The favorite of the royal group: the money-loving little ancestor soared to the top by selling talis

Chapter 109 Chapter 109: He dare not leave it to others (3 updates, please recommend and vote monthly)
Since the corn and rice sprouted, Cheng Er came to the fields five times a day, even though it rained lightly for the past three days.

In the early morning of the fifth day, Butler He told him that the sweet potatoes and potatoes sprouted in the big kitchen. He was so happy that he skipped breakfast and went to the big kitchen.

Checking the sprouting status of sweet potatoes and potatoes in ten bamboo baskets, he calculated the sprouting rate.

After about three days, all sweet potatoes and potatoes will sprout.

Cheng Er drew a picture of the sprouting of sweet potatoes and potatoes in the record book. When he returned to the wing, he wrote two letters to the Shen family and the Cheng family. This was the third time he sent letters.

Another five days passed and it was cloudy.

All fifty kilograms of sweet potatoes had sprouted and were growing well. Cheng Er asked twenty farmers to carry five baskets of sweet potatoes to the dry land for sowing and raising seedlings.

Now we are raising seedlings, so sowing seeds will be relatively simple, using sandy soil, facing the sun, and not being blocked by a tree around.

Fifty kilograms of sweet potatoes, only fifty sweet potatoes, the average one is one kilogram.

It took twenty farmers an hour to complete the planting, using only one acre of dry land to raise seedlings.

The next day, the potatoes will be sown.

Early in the morning, Cheng Er used a new kitchen knife to boil hot water for a quarter of an hour. After letting it cool, he began to cut the potatoes into cubes.

According to the method recorded by his eldest nephew before, he cut a potato into four small pieces, and each small piece had more than two sprouts.

Twenty farmers were helping him, such as bringing potatoes to him, such as cutting potatoes into pieces, sticking plant ash on the cut surfaces, and placing them flat on large dustpans.

Soon there were more than a dozen dustpans filled.

Cheng Er didn't stop until he was tired. He only rested for half a cup of tea and continued cutting potatoes.

He didn't dare leave this job to others.

The potato seeds only weigh fifty pounds, and they are very precious to him.

Fifty pounds of potatoes only have forty or fifty potatoes, which are not many. One potato is one pound.

After working all morning, Cheng Er was so tired that he went to sleep for an hour.

As soon as he woke up, he hurried to the dry land and asked twenty farmers to move the potato pieces here.

Cheng Er took a shovel and dug a small pit. The distance between plants was two inches, the distance between rows was two inches, and the depth was about one inch.

He took the potato pieces and placed them in a small pit with the buds facing upwards. Then he used his hands to spread a little sand to cover them to a depth of about an inch (fifteen centimeters).

After twenty farmers learned it, they followed Cheng Er's method. One person dug a small pit, one placed potato cubes, and another filled the soil.

It took about an hour to finish working on ten acres of land.

The third day was cloudy.

On the fourth day, it rained lightly.

On the fifth day, it rained moderately.

On the sixth day, it rained lightly.

Just when Cheng Er was worried about the situation of sweet potatoes and potatoes, it was cloudy on the seventh day and sunny on the eighth day.

For three days in a row, he was stopped by his followers from going to the fields. On the seventh day, it stopped raining. He rushed to the dry land and saw the potato and sweet potato fields without water, and he let go of his worries.

Both crops like drought. Once water accumulates, roots and fruits will rot.

Cheng Er went down to the field ridge to carefully check the development of the sweet potato seedlings, and found that the sweet potato seedlings were already as long as an arm.

It seems that the dry land here is very fertile.

He ran to the potato field to check the potato seedlings again, and found that all the potato seedlings had grown into the soil.

These data were recorded in the record book one by one. After finishing his work, he went to the cornfield again.

It has been fifteen days since the corn was sown. The corn seedlings have grown into corn stalks half a meter high, and the leaves have grown from two to seven.

Plant ash was applied once seven days ago, and some cow dung and dead branches and leaves were also applied as base fertilizer before sowing.

Tomorrow there will be another watering of manure, and about seven days later, another top dressing of fermented cow manure will be applied. Cheng Er rushed to the wetland where the rice seedlings were raised. After fifteen days of growth, the rice seedlings were already more than ten centimeters tall. After another fifteen days or so, they could be transplanted to the paddy fields.

During this period, the rice seedlings were also applied with plant ash once, and plant ash and cow dung were applied again in the remaining half a month to provide enough nutrients for the rice seedlings to grow.

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In the blink of an eye, half a month passed.

The rice seedlings have been growing for thirty days, and are already more than twenty centimeters tall. They are green, particularly strong and lush.

Cheng Er immediately asked twenty farmers to transplant seedlings into the paddy fields. He even rolled up his sleeves and trousers and went down to the paddy fields himself.

He held a large handful of green seedlings in his hand, and inserted two or three seedlings into a hole.

Once, twice, three times...

After a short while, several rows of neatly arranged seedlings appeared under his feet.

Twenty farmers were divided into five groups, each planting rice seedlings in five acres of paddy fields.

They didn't dare to be too quick and careless. When the speed of transplanting was slowed down, the results were particularly neat.

Cheng Er felt happy when he saw how well they handled the rice seedlings.

In fact, he has not scolded them once in the month since he arrived at Zhuangzi.

In addition to his good temper, the more important thing is that they are serious and responsible in their work.

In fact, they are very smart and have strong learning ability. Sometimes they can think of things that he has not thought of and have the courage to tell him.

For this reason, he also rewarded three servants with five taels of silver each.

After working hard all afternoon, I finally transplanted the seedlings into the paddy field.

It takes five to seven days for the seedlings to slow down. This period of time is particularly critical, as the water in the field cannot submerge the seedlings.

Fortunately, it only rained lightly these past few days.

Cheng Er went to the fields every day to check four crops, and his originally fair skin turned darker.

Seeing the seedling slow down and grow another leaf, he was happier than when he saw his wife Liu in Zhuangzi.

The couple stayed in Zhuangzi for a day, but Cheng Er couldn't bear it anymore and ran into the fields again.

Mrs. Liu was not unhappy, and even went over to bring him tea and an umbrella.

And praise him from time to time. After all, he has paid a lot in this month and seven days.

Liu stayed in Zhuangzi for five days and cooked meals for Cheng Er for five days, which made him feel homesick.

I miss my parents and my children.

"If you can work with peace of mind and achieve this great achievement after a short separation, then you will be the honor of the whole family and the glory of the whole clan.

When the children take a bath, I will ask them to stay with you for a day or two. " Mrs. Liu comforted him.

"Okay." Cheng Er felt warm in his heart. He was lucky to be able to marry Mr. Liu in this life.

How would he know that several people would come to visit him every few days in the next few days.

This time it was the three sons, the second time it was the sister who brought her parents, the third time it was the brother-in-law who brought Shen Zhiyuan's six siblings, the fourth time it was the eldest brother's family, and the fifth time it was the third brother's family.

They also use various reasons for leaving the city, such as burning incense and worshiping Buddha, donating money for incense, asking for fortune-telling and talismans at Taoist temples, going to Zhuangzi to enjoy farmhouse entertainment...

It only takes twenty days for sweet potato seedlings to be transplanted to dry land.

Sweet potato fields have higher and deeper ridges than potato fields because the fruits are larger and longer.

Cheng Er personally demonstrated to twenty farmers how to pick sweet potato seedlings, with four to five leaves divided into sections, and lay them flatly on the dustpan.

Then he stood on the ridge of the field and observed their work. After a quarter of an hour, when no problems were found, he took a bundle of sweet potato seedlings and went to the dry land nearby to prepare for transplantation.