Guan Lehe nodded and stopped talking.

He has been with Du Jinning for two years, and he already knows himself very well as a little disciple. This disciple doesn't look at his young age, but he is extremely transparent, and he can understand it at all. The so-called "drum does not need to be hammered", he only needs to pluck a few words at the most critical time, and he doesn't need to worry about it at all.

Du Jinning walked out of Huazhangju and let out a long breath as he looked at the lush trees of the academy under the moisture of the spring rain.

Last year, the Chen family was so busy making dried tofu that they didn't have time to take care of the rice fields. They tenant the fifteen acres of land, and still hired people from the village to help plough the fields and plant seedlings, and occasionally took time to look at the water, even if they were to apply fertilizer, they also invited people, not to mention the time of harvesting, and they were completely using their wallets to make it for others. The grain yield in this ancient period was not high, and in order to be less troublesome, they only planted one season of rice, and after such a year, they were busy and removed the expenses of inviting people, and they also lost two or three hundred catties of rice.

This year, the work of making dried tofu was entrusted to Xie, and the two sisters, Chen and Du Fangling, were finally relieved from the heavy labor of making dried tofu. Chen felt sorry for the money from the people, so he planned to plant his own fields this year, but only to share jobs with others when plowing the land and planting seedlings. Anyway, in previous years, they were used to doing these farm jobs in Peach Blossom Village, but now they are doing work for themselves, and she doesn't feel hard at all.

Du Jinning persuaded her not to stay, so she planned to come up with some ideas on increasing production and income this year, so that her mother would not work hard in vain.

The rice in the south, early rice is sown at the end of February and early March of the lunar calendar, just when she was busy participating in the county test, she really couldn't find time to make a fuss about rice seeds and seedlings, and then she planned to plant the seedlings and let her mother raise fish in the rice field.

There are many advantages of raising fish in the paddy field, 15 acres of land can raise hundreds of thousands of catties of fish, not to mention increasing income, you can also use fish to eat pests and weeds in the paddy field, excrete manure, turn the soil to promote the decomposition of fertilizer, and create good conditions for the growth of rice. If done well, it can increase the yield of rice by about 10%.

Of course, raising fish in this rice field also requires technology, and there are tricks to what kind of fish to raise and how to raise them. When the people on Zhuangzi saw the income of the Du family's small three houses this year, they would definitely come to the door to ask for advice, and next year they will also learn to raise fish on the rice fields together. Du Jinning didn't plan to hide it, and was ready to teach this method for free. The people on Zhuangzi have learned, and it is estimated that in less than two years, the entire Lishui County and even further away will know this method.

As an agriculturalist, Du Jinning has other ways to make money, and she doesn't plan to care about this aspect.

But now that Guan Lehe said this, she could only dispel this idea.

She has a lot of skills, and she has more things to come up with in the future, and she doesn't have to worry about this political performance with the county magistrate of Lishui County, she is also very willing to let Lishui County and more people live a good life as soon as possible. But Guan Lehe's words also reminded her. In ancient times, agriculture was the foundation, and she herself thought it was not a big deal, but who knows what kind of disturbance will be made in the end? After all, it is not a trivial matter to increase production and income, and it is possible that it will be heard by the heavens. Once she alarmed the emperor or fell into the eyes of some powerful people, her fate was not in her hands.

The gun shoots the first bird, and the rafters rot first. Before she had the ability to protect herself, she was still honest, low-key, and cautious.

Wanting to stop doing this, Du Jinning decided not to toss agriculture for the first time and focus on other side businesses. Although the cultivation of rice seeds is a long-term task, it is necessary to start working now. But she has to take the exam, she doesn't have the energy to do this, and she doesn't have the ability.

Collecting rice seeds from various places and cultivating and crossbreeding them is not something that her small farmer can do. If you can really become a farmer in the future, it is not too late to use the power of the state to do this work. Anyway, she has already stood on the shoulders of giants, unlike Yuan Longping, who has to start from scratch. As long as the conditions are sufficient, it will not take her long to cultivate new rice seeds.

Taking a step back, even if she can't continue the imperial examination, let alone have the opportunity to be an official, she has a plan for this matter.

Isn't Qi Muyuan's father the farmer? It seems to be still a big Si Nong. Even if she is dead, she can first send a piece of information to Qi's father through Qi Muyuan. With this information, as long as Qi's father is not a wine bag and rice bag, and the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is not a faint monarch, the people of the Great Song Dynasty can always live a richer life than before.

wanted to stop this, Du Jinning put down this stubble and got busy with other things.

There are not many teas in the tea garden, and they are finished after a few days of frying. The tea before the rain had to wait for a while, and Chen had nothing to do, so he was concerned about the orchard, and asked Du Jinning: "Didn't you say that the orchard was made in the spring?" Now that the weather is so warm, why hasn't it started? ”

"I've asked Shopkeeper Yao to get branches, and I should be back this afternoon."

When she bought a dowry for Du Fangfei, she bought a hill. At that time, half of it was given to Du Fangfei as a dowry, but the land deed was given to her, but the hill did not let her move, Du Jinning instructed Lu Xiaobei to buy a batch of peach tree seeds after getting the mountain, hired someone to plant it, and then didn't care about it anymore.

Chen, Du Fangfei, and Xie muttered in their hearts at that time, who doesn't know that the taste of the peach is not good, even if the wild grows on the side of the road, no one picks it? Du Jinning specially bought a mountain to plant a peach, how can this practice be unreliable?

But Du Jinning is a very reliable person, at a young age, he opened a teahouse, made dried tofu, and now he has fried tea leaves that even those big officials in Beijing are very surprised, and the tea trees planted are better than others, and all of them have obtained rich benefits, so although the Chen family muttered, they still patiently waited for Du Jinning to deal with the batch of peaches.

At this time, when he heard that Du Jinning had taken action, the Chen family was not much, but Du Fanghui's eyes lit up.

"Brother Ning, if the branches are transported, do you want to go to the orchard? I'll go with you. She said.

"Okay." Du Jinning smiled, "If you don't work too hard, let's go together." ”

"What's so hard about it? Don't live a good life now, forget all the hard days you lived before, and treat yourself as a young lady. Chen glanced at his two daughters and tapped them.

The peach trees planted by Du Jinning are all used as rootstocks. Since she bought Shantou last year, she has asked Yao Shuqi to ask around where there are peaches with excellent taste. There is a place in the neighboring prefecture that is famous for its peaches. Yao Shuqi ran a few times, and finally spent a lot of money to order some branches from a family with a big orchard. Du Jinning planned to use those peach branches for grafting.

The grafted fruit trees not only have the characteristics of strong growth and fecundity and strong disease resistance, but also inherit the characteristics of the mother plant of high-quality peach trees. In the 21st century, techniques such as grafting and dwarfing of fruit trees have long been popularized.