Chapter Forty-Nine: Farming Lovers
Yun Yao racked her brains in the rental house and thought about how to help others gain energy. Potatoes and sweet potatoes can only be planted when the weather is warm, so what can be done now?
"Master, you can get some more things to sell, and we should get the fastest results by giving them the silver directly, right?" Xueyin thought about it for a long time and came up with such an idea.
"Hee-hee, you're such a stupid fox." Yun Yao was amused by it.
"What the people of the Great Wilderness lack most is food, not silver. Even if I gave them a lot of silver, there was still so much food, and it didn't increase at all, which is not really helping them. ”
"Why? Xueyin didn't understand. Won't they be able to buy food with their money? ”
"If you want to talk about silver, will I be more than Wang Han? Will it be more than King Xiliang? They all want to help the people of the Great Wilderness, why don't they just give them silver? This is because there is only so much food, and if everyone has silver, the price of food will rise, and everyone will still not have enough to eat. What I'm trying to do is help them increase their food production. ”
Listening to Yun Yao's explanation, Xueyin really understood.
"Xueyin, can I bring the living creatures back to the Great Wilderness now?" Thinking of Li Xin's idea of buying chickens and sheep during the day, Yun Yao suddenly had an inspiration. She doesn't have a sheep, if the chickens are young, she can hatch them, so that the origin can also be explained.
"Small animals are fine, but you can't bring people there. What did you think of you, host? Xue Yin hurriedly pricked up her ears.
"Yes, I'm going to buy an incubator online right now, buy eggs. Chicks can be born in 21 days, and I will sell them to everyone cheaper when the time comes. ”
"Okay, okay." Hearing that there were chicks, two drops of saliva suddenly dripped from the corners of Xueyin's mouth.
Just do it, Yun Yao immediately opened her mobile phone and searched on the Internet, found a store with the best reputation, she bought two hatchers with the largest capacity at once, and ordered 200 eggs, which cost 700 yuan at once.
The store promised that it would be delivered tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so Yun Yao was relieved. Still unable to sleep, she made some grilled sausages for herself and Xueyin, and took out her mobile phone to learn how to deliver cows.
The knowledge in this is really not small, Yun Yao nodded while looking at her phone, feeling that if she could come back from the Great Wilderness, she would definitely have her life skills.
Look, what have you learned now? Icebreaker fishing, composting, hatching eggs, delivering cows, and soon finding out how to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Thinking of the potatoes, Yun Yao went to the balcony and brought the sprouted potatoes. There were 4 of them, each one was bigger than a fist, and it was already covered with small buds, Yun Yao counted them, and each one had no less than 10 bud points on it.
"How to grow potatoes", Yun Yao began to gnaw on the information again, she is about to become an agricultural expert. Oh no, she can only be regarded as a farming enthusiast now, because she doesn't even have the most basic common sense, and she was almost ridiculed by Li Xin and Da Niu during the day.
Yun Yao, who checked her mobile phone all night, took the potatoes and cut them, cut a total of 40 pieces according to the distribution of sprout points, took them to the kitchen of Da Niu's house, mixed them with plant ash, and put them in the yard to dry. These potatoes have good high buds and can be planted directly.
The next morning, Aunt Guihua got up to make breakfast, and was very surprised by these gray bumps, just in time to see Yun Yao come out, knowing that this was made by her again.
"Xiaoyun, what kind of good thing is this? Can you eat it? ”
"Auntie, put it down, these can't be eaten yet, and we will have to wait a few more months. It's all going to be planted, and when it's grown, you'll know how delicious it is. Yun Yao hurriedly took the potato pieces in Aunt Osmanthus and picked them up into the basket one by one.
"These want to be planted?" The big cow also came over and took the basket and took a look.
"Well, this is a good thing, if you plant it well, you can harvest 2,000 catties per acre." Yun Yao whispered in his ear.
No one has ever planted this thing, and she doesn't dare to blow the cowhide out now, so it's better to keep a low profile.
"So tall?" Da Niu was startled, took the gray lump in his hand and looked at it again, "What is this?" Where are you going to plant it? ”
"It's a potato, also called a potato, and it's delicious. Just plant it in the yard of my new house, this thing is not fertilized, it is easy to grow. ”
"Okay, I'll dig the ground for you." Da Niu was also very interested in this potato, and walked to the west courtyard with a hoe without eating breakfast.
Xiliang is all loess, but it is also suitable for growing potatoes. The big cow was hoeing in front, and Yun Yao took a small shovel to loosen the big clods, and after a while, the vegetable patch was made to look like something.
Before the two of them started planting, Aunt Osmanthus shouted over there: "Big cow, it's time to eat, if you have anything to eat, you will do it after eating." ”
"Here we are." The two answered, got some water, washed their hands, ran back to eat breakfast quickly, and went back to the west courtyard to hoe.
Li Xin was also alarmed, and followed him to see the potatoes in the basket.
"What is this? How I've never seen one. He picked up a piece and looked at it carefully, but he couldn't see why.
"It's a potato, I saw it in town yesterday and picked it up." Yun Yao opened her eyes and made it up, and Da Niu wouldn't demolish her anyway.
"Xiaoyun said that the production capacity of this thing per mu is 2,000 catties, and I want to plant it well." Da Niu didn't know that Yun Yao didn't know that he had no bottom in his heart, so he directly said the big words.
"Really?!" Li Xin was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly squatted down to take a closer look.
The words had already been spoken, and Yun Yao couldn't take it back, so she had to stubbornly answer: "Theoretically, it's possible, but I can't plant it, so I can only try." ”
"Well, let the big cow help you get it, I'll go to the field." Li Xin pointed his son a few times, and then walked into the field with his hands behind his back, both skeptical and expectant about the potato.
Da Niu listened to his father's words and was more attentive when digging the ground. It was not until all the soil was broken up and the ridges were wide and wide that he stopped.
The following is the meticulous work, Yun Yao took a small shovel and dug a pit and covered the soil with the big cow, with an interval of 20cm between each block, and 40 blocks were planted with 4 ridges.
Da Niu didn't water according to Yun Yao's instructions, and dug a few drainage ditches between the ridges of the field, and then asked her, "Okay?" ”
"Okay, it should be more than two months to collect it. In fact, we should have applied some base fertilizer, but our compost has not been done yet, so we can only wait for the top dressing later. ”
Hearing what she said, Da Niu couldn't help but laugh: "Okay, I'm going to the field, and I'm going to plant buckwheat, I have to help." ”
Hearing him say that she wanted to plant buckwheat, Yun Yao suddenly became interested, she hurriedly stood up and said, "I'm going too!" ”
"It's ploughing today, it's not interesting at all, I'll call you when it's time to sow seeds." The bull discouraged. Xiaoyun's hands and face are white and tender, and he hasn't done farm work at first glance, so let's stay at home.
"Okay then." Yun Yao didn't force it. Although she would love to see how people ploughed, she didn't want to be disliked.
"I'll also plant buckwheat for you on your 20 acres of land, and now you can plant a crop of corn." The big cow picked up a rake and was about to leave, and stopped to ask for her opinion.
"You can do it." Yun Yao nodded, thinking about it, she was still not afraid of stupidity, so she asked again: "Why don't you plant rice?" Rice has a high yield and is delicious, so it's better than growing buckwheat and corn, right? ”
"No water......" Da Niu choked on her stupid question again.
"No water? Such a big river, you say, there is no water? Is it that it will dry up in the summer? "Yun Yao is out of the way, anyway, she has already committed stupidity, and she is not afraid of committing it a second time.
"No, the water level of the river is low, and if you want to irrigate, you need to carry water, and most people don't want to plant paddy fields, it's too hard." Da Niu explained them one by one in a good temper. He already knew that Xiaoyun didn't know anything about farming, and it was not unusual to ask anything.
"Oh, I see." Yun Yao nodded and watched the big cow go out. It turned out that because the ground was higher than the water surface, it was impossible to directly open a ditch to release water. It seems that they didn't know that there was something called a waterwheel.
Haha, now there's something to do again.
Not long after breakfast, it was not yet 11 o'clock, and Yun Yao was embarrassed to go into the house to check the information, so she had to be patient to accompany Aunt Osmanthus to bring Niuniu.
Niuniu has been almost 3 months, I like others to hold her everywhere the most, Yun Yao helped hug Niuniu, Aunt Osmanthus took out the winter cotton clothes and prepared to wash them and dry them, and asked Yun Yao to take her cotton skirt and disassemble and wash it.
Yun Yao put down Niuniu and went back to the room to get cotton clothes, and when she came out again, she heard someone knocking on the door: "Osmanthus, are you at home?" Open the door, the old lady has something to do with you. ”
Listening to the voice of Grandma Bolt, Yun Yao hurriedly went to help her open the door and walked into the East House with her.
"What about removing winter clothes?" Seeing that Yun Yao was also standing there, Grandma Tie first casually accosted her.
"Yes, why are you here, auntie? Come up and sit down, let's chatter. Aunt Osmanthus was thinking about whether to mention her relationship with Da Niu to Yun Yao, but when she saw the guests coming, she had to dispel this idea first.
"Xiaoyun, you go get busy first, I have something to talk about with Osmanthus." Seeing that Yun Yao also sat down, Grandma had to take the initiative to drive her out.
Aunt Osmanthus looked at her suspiciously, so she had to say to Yun Yao: "Then Xiaoyun, you can go back to the house first, I don't have anything important here." ”
Yun Yao was itching to go back to check the information of the waterwheel, and she just stood up when she heard that she was rushing someone.
"Then let's talk, I'll go back to the house and take a nap."
When Yun Yao left, Grandma Xuan said outside: "She goes to sleep in broad daylight?" ”
"Isn't it, I often close the house for a day, and I don't know what I'm doing." Aunt Osmanthus was dissatisfied with Yun Yao's point, and someone mentioned it and scratched her itch, and the two chatted with each other.
"This girl is very good-looking, but at first glance she is not a person who lives, you have to take care of the osmanthus, don't look away." Grandma was begged by the Shi family to propose, but she had to find a topic first, everyone knew that Da Niu liked Xiaoyun, she had to blow the wind and beat a side drum first.
"It's not like you can't live, right? Except for not being able to do farm work, everything else is fine. Aunt Osmanthus thought about her eldest son's thoughts, and couldn't help but help Yun Yao defend herself.
"What a thing! The most important thing for us farmers is to do farm work, you say that she refuses to go to the field at all, who will do the work in the field in the future? It's not that you're suffering! ”
When Grandma Bolt said this, Aunt Osmanthus suddenly hesitated.