Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 107 Water Bamboo and Water Chestnuts

Although there is no need to farm anymore, it doesn't mean that Liu Man'er will be free. She still has to grow wild rice stems and water chestnuts.

Luckily, wild rice stems are also planted in some small ponds in the village. From raising seedlings to planting is very simple. Liu Man'er thought about it and felt that it should go with the flow.

But this water chestnut is different. Planting water chestnuts is a very troublesome thing.

There are no such water chestnuts for sale in this town, so you have to go to the county town to find them.

So Liu Man'er went to the county town again to choose the water chestnut seeds. By the way, she also walked around the county town. She came to the county town a few times before for food and clothing. It is suitable for her to open a shop.

While walking around, she came to her destination to choose seeds. As expected, there were not many people growing water chestnuts, and there were relatively few people selling seeds. Liu Man'er finally found a stall, and saw that the seeds on it were not bad.

Round, big and smooth, but his kind of seeds are quite expensive, even costing fifteen cents a catty.

It's really a bit expensive. Liu Man'er asked others along the way, saying that the water chestnut seeds only cost ten Wen, but he actually sold them for fifteen Wen a catty, but his family's seeds are indeed very good.

After haggling with the seed seller for a price, I finally bought it at a price of twelve cents. Liu Man'er was very happy.

Ye Yuan on the side saw her and bought some of these seeds and was able to be happy like this. He felt that she was really too easy to be satisfied.

Liu Man'er bought ten catties of seeds, which cost 120 Wen, and then bought some food in this county, and then went back.

After returning home, she was busy cultivating the water chestnuts, germination first. Anyway, she followed the book and made a plan step by step.

I still chose an inverted room, spread a layer of straw on the floor of the inverted room, and then put the water chestnuts neatly on it, with the chestnut buds facing upwards, and then covered it with a thin layer of straw , and then water it to keep it moist.

The next step is to maintain this moist and warm environment so that it can germinate. It will take about seven or eight days for this germination, and you have to come over and water every day during this time.

But it's not troublesome, anyway, her shiitake mushrooms have to be watered, and it's not a big deal to water another place. Fortunately, she has dug a well in the front yard, and now the water is very convenient.

After cultivating the water chestnuts, she went to look at her shiitake mushrooms. They didn't seem to be dead, but there were no signs of new shiitake mushrooms.

But this method of growing shiitake mushrooms was not written in the book, so she could only wait day by day, and record the growth status of the shiitake mushrooms every few days, so that even if it failed this time, at least she could find out the reason next time. Even if the mushroom didn't die, it was considered a success for her.

Even in her previous life, this shiitake mushroom was a relatively expensive kind of mushroom, which showed that the cultivation of this shiitake mushroom itself was not easy, so she should be more patient and don't worry.

When I have nothing to do, go to the yard, tease and tease the little monkeys, and water the flowers and plants in the house. It is spring, these flowers and plants are growing gratifyingly, and Liu Man'er is also very happy.

The originally bare yard slowly turned green like this, the newly picked trees gradually became verdant, and the water chestnuts of the willow vines finally sprouted.

When they germinated to two or three inches, the villagers were also busy planting rice, and the water chestnuts, like rice, also need to cultivate seedlings first, and the weather is still a bit cold, so they planted the water chestnuts in the seedling field and made a bamboo seedling. The arch is covered with straw, which is considered a small house. After about a month, after they start to tiller, they are transplanted into the field.

It's a little troublesome, but after the cultivation of rice seedlings is almost the same, Ye Yuan can do these things, and she doesn't need to go to the field.

And the growth cycle of this water chestnut is longer than that of rice. When the water chestnut grows well, the villagers' rice has already been neatly inserted in the field.

Liu Man'er asked a few acquaintances to help with these water chestnut seedlings, and they planted them in half a day. After completing this important task, they started to plant sweet potato vines again.

The cultivation of these sweet potatoes is similar to that of water chestnuts. They are cut into pieces and moistened with plant ash and clouds. After germination, they are planted in the ground. When the water chestnut seedlings are still in the field, the sweet potatoes have already been planted in the ground.

After the water chestnut seedlings were planted, a few days later, the sweet potato vines were almost grown, so they cut them back, and then cut the vines into sections, and then picked them into the ground to plant them.

After the sweet potato vines were planted, they started to plant peanuts and soybeans again. After all these were planted, Qingming was over.

Liu Man'er was finally able to relax, and the weather started to warm up. At this time, those chickens and ducks who hugged their nests began to become mothers.

One after another, chicks and ducklings came out of their shells one after another. Liu Man'er separated these newly brooding chickens from other chickens. Most of the hens were in heat this year, so Liu Man'er simply let them all brood. There are quite a few eggs, and by the time these chicks break out of their shells, there must be at least several hundred of them.

The same goes for the ducks. During the Spring Festival, Fang's family also collected the duck eggs and gave them nests to the female ducks in heat. They just dug a pond, so they can play in the pond in the future.

Of the two geese raised at home, one of the mother gooses also hugged the nest, and Fang also let her hatch her eggs, but the geese took longer to hatch, so they haven't hatched yet.

And the sheep at home have just given birth to two more lambs, and now it is time to produce milk.

In this way, there are already four sheep in the family. When these sheep grow up in the second half of the year, they will start to conceive and give birth again. There will be more and more sheep, which is really great.

Spring is a season of planting, a season of revival, and now everything in the family is flourishing, Fang's face is full of smiles every day, and Liu Man'er is also cheerful all day long.

When she was in a good mood, she made another swing in the backyard, and made some piles for the monkey, or things to climb, and made a shelf with rings and a small swing on it, specially for this handsome man to play.

Shuai expressed his happiness when he got the new toy, and Liu Man'er hung its nest on the shelf, and used it as a roof without leaking water, making it Shuai's new home.

Behind Liu Maner's house is her small garden, which is planted with fruit trees, flowers and plants. As for the chicken and duck pens, they are at the back of the house, so that there will be no peculiar smell. She also planted jasmine and osmanthus trees until they bloom At that time, the whole yard must be fragrant.

After the spring plowing is over, people have more things to do after some free time. Weeding is the most important job. Although Liu Man'er is not busy with the things in the field, the weeds in the yard that have been removed before have begun to grow wildly again.

And the sorghum and corn fields she planted are all grass, and the grass grows fast, so Liu Manzi has to go to the backyard to weed the weeds from time to time.

Fortunately, there are not many fields at home, otherwise I would be very busy. It is just right like this, not too busy, nor too idle. I carry a hoe to take care of the small yard every day, and I feel very fulfilled when I look at the poultry at home.

It's just because these chickens and ducks are waiting too much, and Fu Lu and Ye He are a little too busy. Liu Man'er thought about it and made an automatic feeding device. After pouring grains into the automatic feeding device, the chickens and ducks can wait. Eat by yourself, so that you can only feed once for several days.

Now there are many chickens and ducklings, and they are fed with broken rice. The chickens and ducklings are more expensive, and they must be watched by others, so they can only keep the two of them busy for a while.

Fortunately, Ye Tianchen has grown up a lot, and now he basically doesn't need Fang to take care of him, so Fang can also help out.

Seeing that there were so many poultry in the house, Liu Man'er thought about taking two dogs to watch the yard.

There are a lot of native dogs in this village, but Liu Man'er thinks the native dogs are a bit ugly, so she has not picked the right one, and she wants to raise something different from others. Others raise dogs, and she wants to raise them. It's a wolf.

It's also because she has been living so comfortably recently, her mother-in-law loves her, and her husband loves her, so she was a little swollen for a while, thinking about asking Ye Yuan to catch two little wolf cubs for her.

Wolves have always been Liu Man'er's favorite creature. She has always admired the blood and loyalty of wolves. Compared with dogs, wolves are more suitable for keeping, because they are durable, decisive, and fierce.

Ye Yuan is a hunter, he might be able to hunt wolves, if he brought the little wolf cub to feed him from the urine, the little wolf cub would be very obedient, and now Liu Man'er has the confidence to tame it.

The higher the animal, the higher the IQ. Like this chicken and duck that knows how to eat, Liu Man'er can occasionally understand the messages from them, let alone this wolf.

Raising wolves, haha, I feel happy just thinking about it.

Leading Huang on the left and Qingcang on the right, it must be very exciting to lead two wolves in the future.

I just don't know if Ye Yuan is willing to hunt a few for her, but if I talk to him at night, he should agree, right?

So that night, Liu Man'er took the initiative to have some tenderness with Ye Yuan, and cooperated very well. Ye Yuan didn't say anything, but he seemed very happy, and when the two of them lay down and Liu Man'er was about to speak, Ye Yuan is spoken:
"You are abnormal today, tell me, what else do you want me to do for you?"

"Master, you are really good at predicting things." Liu Man'er didn't feel embarrassed when her thoughts were revealed, she simply leaned on his arm, got closer to him, and asked delicately: "Master, do you know where there are wolves?" ?"

"Why are you asking these questions?" Ye Yuan asked in confusion.

"I wonder if we can hunt a female wolf and raise two cubs?" Liu Man'er asked softly.

"Raising wolves?" Ye Yuan turned his head sideways, "Aren't you afraid of wolves?"

"Scared." Liu Man'er laughed, "But I'm not afraid if I raise a wolf myself, and the wolf will be able to protect me when the time comes."

"It's good if I protect you. The wolves can only be found in the Daxingping Mountains in the north, or on the Mongolian grasslands. We don't have them in the Central Plains."

"That's it, then forget it." Liu Man'er was a little disappointed when she heard this, and she could only give up the idea, and settled for the next best thing, "Then you can buy me two good dogs, I have trained them to guard the house, but don't The dirt dogs in the village, even the dirt dogs are good-looking."

"Okay, anyway, the dogs you raise must be good-looking." Ye Yuan nodded in agreement, and said: "It's getting late, go to sleep, or you won't be able to wake up in the morning."

"En." Liu Man'er responded, and the room gradually became quiet...

(End of this chapter)