Chapter 102： 103 Picking Puhuang, Harvesting Wheat

Chapter 102 103 Picking Puhuang, Harvesting Wheat

Li Yu dried the few kilograms of wild rice separately and sifted it through a sieve. After soaking the rice, he poured it into a wooden barrel filled with lime water and soaked it separately to promote germination.

After soaking the rice seeds for two days, Li Yu led someone to pick the rice seeds to the mountain stream, cleaned the rice seeds and soaked them in the stream water for three hours before picking them home. Lay the sterilized burlap bags on the ground in two layers, pour the rice seeds on the burlap bags and spread them evenly on the burlap bags, and then cover with a layer of burlap bags to promote germination.

Erya looked at the sacks covering the rice seeds and asked Li Yu curiously, "Girl, are you still afraid of it being cold?"

Li Yu patiently taught her, "This is to promote germination. You should always touch it with your hands during the night watch. If the temperature of the rice seeds is too high, remember to gently turn the rice seeds with a bamboo rake, and if they are cold, sprinkle a little warm water. on top."

"Girl, this is the first time I've seen someone serve rice seeds like this. Before, they used to soak them in water and put them in sackcloth bags. The next day when they were hanging on the beams of the house, they were white and they were used to spread the rice seedlings."

Li Yu smiled, "Every family has different farming methods, and you can't go wrong with hard work."

Erya looked at Li Yu admiringly, "You're right, girl, you and Mr. Zhou have so much fortune and work so hard."

Seeing that Erya didn't understand at all, Li Yu was worried that she would damage the rice seeds, "I will guard the rice seeds with you tonight, do you remember how I did it? I'll leave it to you to do it later. already."

"Understood, I will write it down carefully." Erya said seriously.

Li Yu took Erya to turn the rice seeds once at dawn, and at the end of the next day, Li Yu sprinkled water again. In an hour, the rice seeds were handed over to the long-term workers, who carried the rice seeds to the side of the seedling field, sowed them on the ridges, and then sprinkled a layer of rice husk ash on them.

Li Yu brought those wild rice seeds with white and broken chests to the seedling field and sowed them separately.

After sowing the rice seeds, Li Yu was busy, and suddenly remembered that there were still Puhuang and Pucai, and patted his head angrily. He hurriedly went to the pond, and took a look at the lotus roots planted by Jin Jiu and the Pucai. .

Li Yu arrived at the pond. Jin Jiu was throwing alfalfa grass into the pond to feed the fish. When he saw Li Yu coming, he stepped forward and saluted, "Girl, are you done?"

Li Yu nodded and said with a smile: "How about the fish in the pond? How many died?"

"Not much, I just found dead fish twice when I put it in, and I haven't seen it until now," Jin Jiu smiled and pointed to the pond, "Girl, you can see that the lotus root has grown three or four leaves."

Li Yu saw that green lotus leaves were growing on the furrows in the pond, and smiled and praised Jin Jiu, "Well, it's growing well, thank you."

Jin Jiu's dark face was red, "It's not hard or hard, there is food and clothing in the girl's place, and it's hard to be beaten and scold."

Li Yu saw his restrained look, and pointed to the front with a smile, "Can I go and see if Puhuang can be collected?"

"Yes." Jin Jiu bowed and stepped aside, watching Li Yu walk towards the shallow water on the other side of the pond.

Li Yu arrived at the shallow depression covered with pueraria, and saw that the rushes in the depression were already covered with puhuang, the flowers of puhuang had begun to bloom, and it was time to pick puffer.

Li Yu went home and gathered a few women and girls together, asked them to put some vegetable leaves in the back basket and bamboo basket, and carried the back basket and the bamboo basket to the pond.

Erya pointed at Puhuang with the bamboo basket and told Li Yu, "Girl, this yellow thing is called a water candle, we pick it home to dry and smoke the mosquitoes, and the white rod below can also be picked and eaten. "

"The correct names are Puhuang and Pucai," Li Yu said to the women, "please pick some Pucai, and the water candle that Erya mentioned, when picking the upper section of Puhuang. Put it in a bamboo basket."

Jin Cuicui asked Li Yu in a low voice, "Girl, what is that Puhuang for? How do you tie it?"

Li Yu glanced at Jin Cuicui, "Puhuang is a kind of medicinal material, I will show it to you. If you think about the section above the water candle with your hands, just put the Puhuang down."

Everyone looked at Li Yu for a few times, and they all understood, "Girl, we have learned that you can go ahead." Erya said to Li Yu.

Li Yu handed the bamboo basket to Erya, "It's too late to pick the cabbage now, pick less, and come back in the morning tomorrow, and remember to spread the picked cabbage on the drying mat, and be careful not to get wet in the rain. already."

"Girl, don't worry, we'll take it back and dry it." Erya replied crisply.

Li Yu nodded and turned to go to the farm. Zhao Lizi had just come down from the hillside with a basket of eggs on his back, when he saw Li Yu smiling and pointing at the back basket behind him, "Girl, the weather is getting warmer, chickens and ducks lay eggs. There are also more duck eggs and eggs that were picked up by the pond this morning, all of which were handed over to Brother Ruyi to send away. By now, they have picked up another hundred or so. Agou and Alei were still in the ditch when they were mowing the grass. I touched some clam shells and snails and came back to feed the chickens and ducks."

Li Yu looked at the eggs in the basket, "Okay, let Aunt Liu cook them for them. Remember to sprinkle lime under the chicken coop every two weeks to prevent chickens and ducks from getting sick."

"Remember, I just sprayed it a few days ago, and it will take some time to spray it again."

Li Yu came home from the farm and saw the threshing machine being sent back to the village by the blacksmith Xu and Zhaocai, and Zhou Jia was installing it together with them.

Zhou Jia saw Li Yu coming back, pointed at a threshing machine and said with a smile, "Xiaoyu, look at how it goes!"

"I'll give it a try." Li Yu stepped forward with a smile and stepped on the pedal, probably because of his strength, he felt that the drum turned without much effort.

Xu blacksmith pointed to the basket next to him and said to Zhou Jia: "Mr. Zhou, I also prepared some parts that are easy to wear and tear for you. For those connecting positions, you must always touch some oil on them, so that you can use them easily."

Zhou Jia and Li Yu read it over and said to Blacksmith Xu, "Okay, you still think carefully about what you do."

"Where, I will do everything in your house. Of course, you have to do a good job in order to cooperate for a long time. There is one more thing. After you and Miss Li left last time, an old man came to ask if you were from Qingzhou. He came here and said that Miss Li looks like his niece, and asked where you live, but I didn't tell him."

Li Yu shook his head and said, "I don't have uncles or relatives in my family, maybe he made a mistake."

"That's good, I saw his flickering eyes and thought he was not reliable, so I let him go."

Everyone was busy for more than half an hour, loaded all ten threshing machines, took them to Zhuangzi and put them in the warehouse.

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed. After picking Puhuang, Fengming Village turned into a golden field. The golden wheat ears swayed in the wind, setting off waves of golden wheat.

Li Yu's workshop also stopped working, and let the female workers go home to harvest wheat.

Taking advantage of the good weather, all the men, women and children in the village came on stage and hurriedly went home to harvest wheat.

The ox carts of Li Yu's family were pulling the wheat into the village. A Gou and A Lei were also busy in the drying field. They helped the adults unload the wheat from the ox cart and spread the wheat in rows. In the field, we must also pay attention to the changes of the weather at any time. Once the weather is found to be wrong, the wheat must be put into the barn in time to avoid being damaged by the rain.