Is my wife farming today?

Chapter 183 The Originator of Rice
Dugu Xi looked at him slightly and was about to speak when a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Why are you standing here? Have you dug any wild vegetables?" Xu Boyan came over with a pile of dry firewood in his arms. He refused to look away and quickly replied: "Not yet, I'm about to go."

"Okay, then you guys hurry up and I'll go back and light the fire first."

The ambiguous atmosphere is fleeting.

After being interrupted suddenly by Xu Boyan, Xie Xie and Dugu Xiwei tacitly understood each other and did not continue the topic.

But Qingzhu kept catching her and asking, "Why? You haven't said anything yet?"

He refused and pushed him away, "Go dig wild vegetables! If you don't dig enough of this bamboo basket, you won't be allowed to eat tonight!"

"Smelly woman! You know how to command me! Why don't you dare to command the beautiful brother?" Qingzhu glared back at her with his hands on his hips.

Xie refused and narrowed his eyes, "I don't dare to call him?"

"That's right! You just don't dare!"

Seeing the two of them bickering, Dugu Xiwei didn't say anything, but just picked up the bamboo basket on the ground and walked forward.

Seeing there was no movement behind him, he called out, "Qingzhu."

"Hey! Beauty brother, I'll go with you!" Qingzhu happily chased after her, not forgetting to stick out her tongue in refusal.

When both of them were far away, he declined and snorted unwillingly.

She thought to herself: She really didn't dare to do anything to Dugu Xiwei. This girl is just an ancestor. A few words about him would be like a blast of freezing light. If she really marries him back home in the future...

I declined and shuddered. Wouldn't it mean that I have to live in an ice cellar all year round?

Dugu Xiwei walked towards the south woods with the green bamboo. She picked up the hoe and walked in the opposite direction, hoping to get some water back.

But what to wear?
The water in the stream is crystal clear, and if you look closely, you can see a few small black and gray fish swimming in the water.

The fish is a bit small, which is a pity.

Eh!
Suddenly, a gray-skinned frog poked out from the depths of the grass and jumped into the water with a splash. He was overjoyed and quickly rolled up his sleeves, grabbed it by the soles of its feet, and captured it.

Great, it looks like there is some meat to eat tonight!
I refused to crawl into the grass. I wanted to catch a few more frogs, but I unexpectedly discovered that there were many green and gray-green frogs flapping along the grassy banks along the stream.

After she caught about ten of them, she found that she couldn't hold them anymore.

When he looked up, he saw that there were still figures of Qingzhu and the two in his field of vision, so he had to walk back first, thinking that it would not be too late to come back after sending them back.

"Sister, why did you catch so many frogs?"

In front of the fire, Gongsun Meng greeted her in a familiar manner. He stretched out his hand to take the frog in her hand. He declined and looked around, but Xu Boyan was nowhere to be seen. He couldn't help but ask: "Where is my senior brother?"

"Master Xu said to bring some rocks to speculate on... what to speculate on, I didn't hear clearly."

Oh, my senior brother has always been very picky. He has been eating so much in the past two days that he must not be able to bear it anymore and wants to cook his own food.

Fortunately, when he left Xie's Mansion, Xie Jue specially thought of bringing the homemade iron pot from the small kitchen. Otherwise, this place was in the wilderness, and even if he found the ingredients, he wouldn't be able to cook it.

Decline handed over the frog in his hand. "Ah!" Unexpectedly, as soon as Gongsun Meng touched the smooth long legs of the frog, he was so frightened that his hands shook and threw it out. He refused and shouted anxiously, "Why did you throw it away? This is our dinner in the evening. !”

Gongsun Meng shook his arm, trying to get rid of the remaining slippery touch between his fingers, but he still couldn't overcome the fear of this thing in his heart. She had been raised in her boudoir since she was a child. She had never seen these things before, so she refused and said she would like more tonight. Eating this made me feel sick for a moment.

"Can this thing be eaten?"

He refused to look at it, "Why not? It's delicious!"

Just as she was speaking, Gongsun Meng suddenly looked behind her, his eyes changed, and he hurried out as if his face changed.

"Master, let me get it for you." She said to Dugu Xiwei enthusiastically.

Dugu Xiwei did not agree. Instead, she walked over to Xie Xie and handed the unknown wild vegetables in the bamboo basket forward, "Qingzhu and I don't know each other. Can you see if these are edible?"

Xie Xie looked around and said, "It's okay, there is something edible." Then he asked Qingzhu to pile wild vegetables on the ground and put the frogs in bamboo baskets.

Not long after, Xu Boyan commanded the Gongsun family's servants to move the rocks back with a relaxed look.

"Okay, put down the slate." He clapped his hands and was about to check the harvest of the three people. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of the frog jumping alive in the bamboo basket. Without thinking, he knew that he refused to catch it.

Then he happily asked: "Where did you catch it?"

He declined: "It's the creek you mentioned. Senior brother, can you see if this is enough to eat? If it's not enough, I'll catch some more?"

Xu Boyan paused after hearing this and suddenly remembered something.

His expression became solemn, "Do you still remember that when you first came here, Dr. Yuan took us to the experimental field?"

Xie Rui looked confused, "Remember...why did you suddenly mention this?"

"Then you should also remember that frogs are omnivores and are suitable for amphibious life on waterways. They generally rely on preying on rice pests such as locusts, mole crickets, and beetles."

Speaking of this, she suddenly understood.

"I know! I'll go back and take a look!" As she said that, she quickly ran back to the stream and checked along the direction of the stream. After a while, she found a wild rice field.

Very good!
Originally, there were two roads for them to go to Liangzhou. They could take the water route, which would take them eleven or twelve days at most. However, after studying the Jiyue March Map, Xie Xieke and Xu Boyan unanimously decided to take the dirt road.

For no other reason than the fact that Jiyue Land has a huge amount of food but not much food, and its food production is pitifully small. The reason for this is not something they can figure out by just sitting around and dreaming.

The best thing is to conduct a field trip to see the actual land conditions and planting problems in various places in Jiyue. Only in this way can we prescribe the right medicine and adapt to local conditions.

Xu Boyan had already proposed the idea of ​​planting rice, but she refused to travel across time and stayed in Kyoto with no chance to go out. She didn't know if there was wild rice in Jiyue.

You must know that it is recorded in the "History of Rice Cultivation in China" that wild rice had appeared in China more than 10,000 years ago and took root. However, the wild rice at that time was small and had shriveled grains. At that time, smart farmers discovered its edible properties and simply collected and planted it. Over time, today's large-scale planting was possible.

Although Jiyue Kingdom is an imaginary era and has not really appeared in history, wild rice is the origin of agricultural development, so they have always believed that wild rice must grow on the land of Jiyue.

Unexpectedly, she was found here!

Dr. Yuan, who is used in the transformation, is the one who I would like to thank and pay tribute to the great teacher Yuan Longping. Everyone can substitute it for himself~