After transmigrating into a stepmother, I transformed my whole family to work on farming

Chapter 214 Collective Breeding
However, in order to pass the assessment and successfully enter the Ding clan school next year, I persisted painfully.

As time passed, the status of the two sisters was reversed.

In the past, it was Jinhua who led Si Niang's sister to play everywhere, but now it's Si Niang who chases her home all day long to learn calligraphy.

Tired of chasing, Si Niang turned her little head and came up with a great idea - let Sister Jinhua teach her how to be a female concubine, and the two of them would become wives alternately.

As expected, Jinhua became interested. She no longer wanted to go to the mountains and fields with the village children in the evening. She seriously learned a new way from her mother and waited for Siniang to come back to teach her.

In this way, Siniang learned to thread a needle and thread to make small things, and Jinhua also became interested in reading.

Occasionally I see a beautiful pattern with font patterns on it, and I immediately come to Siniang and ask her, "What is this character?"

Si Niang recognized some of them but not others, so she had to go to her brother again with the tricks.

If the brothers didn't know, they ran to the open space next to the ancestral hall to look for Qin Yao.

"Auntie, what do you think this word is?"

Qin Yao was teaching several breeders selected from the village how to spread mud. Her hands were full of mud, and she asked Si Niang to raise the flower pattern higher, "Let me see. It should be a blessing, blessing of blessing." "

It looks fancy and has some artistic processing elements, so it’s really not easy to recognize.

Jinhua was immediately surprised and said: "It turns out that this is also a word!"

Si Niang also became interested. She held up the flower pattern to see that it had been processed and decorated with a '福'. She wowed and said, "It turns out that words can be written so beautifully, like flowers."

Qin Yao explained, "There are many ways to write characters. What you are learning now is the simplest block script. In addition, there are cursive script, running script, compiled script, official script, etc., and even more powerful, there are also different fancy characters created by yourself." , just like the word "福" you see now, it should be a self-created writing method."

Jinhua and Siniang looked at Qin Yao with admiration, thinking she was so powerful and knew everything.

Qin Yao waved her hand, "Let's play while we are here. It's full of mud. It'll make your clothes dirty carefully."

"Yeah!" The two sisters nodded obediently, got the answer, and went home happily to continue the little game of pretending to be the master.

Watching the two little guys walk away, Qin Yao coughed lightly, reminding the people around them to pay attention and continue the teaching just now.

Because of the need to plow and hoe the fields, each family in the village was short of manpower. In addition, it was the first time for everyone to learn breeding, and they were afraid that the uneven situation would affect the harvest. After everyone agreed, they decided to send a few smart people to follow. Qin Yao learned that the whole village focused on breeding together.

In this way, only one larger breeding shed is needed to meet the needs of the whole village and solve the problem of shortage of manpower.

The most important thing is that it is easy to manage, and the person responsible for breeding can take turns to take care of it.

So each household sent rice seeds according to their own needs, and Qin Yao, Liu Qi, Liu Gong, Qiu, Yunniang and other young people in the village were responsible for it.

Register the quantity of each store in advance and mark it, and then you can pick it up yourself.

Yunniang can do carpentry, and she is responsible for all the seedling trays.

Qiu is attentive and patient, and Qin Yao arranges for her to soak seeds.

Liu Qi was very strong, so she went to pick mud.

Qin Yao led Liu Gong to divide the charcoal produced by each family into charcoal pots, burn it and place it in various corners of the breeding shed.

Because everyone is using Qin Yao's water mill, the original manual mill has been vacant for a long time. Now it is directly used as a breeding shed, saving the breeding team a lot of effort.

The temperature must be controlled well, neither overheated nor cold, and a bucket must be placed so that the humidity inside can be ensured after the water vapor evaporates.

Without the assistance of various modern temperature measuring instruments, everything can only be judged based on experience.

Qin Yao will place rough yellow paper inside to test the humidity.The temperature is easier to feel. If you experience it a few times, the members of the breeding team can almost get a rough estimate.

The human body temperature is 36 to 37 degrees. If you feel a little hot, then the temperature is just right.

If you feel hot enough to sweat, bury the charcoal fire to lower the temperature.

Liu Gong and others benefited a lot from learning this breeding method. Not only did they learn how to breed, they also learned something about natural science by accident.

For example, the condensation of water vapor, the different forms of water changes, etc., all made several people exclaim that it was magical.

They thought this was some secret that was not disclosed to the outside world, but Qin Yao said: "It's all in these books."

It's just that the modern description is different from the ancient description, but they are essentially talking about the same thing.

Mrs. Qiu originally thought there was no use sending her Jinhua to school, but Qin Yao agreed to let her go.

Later, she failed to pass the test, and she didn't have any strong obsession to let her go to school.

But after this breeding study, she suddenly realized that studying and taking the imperial examination were no longer absolutely related.

As long as you learn the things in books, you can benefit from them throughout your life.

So after cultivating all the seeds, Qiu returned home and actually started studying Jinhua.

"You have to go to school next year, you know? Stop going out and playing with those naked guys all day long, and just practice calligraphy at home for me. Didn't Si Niang and San Lang teach you a lot? Come on, sit down, and write to Mom, take a look."

Mrs. Qiu put the sand tray made by Liu Zhong on the table, put the chopsticks and the pen made of pig hair on the sand tray, and waited for her daughter to write a few words for her.

Jinhua held the buns and dumplings made of mud in her hands, looked at her mother with wide eyes, and asked weakly: "Mom, are you possessed by evil spirits?"

Ms. Qiu took a breath, as gentle as she was, and almost couldn't help but raise her hand and slap the girl in front of her on the butt.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Throw the mud off your hands!"

Mrs. Qiu picked up her moaning son in the wooden cradle. While lifting up his clothes to feed the younger one, he stared at the older one with wide eyes. Parents worry endlessly about their children's future.

Jinhua reluctantly protected the 'dish' in her hand, "This is not mud, these are the dumplings I made for Siniang. Sanlang said he wanted to eat dumplings, so I made a few more dumplings for him. I will still cook for them when they come back from school."

These words made people dumbfounded.

Mrs. Zhang passed by the door and handed her a dustpan, "Leave it for now. I'll set up a pot for you to cook later."

Jinhua responded loudly: "Hey!"

Huan Huan happily put her treasure in the dustpan and asked her grandmother to help her take good care of it. Then she sat down and wrote for her mother to read.

At night, Qin Yao stood at the door of her house and shouted: "Liu Dalang! Go home for dinner!"

The powerful sound spread far and wide.

When the four Dalang brothers and sisters heard the call, they immediately left Jinbao and Jinhua and ran home.

Sanlang and Siniang rushed to Qin Yao with great joy and treated her to freshly cooked buns and dumplings.

Qin Yao looked down and saw a leaf in her small palm. The leaf was gray and soft with a few pieces of mud.

How can I put it? It really looks like shit.

(End of this chapter)