The cannon fodder of fast wear, she chooses to farm

Chapter 1045 The Lazy and Bad Sister-in-Law of the Blessed Nongmen (40)

The county magistrate happily returned to the county office with the seeds and the idea of ​​"a bucket of ginger mountain".

Xu Yin simply divided up the few remaining seeds, and gave each member of the literacy class a handful.

"See? These seeds are even cherished by the county magistrate. Take them home and cultivate them carefully. Whoever plants them well will be rewarded with a lotus head. When the lotus roots are harvested in autumn, you can pick one."

"Oh—we also have rewards!"

This made Goudan, who didn't get the top three rewards, cheer happily, took the seeds carefully, and went home to cultivate them.

Their family learned that even the county magistrate attached great importance to these seeds. How could there be any reason not to support them?
Not only supporting, but also rushing to wait for it, for fear that the little bastard will hurt these seeds, and if they can't grow them later, it is a small matter to lose the reward, but it is a big matter to waste the seeds of the Western Regions.

The remaining handful were planted by Xu Yin in a separate test field in her own vegetable garden.

Of course she knew what the seeds were, cauliflower, onion, tomato, sweet potato, strawberry, kale and more.

That's right, she mixed in the king of high-yielding crops, sweet potato seeds.

Sweet potatoes can usually be planted directly with tubers, but the tubers are too big. When buying seeds in Chunzhou Prefecture, Comrade Xiaojin was by her side, so she couldn't do small tricks.

Fortunately, I have a bag of high-quality sweet potato seeds in my hand. I forgot which Small World stockpiled them. I took them out and mixed a few seeds in it, hoping to feed more people.

During this period, collective lotus ponds were set up in Xiaowa Village.

It's just that although it's called Hetang, this year we don't plant lotus roots, we raise ducks first.

The hatched ducklings are placed in a unified duck shed next to the lotus pond. When they grow up, they go to the rice fields to weed and peck insects. After the rice fields are filled with water, they are allowed to forage freely in the lotus pond.

With the collective lotus pond, the villagers are busy with the summer harvest, and they don’t have to go to the town to do part-time work. They will exchange how much work points they have earned with each other every day, and look forward to how much money they will get at the end of the year.

Once life is fulfilled, there will be less unhappiness caused by trivial matters, and the Xiaowa villages under Lizheng's jurisdiction are harmonious.

Xu Yin didn't notice the changes in the village. The lotus in her lotus pond bloomed!
The pink and tender flower buds are rushing to bloom before and after the summer harvest. The large white petals with pink inside are opened in layers, revealing the bright yellow stamens.

So, after finishing the summer harvest, Xu Yin would come to the lotus pond every morning.

Comrade Xiao Jin was sitting in the gazebo fishing, and she was sitting next to him with her chin propped up, admiring the lotus.

Watching the lotus bloom from the beginning to the full bloom, watching the lotus sprouting from the lotus heart, watching the fish playing among the lotus leaves, I feel very wonderful.

The liveliness and beauty in front of her eyes made her feel that this is the leisurely world of vacation!
In the small world of comprehension, besides getting some water from the spiritual spring, spiritual fog and spiritual lake, what else is there?
system:……

That is for you to nourish your soul, not for you to replenish.

"Are you thirsty?"

Cui Mengjin just caught a grass carp, threw it into a bucket beside him, added bait, and threw the fishing rod back into the lake again, then turned to look at Xu Yin, "Drink some water?"

He picked up the kettle on his left, and was about to pour her a glass when he heard Lizheng's energetic and loud voice:
"Meng Jin—"

"Meng Jin's daughter-in-law—"

Xu Yin couldn't help laughing: "Do you feel that Li Zheng is getting younger and younger recently? Is this what is often said, 'People are happy when they have happy events'?"

As soon as the words fell, Li Zheng's hearty laughter came: "Meng Jin's daughter-in-law, how did you guess that there is a happy event?"

"..."

What a happy event!

The county magistrate of Chen allocated 500 taels of silver to them in Xiaowa Village, saying that he supported them in building a collective lotus pond and building related workshops.

On the bright side, the collective lotus ponds in Xiaowa villages inspired the fourth prince, and the memorials he handed in about collective projects in various villages according to local conditions were appreciated by His Majesty. In fact, it was mainly due to the bucket of Jiangshan.

The fourth prince was canonized as the crown prince!
He wanted to reward Cui Mengjin and his wife well, but he was worried that other princes would find out, just like when he found out the existence of the couple through Zhou Zhihai, it would not be worth the loss if he played tricks behind his back. In the name of supporting Xiaowa villages to build collective lotus ponds, a sum of money was donated.

The magistrate of Chen County, Rang Lizheng, took out 100 taels, and rewarded the villagers who supported the collective lotus pond project according to their merits.

Xu Yin, the proposer, contributed the most. He got 30 taels, Lizheng collected 60 taels, and the remaining [-] taels were shared equally between the two villages who cleaned up the lotus pond silt, the strong laborers who worked hard in the early stage, and the families who provided duck seedlings.There are about one or two per person.

Before the Chinese New Year, there is money to get, and everyone's hearts are even hotter.

Seeing that Xu only got 30 taels, the county magistrate Chen felt that it was too little, but he couldn't go back and let Lizheng redistribute it, so he took another 50 taels out of his own pocket, and rewarded her in the name of seeds from the Western Regions.

Xu Yin asked curiously: "The seeds brought back by the adults, have they all been planted?"

Otherwise, why reward her?

County Magistrate Chen: "..."

Uh, he sent someone to send the bag of seeds to the prince together with the idea of ​​"a bucket of ginger mountain". In this letter, the prince didn't mention this matter. How could he know if it was planted or not.

He could only vaguely say, "It's being tested."

Xu Yin thought that he was busy with business and didn't pay attention to the progress, so he didn't care.

Those seeds were all selected and cultivated after several generations of selection, and the survival rate was extremely high.

What she was worried about was that these people would waste it if they didn't know what to eat after planting it, so she asked the county magistrate to move it to the backyard of her house.

"My lord, this was planted by a commoner's wife with the leftover seeds. It's just that the time is too short. Currently, these are the only ones that have matured...

This should be a fruit, it tastes sweet and juicy, and it is often visited by birds before it is ripe.Adults can try it, because there are not many, and the remaining women plan to keep the seeds and continue planting next year.

This kind of flower-like vegetable, the women don't know what it is called, but it looks like a flower, so they simply call it cauliflower. The women and the head of the family have already tasted it, and the taste is not bad. The adults take a few back to try it out.

This kind of red fruit, the women thought it was a fruit, it is sweet and sour when eaten raw, but I didn’t expect that it can also be made into dishes, scrambled eggs and boiled soup are delicious..."

County magistrate Chen clicked his tongue in amazement: "I didn't expect the dishes in the Western Regions to be so...uh, strange. Some grow like flowers, and some grow like fruits..."

He decided to write a letter to His Highness the Crown Prince as soon as he got back, and don't throw it away as poisonous weeds and fruits just because they don't look like ordinary vegetables and fruits.

Xu Yin clicked to the end.

No way, sweet potatoes and onions are still too early to mature.

Especially onions, the growth process is the longest, and it will be next year when they can be eaten, so please invite the county magistrate to come to your house to taste them.I just hope that they don't treat the green leaves of sweet potatoes and onions as vegetables. If they eat up the leaves before the fruit grows, they will turn over the ground, and those seeds will be useless to her.

(End of this chapter)