Defeat natural disasters with farming

Ye Yu's family grows all kinds of food in their own fields, mainly rice and wheat, and some sweet potatoes and corn. They don't grow potatoes very much, mainly because they use potatoes for cooking more now, and they are no longer very important. Eat it as a staple food. After all, the priority of potatoes as food is not high, not even sweet potatoes. You can only grow one kind in the home garden.

The village's public fields also grow a lot of food. In addition to the normal food such as rice, wheat and sorghum, there are also a few pieces of land planted with glutinous rice and taro. Ye Yu hopes to change the recipe when harvesting in the future.

After the grain is planted, it is the turn to plant cotton and various medicinal materials. Cotton is naturally warm and light-loving, so the requirements for planting land are deep soil, strong air permeability, and convenient irrigation. Fortunately, there are several places in the village that are very suitable. .

After all the soil in the field has been crushed and the manure is piled in, the seeds can be sown. The cotton seeds are oval in shape with white and off-white hairs on both sides, which looks very inconspicuous.

These cotton seeds are divided into hands, and the responsible person puts on the hood and starts planting. It is also very simple, the same way as growing food.

As for medicinal materials, it is more troublesome in comparison, because various medicinal materials have different requirements on the environment, so when planting, several doctors need to teach them hand in hand.

For example, Scutellaria baicalensis likes the sun and likes to be dry, so it cannot be planted in a dark place. Bupleurum likes warmth, is resistant to drought and cold, and is afraid of waterlogging. High, as long as it is not a waterlogged place.

There are Gastrodia elata, kudzu root, motherwort and so on.

When all kinds of medicinal materials have been planted, rebuilding the fence can finally be put on the agenda.

However, before the construction, Ye Yu attended Ye He's wedding banquet first. Ye He and Yue Ling were in love with each other. .

It is a rare happy event for the two of them to get married, so the whole village is very happy. Lanterns were hung on several doors, one on each side of the door, these things made the whole Ye family look extremely festive.

Yue Ling is the only daughter of Yue Biaotou, and Yue Biaotou was originally the head of the Escort Bureau, so naturally he has a lot of wealth, even now there are a lot of gold and silver, even if it is not very useful, but she thought Daughters always like all kinds of beautiful faces, so Yue Ling's dowry includes a lot of gold and silver, plus a whole set of furniture, including kang cabinets and half cabinets, and even a lot of pots and pans , This also led to the fact that when the first set of her dowry was delivered to Ye's house, the last set hadn't come out of the house.

While putting on makeup, Ye Yu happened to see the head mask in the box. At this time, he thought with some emotion, the really made head mask is very delicate, and the skills are so exquisite, even if he is a man, he would be a little moved.

The so-called marriage is also called twilight, which refers to the twilight at dusk, so the general worship time is dusk, when the sun is about to set, after they finish their worship and change into simple clothes, they can come to entertain relatives and friends.

The wedding banquet had a rich variety of dishes, and Ye Yu especially liked the pig's ear cold dish. There was a lot of vinegar in it, which was very appetizing. The pig's ear was cut into strips, and it tasted crunchy, especially the part with brittle bones.

Mrs. Ye was very happy today, her face was full of spring breeze, she greeted: "You can serve whatever you want."

Mother Ye waved at her, "Sit down and eat quickly, and let Ye He and his wife continue to greet people." OK. Sister Ye sat down next to Ye Ru, touched her face and asked, "Good boy, are you tired?" "

Ye Ru could already speak, she replied inarticulately: "I'm not tired, rice is delicious."

She ate rice with pork rib soup, which made the rice soft, which was just right for her.

"Eat more if it tastes good." Mrs. Ye gave Ye Ru a small bowl of fried shrimp, which was made from river prawns and tasted very sweet.

Mother Ye looked at Ye Ru, who was eating seriously, and sighed: "This child is finally raised. His face was yellow before, but now he is white and tender."

"Yes." Mrs. Ye was very happy to hear this, "Doctor Chen said that sister Ru just needs to eat and sleep well."

"This is good news." Mother Ye said with a smile.

After a while, when Ye Ru finished eating, Mrs. Ye carried her back to the house to sleep, and came out after coaxing her to sleep.

Auntie Ye ate two bites of rice, and then shared with Mother Ye in a low voice: "Sister Ling has no brothers, so we discussed with her mother that the child born after their young couple gets married will have a mother's surname."

"It's good." Mother Ye said, "No matter what the surname is, it's their child."

"Yes." Mrs. Ye agrees with this point. In fact, it is very easy for Yue Ling to recruit a wife. The two are in love with each other, and the young couple will not have only one child in the future, so it is not a big deal for one of them to follow the mother's surname.

She then said: "When you meet someone with a good temper later on, remember to introduce it to Brother Hai. It doesn't matter if you get married again, as long as she treats the child well."

Those who can sit at this table are basically the closest relatives of the Ye family, so upon hearing this, someone asked, "Any other requirements?"

"Hey, what can I ask for, as long as she is sincere to the child. If she also has children, we can raise them as our own children, but the family style must be good. You can't favor boys over girls, and you can't twist it. If you have something to say, just talk about it." Although Mrs. Ye didn't ask for it, it would be too much to list all these things one by one.

Second Aunt Ye frowned and asked, "Brother Hai finally thought about it?"

Aunt Ye sighed when she heard the words, "Where, didn't I want to make preparations first, and I couldn't really stop marrying for the rest of my life as he said. Isn't this a proper way to delay people? If nothing else, just After my father and I die, and my sister and son get married, what should he do, he can't die alone."

Ye Yu immediately comforted him: "Don't worry, how long has it been? It's normal for the elder brother to be unable to figure it out. It will be fine in a while."

"Oh, I was in a hurry." Mrs. Ye wiped her face and said, "Forget it, forget it, you just pretend I didn't say anything."

Ye Yu sighed deeply, every family has their own hard-to-recite scriptures. He looked around and found that no one from the Wu family came to the wedding banquet. Originally, Auntie Ye wanted to repair the relationship, but their family has always been lukewarm, so Auntie Ye was not willing to put her face on someone's cold ass, so the relationship between the two became lukewarm.

But in the final analysis, this is not a big deal. The real big deal is actually the next expansion. Ever since Ye He's marriage ended, their village has been busy. Hundreds of people have been busy for nearly a year before they have a city. prototype.

Someone said before that it is best to cut down the two forests at the front gate of the village, so they cut them down when building the fence. The trees cut down are not wasted at all, and can be burned as firewood.

It is estimated that they will build an outer city wall of at least 2000 meters. About [-] acres of land will be enclosed within the outer city wall, and [-] acres of the [-] acres of land will be residential land. At the same time, several small hills will be enclosed. The mountain is full of various workshops, such as the steamed bun kiln. There is also a fruit mountain next to it, which is full of various fruit trees, including cherries, ringos, oranges, peaches, persimmons, etc., which have been planted for several years. There has been no fruit in the past year, and now the fruit trees have fully grown. If there is no accident, they will not be short of fruit for the next four seasons. Watermelons and the like are still planted in the low-lying places between the two mountains.

Except for the place reserved for the construction of public buildings and the [-]-acre Mingzhu Lake, the rest is all cultivated land, which includes private and public land. According to normal circumstances, the food produced by the enclosure is enough for them There is more than enough food for all.

The inner city wall encloses the residential area. It is not long, but it is strong and tall. The height of the inner and outer city walls is the same, both are four meters, and there is no difference in width.

What is different from before is that there is a tower on the top of the two city walls, and the wall stacks a few meters apart are the kind of small stacks that are convex and concave. The small stacks that protrude are called horse faces, which are thicker than ordinary parts of the city walls. , In this way, when fighting in the future, the soldiers can shoot arrows on the horse faces of the tower, which will be safer, and the horse faces can support each other to form crossfire, making it easier to defend.

It was troublesome to say, but when they actually started to build it, they found that it was even more troublesome to do.

First of all, the foundation of the wall needs to be dug deeper. The whole village, including Father Ye, is no exception. They work day and night.

Therefore, every afternoon, Ye Yu would take people to the city wall with three buckets of sour plum soup filled with ice bricks, and let the workers scoop them into bowls by themselves.

The sour plum soup contained ebony, hawthorn, sweet-scented osmanthus, licorice and rock sugar. There were ice cubes floating in the dark brown juice, and he scooped it up himself.

The sour plum soup is well made, it tastes sweet and sour, and it is very refreshing. As long as you have a bowl of it, the heat in your body will disappear.

Ye Yu breathed a sigh of relief after finishing drinking, "It really is the most comfortable to drink a bowl of sour plum soup in summer."

Father Ye drank it in two or three gulps, and while putting the bowl away, he told him, "It's too cold, drink less."

Ye Yu responded, and then said: "Because of the hot weather, the ice cubes we hoarded in winter are consumed very quickly, and there are not many left now, and we may not be able to drink them in a few days. You should enjoy it while you still have it." .”

"You still have to take it easy."

After he finished speaking, he stopped talking, put down the bowl and continued to work.