A man travels through time and becomes a widow, only wanting to pursue a career

"Mom won't be going to the city tomorrow. Erlu, you are going to deliver the goods alone. There are four barrels in total. Are you sure?" Chen Changsheng said to Chen Erlu with a faint smile.

The reason why I chose Erlu was, firstly, because he had given it to me alone once before, and secondly, the three longevity and four happiness gifts were too small, and the lucky man was too honest. All in all, only Chen Erlu was the most suitable.

"I'm sure, I will deliver the goods carefully, and come back to do farm work as soon as I finish the delivery." Erlu nodded solemnly.

The next day.

Chen Erlu packed four barrels of goods and headed for the city in an ox cart.

A thin layer of water was carefully poured into the front and back areas of the house, and the chickens and ducks were also fed with nutritious water. Chen Changsheng locked the yard and led the three children to the fields with tools.

"Mom, aren't we going to irrigate today? Why are we bringing these chickens with us?" Sanshou asked curiously as he followed Chen Changsheng behind the chickens.

"Let them eat grass and catch insects in the fields, so that you don't have to feed the chickens for three years, and the time saved can be used to study more." Chen Changsheng joked.

"Ah, this..." Sanshou wanted to say but didn't dare to say anything.

Not long after the first and third children arrived, they arrived at the edge of their fields.

Many people have started irrigating the fields, but the water has not yet been discharged to their own water trucks, so they can only carry water manually as soon as possible.

"Watch carefully, see how my mother steps on the pedal. She steps up and down alternately with her two feet. Do you see clearly?" Chen Changsheng demonstrated to the children.

"I know. I'll come first. When I'm tired, I'll switch to the third brother." Sixi came first.

As soon as the little girl got on it, she followed her mother's instructions and stepped on it slowly, gradually becoming more and more skilled.

Seeing that Sixi stepped on it smoothly, Chen Changsheng also got into the ground with confidence.

The new roots of the rice have begun to grow, but the leaves are a little yellow.

"Dafu, has our field been fertilized recently?"

"Shi La, I sprinkled plant ash several times. Sanshou followed me several times, and he also pooped several times." Chen Dafu said truthfully.

"How many times did you pull it?" Chen Changsheng was confused, and then suddenly realized.

pull?

It won't be the Laba she imagined.

"Where?"

"It's right where we are standing." Dafu pointed at the feet of the two of them.

Chen Changsheng quickly straightened up and jumped away, frowning and saying, "Don't poop in the ground after calling Sanshou."

In ancient times, plant ash, human excrement, livestock dung, and seedling dung were basically used as fertilizer. There was no livestock dung or seedling dung in her home, and Sanshou was helpless.

"Oh." Dafu nodded and went about his business.

Chen Changsheng looked at the field of rice in front of him and narrowed his eyes.

She still remembered a documentary she had seen before, which said that "Huainanzi" once wrote that "from ten acres of land, the annual harvest is only forty stones." This means that one acre of land can earn four stones a year.

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, one acre was 0.67 acres today, and one stone was kilograms. Converted to modern standards, that is to say, one acre of land yielded about kilograms of grain per year. This was rice in the south.

Modern hybrid rice has high fertilizer and water, a tailor-made formula and precise fertilization method, and mechanized production, so it can produce 500 to 600 kilograms per mu. There is even a special "Yuan's Super Rice" that can produce 500 kilograms per mu. The production capacity reaches 926 kilograms.

The comparison between modern and ancient production is really like heaven and earth.

When I think about it, I feel that ancient people simply lived in dire straits.

Chen Changsheng couldn't care about others, so he could only take care of his own family's land. She sent a few children away, and when no one was around, she secretly turned on the "payment" function of her bracelet and started searching for organic compound fertilizers.

Chen Changsheng actually didn't know much about agricultural production, but there was customer service. She told the customer service about the situation and stage of the rice field, and the customer service recommended a cost-effective fertilizer with good proportions. Chen Changsheng immediately clicked to buy it.

Without a drone to help fertilize, she had to rely on her own hands. She took the time to apply fertilizer ridge by ridge.

After planting several acres of land at home, Chen Changsheng didn't know how much time had passed. He only felt that his whole body was soaked and his limbs did not feel like his own.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? There's sweat all over your forehead." Sixi got off the waterwheel and ran straight over. Seeing Chen Changsheng's flushed face, she asked with concern.

"It's okay, it's too hot today and it makes my mother dizzy."

"Then sit down and rest. The ground will be watered soon." Si Xi helped Chen Changsheng sit down on the field ridge and brought the water bag over.

Chen Changsheng took a sip and couldn't help but read out, "It's noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat is dripping on the soil. Who knows that every particle of the meal is hard work. The description of this poem is really appropriate."

"Mom, what are you talking about?" Sixi tilted her head, listening to what her mother said that she didn't understand.

"Mom is lamenting how difficult it is for us farmers. If you want to eat, you have to face the loess and back to the sky. When you read more books and learn some characters, you will understand the meaning." Chen Changsheng said with a wry smile.

Sixi blinked her big eyes.

Several people worked hard and finally managed several acres of land.

Sanshou drove all the chickens in the field to the shore and said to himself, "Look at your stomachs, they are all round, even rounder than my Sanshou's. What are you eating?" thing."

"Sanshou, what are you and Xiaoji mumbling about?" Dafu said with a smile.

"Brother, let me tell you, our group of chickens ate something good in the field today. They are all round and round. I tried to drive them up just now, but I couldn't drive them away."

"You're not eating our rice, are you?" Chen Dafu looked nervous.

"No way! That would be a disaster."

The conversation between the two brothers caught Chen Changsheng's attention. She got down to the ground again, bent over and carefully checked whether the rice was really eaten by the chickens.

When I opened the rice seedlings, I saw one or two unknown light yellow moths lying on the leaves and eating them.

Then he opened another leaf and saw two dark green bugs lying on the leaf. There were holes in the leaves under them, and some of them had even been eaten up.

"Dafu, come here and take a look." Chen Changsheng shouted.

Chen Dafu also got in, and Sixi also put his head over to take a closer look.

As soon as she got closer, an insect jumped towards her, scaring her face and saying, "Ah, brother, save me!"

Chen Changsheng picked up the bug on Sixi's shoulder and brought it close to his eyes to observe. His expression suddenly changed.

"It's locusts!" She and Chen Dafu said in unison.

"How could...how could...how could locusts appear so early?" Dafu looked panicked and couldn't believe it.

Locusts, the natural enemy of rice! Once they settle on rice leaves and lay eggs, the rice will be harvested.

It is said that when locusts pass through a border, no grass will grow.

Why did the locusts come so early this year? !