The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

After the Qingming Festival, a few muffled thunders occasionally came from the sky, but every time there was no thunder but no rain, which made everyone happy in vain.

Most of the water in the reservoirs at Li Yu's house was used up. Liu Changmin and Xiao An drove the ox cart and began to go to the river to pull water home and pour it into the reservoirs.

Some of the villagers also followed the example of Li Yu's family and began to dig ponds to carry water from the river and pour it into the ponds to store water. Some started to carry water and pour it into the rice fields in preparation for planting rice in April.

Li Yu invited butcher He to come to his house and kill the two pigs. The pork belly was cut into small cubes, marinated with aniseed, fried with suet and a small amount of rapeseed oil, and put into a jar with the oil and meat. Seal it.

The ribs and lean meat are marinated, steamed and grilled into jerky and the ribs are dried and stored.

The rapeseed flowers in the field are already in full bloom, and the golden rapeseed flowers emit bursts of sweet fragrance, attracting swarms of bees flying and busy among the flowers.

The wheat seedlings have also begun to tiller and grow. Li Yu, Liu Changmin, and Xiao An began to topdress the wheat to ensure that the wheat can absorb nutrients in time and prevent the wheat from losing fertilizer and premature aging, causing the wheat grains to decrease and reduce the yield.

Zhou Jia took some salt and sugar to Li Yu's house, and said to Li Yu with some worry: "Xiaoyu, the weather has been dry like this, no one dares to spend casually, and the business in the shop has also plummeted, you let The aunts will stop working after finishing today's work and wait until we notify them to start work. Also, these salts are distributed by the official salt for sale in the shop. If the shop is not sold out, you can save them. You can pack them up and put them away. If the weather continues to be dry like this, I think it will be difficult for this year's harvest. I have already informed the tenants that I will not charge rent this year except for the grain that is taxed."

Zhou Jiaxu was talking nonchalantly. Seeing his worried look, Li Yu pretended to smile briskly, "So you are a kind-hearted landlord, not Zhou Papi."

"Who is Zhou Bapi?" Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu's smiling face and suddenly understood. He concluded that the words were not good, and threatened Li Yu with bared teeth and claws, "Okay! How dare you say that I am Zhou Bapi, how dare you talk to your husband?" If you don’t respect me, let’s see how I deal with you.”

Li Yu smiled and told the story about Zhou Bapi learning to crow in the middle of the night. He looked at Zhou Jia and said with a smile, "Look, I praised you as a good person, not Zhou Bapi." "

After the two were playing around, Zhou Jia felt that he was not so worried anymore and began to tell Li Yu about the situation in the city, "Xiaoyu, some big families in the city have started to store water, grain and salt, and a few others have already started To prepare for their escape, Xia Tao and his aunt are ready to wait until the end of the month and leave for the capital if it still doesn’t rain."

Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia, "Zhou Jia, after the rapeseed and wheat are harvested, if it hasn't rained yet, do you plan to leave?"

Zhou Jia thought for a while and said, "I haven't thought about leaving here and going somewhere else unless I have to. What do you think?"

Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia, nodded with a smile and said, "Me too, I haven't thought about going anywhere else."

Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu, gently touched his forehead with Li Yu's, and whispered softly, "Yu'er, I'm not afraid of wherever I go with you."

Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia and whispered, "You are not afraid, and I am not afraid either."

The two had a conversation, and when Li Yu sent Zhou Jia to the door, Zhou Jia remembered that he had forgotten to tell Li Yu about the arrows. Zhou Jia whispered to Li Yu: "I have already made the arrows. I bought two daggers for you and Ah Qing that are easy to carry around, and I will bring them to you in two days."

Li Yu nodded with a smile and watched Zhou Jia get on the mule cart and pull the goods away. Then he returned home, picked up paper and pen and drew two pictures, one was a crossbow, and the other was a picture of a sleeve arrow, driving cattle The car went to the blacksmith shop in the town.

Li Yu arrived at the blacksmith shop. The blacksmith was making a long knife. He turned around and saw Li Yu smiling and said, "Miss Li, what do you want to do today?"

Li Yu took out the drawing and handed it to the blacksmith, "Uncle, I have something to show you. Can you see if you can make it?"

The blacksmith took the drawing and said, "Let me see what kind of rare thing it is."

The blacksmith looked at the drawing in his hand and was stunned. He looked around and whispered: "Girl, your things are so exquisite. Where did you come from? But don't let the people in the yamen know. The purpose of making these things is to be exiled." of."

Li Yu looked at the blacksmith and smiled slightly: "Uncle, I came to you because I knew you were a good man. I want to make a crossbow and three sleeve arrows. Please help me make more arrows. Tell me if you can make them." These two things, right?”

"Alas!" the blacksmith sighed, "Girl, I'm dissatisfied with you saying that I haven't touched these things for many years. Hand crossbows cost forty taels each, and sleeve arrows and arrows cost thirty taels of silver each. You want me I’ll type it out for you and you can pick it up in ten days.”

Li Yu nodded, "The price is no problem. I'll pick it up in ten days. Thank you very much, Uncle Blacksmith." Li Yu gave half of the deposit and returned home.

In early April, the villagers carried water from the river to the shore and sowed the grain seeds.

Ten days later, Li Yu went to the town to retrieve the hand crossbow and sleeve arrows and went to the forest alone. He pointed the hand crossbow at the tree trunk. After trying it several times, he felt that the accuracy was good. He tied the sleeve arrow to his arm and found another. The mark was carved on the tree, the butterfly piece was touched, and the arrows in the sleeves were activated. After the arrows were shot out like lightning, they hit the spot marked by Li Yu. Li Yu hid the crossbow and arrows in the space with satisfaction.

At the end of April, the rapeseed leaves have begun to wither and turn yellow, the color of the rapeseed clips has begun to turn light green, and the wheat ears have begun to fill. Li Yu estimates that the rapeseed can be harvested in early May, and the wheat can be harvested in mid-May.

When the rapeseed was ripe, Li Yu hired Chen Yaohui and his wife, as well as several other neat men and women in the village. It took four or five days to cut the rapeseed and dry it on the sun mat. inside.

When the rapeseed was beaten, Li Yu found that the yield per mu was very small, only more than 200 kilograms. Li Yu put the rapeseed into the warehouse and began to harvest winter wheat.

The villagers stood on the field ridge and were envious as they looked at Li Yu's more than 20 acres of golden wheat. Everyone was thinking about planting some wheat this winter.

It took more than a dozen people four or five days to harvest the wheat and bring it home. It took several more days to dry it in the sun before starting to thresh it.

When the wheat grains were dried and packed into warehouses, Li Yu weighed them and found that one acre of field yielded only about 500 kilograms. However, the villagers praised Li Yu's wheat harvest for its good harvest and even asked her for advice on how to grow wheat.

Li Yu told everyone his planting and farming methods, and everyone sighed: "With such meticulous care, no wonder the harvest is good."

Mrs. Li also smiled and echoed: "At the beginning, I was also saying that Xiaoyu's farming was so precise and I didn't know how the harvest would be. It seems that her method is better."

Everyone was discussing lively there how to plant winter wheat this winter and which land to plant it on, temporarily forgetting the trouble of drought and no rain.

Suddenly, Mrs. Qian pointed to the Daqing Mountain and screamed, "Look, what is that dark patch in the sky over the Da Qing Mountain, like a black cloud?"

The village chief looked at it carefully for a while and then shouted out loud, "Oh my God! The locusts are coming, and they won't give us a way to survive!"

The village chief shouted in panic and ran outside the courtyard, "The locusts are coming, the locusts are coming, go and invite the Locust God."