Tianyuan Shoufu is two and a half years old

Chapter 14 Sweet Potato Leaves

"There were also aristocratic families in the Yong Dynasty. Even if there were no such aristocratic families, officials or some big businessmen wanted to snatch the recipes for oil extraction from us, and we could do nothing." Qin Muzhang touched his daughter-in-law's face , kissed her on the forehead and said, "Although we are very powerful, we are human after all, and it is impossible to cover everything."

Chen Qiuxiang nodded, nestled in his arms and said, "That's fine, I'll ask my parents and elder brother for their opinions tomorrow."

"Not in a hurry." Qin Muzhang hugged her tightly and said, "Recently, our village has been busy with farming, so we don't have time to do other things. After a while, we will talk about oil extraction and tofu making after everyone has finished planting the land. .”

"Yeah." Chen Qiuxiang said that he knew it.

On the third day, the Qin family's field continued to plow a piece of field to be used as a seedbed for raising seedlings. The rest of the field was roughly plowed once, then soaked in water, and plowed again after a month.

The rice seeds that Chen Qiuxiang soaked before have germinated. After Qin Muzhang and the others made the seedbed, she sprinkled plant ash and straw ash on the seedbed, and then sprinkled the germinated rice seeds on it.

Because I was worried about the germination and implantation of the rice seeds, I had to cover it with a layer of straw to shade it after the rice seeds were sprinkled.

After Chen Qiuxiang sowed all the rice seeds, the work was over, and they should be busy with the dry fields.

The two curved plows used by Qin Muzhang and Qin Songtao have already attracted the attention of other people in Qinjiazhuang. Everyone is curious about the practicality of this new type of plow. Seeing that Qin Songtao and his son plus a Qin Jingzhe can They have plowed so many fields in just two or three days, and they are all overwhelmed.

"Songtao, how did your new plow do it?"

"Songtao, can you lend me this new plow from your family?"

"Songtao..."

"Zhang, can you tell us how to do this new plow?"

"Azhang, is this new plow really useful?"

"Azhang, have you ever thought about selling this new plow? What do you think of me? I can pay for your new plow."

The other members of the Qin clan in Qinjiazhuang wanted this Quyuanli very much. After all, farmers like tools that make farming more convenient for them. Quyuanli can save them time and effort in farming, so of course they want it very much.

Everyone was looking for Qin Songtao and Qin Muzhang to ask about Qu Yuanli. Qin Songtao and Qin Muzhang didn't think about hiding it, so they showed Qu Yuanli to everyone when they asked.

Qin Muzhang also carefully explained to others what Quyuanli should do, how to make the plow more useful, and how to prolong its life so that the plow will not be able to continue in just a few years. used.

Qin Muzhang does not hide his secrets. He will tell other people from the Qin family what to do when they come over. He will even tell everyone what to do when there is something they don’t understand when they are making Quyuanli at home. correct.

Reciprocating, Qin Muzhang so generously told others how Qu Yuanli would do it, everyone also asked one or two members of their own family to help Qin Muzhang's family farm the land.

The paddy fields hadn't been transplanted yet, so everyone went to Qin Muzhang's dry field to help grow corn and sweet potatoes.

Corn Chen Qiuxiang took out a lot of corn kernels. She also soaked the seeds in a nutrient solution suitable for plant growth. After soaking in the nutrient solution, the germination rate of these seeds can reach 90.00%. It is [-]%.

Moreover, the seeds soaked in the nutrient solution will grow very strong after germination, and the performance of cold resistance and cold resistance is very good. When the crops grow well, the fruits will be more plump.

As for the sweet potato, Chen Qiuxiang just took out one sweet potato and gave birth to countless sweet potato vines, which were then divided into sections for everyone to plant.In addition to sweet potato vines, she also gave sprouted sweet potatoes for everyone to plant.

Interplanting sweet potatoes and corn, Chen Qiuxiang planted about ten acres of sweet potatoes in the twelve-acre dry land, and interplanted soybeans and mung beans into the corn field for the remaining two acres of land. Of course, some soybeans and mung beans should be planted, after all It was quite delicious.

"Daughter-in-law Zhang, what are you doing? What if the harvest is not good? Your family has so much land, so you have to pay a lot of taxes." Qin Chunlan worried while planting the sweet potato vines.

"Yes, what are you planting? Can it be eaten? What if you find that you can't eat it after planting it? Isn't the ten acres of land a waste?" Qin Chunying said worriedly.

"It's all right. The sweet potatoes can be harvested in four months. We'll know when the time comes." Chen Qiuxiang said with a smile, "And the sweet potato leaves are also edible. After a month or so, the tender leaves can be eaten. .”

"Really? Its leaves are edible?" Qin Chunlan looked at the sweet potato vine in her hand and asked suspiciously.

"Of course you can eat it. I have planted several clusters of sweet potatoes in my yard, and its leaves are growing now. If you want to know the taste, you can go to my yard and pick some back and taste it."

Although Qin Chunlan and Qin Chunying are still a little skeptical, and worried that Qin Songtao and his family have planted more than ten acres of dry land in one go, such as corn and sweet potatoes, which they don't know at all, they still help to plant more than ten acres of dry land. All planted.

Qin Chunlan and Qin Chunying, who helped Chen Qiuxiang's family grow sweet potatoes and corn, went to her house together after finishing their work to see if it was true what she said in the field that her family also planted sweet potatoes. Look at the sweet potatoes Are the leaves edible?

"Hey, Chunlan and Chunying are here?" Wang Mingya saw Qin Chunlan and Qin Chunying when she was watering the vegetables in the yard because she was going to take care of the children and also because she was going home to cook. Although she was a little puzzled seeing them coming But still warmly greeted.

Qin Chunlan and Qin Chunying are cousins. When the two sisters grew up, they did not marry into other villages but married into the same village with the same surname of Qin, but the blood relationship between their husband's family and their mother's family was a little further away. Already released five suits.

In ancient times, it seemed to be a matter of course for cousins ​​and cousins ​​to get married, but the marriage of cousins ​​was relatively rare.Although Qin Chunlan and Qin Chunying married into families with the surname Qin, they did not come from the same family for five generations. Their husband's family and their mother's family were relatively close relatives six or seven generations ago. .

Qinjiazhuang is a relatively large village. 80.00% of the people in the village have the surname Qin, but some people with the surname Qin are far away from relatives with other surnames Qin, so intermarriage between people with the same surname is allowed again.

What's more, in the Five Dynasties, there was no law prohibiting close relatives from marrying. For example, Qin Chunlan and Qin Chunying married people with the same surname who had already passed the five clothes.

(End of this chapter)