Wan Lihui thought that Fu Fu Er was really a typical figure who supported the time travel group, and Ding Ding should promote it well. Seeing that this girl was quite tall, and although her skin was very dark, her skin was very moist. He couldn't help but feel a little moved in his heart.
When he had nothing to say, he said:
"What was your master's wife mumbling about just now?"
"Of course it's not a good thing." Fu Xi covered his mouth and smiled, "You are just a long-term worker. The owner of the house is crazy for allowing you to live in such a good house."
Being treated as a long-term worker, Wan Lihui also smiled bitterly - after all, he was the same as a long-term worker in the Agricultural Committee.
"That's what the head of the family's wife is like." Fu Xi glanced out the door, "The master was so murmuring that he couldn't bear it anymore so he beat his wife. Hee hee. Well done."
It seems that this lucky wife is usually quite mean to the domestic boys. I have no sympathy for her at all.
"Is this the chief's luggage? Let me help you pack it."
"Hey, don't bother..."
"It's okay." Fu Xi helped him unpack his luggage, laid out his sleeping bag, took out the teacup, toothbrush and towels and put them away one by one. He also brought a new white wooden basin from outside, poured hot water and helped him twist the towel and wipe his face. Wan Li
Huang had lived for 22 years, and no girl had ever treated him with such care and consideration. He couldn't help but feel flattered and felt very uncomfortable.
"I know you all like to be clean," Fu Xi pursed her lips and smiled, "You have to change your clothes after only a few days. Master Pen has ordered someone to take a shower and bring it to you in the evening."
While he was busy, Fu Buer came into the house and saw that his face was ashen. Beating his wife was not a pleasant experience after all. Besides, his wife was beaten and she would never admit defeat, so Fu Buer's ancestors
They, whether he had seen them or not, were all humiliated.
In addition, he still feels very uneasy about his participation in the Heaven and Earth Society, and he is deeply afraid that his wife is a crow's mouth and can always tell bad things.
"Commander Wan, are you satisfied with this place?" Fu Buer forced a smile.
"Very good, very good." Wan Lihuang saw that his expression was not kind, so he became more careful in dealing with it.
"Bring me some tea!"
"Hey, I'll be here soon."
The two sat facing each other without saying a word. Fu Buer couldn't speak Mandarin, and Wan Lihui couldn't speak Lingao dialect, so they had to wait for Fu Xi to bring tea before they officially started communicating.
Fu Buer was most concerned about the seed issue. He saw that Wan Lihuang was carrying a big bag alone - it was impossible to carry more than 100 acres of paddy field seeds just like this.
"Don't worry, Mr. Fu. Our Tiandi Association will carry out unified rice cultivation and unified distribution."
Seedling raising is an important step in rice planting, involving a series of technical issues such as temperature management and seedling raising base fertilizer.
After discussion, the technical staff of the Committee of Agriculture believed that in this time and space, when the accumulated temperature is insufficient and the rice-rice-wheat rotation is carried out, artificial warming must be used to germinate and raise seedlings when the temperature is low, and wait until the temperature reaches the requirement.
Transplant the rice seedlings immediately. Artificial warming of rice seedlings is not a new technology. Farmers in the Jiangnan area have adopted this method for a long time. However, this method has certain technical requirements and high requirements for fertilizers. In order to ensure the quality of the seedlings, Tiandi
It will be decided to adopt the method of uniformly raising seedlings in the farm's seedling room and then centrally delivering them to the fields. Not only the seedling raising process, but also in multiple agricultural production links in the future, there will be more similar methods of unified distribution of agricultural inputs.
Fu Buer thought to himself that this Australian guy was really a ghost. He was probably trying to prevent others from stealing his seeds. But when it was time to harvest, the ground would be full of rice, and you would never be able to watch it anymore.
Wan Lihuang asked in detail how many people and cows there were in Fu Buer's family. Fu Buer's heart pounded when he asked - Could it be that this world specially investigates the details of each family and then comes to "kill pigs"?
?But people had already come to the door, so he couldn't lie, so he had to explain the situation in detail.
The land of Fu Fuji's family is entirely cultivated by the family, and no tenants are hired. The farmers include Fu Fuji himself, his wife, two sons and a daughter, a few domestic boys and a long-term worker. When the farming is busy, they hire a few short-term workers.
.In addition to rice, there are also sweet potatoes that were imported from the mainland a few years ago. These are the two largest items. There are also various grains: sesame, peanuts, soybeans, mung beans, etc., and there is garden land.
The vegetables in the house cannot be sold for money, so they are mainly eaten by themselves and fed to the pigs.
No matter what kind of land is planted, the prospects are very limited, whether it is rice or sweet potatoes, the yield is not high. A family even wakes up at midnight and sleeps in the middle of the night. Throughout the year, everyone can only have enough to eat and a little savings. This savings also requires a lot of money.
Preserve it - Lingao is a place with constant minor disasters, droughts, floods, bandits, and the government's extravagant harvest. Fu Buer always felt that he could not save money. He once imitated the people on the mainland and planted indigo.
He grew madder, tobacco, and tried to grow sugar cane. However, because he could not afford to hire a foreman from the mainland, all these ventures failed.
After the D-Day, relying on the strong appetite of the traveling people, Meiyang Village sold a large amount of vegetables, live pigs, chickens, ducks, and eggs to Quanfu Vegetable Store, and Fu Buer's family business improved slightly. Now there is a new addition to the family.
Got a cow.
Wan Lihui wanted to go to the fields to check again. Fu Buer saw that he had no airs. After arriving, he took a drink of water and went to the fields to check. He felt very sorry and said that it was getting late today and it was raining outside, so he should rest.
Just go there tomorrow.
Wan Lihui looked at his watch and saw that it was only after two o'clock in the afternoon. It was already getting late. He insisted that he go and take a look. Fu Buer had no choice but to ask the chief foreman to accompany Wan Lihui to the fields to take a look.
As soon as a few people went out, it became a parade. A group of curious people followed them from a distance, pointing all the way. There are no entertainment activities in such a remote rural area, and watching outsiders is also a traditional way of leisure.
The land of the Fu family is not connected together, because it was obtained by four generations of Fu Buer's great-grandfather, grandfather, father and himself gradually through reclamation, purchase and loan sharking. It is scattered in bits and pieces.
There are seven or eight places around the village. There are vegetable fields as small as an acre, and large paddy fields of dozens of acres. The rice fields in the paddy fields have been harvested not long ago and are waiting for the second crop to be transplanted.
"It would be great if the land could be connected into one piece." Wan Lihui thought, how could agricultural modernization be achieved with such fragmented land. He looked at the crops in the field, squatted at the edge of the field and looked at the soil for a long time. He asked Fu Fuer:
“Is fertilization done here?”
"There is fertilization." Fu Buyer said, the fertilizer is mainly the manure from his own manure pit and the manure from the pig pen.
"Do you want to give me bean cake?"
Fu Buyer said that there is no local custom of extracting soybean oil. Sesame and rapeseed are basically used to extract oil. The remaining seed cake is usually used to feed pigs.
"There's not enough fertilizer." Wan Lihui shook his head. There is a serious shortage of fertilizer in your land, especially nitrogen fertilizer. As long as you apply fertilizer, you can get higher yields.
Fu Bu'er didn't know what nitrogen fertilizer was, but he knew there was a shortage of fertilizer in the fields. So he replied:
"I don't know enough, but fertilizer is hard to find."
There were no chemical fertilizers in ancient times, so we all relied on farmyard manure. Farmyard manure sounds very environmentally friendly, green, and bourgeois, but it contains very few active ingredients. The nitrogen content of 1,000 kilograms of human feces is equivalent to 25 kilograms of ammonium sulfate. Farmers spend a lot of money
Time, labor and money are spent on collecting fertilizer. For farmers in densely populated areas, there are many sources of fertilizer. The most convenient one is to obtain citizens’ feces and domestic garbage from cities. However, Lingao’s urban population is very small, so this
There is very little fertilizer available.
Wan Lihui remembered that before he came, Wu Nanhai sent people to investigate the sources of fertilizers - it seemed that the Agricultural Committee itself could not get enough fertilizer. I wonder how the lignite development situation in Nanbao is going and how much the output can be.
Generally speaking, the basic problem of Fu Fuji's land is that there is a large loss of soil fertility. Rice is planted every year, the amount of fertilizer is limited, and there is no habit of planting green manure, resulting in continuous low yield of the land. Wan Lihui knows that this is not the case locally.
It is an isolated phenomenon. When they go to the countryside to investigate, they rarely find land where crops grow well. The lack of fertilizer is a major reason.
Fu Buer himself also has a headache about this, but this problem is not easy to solve. Organic fertilizer has low fertility and requires a large amount. It is best to use local materials. If it is too far away, the labor cost for farmers will not be worthwhile.
Wan Lihui made a plan in his mind after looking at the land and crops everywhere.
He suggested to Fu Buer that the area for late rice planting this year should be reduced by half, and that only acres of soil with good soil fertility should be sown, and other acres of poor soil should be drained and replaced with broad beans.
The purpose of planting leguminous crops is to fix nitrogen. The fertilizer that rice needs most is nitrogen fertilizer. At present, the world is unable to provide a large amount of nitrogen fertilizer immediately, so this method can only be used to increase soil fertility.
After harvesting broad beans, he plans to plant another season of alfalfa as green manure. Several crops of alfalfa can be harvested, and the harvested stems and leaves can be used as feed or compost. The remaining parts will be plowed in spring to directly press into the rotten soil to increase organic matter. In this way
Then, the fertility of the soil can be restored to a certain extent.
When Fu Bu'er heard that the agricultural technician would ask him to abandon half of the land to plant broad beans and plant grass in the winter, he couldn't help but shook his head, saying that this would mean losing half of the harvest. No matter how poor the soil was, the harvest would be lost.
If there is some harvest, who will eat these many broad beans?
"We all want the broad beans you grow."
Beans are now an agricultural product urgently needed by the Council of Agriculture. They are of great use whether they are supplied to canteens, fed to horses or processed into food.
Fu Buyer remained silent. Wan Lihui said to him again: It is no problem to double the yield per mu of rice seeds provided by Tiandihui. Aren't these broad beans just the extra income? There is no need to worry about the future of the product - Committee of Agriculture
It will be purchased by the association. The circulating coupons obtained in exchange can be used to pay the Tiandihui service fee, which is a risk-free move.
"Pap tap tap tap" Fu Buer just smoked his hookah without saying a word with a dull face. Wan Lihui became anxious and said loudly:
"You know the policy! When did our time travel group stop talking about it? You have thought about it carefully and it will only be good for you and not bad!"
These words had a miraculous effect. Fu Fuji had the experience of being in a prisoner-of-war camp. Last year, when he was outside the tent listening to the interrogation inside, he often heard someone inside say in a stern voice: "You know the policy" - if that person "
If he doesn’t understand”, he will be kicked out and circled around the fire endlessly until he “understands”.
Under the coercion of the dictatorship, Fu Fuji finally agreed to his plan, but he made a request in a weak voice: the Tiandi Society must sign a document with him, guaranteeing to purchase all his broad beans.
"No problem. We will buy as much as you have." Wan Lihui agreed. Broad beans have many uses in the Committee of Agriculture, whether as vegetables or as concentrated feed, and the shell of broad beans is an excellent source of nitrogen fertilizer - in Jiangnan.
In rural areas, in the old days, every time when broad beans were on the market, farmers would go to the city to collect broad bean shells as fertilizer.
That night, Fu Fuji and his wife had another quarrel. Wan Lihui thought that his wife was simply his enemy and would oppose him on everything.
Early the next morning, Fu Fuji gathered the whole family together. Wan Lihui was lucky enough to see Fu Fuji's wife, a dark and thin middle-aged woman wearing homespun clothes - not at all like the legendary fat woman.
Fat, silk-clad landlady. This landlady looked at Wan Lihui with wary, suspicious and even hostile eyes, which made his hair stand on end.
The three children of the Fu family look quite friendly. The girl is the eldest, about sixteen or seventeen years old. She wears her hair in braids like Fu Xi. The two girls lean together and whisper sometimes. The two boys are about
There are teenagers. Their appearance and clothing are no different from homeboys.
Wan Lihui greeted everyone with a few polite words and then began to assign work tasks. The first task was composting.
"Starting today, everyone except those who are plowing and preparing the land will prepare fertilizer." Wan Lihui said to Fu Buer.
"Okay." Fu Buer was naturally happy when he heard that he had a way to get new fertilizer. He and Chang Gong went to plow the land and allocated Fu Qing, Fu Xiang, Fu Xi and his three children to Wan Lihui for use.
Wan Lihui took his six and a half-year-old children to cut grass outside the village. The large wasteland outside Meiyang Village was covered with all kinds of wild grasses. Everyone didn't know what he was doing mowing the grass because there were no sheep in the area.
, if the amount of hogweed is too much. Wan Lihui reminds everyone: the more hogweed, the better. Try to harvest those bright green, juicy and soft stems and leaves. Mowing is the most common task for these half-year-old children.
After finishing the work, everyone took out their newly sharpened sickles and cut off a large area in a short time. Wan Lihui noticed that the two girls were quick with their hands and feet, but they often stopped to search for something in the fields. He was curious.
When he came over to take a look, it turned out that they were cutting wild vegetables while mowing the grass, and half of the basket had been accumulated in the rattan basket next to him. Wan Lihui secretly wondered, the landlord clearly had a vegetable garden of his own, and the girl was still hunting wild vegetables. This was too much.
You must be stingy. No wonder the novel says that landlords are stingy.
After cutting the grass, he took his eldest son Fu Eryin and Fu Xi to the small river outside the village. Wan Lihui looked at the small river carefully. This small river is not only the source of domestic water for Meiyang Village, but also
It is a sewer that discharges sewage. The water is green in color, there are reeds growing on the river bank, and there is a stench.
"This river smells so bad!" Wan Lihui frowned. Logically speaking, the pollution of ancient rivers was not serious, so it shouldn't be so smelly. But now what he needs is the stinkier the better. If the crystal clear river is good for
It's of no use to him.
Following his instructions, he brought a manure scoop, a rattan basket, a wooden shovel, a shovel, a wooden stick, and a rope from the yard. He asked everyone to use a manure scoop and a shovel with an extended handle to fish out river mud and aquatic plants from the bottom of the river.
This novel activity attracted many onlookers - fishing for river mud for composting is unknown locally.
The black and smelly river mud and aquatic plants were piled on the river bank. After removing some of the water, they were thrown into baskets and carried to the Fu Buer family's land. Wan Lihui had a full understanding of the hardships and hard work of the ancients.
You know, Fu Fuji's eldest daughters, Fu Yijin and Fu Xi, have no less burdens than a few boys. But Wan Lihui himself can never bear their burdens.
"Okay, our next step is to clean up." Wan Lihui said, taking out all the brooms from Fu Buer's family and giving each person a big basket.
"When you go to the village and you see garbage in the open space on the street, except for broken bricks, tiles and pottery pieces, you just put the rest into the basket and take it back to the field."
A few of you look at me and I look at you. I wonder what this Australian has planned. What is he doing sweeping the land in the village? Can the messy garbage be used as fertilizer?
So this group of half-grown children, under the command of Wan Lihui, swept and picked up rubbish in the village, causing a great sensation in the whole village. The reputation of the Australians for being clean is indeed well deserved! Fu Buer's family has already been in everyone's mind.
It's so clean that this young Australian guy actually cleans the village. Some people make mean jokes and make fun of Fu Fuji: If he doesn't farm well, his father will come back and point fingers at home for no reason. Some people think that Australians are enthusiastic about public welfare.
of.
Wan Lihui has long noticed that there is a lot of garbage in the village. There are garbage piles almost everywhere in the open spaces on the roadside, and some are simply thrown on the road. These garbage cannot be used as fertilizer directly, but after composting, it can be used as fertilizer.
It can be a good base fertilizer for farmland.
All kinds of garbage collected from the whole village soon filled the basket: straw from roof repairs, various chicken and duck feathers, broken baskets thrown outside, broken straw sandals, broken wooden basins...
"Chief Wan, are these things used as fertilizer?" Fu Xi finally couldn't help but ask.
"That's right."
Fu Xi did not continue to ask. Wan Lihui volunteered and began to explain to her what organic matter is, what bacterial decomposition is, and why these things cannot be used directly as fertilizer... He tried his best to instill the principles of fertilizer into Fu Xi. Not really.
He has a strong spirit of cultivating the next generation, but in this way he can speak to Fu Xi legitimately, and at the same time gain the infinite admiration in the girls' eyes.