After crossing over: kidnapping a female hunter to be the stepfather of the three cubs

"What is it?"

Zhao Huanxi saw Uncle Li Hai so excited and ran towards where he was squatting. He saw the originally calm smoke floating on the surface. Right where Uncle Li Hai pointed, the smoke rose straight into the sky, slowly faded, and finally disappeared.

"Girl, there's a story behind this. If there's water underneath, smoke will rise up, which means there's air flowing underground!"

Li Hai picked up the shovel and dug a few times, then pinched it with his hand and said:

"The soil here is moister than other places. It's obvious that there is running water underneath. Girl, what do you think of it?"

Is this really the truth? Chinese culture is broad and profound.

She saw that this location was at the very edge of the entire yard, right at the water inlet, so digging a well was possible except that she had to walk two steps further.

So he nodded in agreement, Uncle Li Hai nodded and directed his son to hit the flagpole here.

He picked up a shovel and started digging, carrying soil to the side in baskets.

Li Hai brought his son with him, so two people would be enough for the next two days. But if the digging went deeper in the next two days, two more people would be needed.

Zhao Huanxi had almost had enough of the excitement. It was around nine or ten in the morning. She went back and asked the two people in the kitchen to steam more rice today. After all, those who work hard still need to eat their fill.

Sacks of rice were also placed in the middle of the yard. Zhao Huanxi rolled up his sleeves, unfolded the bamboo mat Lu Lin had brought, and poured the rice from the sacks onto it. He used a wooden rake to spread the rice evenly and air it in the front yard.

Then he led the two black dogs from the backyard to the front yard and told them to keep watch and not allow sparrows or anything else to come and steal food.

After spending so much time with Huanxi, the two black dogs had already reached adulthood and looked skinny, as if they hadn't eaten enough. But she swore that the dogs ate more in one meal than she did.

He was also able to roughly understand happy words and gradually became spiritual.

After telling the two dogs, they stood guard like stone lions on both sides. When they saw the bird was about to come down, they started whimpering and calling.

Zhao Huanxi nodded in satisfaction, and while there was still some time before lunch, he went to Lao Lin's house to discuss building a winter greenhouse.

By the end of the whole day, Huanxi's back and waist were sore. She hadn't felt so tired in a long time. Even the muscular Xu Qingzhao slumped in the chair and refused to move.

Yu Yan, still sipping her tea with a ethereal air, said gently, "I'll give the children a break for the next two days. They can't just study on paper; they should also help with farm work. This will let them understand how hard their mother works."

Yu Yan's views coincide with Huanxi's ideas.

Winter is coming, so it’s time to change the schedule so that the children don’t get up so early and catch a cold.

The morning time is postponed by one hour, from 9:00 to 11:30, and the afternoon starts from 1:30 to 17:30, a total of seven and a half hours.

Yu Yan also agreed, so the children will have five days off in the next two days as a summer vacation, and after the vacation they will start their winter schedule.

After making the decision, Zhao Huanxi's daily tasks became drying and harvesting the millet. He would go to the backyard to check on the well, then to the fields to check on the progress. Finally, he would visit his pepper cultivation dish to check on the growth.

By the time all the rice in the fields was harvested, Xu Qingzhao had become several shades darker than before, but he looked even more attractive.

Zhao Huanxi paid the rice threshing workers their wages, and they all left the Zhao family's house with smiles on their faces. Since the past few days had been busy, and there had been no visitors, Zhao Huanxi was happy to have some peace and quiet.

Now that the farm work is done, the only thing left to do is the backyard well. After resting at home for a while, I'll plow the land and plant some winter wheat.

If we plant it in September or October, we can harvest it in April or May next year. Although this place is not suitable for growing wheat, we will plant as much as we can, which is better than leaving it there and planting nothing.

Having decided this, I planned to harvest some better wheat seeds.

One acre of land requires twenty to forty kilograms of wheat seeds. If I have five acres of land, I need to budget for two hundred kilograms of wheat seeds.

She remembered that when she was a child, she followed her grandmother to farm. The wheat had to be soaked and then mixed with wood ash and fertilizer.

Use a wire pole to draw a line on the ground, and use a hoe to dig out wheat ridges, with about one meter of wheat separated by one meter of open space, and then another one-meter of wheat ridges.

The advantage of this is that other crops can be grown on the open space. She remembers that when she was a child, she could grow wheat, corn, and soybeans in the fields.

Not only does it prevent disease, it also improves soil fertility. After wheat is harvested, legumes continue to grow, promoting plant growth and branching. It's truly killing two birds with one stone.

When he told Xu Qingzhao his idea, she was stunned. She had never seen such a method of growing wheat before.

Planting wheat here is nothing more than loosening the ground, spreading the wheat evenly and then leaving it alone. When the wheat ears are ripe, they are not big.

Moreover, the wheat here is sown in spring, planted in March, and harvested in October. If Huanxi uses this method, won't the wheat seeds be frozen?

Although the winter here doesn't freeze like in Ning'an Prefecture, the wind is still biting and the soil in the ground is frozen hard.

So he asked Huanxi about his doubts.

Huanxiong seemed to know she would ask this question and said proudly, "Actually, wheat is very cold-resistant. Wheat sown in winter grows stronger plants, with thicker stems and wider leaves. It can better support the grains, reduces pests, and increases yields."

This was also the knowledge she learned when she asked her grandmother when she was a child. At that time, her grandmother had a piece of marginal land that was not suitable for planting in rows, so she sowed thick wheat and let it grow wildly.

Not only did the leaves turn yellow, but the ears of wheat were also very small. Grandma then explained the benefits of growing winter wheat. I still remember it vividly.

Xu Qingzhao suddenly realized, "A thousand hammers forge a sword's edge, while the snow plum blossoms stand proudly and laugh at the cold wind. Could wheat also be so unique?"

"You're overthinking it. Wheat is just naturally cold-resistant. If this method works, it will provide more options for these people."

"Yes, there are very few people growing wheat here, they mostly grow rice. If winter wheat could really be grown, the people would be able to harvest two crops a year, and paying the grain tax would be much easier. Huanhuan, then you would be a great contributor to the entire Shang'an Prefecture."

"But after all, this is my first time planting, so I need to gain more experience before I can teach others."

"But there are only a handful of families in our village who raise cattle. Should we buy another cow?"

"I've thought about this. I left a pigpen when I renovated the house, but I didn't raise any pigs. I could certainly afford to raise a cow. Let's take a couple of days off and then go to town to check on the cows."

"Okay, just order me around."

Now that the rice has been harvested, the straw is still in the field. When the time comes, burning it can provide fertilizer for the field.

There were many people at home, so they cleaned up the rice in a few days and moved all the rice to the warehouse. After a while, they secretly moved it into the mountains to store it.

We weighed the rice this time, and it was more than 2,000 kilograms in total, which is enough for the family to eat.

The spring tax on top-quality land was two dou per mu (one dou = twelve jin), and the autumn tax was four dou per mu.

The grain tax for the inferior and ordinary land cultivated by other people is half of that for the good land.

So it is estimated that the family that pays the most taxes in the village will probably be Zhao Huanxi's family... Just then Huanxi remembered something very important.