The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 42
Chu Ying woke up and saw that the snow outside had melted, but it was still very cold with the wind blowing. Chu Ying washed and put on her clothes, and took out the wooden box she made under the bed. Although it was only tied with cloth strips, it was still It’s pretty easy to use, Chu Ying has to go to the city to buy a lock, otherwise it’s too easy to find no matter how she hides the bare walls of the house here, and when the weather gets warmer, she will have to build a fence around the yard outside, and her illness will also be cured. Hurry up, don't delay.

Chu Ying used yesterday's stone plate to make a few more pancakes, wrapped them in sackcloth to cool down, then took a section of bamboo from the reed house, cut a section of bamboo, and separated the section at two-thirds. Cut off a little bit on the edge of the opening, and the lid was a little tight. Chu Ying used a knife to cut it down until the strength of the lid was more appropriate. Watching the sky outside, filled the bamboo cup with water and then wiped it with a cloth. Wrap it in the back basket, and put the bamboo cup against the back basket with a branch to make the bamboo cup stand.

When she is free, Chu Ying wants to sew a long pocket on the outside of the pannier for bamboo cups. Chu Ying has bowls at home and doesn’t really need cups, but she doesn’t have free tea when she goes out. Take a few glances at the sugar water and tea shops and leave.

Chu Ying brought 2 taels of silver. The biggest expense this time was to see a doctor. Chu Ying covered the copper plate in the basket with a linen cloth, and put two bundles of dried bamboo shoots on it as a cover. After everything was ready, Chu Ying closed the door and went to the entrance of the village. Take an ox cart.

"Sell these bamboo shoots? I'm afraid they won't sell for a good price, maybe they're worth the car money." Chu Ying agrees with what the aunt said, why the history books honestly say that the ancient times were self-sufficient, because the ancient Everything can be planted, brewed and woven by oneself, only salt and iron are controlled by the imperial court.

"Try your luck." When Chu Ying arrived in the city, she went straight to the pharmacy, and waited in line for a while before it was her turn for an interview.

The old man who was seeing a doctor looked at his tongue, felt his pulse, and then carefully looked at Chu Ying's complexion, "Is it a lot of cold sweat? Are your limbs and joints hurting? Are your hands and feet cold? Has it always been like this or just recently?"

Chu Ying nodded like a rattle, "It's always been like this."

"You are the cold air brought by your mother's womb. Yang deficiency, cold and damp, your mother is also like this? Is there enough money?" The old man dipped the brush in ink and raised his head to ask Chu Ying.

Chu Ying didn't know if her mother was so weak, "The money is not enough."

"Then use Codonopsis ginseng first, and then add other medicines. You need to move more and eat warm and tonic food. Eat some dog meat, mutton, fish, shrimp and leeks. Eat less cold ones." Chu Ying remembered that she had eaten before So many cattails really shouldn’t be. No wonder I always have weakness in my limbs, backache and back pain. I thought it was the reason for moving things, but in fact it’s because I’m weak. It’s really not easy for me to grit my teeth and continue to work every day.

"Okay." When Chu Ying went to the counter to check out, she looked at the 2 taels of silver on it.

"This is half a month's worth. Put it in a cool, ventilated and dry place, and boil three bowls of water into one." Chu Ying couldn't bear to take out the copper coins and put the medicine in.Fortunately, grandma gave some money, otherwise I really couldn't afford it.

Chu Ying went to Qin Zhong's place to get some silver money, because there was still silver money at home, so she only took 2 coins. "What's wrong? What's wrong?" Qin Zhong withdrew 2 coins and gave it to Chu Ying.

"It's nothing, it's just that the body is relatively weak. How do you grow the hemp you mentioned last time?" Chu Ying looked at the various seeds in the store.

"If you want to grow hemp, you can plant ramie. The income is several times higher than that of hemp at 10 cents per liter of seeds. After planting, the perennial root will grow itself every year, once and for all.

"For planting in March and April, it is best to use sandy soil. First plant in the garden, hoe the ground several times and then make a border. It is about half a step wide and four steps long, and it is firmly planted with your feet." Qin Zhong looked at Chu. Sakura wrote some words that she couldn't understand on the paper, but some of them looked familiar.

"Who learned this character from? I didn't write it all."

"It's okay, I can understand it, you tell me." Chu Ying tried her best to write the words with a brush, but she had never practiced a brush with a knife and a gun. It is more intuitive to use pictures.

Qin Zhong looked at the vegetable bed drawn by Chu Ying and felt that the child was really cute. "Water on the second day, rake the soil early on the third day, take half a liter of wet soil and mix the seeds, mix well and spread them evenly, plant about 7 furrows with one mix of seeds, do not cover the soil after spreading, otherwise it will not Once the seedlings emerge, just level the soil with twigs."

Chu Ying sat on Qin Zhong's seat, watching Qin Zhong walking back and forth, while she sat obediently like a schoolboy writing silently.

"If it is better, make a shed above and cover it with white linen, and then cover some straw in May and June, so that the young seedlings cannot be sun-dried. When it is cloudy and every morning and evening, the shed will be removed. After ten days, the seedlings will emerge. Pull out the grass, and the seedlings will grow three fingers. When it is high, the shed can be removed and lightly poured with small water."

"It can be transplanted when it is 3 inches long. Choose a more fertile land, plant a family every four inches, often loosen the soil and weed, and water once every three to five days. After 20 days, it can be watered once every ten days and a half months. Use after October. The dung from cows and horses is one foot thick, and it is ready to survive the winter, and it will be raked away at the beginning of February next year." Qin Zhong looked at Chu Ying's serious look and felt that the child was very hardworking, but looking at her scribbled words, he really didn't know if he It's time to go on.

"In the first year, when it grows one foot high, you need to cut a sickle. This sickle can't be used, and the ones that grow later can be used. Harvest 3 sickles every year, usually in early May, half of June, and half of August. Do you understand? ?" Chu Ying folded the paper on the table and put it inside her clothes.

"Understand about it, I'll ask you if I don't understand. Help me weigh 2 acres of seeds, and the money will be deducted from it." Chu Ying put the seeds away, put the basket on her back, thanked Qin Zhong, and then dared to go to Xishi to look at the locks .

Chu Ying, who was hungry on the way, took out the cakes she made and ate them.Most of the locks here are relatively simple, and Chu Ying didn't know how to choose, so she picked a lock that looked tattered and complicated, and the price was more cost-effective, only 60 coins, which was cheaper than the new copper lock next to it for 1 coin. Bigger and uglier.

"Xiaowa, there's no reason to buy an old lock, isn't the new one very good?"

"No need, ma'am. I don't have any money at home. I just use it to lock it up." Chu Ying didn't plan to buy that brand new copper lock. Didn't it remind the thieves to come to my house quickly? There is no guard in my house, and there is no fence, so it shouldn't be too conspicuous.

Chu Ying bought another wooden basin and a wooden barrel, which cost 1 Wen. The wooden basin used for bathing contained too little water, so she couldn't enjoy washing herself, so changing the wooden barrel would take longer.There is no wooden basin for washing vegetables at home, and I wash them in buckets.

I bought some more salt and spent 40 Wen. This salt is really cheating, so I only have 2 Wen left from the 50 coins I just took. Chu Ying went to Dongshi to see what the food was selling, but she didn’t know. Will there be a market for my own pancakes? My own pancakes are too easy to imitate, and I don’t have the financial resources to make a copper or iron disc, so I can only use stone ones, which heat slowly and dissipate heat slowly. Not suitable for large quantities of quick food preparation.

(End of this chapter)