Chapter 221: Picking Cotton
Shen Qingqian was holding a handful of accelerated fertilizer in his hand, and when he heard this, his hand shook, and the fertilizer spilled out.
She didn't care about pouring the spring water on the ground one by one, her steps quickly circled around the field, and she turned around and said, "Third sister, there seems to be one on the left, you take a look first."
When she saw that Shen Qingxiao had really turned around and gone to the left, Shen Qingqian was temporarily relieved.
It only takes another five minutes for a patch of cotton to grow.
But at times like these, people feel that time flies slowly.
Shen Qingqian stared at the ground with wide eyes, and once again witnessed the rapid emergence of green seedlings in the ground, and then grew taller and taller, and white cotton bloomed in front of her eyes.
She didn't know this cotton, but from the outside, it was supposed to be a type of long-staple cotton.
Without waiting for Shen Qingqian to think deeply, Shen Qingxiao's voice sounded again, "Sixth sister, there is no one here, let me come to your side to have a look."
"Third sister, I found something good, come here!" Shen Qingqian immediately came back to his senses and shouted at her.
The straight-line distance between the two is not far, but there are too many rocks here, and it took Shen Qingxiao a while to get to Shen Qingqian's side.
"What kind of flower is this?" Shen Qingxiao looked at the white flower in front of her in surprise, "Why didn't I see it just now?"
Shen Qingqian's face was a little excited, "This is cotton! I once saw in a miscellaneous book that this flower can be used to make cotton clothes and quilts, and it is very warm!"
She directly ignored Shen Qingxiao's question. If you really want to explain, just say that she didn't see it because she was far away and was blocked by these twists and turns.
As soon as Shen Qingxiao heard that this thing could be used to make clothes and quilts, her attention was diverted, and she didn't bother with the question of why she hadn't seen it before, "What should I do? Is it sewn into clothes and quilts?"
In the past, they still sewed ordinary strips of cloth into their thick winter clothes and thick quilts, or broke some soft materials and sewed them in, but now they don't even have the fabric to make a new dress, so how can they use cloth to fill their clothes and quilts?
The coat and quilt that the Shen family now uses to keep warm are all animal skins and furs obtained in the mountains before, and the wind is really windproof, but it has not been professionally treated, and it is actually not comfortable.
"It's sewn in, but it has to be dried and processed first." Shen Qingqian smiled with crooked eyebrows and eyes, and was in a good mood.
She had a rough look just now, and these 30 or so cotton plants may have a lot of cotton bolls due to the use of systematic fertilizer and Shenquan water, and she estimated that the seed cotton picked from each cotton plant could be about 300 to 500 grams. Overall, you can get about six to ten catties of lint in the end.
Although this amount is far from enough for the needs of the family, Shen Qingqian is not in a hurry, with this batch of cotton, she will find another opportunity to plant the seeds of this batch of cotton, and the next batch will be more?
This year, she doesn't care about the normal planting and flowering period of cotton, and when the cotton at home is enough, she will put away the seeds and sow them in April next year.
At that time, if someone wonders why the flowering period of cotton is different from this year, she directly asks and doesn't know, anyway, this thing is not in Dajin, and after planting for a long time, they will naturally know what's going on, but at that time, no one will pursue today's matter.
"Then let's get them all back!" After Shen Qingxiao confirmed, she also knew that this was a good thing, it was better than ginger dogs and eggs sewing leaves and roots in the quilt.
The sisters began to pick cotton with quick movements.
On the other hand, the Northern Hubei Army is undergoing a new recruit inspection.