happy apocalypse

Chapter 125
We have been so busy for a few days, and it will be April. Seeing my uncle always frowning these days, we are very puzzled. I don’t know if something happened at home. See you every day, it's okay.

It was Li Cheng who was caring and asked everyone's questions.

"Little uncle, what's the matter, it seems that you have been in a bad mood these days. Is there something worrying about you? Tell me, maybe we can solve it for you."

"You can't solve this problem. It seems that rice will be planted in more than a month. It is still snowing today, and the temperature outside is still so low. This year's rice must be planted later. This is all in my heart. No bottom."

Yes, Tashan Village can still be so peaceful at this time, all thanks to the fact that everyone has stored grain at home, but the stored grain will be eaten up one day. If the rice cannot be sown on time, and the farmer cannot harvest as usual, the life of the people in the village will be poor. Not much better.Isn't there an old saying: "If you have food in your hand, don't panic in your heart.".This is exactly the case now.

After we thought about it, we can really help with this matter. Although no one can say for sure about the weather, didn’t I meet it in my dream? I know that this kind of weather will last until the end of April, adding the temperature The time of recovery and the time of raising seedlings, it is considered good if rice can be planted at the end of May.

The rice in Tashan Village grows for more than three months. If rice can be planted at the end of May, it will take nearly October to harvest. In the middle of mid-July, there will be a drought in the whole country. It is inevitable that the rice production in Tashan Village will decrease.

For this problem, Jiang Zhi and I discussed the solution a year ago.

Although I have some ideas, but because I have never planted land, I cannot guarantee 100% success, so Jiang Zhi asked my uncle with some uncertainty, "Uncle, don't rice seedlings have to be raised first, can we plant them in the backyard first?" Let’s grow the seedlings in the greenhouse, and when the weather gets warmer, we can directly move the seedlings to the paddy fields, okay?”

"The process is such a process, but who knows when the weather will warm up? It takes more than 20 days to raise seedlings, and then we have to insert the seedlings into the paddy fields. So if we raise seedlings in advance, the weather will not be able to If you transplant rice seedlings, the rice seedlings will be useless." The little uncle thought about Jiang Zhi's proposal for a while, but felt that it would not work.

What my uncle thought was that the temperature was not enough when transplanting rice seedlings, and the rice seedlings would not survive.The solution we came up with is to advance the growth period of rice by planting early because we know the approximate time when the weather will get warmer.If we start raising seedlings now, we can plant rice seedlings by the beginning of May, which is one month earlier, and the harvesting season will be in mid-August. In that case, we should be able to minimize the growth of rice in summer During the drought period, the survival rate and harvest of rice should be relatively guaranteed.

I told everyone about my idea, and my uncle said: "Your idea can't be realized. You have never planted land. You don't know that rice seedlings will grow in water when they grow to a certain extent. It can grow in a greenhouse."

I disagree. Although I have never planted land, I also know that rice is not the only type of rice, there is also upland rice, and it can also produce rice.

"Isn't there still upland rice? Let's plant upland rice at that time."

"There is upland rice, but the yield of upland rice is very low, which is about the same as that of rice that has been affected by the disaster." My uncle kindly reminded me not to be too whimsical.

But, little uncle did not expect that those of us who have never farmed the land really started to discuss the method of growing rice in the greenhouse. Hearing what we said was all imagination without any scientific basis. In the end, he I couldn't stand it anymore, so I sighed and walked home.

Our discussions are in full swing.This may be the fearlessness of the ignorant. We all think that this is almost doable, so we are going to start our upland rice project today.

In fact, it’s not completely unfounded nonsense, my space is the most powerful guarantee, think about the small vegetables we planted with black soil mixed with the mountain’s fertile soil in D City, and they grow fast and strong.With the previous experience, I dare to say that I want to plant upland rice in the greenhouse in advance. I have good seeds in the space, black soil, streams and other cheating tools. The rice should be able to survive smoothly in the greenhouse. When the weather gets warmer this month, we can transplant the rice in the greenhouse to the paddy field, so that it will be ripe in mid-August. In theory, my plan should be realized.

That afternoon, Jiang Zhi, Li Shanqing, and Li Cheng thoroughly searched the land in the greenhouse. Although we have never planted the land, we still know some theories.

For example, before planting, the ground should be deeply plowed once, and the eggs in the ground should be turned over to the ground to freeze to death, etc.

The greenhouse in our house is quite big, with more than an acre of land, so in order to speed up, I took a picture of each of Li Shanqing and Li Cheng's Julifu. In the afternoon, more than an acre of land was turned over, and we did not close the door of the greenhouse that night, hoping that the low temperature of nearly minus 40 degrees outside would kill all the insect eggs hidden in the soil.

On the second day, we closed the door of the greenhouse and began to heat the greenhouse until it was about 20 degrees above zero, which is suitable for seedling cultivation, and we started seedling cultivation.

When we really want to get started, we are a little hesitant. Although we also have books that teach rice field planting, there are still many places that we don’t understand. Those of us sitting here didn't know what to do, so Jiang Zhi went to invite the little uncle.

The little uncle is really interesting. While persuading us not to waste the seeds, he couldn’t stand our inquiries and told us what to do. Sometimes he saw us being stupid and shoved us aside. Get hands-on with it yourself.

Not everyone can plant this kind of land well. The knowledge in it cannot be learned by reading books, but can only be mastered with practical experience.

For example, we dug up all the ground, and my uncle said it was right to do so.But if it is to raise seedlings, the ground must be leveled and a layer of fine soil should be spread on the surface.Then, after the seeds are selected and planted, a layer of fine soil is added to the seeds.

The little uncle originally wanted to persuade us to give up by using the excuse that there was no fine soil to grow seedlings, but Jiang Zhi said: "Little uncle, wait a minute, we will go back as soon as we go."

Then, the three of them went back and forth a few times and brought a few sacks of soil. The little uncle opened it and recognized it was the fertile soil under the rotten leaves on the mountain. "How many bags of this do you have?" The little uncle asked in disbelief.

"Haha, it was originally Xiaoyi who wanted to plant some flowers in front of the house, behind the house and under the courtyard wall. I carried a few bags from the mountain last summer. Now that planting rice is important, let's use this first. If she wants to plant flowers, wait When the weather is fine, I'll go to the mountains to give her some more." Jiang Zhi found a reason and explained the origin of these bags of soil.

I was thinking beside me, was this shot while lying down, but Jiang Zhi can only say that it was me, no one in the family can say that, hey!
My uncle looked at me with weird eyes, thinking that I am really not the romantic person, I hurriedly explained: "It is still important to plant rice, and I don't plant flowers. I was also boring at that time, haha, boring, if now , I'd rather grow pumpkins than flowers, it's so useless."

After hearing what I said, the little uncle looked at me normally, and probably felt that I was the one who said I wanted to plant flowers when I was having a fit, and now it is completely in line with my personality.

In one day, my uncle handed over all the seedling raising procedures to us. Before leaving, he still said to Jiang Zhi, "The quality of this seed is very good. You spent a lot of money to buy it, but Don’t waste it all, you can just clear up a small piece of land first, don’t waste it all.”

The seeds are the rice produced in the space, each of which is full of grains, which is why my uncle thinks that we are making such foolishness. The rice must not grow big, and these fine seeds are a pity.

But I have my own idea. If I follow my idea, it should be possible to grow rice in this way.Others went crazy with us because of their complete trust in me and Jiang Zhi.

I called my eldest sister, second sister, and Lu Fang, and together with these people in the family, I trained how to raise seedlings.

Jiang Zhi and I also discussed the quality of the soil for raising seedlings.We still need to add some black soil in the space, so that at least the nutrition of the rice seedlings can be guaranteed, but we can’t add more. If it’s not done well, this method will be spread in Tashan Village. If others see our success, there must be someone follow suit.The problem is that they don't have black soil, so even using our method may not be 100% successful.It is also impossible for us to distribute black soil to them, so the amount of black soil should be added in an appropriate amount to make the rice seedlings grow faster and stronger, but not beyond the normal range.

Next, the little uncle spent two days teaching everyone how to select seeds in salt water, germination, and sowing, and everyone started to get busy. Although everyone studied very seriously, there were still many mistakes and some seeds were wasted, but we did. Learned a lot from it.

We all breathed a sigh of relief when the small rice seedlings grew in the greenhouse with more than one acre. No matter what, the first step was a success.

The little uncle looked at our lush rice seedlings that looked like lawns, and his eyebrows were so wrinkled that they could kill flies.

"Your seedlings are too dense. Rice should be sown sparsely to grow strong seedlings. It is 'rather sparse than dense'. Can you grow rice seedlings like this?"

"It's okay, aren't we growing upland rice?" Jiang Zhi explained.

"Whether it's upland rice or paddy rice, the seedlings can't be so dense." The little uncle was very speechless to us half-toned farmers.

"It's okay. If it's not long, we'll just pull out the spot." Jiang Zhi replied without thinking.

The little uncle who listened was quite speechless.

(End of this chapter)