Nongmen ruffian concubine: ploughing the fields, planting buns

Chapter 243 I want to be a favor

After breakfast the next day, Ding Shitou took Ding Dian to dig the ground with a big hoe.

However, by asking other people to help, they will not make themselves so hard, and concentrate on digging trenches.

When a piece of land is completed, the ditches and furrows must be cleared.

When I bought the old house, the land on the east side still had an area of ​​about two acres, plus the size of the back, it could grow some vegetables.

But she enlarged the area of ​​the house, and the pigpen at the back also enlarged, occupying the area of ​​the vegetable field.

Now there is about one and a half acres to the east. A well was dug in front of the kitchen, leaving open space and trails. Naturally, nothing can be planted, so the floor tiles were directly laid.

There should be a way to stay behind, especially the carriageway, what if Zhao Jian and the others come running again one day?It is still necessary to hide the carriage.

But there is still a long and narrow area at the foot of the wall, and you can build a shelf against the wall to grow climbing vegetables such as wax gourd, pumpkin, loofah, and beans.

There was originally a small piece of land to the west, but an open house was built in the front, and a small courtyard was built in the back and a toilet was built.

In the back, the part blocked by the wall is connected to the backyard, that is to say, there is a small space left except for the driveway from the back alley.

Because I want to raise chickens, I don't plan to grow vegetables. I just plant some grass for the chickens to catch bugs and eat when they come out to bask in the sun.

Therefore, what they are going to cultivate now is the acre of land on the east side. They have planted sweet potatoes in a hurry first, and they can grow them slowly by themselves at the fence in the backyard.

Not to mention other rare vegetables, just this sweet potato.

Ding Shitou originally wanted to grow it in a large area and then grind it into flour to make French fries to sell dry goods, so that no one would know where the materials came from, so they would not be able to steal the business.

Therefore, the kitchen was built very large at the beginning, and it was also for the convenience of building a small workshop or something.

Unexpectedly, the plan kept changing, but she opened a village school in accordance with the current situation, and with a stable income, the plan to grow vegetables did not have to be so stressful.

Therefore, she wanted to be a favor and lead everyone in the village to grow sweet potatoes. Even if they didn't sell them for money, it would be good for her family to store food for many winters.

If planting can be popularized in this era in the future, it will be a great merit for more poor people to have an additional food for their stomachs.

Sweet potatoes can be widely spread in later generations, also because it has such effects and more value.

But she planted it nearly 200 years ahead of schedule. Could it be that later generations have worked so hard to get sweet potato vines from overseas?Will it become a hot-selling product to be brought overseas for trading when Zheng He goes to the West again in the future?

In one morning, they only cleared one ditch.

At noon, Jiang Huzi and Zhang Zhong brought a cow over. The gate of the courtyard was not closed, so they moved the gate and opened the gate to let the cow in.

"Looking at your lack of land, I didn't recommend you to buy a plow. It is convenient to cultivate the land with a plow." Jiang Huzi walked over with a plow on his shoulder, smiling.

"Hey, I was just thinking about buying a cow." Ding Shitou straightened up and wiped off his sweat, "If there is a plow but no cow, we brothers can't push it."

"Okay, let's take a rest, such a small piece of land will be plowed soon." Jiang Huzi put down the plow, and together with Zhang Zhong, harnessed the ox, and handed it over to Zhang Zhong to plow the land.

Ding Dian quickly followed up to help.

"The plowing will be finished at noon, and everyone will have no work in the evening?" Ding Shitou sat on a small stool beside him and called Sister Lingdang to pour tea for a drink.

"Plow twice first, and then we will plow again in the evening. Didn't you say that sweet potatoes need to be plowed carefully, especially your land, which has been left uncultivated for so many years, is no better than other people's cultivated land every year."

(End of this chapter)