black-bellied peasant woman

Chapter 68
Liang Butou can block the limelight for a while, but it is impossible to block it for a lifetime, so Su Jin still has to have his own strength.

There are too few people in the shops here, but if people are transferred from the mountain, there will not be enough people on the mountain. It is now an important moment to level the land and build terraces, and there is no way to transfer people.

On the second day after the accident at the fish shop, it really started to rain. After the sky cleared, Su Jin took people to look at the houses, and found that none of them leaked. It seems that these long-term workers can continue to stay. So Su Jin immediately announced that they would be allowed to stay, reclaim the land, and grow rice. These houses are all lived in by themselves. After hearing the news, everyone was so excited that they shed tears.

These people, like Daniel and the others, are hard-working people. It is good to have a regular job to do on weekdays and fill their stomachs. Some people still can’t marry a wife. They couldn’t afford to support them, and some had to be sold, so when they heard that Su Jin kept them and gave them a house to live in, and said that there would be long-term wages for them in the future, they couldn’t help but be overjoyed.

Daniu and the others also took their family members up the mountain on the second day, because Su Jin only asked them to build a row of bungalows for the long-term workers and Daniel, so Brother Liu and the others still had no way to live on the mountain. But brother Liu can't live on the mountain, he has to run around to buy and deliver goods, as for moving to the mountain, we'll talk about it later.

Su Jin left behind these long-term workers, and began to ask everyone to reclaim the land and build terraced fields, and then the shops in the town began to slowly get on the right track. The fry in the fish ponds grew quickly because they were properly fed and the climate was suitable. The number of fish in the stream is decreasing, but the fish in the fishpond are also growing, so that there will be no shortage of fish.

While everyone was leveling the land and building terraces, Su Jin asked Xuanyue to inspect another mountain she bought, and found a dense bamboo forest. Surprised by her surprise, she ordered Daniel and the others to go The bamboo is cut down from the mountain, and one end of the treated hollow bamboo is used to sharpen one end, one up and one down, the water flowing from the upper bamboo flows to the lower bamboo, when the water received reaches a certain level The weight of the bamboo below will lean down and lead to the terraced fields on the hillside below.

This way of diverting water with bamboo can not only save manpower and material resources, but also ensure the stability of the water flow. As long as the water in the stream is not exhausted, it can be used forever. Of course, she also has to study, the water in the stream comes from Where did it originate, if it flows down from the top of the mountain, it is snow water in winter, but this kind of thing still requires a very complicated procedure, so let's put it aside for now, and study it when you have time and energy later.

After the terraced fields were built and filled with water, Su Jin bought seedlings and started transplanting them. By the way, he planted the bought melons, fruits and vegetables on the field stalks. In this way, he could kill two birds with one stone. Planting fruits and vegetables, even if they cannot be sold in the future, everyone will not worry about eating and drinking.

In the open space next to the fruit trees, Su Jin had people surround the fence and bought chickens and ducklings to raise. These chickens and ducks usually eat grass cut from the mountains, and the excrement they pull out can be used as fertilizer. Su Jin asked the women raising chickens and ducks to clean up the manure from the chicken pens and duck pens every three days, pull them down the mountain and burn them, so that they can be used to fertilize the fields in the future.

After such busy work, time passed quickly, and everything was on the right track in a blink of an eye, and when Su Jin finally stopped his busy steps, he was surprised to find that the pear tree grew taller, the leaves became more lush, and The fish fry in the fish pond have grown a lot, the rice has grown taller, and the vegetables and fruits on the field stalks have also sprouted, creating a lush green scene.

Standing at the highest point, Su Jin looked down and felt the spring breeze blowing on her face. It was really refreshing. She didn't feel tired or hard. Thinking back to the time when she was in modern times, sitting in the office all day still felt hard. And boring, but now I feel that I am so satisfied and happy to go to the field and farm myself.

Perhaps it is because of this life that she can finally show her ambitions, stop being aggrieved, and become the master herself. What kind of life she wants to live and what kind of things she wants to do are all based on her own ability It was decided that this kind of life was what she really wanted.

Counting the days, it has been almost a month now, she almost forgot to pay the big guy, and she will pay the wages once a month in the future, she must not let this matter go because she is busy with the field. Forget it.

Although the rice has not yet matured, and although the fry cannot be sold, these things can be sold in the future, and her income will definitely be considerable by then. Think about how the rice grains that will become full will become rice. , at the selling price, she was so happy from ear to ear.

She remembers that she planted the seedlings in May, and it will bloom in three months, and it will be mature in October, because rice is usually harvested once a year in mountainous areas, so how is her harvest this year? , which means how her income will be this year. Now the seedlings have only grown for a month, and the pest damage is not too serious, but as the rice grows, the pest damage will become more and more serious. Whether the harvest can be good or not depends on this period of time How is the deworming work done? Since the rice was planted, the manure of chickens and ducks raised on the mountain has also been picked up as fertilizer. Now there is no shortage of fertilizer, so I am afraid that the pests will be serious.

Because Daniu and the others are careful, Su Jin doesn't have to worry about weeding on weekdays at all, but dealing with insect pests will be more troublesome. After all, everyone is planting rice for the first time, and the entire terraced field has a full twenty Mu of rice, if the pests are serious, then the harvest of this year will be in vain.

Although there are chickens, ducks and fish on the mountain, and vegetables and fruits on the field stalks, Su Jin's main income still depends on these rice, so she asked Yunzheng to buy some related to planting rice during the recent period. Books, carefully consulted the skills and precautions of pest control in various periods, combined with what she saw and heard in modern times, combined, she formulated a new set of pest control methods.

In modern times, she had heard about raising fish and ducks in rice fields to control pests, but she didn't know much about it at the time. Now it seems that the ancient ancestors had this advanced idea, and some people tried it. And it succeeded, and now, she has come to give it a try.

The so-called method of raising rice, duck and fish together is actually to raise ducks and soft-shelled turtles in the rice fields. As the saying goes, the king of thousands of years is the turtle of 8 years.

Raise seven to ten ducks per mu of rice fields, and hundreds of soft-shelled turtles per mu of rice fields, so that ducks and beetles can eat the pests that harm rice, and can also excrete feces in paddy fields to become fertilizer , reducing the hard work of deworming everyone, and reducing the number of times to pick up feces up the mountain, which serves multiple purposes, and these ducks and soft-shelled turtles can also be sold, which also increases an income.

(End of this chapter)