Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 33 033 Harvesting Rice
At night, Mu Yu entered the mustard space while everyone was sleeping and began to get busy.

The first is to harvest rice.

Although she doesn't have a sickle or other props, since there are only more than 50 rice plants in total, it doesn't take too much effort to harvest with sharper stones, and it's done quickly.

But this time, it is only possible to make do with it. When there is a lot of food planted, it is necessary to have serious tools, otherwise it will be very inconvenient.

The next step is to remove the ears of grain and separate the seeds.

This step is not difficult. She rubbed the heavy ears of corn, and the mature rice jumped from the husk into the wooden basin one after another.

Soon, paddy, or brown rice, covered the bottom of the tub.

She counted carefully, and the more than 50 rice plants produced about 500 grain ears, and finally produced about one or two catties of brown rice.

These brown rice seeds are used to plant the entire space of the ring, and the remaining land is completely enough, and there may even be leftovers.

Of course, even if there are leftovers, there may not be many.

She poured some water into the wooden basin to soak the brown rice first, and while waiting, she cleaned up the other products of the rice, as long as it was rice stalks and chaff.

The rice stalks were tied up by her, about as many as she could hold in her arms, which was a bit difficult to handle.

If it is eaten as weeds, some of them are too old, some of them are yellow, and it is difficult to eat. Of course, for most beggars, this is still very good food, after all, they can even chew on the bark. Much better than bark.

But it cannot be traded to others at will like weeds. This thing is not a weed at first glance, and I am afraid of trouble.

There is also chaff, which is actually coarse bran, and there are more than two bowls of it. It is thicker than ordinary bran and is not easy to swallow.

She thought about it for a while, then put these two things aside, it was more important to sow the seeds first.

With the previous experience, she knows that there is the golden finger of the mustard space, and she doesn't need to pay attention to any farming details. As long as the seeds are not directly killed, the space can make the seeds thrive and usher in a good harvest.

So this time her sowing work was relatively rough. She just dug the ground, sprinkled the seeds and buried them, and then watered once and it was done.

She filled the rest of the land with rice seeds, and there was indeed a small handful left, which she planned to use to cook porridge tomorrow morning.

This is new rice, it smells delicious, and it tastes good if you want to cook porridge.

Thinking of this, she wiped off the sweat that didn't exist on her forehead, and fell asleep in the space.

……

Early the next morning, Mu Yu put the small handful of new rice and the little bran left over to cook together.

As the fire heats up, the unique aroma of rice wafts out of the clay pot, and the porridge soup also turns into a milky white color that is completely different from before.

When she drank it, she was even more amazed that the small handful of rice had brought about such a big change, and made her ignore the bran, which she always disliked, and found it delicious.

Even Yang Erlang, who was still silent, couldn't help asking,

"This rice is..."

"This rice was exchanged with others before, and only a little was exchanged, and they didn't have any more."

Mu Yu said to him like this.

Yang Erlang nodded, didn't say anything more, just finished the bowl of porridge, got up and left.

Mu Yu sat on the spot and watched his figure go to the wasteland in the north, which confirmed her previous guess that Yang Erlang was indeed looking for a way in the north.

Hope he does well.

She regained her senses and continued to drink the porridge with the bowl in her hand.

It's so delicious, I wish I could have another bowl.

It's not difficult, just have to wait another month.

This time she planted about one tenth of the land. When the rice matures next time, the harvested rice should be used as seeds to eat.

She fantasized about the beautiful days when she would eat rice porridge every day, then she woke up and quickly got up to pack the bowls and jars, and went out to do errands.

She has important things to do today.

Go to Wangji grocery store again.

……

In Wangji grocery store, the old Wangtou sent away a customer who came to ask about weeds. As usual, he looked at the door of the store in a daze, with mixed expressions of joy and sorrow.

He is used to being frugal. Although he has some family background, the family's food is not very good. The taste of the wild vegetable and egg drop soup that night made the family very excited for a while.

The vegetable porridge eaten the next day also satisfied the family very much. Several juniors ate two weeds with relish.

All kinds of things made him see that the business of this weed was probably much better than he thought, so he put the rest of the weed out for sale.

The fact is true, a man from a relatively well-to-do family brought his child to buy grain, he only mentioned a few words, and the child started to eat weeds just like Ah Fu, and the few remaining weeds were sold like this out.

A few stalks of grass were sold for the price of a catty of bran, and those from wealthier families didn't care much about it.

Recently, the price of an egg can be exchanged for a little more than a catty of bran, so if you calculate it this way, you will earn more than three times the profit from changing hands!

Although the price of goods received by the grocery store is lower than the price of the goods sold, but it is rare to make a few times after changing hands. This is an opportunity!

In addition to making money, the old Wang is worried about his head. His family members, especially his grandson A Fu, talk about wanting to eat weeds in front of him from time to time, and even he himself has a taste of weeds.

It's a pity that the girl didn't come again for three to five days.

This can't be done.

This weed business is definitely going to continue, but it is obvious that there must be a little more price, otherwise the girl may not come again.

If you want to continue harvesting a large amount of weeds, you have to deal with the girl's parents. It's not as easy to deal with the adults as it is to fool the children, and you have to give some real benefits.

But food is so expensive these days, even for bran, he doesn’t have much stock here, there is not much food these days, and there are not many raw materials for making bran...

However, he was very clear about which side had the greater benefit, and he quickly made a choice.

It's just that the girl didn't show up for a long time, and customers kept asking about the news of the weeds, which made him a little anxious. Can he not be anxious if he can't make money?

I also thought about asking someone to look for it, but now everyone in the family has their own jobs and no one is free; let the children go there without worry, there are many beggars over there, and the cannibalism of beggars is very noisy, so I can't take risks.

The old Wangtou just sat and waited, anxious day by day, wondering in his heart, why didn't she come?
……

Mu Yu walked carefully on the streets of East Street with a bundle of weeds wrapped in his clothes, even though he didn't meet a few people along the way, he never relaxed for a moment.

A few days ago, she carefully thought about the things related to the grocery store, ruled out many potential risks, and felt that she could not give up the business here, so she came again.

She took a breath, and gently pushed open the half-hidden door of the grocery store.

(End of this chapter)