Husband and wife are hot on the kang

At the beginning of June, it was a little dry, but there was still no shortage of water in the field. After shoveling one side of the field, the crops in the field were growing well, especially on the side of Shibalipu, a potato field.

On a June day, the face of a child.

One moment the sky was clear and the next moment it was covered with dark clouds. People went home or looked for shelter from the rain.

Strong winds blew, followed by torrential rain.

Yu Liangji looked at the heavy rain outside, and the corners of his mouth kept curling up. With this rain, the crops in the field would not be short of water, which is barely considered a good weather.

Shi Hongda came in with a plate of apricot cakes: "Taste the freshly made apricot cakes in the kitchen."

In addition to the apricot flower cake, there is also a cup of hot soy milk. Hou Fu has a large population and has a mill of its own, which can grind rice noodles and tofu.

"Yeah." Yu Liangji took a piece and ate it, and the light apricot scent filled it: "It tastes really good! It's not sweet or greasy, and it's soft and delicious. It really is the handicraft of Mrs. Huang."

"Yeah, it's delicious, and there are goose eggs in it. Most people put eggs in it." Shi Hongda joked: "Fortunately, our family has a lot of goose eggs."

"At the beginning of spring this year, the family raised a hundred goslings." Shi Hongda felt a headache when he thought of the group of goslings: "Can you manage to raise so many goslings?"

Farmers all know that poultry cannot be raised too much, otherwise it is easy to get plague, otherwise everyone raises poultry, and eggs will not be so expensive.

"If you can make it, just listen to me, spread it out, and make sure it can be cultivated." How big is this?In the past, he used to have [-] geese, laying hens, and even shemp ducks in large-scale farms.

People can also feed well, especially later, when green farming is popular there, those chickens, ducks and geese are all free-range, and all they eat are cordyceps seeds, and all they drink is clean river water, and occasionally they can eat Some small fish and shrimp.

If you feed big poultry like that, the eggs laid, even the yolks are yellow-red, and they will ooze oil when pickled.

"Okay, you can toss as you like." Shi Hongda put the soy milk in front of him: "Drink some soy milk, I put some honey in it."

There is no beany smell after putting honey, but a floral fragrance.

"Yeah." Drinking hot soy milk made me feel warmer. Although it was hot in June, the temperature didn't get too high when it rained outside.

It rained for a whole day, sparsely, and didn't stop all night, but the next day it was sunny and the temperature rose rapidly, but it looked like summer.

The weather was scorching hot, and everyone was sunburned.

Many people's apricot trees are already bearing fruit, and in the orchard of the Hou Mansion, Yu Liangji has also started pruning and picking fruit. Too many fruit trees will bear fruit, which will also increase the burden on the fruit trees.

Maintaining fruit trees is time-consuming and laborious. Shi Hongda was afraid that he would be too busy, but Yu Liangji didn't want others to intervene, so Shi Hongda had to follow behind him and learn how to take care of fruit trees.

In addition to plums, the fruit trees also have apricots and sago.

These are the few fruits in the north. Even hawthorns cannot be planted here. The seasons of spring, summer and autumn are too short. Winter takes up almost four months, and there are two more months of thawing. The remaining six months occupy three quarters respectively.

There is only one month in spring, one month in autumn, and the rest is summer.

If it weren't for the long summer, this northern land wouldn't even be able to grow food.

"When the sago is ripe, slice it, dry it, and make fruit tea." Yu Liangji told them that they only sliced ​​the sago that they couldn't eat, and then chewed it dry or soaked it in water.

"Fruit tea?" Shi Hongda had only drank tea made from tea leaves, not fruit tea.

By the way, what is fruit tea?

"When I'm done, you'll know." He couldn't say clearly. He didn't know what it was at the time. Later, his instructor told him. In order to help fruit farmers sell their fruits, the instructor found several people. Fruit tea recipe.

Put it on the Internet to sell, but it is booming.

When taking care of the fruit trees, I didn't forget to toss the experimental field. He used the fertile land and found a piece of saline-alkali land.

It was a barren place, Shi Hongda looked at the saline-alkali land in front of him in puzzlement: "What do you want this place for?"

Saline-alkali land is a place with too much salt and alkali to grow plants.

"Let's dig a hole, dig out the top layer of soil." Yu Liangji directed the manpower to dig a big hole.

Shi Hongda was puzzled, but he also worked together, dug a hole in the saline-alkali soil, two shovels deep, dug out a lot of soil, and moved it away to form a low wall.

Surround the area.

"Throw in the retting manure and dry cow dung, and stir it with the saline-alkali soil!" Yu Liangji began to toss.

Although he has researched urea and chemical fertilizers, he still likes greener things, so he didn't use those radical methods, but chose to slowly change the soil quality.

This saline-alkali land is his preferred test site. There is not much fertile land, but I believe there must be a lot of saline-alkali land.

If you can change such a place, it must be a great merit!

The land in the north is fertile, but not necessarily elsewhere.

For example, in those barren places, maybe the land there is stronger than saline-alkali land, and crops can be grown, but they must not grow very well.

Otherwise, the higher-ups would not have paid so much attention to his research results.

But that can only cure the symptoms, not the root cause. A large amount of chemical fertilizers and urea are used every year, and plants can only grow once. If the soil quality can be changed for a long time, can we grow food without relying on chemical fertilizers and urea in the future?

After all, this era is not so developed. All urea and fertilizers are artificially refined, which is a bit troublesome!

Improving the soil quality is the only way to get rid of the root cause.

After tossing around for thirteen times and two more rains, one morning, Shi Hongda went out for a run, and when he ran near the saline-alkali land, he felt something was wrong.

Walking over, the sharp-eyed he found that the place was originally bare, but now, there are five or six green things that don't know what it is!

Yu Liangji had trouble getting up, and it was difficult for him to be woken up before he woke up, so he was always the head of the house, the one who slept until he woke up naturally.

As long as it's nothing serious or necessary, he sleeps well.

It's the same today, last night Shi Hongda tormented him half the night, he wanted to scratch him so much, he didn't know when he fell asleep.

In the morning, he was sleeping and dreaming, the mountains and plains were full of flowers, the flowers of various fruit trees, from the mango tree in the south to the apricot tree in the north, all kinds!

It blooms, bears fruit soon, and matures soon, and I can smell the fruit in my dreams...  

It was beautiful, and was woken up by someone.

"Get up! Get up!" Shi Hongda didn't dare to shake him vigorously, knowing that he had hypoglycemia, so he could only keep yelling in his ear.

"What are you doing!" Yu Liangji turned over and pulled the quilt over his head.

Unfortunately, summer!

The quilt is also thin and not soundproof!

"There's something growing there!" Shi Hongda gently pawed him, "Get up and have a look!"

When Yu Liangji wanted to improve the saline-alkali land, everyone in the village was very surprised. Even the old village head and Grandpa Che felt that Master Hou was whimsical.

But even if what Hou Ye wanted to do was unreasonable, no one dared to stop him, especially Shi Hongda, he would support Yu Liangji's request no matter how unreasonable it was.

In fact, Shi Hongda also felt that Yu Liangji was whimsical. The place was a saline-alkali land. It took many years to form a place. How could things grow?

Where even weeds don't grow!

As the saying goes, "a hairless" place!

Something really grew, although I don’t know what it is, even if it’s a weed, if it can grow weeds, one day it will be able to grow crops.

"Get up and have a look! Get up!" Shi Hongda kept buzzing like a fly making noise beside Yu Liangji's bed.

"I don't want it!" Yu Liangji turned over and continued to shape himself into a spring roll posture.

"Your saline-alkali land has grown something!" Shi Hongda told him softly in his ear.

"...Huh?" Yu Liangji finally became more energetic, and sat up with his eyes closed.

Shi Hongda hurriedly got a wet towel and wiped his face: "I just discovered that there are some things growing in that place, maybe five or six, I don't know what it is, but it doesn't matter, even if it's a weed. Well, as long as you can grow things, you can grow crops, go and have a look!"

Yu Liangji finally opened his eyes, wearing half sleeves and capri pants, and ran out with his slippers on.

Under the rising sun in midsummer, five or six plants that have just emerged with two delicate leaves are swaying, and the breeze blows, swaying.

Yu Liangji squatted there, looked at these little things, and narrowed his eyes with a smile.

Many people didn't believe that something really grew on the saline-alkali land of Master Yu, so many people went to see it under the bright sun in July, and there really was something growing on it!

"It's amazing, it's amazing!" Grandpa Che looked curiously: "No wonder the imperial court made him a Marquis, and he is still the Marquis of Qingfeng. If the saline-alkali land can grow crops, it will really be Qingfeng!"

Even the old village chief touched those things that he didn't know what they were. It was so strange, they really grew things!

After two more rains, a layer of green seedlings grew there. When they grew up, they discovered that they were all weeds, and there was nothing useful or edible.

But this is also good, at least these things have good adaptability, even if it is the first year, this saline-alkali land does not grow anything, you can use them to test the water.

Everyone knew about Lord Yu's experiment, and there was no need to hide it. Shi Hongda also reported it to his superiors, and this time he reported the good news.

Even the hired workers who came to the house to shovel the ground knew it!

As everyone spreads word of mouth, everyone knows that Qingfenghou has a lot of tricks, and the long grass that can even toss the saline-alkali land, what else can be difficult to stop him?

Not long after, the superior issued an instruction, asking Master Hou to let go of the experiment, don't be restrained, if you need anything, if you don't have it locally, you can directly ask your superior for it.

It can be seen that the higher authorities attach great importance to Liangji's research.

But Yu Liangji didn't care so much, he started to toss the mature apricots in his own family. In the past, when there were no apricots, he bought other people's apricots. Now that he had apricots, he tossed his own.

In addition to licorice apricots, he also got a lot of dried apricots, and some apricots, which made him the ingredients needed for flower and fruit tea.

This period of time also happened to be the time when Shibalipu made licorice apricots, and every family smelled fragrant.

The scorching sun in July was very warm, and the crops in the sun were wilting. After a heavy rain, they became energetic again. Potatoes are very firm, and they can grow well even if they are not taken care of.

It was so hot in July that the school had a summer vacation, but the first eight scholars who passed the exam did not have the vacation. They were left in the school, and two old gentlemen and two young gentlemen had a small stove for extra meals.

And Yu Liangji also passed by from time to time, and decided to wait until July and a half before taking him directly to Fucheng to get acquainted with the environment first.

He didn't even let people stay at home for the August Festival.

The weather outside was too hot. Yu Liangji gnawed on the melon and read the newspaper, which announced the formula of the Bordeaux solution and various precautions.

This is really published in the world.

Among them was a column dedicated to farming, and at this time, it was completely occupied by the Bordeaux solution.

It is said that the grapes in the west were damaged by insects this year. Thanks to this formula, the vineyards were saved.

There are also awards from the imperial court, etc. In the past, it was only reported in the imperial court's arrival newspaper, but now it has been published in the newspaper, and many people know about it, including some dependent countries.