kingnovel Chapter 435 92 Rice Ears
Chapter 435 92 Rice Ears
Zhou Guo said, "Although it's a little less now, it will be more next year. Even if I can only plant two mu of land, I can still harvest a lot of seeds. The year after next, I can plant even more. If I keep planting like this, maybe I can plant ten mu of wheat seeds the year after next."
Zhou Gu and the others were stunned. "According to this calculation, it seems that within a few years, a few handfuls of wheat can become baskets of wheat."
Li came out with chicken feed. "She learned that from your grandfather. When your grandfather harvested rice in previous years, he would search the fields first, cut off the strong and large rice ears, dry them on the beams, and save them for seeds next year."
After saying that, he looked at Zhou Guo and said, "But you are counting the years too fast. If you count like this, I will be buried in the ground in a few years."
Zhou Guo disagreed, "Mom, the years seem long when you talk about them, but they actually go by fast. Think about it, this time last year, weren't we still on the road to the north? We were exhausted from traveling every day, and now a year has passed. Isn't that fast?"
Everyone else was stunned when they heard this!
Li said in a daze after a while: "Yes, that was all last year. It's been a year!"
At the beginning, I thought that when the time came, I might not see the sun the next day, so I lived one day at a time. Who knew that we would be able to get through such difficult times. Now that we have settled down, our lives are much better than before. Sometimes when I think about it, it seems like a very distant thing!
Zhou Guo clapped her hands. She was going to check on her seedlings. After that she had to prepare the land, harvest the wheat, and then plant a crop of soybeans. Anyway, the wheat and rice did not need fertilizer, but she could apply some base fertilizer. The land that was carefully cultivated still needed fertilizer.
He hitched a cart to the backyard, loaded it with fertilizer, and then drove the cart to the field.
Zhou Gu followed her. Now he could do the work of tilling the land. As the eldest brother in the family, he should do such work.
Li called from behind, "Don't work too long, it will be dinner soon!"
Zhou Guo waved his hand, "Got it."
It's hot now, and in order to prevent the cows from suffering, they choose to till the land in the morning and evening. The sun is not so strong at this time, and both the people and the cows are relaxed.
Some families with large land and few people had not yet harvested all the wheat in the fields at this time, while others had already gone to work for the two neighboring landlords to earn money. Only a little bit was left at home, which the elderly, the weak, women and children could take back.
Seeing Zhou Guo and his partner preparing the land again, someone said, "My family's wheat hasn't been harvested yet, and you're preparing the land again. Are you going to plant beans? Then I'll plant some, too. Maybe one or two acres. There's no need to prepare the land. I can just dig a hole and throw the seeds in. It's easy."
The people around laughed and said, "You are kidding me. You know whether the beans will grow well or not if you plant them this way. If you cheat the earth, the earth will cheat you too."
"I didn't expect much in the first place, a little bit is enough. Why go through so much trouble? I'm going to be exhausted. As long as I have something to eat and don't starve to death, it's fine."
You can tell from the name that he is a famous lazy guy in the village.
Zhou Guo looked over carefully and saw that he was wearing shabby clothes, as dirty as it could be, especially his hair, which was all tangled and messy. He must have lice, and no one knew how he could survive.
The two men drove the cart away, spread fertilizer on the ground, put on the plow, inserted the plow mouth deeply into the ground, and turned the fertilizer and straw deeply into the ground.
They didn't plan to plant more late-maturing beans. Li only bought five acres of land. As for the rest...
Zhou Guo didn't plan to harvest. All the beans at home were ripe. In autumn, they could be plowed deep into the soil and would become a very good base fertilizer.
It was quite quick to till the five acres of land. The two of them went for a while in the morning and a while in the evening. It only took five days to go back and forth to turn the land over and over again. Although it was not the same as before planting wheat, it was much better than just digging a hole.
The rice has reached the late stage. Now it takes several days to water the fields once. Zhou Guo only needs to check on the fields every day after the water in the fields has dried up naturally.
I watched the rice in the field gradually fill up with grain, grow full, and turn from green to yellow. The leaves also slowly turned yellow...
The wheat in the village has been harvested and brought home. The busy farming season is over, and people finally have the leisure to pay attention to other things.
First of all, there are Zhou Guo’s two acres of paddy fields. It’s been a long time since I last saw them, and I don’t know what they look like now.
It’s really shocking to see this. I wonder when the rice will be ripe.
The rice ears are bent with heavy weight. At a glance, this paddy field is full of such ears, green and yellow. I wonder what a beautiful sight it will be when they turn completely yellow.
Although no one has ever grown rice, can't everyone tell whether the crops are growing well or not?
Everyone was still a little bit incredulous, and a little envious, "It turns out that we can grow rice here, why don't we try planting one or two acres next year, it would be good to plant one or two acres of glutinous rice, so that we don't have to buy it during the New Year and other festivals, and we don't have to exchange it with others."
Everyone nodded. If it is really possible to grow it, it would be fine to give up one or two acres of land at home. There are many foods that can be made from glutinous rice, and it is good to change the taste sometimes throughout the year.
"The yield hasn't come out yet. It won't be too late to talk about it after the yield comes out. I want to see how much grain we can harvest from these two acres of land."
The Zhou family is also paying attention.
Because Zhou Guo was in charge of the land himself, apart from helping with the work, they had never offered any ideas and were very curious about the output.
Not to mention them, even Zhou Guo herself was looking forward to it. After all, this was the field she had been in charge of from land preparation to harvest in her two lifetimes. She didn't know if it was right, and she didn't know if she had done anything wrong.
I planted it very carefully, fearing that something might be wrong.
Fortunately, it was about to be harvested. The grains were long and full, and there were many grains on the ears. She was curious, so she squatted at the edge of the field. She picked up an ear of grain that seemed to be neither too many nor too few and started counting it. She counted it from beginning to end three times and got the same number each time: seventy-six grains!
Seventy-six, what a lucky number!
Seeing this, the other members of the Zhou family also picked up an ear of corn each and started counting them.
"Sixty-two pills!"
"I have a lot of ears, a full ninety-two grains!!"
When number ninety-two came out, Li was stunned!
Others may not know what ninety-two means, but she knows.
In previous years, the rice ears that were tall and had many ears were selected at the beginning of each week for seeds, and they were counted after the harvest. She remembered that there was a highest number in previous years, with 66 grains on one ear!
Old Zhou jumped up excitedly and laughed happily. He said that if such rice seeds were planted in all the fields next year, maybe three stones could be harvested per acre, and the wheat fields could be cleared by then.
Unfortunately, before the rice could be planted, a disaster struck and the entire village headed north.
Ninety-two pills! !