Defeat natural disasters with farming

As the weather gradually warms up, it is finally time to start the construction of Jiwang City. It is not easy to build a house for more than 300 people in a short period of time. Ye Yu is even more emotional, and does not know when it will be built. Finish.

Ye Yu calculated in her heart, and then she clicked her tongue. They estimated that they would build [-] to [-] houses. The only good thing is that the houses being built now are very simple in shape, at most two or three houses, except for the houses for people. , there is also a stove room. As for the hut, not every household has it, but a public one. It is located in the middle, the location is convenient, and the area is relatively large. It can accommodate five people at a time, but this is just the beginning. After a period of time, you can start to expand, such as cellars, woodsheds and the like can be added slowly.

To Ye Yu's regret, no one chose to use underfloor heating, and all of them used kangs for heating. Although the weather is no longer necessary for heating, we still have to prepare for this winter.

However, it is still easier to make heated kangs than floor heating. According to common sense, it would be better for them to build heated kangs.

Father Ye didn't participate in the construction of the house, he was leading people to prepare for land reclamation.

Naturally, there is a lot of wasteland, especially the front gate and the back gate of Jiwang City. There is a piece of wasteland on each side. The area is very large. If all of them can be reclaimed, it will be enough to distribute to those who later settled in the city, and there may even be some surplus. First, when harvesting in autumn, the grain in Gongzhong will also increase accordingly.

However, even if they invented many agricultural tools that increase the efficiency of land reclamation, land reclamation is still not an easy task.

The first thing is to clean up the weeds. Weeds are divided into two types. If it is the kind of withered and yellow weeds, it is okay to say, you only need to use a hoe to dig out the grass roots together, but the stumps and roots left by cutting trees are very troublesome. Saw it off with a saw, and dig out the roots.

Father Ye stood up to the slightly chilly air in March and watched the crowd start weeding the wasteland in full swing. They had to finish plowing the wasteland before April, because April was the time for spring plowing, and they had to finish the work before then. over.

At this time, Ye Yu thought for a while, and suggested: "Let's burn around the wasteland, especially at the foot of Dongshan Mountain. I saw that the woods have spread across the line again. We have to clean up, otherwise we will be doing nothing after clearing up the wasteland." work."

Ye Zhong agreed with him, "That's right, we have to put fences around to prevent small animals from running in and rushing for food."

Hearing what they said, Father Ye nodded and said, "Let's make a fireproof belt first and then talk about it."

Otherwise, it would be bad to make a wildfire.

Ye Zhong was in charge of fire prevention. He led the city guards to cut down all the trees exposed on the ground at the foot of Dongshan Mountain, and kept the dead branches as firewood. Weeds don't need to be specially treated, they just need to be burned once. However, the burned plant ash is also a very useful fertilizer. It can be collected and scattered in the fields that have been reclaimed to increase fertility.

There is a poem that says, "Weeds can't be burned, but they can be regenerated when the spring breeze blows."

The situation is even more serious after natural disasters. The growth of weeds is astonishingly fast. Just a few days without weeding, a pile of weeds grows in the field, crowded and close together. We can't ignore them, otherwise they will occupy The location and fertility of the fields lead to reduced grain production.

They can't relax after weeding, and the next step is to level the land.

The main thing is to dig out the high soil, carry it to the low place with a load and fill it up, make the two places level, and then pile up the field ridge. If you know that you need trucks to irrigate the field, you must first make the field ridge. Its purpose It also includes walking and growing crops, so it is very important.

After finishing the field ridges, composting begins. Most of the manure is used. Let alone the effect, the smell is really unpleasant.

Ye Yu only went there once and was stinky enough. Originally, he wanted to bear it and wait until he got used to it, but before he got used to it, he was sent back to deal with the farm tools by Ye Yu's father.

They don't grow rice in the fields, most likely wheat and sorghum, or corn and sweet potatoes.

The last step in land reclamation is deep plowing of the land. It is necessary to break up the large piece of soil buried at the bottom and pick out the stones, otherwise the seeds will be damaged.

It’s only March now, but it’s actually still very cold outside, so when they’re working, they’re bustling and bustling, but they often feel chills all over their bodies. This is a good thing, at least it improves efficiency.

They will finish reclaiming all the wasteland at the end of April, just in time for spring plowing. If there is any difference between this year and previous years, it is that the types of food planted are different. After they are full, their goal is to eat well. Therefore, most of the fields in Jiwang City are planted with wheat, even less sorghum is planted, and the number of beans is more, mainly because soy products are very popular, such as tofu and soy milk, and many people like it.

Ye Yu's family still grows a few acres of rice. This year, several families started to grow rice like them. Although they didn't grow much, it was a start. More and more families will grow rice in the future .

During the spring plowing this year, all kinds of newly made iron farm tools made great contributions, especially the three water wheels, which helped a lot in irrigation, and everyone was full of praise.

During the spring plowing, they also celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival. Mother Ye hung the wormwood that Ye Yu and Chu Xufeng had picked up from the mountain on the door, and then packed all kinds of fragrant medicines in a sachet, including realgar and atractylodes. Inside, the sachet is light blue, without any pattern on it, it is a solid color, but there are red tassels hanging underneath, which looks very beautiful.

Wearing these sachets on the body can prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants, but they are too small, and the effect of hanging them in the house is not very good, so Mother Ye chose another method, which is to sweep the five poisons.

The folk song said: "Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot, the five poisons are awakened, and there is no peace."

May is regarded as the "poisonous month" and "evil month" because once it enters May, the rain will gradually increase, and the humid air will breed viruses and bacteria, making it easy for people to contract diseases.

At the same time, the five poisons grow. The so-called five poisons refer to the five animals: snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos, and toads. But geckos are actually not poisonous. Ye Yu deeply suspects that it is only because of its ugly appearance that people are attracted to it. Classify it as poison.

Let’s talk about cleaning the five poisons first. In fact, it means cleaning with tools tied with a red thread, which is equivalent to a half-yearly cleaning. (One time before the Spring Festival, and one time just before the Dragon Boat Festival, exactly half a year.)

Ye Yu's house has carefully cleaned all the furniture this year, especially the various corners, where snakes, insects, rats and ants may be hidden, and asked them to move away and sweep them.

What they didn't expect was that they actually saw a nest of mice under the cabinet in the sundry room. Ye Yu was the one who cleaned the place at that time. There were seven or eight mice in the nest, two of which were big, and the rest were all It's a tiny newborn, the hair hasn't grown yet, and the flesh pink ones squeezed together make people feel disgusting.

When the nest of mice came into Ye Yu's eyes, the broom in his hand almost fell to the ground, mainly because the two big mice were very ugly, and they were not small in size, and the front teeth in their mouths were full of hostility.

Fortunately, Qingtuan and Heidou were by his side, and when the two big mice showed their attacking posture, they struck first and killed them in three or two strokes. He ran up to Ye Yu, spit out two bloody mice on the ground, then wagged his tail and looked at him as if he wanted to praise him.

Ye Yu didn't refuse either, and patted the two of them one by one, "Good boy."

When Chu Xufeng heard the movement and came in, he saw Ye Yu looking into the mouse hole, and at the same time there were two big mice on the ground that were bleeding.

"Don't get so close." Chu Xufeng pulled him over from the mouse hole.

Ye Yu walked over along the way, and saw his parents coming, so he said happily: "Fortunately, we cleaned up, otherwise, when the little mouse grows up, the family will not know what it will be like."

You must know that mice not only steal food at home, but also carry germs and parasites, which can be transmitted to humans if they are not careful.

Mother Ye said: "The last time the utility room was cleaned was during the Chinese New Year. I really didn't pay much attention during this time."

But she was also a little puzzled, "The food at home is not lost, the mice can't go into the cellar to steal it."

Ye Yu came to his senses when he heard this, "I remember that there were still some unfinished bean cakes in the utility room. They were for the sheep last year, but they were put on hold before they were finished."

Mother Ye thought for a while before she figured out where they put the bean cakes. She went over to take a look, and she saw the mouse's tooth marks on the side of the bean cakes.

That being the case, she felt relieved. Mother Ye wore gloves and threw the bean cakes and dead mice into the latrine. They will slowly decompose and turn into compost fields. The main reason is that the mice carry germs and parasites , Ye Yu would rather eat snake meat than rat meat. Originally, Ye Mu proposed to give Qingtuan and black beans to eat, but he did not agree.

Because they encountered this mouse hole, they continued to clean it up very carefully, and fortunately there were no other small animals in the house.

Taking advantage of the strong sunlight during the day, Ye Yu took out all the quilts and pillows and put them on the straw mats to dry, and took them back at night.

The cleaning of the five poisons lasted until evening, and then Mother Ye began to wash her hands and make zongzi.

The zong leaves are made of bamboo leaves, which are not newly grown this year, but used two years ago, but they are still very tough and not damaged at all, but they have turned slightly yellow over time, which is not very good-looking.

Bamboo-leaf rice dumplings have a scent of bamboo after they are steamed, which makes Ye Yu lick the corners of his mouth when he thinks about it.

Mother Ye prepared two kinds of stuffing this time, one is red date stuffing, the other is duck egg salted egg yolk stuffing, the former uses dried red dates, pitted, dipped in sugar is delicious, the latter is salty rice dumplings Yes, it's the first time they make it, so I don't know how it tastes.

Ye Yu quickly moved a bench and sat in the yard to make zongzi. The zongzi leaves were flattened and rolled into a cone in his hands, and then the sharp corners were filled with glutinous rice, and then red dates were added. It can wrap two red dates, but the normal one is one red date, and finally he fills the remaining space with glutinous rice.

The rope used to tie the zongzi is red thread and white thread. The red thread is tied with red date zongzi, and the white thread is tied with salted egg yolk zongzi.

At the end of the package, there were even some extra zong leaves and glutinous rice, but there were no red dates and salted egg yolks, so Ye Mu simply wrapped them all into white zongzi, which can be eaten directly with sugar in the future.

After steaming, the zongzi was steaming, and when the zongzi leaves were peeled off, the crystal clear glutinous rice was exposed. The honey-like red date meat dyed the glutinous rice into a beautiful maple syrup color. Ye Yu sprinkled some sugar in the bowl, and then began to dip it in Eat, the taste is really good. The glutinous rice is sticky and glutinous, and it tastes sweet when you bite it down. The red dates are dried in the sun, and the sweetness is very high. Adding white sugar, there is a kind of satisfaction brought by the abundance of sugar feel.

The salted egg yolk rice dumplings are different. They are sweet and salty, so they are more palatable. The salted egg yolk oil is infiltrated on the glutinous rice, making the taste delicate.

Today, Qing Tuan and Black Bean made great contributions, but they can't eat glutinous rice, so Mother Ye specially cooked two stick bones to reward them in the evening.

Everyone in the family sat in the courtyard and ate happily. The gentle evening wind in May blows, and Ye Yu's eyes are full of shining stars.

When he went to bed at night, he lay down under the quilt full of the smell of the sun and took a deep breath, only feeling that his whole body felt comfortable.

The author says:

I've been really busy recently, and with Kavin, the update frequency may be affected, I'm very sorry.