Chapter 149: The July Wheat Harvest

PS: After seeing a book friend Baidu's sunflower flower language, I suspect that I will abuse the master...... Anyway, you really want to think about it a lot, unlike the compassionate Senior Sister Lin, Xiao Liuzi is a happy second goods who have a grudge and is about to be revenged, and love is immediately grabbed, this kind of second goods is no longer the existence of the author who wants to abuse ==!

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After the sunflowers are in full bloom, there are also signs of other flowers in the estate blooming. There are many other colors in bright yellow, standing on a high place and looking at the valley, the progressive colors are like an overturned palette, rendered layer by layer, where can you imagine that only a little more than a year ago, this was still a desolate valley with bare sand.

The young maids loved the flowers, and the hungry hired servants were more concerned about the wheat, which had turned from sunny to yellow.

With abundant sunshine and careful management, the wheat planted was harvested a month earlier than Liu Ci expected. Because Liu Ci had recently been obsessed with cultivation, the old butler James asked experienced employees and spontaneously organized people to collect wheat.

The planting area of 70 is not at all difficult for the labor force of the estate.

Dozens of women with quick hands and feet gathered together to throw off their necks and work hard in the morning when the sun was not very strong, and in just one morning, seventy pounds of wheat were cut down and bundles spread out in the wheat field.

"This wheat grows better than anywhere else." A peasant woman wiped the sweat from her neck and sighed to her companion.

The companions nodded, they are all people living at the bottom, some are still fugitive slaves, wheat is originally the staple food of the mainland, and there are very few hired workers and peasant women who have never planted wheat. But according to their previous understanding, with such a high-yield field, it will only be in the hands of the great nobles.

In addition to the most fertile fiefs in the name of the great nobles, it was not expected that the notoriously barren Emster Mountains could also produce a good wheat harvest...... You know, this is a fief that the truly powerful nobles are absolutely unwilling to accept.

"Listen to Miss Ci's words, it's right anyway, I haven't seen anyone who knows more than Miss!"

The peasant women muttered and talked as they worked. As soon as a woman threw out this statement, it was immediately agreed by everyone. Literacy classes were held on the estates, and in addition to teaching the children, the hired workers and peasant women were willing to listen in their spare time, and after recognizing a few words, the women were much better in speaking and acting than before.

Not only are they learning more advanced farming techniques, but they are also secretly comparing. Compared with each other, according to Liu Ci's instructions, whether it was vegetables or wheat, the harvest really surprised and convinced them.

No, in the interval between harvesting the wheat, everyone began to discuss it again.

These people are originally displaced people from all over the world, gathered from all walks of life in Emst, have traveled to many places, seen a lot of water and soil, and everyone confirms each other, hey, the crop yield of the valley manor is really not low.

"In half a month, the soybeans will be harvested, right?"

There are a lot of soybeans planted next to the wheat field, and the pods are getting fuller, and now they can be used for cooking. Compared with the peas that everyone loved to eat in the past, the taste of green soybeans is actually not bad, and when used to burn with meat, there is a strong fragrance that peas do not have.

"In the past, soybeans were eaten without food, and in Emster they were used by nobles to feed horses, but now? I heard that after the soybean milk, tofu brain and other foods in our manor became popular in the city, the price of soybeans has risen several times, and now the nobles don't use it to feed Mahler! ”

The woman's husband had recently been transferred to manage the carriage and horse transport, and she was better informed than anyone else.

The companions knew this, first flattered her, and then echoed her statement: "Soybeans are boiled and eaten in water, and if you eat too much, your stomach is flatulent, so you can only feed them to horses before?" Now I heard that those aristocratic lords in the city also brought food made of soybeans to the table, and I was quite relieved to hear it, we used to eat boiled beans and were looked down upon, but now they don't eat the same food? ”

As soon as the peasant woman's voice fell, the woman next to her laughed out loud.

"If Miss Ci hears it here, you will be considered a rich man!"

The peasant women laughed when they heard this. There is still a reason for the word "hating the rich" to come out of Liu Ci's mouth, the children in the family can already read some books when they go to literacy classes, and reading books can make people understand the truth, and some hired workers have doubts after listening to the words in the book: Why do they have to work so hard, and the nobles are born to enjoy?

During that time, part of the work attitude was quite negative, Liu Ci knew that he could not solve the problem, the nobles are now enjoying themselves precisely because of the efforts of their ancestors, you were originally just exiles, and now you have the opportunity to live and work in peace and contentment, and your children and grandchildren can learn, how do you know that you can't become a nobleman in a few generations.

Hearing this, everyone was convinced, thinking about the old days, and then comparing them with the present happiness. As Liu Ci said, is it true that the aristocracy is born naturally from the beginning, and if you want to obtain a higher status, you still have to rely on the unremitting efforts of generations. If you continue to learn, there will always be an opportunity for accomplished people to be born among your children and grandchildren, and then you will be able to completely change the hierarchical status of the family.

Liu Ci is not talking nonsense, her prestige in the hearts of the employees is incalculable by her behavior for more than a year. She is reliable, and everyone is willing to believe what she says.

"I'll feed and clothe you, don't work hard, and have time to mumble, these lazy women!"

A few hired workers who applied the last coat of fertilizer to the corn scolded loudly, but the peasant women did not dare to talk back, so they had to stop gossiping and continue to work.

Liu Ci's personal maid Sang Man, with a few companions to bring water to the peasant women who worked, looked at each other and smiled when they heard the words.

"Miss Ci said that you can do more work by combining work and rest, everyone should rest, and it is not too late to drink saliva and then cut wheat."

The large clay pot is a kind of tea soup dried and boiled on the grassland, which is sought after by the herdsmen of Amster, which can not only relieve greasy, but also cool and reduce fire in summer.

The peasant women put down their scythes and gathered around. You have a bowl, I have a bowl, and several large clay pots of herbal tea are quickly scooped to the bottom. After drinking herbal tea, the stuffiness and fatigue of the work were much lighter, and of course everyone was embarrassed to continue to talk around, so they all threw off their arms and cut wheat.

Samman's mother probed her brain, took her daughter's hand and wanted to ask something, but she looked entangled again, and finally lowered her voice and asked, "What you said at home last night, do you have to think about it...... Now that you are serving Miss Ci closely, you don't have more face than others, there are only so many excellent objects in Zhuangzi, if you don't catch it quickly, it's too late! ”

Samman shook off his mother's hand and stomped his foot again: "You think too much, Miss Ci said that we are still young." Sister Nana, they are not in a hurry, what are you worried about me? ”

The woman was speechless. Compared with Nana who has followed Liu Ci for a long time, her daughter Sangman is indeed still shallow, and it is really difficult to surpass them - but those knights are really not young, and the number is not large, if you don't start early, will Sangman still have her share?

Following Arnold to take over the mercenary mission, the black cavalry who had left Emster had lost their armor and were ambushing somewhere, when several people suddenly sneezed inexplicably, causing Arnold, the leader of the team, to look at him like a knife.

The knights shrunk their necks, so innocent.

The wheat stalks are cut down, and after a day of exposure to the sun, the dew on the ears of wheat is gone, so it is better to knock the wheat grains off.

The peasant women could no longer be left to do this work, and in the afternoon one or twenty men rolled up their sleeves and threshed the ears of wheat in full swing. From time to time, the little locusts jumped on the people, and Hansen, who had returned from grazing, was eager to drive a flock of chickens and eat up the bugs.

Hey, you still have to wait for the wheat to be harvested from the ground, before you can drive the chickens to eat the pests, peck the wheat grains that fall on the ground and are not easy to pick up, the chickens that eat the insects lay big eggs, and the wheat grains can give them autumn fat, in short, there will be no waste!

Because Stull intended to build a paper mill, the wheat stalks were not kept as fuel, but were piled up separately.

With the old housekeeper James co-ordinating, dozens of wheat from harvest to return to the warehouse, there is no trouble for Liu Ci at all. The new wheat was dried and ground into flour, and after eating it for a few days, Liu Ci reacted.

Spring wheat is not as good as winter wheat, and the few acres of private land that Liu Ci irrigated with lotus pond water were originally intended to be used to feed livestock, because the unique effect of lotus pond water is a month earlier than that 70 more wheat. However, to her surprise, the harvested wheat grains were long and narrow, and the shape was not like ordinary wheat, but similar to another highland grain recorded in agricultural books, "barley".

Barley, a cereal crop of the genus Poaceae, has been cultivated for thousands of years in the highlands before the New Era of the Earth Federation.

This made Liu Ci suspect that even with the farming techniques that were ahead of her time and the lotus pond space water that promoted the growth of plants, sometimes she could not stop the plants from mutating themselves in order to adapt to the growth environment.

Orange is orange born in Huainan, and orange is born in Huaibei, and the leaves are similar, but the taste is different.

Inspired by this, Liu Ci's Dao heart, which had not advanced for a long time since the foundation was built, was loosened. She vaguely felt that the time for a breakthrough was not far away.

In order to advance to the middle stage of foundation building in one go, Liu Ci was relieved of the trivial matters of the manor and chose to retreat.

Thanks to the blessing of the wolf god, Liu Ci is not short of cinnabar ink for drawing talismans for the time being.

Her whole person is now immersed in a state of madness, after drawing one after another on the rune paper, the spiritual power in her body is consumed, and then meditating and cultivating, and when she recovers, she will continue to draw runes.

The room was littered with all kinds of rune papers, some of which were successful runes, and some of which were half-finished products of failure. The personal maid was also strictly ordered by Liu Ci to stop, and it was really difficult for Liu Ci, who stepped into this room at will, to ensure his safety when he stepped into this room at will.

Exquisite food, gorgeous dresses, and leisurely enjoyment were all left behind by Liu Ci for the time being. There was nothing to distract her, and at this time, Liu Ci's eyes were only left with the shadow of the rune in the sky.

What is a symbol?

Is it a combination of cinnabar, yellow paper, and spiritual power?

No, the step-by-step talisman is just a dead thing, the real talisman is spiritual! Otherwise, how could the person who draws the talisman affect the quality of the talisman because of various emotions?

The breeze can disturb people's thoughts, and the heat can disturb the state of mind when drawing symbols. Thou shalt not hunger, nor thirst, nor tolerate cold, nor heat...... This is the best state of the person who draws the talisman, and it is also the attitude towards the talisman.

In the tireless drawing, she seems to have seized the opportunity to enter the Tao with a talisman!