Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 147

These trees are not suitable for planting in saline-alkali land. Xiuyao had already planned to send ten ginkgo trees to her grandfather's house, and keep ten of her own family's official land next to this piece of wasteland. very heavy.

Although the official land stipulates that wheat, millet, and cotton must be planted, as long as you pay enough land rent, no one cares what you actually plant.Moreover, these ginkgo saplings are intercropped in the field, so they can harvest both grain and ginkgo fruit.Moreover, the whole body of the ginkgo tree is a treasure, and the leaves, ginkgo, and bark can all be used as medicine.

As for Chinese tallow tree and tung oil tree, these are Xiuyao's experimental products. Originally, she thought that these two trees might not be available here. After all, they are suitable for growing in southern regions, especially in Sichuan and Hunan.

If the planting is successful, Xiuyao thinks it is earning money, and if it fails and does not survive, she will pay the tuition fee.

She remembered seeing these two crops in Beijing back then. If Beijing can do it, then this place can definitely do it too.

In the nearby Guantian, Xiuyao practiced forest-grain intercropping, planting ginkgo, Chinese tallow tree, tung tree, chestnut, walnut, catalpa, etc. in the ground at a distance of half a foot and a row of three feet. Several fruit trees were also planted.

Although there are many trees, but the hole was dug when the willows rose that day, and it was much easier to plant the trees this time.In addition, Didan came to dig spinach and saw it, and immediately ran back to find a few half-grown children to help.

The saplings are not very big, and boys can handle them, so it is not difficult to plant them.

With someone to help, the tree will be planted faster.

On the second day, the three of the Liu family went to weave gloves as usual. Although Xiuyao told them not to go, as long as one person was responsible for paying the money and inspecting the goods, Liu still wanted to make more money. There, not earning is like a sin, and it must be earned.Xiuyao can't help it, her family is poor and when she has money to earn, her mother will never let it go, so she can only let them go.

Zhou Qiang brought four young people to help plant the trees. With a large number of people and strong strength, they were all planted in one day.Those seeds can only be planted after the Qingming Festival. If they are too early, they will be frozen and will not germinate.

After planting these trees, she discussed with Qin Dafu, "Father, why don't you stop knitting cattail socks, let's go dig some cotton locust sliver and wolfberry, and plant them in the field." Xiuyao had been with Qin Dafu before As they said, crops do not grow on that piece of land, but vegetables, trees and grass can be grown.Among them, cotton locust tree is a good thing, and wolfberry is also very good.

She has planned everything. At least three or four acres of cotton locust trees will be planted. In spring, the leaves can be picked as green manure, and they can also be fed to livestock.

Cotton locust tree is a hard-core green manure for soil improvement. Tens of thousands of catties of green branches and leaves can be picked in one acre of land, which is enough fertilizer for three or four acres of land. In addition, the root nodules of cotton locust tree can also effectively improve the soil.Moreover, the branches and leaves of the cotton locust tree can be fed to livestock. Cattle, sheep and rabbits like to eat them very much. No matter the branches and leaves are fresh or dry, they can be fed.

She has been subtly instilling the concept of scientific farming in her father and elder brother, and gradually they have accepted her ideas.In addition, Liu Fei was already studying, Qin Yang went to school with her, and Xiuyao also learned Braille at home.She is a fast learner and can stumble through a book.Before, they had explained the Hualou machine to Liu Xu, and the water mill to Lao Liutou and the third grandfather, so Qin Dafu and Qin Ye believed in her deeply and obeyed her words.

Xiuyao has already found a place to dig cotton locust trees. She collected a lot of cotton locust seeds before, so she remembered the location.Now you just need to dig it back and plant it. If it is set in spring this year, it can be harvested in summer. If it is sown, it can only harvest green branches and leaves in autumn.

Qin Dafu was worried about not having enough fertilizer because he didn't have livestock at home and didn't raise pigs. Since Xiuyao said that the composting method is better than the previous composting method at home, and can retting more fertilizer.As long as the cesspool is dug, more grass and mows are put in it, and more silt is dug in the river. Although it is a bit hard, at least the supply of fertilizer is guaranteed.

Now I heard that there are green manures, cotton locust leaves, alfalfa grass, mung bean stalks, etc. can be used as green manure. Qin Dafu is full of confidence and passion for his land.It's no longer the sluggish feeling at the beginning, but full of energy.

The next day, he asked Qin Xian and Xiuxian to take a shovel and a shovel to dig cotton locust trees and wolfberries with him. Naturally, Xiuyao and Qin Yang also went to help. Although Qin Ye's right hand is not convenient, he can work with his left hand , even if he couldn't dig, he could do what he could, so he followed suit and refused to rest at home.

Although Qin Xian was not happy, he couldn't be lazy when everyone went, but he had a problem with Xiuyao, and always felt that she had found so many things for everyone.

Xiuyao first led them to the far northwest of the village, where they dug, and Xiuxian and Qin Xian pushed them into the field with a small cart.A long ditch has been dug in that field, and it will be good to just put the cotton locust plant in it for planting.

When the digging was almost done, they were busy on both sides. Qin Dafu and Qin Xian dug cotton locust trees and wolfberries, while Xiuyao, Qin Ye, and Xiuxian planted them here.Just as it was falling, Qin Yang shouted: "Er Dada and brother are here."

Xiuli heard that Xiuyao said she was going to plant trees, so she ran back to tell her father and elder brother, and Qin Ergui brought her son over to help.

Seeing them coming, Xiuxian smiled and said, "Er Dada, my second lady asked you to come."

Second Aunt would not let them go to Dafang's house unless they were going to eat and drink at Dafang's house, and they would quarrel every time they came.Two days ago, I helped plant trees, and I heard from Xiuli that my second aunt and second uncle had a fight at night, and my second uncle said that Daye was injured for him, and he would not help anyone.The second aunt said that he only had the eldest brother's family in his heart, but he didn't have that family, and asked him to go to the eldest room.

Seeing Xiuxian speak so bluntly, Qin Ergui was also a little embarrassed, he smiled and said: "Your second lady just opened her mouth like that, and she just talked about whether she should be let to work or not, right?" .”

Qin Chan immediately said: "Yes, my mother asked me to help."

Xiuxian and the others knew it well, hehe laughed, and everyone got busy together.

Qin Ergui led Qin Chan to dig cotton locust trees and wolfberries in the northeast, so that digging on both sides would be much faster.At the end of the day, a large area was also planted.After all, they don't have to bring slivers, as long as they dig out the roots and plant them, they can live, so even if someone cuts the sliver, they can still dig it.

After working for several days, the several acres of land were planted with the necessary crops according to Xiuyao's request, except for the four acres of cotton locust tree, there were also some medlars on the edge of the field.It can not only bear fruit, but also be used as a fence. It is a natural shrub hedge.

In addition, they also planted some trees that are resistant to salt and alkali. They used to borrow jujube trees, pear trees, and apricot trees from Laoliu's house.In short, trees were planted on the moderately saline-alkali land where no crops could be grown, and ditches were dug beside it. If it rains, the land can be drained to wash the land and bring the salt out.

Xiuyao made some calculations, and now the land is mainly planted with various trees, and other crops can be planted after Qingming.She had already figured it out, the place with the lightest salinity is much more severe than ordinary land, it is not allowed to grow vegetables such as cabbage and radishes, but it can be used to grow spicy vegetables.

Although spicy vegetable pimples are cheap, every household needs them. Ordinary farmers don’t buy vegetables very much, but this kind of spicy vegetable pimples has to be filled with a big vat every year.Because it is cheap, some people don't grow it and buy it directly from other people's homes.

In order to improve the soil, Xiuyao decided to plant two acres. Then tassels and the like could be fed to pigs, and the spicy vegetable pimples could be sold as pickles.In addition, she wants to grow five acres of beets, and then she can boil sugar for sale or sell the beets directly to sugar workshops.When the salinity is a little bit severe, she grows sunflowers, which have about eight acres. Sunflowers can be used to squeeze oil or sell melon seeds directly to the oil refinery.No matter how bad the salinity is, basically five mu of land is covered with alfalfa, which can be used to improve the soil and can also be used as green manure.In addition, there are about four acres of cotton locust trees and about two acres of wolfberry.Among these crops, various trees, such as jujube trees and willows, are intercropped. She has made full use of the 25 mu of land that is slightly better. There are still [-] mu left, and I am afraid that she can only grow Artemisia saponica, and the other [-] mu can only be used to build a house.

She had to admire Qi Feng for being so powerful, he helped her find the seeds of alfalfa and Artemisia salina.

In a blink of an eye, February [-] is coming, and people in the countryside want to fry scorpion beans and chess pieces.Chess pieces are actually made of rolled noodles, with sugar and, if possible, eggs added to make them hard. Then roll out the cakes, cut them into rhombus shapes with a knife, and fry them in a pan.And scorpion beans, in fact, soak soybeans, dry them, and then fry them in a pan. When frying, if you want sweet ones, add sugar, and spiced ones, add pepper aniseed, etc. Some people like to eat pepper and salt, they are called pepper salt, etc. .

And this year, on February [-], another food was added, that is Fudou, fried sweet potatoes and dates sold by Xiuyao.After the space for planting trees in the new year, she and her second sister fried three hundred catties of sweet potatoes and dates at home, and bought the sweet potatoes and dates of Changshuang directly for the remaining one hundred catties. Some people like to use this molar and put them in the fruit pile It also softens in a day or two and is delicious.

These [-] catties are the last batch of this year. Except for the [-] catties of sweet potatoes left by grandpa, except for eating, giving away, and spoiling, Xiuyao has sun-dried the sweet potatoes, jujubes, and fried sweet potatoes and beans.

The [-]th day of the first lunar month is the big market, and they came to pick up the goods two days in advance. Liu An and Jing Tu each had [-] catties, and my uncle Sun Dacheng had [-] catties. The remaining [-] catties were all given to shopkeeper Feng.

Sun Dacheng drove the donkey cart by himself, and Liu Xu was not allowed to follow him because the road was far and bumpy. Xiuyao asked him to take the ten ginkgo trees and other saplings that he had given to his grandfather's house, so that his grandfather and uncle could help them. Plant it quickly.

This batch of blessing beans cost Xiuyao a gross profit of [-] cash.She didn't count the money for her grandpa's family, thinking that when the time came to raise pigs, she would let grandpa earn more.

(End of this chapter)