The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

Chapter 102 103 Picking cattails and harvesting wheat

Li Yu dried the few kilograms of wild rice separately and sifted it through a basket. He selected the grains and soaked them, then poured them into wooden barrels filled with lime water to soak separately and germinate separately.

After the rice seeds were soaked for two days, Li Yu led people to pick the rice seeds to the mountain stream. They cleaned the rice seeds and soaked them in the stream water. They soaked them for three hours before picking them back home. Spread two layers of sterilized sacks on the ground, pour the rice seeds into the sacks, spread them evenly on the sacks, and then cover them with a layer of sacks to induce germination.

Erya looked at the sacks covering the rice seeds and asked Li Yu curiously, "Girl, are you still afraid of the cold?"

Li Yu patiently taught her, "This is accelerating germination. You should touch it with your hands frequently during the night watch. If the temperature of the rice seeds is too high, remember to use a bamboo rake to gently turn the rice seeds. If they are cold, sprinkle a little warm water on them." On top."

"Girl, this is the first time I've seen someone serve rice seeds like this. In the past, they would soak them in water and put them in sacks. They would hang them on the beams and put them in the rice fields the next day when they turned white."

Li Yu smiled and said, "Every household has a different farming method. You can never go wrong if you work hard."

Erya looked at Li Yu with admiration, "Miss, you are right. You see, you and Mr. Zhou have so much wealth, and you are still so hardworking."

Seeing that Erya didn't understand at all, Li Yu was worried that she would damage the rice seeds. "I will guard the rice seeds with you tonight. Do you remember how I did it? I will leave it to you in the future." ”

"I know, I will write it down carefully." Erya said seriously.

Li Yu and Erya turned over the rice seeds once before dawn. At the end of noon the next day, Li Yu sprinkled water again. After the rice seeds were exposed and sprouted, Li Yu and his people spread out the seeds to refine the buds. After an hour, the rice seeds were handed over to the long-term workers. The long-term workers carried the rice seeds to the side of the rice field and scattered the seeds on the ridges, and then sprinkled a layer of rice husk ash on top.

Li Yu took the wild rice seeds with bare chests to the rice field and scattered them in a separate box.

After sowing the rice seeds, Li Yu had some free time. He suddenly remembered that there were cattails and cattails that he had not seen. He patted his head in annoyance and hurried to the pond. By the way, he took a look at the lotus roots and cattails planted by Jin Jiu. .

Li Yu arrived at the pond. Jin Jiu was spreading alfalfa in the pond to feed the fish. When he saw Li Yu coming, he stepped forward to salute solemnly, "Girl, are you done?"

Li Yu nodded and said with a smile: "How are the fish in the pond? Are many dead?"

"Not many. I found two dead fish when I first put them in. I haven't seen them since." Jin Jiu smiled and pointed to the pond. "Girl, you can see that the lotus root has grown three or four leaves."

Li Yu saw that green lotus leaves were indeed growing on the ditches in the pond. He smiled and praised Jin Jiu, "Well, it's growing well. Thank you for your hard work."

Jin Jiu's face was red and dark, "It's not hard, it's not hard. The girl has food and clothing, and no one beats or scolds her, so it's not hard."

Seeing his reserved look, Li Yu smiled and pointed in front, "I'm going to see if the puhuang can be collected?"

"Yes." Jin Jiu bowed and stepped aside, watching Li Yu walk toward the shallow water on the other side of the pond.

Li Yu arrived at a shallow depression covered with cattail grass. He saw that the cattail grass in the depression was already covered with cattail cattails, and the cattail cattail flowers had begun to bloom. The time to pick cattail cattails had come.

Li Yu went home, gathered several women and girls, and asked them to put some vegetable leaves in bamboo baskets and bamboo baskets, and went to the pond with the baskets and bamboo baskets on their backs.

Erya pointed at Puhuang with the bamboo basket and told Li Yu, "Girl, this yellow thing is called water candle. We pick it home and dry it to smoke out mosquitoes. You can also pick the white stalk below and eat it." "

"The correct names are Puhuang and Pucai," Li Yu said to several women. "You pick some Puhuang and the water candle Erya mentioned. When you pick it, take off the top section of Puhuang. Put it in a bamboo basket.”

Jin Cuicui asked Li Yu in a soft voice, "Girl, what is the one called Puhuang used for? How to tie it?"

Li Yu glanced at Jin Cuicui and said, "Puhuang is a kind of medicinal material. I'll show it to you. If you want to see it, you can use your hands to tie the section above the water candle and remove the puhuang."

Everyone saw that Li Yu had tied a few strands, and they all understood, "Girl, we have learned how to go about your business." Erya said to Li Yu.

Li Yu handed the bamboo basket to Erya, "It's too late to pick cattails now. Pick less. Wait until tomorrow morning. If you still have picked cattails, remember to spread them out and dry them in the sun mat. Be careful not to get wet by the rain." ”

"Girl, don't worry, we'll dry them after we pick them off." Erya responded crisply.

Li Yu nodded and turned around to go to the breeding farm. Zhao Laizi had just come down the hillside with a basket of eggs on his back. He saw Li Yu pointing at the basket behind him with a smile, "Girl, the weather is getting warmer. Eggs laid by chickens and ducks There are also more. The duck eggs and eggs picked up by the pond this morning were all given to Brother Ruyi to send away. By now, they have picked up about a hundred more. Agou and Alei were still in the ditch when they were mowing the grass. I picked up some clam shells and snails and came back to feed the chickens and ducks."

Li Yu looked at the eggs in the basket and said, "Okay, let Aunt Liu boil the eggs for them. Remember to sprinkle lime under the chicken shed every half a month to prevent the chickens and ducks from getting sick."

"Remember, we just peeed once a few days ago, and it will take some time before we pee again."

Li Yu returned home from the farm and saw Blacksmith Xu and Zhaocai returning the threshing machine to the village. Zhou Jia was installing it with them.

When Zhou Jia saw Li Yu coming back, he pointed at a threshing machine that had been installed and said with a smile, "Xiaoyu, let's see how it goes!"

"Let me give it a try." Li Yu smiled and stepped forward to step on the pedal. Perhaps because of his strong strength, he felt that the roller started to rotate without much force.

Blacksmith Xu pointed to the basket next to him and said to Zhou Jia: "Mr. Zhou, I have also prepared some parts for you that are easy to wear. You have to put some oil on the connecting parts frequently, so that you can save effort when using them."

Zhou Jia and Li Yu looked at it again and said to Blacksmith Xu: "Okay, you should think carefully about what you do."

"Where, leave all your things to me. Of course, we have to do a good job so that we can cooperate for a long time. There is another thing. After you and Miss Li left last time, an old man came to ask if you were from Qingzhou. The one who came over said that Miss Li seemed like his niece, and asked where you lived but I didn’t tell him.”

Li Yu shook his head and said, "I don't have any uncles or relatives in my family. Maybe he made a mistake."

"That's good. I saw his eyes flickering and thought he was unreliable, so I let him go."

Everyone was busy for most of an hour, installing all ten threshing machines, taking them to Zhuangzi and putting them in the warehouse.

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed. After picking the puhuang, Fengming Village turned into a golden field. The golden ears of wheat swayed in the wind, setting off waves of golden wheat waves.

Li Yu's workshop also stopped working, letting the female workers go home to harvest wheat.

Taking advantage of the good weather, all the men, women, and children in the village came on stage and hurried home to harvest wheat.

Li Yu's family's oxcarts were pulling wheat into the village one after another. Agou and Alei's children were also busy in the drying area, helping the adults unload the wheat from the oxcart and spread it out in rows to dry in the sun. In the field, you must also pay attention to weather changes at all times. When you find that the weather is not right, you must put the wheat into the warehouse in time to avoid being damaged by the rain.

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