【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

She asked the young men in the village to help transport her family's 1,000 kilograms of grain seeds back home. Facing Li Chunsheng's puzzled gaze, Yun Xi said, "We'll prepare to plow the soil in a few days. After plowing and fertilizing, we'll plow it deeply again."

Li Chunsheng nodded. It was still a little cold now, but it hadn't snowed since the third day of the junior high school, so the ground shouldn't be that hard.

Since there are good grain seeds, the old ones can be prepared to be eaten as food. The same goes for other grain seeds. If you can't take care of them, don't plant them.

The beans were ground into tofu, and part of the soy milk was made into dried tofu and part into bean curd sheets. She didn't know how to cook, so she just followed the video provided by the system. The dried tofu can be kept for a few days, and the bean curd sheets can be kept for one or two months after drying. She made more than ten pounds of tofu and kept them for eating slowly.

During this period, the children drank soy milk and ate tofu every day and almost got tired of it.

After the beans were used up, the next was peanuts. Yun Xi made an oil pressing device according to the ancient method. Thirty kilograms of peanuts could produce ten kilograms of peanut oil, which was healthier to eat when mixed with lard. The residue was fed to pigs, and the pigs grew meat.

The villagers discovered her juice extraction device, but saw that no one was using it. They wondered who would use peanuts to extract oil and would save them for seeds.

The last bit of corn flour can be saved and eaten slowly. Corn flour is especially convenient for kneading dough. White flour is a bit sticky, but putting some corn flour on the chopping board will prevent it from sticking together. Sprinkle some corn flour on the rolled noodles, and they will taste delicious. Pigs also like to eat corn flour.

It was already February. Mei Zi got up early and cooked corn porridge first, then went to the backyard with a basket to pick up eggs. She didn't want to kill the three hens during the New Year because after feeding them some food, the chickens started laying eggs, and there were two to three eggs to pick up every day.

A handful of rice was scattered in the livestock pen, and the chickens, ducklings and geese scrambled to eat it. Mei Zi went in to pick up the eggs and cleaned the house. The pigs were already very hungry and were clamoring happily. Some pig grass was mixed with slop, a little peanut oil residue and cornmeal. This was the most delicious food for pigs. The cows were fed some beans, some straw and some water. The cows didn't have high requirements.

I returned to the kitchen, started washing up, brushing my teeth and face, using my own towel. Such a life was so comfortable.

After washing up, I beat all three eggs, fried a stack of omelets, and finally took out some bok choy and stir-fried it. Breakfast was ready.

At this time, Li Chunsheng got up late and went to fetch water. He filled the kitchen water tank, cleaned the bucket in the toilet and filled it with water. He also cleaned the toilet. After coming out, he cleaned the yard and then started to wash.

Yun Xi had moved home the things she ordered from the carpenter a long time ago. Each of them got two basins, and the old basin was used for other purposes.

Soon, Yun Xi came out with the two children, washed and had dinner. After dinner, Yun Xi washed the dishes and cleaned the kitchen. It was just dawn. After finishing the work, Li Chunsheng found the iron plow, pulled the cow out, and the others followed with hoes on their backs.

Our own land is right behind the house, which is very convenient. Other families who live farther away have already set out. They can bring water and bread with them and don’t need to come back at noon.

As for what to do if it's still cold? If there's grass growing in the fields, build a fire, or else just endure the cold.

One hundred acres of land is really a lot. Yun Xi frowned and took the hoe, turning into a ruthless hoeing machine. This time, the soil must be turned as deep as possible. The two younger ones couldn't swing the hoe, so they carried baskets to pick up stones and grass roots.

When plowing the land, you should see dead soil; when harrowing the land, you should see scattered soil.

Plowing deep enough to see the dead soil layer is beneficial to the soil's air permeability and water retention, thereby promoting the growth and development of plant roots.

Raking the ground means taking out all the grass roots and stones and throwing them far away.

Chunsheng has a curved plow, which is much easier than digging the ground manually. The only worry is that the cows can't handle it, so he has to let them rest for a while after working for a while.

"Chunsheng, what do you say we should make another curved plow? I'll pull it from the front, and Meizi will push it from the back."

Yun Xi had been turning the fields for two days and felt exhausted. She was so tired! The calluses on her hands had been rubbed open again, turning into large blisters. Furthermore, she had to bend over from time to time, which was very demanding on her waist. Even though she was already a widow, she still had to take care of her waist, right?

"Mom can make it?" Li Chunsheng really didn't know how to do it, it just looked simple.

Yun Xi said firmly, "Yes!"

Li Meizi suggested, "We can go find Uncle Ba Niu and ask him to help us."

"Then go."

Yun Xi told Li Baniu some details about the curved plow, which gave Li Baniu a sudden enlightenment and he made one on the spot using the available wood.

"Third sister-in-law, this is for you. Thank you for teaching me how to make a plow. There was something I couldn't figure out how to do before, but now I understand." Li Baniu said happily.

Yun Xi really wanted to accept it, "Don't you use it at home?"

Li Ba Niu said with a smile: "Don't worry, don't worry, my family will make another one, and I plan to make a few more to sell."

"Okay, I'll accept it."

Yun Xi is very shameless.

But having one more plow really speeds things up a lot. Working together with Li Chunsheng's team, they could plow five acres of land a day, and they finished plowing the land on February 21st. The two little ones worked hard and picked up a lot of stones and grass roots.

After plowing the land, he started to apply fertilizer. Li Chunsheng dug a big pit in the woods. It was filled with rotten leaves and mud, various feces, rice washing water, rice bran, and the most common thing was wood ash. It had been fermented for a long time and the smell was not strong.

Each person carried a bucket of farm manure and spread it on the ground. The fertilizer was not enough, and there was no other way, so they could only spread a little bit on each place. There was no place to buy fertilizer in this era, and it was too far from Chengdu. Otherwise, they could buy feces from people who sold night-blooming herbs in Chengdu.

"Let's raise more livestock. I actually want to buy another cow." Yun Xi complained to the system.

"Cow dung is good. It is the best farm fertilizer. It is gentle and does not harm seedlings. How about buying one from the system? It's not expensive." The system suggested.

Yun Xi was surprised, "Is there anyone selling cattle now?"

The system cleverly replied, "Someone sold it before, and I wrote down the other party's contact information."

This system is not a real mall, but a trading mall to be exact. Taskers in each system can buy and sell supplies with each other. If you want it to become a real mall, the host needs to upgrade the task.

"Then buy me two, one male and one female, preferably five or six years old, and a one-year-old female donkey." Yun Xi felt that she should be able to make money by selling calves in the future, and the female donkey could be bred with the little male donkey from the patriarch's family.

"it is good."

Just like that, after going up the mountain again, Yun Xi brought back two cows and a donkey, which shocked the tribe members. Many people wanted to borrow the cows to plow the fields.

"I just bought this bull. Let him get familiar with it at my house first. Then I can rent him out in a few days. I'll give him two bales of hay a day."

Yun Xi caressed the cow's neck lovingly. The quality of the items sold in the trading mall was impeccable.

System: The host is too naive...

Hearing that a cow was worth twenty strings of cash, the excited Li Chunsheng calmed down and looked at the original Huang Huang, then looked at the two cows, and said with a sad face, "Mom, I lost money on Huang Huang."

"How can I talk about loss or not? These two cows and the donkey were bought by me with great difficulty. I can't buy more. People came from the northern grasslands and only bought these two cows, a donkey and a few horses. The rest were taken by other traveling merchants." Yun Xi didn't think about loss or not. One more cow saved the labor cost.