Chapter 124: Spotting Wheat (1)
A greenhouse of ripe Chinese cabbage was cut overnight. The old leaves were thrown away to feed the livestock, and James was careful with his family, and the meticulous arrangements were definitely worth the weekly salary that Liu Ci paid him.
The people on Stuart's Zhuangzi sent the cabbage away by the way. Now that they have to hire an escort to make their deliveries, Stuart once grabbed a stalker and tried to find the source of the out-of-season vegetables through the "Four Seasons Fresh" shipping route. Regardless of whether the other party wants to rely on this money-making line, or simply makes a plan to seize it, Liu Ci will not allow it.
Later, it was found out that the main messenger was a nobleman in the city, the title was not high, and it had existed in Emster City for hundreds of years, and the family was not as talented as the next generation, and was facing the dilemma of having no successor and being withdrawn from the title fief. Liu Ci didn't sympathize with the other party at all, and found out that the nobleman had nothing to do with the Holy See in the Emster region, and she didn't have a background in the Academy of Magic, so she simply handed over the matter to Lydia and Arnold, who were still in the "experience".
She didn't care about the methods of the two, and after a few days, there was civil strife in the noble family, and she no longer had the energy to covet other people's properties...... Liu Ci was quite satisfied with this result.
Since he knew that the old man who fainted in the snow canal outside the manor was the head of the Amster Academy of Magic, who was highly respected and difficult to see the end of the dragon, the Academy of Magic had become the first target of suspicion after the Holy See.
Who told a chief dean to hide his head and show his tail and lie on Liu Ci's Zhuangzi for a few days? The old man's eyes looking at her made Liu Ci vigilant, and those wise eyes seemed to be able to see through all the covers.
To her surprise, the alchemy girl Weiyi was actually the granddaughter of the chief dean, no wonder she came out of the underground cave, and no one investigated Weiyi's whereabouts during the time of her "disappearance". But in this way, Liu Ci is even more worried, the old and the young have all lived in her manor, who knows if their grandparents and grandchildren will come to a conclusion that is unfavorable to her.
The dean of a thousand-year-old school shouldn't be interested in the "small profits" produced by her manor, right?
After a night of cultivation, Liu Ci got up from the bed.
When I was cultivating recently, I was in a happy mood and made good progress, and with the blessing of the Spirit Gathering Array, the natural magic elements gathered around Xiao Lou, and everyone who inadvertently approached Xiao Lou would feel a spiritual shock. This kind of cultivation state only appeared when the period before the foundation of the Molok Mountains was at its best.
With the Spirit Gathering Array, Liu Ci felt that there seemed to be no difference between "entering the WTO" and "being born", the two cultivation locations.
Of course, the effect of the Spirit Gathering Array would be even better if it lasted a little longer.
Liu Ci took off the paper talisman laid under the bed, looked at the dim spiritual rune paper and smiled bitterly. When she cultivates, it is refreshing, and the time for the rune array to consume is also fast, and the magic elements she needs to cultivate alone are several times longer than the time it takes for flower seedlings to grow in a greenhouse.
You must know that the growth charm buried under the greenhouse is still playing an effect.
"Miss, are you up?" A soft knock on the door.
"Get up, come in." As he spoke, Liu Ci flipped his fingers and put away the dim spiritual talisman in his hand. Most of the time, she seems to be rough and leafy, but Liu Ci has never been outside about the lotus pond water, aura plants, talismans and other things related to her secrets.
She didn't mind using the talisman in front of outsiders, as it was a matter of course that people would recognize it as a magic scroll. In addition to giving Stull a "golden light talisman", Liu Ci has never passed on a talisman. Even the paper talismans she usually drew were not left on the desk overnight, and they were all destroyed immediately.
A little girl with curly hair came in with a wooden tub.
Liu Ci would get up at about six o'clock every day, and after washing, she would put on her practice clothes and go to the mountains to "wander" around, and after an hour, the people who served her had to prepare a bucket of bath water. Exercising every day, sweating, and bathing in time are the basic requirements of Liu Ci. As long as she grasps the rules of her life, Liu Ci is actually very good at serving.
The newly appointed little maid Sanman doesn't think so, she is only fourteen years old this year, not much younger than Nana, but compared with Nana, who has been literate since childhood and has been trained by noble servants, Sanman is more cautious, but not clever and caring enough.
Liu Ci didn't have a choice.
The last time she came back from the city, she asked Nana to choose ten little girls from among the daughters of the hired family, because the little girls from eight to twelve years old had to participate in the special training team, and the civilian girls from the other world, if they were not studying, most of them were married over the age of sixteen, and the maids selected were all girls of thirteen or fourteen years old.
After more than a month of training, ten newcomers also took up their jobs one after another.
In addition to taking care of the "literacy class" of the hired workers, Nana also has to care about her diet, the spring ploughing is busy, and the old housekeeper James is too old to climb up and down all day, and he will let Nana deal with some things. Liu Ci looked at it, James had plans to train Nana into an all-round housekeeper talent, and probably thought that Nana would take over his class in the future.
Therefore, part of the task of serving Liu Ci was handed over to the newcomer Sanman.
Liu Ci's eyes were a little serious, and the little girl trembled, she had been working for three days, and she still couldn't let go.
Liu Ci wore a practice uniform and ran to Beishan.
After the child soldiers trained in Beishan, Liu Ci slowly began to plan training facilities at the top of the mountain. Anyway, she had an hour of physical exercise every day, and by the way, she ran to the top of the mountain for a round trip and arranged their tasks. By the time she finished her workout, Kerry was taking his child soldiers with them, most of the time just starting to climb the mountains.
Today, what she carried up the mountain was no longer a dead thing such as a small flag, but two cages of hares. There are only 12 rabbits in two cages, but there are 21 child soldiers, and the remaining gaps have to be filled by themselves.
This is the Emster Mountains, where livestock is most developed, and in early spring the grass sprouts, and the prairie hares that hide in their burrows for the winter should come out of their nests, and she can only wish the children good luck...... At the beginning, when she practiced her basic skills, the "instructors" of the family released a cage of sparrows, did not give her any tools, and grabbed them all with her bare hands, and now she still thinks about it with bitter tears.
Sure enough, he was still a black-hearted instructor, Liu Aci practiced the sword all over the place, sweating profusely, and rushed down the mountain to take a bath with pleasure.
Thinking of the picture of a group of half-grown children catching rabbits on the top of the mountain, I don't know if there are any girls who can't catch crying noses, Liu Ci used half a bowl of corn porridge for breakfast, and ran non-stop to the west mountain to check the planting of tea seedlings.
All the people were transferred to the valley to cultivate, and only two big men carrying tea seedlings and a few women in charge of planting were left on the mountain. They went up the mountain half an hour earlier than Liu Ci, and when they saw that the master was coming, they didn't dare to be lazy at all.
"There is a shortage of people in Zhuangzi these days, and it is estimated that the canteen will not be able to spare people to deliver food to you, so everyone will work hard and bring some bread up the mountain every day."
A woman rubbed the soil on her hands, "It's not hard, there are still a few thousand seedlings left, and they will be planted in two days." ”
Liu Ci nodded, tea seedlings are not as good as trees, the land is intensively cultivated, as long as the tea seedlings are planted in small pits, the work of picking seedlings up the mountain depends on strong men, and a few women can do the work of planting seedlings.
At the end of the day, if nothing else, I always stand up and squat, and the most unbearable thing is my waist. Although it has worked a little harder, compared to the past when there was no food and clothing, now the life is as good as in a dream, and you have to learn to be content.
Liu Ci didn't know their psychological activities, and seeing them working hard, she also took a pair of scissors and cut off the branches of the planted tea seedlings close to the ground, leaving only the upper part of the tea seedlings, strong branches.
"Miss, how can you do this job...... the women were at a loss, and they couldn't speak.
Liu Ci raised his eyebrows, "Why can't I work?" You haven't grown tea before, so don't learn it quickly! ”
In fact, she has never planted tea trees, but she has theoretical experience. But the strong confidence and confidence in the words infected several women. They believe in Liu Ci very much, and they are all carefully studying the key points of Liu Ci when building tea seedlings.
A half-bucket water master, with a few women and apprentices from other worlds, the master has several years of farming experience, and the agricultural chapter of "Qi Min's New Edition" is about to be rotten, and it is not exactly a textbook. As for the apprentices, illiterate women from other worlds, they have little knowledge and are not clever enough, but fortunately they are obedient enough, Liu Ci said which branch to prune, and they never questioned her judgment.
Before you know it, two or three hours have passed.
The two hired workers carried the tea seedlings up the mountain, and they were startled when they saw Liu Ci squatting on the ground and pruning the branches.
"Miss, it turns out that you are here, and the big butler is looking for you everywhere!"
The hired worker wiped the sweat off his face with the towel on his shoulder, afraid that the smell of sweat would smoke Liu Ci, so he shouted a few feet away from her.
Liu Ci put down the scissors, "Do you know what he's looking for me?" ”
Speaking first, the hired man shook his head, and the other man thought for a moment and added, "I heard that the wheat seeds were bought." ”
When Liu Ci heard this, he put down the scissors in his hand, patted the dirt and stood up.
"You're busy, I'm going down the mountain."
The wheat seeds were bought, some of the fields were sorted out in the valley, and the spring season was not waiting for anyone, so she really had to hurry up, lest she miss the best time to get some wheat.
When Liu Ci came down the mountain, James came up with a happy face.
"Miss, the wheat seeds have been bought."
Liu Ci nodded, "What about the other seeds?" ”
"Corn seeds, several legumes were bought, and some vegetable seeds were also supplemented. Thanks to Mr. Togaran, our people also bought some fruit tree saplings at the farmer's market. ”
No wonder the strict James was smiling, it was really lucky to be able to buy fruit tree saplings in Amster City. Stull is in the area of the farmer's market, and he is really well-connected.
Liu Ci and James chatted while going to see the wheat seeds.
After the seeds of spring wheat germinate in the soil, they must go through a certain period of low temperature conditions before they can get up and jointed to form a solid plant. This period of time is called the "vernalization" stage of wheat, and planting spring wheat in the Emster Mountains, grasping the sowing season, and solving the water source is actually quite thoughtful.
Liu Ci personally uncovered the cloth bag and grabbed a handful of wheat seeds to check.
The grains are full, the seeds are not damaged by moisture and mildew, the spring wheat itself has the characteristics of short growth period, drought resistance, barren resistance, dry and hot wind resistance, and strong adaptability, except that the flour tasted slightly worse than winter wheat, it was originally the most suitable grain for the Emster region.
Moreover, it does not need to be soaked.
It means that Liu Ci will soon be able to organize people to carry out spring ploughing and "point wheat".