The Blessing of the Qi Nv of Transmigration

Chapter 12 Preparations
In the evening, grandparents and the others returned home. Just after dinner, the woman in charge of the Zhang family came over to deliver a message. The purpose of coming was stated one by one, and he left without waiting for any reaction from the Hu family.

The whole family was dumbfounded, and no one even noticed when the woman in charge left.

What?Give all the paddy fields at home to your daughter to arrange farming?Rent-free and tax-free?Self-financed?How does a child know about crops?Want to raise fish in rice fields?This is such a strange idea. If I had known that this girl could talk to the Zhang family, I might as well have promised her an acre of paddy fields earlier. At least it would not be so fruitless and make the whole village laugh.

But it's too late to say anything now, the land they planted is someone else's land, and they can do whatever they want, and these ideas are from their daughters, so what else can they say.

The family sat around the table in silence.

Yang Feier bowed his head in silence, what can he say?Explanation?ensure?promise?It is useless to say it now, and the family members will not believe it, so it is better to keep silent and leave everything to time.

After a long time, Yang Fei'er said in a timid but extremely firm tone: "Grandpa, grandma, dad, mom, brother, I've made up my mind, and there's no turning back. Now is the time to soak and raise seedlings. Let's hurry up. Otherwise, if the season is missed, the harvest will also be affected.”

Father Hu sighed, and said: "I thought you were just kidding around, but how could you play with all the fields in your family? Nine acres of paddy fields, that's not a joke, the Zhang family You can use the nine acres of paddy fields as a thank you gift for you to play for the last season, but how can we poor people take the harvest of the nine acres of land as a negligence? That is our family's annual food and clothing expenses. .”

After saying that, she stood up and left the table. Mrs. Wang also sighed, got up and followed, and the old couple went back to the bedroom.

Big Hu Shen sat silently, Yang Feier saw the two of them frowning, couldn't bear it, and comforted:
"Father, mother, don't worry, I'm not fooling around. Whether it's the method of transplanting rice seedlings or raising fish in rice fields, I know it well, and I have my own reasons. Take a step back and say, even if it doesn't work, at least there is an income from selling shrimps. It will make the whole family hungry, won't it?"

As she spoke, she shook Shen Shi's sleeve with a sneer, but Shen Shi couldn't do it, so she reached out and grabbed her daughter's little hand, saying:

"Xiu'er, you have been weak since you were young, and you haven't been in the field for a day. How do you know that this kind of land is difficult? Your new method is really feasible. There are so many good cropping methods in the generations, no one can come up with it. That method? Pull out the seedlings that have grown well in the ground and replant them. Not to mention that this is really unnecessary and wastes money. Just pulling out and planting will hurt many seedlings. Can you live? How much can you live? Alas!"

As Shen said, she sighed heavily.

Yang Feier's hand was held in Shen's hand for a while, feeling very uncomfortable, finally waited until Shen finished speaking, took the opportunity to pull it away, hid under the table and rubbed it vigorously with her skirt, only the rubbing hand became hot It hurts, and the discomfort in my heart is better. I know in my heart that this is an old problem again, and it may take a day or two to gradually forget this bad feeling.

There was silence on the table again. Hu Kang looked at his sister and then at his parents. After thinking for a long time, he didn't know how to persuade him, so he remained silent.

The twins knew something important happened at home today, but they didn't know much about it, so they didn't know what to say.

The whole family sat there for a while, only to hear Da Hu finally said:

"It's useless to say anything now. Let's just listen to Xiu'er. Since she has made up her mind, she must know how to arrange it. Let's try the last season and see how it works. If it works, everyone will be happy. People laughed at it for a few years."

He said again: "Xiu'er is right, at least with the money saved from selling shrimps, the family will not go hungry for at least a year."

After finishing speaking, he stood up, took the oil lamp with Mrs. Chen to the barn to carry out a bag of rice seeds, and said:

"Good day tomorrow, let's put these rice seeds in the sun for two days, Xiu'er, you will take care of them, don't let the birds peck them."

Yang Feier quickly stood up and said yes, knowing that Dahu had already made a decision, and the rice seeds would be soaked in advance, so from now on, her plan would be officially launched, and she couldn't help but feel joyful and excited.

I also thought about the unknown prospects, after all, they are all from the sidelines experience, lack of practice, and a little uneasy.

In this way, I had mixed feelings all night, and I barely fell asleep.

From the second day onwards, the family started to get busy, selling shrimp as usual, and the rest of the people went to clear the dry land first, originally planning to plant sweet potatoes. The harvest of these miscellaneous grains is good, and one mu of planting can harvest three to four thousand catties, but now According to the method Xiu'er said, half an acre of land should be separated to make a seedling field. Only half an acre is left to plant potatoes. When the seedling field comes out, we can see what can be planted. This is the only way for now.

The half of the seedling field is hoeed first, the stubble, gravel, and weeds are picked out, the field is thinned, and the ridge is raised, water is put in so that the water exceeds the height of the field soil by a knuckle, and fertilizer is sprinkled.

After the rice seeds were ready to dry, Da Hu told Hu Kang to go into the barn that night, then took out two empty bags, divided the one hundred catties of rice seeds into three bags, took them to the kitchen stove, and poured water on them. Stand against the wall, waiting to sprout.

Two days later, Da Hu saw that the rice seeds he had caught had already turned white, so he spread them out to dry at home. After half a day, the rice seeds were no longer sticky to the touch. Take these rice seeds to the seedling field and scatter the rice seeds in the field.

The rice seeds were sown in only an hour. The family stood on the ridge of the field and looked at a seedling field in Nuoda. Through the thin water surface, it was still clearly visible that the rice seeds spit out white buds and lay quietly. On the mud bed, dense and dense, the more you look at it, the more uncertain you feel. This method is really incredible.

But Yang Feier looked very friendly, this is what rice planting should look like, this familiar scene is the beginning of farmers' hope every year, and it is the guarantee of a good harvest.But now, Yang Feier thinks: In this other world, such technology will surely bring good harvest and hope to the farmers here.

At present, it is still necessary to manufacture a human-powered rice transplanter. This small machine is especially suitable for use in mountainous or hilly areas where large machines cannot enter. It is sold on a certain treasure.

Out of curiosity, Yang Feier had carefully studied its working principle. Now, the structure of those parts is vivid in his mind, but in the previous life, the rice transplanter was made of steel. Considering the complicated process, Yang Feier decided at that time Make a wooden one first, don't try to make it durable, just make something to make sure it can be used.

So I drew out each part, built and assembled it at home with my father every day, and slowly adjusted it. Fortunately, it is made of wood, and it can be easily corrected if it is wrong. After more than half a month of hard work, I finally made the first human-powered machine in this world. The rice transplanter was born out of nowhere, experimented with long thatch, and the seedlings were separated accurately, that is, they were inserted into the mud to make the seedlings float.

Considering that the weight of the wooden material may be insufficient, the machine cannot fall stably, so I found a blacksmith shop, made an iron base, took it back and attached it to the chassis, and tried it again. Sure enough, the problem was solved, and I put it in the warehouse. Used when transplanting rice seedlings.

Since the word was spread that day, the woman in charge of the Zhang family would come to Hu's house every day, at nine o'clock in the morning, back at eleven o'clock, three o'clock in the afternoon, and five o'clock in the afternoon. What to do and how to do it, write them down in a notebook one by one, so that they can be handed over to Mrs. Zhang for review.

And the young master Zhang happened to have a time difference with the woman in charge, so he arrived at Hu's house on time at noon every day, because even on the farm, Zhang's civil and military masters were always with him, and his homework was never missed.

Get up at six o'clock in the morning, wash up, have breakfast, and then the master will lead the morning reading and recite the interpretation. After a short break and snacks at 09:30, the martial arts master will be waiting in the field to teach him boxing and swordsmanship. By twelve o'clock You can finish class, and you are allowed to eat and rest for two hours in the middle. After Wei Shizhong, you can continue to explain Chinese characters to Shen Shizhong, and you can rest for half an hour for snacks, and then there is a bow and arrow riding course. When the day is long, it can be until [-]:[-] in the evening, and the day is short. It will be seven o'clock in the evening, and it will be dark.After dinner, the master has to come over to give lectures and accompany homework until ten o'clock in the evening before he can wash and rest.

There is a day off every tenth of every month, so there is only one hour at noon on weekdays that can be used well.

These times are understood according to another invention of Yang Feier in ancient times, because I really can’t bear to look at the time every time, I have to go to the village ancestral hall to look at the sundial, and I think it is not accurate enough, so Yang Feier made it himself. A folding sundial.

Put two square mortise and tenon pieces with a thickness of half a centimeter and a side length of 135 centimeters together, and chisel out the yin and yang slots, so that it can be like a wooden box, with a fine hemp rope as a hinge to connect the upper and lower lids. It is at an angle of [-] degrees, and a perfect circle with a diameter of [-] cm is drawn on the top cover, and twelve time scales like modern clocks are engraved in turn as the sundial surface. The angle and scale are based on the large stone sundial at the entrance of the ancestral hall. Thin iron sticks are used as sundials, which can be retracted or pulled up perpendicular to the surface of the sundial to form a small sundial for self-calculation of time.

However, there was nothing to do on cloudy days and nights. In the end, I asked Dahu to buy a clepsydra from the market. This was a big expense for the family, and it cost a total of two taels of silver, but my daughter had no choice but to buy it back. Therefore, Yang Feier's folding sundial is only used when the family members go out, which is convenient.

After class at twelve o'clock every day, Young Master Zhang never tires, leading Zhang An through the entire Tangjia Village from east to west, heading straight to Hu's house.

At this time, the Hu family's lunch has already been prepared and served, and Mr. Zhang just needs to enter the door, and he can eat directly on the table. The dishes are more delicious than those made by the cook at home, and there are many novel dishes, which make young master Zhang try new ones every day and amazed.

(End of this chapter)