The uncle and master live in his own house, so Jingyi doesn't have to be distracted and run to the town.

The crops in her fields are growing well, and the wheat has already tasseled. Cotton has also grown taller. Rape flowers grow very well, too. The other crops are also growing very well.

When the wheat is harvested, there needs to be a threshing field to pile the wheat, threshk the wheat, dry the wheat, and there is a lot of work in the later stage.

There is also a grain field in the village, and Jing Yi grows more grain, so she has to prepare a field by herself, so she chose a piece of wasteland not far from her home and discussed with the village chief to buy this land.

In order for a wasteland to be a good threshing field, it must be compacted and smooth. This requires the use of a tool – a stone stone.

Stone is a tool used by the countryside to fight the field, and it is very common, and it is found on almost every field. Stone stone is generally made of big bluestone, cylindrical body, one end is large, one end is small, two ends have eyes, when using a special wooden frame cover, can be pulled with the help of manpower or animal power.

Jing Yi first asked the hired long-term workers to clean the wild grass on the threshing field, then poured water on the threshing field, and when it was dry, the ground of the threshing field was pressed with stones, and the surface of the rolling ground was strong and smooth. When it is used, it will be rolled again, so that the surface of the wheat field will remain smooth and firm, and it can be used to beat wheat, dry wheat, and beat rice.

Jing Yi inquired about the villagers who harvested the wheat and threshed it with flail or stone stone. The flail is threshed by human power, while the stone stone is pulled by human or animal power to roll and thresh.

This ancient society did not have any machinery, but could only use the most primitive tools. It's just that they're definitely inefficient. However, when the wheat is harvested, it is already relatively dry, and it is easier to thresh it in the sun, and the wheat grains are separated from the ears by pressing a stone on the wheat straw that has been spread out and has been dried.

Jingyi considered whether to design a manual thresher. At least it can improve some efficiency.

Especially when threshing rice, it is not so easy to use stone stones. After all, the rice is still relatively wet when it is harvested, and even the leaves are still green.

Jing Yi felt that it was no problem to design a rice thresher. She is going to plant rice next year, and she will definitely need a thresher when the time comes.

Rape flowers will soon bloom, and beekeeping is on the agenda.

Jingyi asked someone to inquire if there was a beekeeper, but at first she didn't ask. Mei Huanzhang learned that Jing Yi wanted to keep bees before he said: "There are really not many people who know how to keep beekeeping." That's why honey is precious. Many people go to the mountains to find wild honeycombs. Honey is produced very little, so it is precious. If you want to learn beekeeping, I'll send someone to inquire about it for you. ”

Jing Yi said: "I don't need this, I just want to find someone who can keep bees, hire someone to help me keep bees, and then make some beehives, I want to see what the beehives are like now."

If it's hard to find someone, I'll design my own style and hire a carpenter to make a beehive. You can try raising a few boxes of bees first. It's just a matter of keeping it for fun. ”

Mei Huanzhang glanced at Jingyi, "Can you keep bees for fun?" If you don't get it right, you will be stung by bees, and it will also be poisoned and life-threatening. ”

Jing Yi smiled: "You can rest assured of this, I will take precautions." ”

Jing Yi felt that she had planted two hundred acres of rape flowers, and it should be no problem to raise a few boxes of bees. She drew a drawing of the beehive, and then asked the village carpenter Wang to build ten beehives for her according to the drawing.

The next day, Jing Yi, Song Chengyuan, and Qiao Hong drove the beehive to the foot of the mountain with a horse-drawn cart, and then Jing Yi took a few people from the family to put the beehive in a relatively hidden place at the foot of the mountain.

After placing the ten beehives, Jing Yi took out the bait made of honey, sugar and pollen and placed it in the ten beehives. It's really used to attract bees.

The honey and sugar were both bought by Jingyi in Huizhou Mansion, and the pollen was the pollen of rape flowers that Jingyi collected with his abilities. Jingyi wanted to attract bees with the scent of rape flowers. It also familiarizes the bees with the taste of rape flowers, and collects a lot of nectar from rape flowers in the future.

After making all the preparations, Jing Yi clapped his hands and said, "Okay, in a few days, there should be bees to settle here." ”

Jing Yi is very confident in this, the honey and pollen have been refined by Jing Yi with abilities, and they will be very attractive to bees.

Put the beehives and everyone goes back. Now that the cotton plants in the field have grown their first fruit branches, it is time to prune.

When Jingyi arrived at the cotton field, the long-term workers hired by the family were waiting in the field. Today, Jingyi is going to teach everyone how to prune cotton.

After the cotton plant grows the first fruit branch, the branches and leaves below the first fruit branch should be removed, and the main stem leaves should be retained. If there is a weak seedling or lack of seedlings, the leaves and branches of the cotton plant can be appropriately retained, and then the edge of the heart can be beaten when it is elongated.

Now that the cotton plant has just grown its first fruit branch, Jingyi will first teach everyone the pruning method at this time. Later, when the cotton plant grows up, let's talk about it.

When Jing Yi was in the sect chiefs, Lin Xiuhan came. He didn't go to Jingyi's house, but went directly to the field to find Jingyi. He also wanted to see how the crops in the fields were growing now.

Jing Yi saw Lin Xiuhan from afar, and she asked Song Yuancheng, who had already learned to prune, to teach others to prune. He greeted him, "Brother Lin, why are you here?" ”

Lin Xiuhan looked at the surrounding crops and said, "I'll see how your winter wheat is growing." This cotton looks very good, too. What are you doing here? ”

Jing Yi replied: "It's time to prune the cotton, I'm teaching them to prune the cotton plant." In the future, this cotton will have to be served even more carefully. In this way, in the autumn it is possible to harvest more cotton with high yields. ”

Lin Xiuhan knew that there was a lot of knowledge in this kind of crop, "I don't understand this." Let's go and see the winter wheat. ”

Jing Yi nodded and walked to the wheat field with Lin Xiuhan. When you get to the wheat field, the whole wheat field looks like a sea of green. The breeze blows, and the waves of wheat rolling are very spectacular and beautiful.

As he approached the wheat field, Lin Xiuhan sighed: "This wheat grows so well." Other people's seedlings are still small, and your winter wheat has already been tasseled, so it must be harvested earlier than the wheat sown in the spring. ”

Jing Yi said: "The winter weather in our area is not particularly cold, and winter wheat can be safely winterized. The seeds are sown in the autumn of the first year, and the harvest can be harvested at the beginning of the summer of the second year, so that the second crop can be planted without delay. ”

Lin Xiuhan immediately asked, "Then when this wheat crop is harvested, what crops are you going to plant?" ”

Jing Yi said: "When the wheat is harvested, I will plant soybeans." In the fall, you can harvest a crop of soybeans. Soybeans can be pressed for oil, and the remaining materials can be made into soybean cakes for feeding pigs, cattle and sheep. Soybeans can also be used to make soy sauce, tempeh, and sauce. Soybeans can also be eaten as tofu, dried tofu, tofu skin, etc., and raw bean sprouts can also be eaten as vegetables. In short, soybeans have many uses.

I don't have enough soybeans to plant this 100 acres. In the future, soy sauce will require a lot of soybeans.

Brother Lin, I think you can encourage farmers to open up the land and plant soybeans, and then we will buy them at the market price. In this way, it will drive the economic development of Hui'an County, and it can also make the life of farmers much better. ”

Lin Xiuhan was very optimistic about Jingyi's plan, "When you say this, this soybean is really useful." If you buy it in the future, then the villagers won't have to worry about not being able to sell it. I'll think about it when I go back. ”

Mao Dun Literature