Generals take care of their children: The master mother leads the system to farm

When Wei Mancheng's master and servants and Hu Chunshan and his son arrived at the foot of the bamboo forest, what they saw was not the scene of women working hard in the fields, but...

"Mom, it's dirty here..." The little girl lifted up the wet dirt that was stuck on her feet and blinked.

Li Changle exhaled a breath of foul air, "Mom will scrape it for you with a bamboo stick."

"And here..." The little girl stretched out ten fingers, each of which was covered with dirt.

Li Changle: "...How did you manage to cover each finger with such...even amounts of soil?"

She carefully bent the little girl's hand, and it looked like chocolate finger biscuits...

"And..." Without checking, the little girl's dirty little hand grabbed a dirty spot on her own pants and pointed at her knee, "Mom, it's dirty here too."

The corners of Li Changle's mouth twitched. It had only been less than half an hour since the little girl got off the bed, and she had already turned into a dirty child.

"I'm telling you, don't expect me to let you go. You have to do whatever I do. No matter how dirty it is, you still have to do it."

She scraped the dirt off the little girl's shoes and ignored the dirt on her hands.

She lifted the little girl to the edge of the field and said, "Come, I'll dig a hole, and you put two seeds in it. Then, use a small shovel to cover it with soil and pat it. Will you do that?"

"meeting!"

"Come and try."

The little girl grunted as she grabbed a handful of seeds, picked two and put them in the hole. She then scooped up two handfuls of soil with her hands to cover the shallow hole, and then patted it.

After thinking about it, he felt unsatisfied, so he stood up and jumped and stomped on it firmly with his feet.

"Mom?" The little girl looked at her mother expectantly with an expression that said "please praise me".

Li Changle stared at the ground where she had stepped hard, "...it should be OK now."

The excited little girl was encouraged, "Mom, hurry up and dig, we still need to plant!"

"...Good, the fish are great." She turned around and asked Leng Yi, who was wielding a hoe and plowing the land at the other end, with some concern, "Have you ever planted the land before? Will the soil be stepped on too hard? Will the seedlings grow?"

Leng glanced at the corn seeds in the cloth bag. He had never seen this thing before. "I don't know. But the young lady has that little strength...it should be fine."

After hearing this, Li Changle felt that it was okay.

I am always not confident about what I think, but when others say it, it seems to make sense...

She continued to dig the hole in front, and the little girl behind her stuck out her little butt to bury the corn seeds, jumping and stepping on them a few times.

There are also many villagers working in the fields, and most of the fields in this row are planted with sweet potatoes.

Gradually extending outward, there were also people tilling the land, preparing to plant other seasonal crops. The farmers wearing headscarves and tending the fields would occasionally stand up and look towards Li Changle.

After Li Changle finished digging a long row of shallow pits, he sat down on a small stool and drank a few sips of water.

"I'm so tired." She held her waist and grinned.

The farmer is mighty.

She bent her waist for just a moment and didn't want to move anymore. It was hard for the hard-working people who had to face the earth and the sky for most of their lives, working from sunrise to sunset, regardless of wind or rain.

Wei Mancheng and others were walking towards the mother and daughter.

Hu Dexian was helped down to the field by his son. He couldn't wait to open the two seed bags to see what kind of grain seeds were inside.

As soon as Li Changle's butt touched the small stool, he didn't want to get up. When the fish came in front of him and saw that there was no pit to bury the seeds, he started digging a hole with his own hands.

Li Changle was pleased to see this. She picked up a cherry from the basket, lifted the stem, and motioned to the little girl to open her mouth. "Eat a fruit to make your mouth sweeter. Work hard! When the corn can be broken, the first corn I cook will be saved for you."

"Are you tired? If you are, take a break. If you are not, continue digging holes for fun." This piece of land had been plowed before, so digging holes was not a strenuous task.

Seeing this scene, Jixiang, who was not far away, couldn't help but roll his eyes at the sky, "Is this the real mother? The child is so young, yet she orders him around."

Wei Mancheng's eyes swept across the mother and daughter, paused at Leng Yi, and then turned back to the ground under his feet as if nothing had happened.

The ground beneath his feet was where corn seeds had been sown earlier. He bent down and grabbed the compacted soil with his hands. With just two grabs, a few tiny corn kernels mixed in the soil were dug out.

"Do you recognize this thing?" He asked Jixiang, twisting the seed in his hand.

He is not a pedantic scholar who only studies books. Although he knows everything about people's livelihood, he is not completely ignorant of it either.

The things in his hands were truly beyond his understanding.

Jixiang observed it for a long time, frowned and shook his head, "I don't recognize it. My father took me everywhere when I was a child, and I stayed in the farm a lot, but I have never seen this thing."

As they were puzzled, Hu Dexian on the other side also had a row of huge question marks on his forehead.

He grabbed a handful of corn seeds and let them slip from his fingertips. "Madam Li, this is what you called... corn? Food?"

Li Changle started digging holes again, while answering him, "Muramasa, this thing can not only be dried and ground into powder to make cakes, steamed buns, and steamed buns, but also used to cook dishes and make soup. There are many ways to eat it, and it tastes sweet."

Hu Chunshan brought his father to the field and spontaneously joined the ranks of those planting corn. He took the hoe from Leng Yi's hand and started digging a hole for the little girl.

A light pass of the hoe made a shallow hole. The little girl became more excited and buried the seeds quickly, stepping on them with great speed.

Hu Dexian watched the sowing for a while, then reached out and scooped up a handful of upland rice seeds.

"Doesn't rice...have to grow in paddy fields?" Having taken care of crops all his life, he suddenly felt that he was still ignorant.

"Old village chief, this is dry rice! Rice seeds grown directly on dry land." Li Changle was afraid of being caught by Hu Dexian and explaining in detail, so he added: "I don't know if it can be grown well. This is... just a test field. Let's plant it and see."

How can it not be planted well?

The ordinary seeds in the system mall have much stronger vitality when placed in reality.

When Hu Dexian heard this, his old eyes lit up.

Apart from the sandy and rocky land at the foot of the Daqing Mountain, the majority of the farmland in his Lushui Village is dry land.

Looking around, there are large tracts of arable land, but except for a small part of the field near the shallow river, the rest is dry land.

In normal years, the harvest, after deducting taxes, is just enough to feed the family. There isn’t much more, and even if you try to save, you won’t be able to save much.

When faced with natural disasters or man-made calamities, the situation in the villages is more difficult than in other villages.

The terrain of Lushui Village is relatively high and the soil is not very good. It is considered a relatively poor village in Li County.

Even in the fist-sized Xiaozhou Village a few steps away, the per-acre yield of fields is better than that of Lushui Village.

Although they are both villages at the foot of Daqing Mountain, Leshui River favors some over others, and the soil is also different. Isn't it infuriating?

Hu Dexian was thinking about whether the ground under his feet was dry or wet. "If I plant the rice like this, will it survive? Will it sprout?"

Li Changle could hear the urgency in his words. "Well... I'm trying to grow it right now, so it should work."

"I wonder if Madam Li has any extra corn and rice seeds. I would like to try growing some as well."

It was Wei Mancheng's voice, and he and Jixiang also came over.

Hu Dexian's face twitched. This kid speaks quite fast.

He refused to give in. "If there is any, Madam Li, please give some to this old man... I can't just take it for free, can I buy it with money?"

Li Changle couldn't bear to say no, after all, rice was not a strange crop for the people of the Great Yan Dynasty.

Just plant it.

However, she also said something ugly in advance, "I can't guarantee the harvest. I've already said that I'm just trying it out. I can't be sure that I won't get any harvest..."

Hu Dexian didn't care much and waved his hand, "No matter how bad it is, can it be compared to the drought in the past two years? I don't want much, just four acres of seeds, two acres of rice seeds and two acres of corn seeds." He was not so senile as to plant all the land at home with these new seeds.

As they were talking, several old farmers who were tilling the land nearby came over.

After hearing what Muramasa said, he looked at the two loosely plowed fields. An old farmer who was interested in what he said followed Hu Dexian and said, "Madam Li, we only grow wheat once a year. What else can we grow at other times?"

They planned to prepare the land and plant melons, beans, and seasonal vegetables.

Now, when they heard that there were grain varieties that could be harvested without watering, in addition to the old farmer who spoke up, the others were also interested.

Food is the lifeblood of farmers.

If you can collect one more handful, your child can eat two more bites.

Wei Mancheng also found it funny when listening to the old farmer's words. This woman didn't look like someone who knew how to farm, yet these old farmers who had served farmers all their lives actually asked her such questions.

There are many mysteries surrounding this woman. It is very puzzling whether the fruits, vegetables and melons that she brings out from the courtyard one after another can meet the daily needs of a large restaurant.

There seemed to be many secrets hidden in the dilapidated house of two or three rooms.

The strangest thing is... these fruits, vegetables and melons are all high-quality varieties, and some of them have never been seen in the north or south.

Li Changle was thinking at this moment that there were still a lot of potatoes in Leshan Villa, but they were all planted in greenhouses with space seeds, and the fruits could not be saved for seeds.

Therefore, compared to sweet potatoes, potatoes are still relatively unknown. Only people who have been to Wanjia Restaurant and ordered potatoes on the menu have eaten them, and people who went to the farm to help in the early days have eaten them. They generally think that it is just a cooking ingredient.

just now……

It's not impossible to let them grow potatoes with ordinary seeds.

She asked Leng to go back to the yard. There were potatoes in the cellar. She took them out as samples and let these people take a look.

This thing is also filling and is not much worse than sweet potato.

Although Leng Yi was reluctant to leave the place in front of him, he knew that nothing would happen here in a short while, so he had to obey and quickly go to the other side of the hillside to get potatoes from the yard.

Li Changle turned around and talked to a few old farmers. She pointed at the corn seeds and rice seeds in the cloth bag and said:

"My dear elders, I just got these two during the trial planting period. I was hoping for a good harvest. If you want to plant them, I will give you more seeds.

If you really want it now, you can try planting it like I did.

I'll ask Leng Yi to go back and get another thing. You can wait and see. Planting that thing is no worse than these two."

"Eh? Maybe your sons and grandsons have eaten that thing at my house..."

Indeed, several times when the young and strong people in the village were called upon to help, a large pot of spicy and sour potato shreds would be served as a treat for lunch or snacks.

Hu Dexian vaguely guessed what it was, and he asked a few old farmers to sit and wait on the side, so as not to delay Madam Li from digging holes and burying seeds.

Yu'er and Hu Chunshan had already dug to the other side of the field. Every time they buried a row of seeds, the little girl excitedly called her mother to show her the results of her labor.

Li Changle naturally flattered her like crazy without asking for any money.

What complicated thoughts could the little girl have? She just wanted a few words of compliment.

If you praise her, she will be happy for a while.

Leng Yi was very fast. Soon he came down the slope to the field with half a sack of potatoes in his hands.

As soon as he put the sack in front of the people, several old farmers couldn't wait to come over, and Hu Dexian was no exception.

There are still some empty vegetable plots next to his house...

Li Changle took out a potato from the sack.

This potato is really big, weighing about one pound each.

The quality of food crops grown from space seeds is really not exaggerated.

She took out several potatoes and asked them to hold them in their hands to feel their weight. "This is called potato. It can be fried or roasted. It tastes soft and sticky and can fill you up. It's more palatable than coarse flour cakes."

It is said that the land where this plant is grown does not need to be watered often and is drought-resistant. "

The coarse noodles nowadays are real coarse noodles, the kind that haven’t even been sifted out of the husks, and they are very irritating to the throat when eaten.

The old farmers didn't even bother to pick up their pipes, they took the potatoes and began to examine them over and over again.

"This lump is so big..."

"Hold your hands tight..."

"…How come we haven't seen it before? Have you seen it?"

"Could it be from the south?"

"Hey... my eldest son seems to have brought this thing back, and he said it was given by the manager of the farm. It tastes soft and is better than coarse noodles..."

Li Changle also remembered that the system task of the hundred acres of fertile land had called on the young and strong people in the village to help harvest sweet potatoes for several days in a row.

She had asked Liu Tiechui to distribute sweet potatoes and potatoes as snacks.

Hu Dexian asked again, how much the yield per mu can be.

Li Changle gave a conservative number.

But even such a conservative number made several old farmers so excited that their faces turned red and they almost fainted.

There was an old man with a white beard, carefully stroking the potatoes in his hand, his lips trembling, "Two or three thousand catties... Two or three thousand catties, son, am I dreaming?"

"Hey, hey, if we can really get the seedlings, we'll plant them!"

"Yes, yes! Let's buy the seedlings! Madam Li is so kind!"

The temptation of food was so great that Li Changle ordered seeds and seedlings from her on the spot without thinking.

Five old farmers ordered a total of five acres of dry rice and ten acres of potatoes.

Wei Mancheng has one acre of dry rice and one acre of corn.

Hu Dexian let himself go and asked for one acre of dry rice, one acre of corn, and three acres of potatoes.

Li Changle asked a few people to come back in two days to get seeds and seedlings, but they are not available now.

Are you kidding? Who keeps food and seedlings at home all the time? If you say you have them, you have them. If you say you want to sell them, you sell them.

The old farmers went back to their own fields, and huddled together whispering to each other as they left.

"Let alone two or three thousand, if there is one weighing 1,800 kilograms, the old man will be happy."

Li Changle thought, if we can dig out three to five thousand kilograms per acre, old man, you have to hold on.