After sending off Old Man Ming and the others, Mingyue and the others who stayed in the county seat once again devoted themselves to daily chores.

Ming Xu, Erlang, San Lang and Yu Jiayan were with Gu Chenghui every day, and they were frowned upon by Gu Zhixian, while Mingdi and Mingyue went to Zhuangzi outside the city almost every day.

First, all the Zhuangzi of the two families have already begun to plan for spring ploughing, and second, Mingyue and the two Zhuangzi that Mingxu is going to use to plant rice have a lot of things that they need to make up their minds anytime and anywhere.

Just one day before San Lang got married, the Ming family and the Yu family's Zhuangzi finally repaired two wide canals for the two Zhuangzi to bring in living water respectively.

Because the terrain at the end of the river bank is low and the top of Zhuangzi is high, the craftsmen in charge of digging ditches to divert water can only use large stones to raise the end of the river bank slightly with large stones in order to allow the river water to flow smoothly into Zhuangzi.

Mingyue accompanied Mingdi to walk through the entire two canals, until they confirmed that there were no problems with the construction of the canals, and then the two settled the wages to the leading craftsman.

The leading craftsman took the money and then offered to have the water drawn up by a huge waterwheel next to the riverbank.

Mingyue and Mingdi were not polite to him, and the two watched the waterwheel turn under the impact of the current, and then the river was led into the repaired canal.

The water from the canal flowed slowly towards Mingyue's Zhuangzi, and then split into small streams into the fields where she was going to grow rice.

After confirming that there was no problem with the water here, the craftsman asked people to start experimenting with the water canal of the Ming family's waterwheel.

It wasn't until the river on the Ming family's side also flowed into the fields that the craftsman packed up his things and went home with his apprentices' baggage.

Because the craftsman did a very good job, Mingyue was happy, so she simply asked Ping'an to reward the craftsman with a tael of silver for his hard work. Even the apprentices and long-term workers he brought, Mingyue gave them a hundred yuan each as a reward.

The craftsman walked away with a happy face, while Mingyue and Goose Mingdi began to watch their subordinates prepare for planting rice.

Mrs. Gu's elder brother Liu Dalang is busier than the two of them, in order to be worthy of the Ming family and the Yu family. Flower. With a large amount of money and a heavy amount of silver, Liu Dalang racked his brains and took out his ability to take care of the house.

Mingdi and Mingyue sent the subordinates in Zhuangzi who had signed a death contract, were diligent, capable, and honest to follow Liu Dalang throughout the whole process.

Soil turning, seed selection, seedling raising, seedling transplanting, fertilization, weeding... At every step, Liu Dalang will seriously teach those who follow him to learn how to grow rice.

Together with the subordinates, Mingdi and Mingyue were taught by Liu Dalang, although the two were not there every day, but they did not miss anything that should be learned.

There are also Yu Jiayan and Ming Xu, as long as it is a day off, they will basically follow Mingdi and Mingyue to Zhuangzi to learn how to grow rice.

This is what they are willing to do, and it is also what Mingyue asks. All the children of the Ming family, whether they are old or young, Mingyue has reminded the elders in the family not to raise them industriously and not to divide the grains.

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In September, the Ming family and the Yu family, who had been busy for more than half a year, ushered in the harvest season again, and the rice was successfully settled in Fuxing County as Mingyue said.

Her experimental rice and fish farming plots have also been very successful, and although the carp and grass carp are smaller, they taste better than their counterparts in the pond.

As soon as it was put on the market, the small fish raised in the rice fields were bought back by the gourmets in every possible way, and in the end, the baskets that the Ming family wanted to keep for themselves were also given to friends and acquaintances who came to buy them as gifts.

Mingyue felt sorry for her mother's family, and when the Ming family was completely out of this kind of fish, after she discussed Yu Jiayan, she began to send fish to the Ming family every once in a while.

Ming Xu also came to thank her and Yu Jiayan for this, "... Thanks to the fish, as soon as it was harvested, I asked people to send a batch back to Wulitun, otherwise our grandfather and grandmother would not be able to catch a few meals and try it. ”

Mingyue smiled and comforted him, "With this year's experience, we can grow more rice and raise more of these small fish next year." When the time comes, we can eat as much as we want. ”

Ming Xu couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, "Then after the harvest is over, we will have to buy a few more Zhuangzi and come back." ”

"I've already said hello to Sun Yaren, and he said he'll keep an eye on it for us." Yu Jiayan poured a cup of tea for Ming Xu, "Are we going to raise fish in all the rice fields next year?" ”

One of the reasons why fish is in demand is the demand for fish, but the most important reason is that the rice yield of the 50 acres of rice fields with fish on his Zhuangzi has increased by about 10% compared with the other 50 acres of rice fields without fish.

The same is true of the two contrasting fields on the Ming family Zhuangzi, the harvest of the 60 acres of fields with fish is about 10% more than that of the 60 acres of fields without fish.

The contrast is so stark, Mo said that these first-time rice planters, Liu Dalang and Gu Zhixian, were all surprised.

Gu Zhixian even went to Mingyue for this purpose and asked her if she could let Liu Dalang pass this method back to their hometown Nansha County.

Of course, Mingyue won't say no, although she really wants to be ahead of most people and make more money by relying on the word "novelty", but this does not mean that she is the kind of person who wants money to die.

The progress of farming technology can improve the living conditions of the people at the bottom in the shortest possible time, and it would be fine if she didn't have that ability, but she is fortunate to have been exposed to it in modern times for nearly 30 years.

She is just an ordinary person, and she can't be as great as helping the world, but within the scope of her ability, she will not refuse to teach some valuable farming experience from modern times to these "ancients".

Just like the Ming family planted sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, peppers, tomatoes, peanuts, sunflowers and other novel crops before, after the first or second year, the Ming family will successively teach planting techniques to relatives, neighbors, and acquaintances.

There is also her family's method of using mountains and forests and ponds to develop sideline businesses, and her family has also taught it to many families in Fuxing County.

Widely make good connections, which is also the reason why the Ming family has so many "acquaintances" in Fuxing County.

“... Not only is it about raising fish in the rice fields, but I can also ask people to teach Uncle Liu how to make money from those worthless mountain bags and ponds. Mingyue said and shifted her gaze to Liu Dalang, "It's just that in this way, Uncle Liu is afraid that he will have to stay in Fuxing County for another one to two months." ”

Liu Dalang rubbed his hands with joy, "Then I'll ask someone to bring a letter to the family." ”

He is a diligent person, in the past few months in Fuxing County, he has helped the Ming family and the Yu family Zhuangzi to do things, those people like him as a person, and secondly, the main family has already explained, so he quickly got along with him and got better.

As the distance between them has narrowed, Liu Dalang has heard a lot of people boasting about the history of the Ming family and the Yu family, so he has actually heard of the money-making method of "planting fruit trees in the mountains and forests to raise chickens and ducks, and planting lotus roots and fish and shrimp in ponds" mentioned by Mingyue.

Now that Mingyue is willing to teach him, it's no wonder if he can't be happy.