Whose farming family has the male protagonist giving three piglets as a gift at the beginning?

In the blink of an eye, it was September and the drizzle continued. When the rain stopped, everyone hurried to sow rapeseed.

In the first year, they had no experience and they all planted one or two acres at first. Only the Su family planted twenty acres at once.

They planted it in the fertile land that was awarded as a reward. If there were not enough seeds, Su Ziling would have planted rapeseed on all 50 acres of land.

That is to say, they have a lot of pigs and cows at home, so there is a lot of manure. Otherwise, the harvest would not be very good even if they planted so many crops.

Of the remaining thirty acres, she used twenty acres to plant potatoes. The location was a bit far, so planting was a bit troublesome, and it was difficult to transport things like manure.

Fortunately, her family had a lot of manure, so the manure was dry, which was easier to remove, and the wet manure was also fermented a little, which was specially used as topdressing for sugarcane.

Lead the cows out and load the goods with sacks. They can pull more than ten bags at a time. Two big cows will be enough for two trips.

Because it was a festival, the family hired people to help plant rapeseed and potatoes. There were more than a dozen people, and we finished planting in two days.

We start digging sweet potatoes in October. After two years of composting, the land has become more fertile and more mature.

The sweet potato yield per mu has also doubled from more than 400 kilograms at the beginning to more than 900 kilograms now.

Unlike when she first came here, the soil was all virgin soil and it was difficult for crops to grow.

After digging up the sweet potatoes, people were not in a hurry to sell them. Instead, they took advantage of the rain to plant the early spring sweet potatoes.

After Xiaochun finished her work, every household carried the sweet potatoes to the river to wash them. After washing off the dirt and drying them, they were sent directly to the Su family's workshop.

Every October, every village is very lively, just like Chinese New Year. After selling sweet potatoes and getting the money, everyone goes to the market to buy a few pounds of meat to enjoy a feast.

Of course, places like Baihua Cave are busy every month, from May to August, when everyone is busy picking mushrooms, and a lot of money can be made from the mushrooms alone.

Corn harvest began in late August to early September. It was a bumper harvest, and the house was filled with golden grains. Everyone was so happy to see it.

We start digging and selling sweet potatoes in October, and start picking and selling olives at the end of October.

In November, we are busy weeding. In December, we start picking and selling radishes. Then we prepare for the New Year’s pig meal and pickle various pickles. On the eve of the New Year, we are busy pounding rice cakes, preparing New Year’s goods, and cleaning to welcome the new year.

After the New Year, we start going up the mountain to pick white flowers, beat ferns, and dry vegetables. In February, we start harvesting and selling peas.

At the end of the year, there is almost always something to sell and income. In addition to these, there are also people working in workshops, and their monthly wages are also increasing day by day.

In November, the few plots of sugarcane planted by Su Ziling were ready to be cut. Last year, she, Su Zizhong and Su's father worked together to pick the sugarcane roots. (Dialect, meaning to cut)

This year she couldn't go to the fields, so Su's father and Su Zizhong went to pick the weeds with a specially made small hoe.

Each hoe can cut down two or three sugarcanes, and the sugarcanes have to be pushed to one side to make it easier for the people behind to trim the leaves.

Two people were responsible for knocking it down, while Su's mother, Wang Anan and Old Man Su were responsible for trimming the leaves.

All the dry leaves and sugarcane tips should be trimmed and burned, but the sugarcane tips should be sorted out, tied up and taken back to feed the cows.

If you can’t finish eating it in a short time, you can dry it and store it. When there is no grass or it rains, you can feed it with sugarcane tips.

After the leaves of the sugarcane are trimmed, they are thrown together, tied up with bamboo strips in groups of twenty, and then carried to the roadside.

The bamboo strips are cut early and rolled up while they are still wet. When it is time to cut sugarcane, they are taken out and soaked in water overnight. The soaked bamboo strips are more resilient and less likely to break.

After all the sugar canes were cut, they were transported back home. The first batch of perennial sugar canes was still growing well, so Su Ziling didn’t plan to turn them over yet. She planned to keep them for another two years and use them for seed. (We grow sugar canes, and the soil is usually turned over every three or four years, and sometimes even five years.)

For the newly planted ones this year, wait until it rains next year and the seeds sprout before fertilizing and adding soil. Just keep an eye out for insects at all times.

She plans to use the first sugarcanes from the new sugarcanes she planted this year to make sugar, and will keep the perennial sugarcanes from last year for seeds.

It just so happened that there were ten acres of vacant land granted by the emperor, which was just right for growing sugarcane.

She also discovered that the yield per mu in the fields was higher, about three tons, while that in the mountains was only one and a half tons, half of that in the fields. (In 97, the yield per mu in the mountains was four tons, while that in the fields was eight or nine tons. Considering the fertilizer, the yield was cut in half.)

This is the result of their family applying manure many times. If there was less manure, the sugarcane would probably be as good as a fire stick.

It took three or four days to cut and transport the sugarcane back, and even then we had to hire someone to help.

Looking at the sugarcane piled up like a mountain in the yard, Grandpa Su and the others were very happy.

"Finally I'm done. The production of this thing is pretty good. I didn't expect there would be so much."

Father Su was so tired that he stuck out his tongue. The skin on his shoulders was peeling from carrying sugarcane these past two days.

"If we don't have such a high yield, we'll be sorry for it. Think about it, we have to take care of it every day, water it when it's dry, we shovel it when it grows grass, we fertilize it four times a year, and we have to cultivate the soil. If there are insects, we have to kill them immediately. This is only Xiaoqing's job. How can you change it for someone else?"

Father Su waved his hands and said, "That's impossible. You can't even grow any crops."

"My goodness, this is the first time I know there are such delicate crops. I take better care of them than I do my parents."

Su Ziling couldn't hold it in any longer and said, "At a time like this, you should look for the reasons why you didn't respect your grandparents well enough."

Father Su looked at her with disbelief, pointed at himself, then pointed at Grandma Su and the others. At that moment, he was really speechless.

Grandma Su patted her head gently, "Here you go again, you dare to tease your dad, right?"

Su Ziling smiled and touched his head. "Although it is a bit tiring to plant sugarcane this way, the harvest is gratifying. We can dig up the roots again in three years. During this period, we just need to fertilize and cultivate the soil normally. Of course, the most important thing is to pay attention to insects and weeds. Wait for another two months, and when the wind is not strong, we will go and burn the leaves. We have to burn them before they sprout."

Su's mother was puzzled, "Won't this burn its roots to death?"

"No, the sugarcane has a well-developed root system, just like grass, and it cannot be killed by burning. There is a saying that goes 'spring breeze brings new life'. If we burn it, it will grow better next year."

After hearing her words, everyone suddenly understood.

Lu Yan didn't expect that not only could she grow the sugarcane, but the yield was also quite high.

Even in the country of origin, Chu, as far as he knew, the yield per mu was not that high. It could be seen from the thickness of the sugarcane she grew that it was indeed much thicker than the seeds they brought back.

Grandma Su asked the question that everyone was concerned about, "Now that the sugarcane has been harvested, how are we going to make sugar? When are you going to start?"

Su Ziling stood up from his chair, clapped his hands and said, "It's better to do it today than to wait for a day. Of course, we have to start today!"