Traveling through the Lishu to farm the fields

The seeds were bought back, and the molding machine and the molding machine were also made by Blacksmith Jiang and sent over. Li Shu was very satisfied with the inspection and paid the money readily.Therefore, Li Shu is ready to start his plan to grow cotton.

The weather is mild, neither hot nor cold, just right for going out to work.Li Shu asked Fu Shan to inform the people in the village who wanted to grow cotton to follow him to the fields to observe and teach them how to grow cotton.

I saw that Li Shu chose a field with fertile soil and relatively soft hardness.Fu Shan had opened the ditches in advance for the convenience of drainage.Li Shu asked Fu Shan to loosen the small piece of land, sprinkle it with plant ash, and make it softer.Seeing that Fu Shan was almost done, Li Shu took the molding machine and placed it on the ground that Fu Shan had prepared. He stepped on the molding machine and pressed his hands on the handles to the soil. The depth is almost the same, lift the molding machine to the side, step on the top of the molding machine with your feet, and a complete mold will come out from the lower port of the molding machine. According to this example, one click at a time.After a while, more than a dozen molds were neatly arranged.The villagers watched carefully, their eyes fixed on it tightly without letting go for a moment.From time to time, Li Shu was asked how to strike and how to exert strength, and Li Shu answered them carefully.Fu Shan was watching Li Shu busily raising his head and lifting his feet. He was so worried that he had almost learned it when he watched Li Shu make a model, and then forcibly took it from Li Shu. Li Shu started working on the molding machine by himself, but Li Shu had no choice but to give the molding machine to Fu Shan.

In the first one or two, the molds that Fu Shan made were really horrible. The small hole in the center of the molds was broken, and the seeds could not be planted, so they were remade by Li Shu still in the field.After that, Fu Shan got better and better, and got started very quickly.There were also some villagers who were eager to try, so Fu Shan taught them how to make models. After almost getting started, Fu Shan returned to the main topic, and finished making the models of this piece of land according to Li Shu's requirements.Li Shu planted the seeds one by one according to the mold, and it took a while to plant them with everyone's help.Sprinkle fine dust on the mold, and sprinkle a proper amount of water on the mold before giving up.This step is fully completed by propping the shed over the form with a tarpaulin.

Finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, Li Shu said to the villagers: "Just do this step now. After half a month, the seeds will germinate and grow into seedlings, and then we will proceed to the next step. During this period, just water the seeds appropriately. It needs to be sprinkled, and you can’t water too much at one time. Now the person who decides to plant cotton will go back with me to get the seeds and a molding machine. This molding machine is customized by Jiang Blacksmith. It costs thirty yuan a piece, who If you want it, just give me eight catties of cotton when you plant it in the future, and if you can’t grow it, just return it to me.” After hearing Li Shu’s words, everyone became more determined to grow cotton.They all followed Li Shu to get the seeds and the modeling machine, all smiling and full of hope in their hearts.Li Shu looked at the hopeful faces of these people, and said in his heart, "Don't worry! I will definitely not let you down."

Since then, people from every cotton planting family have visited the fields several times a day, carefully watered and pulled the weeds, and carefully waited for the seeds.Finally, amidst the anxious waiting of more than a dozen families, the seedlings sprouted and grew vigorously day by day. Half a month later, the seedlings grew to be twenty or thirty inches tall. Asked to do something again.

The next day, Li Shu gathered the small cotton farmers in his own sandy field, and asked Li Shu to pick some cotton seedlings with molds from the field. Li Shu took out the mold lifting machine and found a suitable one on the sandy ground. At the beginning of the position, place the ejector on the selected land, step on the ejector, press the hands on the handle to the soil, and see that the depth is almost the same, then lift the ejector and take it to the side. Step on the top of the punching machine hard, and a mold will come out from the lower port of the punching machine. This mold is very similar to the mold made by the punching machine, but it is a small hole without a center, and it is impossible to plant seeds. , so it is not very useful, just put it aside, the hole made is very useful, and the rest is almost the same as planting trees.Moreover, the operating mechanism of this mold lifting machine is similar to that of a mold punching machine, and everyone can master it quickly.

Then Li Shu began to explain the planting process to the villagers, explaining it to everyone while doing it himself.

First put a little farmyard manure into the mold pit, then twist some soil from the mold on the side, crush it, put it on the farmyard manure and cover it, then put the cotton seedlings with the mold into the pit, and put the cotton seedlings that were used just now The mold soil continues to crush and surround the cotton seedlings.And the distance between each cotton seedling is also particular.If it is too close, it is not conducive to the cotton tree to absorb light, and there will be less flowering, and fewer bolls will grow, and it will dry slowly after rain, and the bolls will rot and mold easily.If it is too far away, the land will be wasted, few trees will be planted, and the output will drop accordingly.The best distance is between 38 and 45 inches, which is generally easy for farmers to grasp.After Li Shu planted seven or eight seeds, they came down and handed over to Fu Shan to take over. The villagers who came also offered to help in order to master it more diligently. Soon a nearly two-acre sandy land was planted.

When the cotton seedlings are planted in the ground, half of the cotton industry is completed.

Afterwards, every cotton-growing household started to be busy with their own cotton-growing business. If they didn't know how to do it, they would ask each other for advice, and sometimes they would come to Li Shu's house to inquire.In a few days, the cotton growers in the village have planted cotton.

Day by day, everyone is busy with what they should be busy with, carefully serving the crops in the field and looking forward to a bumper harvest when it is harvested.Cotton seedlings are also growing day by day in the anticipation of everyone, from the [-]-inch height of the deadline to [-] inches, [-] inches, and now they are more than [-] inches high, with yellow and red flowers blooming on them. Flowers, the people in the village liked it very much.During the period, Li Shu was still struggling with his eight-month-old stomach and asked everyone how to fork and fertilize the cotton trees.Sure enough, the sky paid off. Li Shu felt a sense of accomplishment when he saw field after field of tall green leaves and blossoming cotton fields.Just waiting for peaches and cotton picking, the white cotton is like clouds, Li Shu even thought of the white and soft cotton hills that he piled up in his room at home when he was a child, lying on it, and immediately sank into the cotton In the mountains, it is not comfortable.Thinking about it makes me a little excited, but it's a pity that Li Shu can't do these jobs anymore. I guess he might be giving birth at that time.