Qiao Lan calmly glanced at her cheap second son: "If you want to study, you can also study with your fourth brother."
"But this daily work cannot be left behind."
Duan Mingjing was not a person who knew how to read. He had a headache when he saw a book, let alone taking the imperial examination. He lowered his head in despair and said, "Mom, my son is not good at studying, so he should just work."
"Mom, the study room at home is really big. If you don't separate the study room, Xing'er and I will share half of it." Duan Mingchen said this himself.
Qiao Lan refused directly, "Let's go to my house first! In a year or two, the family will have to build a new house, and then there will be an empty study room."
Build a house?
Qiao Lan said this after breakfast. After she said this, the whole family stared at her.
When the Duan family was building their house, they had few family members and the house was large enough to live in. By Duan Yuexiu's generation, he was the only one left.
The ancestors of the Duan family may not have expected that Duan Yuexiu, alone, not only passed the Jinshi examination, but also had a large family of grandchildren, making the old house of the Duan family lively again.
When there are too many people, the courtyard becomes a little uninhabitable.
"Mom, are our family going to build a new house in the village?" Duan Mingjing asked in surprise.
Qiao Lan indeed had such a plan. She nodded and replied, "I am thinking of building a few houses. Chen'er will get married in a few years, and the woodshed cannot hold so many things."
Duan Mingjin took advantage of the hot iron and said, "Mom, building a house takes too much effort. Why not buy a new house in the county! You can live in it this month. The old house is used to store things."
Qiao Lan knew Duan Mingjing's thoughts very well, so she followed his words and said, "My family has gone to live in the town, leaving you alone to take care of the chickens in the back mountain. You also have to take care of these two hundred acres of land. You can take care of it."
Come here?"
Duan Mingjing:???
Why is he alone? Where are Duan Mingqing and Duan Mingchen?
Duan Mingjing was just about to say the names of the two people when he suddenly remembered that both of them were going to school to take the imperial examination, but he was the only one not to go to school.
Doesn’t it mean that all the work in the house is left to him?
Duan Mingjing suddenly felt aggrieved! Why did he have to bear so much alone? He looked at Qiao Lan with even more aggrieved eyes.
Qiao Lan ignored Duan Mingjing's gaze and continued to the family, "Let's wait until the grain is harvested this year before building a house."
Whether they are farmers or craftsmen, they are busy in the fields from spring to autumn. Only in winter are they free, which is a good time to build houses.
None of Duan's family had any objections.
Duan Mingjing didn't dare to have any opinions.
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This year's sky feels like a hole has been poked into it. The dense rain has not stopped since the beginning of the year. It rains non-stop. Although it is not heavy, the clothes that never dry out and the musty smell in the air always make people feel uncomfortable.
worry.
The amount of precipitation is closely related to the growth of crops.
It had only been sunny for two days, and it rained again today. Qiao Lan thought that with so much rain, this year's harvest might be a little worse.
A sudden alarm from the system caught Qiao Lan off guard.
[Ding! Potential dangers affecting farmland growth have been detected, and random tasks are being released!
Ask the host to quickly find the source of danger and protect farmland crops to the greatest extent.
Task time: two months
Mission reward: One prize pool draw, 200 points!]
This sudden alarm startled Qiao Lan. What danger is there?
Task points are usually linked to the difficulty of the task! The more points, the greater the difficulty.
Qiao Lan frowned slightly and turned on the system's detection function to take a look. The condition of the two hundred acres of land at home was normal and there was no danger!
But the system said there was nothing wrong.
Qiao Lan went to the fields in the rain and took a look around the fields.
The drizzle falls on the water, creating large and small ripples in the rice fields.
Qiao Lan was walking in the field holding an umbrella, with Duan Mingqing following beside her.
Duan Mingqing had nothing to do at home. It was raining and the roads were slippery. He couldn't worry about the old lady going out alone, so he followed her.
The rain lines were traced one stroke at a time, and the mountains and fields were filled with hazy mist and rain, enveloping the greenery and the loess huts.
Mother and son walked one behind the other on the wet field ridge, silent and silent.
I don't know who told the news about Qiao Lan going to the fields, and several farm officials living in the village put on their bamboo hats and followed them after a while.
After arriving at the place, a group of people greeted Qiao Lan and joined the walking team without saying much.
The road was slippery on a rainy day, so Qiao Lan walked slowly on the grass beside the field.
She looked around her field and found that everything was clean, the rice seedlings were growing well, and she didn't see any dangerous factors.
Different from last year, it rained a lot this year. Is it the rain that is dangerous? It will soak the roots of the rice.
Excessive rain will indeed make the rice fields poorly ventilated and reduce soil fertility. However, Qiao Lan has always asked people to drain the accumulated water. System testing did not show that there is a problem here, and fertilization is not a problem. It can grow without adding fertilizer.
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So the problem is not that there is too much water in the fields, but it must be related to precipitation.
Qiao Lan looked at her own field for a while, then suddenly her eyes moved to the fields of the villagers next to her.
People in the village planted rice earlier than the Duan family. Not only did the rice stalks have more slivers, but the rice seedlings were also four to five centimeters taller than the Duan family's, and they grew very well.
Qiao Lan walked a few steps and suddenly saw a rice seedling that wasn't growing very well. She squatted down at the edge of the field and leaned over to pull it out with some mud.
Duan Mingqing hurriedly said: "Mom, just ask me to do this. Don't fall!"
"It's okay, I'll just take a look." Qiao Lan said, tearing the green rice seedlings in her hands.
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The expressions of the agricultural officials following Qiao Lan were a bit hard to describe!
The old lady in this family went to the ground without saying a word, didn't do anything, and even tore up the rice seedlings that were growing well in other people's fields!
There is also this old lady's son, as a scholar, not only did not stop his mother, but actually started to help.
It's really... annoying to watch!
Qiao Lan didn't know that in the hearts of several agricultural officials, she had become that top-notch old woman again.
Qiao Lan looked at the rice seedlings for a while and found the answer!
The small green insect is lying on the green rice seedlings. The color is very similar to the rice seedlings, making it difficult for people to detect.
Qiao Lan feels that this is the crisis the system is talking about.
Qiao Lan turned around, handed the worm-infested rice seedlings to several agricultural officials, and said, "Do any of the adults recognize what this is?"
A few of them were old and their eyesight was not very good. It took them a long time to see clearly the little green flesh bug on the rice seedlings.
"It's a borer!" said the experienced old farmer.
Borer?
Qiao Lan sounded familiar.
Qiao Lan felt that she had found the answer! This should be the crisis the system mentioned!
"This year it rains a lot, and it likes to eat rice seedlings in the fields. This year it rains a lot, and there are a lot of insects. It seems that this year's harvest will not be good." The farmer sighed. It has just been a good year, and the production will be reduced again this year.
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After seeing the borers, several farm officials became a little more friendly towards Qiao Lan and no longer regarded her as a super old lady who destroyed other people's fields.