Urban Sims

Chapter 390 Farming madman, young and old girls are stunned

"Aunt Xia, I want a piece of land to grow something myself."

On this day, Zhou Ming found Aunt Xia and said something.

"There's a lot of land, but what do you want to plant?" Aunt Xia asked puzzled.

"Grow some food."

"Food, there are several tanks at home, enough to last for a while."

"I'm not growing it to eat. I want to set up a test field and do a yield test."

"Experimental field...yield experiment?"

Aunt Xia looked confused, she didn't know what Zhou Ming was talking about, but she still took him to the field, and let him choose a piece of land among the many abandoned fields.

At first, Zhou Ming was worried that these wastelands were all owned and could not be planted casually, but Aunt Xia told him that all the wastelands in the village could be planted casually, and good land would not work. After the wasteland was abandoned, if the original owner If you don’t continue to plant, you can use it casually.

Only then did Zhou Ming realize that because this plane is infinitely vast, the land is quite cheap and is not valued. As long as you grow it, you can enclose the land however you want. There are landlords, but there are almost no tenants.

Rather, in order to compete for hunting grounds, Limburg Village and several surrounding villages often have conflicts over the ownership of prey.

So in a large area of ​​wasteland, Zhou Ming found a piece of good land with decent residual land, less than 10 meters away from the stream, surrounded an acre of land, and began to do yield tests.

Farming is just two words when it is said, but it is a systematic project in practice.

The first is plowing, which is a heavy physical work.

Because there are no large-scale cattle to use (even if there are, they are mainly used to pull goods and do not know how to cultivate land), Zhou Ming first used a kind of hard wood to build a wooden plow, and then carried it to the field. He acted as a "manpower cattle" and completed the plowing work.

During this process, Xia Xiaoyan, who was in charge of helping the plow, was very distressed. Several times when Zhou Ming stopped to rest, he said: "Shanhe, let's stop doing it. There are plenty of wheat at home, so you don't need to plant it anymore."

She thought that Zhou Ming didn't want to see her father's face and planned to be independent.

"I am not tired."

Zhou Ming shook his head. He has practiced for a while, and it has been quite effective. In the explosive state, the strength of a bull can be used, but not for a long time.

So it took him two days to plow this mu of land.

Next is the selection and sowing of seeds.

I borrowed 100 catties of wheat from Aunt Xia, selected 10 catties of good seeds through several methods, and then used the small sowing columbine I made to bring them to the field. The sowing work was completed in less than half a day.

After the seeds were sown, Xia Xiaoyan thought it was over, but she didn't expect that the busyness had just begun.

fertilizer.

For more than a month, Zhou Ming has been doing this kind of thing every day.

First, a toilet was built to collect human and animal excrement (there are toilets in this world, but they are limited to cities), and then the yellow mud by the river, the humus in the forest, and the ash left in the stove...all became objects of collection.

Then these things are mixed, stirred, dried, condensed into fine particles, and then released into the wheat field, just in time for the jointing stage of the wheat seedlings.

Xia Xiaoyan, who was busy with these things with Zhou Ming, complained that he didn't take her to play around, and had to endure the gossip from the villagers.

"Is Zhang Shanhe bewitched? He's been doing strange things lately."

"He must be crazy! All the feces on the ground are taken home and treated as treasures."

"Uncle Xia, hurry up and take Zhang Shanhe to the monk to have a look. He must be protected by an evil spirit. He even dug the mud from the river home."

"Could it be because of Tian Nier's matter that he was completely insane?"

Xia Xiaoyan also showed deep concern in her concern many times: "Shanhe, are you okay?"

"It's okay, don't pay attention to what others say behind your back, in another two months, everyone will understand."

Zhou Ming said lightly, and gave her a reassuring look.

Of course, in the remaining two months, Zhou Ming was not idle for a moment.

The grass in the wheat field needs to be hoeed frequently, at least twice, and the wheat field must be watered during drought and key growth points (such as heading stage).

So Zhou Ming used his master-level woodworking skills to build a human-powered water pump. Because it looks like a flying dragon, it is called a "water dragon machine" and is used to water the wheat fields. This ingenious water dragon machine has attracted countless people. Hundreds of villagers watched, and the whole village discussed for many days.

With the advent of the water dragon machine, although most villagers still think that Zhang Shanhe is possessed by the evil spirit, some villagers think that things are not that simple. If people can become so smart after being possessed by the evil spirit, they also want to be Possession.

Seeing Zhang Shanhe "clinking" and "clanging" all day long in the backyard of Xia's house, tinkering with some strange things, giving people a feeling of ignorance, many villagers who are more familiar with Zhang Shanhe, He began to feel strange, almost unrecognizable.

And in the last half month before the wheat field matured, I could hear exclamations from the edge of the field almost every day.

The characteristic shrill exclamation of girls and boys.

"Oh my mother! The wheat in this field grows too tall, a lot taller than ordinary wheat, and it's also very strong!"

“我数数这条麦穗上的麦粒，1、2、3……88还是86来着？我快数晕了，一般的麦子有四五十粒就不错了！还每粒都那么饱满！”

"When this land is harvested, how many catties of wheat can be harvested? 700 catties, 800 catties? It seems more than that."

"Is this really the land that was planted by the mountains and rivers? Isn't he someone who has never worked in the land? He can plant any kind of land and make the land like this?"

"I've been a good farmer for more than forty years, but there is someone who can grow more land than my mother. Is it a man?"

"Look at the land Zhang Shanhe planted. He is possessed by some kind of demon. He is clearly possessed by a god. The land is possessed by a god!"

Wait until the golden wheat in the experimental field is fully mature and ready for harvest.

The sun was shining and the sky was clear.

There is a slight breeze and it is very comfortable.

All the young and old women in the village, as well as some of the old and young men, a total of three to four hundred people, gathered around this wheat field, whispering, admiring, and guessing the yield.

"800 catties for sure."

"900, at least 900 catties!"

"More than 900 catties, but not more than 1000 catties."

"I think it will be more than 1000 catties, and more than 1300."

"1300? That's impossible. We only harvest 500 catties per acre of land. Is this one piece of land worth two of us?"

"I don't believe it either, it can weigh up to 1000 catties!" The woman folded her arms with a dissatisfied expression on her face.

Zhou Ming, holding a sickle in his hand, stood on the ground, looked at the golden wheat field in front of him, nodded to the aunts who came to help, and said, "Let's start harvesting!"

"okay!"

Several aunts bent down, waved their sickles, held the roots of the straw, and cut them down one by one, with crisp and neat techniques, with smiles on their faces.

The hot scene even caused many onlookers to itch, and they also brought sickles and joined the harvesting army.

The wheat field was half harvested, because of Zhou Ming's early reminder, Uncle Xia and his son Xia Hu carried the two wooden devices from the family and placed them in the wheat field.

There are two devices, one is a thresher, which is used for fast threshing of wheat; the other is a windmill, which processes the mixed broken leaves and empty kernels in the wheat kernels to obtain relatively clean wheat kernels.

As soon as the two devices showed up, they attracted a lot of attention, and I was very surprised, because the efficiency of the threshing machine is more than ten times that of the ordinary threshing machine, not to mention saving a lot of energy, and the threshing is more thorough.

The windmill has given people a lot of inspiration. It turns out that the sundries in the wheat grains can be handled in this way, which is efficient and labor-saving.

The busy half day is over.

The exciting time is here!

After all the golden wheat in this mu of land has been harvested and threshed, and turned into 16 sacks placed on the ground, the yield has become the most anticipated concern of people.

Even if someone has roughly guessed the size of the output based on experience, they still carried the stone scale over, weighed the bags one by one, and then added up the quantities.

Total output: 1580 catties.

Boom~
As soon as the data was released, there was an uproar all around.

The young and old who don’t usually go to the fields are fine, but they think the yield is very high and it’s amazing.

The old and young women who often work in the fields looked shocked, and then completely exploded.

"More than 1500 catties, this...how is this possible?"

"This one mu of land is equivalent to three mu of us planting, and dozens of catties more?"

"How is this done, how is it done?"

"Zhang Shanhe, come quickly and tell auntie, how did you grow so much food here?"

"Zhang Shanhe, my daughter Qiao'er is your wife now, if you think it's not enough, I'll marry my youngest daughter Yunyun, and I will marry both daughters to you!"

"I am convinced, this kind of land, my mother is really no match for that Zhang Shanhe, but I will not be reconciled, I must learn the method of Zhang Shanhe's land farming, and then defeat him! If he does not teach, I will sacrifice properly It's okay to look at the hue."

This sturdy woman in her fifties, with crooked yellow teeth on her thick black face, smiled secretly.

……

After this day.

All the villagers in Linbao Village have undergone earth-shaking changes in their perception of Zhang Shanhe.

From being idle and not doing business properly, to being smart and capable, hardworking and hardworking.

Possessed by demons, turned into possessed by gods.

The annoying poor boy has become a "good boy" that everyone greets warmly.

Xia Xiaoyan's troubles increased even more, because within a day, the number of her "rivals in love" increased countlessly, and the matchmaker who came to Xia's family to propose marriage was about to break the threshold, which caused a great crisis in her heart Zhang Shanhe, who suddenly became excellent, seemed to be farther away from her than when he was not excellent.

After the pellets returned to the warehouse, Zhou Ming's shock to all the villagers in Linbao Village was not over yet.

The human-powered shelling machine he invented is hundreds of times more efficient in shelling wheat grains than a stone pound.

The stone mill he invented can grind the hulled wheat grains into powder, then add water and knead them into noodles to make smooth and refreshing noodles.

He also built a bakery, and baked the dough into soft bread. Compared with the original wheat rice, the texture and taste have undergone earth-shaking changes.

After he taught the cooking and eating methods of noodles and bread to the housewives in the village, in just a few days, noodles and bread quickly occupied a dominant position in the food structure of the villagers and spread rapidly to the surrounding areas.

In short, in these short four months, Zhou Ming's various actions have created a sensation again and again in the village of Limburg Village, making all the young and old, young and old, stunned again and again...

Farming maniac, well deserved!
(End of this chapter)