The casual life of the flat space

When Village Chief Wang said that the villagers had built chicken coops and dug ponds, Bai Tieying rented a house with a large yard in the county town as a shop. After asking around, she hired an old man named Zeng to look after the shop, so that she could send chickens, ducks and geese to Xianhe Village in the name of the shop.

Afterwards, she started selling them to the surrounding villages at Chunfu Hall, but not many people came to buy them, so she only kept 200 of them. With her method of raising them in cages, Old Man Zeng was able to handle it completely.

There are more than 10,000 poultry, with an average of nearly 200 per household. This would have been a big hassle in the past, but now there is a method of raising chickens in cages, and each household has gradually found the benefits. First, it takes up less space, and second, it is easy to manage and does not waste feed. Chicken manure can be used to fertilize the land, and these chickens can lay eggs and sell them in a month or two, so the family can see money soon!

The families who raised ducks and geese were all close to the Beishan River, and they dug ponds and filled them with water. In addition to the tips Aunt Bao taught her, Bai Tieying also reminded them to be careful not to pollute the water source, and there was nothing else to say.

It still hasn't rained in the past few days, so drought is inevitable this year. So on the day the waterwheel was erected, the village set off firecrackers for a long time, and everyone who had nothing to do went to join in the fun.

Watching the waterwheel driving the millstone to turn, the excited villagers threw Bai Tieying and her brother into the air again and again, caught them, and threw them into the air again, making a serious noise for a while.

It's not that everyone doesn't know about this thing, and it's also true that having a waterwheel can save a lot of trouble, but firstly, there isn't that much money. In addition, Xianhe Village is adjacent to the Beishan River, and there has never been a drought where there is no water at all. It's just that carrying water is a bit tiring, so no one is willing to set up a waterwheel.

This time, seeing the river water gurgling in the aqueduct through the houses and yards, and finally reaching the reservoir dug on the edge of the south land, and actually driving the stone mill, of course I couldn't contain my excitement.

Village Chief Wang said that this method was proposed by Tieying and he collected half the money because of it. Someone immediately came out and said that the money would be returned to Tieying immediately. Village Chief Wang also promised to collect the money later.

However, Bai Tieying said that building an aqueduct was not a long-term solution. He hoped that the money could be used to dig a canal next year. In this way, as long as the Beishan River did not dry up, Xianhe Village would no longer have to worry about drought.

This idea excited the village chief Wang and the villagers. They thought that this kid had a good brain. He had just solved this year's problem and was thinking about next year's problem. And it was a long-term idea. So the village chief Wang decided on the spot that the money would be used in this way. When everyone was well-off next year or the year after, he would return the money to Bai Tieying.

It turned out that the land to the south of Bai Tieying's house, along with several other families, also agreed to sell the land to Bai Tieying under the persuasion of Village Chief Wang. In addition to paying a high price of 1,500 wen per mu, the harvest from the land this year also belonged to them.

Originally, these families were the last to come here to open up the wasteland. They usually don't come to the land. In addition, the drought this year requires watering, which is even more difficult. Now that they can get such a price and conditions, those families naturally have nothing to say. When Bai Tieying received the land deed, he was relieved.

During this period, he helped sell mountain products, took the water cart, bought poultry on credit, and his uncle helped take care of more than a dozen patients. For a time, the Bai family was mentioned in the villagers' mouths every day, and the villagers were no longer so jealous of the matter of buying land and building houses, or in other words, no one said anything about it openly.

Bai Tieying had been away for nearly a month when she came back to fetch the cherry trees. She saw that the vegetables in the garden were either dry or badly damaged by weeds. Only the ground rings and sweet stalks planted on the edge were still standing. Was there anything she could plant without worrying about? She felt like she was committing the crime of "vegetables of unknown origin".

Later, when Grandma Hu from the previous house came to see the new house being built, she remembered this matter and asked about it. Grandma Hu said that at this time, the only vegetables to be planted were radishes and cabbages. Bai Tieying asked Grandma Hu for seeds and received "systematic training" from her. Then she planted these two vegetables in the field.

Although he had the memory of helping his mother in the past and the "experience" of planting randomly, Bai Tieying, who had received guidance this time, knew that it was just the tip of the iceberg. Removing weeds was a simple step, and the space could help. Bai Tieying simply planted all the "malnourished" vegetables in the space, leaving the middle of the vegetable garden empty.

The planting area was divided into half for radishes and half for cabbages. After the ridges were built, Bai Tieying spread the little fertilizer behind the toilet on the two plots of land. Fearing that it was not enough, she also sprinkled some humus from the space mountain and soil from the earth. After turning over the fertilizer and the land, the soil in the vegetable garden became much looser.

Grandma Hu said that the cabbage side didn't need ridges, but the radish side needed ridges, and Bai Tieying did as she was told. The next step was to plant the radishes and sow the cabbage seeds in the ditch.

Grandma Hu also said that in order to protect the seeds from being eaten by ants or other insects, you have to sprinkle some bran, wood ash, or pour some garlic water into the rapeseed ditch. Bai Tieying not only did all the instructions, but also used the space to collect a wave. Unexpectedly, she collected countless insects and only threw the earthworms back.

In the space, she felt that even the renovated vegetable garden was not big. But outside, although there was space to help, by the time the whole vegetable garden was planted, she felt that her child would grow a waist! There was a pain in her lumbar spine as if there were needles sticking in it. When she cried "ouch ouch" her uncle heard her and told her to go up the mountain with him.

The wages were adequate, and there were also plans for a kang and other designs. Manager Quan guaranteed that the frame of the house could be completed in a month, so there were more than a dozen people busy there every day, and it was indeed very noisy.

So now that nothing serious happened, Bai Tieying could finally breathe a sigh of relief and agreed to her uncle's request to go to the Yubei Mountains to collect herbs. She gave the two houses to Zhang and Grandpa Wu to help her look after them, and entrusted the matter of raising poultry to Aunt Li and Aunt Chen, and the four of them went into the Yubei Mountains.

To go to the Big Stone Bagua Formation is to the east, and to the Ginseng Nest is to the west, so this time Bai Tieying suggested that Uncle go north. With the experience of the last trip, after discussion, everyone decided to go together in the morning, and in the afternoon, Bai Tieying would go with Brother Gyrfalcon or Sister Gyrfalcon.

Uncle didn't know too many herbs. Some were useful, while others were hard to find. Bai Tieying and the other two were just herbalists. They couldn't walk far in the morning. They just picked herbs. It wasn't until Bai Tieying took out the herbal illustration book and said "just take a look" that Uncle gave up the idea of ​​wanting everything he saw and he increased his speed.