Dressed as a top-notch girl, leading the whole village to become rich

After being accidentally injured by his own routine operation, Ye Guo sincerely admitted his mistake and then firmly stated that he still had to go and take a look.

After giving a lot of reasons and nice things, Mrs. Ye finally nodded and agreed to accompany her in a few days.

The main reason, Ye Guo said, is that the second brother won’t be able to come back for a while.

The Ye family could not just ignore their pregnant daughter-in-law. If they really did that, which girl would dare to marry into the family?

The picking of lotus roots in the village is nearing its end, and along with it, each household has received nearly 100 kilograms of fish.

The next day, Su had been killing fish all day and felt that he was soaked in the marinade.

The usual method is to dry the fish meat directly. After Ye Guo heard about this, he suggested smoking it.

Apart from anything else, smoking can preserve it for a long time and it tastes really delicious.

The teaching process was not difficult. Ye Wan and the others got the hang of it quickly, especially Old Lady Ye, who could understand it as soon as she was told.

Like herself, she mainly talks about it on paper.

By the time I taught everyone how to smoke, it was almost time for lunch and the rest of the family had gone out to pick lotus roots.

The leaves and fruits are still drying the rice seeds. The rice seeds before seedlings need to be dried for another two or three hours. The main function is to sterilize and prevent bacteria.

"Xiao Wan, is the newly bought textile machine easy to use? Can I have a piece of cotton cloth tomorrow?" Different from the usual practice, Ye Guo plans to germinate the seeds before they fall to the ground.

She went to the cloth shop, but Xiaowan suggested buying a loom, which would save money in the long run.

"Yes, yes. I worked on the loom in the dark for most of the night yesterday. Didn't you ask for a cotton bag? I'll give it to you once I've made it."

"No hurry, no hurry. I won't use it until tomorrow, so I'll start soaking the seeds tonight."

"Soak the seeds?" Although Ye Wan was not good at farming, it was not that she never went to the fields.

"Give it a try. If it fails, it will just be a waste of crops." Ye Guo was naturally confident, but she was also used to being cautious.

Most modern plants use enzymes and other medicines. After the seeds are soaked, they turn red and can prevent insects and birds. Daqing does not have chemical agents, so the leaves and fruits can only use the universal plant ash water.

Soak the seeds for a day and a night, then put them in a cotton bag and spray water on the surface to keep them moist.

I have to check the temperature from time to time. Fortunately, the temperature is high now and the quilt is not needed. I can just cover myself with an extra layer of cotton cloth at night to maintain the temperature at around 25 degrees.

Daqing has no thermometer, so everything depends on Ye Guo's experience.

After the soaked seeds were left for one and a half to two days, sprouts appeared, which made Old Man Ye and Boss Ye, who had been farming for a lifetime, exclaim that it was a miracle.

Before sowing the seeds, Ye Guo also went to the field.

Raising rice seedlings does not require much land, but it does require soil fertilizer, because it only takes one month from sowing seeds to transplanting rice seedlings.

The day after Ye Guo came back, Boss Ye no longer participated in digging lotus roots, but followed Ye Guo, busy as a whirlwind.

Ye Lao Da had long ago converted a dry field near his home into a paddy field, turning the soil over and drying it in the sun. Ye Guo added water to the field the same night he returned.

On the third day, Boss Ye first dug the field stalks, protected the ridges, and then dug the fields to make seedling blocks, which had to be dried in the sun for another day or two.

In order to fertilize the soil, the two men ran across half of the village before they found almost black silt and added it to the original land.

Then you have to smear the seedlings with fresh mud, and then sweep out the excess water. The water in the field must not overflow the field, otherwise the seeds will float away when they are sown.

The rice seedling field must be leveled, so Boss Ye used all the four-legged benches in his home. The angle must be 45 degrees, the speed cannot be too fast, and the force must be well controlled. Only by doing it in one go can it be truly leveled.

The next step is to sow the seeds.

Originally Ye Guo wanted to come in person, but was successfully dissuaded by the leeches in Boss Ye's mouth.

You can only squat on the edge of the field and shake the seeds loosely, making them as loose as flour.

Considering the survival rate, the seeds were sown when the sun was almost setting.

The key to sowing seeds is to spread them evenly. The density of sowing is particularly important. To put it bluntly, it depends on the shaking of your hands.

If you shake your hands well, the seeds will be spread evenly and at a good density. This work may look rough, but it is actually full of details.

Wash your hands before sowing seeds. Every time you grab a handful of seeds, be careful not to knock off the seed sprouts, and always check for any missing seeds.

If the quantity wasn't so huge, according to Boss Ye, he would have wanted to take them one by one.

When Old Man Ye came back from the valley and went to the field, Boss Ye, under the command of Ye Guo, was holding a small broom made of bamboo branches, and patting the seeds lightly and evenly into the mud.

"Not ready yet?" Old Man Ye rolled up his trousers and was about to go to the fields, but was stopped by Ye Guo.

"Dad, the seeds have just been sown and are very tender. If you can't control the strength well, all our efforts over the past few days will be wasted."

"We'll also need to put some breathable cotton and linen cloth over the area where the seeds are sown. Dad, do you think it's enough?"

Most of the fabrics used nowadays are non-woven fabrics, and Ye Guo couldn't find materials as good as this one, so he asked his family to add some linen when weaving cotton cloth, which would make it more breathable.

"Why do we need to cover it with a cloth?" Old Man Ye asked with both concern and confusion.

"It can protect against birds eating it. It can also protect against strong sunlight during the day. The sun is still too strong this month."

"When the seeds have truly taken root and sprouted, you can remove the cloth."

Old Man Ye nodded and felt that what she said made sense, but even if it was made of cotton and linen, it could still be worn!

If the person who did this was not Ye Guo, he would definitely be scolded at best and would not be tolerated at all.

"Then the eldest brother and I will do it. We need to put four wooden sticks at both ends of the rice field to stabilize it! We also need to put two in the middle to make it more stable."

As expected of a veteran, he does things in a proper way.

With the help of Old Man Ye, Ye Guo had a say throughout the whole process.

"You guys go back and eat first, no need to wait for me. It's getting dark, big brother, you take care of the fruits while I go to the headman's house first." Old Man Ye washed his feet in the ditch beside the field, put on his straw sandals, picked up his farm tools and left.

"Dad, what are you doing at the headman's house?" Ye Guo had been out for quite some time and asked while drinking water. He was carrying a backpack with almost nothing on it, while Ye Lao Da was carrying a four-legged bench on his back.

Father Ye really dotes on his daughter and is reluctant to say a harsh word. He smiled and said, "There are so many pieces of cloth in the fields. If we don't tell the head of the village first, and someone in the village takes them, then we will suffer a loss!"

Ye Guo: You are worthy of it.

Upon hearing this, Boss Ye also agreed, "That's right, the villagers are sharp-eyed and will definitely come to our rice fields to take a look."

"Dad, you have to make it clear to the village head uncle. They can watch, but they must not go into the fields. It will damage the rice fields. Xiaoguo, don't you agree?"

Ye Guo: Should I tell the truth or a lie?

Just smile.