Abandoned Daughter's Beautiful Pastoral

Chapter 81
The letter explained some things about his enrollment, saying that he was fine, and told her and grandma not to worry and so on.

Zhang Xiaocao was very happy, this guy hadn't forgotten them yet, and knew to send a message back to report that they were safe.

Shopkeeper Le saw her smiling happily, and said with a smile: "If you want to reply to your brother's letter, I can have someone bring it to you!"

Zhang Xiaocao carefully put it back into the envelope, and said with a smile, "Thank you, shopkeeper Le, don't bother me, I'm going to the county seat in a few days, and I'll go see him then!"

When shopkeeper Le heard that she was going to the county seat, he thought she was making a special trip to visit his younger brother, so he nodded and said with a smile, "It's a blessing for Mu Hua to have a sister like you! Look at you, and even make a special trip to visit!"

"It's all about the fate between people. I have a sister and brother relationship with him, so I can't talk about luck or luck! This time I went to the county to see him, and secondly, I have some things to do!"

Maybe it was because of pity and sympathy at first, but after getting along for a period of time, she was very willing to have a brother like Mu Hua, not just pity.

"Fate? Haha, isn't it just fate?"

Shopkeeper Le smiled heartily and agreed very much.

"By the way, you said that you have something to do. Can you tell me what it is? After all, you are not familiar with the place. It is not safe for you to go alone. I just want to go back to the county. Then we will take a Companion, do you think it is feasible?"

When Zhang Xiaocao heard this, she was extremely happy. She had never been to the county town once, and she felt relieved to have an acquaintance.

"It's not a big deal. I bought some land and planned to grow cotton, but there are no cotton seeds in the town. I plan to go to the county to see if I can buy some back! There are still some things at home, and it may take about ten days." Only then can we move!"

"Growing cotton? Do you know that this thing is very difficult to maintain, and if you don't manage it well, you will lose money!"

Shopkeeper Le was taken aback. Although he had never planted it before, he also knew that it was very difficult to take care of. Otherwise, the price of cotton would not have remained high, and the poor could not even afford it!
Zhang Xiaocao explained: "It's because it's hard to do, so I thought about giving it a try. If it's done, I'll make a lot of money. If it doesn't work out, it's okay. If you want to succeed, how can you not take risks!"

Shopkeeper Le listened to her so free and easy, and admired her in his heart. He would not be surprised if an adult had such an idea and ambition, but this small, young girl dared to do such a thing. He had to sigh, his own It's really old!

"This cotton seed is not easy to buy. If it is not trustworthy, it is easy to be deceived and buy a bad quality one. I just know a boss who does this business. I will tie the knot and see if I can buy it." The best cotton seeds!"

Zhang Xiaocao was pleasantly surprised when he heard this, he nodded in agreement, and thanked Shopkeeper Le repeatedly.

Back home, it was already afternoon, Zhang Xiaocao put down her things, took out Mu Hua's letter and handed it to grandma.

When Grandma Zhang heard that it was a letter from her grandson, she was very excited, and quickly opened it to read it, but suddenly remembered that she could not read at all, so she slapped her forehead and ran out hurriedly with the letter.

Zhang Xiaocao stared blankly at the grandma who had run out of the yard, and shook her head with a broken smile. It seems that grandma misses Mu Hua no less than she does!

She took the boiled water that grandma had just boiled and went to the field, and saw a busy scene from a distance.

Seeing Zhang Xiaocao bring tea, everyone hurried up to drink water.Although it's still winter, after a day of work, the sweat is still dripping down. With so many people, they have to drink three buckets of water every day!

This water must also be drunk hot, otherwise you will sweat in the winter, and then use cold water to cool it down, and your iron-clad body will easily get sick!

Qin Zhong walked up slowly, picked up his own bamboo tube from the ground, scooped water with a gourd ladle, and drank several bamboo tubes in a row.

Zhang Xiaocao glanced at them and saw that although they looked tired, they didn't have any resentment, so she nodded secretly. As long as they can persevere in the next few days, they will be considered to have passed her primary test.

After drinking the water, they immediately went to work again. Zhang Xiaocao stood aside and watched, almost without laughing.

Although I didn't hear their complaints, but the posture of each of them is really not suitable for work!
I saw Qin Zhong digging vigorously with the pickaxe, but unfortunately he couldn't get the head right, he went here and there, and dug several times, but he couldn't dig out the harder piece, and even almost dug himself. Tong Xiao and Liang Yi were not much better.

Not to mention the waste of effort, the efficiency is also low, and it is myself who can't bear it.

After watching it for a while, Zhang Xiaocao couldn't bear to watch it any longer. Zhang Xiaocao held back a smile, walked over with a straight face, took the pickaxe he was about to lift, and without looking at his surprised eyes, went down with the pickaxe deeply. It is deeply embedded in the soil, using the principle of leverage, the wooden rake exerts force outward, and when it becomes loose, it goes down toward the loose connection. With only three iron picks, a large piece of soil connected to the grass roots is dug down.

"Have you seen clearly? No matter what you do, you have to use your brain to think about it, and you will never know where you are wrong! Even if you have never done this before, you are also I have been working here all morning, don’t you find that you have done a lot less than those others? Why don’t you go and see how others do it? Like you, it takes a lot of effort, but you can’t achieve the desired effect. This is getting twice the result with half the effort! And what you have to do is to get twice the result with half the effort! So much is not to tell you how to cultivate the land correctly, everything has its laws, and if you find this law, it will never be able to do anything to you!"

After saying this, Zhang Xiaocao turned her head and saw that Tong Xiao and Liang Yi were also listening seriously. Seeing that they seemed to have realized something, she ignored them, patted the dust in her hands, and returned with the bucket. home.

Four days later, all the [-] acres of wasteland had been opened, and it took a few days to plow twice. Deep plowing can improve the soil structure and increase the bottom moisture of the soil.Cotton cannot be dried, and deep plowing can improve this problem to a certain extent.This is the truth of the agricultural proverb that "plowing an inch of soil deeply can withstand drought for more than ten days".

Seeing that the [-] mu of land has been opened, Zhang Xiaocao is also relieved, the next step is to fertilize, plus [-] mu of dry land, the [-] mu of land needs too much fertilizer, and it needs to be prepared from now on .

When Zhang Xiaocao gave wages to [-] fellow villagers, she asked them if they would like to help her compost, and the wages were still [-] Wen a day.

Once those people heard that they still had something to do, there was nothing they didn't want to do!

It’s not spring yet, and there’s no work in the fields, so if you can do one more day, you’ll earn one more day’s money.

However, they don't know what retting is and how to do it. In the past, they used fertilizers for their fields, they got them directly from manure pits and pig pens. They really didn't know that this fertilizer could be made by themselves.

Zhang Xiaocao explained to them what retting is all about, and told them the method of retting. In the future, if they lack fertilizer in the field, they can also retting by themselves.

(End of this chapter)