Farmer sister: Escape from wilderness and farm with Lingquan space

The Qiao family was allocated eleven acres of land, which was almost ten acres less than when they were in Qingzhou Mansion.

However, for these new arrivals, the whole village can only cultivate these lands first. Everyone has not received much, so they can only make do with planting.

Although the land they can allocate is much less, everyone is still very happy, because although the fields are less and the output will definitely be less, they don't have to pay taxes!

The food grown in the wasteland they have reclaimed in the past three years is tax-free, and whatever they grow is theirs.

What does it matter if there are fewer fields? As long as we take care of these lands more carefully, we will definitely be able to support a family.

What's more, the surrounding mountains and forests within a ten-mile radius also belong to their Qingshui Village.

At worst, they can chop wood and sell it for money. Oh, by the way, they also burn charcoal and sell it to General Zheng!

There are also wild vegetables, fruits and medicinal materials produced in the mountains, as well as many prey, which all belong to them!

Therefore, the people of Qingshui Village are not worried at all that there are too few fields to grow food to support their families. These days are much easier than when they were in Qingzhou Prefecture!

Everyone relaxed and accepted this way of dividing the land.

Early the next morning, the old village chief took the heads of every household in the village and went to measure and allocate the land with land measuring tools.

It took a whole day to divide the land. On the second day, everyone carried hoes and rakes and started to go to their own fields, select a piece of suitable size, and prepare to lay out a good level land to start sowing and raising seedlings.

Qiao Ran "bought" the rice seeds from the city, but actually took them out from the basement of her own space.

Although these rice seeds were not the rice seeds she bought specifically in modern times, they were hybrid rice improved by Grandpa Yuan. The yield was naturally much higher than the best rice seeds in this backward ancient time.

Qiao Ran asked. The highest yield of rice in Dai Viet country is three to four hundred kilograms per mu. This is only possible on relatively fertile fields that have been matured for many years and are carefully managed by experienced farmers.

On the other hand, poorer fields generally only produce more than 200 kilograms per mu.

For a newly cultivated farmland like theirs, a yield of 250 kilograms per mu in the first year or two is considered a high yield blessed by God.

Qiao Ran took out these rice crops, which in modern times produce a thousand kilograms per mu, but she couldn't believe that they couldn't grow more than three or four hundred kilograms per mu.

Everyone happily took the rice seeds they received and went back to prepare for germination and sowing. They had no idea how amazing the yield per mu of rice seeds Qiao Ran "bought" for them would be.

Since the Spring Festival, the weather has started to get warmer day by day. Although it is still chilly at night, the sun during the day can already make people sweat.

In this kind of weather, you can start breeding and sowing.

The Qiao family has 11 acres of land, and they plan to plant 10 acres with crops, leaving only one acre for vegetables. After all, food is very important to them at this stage, but the amount of vegetables for a dozen people is not a small amount.

In modern times, one acre of land requires about 2 to 3 kilograms of high-quality rice seeds. Qiao Ran asked her mother-in-law to save kilograms of rice seeds. If she can't grow enough at home, she can distribute them to the villagers.

There was no mechanization in this era. To grow rice, the rice seeds had to be soaked for a few days. After the rice sprouted, it could be spread into a flat paddy field for seedling cultivation.

The first step in raising seedlings is to sift the seeds. You can use a dustpan to throw up the rice, so that the light and unqualified millet can be lifted to the ground. In addition, you can also sift through water immersion.

Qiao Sanhu went to the creek to fetch water. Lin Guizhen poured the rice seeds into the bucket and stirred it a few times with her hands to fully stir all the rice floating on the water into the water.

Then the unfilled rice and empty rice husks will float on the water. Gently pick up these unqualified rice with your hands. What sinks to the bottom of the water is the qualified and full rice seeds.

After sifting the seeds, the second step is to soak them.

When soaking seeds, it is best to use flowing water, otherwise the water will smell bad over time and the seeds will become sticky or even moldy, affecting the germination rate.

And the water temperature should not be too low, it is best to have some warm water.

The water in the mountains is spring water, and the water emerging from the ground is warmer than the air, so it is most suitable to soak the seeds in streams.

Especially the newly dug canal used the hot spring water flowing down from the mountain stream. The temperature was much higher than that of ordinary stream water. So when everyone went to work in the morning, they all planted their own rice seeds. Take it to the ditch in Devil's Valley and soak the seeds.

Pack the seeds in a sack and tie it securely with shrubs and weeds beside the canal. A stone is also placed on top of the sack to prevent the bag from floating and causing the rice seeds above to be immersed in water.

The seeds are not soaked in water all the time, but are soaked in day and dew at night. When work is done in the evening, the sacks are taken home and the rice seeds are spread out so that they can breathe freely in the air.

"Soaking" is to allow the seeds to fully absorb water, which will help the germination of grain buds. The "dew" is to allow the seeds to breathe air. Seeds lacking oxygen will ferment, smell, mold, and rot, so they cannot be immersed in water all the time.

After seed soaking is completed, germination is initiated.

Germination is usually carried out in a place exposed to sunlight, so that the temperature is high and the germination effect is good.

Soak two sacks with good air permeability, spread the rice seeds soaked for one or two days evenly on one sack, and then cover it with another sack.

In order to keep warm, a layer of dry straw should be spread on the ground where the sacks are laid, and the top should also be covered with straw to keep warm.

But they had just opened up the land and had no straw yet, so they used hay as firewood.

During the germination process, the rice seeds should be watered with warm water every half a day to avoid lack of water and failure to sprout, or the sprouts will dry out.

Qiao Ran took over the task of watering the rice seeds because she wanted to use the spiritual spring water in her space to water the rice seeds.

Although the yield of these modern rice species is definitely several times higher than that of this era, to be on the safe side, she decided to use spiritual spring water to bless it, which might even improve the disease resistance and yield of these rice species.

Perhaps it was the effect of the Lingquan water. At noon the next day, when Qiao Ran was watering the rice, she opened the sack and saw that the rice seeds that had absorbed the water had already revealed some white buds.

I turned it over carefully and found that all the rice seeds were exposed and sprouted.

The rice seeds can be sown when they turn white. If the buds grow longer, they will break easily and are not conducive to growing in the ground.

The Qiao family was the first to sow seeds in the village, while other families only sprouted and sowed seeds on the third day.

But everyone is not surprised that there is a little fairy boy Qiao Ran in the Qiao family. What does it mean to be sowing seeds one day ahead of them? It’s not surprising that he’s harvested ten days ahead of them!