Traveling through: I rely on space to raise the sick Wei Wang

Chapter 71 The Magic Potion

At first, he thought that Xu Ruqing just had some business acumen, but he didn't expect that a little girl could know so much knowledge, and there were many new vocabulary that he had never heard of before.

After observing, Xu Ruqing threw the soil back into the ground, patted the dust off his hands, stood up and looked at the endless land.

She walked slowly along the field ridge, looking carefully one by one.

"According to this progress, I don't know if we can plant the seeds before the end of the year." Xu Ruqing murmured.

Wang Jiawei frowned slightly after hearing this: "It may be difficult to sow seeds. No matter what, we have to wait until the water is poured, and then use manure and plant ash to cover the ground until next spring. Plant a stubble, and then continue to rest for a while, and it will take at least three or four years to grow this land back.”

Xu Ruqing was thoughtful: "It will take so long."

Wang Jiawei responded: "Yes, ma'am, what you want to plant are medicinal herbs, not ordinary crops. In comparison, the cultivation conditions of medicinal herbs are obviously higher. If the land is not fertile, even if the seeds are sown, it will be useless."

Xu Ruqing felt that what Wang Jiawei said was very reasonable, but she had another plan: "I have an idea, but I just don't know if it will work."

"What way?"

Xu Ruqing thought about it for a while, and then said: "I know how to make a kind of potion. After mixing the potion with water and irrigating it on the land, it will soon turn the barren land fertile."

"Is there really such a magical potion in this world?" Wang Jiawei felt unbelievable when he heard it. He never knew that there is such a potion that can make the land fertile in this world. This sounds really strange.

Xu Ruqing nodded. Originally, this was also the reason she casually made up. It seemed that he was quite frightened. "Well, I'd like to harvest the first herbs before spring next year, so it's at least a month away from planting. I've never tried that, though."

Wang Jiawei thought about it again and again, and gave a suggestion: "Some herbs have a shortest growth period of three months, and some have a longest growth period of one year. Sow the herbs with the shortest growth period first to test the water, and if it doesn't work, then think of other ways."

Xu Ruqing thought about what he said, and it was a good idea, which greatly reduced the operational risk.

She thought of the water bladder in the cloth bag, and thought it was better to try it now before it was too late.

Looking at the villagers who were laughing and eating, Xu Ruqing couldn't bear to disturb the happiness among them, so she picked up two wooden barrels placed on the mud ridge, and there was a well for irrigation 500 meters away. Two buckets of water walked over, one left and one right, and then mixed the water in the water bag into it.

"Is this the magical potion Madam said?" Wang Jiawei followed Xu Ruqing all the time, and when he saw her take out the water bag and pour it into the bucket, he couldn't help asking.

Xu Ruqing nodded generously: "Yes."

Wang Jiawei saw that the potion was colorless and tasteless, and looked no different from ordinary well water. He couldn't help wondering if what Xu Ruqing said just now was fooling him?

Xu Ruqing lifted the two full buckets of water effortlessly, and his steps were so steady that there was not even a ripple on the water surface.

Wang Jiawei came to his senses, he, a big man, was too embarrassed to watch a woman do this kind of heavy work, and he didn't have time to consider the truth of what he said, so he stepped forward to grab the bucket and carried it by himself.

Xu Ruqing was slightly surprised: "Brother Wang, you..."

"I'm a man, how can I let my wife do this rough work." After speaking, Wang Jiawei walked in front with a bucket, not giving Xu Ruqing a chance to refuse.

Xu Ruqing just smiled helplessly when she saw it, it was all because of her petite body, which made everyone mistakenly think that she was so weak that she couldn't even lift a bucket of water.

Wang Jiawei walked to the nearest field with water and put the bucket on the mud ridge.Xu Ruqing arrived afterward, and she quickly rolled up her sleeves and trouser legs. Considering that she was going back home later, she couldn't bear to get her clean shoes dirty, so she simply took off her shoes and stepped on the ground barefoot.

Although the land has been refurbished, most of the stones have been sifted out and thrown on the mud ridge, but the small stones inside have not been removed. If you walk up it with bare feet, let alone ordinary people, even a big man like Wang Jiawei can't see it. I feel panicked.

"Ma'am, you must not be able to bear working in the fields with your delicate body, why don't you let me do it."

This time Xu Ruqing directly rejected him: "No, I'm down, so I have to do it myself."

"Miss Xu, hasn't the rain these days already watered the ground? Why are you still watering?" Seeing her carrying a bucket from a distance, Xu Lao Qi asked suspiciously.

"I want to see if there are any omissions. Although it doesn't help much, it can still help."

Xu Ruqing couldn't find any other excuses, so he had to make up one. Fortunately, Xu Laoqi just nodded and didn't continue to ask.

After watering the field, Xu Ruqing only felt that her old waist was sore, and she had to say that everything was hard work. Seeing that the weather gradually dries up in autumn, she was very thirsty after a while.

Xu Ruqing picked up the water ladle and took a sip of water, and finally felt better.Then she took a hoe, and according to her little planting experience, she made a mud ditch for the field.

"Uncle Xu, do you have any pipes or anything like that here?"

Xu Laoqi didn't know what Xu Ruqing was going for, but he replied truthfully: "No, but there is a bamboo forest behind here. Cutting a bamboo and opening it can also be used as a pipe."

After Xu Ruqing heard Xu Lao Qi's words, she was planning to chop a bamboo, but before she left, Wang Jiawei took the initiative to say: "I will take care of cutting the bamboo, Madam, please wait patiently, I will be back soon. "

Xu Ruqing nodded: "Okay, try to cut the bamboo as thick as possible."

"it is good."

After a cup of tea, Wang Jiawei walked back with a bamboo as thick as a thigh. Xu Ruqing split the bamboo in half with a sickle, and then opened the middle, so that one end of the bamboo was connected to the wellbore, and the other end was connected to the mud ditch.

Seeing this, most of the villagers probably guessed Xu Ruqing's intention of doing this, and even laughed at her for being too young in front of her face: "Mrs. It’s better to save your energy, there is no waterwheel here, so what can a bamboo do?!”

After hearing this, Xu Ruqing didn't rush to explain to them, but said: "Who said that you have to use a water truck to bring running water? Just wait and see, I will definitely open a waterway, so that you can open your eyes."

Just as everyone was looking at how Xu Ruqing could lead a waterway with the mentality of watching the show, they saw Xu Ruqing chop the remaining bamboo into a bamboo tube, shake the bamboo tube in his hand and then buckle it upside down on the water.

(End of this chapter)