Crossing the wasteland: Farming and peasant girls can't be provoked

Chapter 100 The crops are growing well
Since her uncle and master live in her own home, Jing Yi doesn't have to be distracted to go to town anymore.

The crops in her field are growing well, and the wheat has already headed.Cotton has also grown tall.Rapeseed flowers are also growing very well.Other crops are also growing well.

When the wheat is harvested, it is necessary to have a field to pile the wheat, thresh the wheat, and dry the wheat. There is a lot of post-work.

There is also a grain farm in the village, and Jingyi grows a lot of grain, so she had to prepare a field by herself, so she chose a piece of wasteland not far from home, and negotiated with the village head to buy the land.

If a piece of wasteland wants to be a good harvesting field, the ground must be compacted and smooth.This requires a tool - a stone roller.

Stone rollers are tools used by country people for playing field. They are very common and can be found on almost every field.Stone rollers are generally made of large bluestone, in the shape of a cylinder, one end is large, the other end is small, and there are eyelets at both ends. When in use, they are put on a special wooden frame and can be pulled by manpower or animal power.

Jing Yi first asked the hired long-term workers to remove the weeds on the threshing field, then poured water on the threshing field, and when it was dry, he used a stone roller to compact the ground of the threshing field, and the rolled surface was firm and smooth.Roll it again when it is in use, so that the surface of the wheat field remains smooth and firm, and it can be used for threshing wheat, drying wheat, and threshing rice.

Jing Yi asked the villagers to use flails or stone rollers to thresh the wheat after they harvested it.The flails are threshed by beating by manpower, while the stone rollers are pulled by manpower or animal power to crush and thresh the grains.

This ancient society did not have any machinery, and could only use the most primitive tools.It's just that they are definitely inefficient.However, when the wheat is harvested, it is relatively dry, and it is easier to thresh it in the sun. The stone roller is pressed on the dried wheat straw, and the wheat grains are separated from the ears.

Jing Yi considered whether to design a manual thresher.At least some efficiency can be improved.

Especially when threshing rice, it is not so easy to use stone rollers.After all, when the rice is harvested, it is still relatively wet, and even the leaves are still green.

Jing Yi thought it would be no problem to design a rice thresher.She plans to plant rice next year, and she will definitely need a thresher.

The rape blossoms will be blooming soon, and beekeeping is on the agenda.

Jing Yi asked someone if there were beekeepers, but she didn't find out at first.It was Mei Huanzhang who learned that Jing Yi wanted to keep bees and said: "There are really not many people in the craft of beekeeping. That's why honey is very precious. Many people go to the mountains to find wild beehives. The production of honey is very small, so the Pride is precious. If you want to learn beekeeping, I will send someone to inquire about it for you."

Jing Yi said: "This is not necessary, I just want to find someone who can keep bees, hire someone to help me keep bees, and then make some beehives, I want to see what the beehives look like now.

If it is difficult to find someone, I design the pattern myself and find a carpenter to build the beehive.You can try raising a few boxes of bees first.Just treat it as a play. "

Mei Huanzhang gave Jing Yi a blank look, "Can the bees be kept for fun? Maybe they will be stung by bees, and they will be poisoned and life-threatening."

Jing Yi smiled and said, "You can rest assured, I will take precautions."

Jing Yi felt that she had only planted [-] mu of rapeseed, and it should be no problem to raise a few boxes of bees.She drew a blueprint of the beehives, and asked Carpenter Wang in the village to make ten beehives for her according to the blueprints.

The next day after the beehives were ready, Jing Yi, Song Chengyuan, and Qiao Hong drove the carriage to the foot of the mountain, and then Jing Yi took several members of the family to put the beehives in a relatively secluded place at the foot of the mountain.

After arranging the ten beehives, Jing Yi took out baits made of honey, sugar and pollen and put them in the ten beehives.It is really used to attract bees.

Both the honey and the sugar were bought by Jing Yi in Huizhou Prefecture, and the pollen was the pollen of rapeseed flowers collected by Jing Yi with his supernatural power.Jing Yi wanted to attract bees with the scent of rape blossoms.It also makes bees familiar with the taste of rapeseed flowers, so that they will collect more nectar from rapeseed flowers in the future.

After making all the preparations, Jing Yi clapped her hands and said, "Okay, in a few days there should be bees coming here to settle down."

Jing Yi is very confident about this, the honey and pollen are refined by Jing Yi with supernatural powers, and they will be very attractive to bees.

After putting away the beehives, everyone went back.Now the cotton plants in the field have grown their first fruiting branches and need to be pruned.

When Jing Yi arrived at the cotton field, the long-term workers hired by the family were waiting in the field.Today Jing Yi will teach everyone how to prune cotton branches.

After the cotton plant grows the first fruiting branch, the branches and leaves below the first fruiting branch will be removed, and the main stem leaves will be kept.In case of weak seedlings or lack of seedlings, the leaves and branches of cotton plants can be properly reserved, and the borders can be cut when they are elongated.

Now that the cotton plant has just grown its first fruit branch, Jing Yi will teach everyone the method of pruning at this time.Wait until the cotton plant grows up.

Lin Xiuhan came when Jing Yi was teaching the long-term workers.Instead of going to Jing Yi's house, he went directly to the field to find Jing Yi.He also wanted to see how the crops in the field were growing.

Jing Yi saw Lin Xiuhan from a long distance away, and she asked Song Yuancheng, who had already learned how to trim branches, to teach others how to trim branches.He went up to greet him, "Brother Lin, why are you here?"

Lin Xiuhan looked at the surrounding crops and said, "Let me see how your winter wheat is growing. The cotton looks good too. What are you doing?"

Jing Yi replied: "It's time to prune the cotton. I'm teaching them to prune the cotton plants. From now on, the cotton will have to be taken care of more carefully. In this way, we can harvest more cotton with high yield in autumn."

Lin Xiuhan knew that there was a lot of knowledge in this kind of crop, "I don't understand these things. Let's go and look at winter wheat."

Jing Yi nodded and walked towards the wheat field with Lin Xiuhan.When approaching the wheat field, at a glance, the whole wheat field is like a green ocean.When the breeze blows, the rolling wheat waves are very spectacular and beautiful.

As he approached the wheat field, Lin Xiuhan sighed, "This wheat grows really well. Other people's wheat is still a young seedling, but your winter wheat has already headed. From this point of view, it must be harvested earlier than the spring sown wheat. "

Jing Yi said: "The weather in our area is not particularly cold in winter, and the winter wheat can survive the winter completely. It can be sown in the first autumn, and can be harvested in the early summer of the second year. There is no delay in planting the second crop."

Lin Xiuhan immediately asked: "Then when the crop of wheat is harvested, what kind of crop are you going to plant?"

Jing Yi said: "I'm going to plant soybeans when the wheat is harvested. I can harvest a crop of soybeans in autumn. The soybeans can be used for oil extraction, and the leftover materials can be made into bean cakes to feed pigs, cattle and sheep. It can be brewed into soy sauce, tempeh, and sauce. Soybeans can also be used to make tofu, dried tofu, bean skin, etc., and raw bean sprouts can be eaten as vegetables. In short, soybeans have many uses.

I don't think it's enough to plant only one hundred acres of soybeans.In the future, brewing soy sauce will require a lot of soybeans.

Brother Lin, I think you can encourage farmers to open up wasteland and plant soybeans, and then we will buy them at market prices.In this way, it will drive the economic development of Hui'an County, and it will also make farmers' lives much easier. "

Lin Xiuhan was very optimistic about Jing Yi's plan, "After you say this, the soybeans are really useful. If you buy them in the future, the villagers will not worry about not being able to sell them after planting them. I will think about it carefully when I go back. "

(End of this chapter)