inspire-indiana Chapter 1020 Playing in the Mud
Chapter 1020 Playing in the Mud
Old man: "...Yes, it takes some skills to be able to master such skills."
They didn't stay for long or go into the city, but went directly to Song County.
At present, 30% of the wheat fields in Song County have been cultivated, which is considered fast.
Except for the carts that transport fertilizer and night scent, all other animals are put to work in the fields, and a lot can be harvested in a day.
Moreover, a lot of land has been rented out to farmers this year. In fact, the pressure of spring farming this year is not as great as last year.
Busy come over.
When she arrived, she was very pleased to see that everything was busy and in order.
Even the experimental plots of Old Man Zhang and his son have been carefully prepared. The two have made a lot of money over the years, so they naturally pay more attention to these plots of land and devote themselves to them, so naturally they harvest a lot every year.
Zhou Guo was very satisfied and said some encouraging words. The two of them happily promised to cultivate the land well.
The old man didn't plan to walk around when he got here. He came out with a hoe on his shoulder and said, "I have to clean up my vegetable field so that when they come to plant rice, there will be vegetables to eat."
Zhou Guo thought it was a good idea. As he got older, he was tired from running around all the time. The old man looked much more mature these days.
She watched him prepare the land, left Xiaoshu and a personal soldier behind, and turned around and took the others to other counties.
Among these farms, only Huayuan County and Song County sell fertilizer to other countries, and these two farms are the busiest.
But this year, because they have rented out a lot of land, they don't have to take care of a lot of the land themselves, which is much better than last year.
Like Song County, several large farms used half of their land to grow wheat and half to grow rice. Only the small piece of land was used to grow rice.
After a few years, when these rice are planted again, next year, the salty and bitter land allocated by the government will have high-yield grain varieties that can tolerate saline-alkali land.
She took a look around and selected two plots of land, both covering more than 50 to 60 hectares, with the intention of planting rice on them.
The rice seeds selected were those harvested from the salty and bitter land last year.
She asked the head of the village to prepare the large ears of corn selected last year. She specially prepared a piece of land on the farm and planted the seeds to see what the yield would be.
The head of the village did as he was told. He understood all this. It was just about selecting seeds. He had to select those that were big, good and stable. These would become new grain varieties, generation after generation.
In previous years, they did not specifically select large ears of grain, but only selected large grains. They did not know what was different, but the resulting grain was not that good.
Zhou Guo took a walk down there and then returned to Song County.
At this time, the old man had already prepared the vegetable garden.
Zhou Guo suddenly had an idea and poured out more than ten pepper seeds she bought from the south and prepared for breeding.
The old man had never seen what the seeds looked like. He saw that they were flat yellow and white seeds. He picked them up and looked at them for a long time, but he couldn't figure out what kind of seeds looked like this.
Zhou Guo started to rub the mud.
Mix mud and fertilizer, add some water, roll them into balls, poke a hole in the balls, and arrange them in rows.
When the old man saw her turning around and starting to play with mud, he was both angry and amused. "You are really getting younger and younger. You didn't play with mud when you were eight years old, but now you are rolling balls. If you don't know, you would think these are made by dung beetles."
Zhou Guo said, "Master, I am not playing, I am doing serious work. I am building a house for these seeds so that they can live in it. The probability of germination and survival will be greater. Otherwise, I only have so many seeds. If one seed dies, there will be one less seed left. By then, there will be only a few left."
There weren't many seeds to begin with, so she had to make sure not a single one was wasted.
The old man was very surprised. He squatted down and looked at the mud ball. He asked curiously: "What is the use of this mud ball? Can I make one with these vegetable seeds?"
Zhou Guo nodded, "Of course, these mud balls can provide a warm, moist and fertile environment for the seeds, which is more conducive to their germination and growth. But I think you don't need to do this anyway, it's troublesome."
The old man refused to listen. "How can you say that? Although I have a lot of vegetable seeds, if I can make sure that every one of them survives, that would save a lot of seeds, right? Come on, let me help you."
As he said this, he moved a small stool and sat down, helping to rub it.
Erpang and the others also squatted down and helped to rub. Since the master couldn’t work, they could just drink tea on the side, right?
Sooner or later you'll be kicked out.
Several bodyguards failed to get a position, so they had to carry hoes and cultivate the vegetable field. After making so many balls, the vegetable field must be expanded. The amount cultivated by the old man was definitely not enough.
So, the old and the children sat on the ground and made mud balls.
In the middle of the game, they competed to see who could make the roundest mud ball and whose holes were poked neatly and beautifully.
It was supposed to be work, but it turned into fun as I was doing it.
We are all half-adults, not to mention the old man who is already an old man. At such a age, he would not have the nerve to make mud balls at other times, but now he starts to play and keeps making them.
They lined up one by one, and in the end they had made almost a thousand of them.
Zhou Guo put dozens of his chili seeds into the hole.
The old man also threw in all kinds of vegetable seeds, covered them with a thin layer of soil, and sprinkled a layer of water. That was it.
Zhou Guo clapped his hands and said, "Now it's all right. When the seedlings grow to more than half a foot tall, we can transplant them directly."
At dinner that night, Zhou Guo asked the old man, "Master, should I have someone take you back tomorrow?"
The old man looked up at her and asked, "Where are you going?"
Zhou Guo said: "I don't have time to go back to the village for the time being. I have to go to Yunzhou and then look for Mo Da and Mo Er, the bald heads, to discuss with them about opening a branch in the south.
The houses in the south have also been prepared. Lai Zi Tou took some people there once, and we saw them when we came back. They are just empty houses. We need people to open branches, one in each prefecture, and use the houses.”
She is now going to shift half of her energy to the escort agency. This road will be opened to the front line, and when the world is stable, the escort agency will be opened in every city in the world.
The old man was dumbfounded. "Do you really want to open escort agencies in every city? How much money will it cost? Have you calculated it? How many people will be needed to guard it?"
When he thought about the scale, his eyes went dark. "Besides, where can we find so many suitable people? Ordinary people can't do the work of an escort agency."
Zhou Guo said, "I've thought about this a long time ago. After all these years of continuous wars, there must be some disabled soldiers in the army, right? Some with missing arms and legs, some with injuries. If I ask for these wounded soldiers who can no longer go to the front line, do you think the higher-ups will give them to me?"
The old man was speechless. "I told you, running a escort agency is not something that everyone can do. These wounded soldiers are good at fighting, but they are all missing arms and legs, and can't even walk a few steps. You want them to escort? Do you still want to run this escort agency?"