The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 44

Store ice in winter and fetch ice in summer. Some aristocrats have their own cellars for storing ice. Chu Ying wonders if they will buy it in the summer market, but it should be very expensive, which is not something ordinary people can expect.

"It must be very hard. I haven't been out much this winter."

"I know, you are weak, it's better to go out less, and you need to take medicine when you have a cold. This is the caramel I bought for you. You can take some when you take medicine, so it won't be too bitter." Chu Ying took a few pieces of milky white candy wrapped in paper from Wang Naiyuan.

"Thank you very much." Looking at Chu Ying's happy expression, Wang Naiyuan finally didn't waste so much time working in vain. Although there was some money at home, Wang Naiyuan wanted to use his own money to buy things for Chu Ying. He touched the silver bracelet in his pocket and didn't know. How to speak.

"Do you go to the lake to play on March 17? You are too young to go, but it's okay to go and have a look." Chu Ying knows that March [-] is the ancient Valentine's Day, and it is for young men and women to meet and date. In addition, women in ancient times would be punished if they did not get married after [-], but I don't know how old the older leftover women are here, and I don't know what the specific criminal law is.

"Okay, I'll go when I'm free. I don't know how to play. If I go, I have to trouble you to take me there." Chu Ying put the candy in the kitchen and put it away. Jin, these candies are still very valuable.

"Well, take your time to recuperate. If you need something, you can come to me and I will be there whenever you want." Chu Ying sent Wang Naiyuan away and decocted the medicine for the night.

Chu Ying really didn't want to drink even a sip of traditional Chinese medicine anymore, she really wanted to vomit, but there was no way, she had to take advantage of the early spring to recuperate her body, as the beginning of spring was full of things to do.

Chu Ying pinched her nose and drank all the medicine, and ate a little crushed candy. If she didn't have this candy, she didn't know how she would persevere.Although I know that the good medicine tastes bitter, it still takes a lot of effort to drink it.

In the past few days, Chu Ying asked Mrs. Wang to borrow a hoe and a rake first. She was afraid that she would not be able to borrow them for spring plowing in a few days. Chu Ying turned over all the soil in the open space of the yard. Kindness, after all, I still need to move more.

Chu Ying made a few furrows out of the plowed land, and made all the preparations. When it was time to plant seeds, she would not panic. Chu Ying removed all the weeds from the vegetable fields. Hard-working farmers couldn't tolerate a single one of them. Grass, I can only be regarded as a junior farmer. I have no experience and can only use hard work to make up for it. Weeding and weeding are done every now and then. The grass is the easiest to get rid of when it is young. Wait for the grass to grow and have deeper roots. Most of the time, it will be too late to remove.

Chu Ying also hoeed the wheat field to maintain soil moisture and remove overwintering weeds. Since the weather was still relatively cold, Chu Ying did not water, fearing that the cold water would freeze and harden the soil.

The yard was almost done and Chu Ying started to make earth bricks slowly. The shed she built before was already filled with earth bricks. Chu Ying then went to the woods behind to see four small trees. Although they were small trees, they still had their own The thighs are thick, but the thighs of his own child are not very thick.

Chu Ying dug a deep hole on the ground, then buried 4 trunks in it, stepped on it with her feet, then measured the distance between two trunks, cut off some at the same height on the trunk, and then slowly bent the trunk, Do the same for the other three trunks.

Then stack the 4 curved trunks in twos, put one end to the curved place at the other end, so that a wooden frame can be built without using a single trunk with ropes, and Chu Ying puts branches on it and then spreads some reeds, so that Next, you can continue to put bricks.

This method is faster, but it is not as strong as the previous method. However, I only built it for the adobe bricks to shelter from the rain.

Chu Ying soaked the ramie seeds in water for one night and then took them out and put them in the wet mud. Just like what Qin Zhong said, she followed the steps. She had never done it herself, so she could only listen to Qin Zhong and double-checked her operation. Sow the ramie seeds, and then cover the soil with branches.

Chu Ying saw that there were only onions, ginger, garlic, mustard greens, and leeks in the vegetable field at home. There was really nothing to choose. Now that spring can grow a lot of vegetables, she can go to Qin Zhong's place to see if there is anything to grow.

But it started to rain in the next few days, so I could only try to make a raincoat with straw at home. These straws were brought by Wang Naiyuan after the autumn harvest last time to repair the roof. It took a lot of Chu Ying, so I put them away. Hang the straws on a rope one by one, and when enough straws are hung, Chu Ying tied the rope around her shoulders, seeing that the part on the shoulders is covered, but the back is spread out straw.

Chu Ying took it off and fixed the straw underneath with a rope, and then added the straw in, so that the raincoat could be made tighter by tying a piece of straw, and it could also make the raincoat bigger from top to bottom. Chu Ying made the straw raincoat to the ankle , When it is fastened, it feels quite heavy, but as long as it can keep out the rain, it will be fine.

Chu Ying first made a bottomless conical shape with reed knots, put it on her head to see if the size was right, then added straw on the outside of the straw hat, and when it was done, there was only one word to describe it, that is ugly, Chu Ying then Tuck the straw more neatly, and wrap the brim with cloth strips so that it doesn't look fluffy.

When the rain hat and raincoat were ready, Chu Ying put them on, then dragged the wooden slippers and walked outside the house. After walking in the rain for a while, she returned to the house. Seeing that her shoulders were still wet, Chu Ying went back to work and added more With more straw, the wet raincoat will be heavier. Chu Ying went out and tried it again to see that it was safer, and when she didn't get wet again, she took off the raincoat and hung it on the beam.

Chu Ying made a few hooks out of hardwood, so that instead of trying to hang things on the beams all the time, you can directly tie them to the beams with ropes, and then hang S-shaped hooks on the ropes. Sakura made it very fat, and did not carve it finely, fearing that the wood would not bear enough weight.And some small things, Chu Ying, were directly hung on the shelf made earlier with hooks.

When the weather cleared, Chu Ying went to the woods behind to collect the pine resin she scraped. Chu Ying chose adult pine trees. Fortunately, most of them are adults. To scrape the pine resin, you need to cut the skin of the pine tree, which will destroy the nutrients of the pine tree. transmission, so choose an adult one.

Cut the pine tree into a V shape with one knife on the left and one knife on the right, so that the pine resin will flow to the bottom of the V shape along the cut. Chu Ying uses a long bamboo joint to support the pine tree. The upper part of the bamboo joint is cut off half of the bamboo. , the lower part is made of bamboo, which is convenient for storing the turpentine that flows down.

Chu Ying cut 3 pine trees, and took the newly made bamboo joints to replace the bamboo joints filled with turpentine. Chu Ying returned home with the three bamboo joints, feeling the humid air in the woods, thinking about some things on the mountain. The fungus should have grown. When I have time, I can go to the foot of the mountain to have a look.

(End of this chapter)