Koi baby helps his mother farm and becomes the richest man

The little girl had a mixture of grass scent and an inexplicable strange smell on her body, but Zhou Yu felt very familiar with her.

Because An An had been active in the sun for a long time, her little face was red and there were a few beads of sweat hanging on the tip of her nose.

Zhou Yu took out a handkerchief and wiped her sweat, then asked with a smile: "What are you playing? You look so happy?"

"Catching grasshoppers!" An An replied in a baby voice, and showed him her fingers, which were stained with grasshopper juice, and said proudly, "Feeding the chickens!"

Zhou Yu leaned over to take a look at the small basket on An An's back. There were already two strings of grasshoppers tied together with foxtail grass. They were all still alive, some flapping their wings, and some trying to kick their legs, but because the top of the foxtail grass was tied with grass leaves, they could not escape at all.

Zhou Yu frowned slightly and turned to ask Uncle Chen Jiu who had followed him: "Are there locusts here already?"

"Yes!" Uncle Chen Jiu couldn't help but sigh, "I don't know how this thing can be so durable! As soon as the grass thorns appear, these grasshoppers appear.

"But don't worry, it won't be a disaster. We'll catch them all, cook them, and bury them in the ashes. They'll be cooked in no time. At least they're meat, right?"

As he spoke, he squatted down, plucked a piece of foxtail grass, and deftly caught a grasshopper and put it on his sleeve.

He even showed them to Zhou Yu: "There are no big ones left. We have basically caught and eaten all the big ones.

"I'm telling you, it's just that we don't have that much oil right now. Otherwise, it would taste even better if we fried it!"

Zhou Yu nodded slightly.

An An was afraid that all the big grasshoppers would be caught by Uncle Chen Jiu, so she struggled to get out of Zhou Yu's arms and continued to catch grasshoppers.

The water jar that Zhao Hu brought was placed at the edge of the field, with a bowl on top of it. He had already gone into the field to work.

Aunt Zhao and Qin Ying heard Zhou Yu's voice, discussed it with each other, and came out to say hello.

Zhou Yu saw red marks on their arms and necks from the corn leaves. He turned away slightly and asked, "How's the situation in the fields?"

"Not bad!" Aunt Zhao replied cheerfully, taking off her straw hat to fan herself. "We've been diligent in tending the fields, so there aren't too many weeds."

Zhou Yu pointed to the space under the corn and said, "These beans are growing well too."

"Yes," Aunt Zhao smiled even more broadly when she mentioned this, "this is all the idea that Yingzi came up with.

"She said that it was just wasteland that had been reclaimed, and as long as we could harvest a few more pounds of grain, it would be a profit, so it wouldn't be a loss to give it a try.

"I didn't expect that the bean seedlings not only didn't affect the growth of the corn, but they also blocked the sunlight and saved water when watering the fields!"

Qin Ying added: "In fact, corn and soybeans are both relatively drought-tolerant."

Zhou Yu still praised him a few times. After all, not many people could come up with such an ingenious idea. He then asked, "How did you solve the problem of topdressing?"

"We have rabbits at home," Aunt Zhao said, looking at An An lovingly. "We have plenty of rabbit manure. Mix it with the wood ash and ferment it. We can put it next to the ridge. It's better than nothing."

Zhou Yu was also helpless. He really had no idea what to do about fertilizing.

The human feces and urine in the village are all centrally treated and used in the fields where crops are cultivated. To be honest, it is still not enough.

You can only find a way to solve the problem of wasteland that has been reclaimed by yourself.

Seeing Aunt Zhao and Qin Ying's eyes fixed on the fields, Zhou Yu knew that he had delayed their work and said hurriedly, "Make sure you drink plenty of water and don't get a heat stroke. I'll go check somewhere else."

Aunt Zhao and Qin Ying agreed, and when they saw him turn around, they quickly went back into the ground.

Seeing that the small straw hat on An An's head had fallen off, Zhou Yu quickly picked it up and put it on her head. He poured her half a bowl of water to drink, and then left with Uncle Chen Jiu.

After a look around, he found that the wasteland reclaimed by other people was far inferior to that of Zhao's. Not only was there no intercropping, the growth conditions were also much worse, and there were even cracks on the ground.

I couldn't help but shake my head.

Perhaps they heard that he was coming this way, and soon several villagers, both men and women, came running over. When they saw him, they greeted him with a smile, and then asked Zhou Yu if his trip was tiring.

Zhou Yu exchanged a few words with them and then pointed to the fields: "Now that the crops have bloomed, we should take good care of them when we have time. The extra crops can also improve our lives.

“There are few people reclaiming wasteland now, so if you cultivate the land you occupy well, it will be yours in the future.

"But if you don't plant well, it will be useless no matter how much you take."

The villagers were all excited and asked, "Sir, is this true?"

"The wasteland we reclaim will all belong to us in the future?"

"What about collecting taxes? What do you mean by taxes?"

"Famine means no taxes," Zhou Yu said loudly, "even if the famine ends... starting from the first rain, there will be no taxes for three years."

The villagers couldn't help but jump up with laughter, some hugged each other, and some wiped their tears silently.

After digesting this good news, several people knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu hurriedly asked Xu Xia to help him up, "Alright, let's do our best!"

After seeing Zhou Yu and the others off, a few people hurried into the fields, pulled out some weeds, and then went to fetch water, also imitating the Zhao family's behavior and watering each plant individually.

Seeing that the sun had risen to its highest point, Aunt Zhao asked Qin Ying to go home first: "You go back and cook, Hu Zi and I will work for a while."

Seeing An An drowsy sitting on the edge of the field, Qin Ying felt uneasy, so she agreed, walked to the edge of the field, carried An An on her back and went home to cook.

Thinking that the meal was ready, the mother and son went home carrying edible wild vegetables and wild grass to feed the rabbits.

An An woke up when he got home. He had already gone to feed the chickens next door. He only took the smaller grasshoppers and kept the big ones for himself. They are high-quality protein!

Zhou Yu waited until she finished feeding the chickens, then beckoned her over and washed her hands carefully. Then he handed her a small bag of pastries and said, "This is a gift from someone else. Take it and try it."

An An thanked him seriously, then put the cake bag in his arms and said with a smile, "Give it to grandma and mom to eat together."

After thinking about his jealous uncle, he added, "And my uncle!"

Zhou Yu teased her deliberately: "What about Uncle Zhou?"

"Uncle Zhou, hasn't he eaten it before?" An An tilted his head. Is it fun to tease children?

Zhou Yu smiled and rubbed her head, "Well, Uncle Zhou has eaten, you can take it back."

An An skipped and went home.

Qin Ying had already laid out the food. Seeing her coming, she urged her to wash her hands. She raised her hands high and said, "I've washed them! Uncle Zhou washed them!"

Aunt Zhao leaned over and pretended to check it out, then nodded with a smile: "Yes, it's very clean and smells good!"

He carried her onto the bench and pushed her special bowl over to her, "Eat quickly!"

After dinner, the family boiled some hot water to soak their feet, and then hurried to take a nap.

It is not suitable to work when the sun is at its highest. If you really get heatstroke, it will be more trouble than gain.