Farming game: raise cubs with equipment

Chapter 28 Growing Food

Now every household has started harvesting food. Yun Yiyi has no food, so she still digs the land once a day. After a long time, the soil will become extremely soft and ready for planting.

She was not in a hurry to plant the pile of unknown seeds.

There are also paddy fields here, but everyone uses them to grow rice.

The winter in the Great Zhou Kingdom is very cold, no matter what kind of plant it is, it will not survive very well.Only when the weather gradually warms up after March will it be suitable for the growth of crops.Therefore, the common people only sow grain around March.

What's even more strange is that no matter what vegetables and fruits they are planted in March.

For example, tomatoes are not suitable for planting in March, which leads to low yields. The tomatoes grown are strange in shape, small and sour, but the common people think that is the shape of tomatoes.

Yun Yiyi's paddy field is farther than her land, and she is holding a pile of Zizania seeds, planning to plant Zizania.

Modern Zizania is a kind of vegetable, white and plump, looks like bamboo shoots, sweet and delicious, but it has undergone many years of changes.

Yun Yiyi doesn't know what the ancient wild rice stems were like, but she has studied history, and vaguely knows that wild rice stems used to be a kind of food, but they were very susceptible to diseases, but even if they were infected with some kind of bacteria, they were still edible.Like a tenacious little strong, the more frustrated, the more courageous.

The yield of this vegetable is very considerable, and it is easy to grow.

When she arrived at the paddy field, there were still many people, many of whom were harvesting rice.

Yun Yiyi's paddy field is next to Brother Yan and Brother Yan's. Brother Yan and Father Yan are both cutting rice with sickles at this time.

Yun Yiyi wore a self-made sun hat and called out: "Father, brother."

The sun tanned the two of them, and Yun Yiyi felt that Brother Yan was darker than last time.

Brother Yan smiled shyly and continued to work.

Father Yan was tired and planned to rest by the side for a while, when he saw Yun Yiyi planting rice seedlings in the paddy field.

"What are you doing?" Father Yan asked strangely.

Yun Yiyi raised her head and smiled, "I'm growing vegetables."

As soon as the words fell, there was a burst of laughter from around.

Father Yan also felt ashamed and flustered, "We are harvesting food now, what are you planting? Nothing will bear fruit."

For farmers, it is a great shame to be unable to tell the day of planting and harvest.

A man next to him jokingly said, "That's right, Uncle Yan, you have to teach your daughter-in-law well so that the food doesn't go to waste."

"Haha, someone actually grows food during this season."

Father Yan was a little embarrassed, he always cared about face, and was about to let Yun Yiyi go back, when he saw that she had already planted a few seedlings.

This is not rice.

But not important.

"Third daughter-in-law, you should go back early. The crops will be sown in March, and they can be harvested in July and August." Father Yan watched her farming with some headaches. Her movements were still very unfamiliar, and she looked like a novice. .

"Yes, third brother and sister, if you want to grow rice, I will come and help with the second brother next year." Brother Yan said honestly.

Originally, they also wanted to help Yun Yiyi plant this year, but Yun Yiyi refused.Not only that, the protagonist is also afraid that these relatives will secretly occupy her land, and does not allow them to use the paddy fields and land.

So when each household collected grain and vegetables, she had nothing left.

After Yun Yiyi planted some wild rice seeds, she seemed to have found experience, and the speed was a little faster. She smiled: "It's okay, I'll just plant it for fun."

Listen to what this is saying, how can food be played?
Food is their life, Father Yan was a little angry, looked at the Miaoer carefully, and suddenly said: "Is that Zizania?"

"That's right, Dad, you also recognize this thing." Yun Yiyi said.

The people next to me heard it, and an elder sister said: "Of course I know, sister, you forgot that the imperial court gave free Zizania seeds to every household a few years ago, let us plant them."

A tanned old man said: "That's right, but the water bamboo is not easy to grow, and the yield is lower than that of rice. I thought it was a good thing distributed by the court, and I planted it all over the field. As a result, I almost starved to death that year." gone."

Is it that bad?Yun Yiyi was a little hesitant, she had never planted ancient seeds, and she didn't know what the situation was.This is also the first time to test the water.

Father Yan said to her: "Isn't it? Our family has planted some before..." He paused, "You don't know, this thing is just like rice, but many of them can't produce ears. Useless."

Yun Yiyi knew the reason for his pause. They worked hard to grow food at that time, but Yun Yiyi didn't care about anything, and didn't even know what to plant.

Yun Yiyi didn't feel ashamed at all, since that person wasn't her anyway, she said curiously: "You were also planted in the paddy field at that time."

Father Yan said: "In the beginning, everyone planted it in the ground. It was the same as rice, and it actually produced ears. When it was pounded, it was similar to rice, but it was basically hollow, which was not cost-effective. Later, someone tried to grow rice. In the paddy field, the yield is still low, so no one will plant it again."

This wild rice stem was indeed similar to rice at the beginning, but it was very expensive. If you plant a large area, you may only harvest a little, which is not suitable for food.If everyone planted wild rice stems, they would starve to death.

Then the imperial court also gave up the crop of Zizania.

But Yun Yiyi has always eaten wild rice stems as vegetables. This is because they are infected with smut fungus, and the wild rice stems cannot form ears. Instead, deformed fat galls will form on the stems. This white and fat fruit is Asparagus is sweet when eaten raw.

What Father Yan meant was that everyone planted in the ground and wasted a lot of resources, so they were disappointed with Zizania.Maybe one or two people later tried to plant in paddy fields, but failed, and they didn't try again.Because at that time everyone had already given up on Zizania.

If everyone continues to plant in the paddy field, there may not be a chance of success.

But who would have that leisurely mood?
After all, this is a thankless task, and it will affect their grain harvest.The most important problem for the people now is to solve their food and clothing problems.

Yun Yiyi thought of a sentence: The level of productivity affects the level of science and technology.It really makes sense.Then let her be No.1, anyway, she is not short of food and clothing now.

She said: "This paddy field is deserted anyway, so I'll just look around, in case the harvest is good."

Seeing that she didn't listen to her advice, Father Yan became even more excited, his brows could turn into flies: "Now there is no one selling Zizania seeds outside, you are clearly being tricked."

Yun Yiyi pursed her lips, but didn't tell him that she bought it voluntarily.

After that, she was the only one who was planting wild rice stems.

The others thought it was funny before, and looked at her like a fool, but gradually, they stopped paying attention to her.

Everyone has their own work and is still very busy, but after returning, there must be new topics of discussion.

Yun Yiyi felt tired after planting for a while, and she didn't treat herself badly, so she planned to plant the remaining seeds tomorrow, anyway, she was not in a hurry.

It should be said that the planting time of wild rice stems is divided into two seasons, which can be planted before and after the Grain Rain and around the Beginning of Autumn.

Now it's August, naturally it's not suitable for planting, but Yun Yiyi can't wait for next year. Most importantly, she still has a bold idea in her heart, so she wants to give it a try.

Anyway, she has the time and money.

When returning home, Yun Yiyi poured another bowl of pear soup with rock sugar, and the soup was completely cold after sitting for so long.

As soon as she drank it, the cold and sweet taste filled her whole body, making Yun Yiyi feel like she was alive. She picked up a piece of pear with chopsticks and ate it. The sweet and soft taste made her squint her eyes.

There is no refrigerator here, but she must get a lot of ice in the future, she made up her mind.

The dignitaries of this era also have a special ice room, which is low in temperature and filled with a lot of ice cubes. In summer, they can enjoy the comfort brought by ice cubes.But ordinary people naturally don't have this kind of treatment, and it's a luxury for her to even finish eating shaved ice.

But Yun Yiyi had heard before that there are ice wind tunnels in the mountains, and the temperature is naturally low, so I don't know if the areas next to those areas can freeze into ice.

After she ate the last bite of pear, she saw Yan Xiaoshuang peeking at him from behind the door, thinking she was hiding her face secretly, but most of her body was outside.

Yun Yiyi raised her eyebrows: "What are you doing there?"

Yan Xiaoshuang's body trembled, but she didn't make a sound.

Good boy, thought she was bombing him?

"Yan Xiaoshuang, is that you?" She walked over and knocked on the door.

Only then did Yan Xiaoshuang stick out her small head, her eyes were watery, and her face showed the remorse of being caught: "Mother." He immediately stood upright, his legs were combined, and his hands were placed on both sides of his thighs regularly, looking obedient. Extremely.

Yun Yiyi glanced at him with a half-smile: "Tell me, what are you doing hiding there?"

"Mom, the ugly chick turned into a swan."

"What?" Yun Yiyi didn't take Xiaozaizai's childish words seriously, let alone understood them.

Yan Xiaoshuang made a small circle on his chest with his hand, and then made a big circle, "Outside, our chickens have changed."

Yun Yiyi still looked absent, which made Yan Xiaoshuang anxious, he stretched out his hand to hold Yun Yiyi's hand and dragged it out.

Yun Yiyi felt like being dragged by a husky, so she couldn't laugh or cry, so she followed him to the yard.

The chickens in the chicken coop have grown up a lot, and they are out of the shape of little chickens, and they are full of energy.

Yun Yiyi looked up and saw piles of various chickens.

Now the chicks have grown their feathers, black, white, and gray.

"What's wrong?" Yun Yiyi said.

Yan Xiaoshuang carefully led her to the other side of the chicken shed, the chickens felt someone approaching, and they all swarmed to one side, Yun Yiyi saw the chicken in the corner.

That chicken was bigger than the others, with white feathers, and looked very beautiful.

Yan Xiaoshuang was excited: "Is it that ugly chicken?"

The white chicken looked at them proudly, "Beep beep..."

Yun Yiyi: "...."

She just told the story of "The Ugly Duckling" with the two cubs yesterday, and she suddenly felt like she was misleading her children.

"Xiao Shuang, although it is right to learn and use flexibly, it is indeed an ordinary hen."

(End of this chapter)