Traveling back to ancient times begins with the use of stone tools

"So does Yuxuan want to go home or live in that yard?"

If I let Leng Yuxuan live in a yard of his own, I would need to hire someone to take care of him.

It would be better to wait until the villa is built and then just pick you up and drop you off every day.

"My home is too far away, otherwise I would go home every day"

Leng Yuxuan still missed his thatched cottage at home.

"Actually, that yard belongs to my sister, but I plan to send you to school next year, so I rented it out for a year."

Everyone at the table looked at Leng Ruoxue in surprise.

"Sister, are my chickens okay? You and mother are out now, and Uncle Liu is out too. Who can help me raise insects to feed the chickens?"

Thinking about the chickens I raised, they should have laid dozens of eggs.

Leng Ruoxue was too embarrassed to look at Leng Yuxuan. He had already been killed and eaten, so there was no time to take care of him.

Uncle Liu said nothing.

Si Leng also knew that the chicken had already entered his stomach, so he didn't dare to say a word.

“Leng Yuxuan, why do you raise insects when you feed chickens?”

Master Liu was very interested.

"My sister bought the chicken when the drought had just eased. There wasn't enough grass for the chicken to eat, so she taught me to feed it earthworms. The chickens raised with earthworms grew really well. At first they could only lay one egg a day, but later they could lay two eggs a day."

Leng Yuxuan saw that the teacher finally didn't understand something, and he explained it to the teacher happily.

"Two Chickens"

Leng Ruoxue added that a hen could lay two eggs a day, but she didn't have that ability.

"Three Chickens"

Leng Yuxuan corrected.

"There is a rooster and two hens that lay eggs"

Master Wang asked curiously, "Don't chickens lay an egg every day?"

Si Leng was also waiting for the answer curiously.

"There is not enough food to feed the chickens in this village. If the chickens eat wild vegetables, they often won't lay eggs, or it will take a long time for them to lay an egg. So we feed the chickens with insects, which not only saves food but also allows the chickens to lay eggs."

Liu Ruxu didn't expect that the teacher didn't understand such a simple thing.

“I wonder if this method of raising insects can be popularized so that people can have eggs to eat every day.”

Master Liu's eyes lit up.

"To be honest with you, Miss Leng, my surname is Liu and I am a teacher at the Imperial Academy. I am here with my students to Qingyuan County to help solve the difficult problems facing the people."

"So it's you, Grand Secretary Liu. I'm so sorry."

Leng Ruoxue raised her teacup, not surprised at all.

"Sir, do you know that reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles?"

Leng Ruoxue continued, "We can't solve the suffering of the people by thinking of ways in the academy. Only by going deep into the lives of the poor people can we understand the difficulties of the people's lives. In your opinion, can eating an egg a day improve the lives of the people?"

"After the drought, many people relied on the one bushel of grain and one mu of seeds they were given. Can they hold out until the crops are harvested? Moreover, the planting was two months late this year. Even if they hold out until the crops are ripe, how much can they keep? What if there is nothing?"

"When winter comes, there will be no wild vegetables in the mountains. What will the people do?"

"That's why I thought, let everyone raise chickens. If we can collect 20 eggs a day, we can exchange them for a kilogram of rice."

Academician Liu did not expect that a little girl would actually question his suggestion.

"In our Lengjia Village, when the villagers came back from the famine, there were 100 households and 400 to 500 people in the village, but they couldn't even scrape together one or two taels of silver. Where did these chickens come from?"

When Liu Ruxu heard this, she tried to stop Leng Ruoxue with her eyes and stopped her from continuing.

Leng Ruoxue continued, "The sum of money of all the people in the village combined might not be enough to buy one plate of snacks here today."

Everyone was a little reluctant to put their chopsticks down.

Liu Datong: How many acres of land did we eat?

"The villagers are almost starving to death, but some people in the city still eat meat and go to restaurants every day. The city people should share their food with the villagers."

"I don't agree with your point of view. The city people also have their own way to eat. Why should they share it with the villagers? Relying on donations? I'm sure it won't achieve the goal of supporting the surrounding villages."

Master Wang spoke, and Grand Secretary Liu nodded.

"When I say share, I don't mean to ask the city people to raise funds, but the people in our village should use the advantages of the village to earn the money of the city people. For example, in our Lengjia Village, every family grows strawberries and sells them to the city. The strawberries harvested in ten days can be exchanged for a few kilograms of rice to fill the stomach."

"Then can this strawberry fruit method be promoted?"

As soon as Master Wang opened his mouth, Grand Secretary Liu looked at him with contempt.

If it's so easy to grow, do canned strawberries need to be limited in quantity?

"To be honest, we can only exchange one kilogram of brown rice for one kilogram of strawberries, and it takes about ten days to harvest one kilogram. Moreover, we are the only one village that is growing strawberries. If all the surrounding villages are growing strawberries, then one kilogram of strawberries grown every ten days may not be able to be exchanged for one kilogram of brown rice."

Liu Daxueshi sighed with a headache, "Indeed, the people in your village are barely making ends meet."

With Leng Ruoxue’s current ability, she can only take care of her own village, and she cannot take care of other villages for the time being.

"Our village discovered strawberries in the beginning and transplanted them from the mountains, so we can grow them. If other villages also have some special plants, they can also find ways to save themselves."

"It's just that the people in the village don't know much about it, so it's not easy to find a market. The strawberries were originally only eaten as snacks by the children in the village."

Leng Ruoxue certainly wanted to find crops with high yields, but she didn't have time to look for them now.

"Then when winter comes, won't your village run out of food again?"

Now it’s good, we can barely survive by digging some wild vegetables. But when winter comes, there will be no living plants, and strawberries will probably not be able to be grown.

Thinking of this, Grand Secretary Liu sighed again.

“Not necessarily. Maybe we can grow strawberries in winter.”

The greenhouse project still lacks something that can let in light and keep warm. Under the current conditions, she cannot make plastic.

"I am just worried about the lack of a kind of cloth that is light-transmitting, rainproof and warm."

It’s best to have the materials, but if you don’t have them, you have to think of other ways.

Do I have to force myself to make glass?

"What a pity! I don't even know of that kind of cloth," both Grand Secretary Liu and Master Wang shook their heads.

"Master, do you know what kind of lighting is used in the greenhouses built by rich people?"

Leng Ruoxue wanted to find a substitute for glass.

"Some use gauze or oil paper, and some use transparent crystal minerals, but ordinary people can't afford them."

"If Miss Leng wants to build a greenhouse to grow strawberries, then you can give up. The gauze oil paper alone is enough for ordinary people to live on for several lifetimes, not to mention the crystal ore. You can't grow anything in such a small place."

Academician Liu denied the idea of ​​growing strawberries in winter.