The story of Li Butcher has been spread for a while in the entire Xiaomiao Village and even several surrounding villages.

In the small countryside in winter, the farmers have nothing to do, and after eating, they generally like to gather together in piles to knock melon seeds and gossip. A little thing can be a topic, let alone something as big as a gimmick.

It wasn't until March that the earth began to recover, and the farmers in the village began to get busy.

Less than 20 days after the sting is the vernal equinox, the day and night will be evenly divided, and it will enter the season of spring flowers and flowers, warblers flying and grass growing, and it is also the time for farmers to apply head fertilizer. If there is no wheat in the field, let him plough it and return to the field.

Therefore, before the spring equinox, all the farm tools and fertilizers must be prepared, and people must also be full of spirit and ready to deal with the upcoming spring farming. Almost as soon as the sting passed, the piles of chat groups in the village automatically disappeared, and were replaced by people busy preparing for spring.

Cherry's family is also busy.

Because the spring rush is really inseparable, and as soon as spring arrives, you can find other ways to turn around when you eat and wear, so the star fruit quit the laundry work for the rich family in the neighboring village, and made time to concentrate on preparing for the farm with a few younger sisters.

The beginning of spring is not only the recovery of all things, but also the time when the glacier is frozen.

The Nanxiang River in front of the courtyard has already flowed 'whooshing'. In addition to the things that Cherry did to do the things that the star fruit explained, she also had to be distracted from preparing to catch fish fry.

Every household in Xiaomiao Village raises fish, one can eat it by itself, and the other can also sell it to subsidize the family, as long as you feed a little leftover food at home every day, as long as there is no shortage of water, the fish is actually very good to raise. Besides, there is a ready-made fish pond at home, and if you don't raise it, you won't raise it for nothing.

On the other hand, if you want to grow yam in the field where Cotton Peach is promised to Cherry, you must dig a ditch at least half a meter deep, otherwise the soil will be too hard and the roots of the yam will not grow at all. In this way, Cherry still has to do the work of star fruit and call a few sisters to help. She couldn't dig such a deep and long ditch herself.

As for the fertilizer used to grow yam and some special bait for fish farming, cherries are going to be bought with private money. I don't let my sisters know about it, it's too difficult to ask the eldest sister to let go and let go of some money.

After the spring equinox, families began to work hard.

After the sisters discussed, the five acres of land in the cotton peach tenant planned to plant a season of soybeans first, and after harvesting with wheat in May and June, it was almost just in time to plant another crop of corn, and when the corn was harvested, they could plant wheat again, and there was no need to waste empty land.

Five acres of land is a breeze for a strong farmer, and an ordinary strong farmer can serve seven or eight acres of land alone. But for the sisters of the Yue family, serving five acres of land is already very free. After all, they are still young, and their strength has not grown, and they can't do most of the heavy work in the field at all, which is not a matter of time and numbers.

Fortunately, there are many uncles in Beihu Village, so the eldest cousin and the second cousin have been here for a few days, and Wenhe Wenhai has finished his work in the field every day and then came to help, and the soybeans in the field are planted. The rest of the fertilizing and watering work can be done by the sisters.

After doing this, Cherry coaxed her two cousins to help her dig out the ditch. This field is about two meters wide and more than 20 meters long, leaving a small piece for her family to grow vegetables to eat, and the rest is all dug into a ditch for planting yams. However, because the ditch is dug one and a half meters, the area is not too large, and the total size is only half an acre.

It wasn't until they helped the cherry sisters finish all the heavy work that the two cousins went back to Beihu Village. The matter between the eldest cousin and Zhao Santian has been basically decided, and the two families are ready to perform six ceremonies after the spring is over, striving to get married before the summer solstice.

Because of this, the eldest cousin was happy, and he was grateful to the sisters, so he worked very hard, and in his spare time repaired all the hare cages in the yard, and helped Cherry weave a few large bamboo baskets with small holes in the thin bamboo that she wanted.

In ancient times, most of the fertilizers used for farming were home-grown manure. Most farmers will mix grass oranges, corn oranges and rotten tree leaves with manure before winter, soak them for a winter, and when spring comes, they will be full of fertility and applied to the fields to ensure a good harvest.

Carambola and several sisters didn't expect this, and they didn't make manure before winter, even if there is not much manure at home now, so they had no choice but to buy some.

Cherry led the walnuts to work all day and night in her half-acre and three-third of the land.

Because there are no yam tuber roots in hand, you can only use yam beans for planting. It was still a little cold at the end of March, and it was almost mid-April when the right temperature was for yam planting. Taking advantage of this time in between, the cherry was busy fertilizing the soil, loosening the soil, and cultivating small yam seedlings.

Fertile soil, mainly to fertilize the soil ditch. This had already been applied by my cousins when they had dug the ditch, and now it had been filled back with the soft soil that had been planed. The cherries were watered twice to allow the fertility to spread.

Then she used the leaky wooden basin at home to fill the soil, covered the soil with fertilizer, buried the yam beans she had reserved in advance, pasted a layer of window paper on the basin, put it on the windowsill during the day to bask in the sun, put the kang on the head at night to warm up, and drenched the water once a day. In this way, when it is planted after it emerges from the seedlings, there will be no shortage of seedlings and short seedlings. If the yam beans are planted directly into the field, the temperature is not good at this time, not only will it prolong the maturity period of the yam beans, but also the yam seedlings will be loose and uneven, and it is not conducive to the growth of rhizomes In addition to taking care of the small yam seedlings carefully every day, cherries should also run into the ground once a day to check the soil conditions in the field. When she had some spare time, she took the big bamboo basket that her eldest cousin helped her weave to the reed beach to catch fish fry.

In her previous life, she relied on her own strength to achieve the position of deputy director, and there is no doubt that she has a lot of experience and good skills. Although there is no modern equipment and chemical fertilizers, it is still possible to grow some yams and raise some fish.

At the beginning of April, at the request of star fruit, Mian Tao went to buy some chicken cubs and came back to raise. Every day, they had to beat grass to feed the hares, and they just came back with a little more grass, chopped it, stirred up some wheat bran, and fed it to the chickens.

The piglets were brought back directly from Mama Qu's house. Her old sows have always been rarely sick, they are long and strong, and the cubs they give birth to are all fat and strong. Because this litter of pigs was rescued by cherry, when she went to her house to hold the pigs, Mama Qu insisted on not asking for money, and finally couldn't twist the cotton peaches, so she symbolically asked for a few.

In addition to buying bean seeds and fertilizer, this time I spent a lot of money, and I went to the small two taels of silver. I haven't counted the private money that Cherry secretly spent.

Carambola counted the remaining money in his hand, the original silver of more than sixteen taels, the construction of the yard, the repayment of the debts of the big stone, plus the expenses of the spring, there were still a little more than eight taels left. It took only a few months to spend so much, and the star fruit touched the rest with some distress, thinking secretly in her heart that the money must not be moved again, and it should be kept for Mi Tao as a dowry.

"Fourth sister, can we catch fish fry like this?" Walnut held a wooden basin in his hand, and his big watery eyes were wide open, looking at the cherry with curiosity.

"Naturally. Or how did the fry in our small fish pond come from? Cherry was holding the large, contemptuous bamboo basket, and a few days ago because it was still cold, and there were not many fish fry, so it took a lot of effort for her to get a few, and she froze herself. It was much warmer than it had been for a few days, and she thought that there should be more fish fry, so she took the walnuts with her and wanted to try her luck again.

Unexpectedly, when I arrived at the reed beach, there were a lot of people, and there were shouts one after another.

Cherry was frightened, thinking that these people were all here to catch fish fry. If you look closely, you can see that they are all pulling big nets to catch wild ducks.

At this time, it has just warmed up, and there are not many wild ducks on the water, but because the weather has not completely warmed up, the ducks are not so flexible in their response, and the chance of catching them is much greater. The small reed beach was surrounded by hundreds of people, from all villages, men, women and children, each forming four corners, pulling fishing nets and holding bait.

Well, it seems that within a year or two, the ducks on this reed bank will be extinct. Cherry lamented, she was just playing a little trick to survive, but she didn't expect to cause so much trouble to these wild ducks.

However, the only good thing about so many people going to catch ducks is that no one wants to catch fish fry.

Cherry led the walnut and carefully tread the wet ground, carefully looking for the shallows. There are many small inlets in the shallows, and most of the inlets are surrounded by some small fish and shrimp, and you can catch them with a large bamboo basket, pick up the fish and shrimp, throw them into the walnut basin, and then go to find the next small inlet.

After a while, the two sisters caught more than a dozen small fish.

Looking ahead, there are still a lot of small inlets, but there are too many fish seedlings, and the pond at home can't be raised, and it's also blind! Cherry pondered for a moment, raised her face and led the walnut onwards.

Fish fry are not easy to catch, take advantage of the time when people's attention is now on the ducks, if you can catch more fish, if your own small fish pond can not be raised, there is also a small fish pond of the uncle's house, his family was originally very large, but because of the construction of the wing, the pond was filled, and now there is only a small one, smaller than his own house.

If the uncle's family can't raise it, the fish fry can also be sold, if it really can't work, it's a big deal for the sisters to dig a pond in the yard? There is no need to build a wing room at home, and the yard is very spacious.

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