The Green Lotus Peasant Girl

Chapter 58: spring plowing

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No one from the Yang family came to measure, but the village head.

Hearing that it was the Yang family, Li Qinghe was surprised. She was actually not familiar with the Yang family, and the only person she knew and understood was Yang Lanrou.

"That piece of land is not as good as yours." The village chief lowered his voice, "But in this village, it is considered a relatively good barren slope."

Yes, the Yang family's side is already considered a slope.

The side Li Qinghe measured earlier is a flat area, and the past point is a slope, and the large slope is covered with bamboo forests. Bamboo is not so easy to uproot. It can grow branches and vines for a long distance. This is Li Qinghe. In the field where the chickens are raised, bamboo has also grown here and there.

"We will be neighbors from now on, get along well." Before leaving, the village head left such a sentence.

To be honest, Li Qinghe really didn't think about the relationship between the two families. Her house is far away from the Yang family's land, and the acre of land between her house is a desolate forest for raising chickens. Don't go by yourself.

It's spring plowing now, and Li Qinghe is very busy here, so he can't take care of the Yang family. She and Zhou Chengkang went to the town to buy seeds again. They still planted barley like last year. It is worth mentioning that there is a new kind of sweet potato in the seed shop this year.

It was long and dark, Li Qinghe's eyes lit up when he saw it, and asked the guy, "What kind of thing is this?"

The man glanced at it and hurriedly said, "Just bury it in the ground. I heard that the yield per mu is very high. Do you want it?"

His attitude was a bit wrong, Li Qinghe looked at him suspiciously, under normal circumstances, many people in the Wang village did not buy seeds, they kept them for themselves, because she didn't have seeds at first, and this year there was more land, so it was only in the past two years Want to buy.

Farmers usually don't buy seeds if there are no accidents, but whether they are grain shops or seed shops, they like to ignore ordinary farmers. After all, they are poor at first glance and can't buy anything.

His attitude is so enthusiastic at the moment, there should be something inside.

Li Qinghe asked curiously, "Anything to say?"

The man glanced at the inner room and said in a low voice, "This new seed is a quota given by the county seat. Each shop must sell five hundred catties, but I heard that this stuff was in the next county town last year... If you buy it, I will buy it." It’s cheaper for you, normally five cents per catty, I’ll give you three cents. How much land do you have, I’ll help you figure it out.”

Li Qinghe tentatively said, "Two acres."

The guy was a little surprised, "This thing is very heavy, and it might not be enough for you to take all the five hundred catties back."

Li Qinghe thought for a while and said, "Thirty catties."

The buddy understood that it was taken back and tried to grow it, and without saying much, he helped her pack it neatly. The two of them loaded the wheat seeds into the carriage, bought some meat, and then went home.

He also brought a few people from the village with him along the way. Zhou Chengkang didn't ask for their copper coins, so he took it as a help. The sweet potato was pressed at the bottom, but no one saw it.

"What are you buying this for?" Zhou Chengkang pointed to the bag of sweet potatoes, "Do you want to try growing them?"

Li Qinghe laughed, "Is it too late to ask now?" If you don't want to plant, don't you just ask when you are in the shop

Zhou Chengkang took a small one and opened it, revealing the reddish white meat inside, "Anyway, you want to buy it, I think this one is probably still edible."

In fact, he has seen this and knows how to eat it. Someone in the village did plant it in his previous life, but there are too many seeds for this flower. Basically, he can harvest 200 catties of seeds for 100 catties, which is good luck. So she wanted to buy it, but he didn't stop her, so she could just eat it by herself.

Li Qinghe laughed loudly, approached him mysteriously and said, "I will plant this."

She got closer, and her hot breath reached Zhou Chengkang's ears, blowing him distractedly, and said quickly, "Ma'am, what's wrong with this, just say something, and I promise to make it right for you."

It took the two of them half a day to bury the pile of sweet potatoes in the ground, line them up one by one and cover them with soil. When Zhou Chengkang saw it, he couldn't help but said, "We have so much land, it's still wasteland. We're not afraid of wasting it. Why do you squeeze it together?"

Li Qinghe smiled and shook his head, "I'll talk about it later."

The two were busy with spring plowing. When they were looking for someone to clean up the land this year, Li Qinghe asked them to take out a wide and narrow line, leaving a path for about two feet. The kind of big difference that other people sprinkle, it seems like a waste of land.

Although some people think this is a waste, they don't bother to say that it is a wasteland. Besides, Li Qinghe didn't know how to farm, so couldn't Zhou Chengkang

A few days later, after the wheat was planted, the Yang family was already dealing with their wasteland. They don't have anyone who knows how to farm, so they still hire people. Unlike Li Qinghe, their family owes wages for hiring people, saying that wages are paid after the autumn harvest.

Li Qinghe invited one person for fifteen Wen a day, and one meal at noon. Yang's family had no lunch, but they gave him twenty-five Wen a day. The wages can be said to be very generous, and there are many people working. More than 20 people came at once, and within a few days, all five acres of wasteland were cleaned up.

Now the village looks at the original piece of wild grass. First, there is a large piece of flat land here, with Li Qinghe's house in the middle, and then looking outside the village, you will find a piece of wild grass mixed in the middle, and then there is another large piece of grass. Flat land with a slope. If you ignore the weedy field left in the middle to raise chickens, it will be much better than the original barren one.

The Yang family's fields were also sprinkled with barley. It is worth mentioning that the Yang family is already looking for someone to move the green bricks here, and it seems that they are going to build a house. Moreover, their family also built a courtyard wall at the boundary between the two families, leaving only one road at the outermost place.

It would be nice to have a courtyard wall. Originally, Li Qinghe's side close to Yang's house was all wasteland used to raise chickens. She asked Li Kui and the others to help them weave bamboo strips to block it, but now there is a high courtyard wall to block it. Of course better.

As for the original intention of the Yang family to repair the courtyard wall, who cares, Li Qinghe didn't intend to have close contact with the Yang family anyway.

After the seeds were planted back and forth, it was already early February. Everything is recovering, and the weather is gradually warming up.

The sweet potatoes planted by Li Qinghe earlier had grown lush and lush. After seeing it, she started to pinch the roots, and then asked Zhou Chengkang to plant them together.

Looking at the pinched seedlings, they really didn't even have a root. Zhou Chengkang dug a hole with a hoe, hesitant to speak a few times, his expression hard to describe.

Can this live

That seedling, it's almost the same for cooking.

Except for the vegetable field, all the fields of the two of them have been planted with barley, and the holes dug now are all trails that were originally reserved for walking. It is equivalent to being planted in the range of barley.

Li Qinghe saw his expression, "Do you think our efforts are wasted?"

Zhou Chengkang wanted to nod, but he was afraid of hurting her, so he tentatively said, "This doesn't even have a root..." In his previous life, he knew that someone in the village planted this, so it was really not worthwhile, but he had never seen this kind of planting method.

Li Qinghe squatted on the ground and pressed the sweet potato seedlings into the dug hole, "It will take two days to root."

The two of them had been busy for nearly half a month before they planted all the trails left over. During the period, they took a break for two days because they did not grow.

It's the end of February. After the spring planting, the villagers start chopping firewood more diligently, or go to the town to find part-time workers, but Li Qinghe is busy raising pigs again. Pork can be eaten and sold, but the most important thing is pig manure, which is the only one to fertilize the land at the moment.

She wanted to raise pigs, but she didn't even have a pigsty, so she started making bricks again. This pigsty is different from building this house. Green bricks are used to build a house, but the green bricks are too expensive, so the pigsty cannot afford them. Generally, earth bricks are used. This takes some effort and does not cost money to buy.

The land of the Li family was really planted by Li Fu himself this year, and Mrs. Qian has been lying down all this time, not going to help sow the seeds.

Occasionally, Yu Yan would come over to talk to her, and said that Qian Shi would lie down all day, let alone go to the ground, because she didn't even cook food, and when Li Fu returned from work, most of them would be boiled for a bite, and Qian Shi would eat that, She can actually get used to it. Recently, after being busy in the field, it is said that her father has learned how to cook.

Her illness is not over yet.

Li Qinghe didn't know if Li Fu was annoying or not, but she was willing to accommodate Qian's because she and her father lived a good life, helping him with cooking and washing, and someone asked him when it was cold or hot. Now that she doesn't think about it, there are many ways to do it.

Li Qinghe asked Zhou Chengkang to invite Li Fu to come over and help him make the pigsty, starting with making clay bricks.

Li Fuben felt sorry for not being able to help his daughter because he was too busy. Now that he was done working in the field, he happened to go here to invite him. He changed his clothes and came over the next day. When Zhou Chengkang went earlier, he specially asked him to have breakfast When you come here to eat, it will be prepared in advance.

When Li Fu arrived, the thick porridge had already been boiled, and it was delivered to him steaming hot. There were also two plates of delicious side dishes. After eating, he began to work. There are meat, vegetables and soup, all of which are hot and taste good. It is indeed my daughter's handicraft.

It's delicious, and I couldn't help but ask, "Would it be too expensive?"

Li Qinghe smiled, "No, it's not a pity to eat." Anyway, Li Fu doesn't need wages, and she can still afford to eat.

Li Fu didn't speak anymore, but he swung his hands more roundly when he was breaking the clay bricks.

In the evening, the food was still as good. Li Fu felt quite comfortable. He must have been a little tired, but he ate comfortably. The farmer worked so hard to eat well.

He works here. In contrast, Qian's family is...

She slept too much during the day, and she couldn't fall asleep at night, and she fell asleep only after dawn. When I woke up, it was already bright outside, and there was no one at home, but the chickens in the backyard were so hungry that they couldn't sleep because they barked hard.

She listened carefully to the movement in the kitchen. After listening for a while, it didn't look like anyone was there. Not only the kitchen, but also the front and back yards of the house seemed to be empty. She closed her eyes again. There was no one at home, so she must have gone out.

She looked at the sunlight outside the window. At this hour, it was time to come back and make breakfast, so she closed her eyes again.

She couldn't fall asleep either. She didn't know how long it had passed. Seeing the sun getting higher and higher, it seemed like it was time for lunch.

Thinking that Li Fu would come back to make lunch anyway, he kept his ears open to listen to the movement outside, but after waiting for a long time, the sun began to set, and there was no movement outside, and the chickens in the backyard seemed to fly out.

Qian couldn't sleep anymore, so she sat up, and now she really felt a little pain in her stomach, she was hungry!