Luo Xuan watched the old turtle restless in the big water tank and fed it earthworms, but it didn't eat either.
see the situation,
Luo Xuan went to another water tank and found a few hemp shrimps that he had caught before, and then threw them into the old turtle's water tank.
This kind of shrimp and small crucian carp are the turtle's favorite food.
And because in the past, the third brother of the Zhou family caught this batch of shrimps and small crucian carp for themselves, and they have been raising them in the space for a long time.
So the shrimps, which were originally only as thick as chopsticks, have now grown to the size of two fingers.
The size of these shrimps is actually thicker than the big blue shrimps in the sea, and they are almost as big as crayfish.
Looking at these juicy shrimps, Luo Xuan even had the urge to cook them and eat them.
Wait until Luo Xuan throws the shrimp into the water.
The old turtle just stretched its neck and smelled the smell of the water, but it still looked as if it was not interested in the food. Then it pulled its limbs hard, as if it wanted to escape from this big water tank.
Seeing this, Luo Xuan's heart suddenly moved!
Stretching out his hand, Luo Xuan took the old turtle out of the water tank, then placed it on the ground and allowed it to move freely.
As soon as the old turtle touched the ground of the space, he immediately became cautious and no longer as manic as he was in the water tank.
After a while,
The old turtle stretched out his head and looked around, as if he was carefully assessing the surrounding environment by relying on his sense of smell and eyes.
Seeing this situation, Luo Xuan quietly took a few steps back.
The old turtle paused on the ground for a moment, and then slowly began to crawl forward.
When it climbed near the small mound where the goat was tied, the old turtle began to use its hind paws to dig holes in the soft ground!
The land in the space was very fluffy, so the old turtle dug a big hole in the ground without much effort.
After a while, the old turtle dug the hole, turned around, moved his butt into the hole, and began to lay eggs.
turn out to be,
As soon as the turtles reach the spawning period, they will crawl out of the water after 10 o'clock in the middle of the night.
Then the soft-shelled turtle will choose the shade of a tree or under the grass where the terrain is higher, leeward to the sun, and without stagnant water. It especially likes to dig holes in soft and moist sandy silt soil to lay eggs.
It’s just that there is no distinction between day and night, and four seasons of frost and snow in space.
Therefore, this old turtle does not need to choose a time, but a season to lay eggs.
According to records in aquaculture books: female soft-shell turtles can lay several clutches of eggs each year, and the number of eggs each time is related to the age and nutritional status of the soft-shell turtles.
Generally, a soft-shell turtle lays 3 to 5 clutches of eggs per year, with each clutch containing about 20 eggs.
But Luo Xuan stood there and watched for a long time. The old turtle was still laying eggs there, with no intention of stopping at all!
It seems that this is a high-yield business!
Luo Xuan stood quietly in the distance and waited for a long time before the old turtle finished laying its first batch of eggs.
When it finishes laying eggs, it pulls the sand with its hind paws to cover the hole, and then uses its abdomen to smooth the sand and compact it.
Wait until the old turtle crawls away,
Luo Xuan stepped forward and took a look: he saw that the place where the old turtle laid its eggs just now was flat and smooth, and looked similar to the surrounding land, with no obvious traces at all.
Seeing the old turtle crawling away, Luo Xuan couldn't help but secretly rejoiced: With the help of this old and productive old turtle, why would he need to go out to collect other people's turtles in the future?
In the future, turtles and eels in space can be produced and sold by themselves.
This space is simply a perfect internal circulation system!
I resisted the urge to pull open the egg-laying nest to see how many fish eggs there were.
Luo Xuan rolled up his sleeves and began to peel corn cobs in the space.
The climate in Bashu Province is different from that in the north, and the soil is also different.
When corn is harvested in the north, the corn husk on the outside of the corn cob is basically dry by this time, making it relatively easy to tear it apart.
The farming work of harvesting corn in Bashu Province is several times more difficult than in the north.
The level of hardship is second only to the hardship of harvesting rice.
Since it was the corn harvest season in Bashu Province, the sun was still shining brightly above our heads and the weather was also very hot.
If the members of the production team start work too early, the dew in the fields will be heavy at that time.
Corn cobs that are soaked with a lot of water will be difficult to tear.
But if you go to the corn field too late, the water vapor in the corn forest and sweet potato field will evaporate upwards when exposed to the sun.
The sun is shining on your head, the water is steaming under your feet,
In addition, the corn forest is airtight. If a person does farm work in it for a while, his whole body will be soaked with sweat!
Standing under the bright sun, enduring the sweltering heat that makes people almost faint, and carrying increasingly heavy backpacks on their backs...
The work of shucking corn here in Bashu is really very tiring and difficult.
When it's time to harvest corn, not a few members suffer from heat stroke due to the hot and humid weather in the corn forest every year.
Looking at the large cornfield in his own space, Luo Xuan felt like his head was getting big!
I have no choice but to do it no matter how tired I am!
If others want to harvest so much food, they can only dream about it. I have no reason to be lazy.
Rolling up his sleeves, Luo Xuan began to peel the corn cobs.
What was unexpected was that the corn cobs that Luo Xuan thought would be difficult to peel turned out to be extremely easy!
As long as you go up with your hands and tear off the corn husks, you will only hear a soft "hiss" sound, and the corn husks will split automatically, revealing the yellow and orange corn cobs inside...
Luo Xuan was overjoyed!
He plunged into the corn forest and quickly shucked the corn.
When the production team harvests corn, it is necessary to carry the corn cobs back to the production team's storage room to prevent them from being stolen and caused by voles and birds.
But in my own space, these worries do not exist.
The space was not very large, so Luo Xuan was not afraid of the corn cobs being piled up too scatteredly. He just peeled off the corn cobs from the stalks and threw them away on the ground.
Corn is easy to shuck.
And just pull them off and forget about it. As for gathering them into a pile, Luo Xuan planned to break off the corn cobs first.
Only do one thing at a time.
Luo Xuan planned to finish breaking the corn first, and then slowly pick up the corn cobs with a wheelbarrow.
Now I just peel it off and don't care about luck, so I can work very quickly.
After a while, Luo Xuan finished peeling the first crop of corn, then turned around and started harvesting the second crop.
When he felt tired, Luo Xuan stopped what he was doing and lit a fire in the space to cook.
Mushroom soup, sesame shrimps with spring water, and a bowl of potted pork with green peppers. This meal is a treat for yourself and a late night snack.
After eating, lie down in the space and rest for a while.
wake up.
He whirled around and picked up two rabbits, weighing them to feel the fruits of his labor.
Then imitate the women in the production team, put your index finger into the hen, touch and poke it.
Let's see if this hen will lay eggs tomorrow...
When he was full and rested, Luo Xuanbian rolled up his sleeves and continued to peel corn.
Just do this for a while and take a break.
I don’t know how long it took, but Luo Xuan finally harvested all these 2,000 corn plants.
Looking at the thick, big, long, and bright yellow corn cobs piled up in the corn forest, Luo Xuan wiped the sweat from his forehead.
After adjusting his breathing for a while, Luo Xuan found a wheelbarrow and began to collect the corn cobs one by one.
Luo Xuan planned to pile the corn cobs aside first.
When I am not busy tomorrow, I will take some time to start drawing the drawings of the "hand-operated corn thresher".
When the drawings are finished,
Luo Xuan was going to go to the Iron Works Society to find the craftsmen there and build himself a simple corn threshing machine by hand.
By the way, I also made a pedal threshing machine.
Otherwise, in a few days, when I harvest the rice, it will be no small task to thresh so much rice.
this period.
It is difficult to see corn threshing machines and threshing machines on the market in Bashu Province.
Due to well-known reasons, there is a shortage of steel on the market, and there is also a shortage of bearings.
In other provinces, there are pedal threshing machines made of pine wood and a small amount of steel.
But this kind of threshing machine, because its main components, even the counterweight wheel, are made of wood.
This kind of threshing machine is not a big problem if it is used in rice fields in central and eastern China where the ground contains more sand.
It can be used for three or more years if you make do with it.
However, the air in Bashu Province is humid and the yellow mud in the rice fields is sticky. It will not take long before the structure of the wooden threshing machine will be affected by moisture and deform, causing mismatch between various parts and huge friction.
This kind of threshing machine can only be used for less than two years in Bashu Province.
Think about those production teams who have spent a lot of effort and money to buy this kind of threshing machine, but it can only be used for a year or two. In the end, it is really not worth the gain.
According to Luo Xuan's idea: From now on, in his own space, he doesn't know how many crops of rice and corn will be harvested every year.
Therefore, it is urgent to build a threshing machine.
but now,
The corn harvested by myself has piled up like a mountain, so it is more important to first buy a corn threshing machine that is simpler to make and uses less steel than a threshing machine.
For example, a hand-operated corn thresher in later generations has a simple structure and is sold very cheaply. On a certain Xixi machine, the price is 19.9 with free shipping.
It's really not that difficult to design such a simple device.
But such a simple and cheap corn thresher was nowhere to be seen on the market at this time.
So much so that members of the production team in Bashu Province thresh corn purely by hand.
After the corn is collected, it needs to be threshed as soon as possible, dried and returned to the warehouse. Otherwise, when the rainy season comes, the corn will easily become moldy or sprout.
As soon as the production team arrives at the factory, there is no distinction between working on and off for the members.
As long as you finish your meal,
All the members must gather at the door of the storage room. They gather around the huge basket and eat corn together.
Because the moisture content of corn cobs is relatively high, it is very laborious to thresh the corn. After a few days, everyone's wrists and tiger's mouths will hurt terribly.
The threshing machine and corn thresher must be produced as soon as possible.
As for the remaining corn stalks in the space, Luo Xuan can't think of a good way to deal with them at the moment.
Since there was nothing he could do about it for the time being, Luo Xuan planned to chop off all the straw in two days when he was not busy.
It is different from corn stalks in the north.
When corn is harvested here in Bashu Province, the moisture content in the straw is still very high.
Especially since the land in your own space is fertile, corn grows faster and matures earlier than outside the space.
So now these corn stalks are still lush and green and can be used as silage feed.
Luo Xuan planned to leave some of the straw as fodder for rabbits and goats.
As for most of the remaining straw, it can only be cut down and piled up.
After a while, find a secluded place and throw the straw out of the space.
Although these straws will not rot or deteriorate if placed in the space, they will take up valuable space and delay the planting of crops.
But if you want to throw these straws out of the space, you need to be careful.
Because the corn outside the space is not mature yet.
If you throw these corn stalks randomly, it will definitely arouse the high vigilance of the local production team members!
They would definitely think that a large-scale corn theft occurred somewhere.
In that case,
It's not a good idea to cause a weird incident that cannot be solved because you threw the straw.
