The Brave Life of a Space Peasant Girl

Chapter 93: Digging a Pond and Planting Rice Seedlings

After Yu Wan rested for a while, Mrs. Li came in with the food. She put it on the table: "Fourth Miss, the food has been put on the table. You can try it."

Yu Wan came out of the living room, she sat down, took a piece of rabbit and ate it.

“Well, it tastes good, better than before. Aunt Li, have you eaten it?”

Seeing that her master liked it, Mrs. Li said, "Miss Fourth, you can just eat it. If there is anything in the kitchen, you can eat it."

“Okay, then Aunt Li, go and eat quickly. I’ll collect the dishes and chopsticks later.”

 “Yes”, Mrs. Li stepped back.

Yu Wan ate fresh rabbit meat stir-fried with chili peppers, and even had an extra bowl of rice.

 After dinner, Zhu Dagui was already waiting outside. She asked Zhu Dagui to enter the living room.

 “Fourth Miss”.

 “If you have anything to say, just tell me. I came back just to take a look.”

Zhu Dagui said: "Miss Fourth, the old slave is mainly talking about the crops on the farm. The seedlings have been grown, but there is not enough water in the fields on the farm. I'm afraid they won't survive long if they are planted."

Yu Wan knocked on the table. She remembered that Zhuangzi was at the foot of Daqing Mountain, and there was a stream of water flowing down from the mountain.

"Uncle Zhu, let the people in Zhuangzi plant all the seedlings and plant everything on the ground. I will find a way to solve the water problem. Come with me to the mountain tomorrow."

Zhu Dagui: "Okay, I'll make arrangements right now."

After Zhu Dagui left, Yu Wan entered the space. She had to take a look at the cultivated seedlings. It was time to transplant the seedlings, so she had to hurry up.

Although rice can be grown in the space, she is reluctant to sell the products produced in the space. She has to leave her family to eat.

What's more, the space is not big, and the free land is only about twenty acres. She planted ten acres of peppers, five acres of vegetables, one of the other five acres of rice seedlings, and the remaining four acres of land. The rice can be harvested unlimited times.

Those medicinal herbs that have matured are put in storage bags, and many of them are newly planted in the spiritual land.

There are five acres of spiritual fruit trees, and they are picked when they are ripe. When she left, she left a storage bag of spiritual fruits for Feng and the others. Now, except for those used to make wine, there are not many spiritual fruits, so she can only use them.

 So in fact, the space does not produce much. The fields on the village outside must all be planted with seedlings.

 “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”, then two white tigers came running to her, licking here and there.

Yu Wan touched their heads: "What? Want to go out?"

 Two white tigers shook their heads, one lying on each side of her.

 The two white tigers have been in space for a long time, and both have developed spiritual wisdom. Don't underestimate them, they know how to supervise the three pillars. As long as the guy is lazy, the two white tigers will definitely shoot him.

Yu Wan played with Bai Hu for a while and then fell asleep in the space.

The next day, after breakfast, Zhu Dagui followed Yu Wan up the mountain along Zhuangzi.

Yu Wan walked up the mountain in the direction of the water source, checking the terrain as she walked.

Zhu Dagui didn’t know what Yu Wan was going to do by walking in the direction of the water source: “Miss Fourth, what are you doing?”

Yu Wan: "Look where the water comes from. If the water source is enough, we can connect the water to the ground. If not, we can dig a pond on Zhuangzi."

“But I think it is practical to dig a pond to store water. No matter whether the water supply is continuous, there is water in Zhuangzi, even if there is no draft, it can be solved.”

 Zhu Dagui is right to think about it.

Now the wells in Zhuangzi are not producing much water. When summer comes, the water will definitely be cut off, so water storage is necessary.

Yu Wan looked at the terrain and thought that it would not be a big problem to break open bamboos to collect water into the fields, but the water source would have to be sufficient.

The water collected by bamboos is living water, while the water stored in ponds is stagnant water. It is okay to use it to water crops, but it is not okay to eat it.

 She kept walking up, over a mountain, and finally stopped in a small valley.

Yu Wan saw that this water source came from the large puddle in the valley and then flowed down the mountain.

The water in the large puddle was soaked from the mountains on three sides. Yu Wan looked at the puddle and realized that the water would be cut off in minutes.

“Uncle Zhu, let’s go down the mountain and quickly find someone to dig a pond in our land and fill it with water. If the water is cut off, it may be cut off.”

This water is not like the big water behind Yujia Village. It is water flowing from a large waterfall on the mountain, and the river at the entrance of the village is there. That river leads directly to the county seat, and the river next to Zhuangzi in the south of Yuwan City goes down to that river.

 It was impossible for her to use bamboo to catch the water.

 “Okay, I’ll make arrangements right away”.

The two masters and servants came down from the mountain. Zhu Dagui arranged for them to go there, and Yu Wan took a look in the village. They are still planting rice seedlings today. Yesterday afternoon, several people planted several acres, and now there are more than ten acres.

Yu Wan frowned. She looked at the fields on Zhuangzi. There were at least four hundred acres of fields. At this speed, it was still too slow.

After dinner in the evening, Yu Wan asked Zhu Dagui to sit down: "Uncle Zhu, in the afternoon, I saw that there were not enough manpower in the village. Tomorrow you will recruit people in the town to help transplant rice seedlings and dig ponds. We will give you two kilograms of brown rice a day as payment. You see. Is it possible?”

Zhu Dagui's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Miss Fourth, of course this is feasible. Now many people's families don't have enough food to eat, and they can't grow crops due to drought. There will definitely be many people coming to recruit people like this."

 At this time, food is more useful than money.

“Well, you’ll start recruiting people tomorrow, but they must be people who do farm work, so as not to waste people doing more work.”

"Okay, I will keep a close eye on you, Miss Fourth, don't worry."

Yu Wan nodded and asked Zhu Dagui to step back.

There is nothing wrong with Zhuangzi in this town. As long as she does what she wants, all the seedlings can be planted in three days.

Zhuangzi in the county town is much more troublesome. The other three Zhuangzi have no water, so they have to rely on her little cloud and rain skills.

“Huh? Why don’t I dig water reservoirs in those three villages and use the space to transport water there?” Yu Wan patted her head and cursed herself for being stupid.

So Yu Wan entered the space, collected the elixirs from an acre of land, and asked the three pillars and the little snake to dig a pond.

Little Snake: "Master, aren't you stupid? I wanted to remind you before. Let's forget it after thinking about it. Let's see how stupid you are, Master."

“See? You idiot, if you dare to act smart next time, I will roast you.” Yu Wan directly slapped the little snake into the soil.

The little snake came out and shouted at Yu Wanzhi: "You are so fierce, be careful that the beauty admirer doesn't want you."

 “Oh, I’m so scared, hurry up and get to work, there’s a task after you’re done.” Yu Wan patted her chest, kicked the little snake, and kicked it into the acre of land. Then she stepped out of the space, not bothering to listen to the croaking of the broken snake.

The next day, Zhu Dagui set up a table at the entrance of South Street to recruit people. As expected, there were many people coming to work.

Zhu Dagui picked forty people to go to Zhuangzi and planted the remaining seedlings in two days. The pond was also dug and filled with water.

 (End of this chapter)