Chapter 389: Great Harvest
Time is like a gap, and more than ten days have passed in a blink of an eye.
Xu Qingyan's cattle breeding plan has been launched, and the calves in the cattle farm have finally been gathered after traveling all over the surrounding four counties, a total of 110 heads, and two bulls in the prime of life, and 10 cows for breeding, plus the original 13 old cows on the slope, there are now a total of 135 cattle in the pasture.
She financed the construction of a few brick houses there, and sent a few people who did not have families to stay on to take care of the day-to-day management and cleaning.
Thirteen old cows, she chose six relatively young Kaizhi, in order to speed up the time, she took a lot of effort, developed a medium wisdom talisman, and increased the amount of talisman water, but in three days, let the old cow successfully open wisdom.
There were a total of 110 calves, twenty of which were to be taken care of by each old cow, and ten places were left vacant, just for the remaining old and middle-aged cows.
Everything was on track, and as the weather became hotter and the crops in the field were ripe, the Xu family was busy again.
The two acres of rice fields used for experiments in the village were very eye-catching in a green wave, and all the villagers who passed by here could not help but stop and watch, and were amazed.
"Hey, I really didn't expect that this rice really let the Xu family plant it alive, and it ripened so early, I knew that I should really follow the Xu family, look at this time, hurry up, maybe I can really harvest another crop before the winter comes."
"Yes, it's a shame that we said that people are crazy before, but now it seems that we are blind."
"But no, you say, this rice looks too gratifying, otherwise, when Boss Xu and them come to harvest, let's ask carefully, let him teach us the experience, and we can follow the next crop."
"What's the matter, everyone can harvest here, our rice fields are still green, and when they plant another crop, we have just harvested, how can this be followed."
"I can't keep up this year, and next year, next year I will follow the Xu family, when they turn the field, I will turn the field, when they plant, when I plant, when I plant, spend some money, buy more of that nutrient solution, now I know, no matter how expensive that thing is, it is not as expensive as the grain of the previous season, do you see, the rice ears in the Xu family's field are heavy, and the rice grains are at least thirty percent more than ours, these must be the effect of the nutrient solution."
In addition to using nutrient solution to enhance the activity of seeds when soaking rice seeds, the Xu family also used diluted nutrient solution to fertilize from time to time after the rice was planted, which can prevent fish diseases, and secondly, it can also promote the earing of rice seeds.
The crowd of onlookers are all veterans who have been serving the fields for many years, when the rice is ripe, when to cut, they are all clear, yes, when Xu Guangqi took the family to harvest, he saw the field surrounded by people from a distance.
Seeing him leading the crowd to come, the villagers immediately put on smiling faces and surrounded them, saying all kinds of obedient words: "Hey, Master Xu is here, everyone let me go." “
"Hey, Boss Xu, you are really good at serving this field, you see, we are all from the same village, you can teach us experience."
"Yes, your action is the first of its kind in our village, and we will all follow you in the future."
This kind remark made Xu Guangqi's boast full of red light, and I saw him say in high spirits: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, in fact, there are no secret skills in this, as long as you usually take care of it, worry more about it, and apply more fertilizer, the crops will grow naturally." “
After a few pleasantries, he bypassed the crowd and asked the people who came with him to put the fish buckets away and start to fish in the field, because the fry still have room to grow, if they want to cut the rice without hurting the fish, they can only fish out the fish in the field first, and then put it back in the field after the rice is cut.
Four large wooden barrels one meter high and two meters wide were carried and placed on the ridges by the people, each barrel was three meters apart, and each contained half a bucket of water. After placing the wooden barrels, the men rolled up their trouser legs, took their nets and walked into the knee-deep fields to start netting.
As the net pocket swings and falls, a fish with a large tail is caught in the net and sent to the bucket by the ridge.
This time, Xu Guangqi brought a lot of people, basically the growing men in the house were called over by him, and more than a dozen people shot at the same time, but in half an hour, they gave the fish of two acres of land to Qing.
Seeing that the remaining fish would not hinder the rice harvesting, Xu Guangqi hurriedly told people to stop, but just these fish in the bucket were enough for the villagers to be red-eyed!
Because of the addition of fish, the water level in the barrel is rising, after Xu Guangqi shouted to stop, the water is almost full, these three barrels of fish add up to an estimated 100 catties, this is not counting those in the field, according to today's fish prices, these fish alone are almost up to their harvest in previous years, this scene, really gave the villagers a great impact,
The people of the Xu family, under the influence of Xu Guangqi and Xu Guanghua, there is no one who can't do farm work, even Sun Wen and they came out of the palace, they have been exposed to it for so long, and they have learned a lot, not to mention, for this autumn harvest, a few days ago, Xu Guanghua and Xu Guangqi gave them special training.
Therefore, today's small rice harvesting is not difficult for them, more than a dozen sickles are waved at the same time, but in half an hour, two acres of land are harvested.
Stacks of golden rice stalks are loaded onto ox carts and transported to the threshing floor.
The public grain drying field in the village covers an area of quite large, about 100 acres, but there are seventy or eighty households in the village, and on average, each family can't get much space.
The Xu family's original location was in the western corner, a small place less than the size of an acre of land, if you ask how to distribute this barn field, there are three points, one looks at the status, the second looks at the population, and the third looks at the field.
The original Xu family, none of these three things are dominant, and all of them are at the bottom, so the position is not only biased, but also the place is small.
But after Xu Qingyan became the county lord, everything was different, their location moved from the corner to the center, and the area changed from the original one acre to the current ten acres, and this is still in the case of the autumn sun, if you are not nervous, today is the whole barn at their disposal, no one dares to say more.
Here, Xu Guangqi led his subordinates to be busy like tea, and at that end, in the Zhuangzi outside the city, Xu Guanghua was also leading a group of people in the village to scramble for the harvest.
Because there are many fields on the village, there are 500 acres, which is really worthy of the name, the time is tight, the task is heavy, and it depends on when the subordinates on their village have to receive it, so after thinking about it, Xu Guanghua decided to recruit some temporary helpers from nearby villages.
This trick caused a problem, but that's all for later.