"Old madam, we will compensate you for this melon money." The elder standing behind the child said with a sad face.
Qiao Lan: "This melon can't be bought with money!" Qiao Lan is confident that there will be no melons in the entire Jin Dynasty that can compare with the melons she grows.
Several people were trembling after hearing this, not knowing what price they would have to pay.
Qiao Lan said calmly: "If the child does something wrong, it is not necessarily your elders' fault, and you don't need to make up for it. They stole the melons in my field and trampled on the melon vines in my field.
, just punish them to water the melons in my field next year.”
The naughty kid must pay the price!
When everyone in the yard heard this, they almost thought that the sun was too strong and fainted themselves. Otherwise, why would the old lady just peel it off like this without asking for money or anything else?
"What, do you think it's inappropriate?" Qiao Lan asked.
The elders immediately shook their heads, "The old lady is kind! The old lady just orders them around, you're welcome! If these two monkeys are cheating, the old lady will teach you a lesson!"
Qiao Lan nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, that's settled."
The two children also raised their heads slightly, with expressions on their faces as if they were surviving a disaster.
But this is not over yet.
Qiao Lan: "It's the first time these two children offended, so I asked them to water the melons instead of paying melons. But if they do it again, I will really send the melon thief to the county government. Village chief, you are here to be a witness!"
No matter who steals the melons from my field, I will not be polite."
Duan Kunshan, who has been in the background for a long time, hurriedly stepped forward and pointed out: "Mrs. Duan is right! Remember, don't act like this in the future!"
A group of people nodded.
The melon-stealing incident was over, and Qiao Lan sent the group of people out of the Duan family courtyard.
There were many people in the village and they naturally knew that Duan Kunshan had taken people to the Duan family's old house.
Although it was a family scandal that should not be publicized, in order to prevent anyone from thinking about the melons in the Duan family's field again, Duan Kunshan made it clear to the villagers and reminded them.
Let them keep an eye on their children and not steal melons from other people's fields. If you steal melons, they will be sent to the county government.
Watering is nothing, but going to the county government office will make you peel off your skin! Each one of them looked serious and promised that they would teach the children well.
As for the people who were embarrassed by stealing melons, they certainly lost a lot of face.
Sending them to the county government is Qiao Lan's way of scaring outsiders. If someone comes to try and blame her for completing the task, Qiao Lan will really send them to the county government!
If fellow villagers in the countryside see their neighbors stealing their things, they will usually get into a fight and make a fuss, but it rarely goes as far as the Yamen.
After the trouble reaches the yamen, the county magistrate in the county yamen mainly coordinates the two parties. If the coordination is not good, he can only slap a few bans and send him to be a yamen servant for a few days.
The county boss will not put prisoners in jail to eat jail food.
Prison food is also food, and prison food also costs money!
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In addition to preventing naughty children in the village from stealing melons, Qiao Lan also needs to guard against animals and insects in the wild.
The vegetables in Qiao Lan's fields are often disturbed by insects and passing animals.
Cantaloupe is no different than other vegetables. It also has a strong fragrance and is more popular with small animals than other vegetables.
When Qiao Lan was studying in school, she saw the melon-stealing squid in her textbook. No one in Duanjia Village had ever grown melons, but they had to be on guard against the scorpion.
Even if you send someone to keep an eye on it day and night, you can't prevent small animals.
Qiao Lan thought for a moment and then called her family and spent a lot of time transplanting the onions and coriander from the vegetable garden to the melon patch.
It is also safe to plant these in each row of the melon field to mix up the smell of the cantaloupe.
In addition, I look at the melons in the melon fields day by day, and I become more diligent every day.
Under Qiao Lan's strict protection, the Duan family's melons grew up healthily one by one, allowing the Duan family's children to live a summer filled with melons. There was also a small bag of melon seeds in the cloth bag in the kitchen.
Wang dried and washed the melon seeds every day, packed them in cloth bags and put them in a jar in the corner of the kitchen. They pressed stones on the top of the jar and stored them carefully to prevent rats from eating them.
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Summer is not only the season for eating melons, but also the season for harvesting rice.
Lantian County has a lot of water, and the Duan family has about 30 acres of paddy fields. Qiao Lan changed some of the crops to other crops, and the remaining 20 acres were all planted with rice.
I asked the villagers to help harvest these rice!
"This rice is growing really well, with many ears and few empty ears!"
"I just picked up two loads and went back, but they are too heavy!"
The experienced farmer praised, and others also echoed.
It’s not that everyone is praising the Duan family, but the crops are growing really well.
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In order to determine the yield, Qiao Lan asked people to plant the rice in each mu of land separately.
Then he asked some strong men to knock off the rice grains from the bundles of rice, put them into bamboo baskets, dry them in the sun and weigh them.
This year is a good year, and the crops in every household's fields are growing well. The Duan family's rice ripens earlier than other families'. Seeing the grain produced in the Duan family's fields, the villagers are also happy.
, I thought I would harvest a lot from my own land.
The first batch of rice dried in the sun is a stream of hay mixed with the fragrance of the sun.
Qiao Lan led a group of men at home to weigh several linen bags placed on baskets with wooden poles.
Four hundred and thirty-two pounds.
Qiao Lan was farming for the first time and had no idea about this number, but looking at the evaluation given by the system as good, it meant that she could get eighty points.
Mo Qiming, who was following him, was secretly frightened!
So much! Is it too much?
Duan Mingjing and Duan Mingchen have never farmed, so they don't know much about the yield of this acre of land. Duan Mingchen often goes to work in the fields and knows that there are some differences between fertile land and ordinary wasteland.
The difference can be a hundred pounds.
He watered and fertilized his own land, so it was natural for him to have such a good harvest.
The system does not give accurate figures for yield per mu, but only scores based on the growth status of the crops.
Qiao Lan was afraid that there might be some errors, so she had someone weigh her again several times, and the number she got was still around 430 pounds.
Even excluding the weight of the sacks and baskets, it weighs more than 400 kilograms.
This amount is enough to shock the people in the village.
However, for Qiao Lan, the number of a single sample is not enough to explain everything.
In the next half month, she weighed and recorded the new rice that was being dried one after another.
They are all based on the unit of yield per mu, with the lowest being just over 400 kilograms, and the highest being one mu of land. It may be that the scope of this field is slightly larger than other fields, with the yield per mu being close to 500 kilograms.
In other words, the average yield per mu of the first batch of rice grown by the family is upwards of 420 kilograms.
A total of more than 13,000 kilograms of rice was harvested from 29 acres of land.
Qiao Lan recalled the rice yields exceeding 1,000 kilograms per mu that she had seen in the news when she was a child, as well as the subsequent rising figures. She could only express that the numbers she grew were really good.
After all, there is systematic control and frequent watering and fertilizer during the planting process, and the initial investment cost is quite high!