Chapter 107: Callus and Water Chestnuts
Although she doesn't have to farm, it doesn't mean that Liu Man'er is idle, she still has to plant water chestnuts.
It is good to say that there are some small ponds in the village that are also planted, and it is a very simple matter from seedling raising to planting, and Liu Man'er thinks that she should go with the flow.
But this water chestnut is different, and growing water chestnuts is a very troublesome thing.
There are no water chestnuts for sale in this town, so you have to go to the county seat to have them.
So Liu Man'er went to the county seat again to choose this water chestnut seed, by the way, she also went around the county, the first few times she came to the county town was for food and clothing, this time, she began to pay attention to which street has the most people, the most suitable for her to open a shop.
While strolling, while coming to their destination to choose seeds, there are really not many people who plant water chestnuts, and there are relatively few people who sell seeds, Liu Man'er finally found a stall, and saw that the seeds on it were not bad.
It's round, big and smooth, but it's quite expensive for him to sell it, and it costs fifteen yuan a pound.
It's really a bit expensive, Liu Man'er asked others along the way, saying that this water chestnut seed only costs ten yuan, and he actually wants to sell it for fifteen yuan a catty, but his family's seed is indeed very good.
After cutting the price with the master who sold the seeds, he finally bought it at a price of 12 yuan, and Liu Man'er was very happy.
Ye Yuan on the side bought some of these seeds when he saw her, and he was happy to be like this, and felt that she was really too easy to be satisfied.
Liu Man'er bought ten catties of seeds, spent one hundred and twenty wen, and then bought some food in this county, and went back.
After returning home, she was busy cultivating this water chestnut, first to promote germination, anyway, she was written in the book, and she had already made a plan step by step.
In the same way, they chose an inverted house, spread a layer of straw on the floor of the inverted house, and then put the water chestnuts neatly on them, with the buds facing upwards, and then covered it with a thin layer of straw, and then watered it to keep it moist.
The next step is to maintain this moist and warm environment so that it can germinate, which takes about seven or eight days, and it has to be watered every day.
But it's not troublesome, anyway, her shiitake mushrooms have to be watered, and it's not a problem to water one more place, but fortunately she drilled a well in the front yard, and now the water is very convenient.
After cultivating the water chestnuts, she went to look at her shiitake mushrooms, which did not seem to be dead, but there was no sign of new shiitake mushrooms.
But this method of planting shiitake mushrooms is not written in the book, she can only wait day by day, and record the growth status of this shiitake mushroom every few days, so that even if it fails this time, she can find out the reason next time, so that the shiitake mushroom did not die, which is also a success for her.
Even in her previous life, this shiitake mushroom was a relatively expensive mushroom, which showed that the cultivation of this shiitake mushroom itself was not easy, so she should be more patient and not in a hurry.
I have nothing to do to go around the yard, tease and tease the little monkeys, and water the flowers and plants in the house, it is spring, these flowers and plants grow gratifyingly, and the willow vines are also very happy.
The originally bare yard slowly became greener, the newly picked trees gradually became verdant, and the willow water chestnuts finally sprouted.
When they germinate to two or three inches, the villagers are also busy planting rice, and this water chestnut is the same as rice, it also needs to cultivate seedlings first, the weather is still a little cold, plant water chestnuts in the seedling field, make an arch with bamboo, cover it with straw, it is a small house, wait until about a month, they start to tiller, and then begin to transplant to the field.
It's a little troublesome, but after the cultivation of rice seedlings is about the same, these leaves can be done far away, but she doesn't need to go to the field.
The growth cycle of this water chestnut is originally longer than that of rice, and by the time this water chestnut grows well, the villagers' rice has already been neatly planted in the field.
Liu Man'er asked a few acquaintances to help these water chestnut seedlings, and they were planted in half a day, and after this major event was completed, they began to be busy planting sweet potato vines.
The cultivation of this sweet potato is similar to that of water chestnuts, cut into pieces with moist plant ash and clouds, germinated and planted in the ground, when the water chestnut seedlings are still in the field, the sweet potato has already been planted in the ground.
When the water chestnut seedlings are planted, and after a few days, they see that the sweet potato vine has almost grown, so they cut it back, and then cut the rattan into sections, and then pick it up in the ground to plant it.
After the sweet potato vines were planted, they began to plant peanuts and soybeans again.
Liu Man'er finally settled down, and the weather began to warm up slowly, and at this time, the chickens and ducks holding the nest began to be mothers.
Successively there are chicks and ducklings out of the shell, Liu Maner will be these just nest chickens and other chickens separated, this year most of the hens are in heat, Liu Maner simply let them all hug the nest, just this spring stored a lot of eggs, and so on these chicks out of the shell, at least there must be hundreds.
The same is true for ducks, Fang's also put away the duck eggs during the Spring Festival, and gave them all to these estrus female ducks to hold their nests, just digging the pond, and they can go to the pond to play in the future in the future.
Of the two geese raised at home, one of the female geese also holds the nest, and Fang's also asked it to incubate the eggs, but the geese take more time to incubate the eggs, so it has not yet broken out of the shell.
There is also the sheep in the family, who have just given birth to two lambs, and now it is time to produce milk.
In this way, there are already four sheep in the family, and when these sheep grow up in the second half of the year, they start to get pregnant and give birth again, and so on and so forth, which is very good.
Spring is a season of sowing, a season of recovery, and now everything in the family is thriving, Fang's face is full of smiles every day, and Liu Man'er is also happy all day long.
As soon as she was in a good mood, she made a swing in the backyard, and made some stakes for the monkey to climb on, or something to climb, and made a shelf with rings and small swings for this handsome handsome man to play with.
Got the new toy, Shuai said he was very happy, Liu Man'er hung its nest on this shelf, which was used as a roof, and it did not leak, as this handsome new home.
Behind Liu Man'er's house is her small garden, planted with fruit trees, flowers and plants, as for these chicken and duck pens are at the back of the house, so that there will be no peculiar smell, she also planted jasmine and osmanthus trees, and when they bloom, the whole yard must be fragrant.
As soon as the spring ploughing is over, after a little free, people have more things, weeding is the primary job, although Liu Man'er is not busy with things in the field, but the weeds that have been removed before in the yard have begun to grow wildly.
And the sorghum corn field she planted, it is all grass, and this grass is still growing fast, so Liu Manyou has to go to the backyard to weed from time to time.
Fortunately, there are not many fields at home, otherwise they will definitely be busy to death, just like this, not too busy, not too idle, every day with a hoe to take care of the small yard, look at the poultry at home and feel very fulfilling.
It's just that these chickens and ducks are waiting too much, and Fulu and Ye He are also a little too busy, Liu Man'er moved her brain and made an automatic feeding device, and after pouring the grain into the automatic feeding device, you can let the chickens and ducks wait to eat by themselves, so that they can only feed once in several days.
Now there are a lot of chickens and ducklings, and they are fed with broken rice, and these chickens and ducklings are more expensive, and they must be watched, so they can only keep the two of them busy during this time.
Fortunately, Ye Tianchen has grown up a lot, and now he basically doesn't need to take care of Fang Clan, so Fang Clan can also come together to help.
Seeing that there were so many poultry at home, Liu Man'er had the idea of catching two dogs to see the yard.
There are a lot of dogs in this village, but Liu Man'er thinks that this dog is a little ugly, and she has not picked a suitable one, and she wants to raise things that are different from others, others raise dogs, and she wants to raise wolves.
It's also strange that she has been living too comfortably recently, her mother-in-law loves her, and her husband loves her, so she swelled a little for a while, and she even thought about where to ask Ye Yuan to catch two little wolf cubs for her.
Wolves have always been Liu Man'er's favorite creatures, she has always appreciated the blood and loyalty of wolves, compared to dogs, raising wolves is more suitable, endurance, decisiveness, and fierceness.
Ye Yuan is a hunter, it is possible to be able to hunt wolves, if you take the little wolf cub to start feeding from a young age, this little wolf cub will be very obedient, and Liu Man'er is now confident in taming it.
The more advanced the animal, the higher the IQ, like this chicken and duck that knows how to eat, Liu Man'er can occasionally understand the information from them, not to mention this wolf.
Raising wolves, haha, I feel happy when I think about it.
The left leads the yellow, the right Qingcang, and sees that he will lead the two wolves in the future, and he will definitely pull the wind very much.
It's just that I don't know if Ye Yuan is willing to hunt a few for her, but talk to him at night, he should agree, right?
So that night, Liu Man'er took the initiative to have a warm encounter with Ye Yuan, very cooperative, Ye Yuan didn't say anything, but he seemed to be overjoyed and very happy, and when the two of them lay down, Liu Man'er was about to speak, but Ye Yuan spoke:
"You're very abnormal today, let's say, what do you want me to do for you?"
"Xianggong, you are really like a god." was debunked, Liu Man'er didn't feel embarrassed, simply leaned on his arm, got closer to him, and asked delicately: "Xianggong, do you know where there are wolves?" ”
"What are you asking all this for?" Ye Yuan asked puzzled.
"I wonder if we can hunt a she-wolf and raise two wolf cubs?" Liu Man'er asked softly.
"Raising wolves?" Ye Yuan turned his head sideways, "You're not afraid of wolves?" ”
"I'm afraid." Liu Man'er smiled, "But I'm not afraid to raise it myself, I raise a wolf, and this wolf will be able to protect me when the time comes." ”
"It's good to have me to protect you, this wolf will only have it in the north of Daxingpingling, or in the Mongolian steppe, we don't have it in the Central Plains."
"That's it, forget it." Liu Man'er was a little disappointed when she heard this, so she could only dispel this idea and retreat, "Then you can buy me two good dogs, I have trained them to watch the house, but I don't want the earth dogs in the village, even if it is a soil dog, it is also good-looking." ”
"Okay, anyway, the dogs you raise must be good-looking." Ye Yuan nodded in agreement, and said, "It's not early, go to sleep, otherwise you won't be able to get up again in the morning." ”
"Hmm." Liu Man'er answered, and the room gradually became quiet......