Chapter 394: Planting Mulberry Forests
Bath is located in a hilly area and can grow crops on the surrounding flat or gentle slopes, so it is a rare village on the mainland where labor is constrained by productivity - because of the lack of labor, the surrounding fields outside the village are not fully developed.
"I think back then, my mother also planted wheat in this area. Lena sighed, pointing to a field below the slope.
"Stinky woman, you also grow crops?" Pei Pei grinned, "And how much did you get in the end?"
"At that time, everyone planted wheat and sowed it in patches, how can it be planted line by row like now?" Lena pouted, "As for the harvest, my mother doesn't know." ”
"I don't know?" Gan Guyu also smiled, "It can't be that there is no harvest, right?
"I really don't know. Lena glared at Gangu Yu, "It takes several months for a crop to mature, how can the old lady have the leisure to guard these fields? Oh wow, the old lady is still more interested in malt wine......"
Pei Pei stuck out his tongue: "No wonder you are a heavy drinker, it turns out that you have liked to drink since you were a child." Only this Bath village can raise an alcoholic like you!"
Most of the flat land outside the village is covered with wheat, and in some places, sweet potatoes are planted here. Ganguyu also deliberately left relatively good land for Bath Village, and chose some relatively barren slopes to prepare for planting mulberry trees. In this way, it can leave room for the expansion of production in Bath Village in the future, and secondly, the mulberry tree, as a barren and cold-tolerant tree species, can be planted on the slope without too fine management.
In view of the soil conditions here, Gangu Yu led Pei Peilina and the others not to improve the soil too much, and after the girls had fun, he put away the soil petri dish first. However, after such a fool's errand, the magic power of the five people has basically bottomed out.
Considering that it would take mana to plant mulberry trees, Gangu Yu set up a few slopes for planting mulberry trees. Then he led the women back to the village first.
Back in the village, Lena visited the villagers with two beautiful women in straw skirts, informing them that they would gather tomorrow to plant mulberry forests. When the villagers saw that Lena and the messenger of the natural forest had come together, and learned about the wonderful use of mulberry leaves, they were quite interested, and without saying a word, they agreed to it.
The next day. After nearly half of the young and strong laborers of the village gathered at the head of the village, they were led by Ganguyu to a small hillside in the north of the village. After yesterday's transformation of Gangu Yu and a few people while messing around, this hillside has changed greatly.
Originally, the slope of the hill was gentle, and there were mostly shrubs on it, and there were no big trees. Gangu Rain only removed the wild weeds and shrubs, and then turned the slope deep into the fertile sandy loam soil created by a few people. The villagers were amazed by the changes in the hillside overnight, and the awe in their eyes deepened when they looked at Ganguyu.
If there is no vitality enhancement. Mulberry seeds need to be soaked and germinated before planting, and Ganguyu directly distributed the optimized mulberry seeds to several villagers, so that they could lead people to sow seeds separately. After the crowd sowed seeds in a ditch at a foot distance from the plant, they covered the soil and watered it, and they were busy for a while before retreating to the side.
After the first growth of all things, the mulberry seedlings in the mountains grew densely to a foot high, and Gangu Yu led everyone to start the seedling planting work. Because this is a gently sloping terrain after all, the water and fertilizer conditions of the soil can only be considered average. Therefore, Ganguyu chose a row spacing of four feet and a plant spacing of one and a half feet for planting.
The strongest mulberry seedlings were retained. However, even the mulberry seedlings that were dug up were only relatively weak and could be transplanted elsewhere, so they were put aside. Looking at this neat mulberry forest, Pei Pei smiled with satisfaction: "Sure enough, it still looks good like this!"
"Don't just focus on appreciating, you still have to be busy!" said Gan Guyu, pointing to the mulberry seedlings that had just been dug up, "You and the stinky woman will bring some of the villagers." Go to the other slopes we set up yesterday and plant these mulberry seedlings as well. Plant spacing and row spacing can be slightly denser than here. ”
Pei Pei and Lena nodded, and left with some of the villagers and Sang Miao. Gangu Yu was not idle, and led the remaining villagers to apply water and fertilizer to the mulberry forest once, which allowed a beautiful woman in a grass skirt to start the second birth.
The mulberry tree rises rapidly to the chant of all things growing. The branches and leaves soon grew into a green patch. Seeing this, the villagers cheered in unison, and the voices of praise for Mother Nature came and went.
Soon, fluffy strips began to grow between the branches of the mulberry tree, which were the flowers of the mulberry tree. As the growth of all things continues to grow, the mulberry flowers gradually wither, replaced by mulberries that gradually turn from green to red, and then from red to black. It wasn't until the mulberries all over the mountains were ripe that Gangu Yu made the grass skirt beauties stop all things growing.
Before Gangu Yu called everyone to pick mulberries, Xiaoqing flew out of his arms like an arrow from the string and hung on a mulberry tree. It blinked twice, widened its eyes, and took a bite of a mulberry, and the purple-black pulp immediately overflowed from its mouth.
"Hiss!" Xiao Qing's eyes showed joy, but the snake letter he spat out had been dyed purple and black. But it didn't care, and without saying a word, it opened its bloody mouth again, and this time it directly bit off two nearby mulberries and swallowed them beautifully.
"Xiaoqing is really funny, obviously a snake, but she only eats vegetarian. A beautiful woman in a straw skirt chuckled.
"The point is, it is clear that Xiao Guyu himself never obeys the ban, but the demonic beasts he summoned are more obedient than him. Another beauty in a straw skirt also whispered.
"I said you have time to chat here, let's take everyone to pick mulberries!" Gan Guyu walked back with a large handful of black shiny and plump mulberries, "I look at Xiaoqing's speed, I'm afraid it won't be long before the fruits of this mulberry forest will be eaten up by it!"
The second daughter looked up and saw that in such a short period of time, Xiaoqing had swept the fruits on the two mulberry trees, and now she had gone to the third mulberry tree. Its mouth is like a never-ending machine, sweeping the mulberries from the trees in a rhythmic manner.
"Is this mulberry fruit so delicious?" a woman was a little curious, and picked up a mulberry from Gangu Yu's hand and put it in her mouth.
Another beauty in a straw skirt and the surrounding villagers all looked at her curiously, waiting for her evaluation. But she didn't squeak at all, but picked up the second mulberry.
"What do you mean, what does it taste like?" said the onlookers anxiously.
"Giggles, don't you know if you taste it yourself?" The beautiful woman in the grass skirt with an aftertaste on her face chuckled, and hurriedly walked into the mulberry forest, "No, we have to harvest these fruits quickly, otherwise maybe we will really let Xiaoqing eat them all!" )