Crossing the Unknown Country

Su He's mother took out a piece and handed it to Su Run, asking him to send it to grandma so that they could also use this good thing. Su He's mother was never stingy. His grandma cared about them, so they had to remember the old lady's kindness and send good things to her as soon as possible.

Su He's parents' home is not far away, and it only takes more than half a day to walk there. Because her family is poor, her sister-in-law bullies her when she goes home, and her mother can only give her things secretly, so Su He's mother goes back to her parents' home less often. She can't go there every day to beg for money and make things difficult for her parents. Her brother is a good person, but her sister-in-law is very difficult to get along with. Her sister married far away, and her family conditions are average, so she rarely goes back to her parents' home. Not going back is the greatest filial piety to their parents, but they should have the confidence to go home for the New Year this year, because their family can make money now, and they can definitely buy a good New Year gift by the end of the year.

Su He Niang wanted to wipe her tears when she thought of her parents. She had known that she would go home after getting married, and she didn't know how they were doing. It was true that a married girl was like spilled water. Once she got married, it would be hard for her to go back. Su He Niang hid her sadness and went to the kitchen to cook. Her daughter insisted that she must stay by her side, and she had to be close to her and not too far away from her.

But she didn't know that her daughter was very close to her, but she couldn't stop her from going out and traveling to famous mountains and rivers when she grew up. She never thought that she could only see her daughter a few times a year.

Su He is so busy that he is sitting at the table copying books! If he finishes copying early, he can go to Baima Town to buy things. The three brothers and sisters work well together, two people copy and one person checks and proofreads. Su He's father went to do chores and did whatever he could for the children, giving them time to copy quickly. This is the stable income for his family. As long as the children do well, they will have the opportunity to get more books in the future. My family can't afford to buy books, but this way we can have books to read.

The three children copied books while reading them. When they came across a good page, they put their heads together to discuss. Their father thought that the scene was very beautiful. These were his children. Look how promising they were. They could study and earn money to support their family at such a young age. They earned more than some adults.

He looked at his sister-in-law and planned to buy more lard next time and ask the children to make more to see if they could sell it. He heard it was quite expensive, so he didn't know if he could sell it.

The family does this every day, and the whole house feels full of vitality. Everyone is busy every day. The farm is really tiring. Every day, the couple spends their time here, hoping to have a good harvest. He looked after the vegetable field for the children these days and found that since the chickens were raised beside the vegetable field, the vegetables have grown well. After watering, the leaves are fat and green. He discussed with Su Heniang whether the chicken manure can be used in the field, as it has great fertility.

Su He had just finished writing and took over the shift with his second brother. He listened to his parents discussing the chicken manure issue and thought about the fermentation of farm manure in later generations. He also made kitchen waste fertilizer at home in his previous life.

I came over and said to them, "Dad, let's try mixing chicken manure with manure from the toilet, wood ash from the kitchen, and pickled vegetables from the house, and let them ferment with water to see if it can be used as fertilizer. If we have pond mud and add some hay, it would be even better. Let's try it, and if it can be fermented into fertilizer, it should be able to fertilize the land. It's not a bad idea anyway, so we can give it a try on a piece of land."

His parents thought it was not impossible, as the manure in the village was eventually composted on the ground. However, it seemed that chicken manure was not as strong as chicken manure, so mixing it like this should be good.

Then Su He said, "Finally, dig a half-meter deep pit in the open space outside the house, put these things in to ferment, and then carry them to the field. This way, you don't have to carry dirty things back and forth. Finally, cover it with big branches to prevent anyone from falling in."

In fact, you can also compost in a corner of the yard, but Su He felt that it still had a smell, so he chose to let his parents pile the manure outside the courtyard wall. The kitchen waste fertilizer he made before had no smell. But Su He felt that using manure would definitely have a smell. He also suggested to his father that in the future, they don’t need to pile up the manure in the toilet for many days before cleaning it. Pour it directly into the big pit every day, cover it with soil, wood ash and chicken manure, and let it ferment naturally. In this weather, it will take about 40 days. In this way, dig a few more and turn them over in rotation, and maybe it will become fertilizer faster.

In this way, the water used for washing pots and pickling vegetables at home does not need to be poured out. Although the water used for washing pots is sometimes used to irrigate the vegetable fields, it is not a good idea to compost it. His parents thought about Su He's method and the more they thought about it, the better. The more manure, the better. Those things are actually waste.

First, she would clean up and call the children to eat together, and then she would write after eating. Every morning, she would copy for a while before eating, and then she would copy for a while after eating, and then she would do other work. The children were now well organized, and they didn't have to worry about it at all.