Yipin Farmer

It was sunny for several days, and the wheat dried quickly. Ting Shuang picked the wheat to the mill.

There is only one mill in the village, which is run by Li Shuanzhu, a distant relative of Li Changfu. Not only in Sanhua Village, but also in neighboring villages.There is a healthy mule in the room, which pulls the mill non-stop every day, and can grind more than 300 catties of wheat a day.The Meng family had less land and more labor, so they were the first to harvest the wheat, the first to finish drying, and the first to grind the flour.

In the mill was a large mill with a round hole in the center.A large wooden bucket is hung on the upper beam, and a small bamboo tube is connected to a small hole at the bottom, which is aligned with the round hole of the millstone. The wheat in the bucket can flow into the millstone like a trickle.

Next to the mill is a noodle cabinet, on top of which is a wooden frame for making noodles, with a coarse hole in the head and a fine hole in the two. In the cupboard, the bran stays in the lorry.The noodles rolled out for the first time are called Touluo noodles, which are relatively rough, and then rolled with fine silk for the second time, called Erluo noodles, which are the white noodles eaten by ordinary people. Or as a high-end dim sum.

Ting Shuang asked to divide the wheat into two halves, half of Touluo noodles and half of Erluo noodles.Li Shuanzhu reminded him that this was too wasteful. Generally, ordinary households mostly ate Touluo noodles, and the white noodles were too precious to be used, and they were reserved for making dumplings for the Chinese New Year, or for the elderly and sick, or for entertaining uncles and aunts.

Therefore, in addition to paying taxes and grains when farmers receive wheat, most of what they leave for their families is touluo noodles.There are also sweet potatoes, potatoes, cereals and other grains to eat together, and it is also passable to save food and money.

Ting Shuang smiled and didn't explain.Xiaoye came to help grow rice and transplant rice seedlings, but she couldn't let others eat the rough noodles, and the fourth child was growing up, studying hard, and she couldn't do well if she didn't eat well.The second child is also picky, either complaining that there are poisonous snakes and beasts fading out of his mouth, or the little roundworm in his stomach is crying, and he is also a difficult master.

So, when Ting Shuang returned home with white noodles, the villagers knew that it was inevitable that they would scold him for not knowing how to live.

At dinner, Xiaoye saw white flour steamed buns in her bowl, but the Meng family brothers ate steamed buns with stick noodles. The boss felt very sorry, and became more and more attentive to the field.

A few brothers plus Xiaoye, five big men, plus the farm cattle, the old man Chu is fully responsible for the family and logistics work, delivering five meals a day to the field, faster than ordinary people, a few days later, The original land has been overturned and the wasteland has been leveled. Brother Zhang Wu has already transported the rice seeds, and the next step is to raise seedlings.

Xiaoye used to work in the countryside, and is very familiar with rice farming, but the family has a lot of people and little land, so she couldn't make up her mind, so she went to the city to work.Now it's no problem to get back to the old job.

First of all, how to select the seeds of Jiaotingshuang. Pour the rice into the salt water and stir it. After a while, the shriveled grains will slowly float up, leaving the full rice below. After the millet is selected, it is the seedling raising.

Xiaoye observed Meng's yard and felt a little strange: "Do you think the vegetables in your vegetable patch grow particularly well? The pumpkins are also bigger than others', and the beans and eggplants grow fast and well. The day before yesterday After picking the beans, those little beans are growing again today.”

"Oh?" Ting Shuang also looked east and west. The fruit trees in the yard were full of fruits, and the beans on the bean stand were hanging very low. The plants by the pool, the chicken head rice and so on are even bigger and abnormal, as if they have been injected with hormones, but in this era, it is impossible to have hormones or growth hormones.

Ting Shuang couldn't say what happened, but could only attribute it to Mr. Chu.

"Aunt Li also said this when she came here a few days ago. Maybe we looked at it every day and didn't think it. It must be that old man Chu is good at tidying up. Look, there is not a single weed. He also surrounded the bamboo fence to prevent the chickens from getting in and messing around. nagging."

Xiaoye said: "Even if he can clean it, it is impossible for the vegetables to grow fast. I think it may be because your water is good."

"There is a living spring under the small pond in my yard. Maybe the water quality is good."

Xiaoye decided to use the water from the spring to grow seedlings, open a flat land behind the yard, dig a drainage ditch, divert the water from the pond, and plant rice seeds.Sure enough, the rice seeds emerged earlier than expected and grew vigorously.

"It seems that the water in your house is really good." Xiaoye confirmed her judgment even more.

Ting Shuang looked at the seedlings in the field and said happily: "After planting them, you can raise fish in the rice fields. The fish can eat the pests and weeds in the rice fields. The poop can be used as fertilizer, and the soil can be turned to decompose the fertilizer."

Xiaoye looked at him in surprise: "You understand very well."

Ting Shuang said modestly: "I read it in books. The "Fish Raising Classic" written thousands of years ago is the earliest fish farming book in the world. Mixed breeding of various fish. In the Ming Dynasty, the method of feeding fish with regular, quantitative and qualitative feed appeared, and the fish and mulberry developed in an all-round way, which is very remarkable.”

"What you're talking about is fish farming in ponds, not rice fields." Xiaoye said, "I heard that there are rice fields in the south that raise fish, but I don't understand. How do rice fields raise fish? What if the fish eat the rice seedlings?"

"Grass carp are mainly raised in rice fields, and grass carp eat grass and not rice."

"But grass carp are not human, so they can't tell the difference between grass and rice seedlings."

"Grass carp eat animal food first, and then eat grass. The young seedlings are tender and sweet and easy to be eaten by fish, so the fish should be released after the seedlings have grown for a few days."

Ting Shuang searched for what he learned in his previous life, regretting that he didn't learn it well when he was in school, and now he gave it back to the teacher. He wanted to see if he could use the receiver to secretly contact Professor Lu and ask him when there was no one around.But asking him is probably not a good thing, because the ancient and modern climate has changed too much, and the most obvious change is warming.Fortunately, farming is closely related to the climate. No matter how rich and advanced modern farming knowledge is, it must be used with caution in ancient times, and it is best to consult the local people for advice.

"I can say it with my mouth, but I just read a little bit of superficiality from the book. If I really want to do it, I'm not as good as Brother Xiaoye." Ting Shuang said this sincerely.

"It seems that you have to order others to do it." Xiaoye appreciated his modesty more and more.

Ting Shuang chuckled: "When it's time to do it, I won't win. This time you are the conductor, and I will listen to you."

I can’t remember what Mao or Deng said, you need to ask experts for advice, don’t pretend to know half a bottle.

Xiaoye felt a kind of unprecedented attention, and her sense of accomplishment was soaring. Seeing his sincerity, she directed him bluntly.

After raising the seedlings, they will be planted in the field.

Planting rice seedlings is heavy work in farming.Although Li Zheng Li Changfu scolded Ting Shuang for not being able to live a good life, he still tacitly allowed his son to come to help when he saw that his family was busy.

In addition to the four brothers, plus Xiaoye, plus Li Dongsheng, the six worked hard to plant the seedlings, and half-grown children who were bought by Ting Shuang with sugar balls also helped to transport the seedlings.

On the first day of planting seedlings, everyone ate an egg first to win the prize. Xiaoye also took a bunch of seedlings and swept them on the seedling field a few times, muttering: "The sun is shining brightly to plant seedlings, and the harvest songs are scattered everywhere. I hope there will be a good harvest." Jing, I wish the warehouse full of grain after autumn."

Very piously, it seems to be holding a ceremony.Ting Shuang thought it was very interesting, and giggled beside him, but when he gave him a glare, he hurriedly acted seriously.

Xiaoye set up a pole on the ground, and then commanded: "Look at the front and look at the two sides. You must be horizontal and vertical, and you must stand upright. The seedlings and the whole roots are in the ground. They can't be planted shallowly, and they can't be planted deep. Just plant this deep. .”

Xiaoye gestured with a small stick, then demonstrated, bent down and planted a few seedlings before taking a big step back.

A few brothers lined up and learned how to insert one by one. At first, they clumsily used a stick to show the depth. The insertion was crooked and the speed was not fast.

Several people went all out to work in the field day and night. Mr. Chu was in charge of all the work at home, feeding chickens, pigs, pickled pickles, doing logistics work, and delivering food to the field every day. Because it was the seedling planting period, three meals a day In addition to the meal, there are two snacks, which are cooked in different ways every day. Although they are ordinary dishes, they are also very delicious.

Dried pickled radishes, stewed green onions, mixed wild vegetables, soybean paste, millet flour cakes, baked corn cakes, mung bean porridge, sweet potato shreds, potato cakes, etc., are rarely repeated.

"I bet old man Chu must have been a chef before, and a master chef at that." Ting Hui said with certainty.

Ting Shuang didn't raise her head and was busy with her work: "As long as you can, no one will bet on the obvious."

Planting seedlings is the busiest job, followed by water trucks, reinforcement of field ridges, and weeding.Looking at a large area of ​​neat seedlings, Ting Shuang was in a sunny mood, imagining the scene of the autumn grain storage, and said to the people around him: "This is our family's first investment. Do you know what investment is?"

"I don't know." Ting Hui said.

"To put it simply, it is to invest capital and get benefits in the future, such as buying fruit saplings, and then you can harvest fruits after planting. Opening up wasteland and farming, you can get a harvest in the future. This is investment. According to time, it can be divided into long-term, medium-term, and long-term. Short term. Got it?"

"Understood." Ting Hui held a piece of grass in his mouth, "For example, Dad invited us a good teacher, provided us with the best conditions for the book, and hoped that we would get a good reputation. This is a long-term investment, and he lost a lot in the end."

Everyone else laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Ting Hui sighed, "Now our family's decent investment is only these lands, and the fourth child."

"Tch, what do you expect to get from investing in the fourth child." Ting Shuang smiled and analyzed it for him, "Even if Zhizhi is admitted to fame, she is only qualified to be an official. If the Ministry of Officials casts a confession and draws lots, it will be bad if a poor or remote province is drawn. Going to Beijing to fill vacancies, taking office, hiring sedan horses, hiring masters, etc., will cost a lot of money. You can’t do it right away when you take office. You have to borrow it to get money. Besides, with Zhizhi as a person, do you think he would do that kind of thing of embezzlement and bribery to curry favor with his boss?"

In modern vernacular, Tingzhi can only bring political capital to the family, but not much economic benefit.Of course, the two can influence each other and can be transformed into each other.

"That's true." Ting Hui smiled helplessly, "This kid's whole mind is to be a famous official of a generation, and his name will go down in history. Let him be a corrupt official, don't even think about it."

Ting Zhi said: "Of course, my ideal is..."

"Understood." Ting Hui interrupted him, "Plead for life for the living people, inherit the knowledge of the past saints, and bring peace to all generations. You have said it more than once before."

"Okay." Ting Shuang stood up and prepared to continue working, "Zhizhi, go back first, I haven't studied for a few days, and the work is almost done, so I don't need your help."

"That's right." Ting Hui pushed him, "You should go home and study, it's important to prepare for peace for all generations in the future."

Everyone laughed again.

Although Ting Shuang was joking on the surface, she admired the integrity and ambition of ancient intellectuals in her heart. She secretly vowed to make more money, live a good life, make good marriages for her younger brothers, and fully support Ting Zhi in her examination for fame and becoming an upright official. Be a famous minister of a generation.