Chapter 103: Seedling
Liu Ci's brain was never squeezed by the door.
On the contrary, her brain was too flexible, and when she was a child, her father recognized her lack of calmness and impatience in doing things, so she missed the identity of the Liu family's "letter girl".
For a person like Liu Ci, life is destined to be full of ups and downs, and the old Liu family is a big family that is deeply implicated, but he doesn't dare to hand it over to this girl.
The old housekeeper James surprised Liu Ci that when the manor of her dreams had not yet been built and she couldn't even afford to pay her salaries, Liu Ci was thinking about how to make money. Open source is a big aspect, and you can't ignore throttling, those grapevines are frozen to death, and she has to spend more, so Liu Ci hurriedly built a greenhouse.
With the hard work of the employees, the greenhouse was quickly built. Although these fifteen greenhouses cover an area of only 12 acres, some large and some small, their accommodating area is actually more than 12 acres.
When the greenhouse was built, Stuart came to visit the "strange house" with a glass roof and red brick walls, striking a delicate balance between saving money and maximizing natural light...... The business genius knew nothing about farming, and after spending some time in the greenhouse, he felt uncomfortable with the thick fur cloak he was wearing.
The strange house was stuffy and unventilated, and Stuart didn't think about it, so he pushed open the door and came out in confusion, and the oncoming wind made him sneeze several loud times in a row. The temperature difference between the strange house and the valley was too great, and there was a flash of inspiration, but Stull didn't catch it.
Liu Ci commanded this, and asked people to move the slightly better small clay pots into the greenhouse one by one, and when he saw that his nose was red from the snow wind, he laughed: "If I were you, I would go back and build the greenhouse like this now." The drawings can be lent to you, and the red bricks also have to be charged, so count them as a cost price. ”
Stull sniffed: "Boss, can this really make money?" ”
Liu Ci nodded, his expression was not joking at all.
Stuart struggled, but Liu Ci asked people to clear the clearing, began to mash the hard soil, and ignored him. Stuart hesitated for a moment, stomped his foot and ran back.
In the afternoon of the same day, word broke that Stull had asked him to buy glass and wood. Liu Ci had time to pay attention to him, and was busy pondering the agricultural chapter in "Qi Min's Technique", and was configuring nutrient soil.
Vine pressed branches must be planted with cuttings to cultivate the root system of the vine, and then transplanted to the field.
Of course, it is not possible to survive wherever you put a branch.
Like grape vines, mature plants prefer to grow on gravel soils and need plenty of light, as too much water will affect the sweetness of the grapes. However, before the vine seedlings can grow roots after successful grafting and soil cuttings, they need a sunny and moist environment.
Not only do the vine seedlings need a damp and warm "greenhouse", but also a little soil on the ground is obviously not suitable for its growth.
The nutrient soil prepared by Liu Ci is a mixture of a small amount of plant ash and dry powder of livestock manure.
Emster is a well-known pastoral area on the mainland, where people don't farm and it's easy to get some livestock manure. Liu Ci had sent people to collect the feces earlier, and the people on the streets of Emster City looked at them with surprise and gratitude. Being able to clean up the streets without spending money is perfect for the Amstites.
Stuart is what Liu Ci does, that goods follow the trend, under the two groups of people frantically "picking up dung", the air in Emster City seems to be a lot fresher for a while.
The smell of livestock manure is not good, even if it is dried, the smell makes people cover their noses.
The chief butler James shook his head again and again, how can the noble daughter be contaminated with these filthy objects? What he meant was that as long as Liu Ci ordered him to go down, he didn't have to watch them mix any nutrient soil with his own eyes. How did he know that in the crystal mine, Liu Ci had to work all day for a while, and she had personally done it to water the crops.
The proportion of nutrient soil is very important, and she didn't watch from the sidelines, for fear that the hired workers would make a mistake.
Anyone who knows about agriculture knows that fertilization depends on the quantity at different times. A child is full after eating only one loaf of bread at a meal, and forcibly stuffs him with five loaves of bread, and he still doesn't die? The same is true for crops, a small vine seedling only needs an appropriate amount of fertilizer, and once it is excessive, it will "burn" the vine seedlings - especially the paper-pressing method, they don't even have a root system, which is too delicate.
After mixing the nutrient soil, Liu Ci put the soil into a small clay pot fired by Harvey.
The grapefruit-sized clay pot has a hole underneath to prevent too much water from rotting the roots.
The people of the Magic Continent are not good at farming, and they have never seen this kind of pottery pot, in fact, thousands of years before the new era of the Federation, the Chinese people widely used the same pottery pots in flower planting.
The hired workers were responsible for beating clods of soil and mixing the nutrient soil, and the women filled the fine soil into small clay pots, and then sharpened one end of the vine branch at a 45-degree angle according to Liu Ci's instructions, and bought it into the nutrient soil to cover the soil.
The older children also have to receive a salary every month, and they are responsible for moving the small clay pots to the greenhouse, and the half-grown children still have a heart of comparison, Liu Ci, the young lady, looks not very old, and is not as beautiful as a real person, the boys dare not look at her directly, and will only go again and again, muffled to carry the clay pots.
Why is it said that the greenhouse covers an area of 12 acres, and the actual accommodating area is still two or three times that of it?
There is a two-person high glass greenhouse, Liu Ci asked people to make a lot of wooden frames, leaving two rows of passages for people to pass freely, and on the three-story wooden frames, countless clay pots can be placed densely.
The vine seedlings are like dead branches, and the pots are placed on wooden shelves, and they are scattered in a staggered manner, so that there is no waste of space.
After a greenhouse was filled, she cleaned up the scene before taking out a talisman from the lotus pond space.
The name of the talisman "Spring Breeze and Rain Talisman" is a sharp weapon used in the cultivation realm for large-scale spiritual field cultivation. A small piece of paper can water the two or three thousand pots of grape seedlings, and it is not a problem. It's even a bit of a waste.
Waste is waste, compared to the "water gathering charm", "spring breeze rain charm" symbol as its name suggests, the falling "rain" is long and dense, is the most suitable spring rain for crop growth.
There was no one in the greenhouse, so Liu Ci pinched the talisman.
The rune paper burned in her palm, and outside was a howling snow wind, snowflakes flying, and there was white snow everywhere.
The glass greenhouse looks warm and pleasant, when the paper notes burn out, fine rain suddenly appears, falling from the glass roof, and transparent silk threads fall obliquely on every corner of the glass greenhouse.
The person who controls the talisman can control the talisman.
Just like Liu Ci can decide whether the fire is burning or extinguishing, through the "Spring Breeze Rain Talisman" she launched, she can also control a rain curtain and only sprinkle it within the scope of the glass greenhouse.
Spring rain is as expensive as oil, and the greenhouse simulates the pleasant climate of spring.
After being watered by the rain, Liu Ci's sensitive six senses were calmed down and she could hear the sound of the vines breathing again. The vines are transplanted to the valley the following year, and if the temperature rises again, they "ripen and grow" in a short time, and when transplanted into the wild, they can only wither quickly without a greenhouse.
This is the reason why many famous flowers carefully cultivated in greenhouses are bought back and bloom for only one season, and they die soon after the flowers are gone.
Confucius said that there is no food in season, and there is also a saying in this regard, that is, monks, also pay attention to conforming to the way of heaven, all things have their own laws, and they are the right way.
The thin spring rain, moistening the vine seedlings, fell on the glass window, leaving a slight sound.
If someone looked outside the greenhouse at this time, they found that the greenhouse was foggy, and in the rain, Liu Ci estimated that the soil in the pottery pot had been completely soaked, and the rune power was dissipated.
With the concerted efforts of everyone, it took less than two days for the 20,000 grape vine seedlings to be put into the greenhouse, which was piled up with wooden shelves, and the clay pots occupied a total of eight glass greenhouses.
The withered vines will not freeze to death, they will slowly rejuvenate under the temperature and moisture of the greenhouse, and the green shoots should bloom again before spring.
Stull brought back many bricks from Liu Ci's valley and was also learning how to build greenhouses.
He also ordered a lot of clay pots from Liu Ci, and the order was so large that Harvey couldn't stop laughing, and the honest Harvey steward, after learning that Stull wanted to pay for the bricks and clay pots, felt that he had earned money for Miss Ci, and the panic in his heart was not so strong.
From time to time, Stull came to learn the essentials of building a greenhouse, but Liu Ci's attention was on the remaining seven idle greenhouses.
Grapevine seedlings are not a short-term profitable crop, and after building fifteen glass greenhouses, she is really about to become a poor ghost.
Seeing that the old butler James's brows had not stretched, Liu Ci finally found a rare conscience, and patiently revealed his plan to the old butler.
"Miss wants to grow vegetables in a glass house?"
James was depressed again. Following a master who was too active in his thinking, he said that the pear was quite big.
Anyway, his thinking has never kept up with Liu Ci's thinking, otherwise she is the master and he is the housekeeper?! Miss Tzu said that she would do whatever she wanted, and James arranged for someone to go to Emster City and buy many common vegetable seeds back.
God of light, bright snow, how to grow vegetables?
If George, who was at the Amster Academy of Magic and Wizardry, was on the scene at this time, he would have solemnly told the butler James that there was no shortage of vegetables in the Academy of Magic in winter.
When a person has knowledge beyond the times, or has more power than most ordinary people, what is whimsical for ordinary people can be easily done for her.
Butler James is very competent, and he is Liu Ci's right-hand man in many things.
But the distance between the native-born spur man and Liu Ci, who has crossed over from the Earth Federation of the Great Universe and still holds a cheat, sometimes has to be measured by "light years".
Liu Ci asked people to step up the allocation of nutrient soil, this time she was not afraid of "burning roots", and the amount of plant ash and dry manure was full.
No more than grape vine seedlings, the vegetables she was going to plant were originally intended to be harvested out of season, and she had to ripen them as soon as possible for the sake of gold.
Its practical lotus pond water will shorten the growth period by one-third, but Liu Ci is short of money, and he has no intention of making this kind of loss. In her lotus pond space, she also "carried" all kinds of ingredients, the spring water in the lotus pond space is the foundation of her cultivation, and if she wants to use it in exchange for short-term benefits, she might as well not develop her power.
The remaining seven greenhouses, after configuring the nutrient soil, sprinkled cabbage seeds, lettuce seeds, garlic cloves, spinach seeds, etc., these vegetables have a common feature, they are edible stems and leaves, do not have to wait for flowering and fruiting, and the harvest period is unusually short in comparison.
And, because of the need for fresh stems and leaves, they are also the most difficult vegetables to store.
In the case of cellared potatoes and onions in the whole of Amster City, if Liu Ci grows potatoes, isn't it a lack of heart? Out-of-season vegetables, what you want is scarce and expensive.
The greenhouse used to give birth to it should be heated from time to time at night at the hole that can be left at the bottom of the shed.
Three days after the seeds were planted, the vigil hired yawned and inadvertently glanced through the glass window into the greenhouse. On the moist brown soil, there are already small green shoots - spinach and cabbage are the most active, the first to break through the soil.
These little green shoots are not only the "success" of Miss Ci, but also the hope of everyone in the villa!
The discovery of the hired workers soon alarmed the others, and everyone rushed to the first place, leaning on the windowsill and pointing to see the excitement.