men of the village helped push a bowl of beams to the top of the house and placed them, which was a wooden beam with a thick bowl mouth, on which a piece of red paper without writing was pasted and a coin was placed on it, which means "Dingliang money".
At this point, the process of putting up the beam has been completed, and the next step is to cook food in the temporary stove of the homestead to entertain relatives and friends.
Pei Qingrin borrowed a few tables and chairs and set them up in the open space, and Yu Shu and a few women cooked on the stove, which was a banquet that Yu Shu, who was the core of a modern person, did not understand.
With their help, Yu Shu made a pot of braised pork that symbolizes prosperity, meatballs that symbolize reunion, chestnut grilled whole chicken that symbolizes many sons and blessings, a pot of wishful vegetables that is soybean sprouts, and 12 dishes such as stewed tofu with silver carp head, which means good luck.
Yu Shu didn't have time until everyone had eaten and sat around drinking tea, and someone mentioned that Yu Shu was framed before, and Yu Shu explained that it was just a trick of competitors.
Taking advantage of the large number of people, Yu Shu also told about cotton seeds, and those who were willing to plant cotton registered Yu Shu for seed distribution.
"I bought this kind of seed back, as long as you follow me, I won't let you suffer, but the cotton harvest has to be all mine, of course, if you want cotton, I can sell it to everyone cheaply, and now I will start accepting registration." Yu Shu said.
Growing cotton? No one in the village has ever done it, they don't understand it and can't do it, and looking at Yu Shu's sworn appearance, they want to give it a try.
In the end, there were still 30 families willing to plant, and Yu Shu asked them to open the idle farmland into ridges and ridges, and then each family who wanted to plant cotton got some seeds.
Yu Shu first taught how to remove the seeds of cotton seeds, and then asked each household to prepare chicken and duck manure, and use manure to increase the fertility of the ploughed land.
Then there is the drying of seeds, cotton seeds need to be exposed to the sun before sowing, so that spread on the tool to dry for three or four days can make the seeds better prepared for sowing, so that cotton seeds can break the dormancy period and improve the germination rate.
Then dig the seeds and bury them, sow them evenly, bury the soil layer and finally sprinkle with water, which completes the planting, this process is the seedling, it takes about a week to sprout the seedlings, Yu Shu told the farmers to pick up the soil layer about seven days to see the seedling situation.
Everyone was very convinced of Yu Shu's words, and they all remembered to go to see the seedling situation in about seven days, and when all the cotton seedlings had sprouted, the cotton field was lush and green, so as not to cause the seedlings to be too dense and sick, they should be distributed and planted.
Yu Shu asked people to distribute the planting to the field that had been ridged to make a hole for planting, watching the cotton seedlings grow gratifying, Yu Shu was also happy, so after the planting was completed, he waited for the cotton to grow to the time of the cotton boll, and then needed a lot of manual service.
After the cotton was arranged, Yu Shu personally got a piece of land to plant some potatoes, and the potatoes that were used as seeds were also cut in the middle by Yu Shu, and they were planted on the ground after they had sprouted.
"Yu Shu, what are you like this? It looks a bit like a sweet potato, but sweet potatoes are seedlings, but yours is not like that. Sister-in-law Liu watched Yu Shu work all morning, and finally couldn't help asking.
Liu's sister-in-law is good friends with her, she doesn't mind sharing this good thing with the other party, and she already has plans to promote the planting of potato seeds in the village if the seed shop can provide a large number of potato seeds.
"This, it's called a potato, it looks very similar to a sweet potato, but the taste is much better than a sweet potato, it can be cooked, and when I make it for you to eat after I harvest it, you will know how delicious this thing is!" Yu Shu introduced.
Because I don't know if the seeds can be provided, at least I can keep the seeds in the future, and when I am sure that the seeds can be provided, she can only disclose the matter of this potato.
Sister-in-law Liu is also very reasonable, seeing that Yu Shu didn't want to mention more, so she didn't ask more, and spontaneously said that Wang Chunxiu was looking for someone in the village through Yao Jinlian, saying that she wanted to set up a workshop and needed manpower.
"What's going on with this Wang Chunxiu? I heard Ah Ling say that she seems to have thoughts about your man, women are really shameless, there has never been a woman from a good family in our village who blindly hooked up with a wild man, and only Yao Jinlian is that kind of person! Sure enough, it's the same people who can play together! Sister-in-law Liu muttered to herself.
When Yu Shu heard this, she also knew that Ah Ling, the daughter-in-law of the village chief, had told her about that day, which made Yu Shu so embarrassed, especially now that Wang Chunxiu was obviously going to do it against herself.
"What she wants to do has nothing to do with me, as long as she doesn't violate my bottom line, I don't care how she jumps." Yu Shu knew that the village women were all gossipy and long-tongued, didn't this sister-in-law Liu have to tell her because she wanted to see jokes, Yu Shu felt that these rural women were very speechless.
Sister-in-law Liu saw that Yu Shu couldn't get gossip information here and was very boring, so she stopped watching Yu Shu grow potatoes, Yu Shu was busy planting cotton and potatoes in the village, and she didn't know that there was a situation in the town.
After Wang Chunxiu and Yu Shu broke up, they rented a house in the town and started making instant noodles, but people only recognized Tianxianglou's instant noodles, no matter what she said, no one believed that she was the inventor of Tianxianglou instant noodles.
The instant noodles she made by herself couldn't be sold, and Tianxianglou's business was not affected at all, which made her very unhappy, so she thought of a lot of ideas.
First of all, she went to the market and told Yu Shu about the fact that she bought the pig intestine cheaply and sold it at a high price, and at this time, all the pork guys in the market gathered at the pork Rong family.
Pork Rong is the person in charge of helping Yu Shu and everyone collect the pig's large intestine, and he doesn't know about it, so after being kicked by Wang Chunxiu, even he was surprised.