The three of them went back home. On the way, Lian Che was still very excited, chattering non-stop with Lian Fangzhou with sparkling eyes, Lian Fangzhou listened with a smile, and inevitably taught him some things.
On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, all the doors and windows on the side of the compound were installed.
Seeing, the weather is getting warmer day by day.
Although the north wind is still blowing, although the temperature of the sun is still not high, although there is still no fresh green when looking around, but the biting cold is no longer there. It belongs to the publicity and vitality of the new vitality.
The footsteps of spring are already very close, and the feeling can't be deceived. The farmers are all busy.
Regardless of whether last year's harvest was good or bad, with new hopes for the new year, every household is full of energy and energy, striving for a bumper harvest.
Even the Fangzhou Project, Shitouping and Sanchakou should be tidied up.
First, he hired twelve oxen and two of his own to plow all the land.
These lands had just been reclaimed and sorted out years ago, so plowing the land this time was much easier and faster, and it took less than two days.
Soaked by snow water, and a lot of plant ash mixed in the ground after being burned, the soil is actually very fertile. Qin Feng and Su Ziji saw it and said it was a good place, even Fangzhou thought so.
In order to minimize the damage caused by weeds in spring, Lian Fangzhou asked Qin Feng and Su Ziji to go to the pharmacy to buy a lot of tripterygium wilfordii, and also bought a lot of quicklime in the market. Tripterygium wilfordii is soaked in water, and quicklime is dried directly, both of which are used to scatter on the ground to kill weed seeds and insect eggs.
The vitality of weeds is very strong. Although burning the wasteland can burn part of it, and then carefully tidying up the land will destroy most of the roots that are entangled, but this is after all a new land that has never been cultivated. Do a few more trips, and when cotton is planted in the future, the weeding alone will be exhausting.
This year the weather is extremely cold and there has been another heavy snowfall. Lian Fangzhou already feels very lucky.
Lian Fangzhou explained and explained with Su Ziji again, and Su Ziji made a sprayer after a lot of tossing and improvement. The body is made of thin tin skin, the nozzle is made of brass, and the hose is made of cowhide, which is very easy to use.
After the thing was finished, Lian Fangzhou and Su Ziji admired each other. Lian Fangzhou completely believed in his ingenuity and ingenuity, while Su Ziji was amazed by her whimsical ideas, and asked her with great interest if there were any other wonderful things she wanted to make by herself
Lian Fangzhou smiled and said, "I'll buy two spinning wheels and looms in a while. You should study and think about it carefully. There will naturally be more important things to do in the future!"
Su Ziji smiled happily and agreed.
It was enough for You Qinfeng and Su Ziji to lead eleven servants to do the spraying and lime spreading, so Lian Fangzhou didn't hire any more.
The fruit saplings on Xiaohuaguo Mountain are about to be transplanted.
After transplanting at this time, when the spring breeze and spring rain arrive, the saplings will quickly take root and sprout. If you wait until the sprouts are transplanted, it will not be as good as it is now.
From the tree stumps that were planted earlier, buds covered with pale gray skins can already be seen emerging. Just wait for a gust of spring breeze to blow, these buds will emerge a little bit of new green overnight.
The first to be transplanted were the more than 2,000 persimmon saplings brought back by the gardener in the city.
Lian Fangzhou, Lian Ze, and A Jian drove all the saplings back in a donkey cart. Four of his own siblings, A Jian all joined the battle, and Zhang Xiaojun, Zhang Liang, Zhang Xiuer, and Sun Changxing invited Zhang Aunt Li Shu and Li Sanhe spent almost three days planting all the plants.
Because the tree pits were dug beforehand, it saved a lot of work.
Looking at the large fruit trees, Sun's heart moved, and she smiled and said to Lian Fangzhou: "Miss Lian, there is a big open space around our house on the top of the mountain. Do you want to plant some bamboo? It will take more than three months to plant it now." You can eat bamboo shoots!"
Lian Fangzhou laughed and said, "You reminded me that I should plant some bamboo, but the open space around the house cannot be planted. The open space is for building a house. Just plant a few around the edge!"
It is quite good to imagine the scene of green bamboos and cool breeze in the future.
Lian Fangzhou took Sun and his wife up to the top of the mountain, pointed out a few places to plant, and said with a smile, "Let's plant Nanzhu. The bamboo grows tall and the bamboo shoots taste good!"
"Okay!" Sun said with a smile: "Miss Lian, don't worry, we'll go dig it up and plant it in these two days!"
In the blink of an eye, it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and there was a lantern festival every year in the city, but almost no country people would think about watching this excitement.
It's so far away from home, how can I go home after watching the lanterns
After this festival, eat glutinous rice balls.
Early in the morning, Sangu's grandma asked Ah Jian to help grind the flour to make glutinous rice balls. Because the compound had to send some over there, Lian Fangzhou was afraid that Ah Jian would be tired, so he originally planned to go to the city to buy rice noodles. Ah Jian smiled and said it's okay, she easily ground all the rice noodles she needed in less than an hour.
A total of several fillings were adjusted, red bean paste, sesame white sugar, peanut foam white sugar, sweet-scented osmanthus white sugar, each of which was made better.
After this day, it will be regarded as the official end of the New Year, and the busy spring plowing has begun.
On the 16th day, after breakfast, Lian Fangzhou, A Jian, and Lian Ze went to the Lin family's orchard to move fruit saplings. Nearly 2,000 fruit trees of various kinds over there should also be planted.
When Lian Fangqing heard about going there, she clamored to play with Lin Zaoer, and Lian Fangzhou simply took her and Lian Che away.
More than 2,000 acres of land have already been sprayed with self-made herbicides and insecticides, so Qin Feng and Su Ziji led the people to start rectifying the more than 60 acres of paddy fields.
Plowing fields, dredging canals, trimming field ridges, picking and spreading manure are non-stop. The few acres that have been sprinkled with zi vetch will not be plowed for the time being, and will be plowed later when the fields are about to be planted, so that the zi vetch will have enough time to grow again.
In the surrounding fields, there are busy figures of every household. From time to time, you can hear the yelling of whipping and driving cattle.
Seeing the busy figures of Qin Feng and others, all of them are strong laborers, quick and orderly in doing things, they can't help but envy and sigh.
"Fangzhou is really good. I'm living like a little landlord!"
"No, it's both fields and land, and there are so many servants around! Alas, we people, I'm afraid we will never be able to compare with others in our whole life!"
"Why don't you have good relatives!"
"If you have good relatives, you have to be generous and willing to help!"
"Fangzhou's life is good, and those sisters and sisters are all good!"
"..."
Everyone was discussing and sighing, and they had to talk about Lian Liqiao and his wife again, laughing at them for not knowing how to enjoy life. If it wasn't for being too domineering and narrow-minded at the beginning, insisting on making the relationship between the two families such a mess, they would be in the spotlight now!
However, their son is really good. Even though he is a scholar, he is quite courageous. He even dared to go door to door and ask people to go to him that night when the wolf came! Alas, why is Lian Hai the son of such a couple!
Some of these words reached Lian Liqiao's ears, and some didn't. Lian Li sneered, remorseful and aggrieved in his heart, but Qiao was so angry that he cursed at home, after all, he didn't dare to find fault with Lian's family.