Joe's Farming

Within two days, the rice seedlings had grown to a height suitable for transplanting.

Qiao Yu and Gu Feng sent the children to the school early in the morning, and went to the store to talk to Wen Ge'er, and decided to pick up the children and go home together in the afternoon.

Then Qiao Yu asked Da Zhuang to go to Xiaxixi Village to collect fish fry, any kind of fish would do.

He had read a news report before about raising fish while growing rice, which was called rice fish and was said to have very delicious meat.

He has always wanted to have a rice field to fulfill his dream.

In addition to Zhang Shan, several people from the village were also invited to help with the rice planting.

However, they had previously simply sprinkled the rice seeds into the water and had never specifically planted the rice seedlings, so they didn’t know what the appropriate spacing should be.

Qiao Yu asked Gu Feng to find ropes and taught them how to pull ropes to plant rice seedlings. This would not only make the rice fields tidy, but also make it easier to rake the grass in the future.

After Qiao Yu talked about how to grow rice in the village, everyone has been paying attention to his family's situation.

So at this moment there are several farmers watching the fields, and the village chief is also there.

Seeing the seedlings in the fields planted neatly, not only Qiao Yu, but everyone else felt comfortable too.

"What was Qiao thinking? It will be much easier to weed if the crops are planted like this. Why didn't I think of it before?"

A middle-aged man said.

He had listened to Qiao Yu's advice and started to plant the seedlings when he got home, but he didn't use any strings, so the planting was not as neat as Qiao Yu's.

Qiao Yu quickly laughed and said, "I didn't come up with this idea. I read it in a book. It's all the wisdom of the ancients."

The man hurriedly said, "Studying is good, studying is good."

But when did Brother Qiao learn to read?

Never mind, why should he care about this?

The village chief watched the entire rice planting process from the side, and finally waited for Dazhuang and Xiaobai to come over with the fish fry.

"Brother Qiao, what are you doing?"

The village chief pointed at the two buckets of fish fry.

Qiao Yu said with a smile: "The water in the field is just there, I want to try raising some rice fish.

The fish can eat the bugs in the water, and their excrement can be used to fertilize the fields. When the rice is ripe, we can release the water and catch fish.”

"I heard that when fish eat rice flowers, there is no fishy smell at all, and they even have the fragrance of rice flowers."

Qiao Yu added.

The village chief had a complicated expression on his face; it was the first time he had heard of this way of raising fish.

I am somewhat tempted, but I am afraid of wasting money on buying fish fry.

"Okay, you try it first. If it works, I'll try it next year."

Qiao Yu didn't try to persuade him. There was no point in persuading him about this matter. It was his first time growing rice and raising fish, so he might not be successful.

"Well, when it's done, I'll give you a few pounds to try."

"Good good."

The village chief looked at the barren mountain in front of him, which was gradually transformed into a paradise through the efforts of Qiao Yu's family, and nodded continuously.

The construction of the villa by Qiao Yu's family made such a big fuss that people from other villages knew about it.

He met people from other villages several times when he was outside, and they all asked him about the family and envied them for having such a family in their village.

He could foresee that if Qiao Yu and Gu Feng really finished building the mountain, many wealthy people would come and the village would also benefit from it.

The village chief patted Gu Feng who had been following Qiao Yu.

"Gu, be good to your husband. This child will bring good luck to your husband."

Gu Feng smiled and nodded: "Yes, I am enjoying life with Qiao Er."

Qiao Yu didn't listen to what they were saying at this moment.

His focus was entirely on the two buckets of fish fry.

The fry were quite small, and he could only identify two species: grass carp and carp.

"Boss, these two barrels have more than 300 pieces. I spent 300 coins and got 10 pieces as a gift."

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "Well, more than 300 are enough to eat. But we have two acres of rice fields, so we can raise a few more. Let's go buy two more buckets tomorrow. No, we haven't put them in the pond yet, so let's buy four more buckets."

He remembered reading in the news that one acre of land could hold a thousand fish fry.

But I don't have special feed here, so I dare not put so many. Three hundred fish per acre should not be a big problem.

As for their lotus pond, there are now only some cicadas crawling from upstream and some wild small fish in it, and they also need to put fish fry in it manually.

In those days there were no small nylon fishing nets, so they could only use thicker rope nets instead, and it was estimated that some fish fry would still escape.

But that's okay.

Raising fish in a lotus pond is just like raising them in the wild, because you don’t have to raise them for just one season like the fish in rice fields. The fish will reproduce on their own, and there will definitely be more and more of them.

Da Zhuang showed his eight white teeth: "Okay. Then I will pour these directly into the field now?"

Qiao Yu turned to look at Gu Feng:

"Brother Gu, do you want to come over and pour the fish fry?"

Sometimes, Qiao Yu would inexplicably want Gu Feng to participate, as a kind of sense of ritual.

Of course Gu Feng agreed.

Watching the fish fry being poured into the paddy field, Qiao Yu had already thought about how to cook these rice fish in a few months.

After all the fish fry were released, Qiao Yu and Gu Feng held hands and inspected the newly built factory shed and cattle and sheep sheds.

It was what Qiao Yu wanted. Although it was simple, the areas were divided reasonably and did not interfere with each other.

There is also a chicken coop and a chicken coop next to the cattle and sheep shed.

Qiao Yu nodded with satisfaction as he walked.

Now we have rice fields, lotus ponds, and fruit trees, all we lack are chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep.

Qiao Yu called Da Zhuang and Xiao Bai over and said, "Now that everything at the villa is almost done, it's time to get your wedding on the agenda. When will it be held?"

Xiaobai and Dazhuang blushed immediately.

Xiao Bai stammered, "We haven't discussed it yet. Let's discuss it with Sister Lan and the others later."

Qiao Yu nodded: "Well, tell me when you set the date. I'll give you a few days of wedding leave."

Da Zhuang said happily: "There is also wedding leave?!"

Former worker Qiao Yu nodded proudly: "Of course, when Xiaobai gets pregnant in the future, there will be pregnancy leave and maternity leave."

He doesn't want to be an evil capitalist.

His employees create value for him, so he wants to let them enjoy the best benefits in the world.

Gu Feng looked at his husband and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.

Da Zhuang looked at Xiao Bai happily, and Xiao Bai lowered his head embarrassedly.

They haven't even kissed yet, but this guy is already thinking about the scene of them having children in the future.

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Qiao Yu went home, ate, and took a nap, but because it was the children's first day at cram school, the "old father" was a little worried.

During my nap, I had a dream about children being bullied by a school bully.

After waking up, Qiao Yu was still worried.

I just waited in the yard for the children to come back.

Gu Feng felt strange and asked him what was wrong.

Qiao Yu told her dream.

Gu Feng touched Qiao Yu's head and comforted her: "Don't worry, they will be back soon. Old people always say that dreams are the opposite of reality."

Qiao Yu laughed at herself: "I know I think too much, but I can't help but worry. The three of them are so well-behaved and sensible. What if they get bullied and don't tell me for fear that I'll worry?"

"No. I think the headmaster of Wenren Academy is a reasonable person. He will not allow students with bad behavior to study there."

Qiao Yu nodded: "That's true. Then I'll ask Bai Lan to make them a nice meal."

Only then did Gu Feng feel at ease to do his own thing.