Wangfu small peasant girl

Chapter 1445 Spring Plowing in March

Sowing seeds will start in March, and this can be done around mid-March, when the weather is warm.

Xu Ruyue remembered that in her previous life, it was probably around this time that she started sowing grain seeds, but the weather here was warmer than other places, so logically speaking, it could be done earlier.

In addition, she is also worried about floods in summer. If she plants them early, she can harvest them earlier, and it will be safer then.

The common people have worked hard for several months, and she doesn't want their hard work to be in vain, and this is the first year, if the arrangements are not good and they are flooded, next year the common people may not be able to listen to the yamen and give money It doesn't work either.

It is true that the common people are afraid of officials, but compared with starvation, officials are nothing, and survival is the most important thing.

Several decades ago, Xinchuan also knew how to grow rice, so some elderly people also knew what kind of process it was to grow rice.

However, in order not to delay things, Xu Ruyue asked the yamen to invite many farmers from outside to teach them how to grow rice while they were looking for grain seeds. They only need to teach them this year, and they will naturally be able to do it in the future.

It is planned that the rice seeds will be sown in early March. While the seeds are being sown to raise seedlings, the paddy fields will also be prepared.

Paddy fields have been preparing for the Chinese New Year. First of all, the water must be turned off, the soil in the field will be soaked soft, weeds will be removed, and then the oxen will be plowed several times to make the soil soft. After sowing, farmers need to prepare paddy fields for planting small seedlings.

After the paddy field has been soaked in water for several months, it is very soft after being plowed by oxen.

However, this is not enough for transplanting small seedlings. Bantian must be prepared, and the preparation of Bantian requires all manual work.

Farmers take their tools and go to the field. First, they divide the soil in the field into long strips.

The width is about one meter wide, and the length is as long as the field is. After the soil is built, this is not the end. The next step is more delicate work. You have to stand in the water by yourself, bit by bit Repair and level the piled soil, and the final effect should be as smooth as the plane of tofu.

After finishing everything, at a glance, the field is full of slabs one after another, as smooth as a flat plate, and the soil is fine and soft. When the seedlings are ready to grow, you have to carry the seedlings to the field and use your thumbs to move them to the field. Each seedling is gently pressed on the soft paddy field, waiting for them to grow up quietly.

After growing for more than a month, the small tender yellow seedlings will grow taller. At this time, the grown seedlings will be pulled out from the paddy field and transplanted into the paddy field.

This is the last step. The paddy field does not need to be as fine as the small seedling field. It only needs to be plowed by the oxen to make the soil soft. There is water in the field. The farmers bowed their waists and carried the basket. Plant the seedlings down.

Wait a few more months until the seedlings grow up and produce ears of rice. At this time, a happy smile will appear on the face of the farmers. The hard work in the past few months is worth it.

These are all subsequent processes, and the first step is still in progress, which is to prepare small seedling fields and raise seedlings.

Raising seedlings is also a very complicated matter. First of all, we need to soak the seeds, and then we need to prepare the land for raising seedlings. The land for raising seedlings cannot use ordinary land. Weeds must be removed first, and a hole about ten centimeters deep and four to five meters long must be dug. , a pit two meters wide.

Clean up and level off, dig out the excess soil, and then go to the mountain to dig the sand and soil, and spread them neatly in the pit.

The sandy soil on the mountain must be used to raise seedlings, otherwise the seedlings will not come out, which will affect the entire cultivation process.

For ordinary people, rice is the most important food. If the step of raising seedlings is not done well, and when the seedlings should go to the field, the seedlings will not come out. At that time, it will be bad. When it was time to harvest, there was nothing to collect at home.

In such a situation, you can only wait for other people in the village to finish planting to see if there are any seedlings left. If there are any, please join your own family, and maybe you can also fill the field.

But if you are unlucky and there are no spare seedlings in each family, then this year will really be in vain.

After all, the weather waits for no one. Whether you are ready or not, time is advancing day by day. After that season, when the weather gets hotter, the seedlings will not be able to come out.

Therefore, as long as it is a place where rice is grown, the common people are very concerned about such things as raising seedlings and preparing small seedling fields. They are willing to work with bowed waists in the sun every day.

As soon as March passes, these two important tasks will be put on the agenda.

Xu Ruyue spent many years in the countryside in her previous life, and she has a deep memory of these things. When she was young, she had to work with the family every year.

She also planted rice in Yongning Village before, but she was busy with other things, so she didn't have time to go out and have a look. This time, I don't know if it was a whim or something, but I suddenly wanted to see the people doing these farm work.

After Minglang returned to Xinchuan this time, he was obviously much busier than before. He would go out every morning after having breakfast with them, and would only come back in the evening. Xu Ruyue knew where he had gone, so he didn't ask.

But his busy state made Xu Ruyue feel a little uneasy. He was so busy, he didn't know if something happened, which made him feel anxious, but she didn't ask, if there was anything, Minglang would tell her Yes, she believed it.

In this way, if Xu Ruyue wanted to go out for a walk, there was no way for Ming Lang to accompany her.

But that's also good, she can take Chuyang with her, if the three of them travel together, it will be too eye-catching and easy to recognize Qingming.

Xu Ruyue is not afraid, she used to be a little-known peasant girl, even if she married Minglang, it would be a secret, and no one would recognize her when wandering outside.

In spring and March, the sun is just right, and it is the day to go out for an outing.

Xu Ruyue just took this opportunity to show Chu Yang how hard the farmer's uncle was planting the crops, so that the child would not waste food when eating in the future, which is very good and has educational significance.

The mother and son and Xiaorou went out together. When they went out, Xu Ruyue asked Xiaorou to tell the cook not to come back at noon, so there was no need to rush to prepare meals, so that they could walk more outside.

Anyway, there are hidden guards following behind, she is not afraid, nothing will happen.

When the cook received the order, she felt warm in her heart and laughed.

A maid asked puzzledly, "What is Aunt Li laughing at?"

The cook said with a smile, "I'm so happy. Ma'am is kind to us. If you don't come back to eat, you will give special instructions. If it's an ordinary master, if you don't come back, you won't come back. It doesn't matter if you prepare it or not."

(End of this chapter)