Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 82
Xie Fanxing put [-] fish in their paddy field before, and only about [-] fish were caught. Some of the fish died naturally, and some were eaten by eels, birds, etc., so only the fish were collected. Come up with two hundred tails.

But these fish have been raised in the paddy field for nearly five months, and the larger grass carp has weighed over three catties, and the smaller crucian carp has grown to six or seven.

But most of these fish are one catty, three or four.

Xie Fanxing plans to eat some crucian carp by themselves this year, and the remaining fish will continue to be raised in the rice field next year for another season of rice. In this way, when these fish are harvested next year, the larger grass carp can have four It weighs a lot.

Such a big fish can not only be used to pickle fish, but also can be used to smoke cured fish.

The water was released quickly, and when there was no water, the fish in the paddy fields were naturally easier to catch. In addition, there were many brothers and sisters, and four children from the village came to help them catch fish. In less than an hour, they were Finish catching the fish in the paddy field.

Fanyue, Fanchen, and Fanri still have something to say.

After catching fish and releasing water, the siblings started cutting rice again.

Fanyue, Fanchen, and Fanri had never cut rice before, but when they saw how their eldest sister was cutting rice, the three of them cut rice in style.

It was fresh and fun at first, but after cutting the rice for a while, they couldn't bear the bitterness.

Not to mention the tiredness of bending over, the rice also stings the skin, which is painful and itchy. If you don't pay attention to your hands, the sickle will cut your feet and hands.

It took the Xie family brothers and sisters a lot of work to mow this acre of land.

After harvesting the rice, Fanyu went home and asked her father to pick the rice back.

Xie Fanxing took their siblings to tie the cut rice tightly so that her uncle would pick it up later and then thresh it.

In ancient times, rice threshing was not like it is in modern times, with semi-automatic threshing machines.The pedal is stepped on the bottom, and a roller on the top is rolling. You only need to put the rice on the rolling roller and swing the rice left and right, and then the rice can be threshed.

In ancient threshing, the first step is to cut the rice, pick it back, spread a layer of oil paper on the flat ground, and then set up a wooden climbing frame, you need to hold the rice on this wooden climbing frame Beat the rice vigorously to achieve threshing.

It is very cumbersome and requires a lot of time to do these things.

Of course, this is not the most difficult step. The most difficult step is to hustle the threshed rice.

Husking is even more difficult. You need to put the millet in a stone mortar, and then beat it with a wooden hammer to break the rice husk to expose the rice grains, and then sieve them to get the rice grains out.

Therefore, rice was extremely expensive in ancient times, mostly broken rice, and polished rice was rare, and the price was extremely expensive.

Xie Fanxing took her younger siblings to tie up the cut rice and waited for her uncle to pick it up.

After picking it back, lay it flat again, and let it dry overnight. It will be easier to get rid of it when it is threshing tomorrow.

After a busy day, it was the end of the hour, and Xie Fanxing was also tired, so she hastily cooked a few dishes to make enough for the night.

.

Day two.

"Zhuzi, why are you here? Is there something wrong?" Early in the morning, Xie Zhong and Qian Shi went out with sickles, planning to go to his paddy field to harvest rice. Walked up to ask.

"Zhongzi, you are going to the paddy fields to harvest rice. I am here today to thresh the rice for Fanxing's family. Didn't Fanxing say before that putting fish in the paddy fields can increase the rice production in the paddy fields?

Yesterday my father saw Fanxing and his siblings harvesting the rice. Today my father asked me to come over to help thresh the rice. After finishing, we will weigh it again to see how the yield is and whether it can really increase the yield. "Liu Zhuzi explained.

"That's it! Since you've come to help Zhuzi, we'll help you thresh a piece of grain and see how the harvest is." Xie Zhong was immediately taken care of by Liu Zhuzi's words.

Fanxing had also told him before that raising fish in rice fields could increase rice production, but he thought it was impossible, and he didn't take it to heart.

Now the village head is very concerned about this matter, and even sent their Zhuzi to help, Xie Zhong immediately also cared about this matter.

He thought of the recent matter of burning bricks, which was thought up by Fanxing, and the bricks were also fired. Xie Zhong felt that the matter of raising fish in paddy fields to increase rice production was also thought up by Fanxing. Maybe this can really increase rice production. Maybe.

Xie Zhong dragged Mrs. Qian to the backyard, spread out a piece of oil paper, set up two wooden threshing machines, started working at both ends, and led the Xie family siblings to start threshing.

There are many people and strength, and before noon they had finished threshing the rice of an acre of land.

After threshing, take the basket, put the threshed millet in and weigh it.

This statement made Liu Zhuzi and Xie Zhong a little dumbfounded.

One mu of rice actually weighs 350 jin.

This is [-] catties more millet than the average yield of [-] catties per mu in their Shangou Village. How could this not make Xie Zhong and Liu Zhuzi dumbfounded.

Don't underestimate the extra [-] catties of rice produced from one mu of land. If a family has several mu of paddy fields and an extra [-] catties of rice per mu, it will almost yield an extra mu of land.

If you select fine grain seeds from these rice and cultivate them again, it is estimated that you will have to continue to increase the yield slowly. It is not impossible to harvest [-] or [-] catties of rice per mu. possible.

"Come on, I already know the result, I'll go back and tell my father." Liu Zhuzi said happily after finishing the threshing process.

His family has several mu of paddy fields. If each mu of paddy fields increased by [-] catties of rice compared to previous years, it would add several hundred catties of millet. How could this not make Liu Zhuzi happy.

The extra millet is picked up for nothing, and whoever gets such a good thing will be happy.

"Fish farming in this paddy field can really increase rice production. We will also raise fish in our paddy field next year. It's a pity that our two paddy fields are small. If we add a few more acres of paddy fields to plant rice, how much millet will it cost?" After Qian learned of the result, she also had a happy face.

But then it was a pity that there were less paddy fields in their house.

"Don't worry, Auntie. We can burn bricks now. After selling the blue bricks, we will have money and then buy land. Our good days will come later." In this era, land and food are their They feel that with food in hand, they are not afraid of going hungry, and they have confidence in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)