Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 42

In the twelfth lunar month, Dengzhou finally showed the power of Xuewozi. At the beginning of the first day of the new year, a heavy snow covered the entire Shili Pai under the thick snow.

Sun Xin was very nervous to go to the land to see the growth of wheat several times, and found that the 400 acres of winter wheat he had brought had all tillered before winter, and more than half of the [-] acres of winter wheat that had been replanted. There are no tillers at all, and it seems that the peak of tillering can only be ushered in before jointing in spring.

Tillering means that wheat seedlings grow forks, and each fork will grow ears of wheat next year.The sooner the tillers come out, the more nutrients they can accumulate in the next few months, and the ears of wheat that will grow in the future will naturally be fuller and heavier.

Just by looking at the ratio of tillers, Sun Xin can guess the difference in harvest next year between the winter wheat from this time and space and the improved winter wheat he brought.

He decided in his heart that all these fine-bred winter wheats will be used for planting this year. Even if the yield of the offspring is reduced by half, it is estimated that the yield per mu of winter wheat in this time and space will be higher.

As the temperature drops, the winter wheat has completely entered the dormancy period, and it will not turn green until the next spring and continue to grow. There are very few things that can be done on the field, so the entire Sunjiazhuang has also entered the slack season.

He came back from the wheat field to look at the ginseng. The snow had almost completely covered the ground, but the ginseng under the small shed still hadn't sprouted. Sun Xin dug up the ground and looked at it. Death, but it seems that if you want to sprout, you have to wait until next spring.

It was snowing heavily outside the house, Sun Xin walked back to his manor on broken jade and chaotic jade, took off his fur and gave it to Ya'er, walked into the back room, and when he lifted the curtain, a gust of hot air spread across the surface, Hu Sanniang sat on the kang table Bian had been waiting for a long time, and when she saw Sun Xin came back, she quickly poured the warm rice wine in the jug for him.

"The other farmer's have rested. Why do you go out early and return late every day? I really don't know why you have so many troubles because you are all farming."

Sun Xin smiled and went up to pinch Hu Sanniang's tender cheek.

"Isn't it good to farm the land every day to earn money?"

"I'm afraid you're tired."

Sun Xin looked back and saw that Ya'er hadn't come in, so he smiled and said to Hu Sanniang: "It's not like you didn't see me last night, don't you know that I'm not energetic enough?"

"Don't... Ya'er is outside!" Hu Sanniang blushed and slapped Sun Xin's hand, and was finally pushed into Sun Xin's arms by Sun Xin.

Less than half a month after being married to Shili Pai, Hu Sanniang was also forced to get used to Sun Xin's way of getting along with Sun Xin holding her in his arms from time to time.

"I just see that you are full of worries every day. I am afraid that you will be too busy and exhaust yourself. Now that we have land and a house at home, you are still so busy. What exactly do you want to do?"

This year, Sun Xin earned more than 300 taels from selling peanut oil, and collected more than 200 taels of corn. Although the corn has not been widely accepted by everyone, it is only sold a little, but it is okay to use it to pay farmers. It can be used as grain for two hundred shi.After deducting the expenses for building Zhuangzi and getting married, at the end of the year, Sun Xin still had 180 shi of grain left in his hands.Although it is not comparable to the amount of food stored in Hujiazhuang, it is still enough for more than 100 people to sit and eat for a year.

When Hu Sanniang saw that Sun Xin had saved so much food this year, she was taken aback.

What's more, Sun Xin still owns more than 500 mu of land. According to Hu Sanniang's imagination, the wheat on the land will definitely have [-] shi of grain in the account next year.

After that, if those lands are rented out, even if the field class can only receive two buckets per mu, that is a stable income of one hundred shi of grain every year. As long as you save money and buy land slowly, the days will only get better and better. There is absolutely no need to be so tiring.

Listening to the sound of Xue hitting the window lattice, Sun Xin opened his mouth and said, "I want to build Zhuangzi quickly."

"The building is bigger than Hujiazhuang, and even bigger than Dulonggang."

Hu Sanniang was taken aback: "The land of Hu's village is more than ten times that of Sun's. How can it be built in a short period of time?"

Sun Xin smiled: "It's all about human effort."

He changed the subject and asked, "Where is your lady, what do you want to do next year?"

Hu Sanniang was suddenly asked this question out of shock, she opened her mouth and said:

"I think……"

In the middle of speaking, his face turned red.

Hu Sanniang suddenly stopped talking and said: "Go and eat quickly, others have already eaten at such a late hour."

Sun Xin looked at Hu Sanniang's blushing appearance and was not sure why. "This girl said something well, why did she run away without any beginning?"

Shaking his head, he sat down and began to drink stick noodle porridge.

Hu Sanniang, who was out of the house, saw Ya'er who had just put away her clothes, and hurriedly called her over and said, "Can you put the Avalokitesvara picture that I brought at home with you?"

"It's in the box, what is the lady going to do?"

Hu Sanniang glanced at the inner room with her heart in her hands, blushed and whispered, "Hang it up, I'll make a wish."

Waking up early the next day, Sun Xin and Hu Sanniang packed up the presents together and headed for Dengzhou with Jie Zhen Jie Bao.

The four flying horses were galloping in the snow. Sun Xin stopped the horse suddenly and saw a dead body on the side of the road about to dismount.

"Brother wait a minute, this man looks strong and healthy, how could he die in the wilderness?"

Hearing Xie Zhen's reminder, Sun Xin stopped dismounting. He had just been here for less than a year, and sometimes he would indeed forget some things that the owner should have remembered.

There are indeed many refugees in Song Dynasty, but these refugees rarely run around in the wilderness in this winter.

Song Dynasty officials often recruit a large number of native soldiers in winter, and drag them to do labor or go to the frontier as cannon fodder. Although the treatment is not very good, it is a good way out for the refugees who are about to freeze and starve to death. .

The corpse in front of me looks to be no more than 30 years old, and the body is quite strong. People like this should be excellent candidates for recruiting. If they were really refugees, they should have entered Dengzhou City long ago. How could they not have entered Dengzhou? The city was left by the wayside?

Moreover, this is not a land in turmoil, even refugees would travel together, and when their companions died, they would just be thrown on the side of the road and not even collect the corpse, which is obviously very strange.

Xie Bao went to the side of the road to pick up a piece of dead wood, and then stepped forward with Xie Zhen, and together they lifted the corpse to a position facing up.

The corpse had been frozen in the wind and snow for a long time, and after picking it up, it was still in a crouching state, but its face could be seen clearly, and the two of them leaned over to take a look, and then backed away in fright .

"What's wrong?" Sun Xin asked.

Xie Zhen glanced at him, and whispered, "I've lost my hair."

On the way to Dengzhou City, Sun Xin's brows became tighter and tighter. The closer he was to Dengzhou City, the more roads on the road.

(End of this chapter)