to farm together

Chapter 8 Raising Seedlings

The next morning, Xue Chengqi brought the workers together and brought another cart full of things, including some fodder.They are all those that he has used in his own vegetable garden with good results. Combined with the local soil, the effect of raising seedlings will be better.

Xuan Yi'an had called the villagers to come out and help build the shed, but no one had done it before, so she didn't know how to do it.So when Xue Chengqi and the workers arrived, everyone started to build the greenhouse under the leadership of the workers.

The construction of this greenhouse is basically heavy work, and Xue Chengqi will not participate.He took the bedding he brought to Xuan Yi'an's house, and then chose a room in the attic, planning to make a home here.

There are only two rooms in the attic, both facing the yard, and both have two small wooden balconies.The room on the left is where Xuan Yi'an lives, and the room on the right is unoccupied, but there is no bed either, so some sundries are piled up.

Xuan Yi'an had thought that Xue Chengqi would come to live in their house, but she never thought it would be so soon, and moved the bedding directly the next day!He didn't even have time to vacate the room, let alone the bed.

Xuan Yi'an was worried that he would not be able to accept such a simple room, or even dislike him, so he came back specially, intending to help Xue Chengqi tidy up.

Unexpectedly, Xue Chengqi not only did not dislike it, but was also very excited, saying that he could finally experience what it was like to live in a "cultural relic" -_-||

Xue Chengqi also repeatedly emphasized that he doesn't need help, he has to decorate his new room by himself.Xuan Yi'an looked at his excited face, and silently went out to help build the greenhouse.

So, under the instruction of grandma, Xue Chengqi moved all the sundries in the room to the outside of the room, that is, to the upstairs hall.

Then I cleaned the room from top to bottom, and found wooden boards to make a simple suspended ceiling for the roof where wood and tiles could be seen.Finally, he took out a large stack of wallpapers he brought, and turned the whole room into a blue sky and white clouds above the head, surrounded by flowers and grass, combined with the pure natural wooden floor, I feel quite natural and beautiful.

Anyway, grandma liked it very much when she saw it, and said that she wanted Xuan Yi'an to learn from it and make his house look better.But after Xuan Yian went home to see, he remained silent...

In the end, the wooden floor was wiped clean, and then put on the foldable mattress he bought specially, and put on pillows and quilts, and everything was done.

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The so-called strength comes from a large number of people, and in one day's work, a greenhouse on one mu of land can be set up.Because Lang Village is located in a low-lying area surrounded by mountains, and it is in the south, there is no need to worry about extreme weather such as typhoon or heavy snow, so Xue Chengqi asked them to build ordinary steel-frame greenhouses without any complicated things.

Of course, this is just to set up the shed, and the related greenhouse equipment has not been installed yet. The installation of some equipment requires electricity. Naturally, there is no electricity outside the village, so wires have to be pulled out from the village.So these have to wait until all the greenhouses are built before pulling the wires and installing them uniformly.

In Langcun in November, the weather is generally maintained at about [-] degrees Celsius, and the temperature is still relatively mild. There is no need to insulate the greenhouse, so there is no rush to install the greenhouse facilities.

A total of three greenhouses were set up for this mu of land. Although one mu of land is in the same area, the height of the terrain is still slightly different, and it has to be built according to the terrain.

In other words, it is also good to have more greenhouses, so that it will be more convenient to grow different vegetables in different greenhouses, because it will be easier to control the temperature and humidity of different greenhouses to adapt to vegetables.

After a busy day, everyone was exhausted and paralyzed. Fortunately, there was still a big meal to eat at Xuan Yi'an's house, and the villagers were very happy.

Xuan Yi settled down to three acres of land, no matter how much or how little, anyway, the two of them would definitely not be able to handle it.The day-to-day management in the future is easy to talk about, but for tasks such as building a greenhouse with a tight schedule and a heavy workload, you have to ask the villagers for help.

And there are still many places to ask the villagers for help in the future, so they have discussed before that they will hire the villagers to help in the form of wages in the future.That is, everyone pays according to the number of days they help, instead of giving everyone a meal and it's over.

Of course, after all the wages are paid, there is no need to prepare a big meal. It's okay to come here once in a while, but if you are busy for a few days, Xue Chengqi will not be able to make it.

The villagers are also very happy with this form, after all, it is better than anything to make money in this spare time.Although the big meals cooked by Xue Chengqi were also delicious, the people in the village were similar to Xuan Yi'an, and they were not picky about food, so they still liked money more.

In the next two days, when the workers and the strong men in the village continued to build other greenhouses, Xue Chengqi and the women in the village started the preparations for raising seedlings.

As the saying goes, "the seedlings are strong and the harvest is half the harvest". This seedling raising is a technical job. Whether the grown vegetables are good or not depends mainly on whether the seedling raising technology is good or not.In addition to the influence of the site environment, this technology mainly depends on whether the seedling substrate is good or not.Therefore, Xue Chengqi, a professional, is responsible for the deployment of seedling substrates, and the women are responsible for plowing the ground.

They cleaned up the smallest one of the sheds, then used hoes to loosen the soil, and then flattened it into pieces that were more than one meter wide and ten meters long.There is a slightly lower ditch between the pieces, and the villagers generally call this ditch a row, which is used for people to walk, and also has the function of drainage.

After the land has been turned over, the women stand on the row and place the seedling trays one by one on the land.The next step is to put the seedling substrate prepared by Xue Chengqi into the hole tray and scrape it flat with a wooden board.

Once the substrate is installed, the next step is to sow the seeds.First of all, holes are opened in each hole, and then the seeds are evenly sown into the center of the holes, and then the seeds are evenly covered with the mixed seedling substrate.

Since ancient times, agriculture has been dependent on the sky. Even though the current agricultural technology is more advanced, it will still be affected by meteorological and climatic conditions.What's more, this is the first time they have actually fought in the field, and the greenhouse they built is not smart, so it is more reliable to follow the weather and solar terms.

Seedling cultivation in this winter is suitable for cultivating solanaceous fruits, melons and bean seedlings.So Xue Chengqi chose his favorite eggplant, and grandma's favorite tomato, as well as beans, cucumbers, peppers, etc.

During these three days, the villagers basically gathered in the field, and even the elderly and children came to join in the fun and watch, which was even more lively than during the busy farming season.

Even grandma came out with a cane. Grandma thought it was noisy from the various beating sounds of building a greenhouse, and it was quite busy, so I went to see it once and never went there.

Every day, she would sit with Xue Chengqi on a high chair, watch Xue Chengqi "play with mud" and chat with him.Knowing that Xue Chengqi was going to plant small tomatoes for her to eat, he was as happy as a child, and praised everyone he met, not only praising Xue Chengqi for being a good person, but also praising the delicious small tomatoes.

The greenhouses are all set up, and Xue Chengqi's seedling raising work is also completed.The next step is to clean up the waste and garbage in the greenhouse, and then improve the infrastructure in the greenhouse.

The first thing is to pull the wires. With the help of the village electrician, it was done in less than a day, and the lights were installed in the shed.

The next step is to install temperature and humidity control equipment for the greenhouse, as well as watering related instruments.This kind of technology requires professionals, so it is better to find corresponding workers to help install it.

In addition, I will prepare to type code at home in the future, so I must have a network first.So Xuan Yi'an made a special trip to the town, spent a lot of money to find someone to set up the basic network facilities for their village, and then connected the first network cable.

After working so hard for more than a week, I finally got all the hardware facilities needed for farming.

It is said that Xue Chengqi has not been back to W City for more than a week since he moved the bedding to Xuan Yi'an's house that day. His mother was quite surprised and called him to go home.

Xuan Yi'an was also quite surprised. I thought that Xue Chengqi was just a temporary fascination. It was the kind of urbanites who had never experienced rural life. up.

So he thought that Xue Chengqi would only stay for two or three days, and after the busiest three days, he would go back to W City.Probably in the future, I will occasionally stay late when I am busy.

But Xue Chengqi seemed to become more and more addicted the more he experienced it, and he didn't seem to want to go back to W City at all.Although the dishes he cooks are delicious and grandma likes him very much, Mrs. Xuan Yian feels that it is strange that there is one more person in the family.

Especially at night, occasionally I want to stay on the wooden balcony like before, but when I turn around, I find that there is someone on the balcony next door, looking at me and laughing -_-||

Then when I was sleeping, when I thought of an outsider living next door, it became unnatural to sleep.And I won’t go into details about what happens when I wake up at night...

The living environment in the countryside is not uncommon, but it is definitely not as clean and tidy as in the city, and it is not as convenient as the city. You have to drive more than 40 minutes to the town to buy something.The road was still dusty, and Xue Chengqi's white car had really turned into a yellow car, which couldn't be washed clean.

In the first two days, Xue Chengqi was really not used to it, especially because there was only one bathroom in Xuan Yi'an's house, and he had to go downstairs to go to the bathroom.

But it would be nice to stay for a few more days, and he really likes it more and more here, doing what he likes freely, although he will be busy, he is also very fulfilled and happy.

After getting up and having breakfast every day, I went to the field to water the seeds. Watching the seeds start to sprout one by one, my mood naturally became better.

Then the villagers are also very warm and friendly, and everyone they meet on the road, including children, will greet him.When you are free, you can sit with grandma on the bench in the village and chat with the villagers.Or play ball with the boys in the village.

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