On this day, An Chuxia Mu Xiu An Zixi drove the carriage, An Chuxia held a book and leaned against the carriage window to read, and Shi Yu looked at the account book of the cost of the construction academy in his hand.

More than three months have passed, and the academy, which is not complicated and luxurious, has been half built, which is also due to Shi Yu's strong supervision and scheduling ability.

The carriage slowly drove out of the city gate before running towards Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing, the road to Zhuangzi was not a road, the dirt road was potholed, and it took more than an hour to arrive all the way.

An Zixi parked the carriage and shouted into the car: "It's here, Cousin Xia!" ”

An Chuxia put down the book in his hand and jumped out of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage, looking at Zhuangzi, who had not been here for more than a month, the fence surrounded by thorny plants became taller and stronger.

Among the people who bought it last time, Xiaohu, the eleven or twelve-year-old son of the Li family, was herding cattle with a few children.

An Chuxia beckoned to him, and Xiaohu ran over when he saw it, showing a mouthful of small white teeth and shouting, "... Lady! ”

Every time An Chuxia came to bring some snacks to these children in Zhuangzi, she took out a bag of candy cubes from the carriage and handed it to Xiaohu, "Take it, go and share it with all the children in Zhuangzi to eat." ”

"Thank you, Lady!" , Xiaohu happily took it.

An Chuxia smiled and said to Xiaohu: "Go!" ”

Xiaohu happily took a bag of candy cubes and ran to his companions who were watching him from afar.

Shi Yu looked at the woman in front of her who was becoming more and more majestic, her eyes flickered, when would she notice herself.

An Chuxia walked into Zhuangzi, and left the Li family and the Sun family who were cooking, and when they saw An Chuxia, they hurriedly ran over to salute.

"Lady! There you are! ”

"Where did my brother and Brother Runsheng go?"

"Back to Nujun, Chen Dong's family and executives are on the cotton field."

An Chuxia said softly: "I know."

You follow Xiaoxi to the carriage, take the meat you brought to the kitchen, and add food to everyone today. ”

"Yes!" The two women were also very happy to hear that there was meat to eat at noon, after all, in this era of scarcity, you really can't eat meat every day if you are not a big family.

An Chuxia and Shi Yu walked towards the field where cotton was planted, passed by the cornfield, and saw that the seedling stalks were already up to their waists.

However, Shi Yu's legs are relatively long, and the corn seedlings can only reach the height of his thighs.

An Chuxia made a detour, and went to see a few acres of seedlings that had just been planted for more than a month, and she squatted on the ridge to check the tillering rate of the seedlings.

After reading it, An Chuxia frowned slightly, maybe it was because the weather in the capital was cold after all, and the tillering rate of the seedlings was not too much.

In this case, it is only possible to add two more fertilization times to ensure the length of the ears and the fullness of the seeds when the farmer's manure is applied in the later stage, which can also improve the yield of rice.

Qingshi Town, where An Chuxia was originally located, is a suitable place for growing rice as the location and temperature of modern Anhui and Zhejiang.

Even so, the rice yield there is not high, and the yield per mu is two or three hundred catties during the harvest, and if it encounters a little rain for a few years, it would be good to produce more than 100 catties.

It's just that the rice planted in this dynasty is directly sprinkled in the field and allowed to grow, during which in addition to pulling weeds, even fertilizing is only sprinkled once before planting rice.

The ears produced in this way are short and thin, and the yield is not high.

An Chuxia saw the ducks raised in Zhuangzi foraging in the green rice fields, and wondered what the yield of the rice she had grown with the modern rice transplanting method.

After all, she is also in the exploration stage in this regard, and she is not professional.

Shi Yu saw An Chuxia squatting there counting the roots and shoots sent out by the Gu Miao, he grew up with Jin Zun Yugui, and he didn't know what she was doing.

So he asked, "Xia Xia, what are you counting this for?" ”

An Chuxia put his hand in the paddy field next to him and washed it, and then replied: "The roots and buds of the seedlings have more tillers, and the more rice ears will come out in the future, so that the natural yield of rice will be more after maturity, understand Xiaoyuyu!" ”

Shi Yu's pink cheeks were red by An Chuxia's little jade call, and he lowered his head and followed obediently, behind An Chuxia, who had already walked forward.

The two walked to the cotton field, and the cotton seedlings were already the height of An Chuxia's thighs.

At the beginning, I looked at a lot of cotton, and the cotton wool was less than twenty catties of seeds except for the wool seeds.

If you plant two to five cotton seeds in each hole, you will be planted on less than four acres of land.

The entire 120 acres of Zhuangzi's fields, except for about five acres of paddy fields and four acres of cotton, the other more than 100 acres were planted with corn in early summer.

The people who bought it from Zhuangzi planted the vegetables they usually ate in front of their houses and left them to plant some other plants in more than two acres of land.

An Jinchen and Runsheng were weeding the cotton field with a dozen or so subordinates, and when they heard the voice, they looked up and saw An Chuxia happily showing a mouthful of big white teeth.

"Xia Xia, why are you here?!"

An Chuxia hadn't seen his brother for a while, and he smiled happily: "Come and see you, by the way, teach me how to beat the male branch of cotton."

In this way, the cotton seedlings will grow stronger, the fruits will be much larger, the seedlings and leaves are not so dense and well ventilated, and they are not easy to produce pests. ”

The dozen or so subordinates who were bought were all farmers who had farmed the fields, and they had never seen the ones that the female monarch had asked them to plant.

I don't know what kind of food grows, but I look at the seedlings and they grow quite strong.

"Slave wait for the female monarch to say goodbye!" More than a dozen subordinates stood up and saluted An Chuxia.

An Chuxia smiled at them and nodded, "... Keep yourself busy! ”

The people squatted down and continued to pull the grass from the fields.

An Chuxia said to An Jinchen and Runsheng: "Brother, Brother Runsheng, come with me, and I will teach you how to make cotton branches." ”

"Xiao Xia, in the book that teaches people to grow food, can it really make food production higher?"

Runsheng watched himself and Ah Chen busy for a few months, leading people to plant a large area of green cotton, corn, and rice seedlings, and his heart was full of satisfaction.

"I also follow the planting method in the book, and I don't know if I can have a high yield until the autumn harvest.

However, according to the growth of these seedlings now, the harvest should not be too bad. ”

An Chuxia thought of passing by the Zhuangzi next to him when he came, and saw that there were two or three hundred acres of soybeans planted in it, and some grains from other eras.

Occasionally, when she came, she would see people working in the fields, but she never saw the owner of the village coming.

An Chuxia bent down and began to teach An Jinchen and Runsheng, beating those branches with thick stems and long leaves, but not hanging fruits.

These cotton branches, commonly known as male branches, are not broken off, not only do they not bloom and bear fruit, but also affect the growth of the whole cotton.

(End of chapter)