Chapter 63 Seedlings
To test Xiucai, not only is the family background innocent, but also a few candidates who have a joint name and a person who has a reputation above the number of candidates can sign up, Wang Juren's words undoubtedly brought great convenience to Wen Han.
Wang Juren asked about the matter and called the steward to arrange Wenhan's accommodation.
The steward collected the bundles, charcoal fees, and room and board fees on behalf of the master, and took Wen Han away.
Wen Jin ran around the street and sadly found that few businesses were open, and her plan to buy bedding and pen, ink, paper and inkstone was in vain.
What can I do? Could it be that we will go back to Weijiawan tonight and get the bedding from there? Wen Jin thought about it, and had no choice but to do so.
Unexpectedly, the housekeeper Lao Song was a good person, he saw that Wen Han only brought clothes, and looked at the bare bed with an embarrassed face, and came up with an idea: "Why don't you bring bedding at home?" ”
"I didn't expect the master to really take it in." Wen Han's level of lying was very low, and his face was flushed, but Lao Song misunderstood it as something else.
"What then? You can't go back today. ”
"Uncle Song, my brother and I are staying in a hotel tonight, can you help find someone to make a futon for you? I brought the money. ”
Steward Song thought about it for a while, nodded and agreed: "In the cloth, plus cotton, you can get a tael of silver, right?" "He's a man, no matter what, I'm still a little uncertain.
Wen Jin also felt that the price was about the same, so he nodded: "Uncle Song bothered, I can accept one or two hundred more." ”
"Then I'll find someone to do it tomorrow and send it over in the afternoon."
"Thank you, uncle."
Unexpectedly, Steward Song had a ready-made new bedding at home, and her wife calculated the price, and one or two pieces of silver could earn a hundred yuan, so she asked the man to send it over, Wen Jin paid the bill, and let Wen Han live in Wang's house, because the donkey cart was still in the inn, so she went to live there.
The next day, Wen Jin left the remaining three or four taels of silver on his body to his brother, and reluctantly went to Weijiawan.
The pit in Weijiawan was a foot deeper, and when Wei Chenglan heard that Wen Jin was coming, she patted the soil on her body and returned home. Wen Jin told what had happened.
"You didn't even discuss such a big matter with your uncle." Wei Chenglan was very angry, the two children were bold and did too much.
Wen Jin also felt that he was not thoughtful: "Uncle, there are two more months to take the exam, my brother is anxious, he just thinks that he can be a day earlier, besides, you are very busy, and you have no time to be distracted......"
Wei Chenglan sighed: "That's all there is to it." ”
Wen Jin was afraid that Wei's would not be at ease at home, so he ate Ge's sour noodle soup and hurried home with a donkey cart.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the weather became warmer day by day, the willow branches softened, and small bud bags began to bulge on them, and the fields were full of people watering and hoeing weeds.
With last year's experience, Wei Ronghe's family and Wang Han's house next door have all set up seedling beds, and they charge for raising seedlings, Wen Jin simply entrusted her own rice seedlings to the past, and she hatched the ducks wholeheartedly.
After a year of training, Qian Xiancheng is now doing farm work very easily, feeding pigs and ducks every day, cleaning the duck house and pigsty with Uncle Shi, and driving donkeys to plough dozens of acres of land in his family. The busy family had no time to take care of it, and no one doubted Wen Han.
Kiwifruit in modern times began to be planted artificially, Wen Jin has a college classmate, is Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi, graduated the year everyone applied, irritable, many classmates in the class have gone to the same school to play, Wen Jin knows some knowledge of how to raise seedlings.
It's one thing to hear, but it's still very troublesome to do.
The easiest way to raise seedlings is to use root cuttings. Wen Jin was a small force and couldn't carry a lot of kiwi roots from the deep mountains, so he ran to Linjin Town to find Mingshan.
"What is a kiwi?"
"It was last winter that you helped me pick from that vine, which has a fluffy skin and sesame seeds in it."
"Do you think it's delicious?"
"Don't you think it tastes good?"
Mingshan thought for a while: "The taste is really good, but it's a little light, not very sweet." Aren't you afraid that it won't sell well when you grow it? ”
"Try it and find out."
"That's good! I called Baoshan. ”
It was very hard to dig roots on the river beach, there were only three kiwi trees, and I couldn't get many roots.
Fortunately, Qian Xiancheng has no opinions, he is still a person who does not love money, otherwise, he would occupy the rice field at home, Wen Jin said that the experiment will be tested, and it is impossible to change it to someone else's house.
The second uncle not only did not object, but also helped her mix fine sand in the field.
"If you add fine sand to this field, you can't grow rice." Merriam-Webster is still sorry.
"It's okay, second aunt, this field will be planted with fruit then."
In order to make Wei's mood comfortable, Wen Jin comforted: "Second aunt, Weijiawan is all sandy, if I succeed in trying to plant, there will be salvation." ”
When Wei Shi heard this, he was moved again, and patted the dust on Wen Jin's shoulder: "Good boy, it's rare for you to have such a heart." ”
In the nursery, Wen Jin was not satisfied at all, she took out the seeds in the dried kiwifruit she got back last winter according to her memory, and began to try planting.
Fortunately, she takes care of the old hens to hatch eggs every day, and when she has free time, she tosses kiwifruit seedlings, and has almost no time to take care of the breeding farm and rice fields.
Time flies, Wen Jin tossed more than a dozen pots of kiwifruit seedlings bred in fine sandy soil, although only one pot was successful, and less than half of it came out, which made her happily forgetful, with experience, it will be easy to do next year.
On February 26, the county test ended, and Wen Jin went to Weijiawan according to the agreement discussed by the two. Before she reached the village, she was amazed by the huge changes, not only the pond had been dug deep enough, and in the direction of the river, but also the canal, and the river would rise a little higher, and the pond would be flooded.
Around Weijiawan, a large piece of willow branches is inserted, after the spring rain, it has survived seven or eight percent, and the small tree buds have grown to an inch high, and the yellow and tender are very gratifying.
Wen Jin secretly praised Wei Chenglan for being smart, although the wind effect of carrying a big tree is good, it can be time-consuming and laborious, and the effect is slow, cutting willow branches, a person can plant a large area in a day, if it is the same as in previous years, there is no drought in spring, these saplings can grow to a person's height in winter, and it can also play a role in windproof and sand fixation.
Wei Chenglan was very happy to see Wen Jin, and took out the account book that sold the examination basket to show her: "The men in the village, and even a few women with neat accounts, went out to sell a few days before the exam, and went to six counties in total, sold more than 400 yuan, and recovered nearly 20 yuan in total.
"Congratulations to my uncle for his plan to revitalize Weijiawan!" "Hahaha......" Wei Chenglan laughed for a while before giving Wen Jin a roll of his eyes, "This kid, it's the first time I've seen you, I'm so honest, I turned out to be so poor." ”