Married a scholar

▍Dig the field bed.

The villagers who joined in the fun outside the hall were also talking about it in a low voice.

An aunt's voice was full of disdain, "You said that a good child has only been here for a few years? He is so hungry, worse than the people who fled famine a few years ago. He is 12 years old, right? Tsk tsk, it doesn't look like it My little grandson is tall." Her little grandson is only eight years old.

An old man with gray hair on the sideburns was also full of approval, "I heard from an old man in the next village earlier that when Zhao Zhenggang went to propose a marriage, he said he would treat his children well, and that Li Yan brought his children to marry him. From our village."

"These boys are pitiful too. I watched him carrying a large bundle of firewood on his back home, and when he passed by me, I could hear his stomach rumbling." Uncle Meng Jiu glanced at him. After stepping on the unconscious Zhao Shu, he sighed and said in a low voice, "When I went out to look for my boy last night, I heard his family quarreling." Not only quarreling, but also beating the child The voice, it is likely that the Shu boy ran away after being beaten at that time.

As soon as this was said, the aunts around felt more sympathetic to the child.

Meng Yining and Xia Wenze came out to go home after a short rest. The person had been found, so naturally there was nothing wrong with them.

"Brother Ning, come quickly and let's ask you." Aunt Zhao saw the two coming out and waved to them.

Meng Yining and Xia Wenze walked over and were surrounded by people.

"Why did you two find Yang Shulin?" Uncle Meng Jiu glanced at Meng Yining. He belongs to the Meng clan. Grandpa Meng Yining and his grandfather are good cousins, so they care more about him than others. Zhao Shu, he cared more about Meng Yining.

"Uncle Jiu." Meng Yining rubbed his nose, "Aren't I worried?"

The elders around didn't say anything. Although they sympathized with Zhao Shu, they were not the children they grew up with. Ning Ge'er was a junior in their village. "I won't dare to go in next time."

"I know." Meng Yining nodded quickly, looking extremely well-behaved.

Aunt Zhao asked: "The injury on Shu boy's body was really caused by a wild boar?"

"Yes." Meng Yining told them about the wound on Zhao Shu's body, "We both passed out when we found him. Fortunately, there were no wild animals in the cave. We treated his wound a little Hurry up and come back with someone on your back, for fear of attracting something from the smell of blood."

"You two are right." Mr. Xia nodded, "I heard from Zhao Liehu at the poplar forest, but a big guy appeared."

"It's really God's blessing." Several aunts looked rejoicing.

Meng Yining talked to them for a while, then dragged Xia Wenze away.

After the two went back, they simply had a little lunch and then went to the house to rest. When they woke up, it was already late afternoon.

Meng Yining came out and saw Xia Wenze pulling thatch in the yard, "What are you doing?" There is no shortage of matches at home.

"Let's simply build a cowshed outside the kitchen." Xia Wenze dragged the thatch out of the kitchen wall, and said to him, "The Zhao family sent a piece of meat over, thanking us for finding the boy."

Not long after he rested, Mrs. Zhao Li came over with a basket, and there was a knife of meat in it, and he insisted on keeping it.

"Understood, let's eat the meat that night." Meng Yining nodded, followed him to drag the thatch back, and then the two went to chop four bamboos and came back.

The temporary cowshed doesn't need to be very good, the two of them can set it up by themselves.

After more than an hour, a thatched cowshed was set up.

Xia Wenze took the calf in and tied it to a wooden stake, and threw some fresh grass for it, "After the spring plowing is over, we will build the pigsty and the cowshed."

"The house is also taking a break. I think the wall on the kitchen side is a bit unstable." Meng Yining touched the little calf, and the mud on the wall over there was a little cracked. He was worried that if there was a heavy rain one day, it would be washed away. up.

"Okay." Xia Wenze scooped up water for the two of them to wash their hands and faces, then went into the kitchen and lit the fire, "Eat simmered noodles, Brother Ning."

"also."

The one-knife meat Zhao Lishi brought was pork belly, which is just right for making simmered noodles.

The next day, the two of them took their hoes to the field. The field, like the field, was not a complete piece, but three pieces next to each other.

It is relatively close to the river and convenient for irrigation.

Meng Yining asked Xia Wenze to dig two fields out of one of the fields, "You can't scatter rice seeds in the fields like that, you have to grow seedlings first."

On the way, Meng Yining told him about raising and transplanting rice seedlings to increase production, but Xia Wenze didn't question him, instead Meng Yining did what he said.

The field was not clean, and there were rice roots left over from the previous fork. The two were bending over to pull out these rice roots.

Fortunately, there is not much water in the fields.

"Oh, loach." Meng Yining subconsciously passed the space blade, and the loach broke in two. "Um." Meng Yining blinked, and picked out the loach that had been broken in two.

Xia Wenze smiled, took the loach and put it on the side of the field, "If you like to eat it, we will look for it later."

"Can you catch loaches?" Meng Yining looked at him suspiciously. As far as he knew, Xia Wenze had been in the village school since he was a child, and he was rarely seen working in the fields on weekdays.

Can catch loach?

Xia Wenze said to him: "When I was young, I also went to catch loaches with my elder brother and second brother." But every time the elder brother and second brother secretly took him out to play, they would be scolded by their mother, saying that he spent his time reading books. , not with them.

Thinking of the past, Xia Wenze felt nostalgic in his eyes.

At that time, although the brothers were scolded by their mother, they would still secretly take him out to play when he was bored with reading, go to the mountains to pick wild fruits, dig out bird nests, go to the fields to catch loaches and eels, etc.

I don't know when it started, the two brothers have changed.

Xia Wenze lowered his eyelids, covering the sadness in his eyes.

Meng Yining interrupted his emotions, "Then let's see if we can catch some back later?" There was no water in their three fields, so it was easy to catch loaches and eels.

The two were very fast and dug out two field beds in one morning.

"Two are enough, there are not many fields." Meng Yining washed the mud on his calves with the little water in the field. The two field beds are actually not big, and one mu of field does not need too many seedlings. "Go back to have lunch first, and come out to catch loaches in the afternoon." The rice seeds can't be scattered on the field bed for the time being, so I have to go to the town to buy some tarpaulins, otherwise the rice seeds scattered on the field bed will be easily eaten by poultry and birds. Easy to germinate.

It's a pity that there is no plastic film here, so we can only choose tarpaulin.However, his rice seeds have been soaked in nutrient solution and wood-based crystal nuclei, so they can germinate normally without photosynthesis, otherwise the oilcloth will not work.

The people working in the field have been paying attention to Meng Yining and the others, and seeing them digging a long block out of the field is a bit inexplicable. Some people asked them what they were doing, but Meng Yining prevaricated passed.

Just like potatoes, they won't believe what they say about things that haven't produced results. Maybe someone will come and say that they ruined the field seeds or something.

So the two of them stopped talking at all, and did it first.

At noon, Meng Yining made a stewed pork ribs with potatoes. The ribs were from his space.

"I didn't expect this potato to be so delicious." Xia Wenze seldom eats pork ribs, but always eats with potatoes.

"There are many ways to do this, I'll make it for you when I get a chance." Meng Yining picked up a few ribs for him, "Don't eat potatoes all the time, eat some ribs too."

"Potatoes are delicious." Xia Wenze was not reluctant to eat pork ribs, but really thought potatoes were delicious.This potato has completely absorbed the taste of the soup, not to mention, it tastes glutinous and tastes very good.

Meng Yining didn't expect him to like potatoes so much, "If I knew you loved it so much, I should have made it for you that day." Last time he just took out the potatoes he was going to plant, and he didn't expect to make some potatoes to eat at all. .

"It's not too late now." Xia Wenze didn't add any more rice, but kept eating potatoes. "This can also be used as a staple food."

"Yes." Meng Yining ate another rib and put down his chopsticks.

Xia Wenze cleaned up the pots and pans and the kitchen, and the two of them took a wooden bucket to the field to catch loach in the afternoon.

Before they reached their field, they saw several people surrounding their field. Meng Yining and Meng Yining looked at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

"Brother Ning Erze." When one of the uncles saw the two coming, he pointed to the two beds in their field and asked, "What are you doing?"

Meng Yining sighed in his heart, knowing that the people here valued the land, so he didn't tell what he was going to do from the beginning, but unexpectedly, it made people even more curious.

When Meng Yining was about to speak out, Xia Wenze spoke before him. "Sowing rice seeds."

The uncle frowned, "Spread rice seeds? Sprinkle the rice seeds here, isn't it waiting to be pecked by birds?" There is not even a little water on these two long pieces.During the spring plowing period, every household will keep a close eye on their poultry, but aren't there still some flying in the sky?In this way, the rice seeds are exposed on the unsheltered mud, which is not just for the birds to eat.Where can there be seedlings coming out.

"I'll buy oilcloth and cover it up." Seeing what he wanted to say, Xia Wenzhe cut off his words aloud, "Uncle Wei, I read a book about another method of growing rice, so I want to try it." Give it a try."

Uncle Wei's surname is Xia, he belongs to the Xia clan, an ancestor, so the two of them have to be called uncles.

Hearing Xia Wenze's words, Uncle Wei frowned and wanted to reprimand him, but when he thought of the other party's knowledge, he had to lower his voice and say, "You two are just messing around." A new way to grow rice?What if it doesn't work?

A few uncles nearby also looked at the two of them in disapproval, "How can such a good first-class field be used to try it casually?" This is a first-class field, if it is well tended, it can produce hundreds of catties of grain this year , How can I just use it and try it casually.

Xia Wenze said: "I read that book said that using that method can increase the yield of rice, so I wanted to try it."

It is said that the eyes of a few uncles are bright, can the production of rice be increased?

The author says:

Modified the BUG about the tarpaulin. .