Reborn in the red years, I am farming in space

Chapter 131 The crops and grains are abundant [3 chapters today, 1+]

Luo Xuan watched the old turtle restless in the big water tank, and even fed earthworms to it, but it refused to eat them.

see,

Luo Xuan went to another tank to find a few hemp prawns that had been caught before, and threw them into the old turtle's tank.

This kind of hemp shrimp and small crucian carp are the favorite food of soft-shelled turtles.

And because in the past, the batch of hemp shrimp and small crucian carp caught by the third brother of the Zhou family had been raised in the space for a long time.

So the shrimps, which were only as thick as chopsticks, have now grown to the size of two fingers.

The size of these hemp prawns is actually thicker than the big green prawns in the sea, almost catching up with the crayfish.

Looking at these juicy hemp prawns, Luo Xuan even had the urge to cook them and eat them.

Wait until Luo Xuan throws the shrimp into the water.

The old turtle just stretched its neck and smelled the smell of the water, but it still looked like it was still not interested in these foods, and then pulled its limbs vigorously, as if it wanted to escape from this big water tank.

Seeing this, Luo Xuan's heart suddenly moved!
Stretching out his hand, Luo Xuan hugged the old turtle out of the water tank with all his strength, then put it on the ground and let it move freely.

I saw that once the old turtle touched the ground of the space, he immediately became cautious, and he was no longer as manic as he was in the water tank.

After a while

The old turtle stretched out his head and looked around, as if he was carefully assessing the surrounding environment by relying on his sense of smell and eyes.

Seeing this situation, Luo Xuan took a few steps back quietly.

The old turtle paused on the ground for a moment, then slowly began to crawl forward.

When it climbed near the small mound where the goat was tied, the old turtle began to use its hind paws to dig a hole in the soft ground vigorously!
The ground in the space is very fluffy, and the old turtle dug a big hole in the ground without much effort.

After a while, the old turtle dug a hole, turned his head and moved his butt into the hole, and began to lay eggs.

original,

Once the soft-shelled turtle reaches the spawning period, it will climb out of the water after 10 o'clock in the middle of the night.

Then the soft-shelled turtle will choose the shade of a tree or under the grass with no stagnant water on a higher terrain, leeward to the sun, and especially likes to dig holes to lay eggs on the soft and moist sandy silt soil.

It's just that there is no distinction between day and night, four seasons of frost and snow in the space.

So this old turtle doesn't have to pick the time and season to lay eggs.

According to the records in the aquaculture book: the female soft-shelled turtle can lay several nests every year, and the number of eggs laid each time is related to the age and nutritional status of the soft-shelled turtle.

Generally, a soft-shelled turtle lays 3 to 5 nests a year, with about 20 eggs per nest.

But Luo Xuan stood there watching for a long time, and the old turtle was still laying eggs, and it didn't show any intention of stopping!
It seems that this is a high-yielding big family!

Luo Xuan stood quietly in the distance and waited for a long time before the old turtle finished laying its first batch of eggs.

After it has finished laying eggs, it uses its hind paws to grab the sand to cover the hole, and then uses its abdomen to smooth and compact the sand.

Wait until the old turtle climbs away,

Luo Xuan stepped forward and took a look: I saw that the place where the old turtle laid eggs just now was flat and flat, which looked similar to the surrounding land, and there were no obvious traces at all.

Seeing the old turtle crawling far away, Luo Xuan couldn't help but secretly rejoiced: With the help of this old, high-yielding old turtle, why would I need to go outside to collect other people's turtles in the future?
The soft-shelled turtles and eels in the space can be completely self-produced and sold in the future.

This space is simply a perfect internal circulation system!
Resisting the urge in my heart to pull the spawning nest away to see how many fish eggs there are.

Luo Xuan rolled up his sleeves and started peeling corn cobs in the space.

Bashu Province has a different climate and soil from the north.

When corn is harvested in the north, the corn husk outside the corn cob is basically dry at this time, and it is relatively easier to tear it off.

However, harvesting corn in Bashu Province is several times more difficult than that in the north.

The degree of hard work is second only to the difficulty of harvesting rice.

Because it is the season of harvesting corn in Bashu Province, the sun is still shining on the head and the weather is very hot.

Members of the production team, if they start work too early, the dew will be heavy on the fields at that time.

Corn cobs soaked in a lot of water are difficult to tear.

But if it is too late to go to the cornfield, the water vapor in the corn grove and sweet potato field will evaporate upwards after the sun is exposed.

The sun above the head, the water steaming under the feet,

In addition, the corn grove is airtight, if a person does farm work in it for a while, his whole body will be soaked in sweat!
Facing the sun, enduring the sweltering heat that makes people faint, and carrying an increasingly heavy basket on their backs
The work of peeling corn in Bashu is really tiring and difficult.

When it was time to harvest corn, there were not a few commune members who suffered from heatstroke due to the sweltering heat and humidity in the corn grove every year.

Looking at the large cornfield in his own space, Luo Xuan felt his head was getting bigger!
No way, no matter how tired I have to do it!

Others want to harvest so much food, it can only be in a dream, I have no reason to be lazy.

Rolling up his sleeves, Luo Xuan began to peel off the corn cobs.

Unexpectedly: the corn on the cob that Luo Xuan thought would be difficult to peel, turned out to be extremely easy to peel!

As long as one's own hands go up and tear off those corn husks casually, there will only be a soft "hissing" sound, and the corn husks will automatically crack open, revealing the yellow and orange corn cobs inside.
Luo Xuan was overjoyed!

As soon as he plunged into the corn grove, he quickly peeled the corn.

When harvesting corn in the production team, it is necessary to carry the corn cobs to the storage room of the production team to prevent them from being stolen and misfortune by voles and birds.

But in this space of mine, these worries do not exist.

The space area was not too big, so Luo Xuan wasn't afraid of the corncobs being piled up too scatteredly, so he just peeled off the corncobs from the stalks and threw them away on the ground.

Corn shucks well.

And just pull it off and forget about it. As for putting them together, Luo Xuan is going to break off the corn cobs first.

Do one thing at a time.

Luo Xuan was going to break the corn first, and then slowly pick up the corn cobs with the cart.

Now just peel and don't care about shipping, it's very fast to work like this.

After a while, Luo Xuan finished peeling one long corn, then turned around and continued to harvest the second long.

When he felt tired, Luo Xuan stopped what he was doing and started cooking in the space.

Mushroom soup, fresh spring water prawns, and a bowl of green pepper pot meat, this meal should be treated as a reward for yourself and a supper for yourself.

After eating, lie down in the space and rest for a while.

wake up.

Luo spun up and took the two rabbits by hand, weighed them, and felt the fruits of his labor.

Then imitate those women in the production team, put the index finger into the hen, touch and poke.

Let's see if this hen will lay eggs tomorrow
After eating and resting, Luo Xuanbian rolled up his sleeves and continued peeling corn.

Just do it for a while and rest for a while.

I don't know how long it took, but Luo Xuan finally harvested all the 2000 corn plants.

Looking at the thick, big, long, yellow corncobs piled up like a mountain in the corn grove, Luo Xuan wiped the sweat on his forehead.

After adjusting his body a bit, Luo Xuan found a cart and began to collect corn cobs cart by cart.

Luo Xuan was planning to pile the corn cobs aside first.

When I am not busy tomorrow, I will take some time to start drawing the "Hand-operated Corn Thresher" drawing.

Wait until the drawing is done,
Luo Xuan was going to find the craftsmen in the Ironware Club, and build a simple corn thresher for himself by hand.

By the way, make a pedal threshing machine.

Otherwise, in a few days, when I harvest the rice, it is not a small project to thresh so much rice.

this period.

On the market in Bashu Province, it is difficult to see corn threshers and threshing machines.

Due to well-known reasons, there is a shortage of steel in the market, and there is also a shortage of bearings.

In other provinces, there are pedal threshing machines made of pine wood and a small amount of steel.

But this kind of threshing machine, because its main parts, even the weight wheels, are made of wood.

This kind of threshing machine is used in the rice fields with a little more sand in the central and eastern regions of China, and the problem is not too big.

Make do with it, and it can last for three or a few years.

However, the air in Bashu Province is humid and the yellow mud in the rice fields is sticky. It won't take long for the structure of the wooden threshing machine to be damp and deformed, causing mismatches between the various parts and huge friction.

This kind of threshing machine is available in Bashu Province for less than two years.

Thinking about those production teams working hard and spending a lot of money to buy this kind of threshing machine, but if it can only be used for a year or two, then the calculation is really not worth the loss.

According to Luo Xuan's thinking: In the future, in my own space, I don't know how many stubbles of rice and corn I will harvest every year.

Therefore, it is urgent to make a threshing machine.

but now,
The corn harvested by myself has piled up like a mountain, so it is more important to get a corn thresher that is easier to make and uses less steel than a threshing machine.

Like a hand-operated corn thresher with a simple structure and a very cheap price in the later generations, on a certain day, 19.9 can be free shipping.

It's not too difficult to design such a simple device.

But for such a simple and cheap corn thresher, there was no trace of it on the market during this period.

So much so that the members of the production team in Bashu Province threshed the corn purely by hand.

After the corn is recovered, it needs to be threshed, dried and returned to the warehouse as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the rainy season comes, the corn is prone to mold or sprouts.

When the production team arrives to harvest corn, there is no distinction between commune members on and off work.

as soon as you finish your meal,
All members of the commune must gather at the door of the storage room, and the big guys gather around the huge baskets to hustle corn together.

Due to the relatively high moisture content of corn cobs, it is very laborious to thresh the corn. After a few days, everyone's wrists and tiger's jaws are terribly painful.

The threshing machine and the corn thresher have to hurry up and get it out.

As for the remaining corn stalks in the space, Luo Xuan couldn't think of a good way to deal with it.

Since there is nothing to do for the time being, Luo Xuan is planning to chop off all these straws in two days when he is not busy.

Unlike corn stalks in the north.

When the corn is harvested here in Bashu Province, the water content in the straw is still very high.

In particular, the land in my own space is fertile, and the corn grows faster and matures earlier than outside the space.

So now these corn stalks are still lush and can be used as silage fodder.

Luo Xuan plans to save some of the stalks as green fodder for the little rabbits and goats.

As for most of the remaining straw, it can only be cut down and piled up first.

After a while, find a secluded place by yourself and throw these straws out of the space.

These straws are placed in the space. Although they will not rot and deteriorate, they will take up valuable space and delay their own crops.

But if you want to throw these straws outside the space, you need to be a little more careful.

Because the corn outside the space is not mature yet.

If you throw these corn stalks casually, it will definitely arouse the high vigilance of the members of the local production team!

They must have thought that there was a large-scale corn theft happening somewhere.

that way,
It's not very good to cause a weird incident that cannot be solved because of throwing straw by yourself.

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