Farmer’s Blessed Girl

Even if you want to compost, you have to choose a method that you can do. In "The Development History of Farmyard Manure from Ancient Times to the Present", Man Bao has selected three methods that they can do.

And the three mentioned by the author have developed successively. Man Bao feels that one of them is the same as the method of retting at home, and that one is OK, but it is very slow and requires a longer time for retting.

The one they use now is much faster because of the use of thermal insulation measures and the secondary processing of the discarded materials.

Because the weather has warmed up recently, Manbao and the others have decided to plant ginger pieces after a while, and they will need a lot of farmyard manure, so she chose this method.

Seeing that Dad didn't really want to blame her, Man Bao became more courageous and said proudly to him: "Dad, I just thought that this method would be successful or not, so I asked the fourth brother to try it first and wait for it to succeed. I'll tell you again."

Old Zhou Tou was really happy, and he touched the little girl's head with relief: "Man Bao is thinking about comprehensiveness. Just now, my brother and I took a look. This method is really good. It’s just fermented, and it might rot in a few days.”

Man Bao was refreshed and immediately said: "The book says to control the temperature and not let it get too hot, otherwise the fertility will be burned, so when the temperature is too high, you should dig it out to dissipate heat, or let it dry, etc. When the temperature drops, pile it up again, and then pour some dung water for secondary fermentation, Dad, do you think our temperature is high enough?"

How could Lao Zhoutou know that he had never used this method before, and it was the first time he heard that the temperature of the compost heap should not be too high.

But he is someone who has been planting land all his life. Even if he doesn't understand, he can think about it, unlike Shirou, who just listens to what Manbao says and does what he does.

So after a little thought, he asked Dalang to open the straw cover again, and then went to fertilize.

Several sons were left behind by Lao Zhoutou. Of course, Man Bao, who was the only literate person who taught him, was also left behind, and the others and children went back first.

Zhou Xi glanced at the child standing among the adults, and helped her mother back.

Obviously, this fat mess is not a small thing, and the whole family is in battle. Before Zhou Xi knew that Shizu Lang used her as a guise to steal fat, he was so angry that his chest hurt, and he almost couldn't help beating him on the spot. After Man Bao appeared. The mood was ups and downs, but at this time it was peaceful.

The Zhou family who walked back were very quiet, Qian Shi asked Datou and the others to run home first, while he walked slowly with Zhou Xi's hand, and said to her as he walked, "You are too impatient. If something goes wrong in a hurry, be calm in the future.”

When Qian said this, he said, "You still have to learn from your sister. You see how cowardly she was just now, and you know how to look at your father's face first."

Zhou Xi couldn't help but said, "That child is very clever."

Zhou Xi supported her mother, couldn't hold back, and said what she said in her heart, "Mother, if I don't get married in the future, will you raise your younger sister for me?"

Qian Shi was startled, and frowned, "Why do you think so, Man Bao is six years old, and she is still..."

Qian didn't finish his words, but the meaning was obvious.

Zhou Xi said: "I didn't ask her to call me my mother, I just thought, I will have a child to get close to in the future, and I will be old and dying. Someone will look at me and know whether I am dead or alive. Mother, I really don't want to get married."

Qian Shi's face was tense and she didn't speak. Zhou Xi looked at her face and didn't dare to say more, but she showed her intentions.

Man Bao didn't know anything about this, she was squatting far away, watching her brothers were instructed by her father to dig out all the fat in the fat pit and spread it for the sun.

Sure enough, the temperature in the middle of the compost heap is very high. Although Lao Zhoutou has never encountered such a situation, but combined with the little girl who said that the temperature is too high, the fertilizer will be burned, so he knows that this is burning.

So he asked people to push the fat away to dry, so that everyone could see that the first basket of rotten leaves they fell down had turned black, and just touched them with a hoe, and they shattered into pieces, It's faster than they pile up straw.

You know, now they generally have to compost for a year.

From the end of summer to the beginning of spring, the straw may not be rotted until half a year. This is a new method learned from outside the village. In the past, straw was not rotten.

Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang couldn't help but look at each other, and they both felt that the girl really looked like her father, and Man Bao really looked like her father. Back then, the village improved the method of composting that her father bought with two steamed buns.

Old Zhoutou rubbed the fertilizer with his hands and was satisfied, "Yes, let it dry overnight, and then pile it back tomorrow."

He added: "If this method works, we will also dig a pit for composting on the other side of the house, so that the speed will be faster and the fertilizer will be more."

Because Manbao's new method will use animal manure, but the proportion they use is less than the current one, which increases the demand for dead leaves and other soil, which means that they can accumulate more animal manure with the same amount of animal manure. a lot of fat.

For rural people, the most difficult thing about farmyard manure is animal manure, because not everyone has so many livestock.

The reason why their family has it is because their family has a large population and raises a lot of chickens.

Lao Zhoutou planned to dig two big pits beside the compost pile at home to compost together, and hurry up before the rice seeds are planted.

As for the fertilizer needed for the rice seeds, um, let's borrow this manure pile from the fourth child. Didn't this kid steal the family's fertilizer?

Just let him pay for it.

Thursul Lang heard that he didn't need to be beaten or scolded, as long as he made compensation, he immediately responded, completely ignoring the intention of the other master.

Man Bao was concerned about his ginger, and quickly said to the old Zhoutou: "Father, the fat in this pit will be paid to you first, and I will grow fat when I grow ginger, so you have to pay me back."

"It's all said to be lost, why should I pay it back?"

"I don't care, I have to pay it back, otherwise my ginger will not grow well."

The old Zhoutou felt that the girl's posture was very like a crop, and he laughed happily. He nodded and said, "Okay, I will pay you."

Dig one more fat pit, anyway, he doesn't have much else, that is, he has many sons, all of them rushed to the mountains to dig mud and sweep the leaves, as much fat as he wanted.

Sons:  …

Man Bao didn't know anything, so he happily took Lao Zhoutou's hand and went home after receiving his affirmation. Saturday Lang wanted to carry a bookcase for her, but Lao Zhoutou refused.

Old Zhou Tou personally held the bookcase for her, held her little hand and said, "Man Bao, you have to study hard in the school and listen to Mr. Zhuang, do you know?"

Man Bao nodded.

He added: "Read more books, especially this book on composting and farming. If there is anything good in the book, you must tell Dad. When the family earns money, Dad will buy you meat to eat."

"Father, you said the same thing last time. You said that if the family made money, they would buy meat for me, but I didn't buy it. In the end, I bought it."

Old Zhou Tou was dismantled, he smiled, and said, "Your mother is holding the money. Do you want to eat meat? Then you talk to your mother and ask your mother to give you the money."