Chapter 100 Crops are growing well

With her uncle and master living in her own home, Jing Yi no longer has to worry about running to town.

The crops in her field are growing very well. The wheat has already headed. The cotton has grown very tall. The rapeseed flowers are also growing very well. Other crops are also growing well.

When harvesting wheat, you need to have a field to pile wheat, thresh wheat, and dry wheat. There is a lot of work in the later stage.

There was also a threshing floor in the village, and Jingyi grew a lot of grain, so she had to prepare a piece of land by herself, so she chose a piece of wasteland not far from her home and negotiated with the village chief to buy the land.

If a piece of wasteland is to be used as a useful harvest field, the ground must be compacted firmly and smooth. This requires the use of a tool - a stone roller.

Stone rollers are tools used by country people for playing field. They are very common and can be found on almost every field. Stone rollers are generally made of large bluestones and are in the shape of a cylinder, with one end large and one small, and there are holes at both ends.

When in use, it is put on a special wooden frame and can be pulled with the help of manpower or animal power.

Jing Yi first asked the hired long-term workers to clean up the weeds on the threshing floor, and then poured water on the threshing floor. After it was dry, he used a stone roller to roll the ground into a solid state. The rolled surface was strong and smooth. When it was used,

Roll it again so that the surface of the wheat field remains smooth and strong, and can be used for threshing wheat, drying wheat, or threshing rice.

Jing Yi inquired about the villagers who used flails or stone rollers to thresh the wheat after harvesting it. The flails relied on human power to beat and thresh the grains, while the stone rollers used human or animal power to pull the stone rollers to crush and thresh the grains.

This ancient society did not have any machinery and could only use the most primitive tools. But their efficiency was definitely very low. However, when the wheat was harvested, it was already relatively dry, so it was easier to thresh it in the sun. It was pressed with a stone roller and spread out.

On the dried wheat straw, the wheat grains are separated from the ears.

Jing Yi is thinking about designing a manual thresher. It can at least improve the efficiency.

Especially when threshing rice, stone rollers are not so easy to use. After all, the rice is still relatively wet when harvested, and even the leaves are still green.

Jingyi thinks it is okay to design a rice threshing machine. She is going to plant rice next year, and she will definitely use a threshing machine by then.

The rapeseed flowers will bloom soon, and beekeeping is also on the agenda.

Jing Yi asked someone to ask if there was anyone who kept bees, but he didn't find out at first. It was after Mei Huanzhang learned that Jing Yi wanted to keep bees that he said: "There are not many people who know how to keep bees. That's why honey is so precious."

Many people go to the mountains to find wild honeycombs. Honey is produced in small quantities, so it is very precious. If you want to learn beekeeping, I will send someone to help you find out."

Jing Yi said: "That's not necessary, I just want to find someone who knows how to keep bees, hire them to help me keep bees, and then build some beehives to see what the current beehives look like.

If it’s hard to find someone, I’ll design my own style and hire a carpenter to build a beehive. You can try raising a few boxes of bees first, just for fun.”

Mei Huanzhang rolled his eyes at Jing Yi and said, "Can we keep bees for fun? If not, we might get stung by bees, and that would be poisoning and life-threatening."

Jing Yi smiled and said, "You can rest assured, I will take precautions."

Jing Yi thought that she had planted 200 acres of rapeseed flowers, and it would be no problem to raise a few boxes of bees. She drew a drawing of the beehives, and then asked Carpenter Wang from the village to build ten beehives for her according to the drawing.

The next day after the beehives were ready, Jingyi, Song Chengyuan, Qiao Hong and others drove a carriage to transport the beehives to the foot of the mountain. Then Jingyi and several members of his family placed the beehives in a relatively secluded place at the foot of the mountain.

After placing the ten beehives, Jingyi took out bait made of honey, sugar and pollen and placed it in the ten beehives. It was really used to attract bees.

Both honey and sugar were bought by Jingyi in Huizhou Prefecture, and the pollen was the pollen from rapeseed flowers that Jingyi collected with her special powers. Jingyi wanted to use the scent of rapeseed flowers to attract bees. It also made the bees familiar with the smell of rapeseed flowers.

In the future, I will collect more nectar from rapeseed flowers.

After making all preparations, Jingyi clapped his hands and said, "Okay, in a few days there should be bees settling here."

Jingyi is very confident about this. The honey and pollen have been refined by Jingyi using her powers, so they will be very attractive to bees.

After placing the beehives, everyone went back. Now the cotton plants in the field have grown their first fruit branches and need to be pruned.

When Jingyi arrived at the cotton field, the long-term workers employed by her family were waiting in the field. Today Jingyi will teach everyone how to prune cotton.

After the cotton plant grows its first fruit branch, it is necessary to remove the branches and leaves below the first fruit branch and keep the leaves on the main stem. If you encounter weak seedlings or lack of seedlings, the leaf branches of the cotton plant can be properly retained until they grow.

It will take a long time to hit the border.

Now that the cotton plant has just grown its first fruit branch, Jingyi will teach you how to prune branches at this time. We will talk about it later when the cotton plant grows up.

Lin Xiuhan came while Jingyi was teaching the workers. Instead of going to Jingyi's house, he came directly to the fields to find Jingyi. He also wanted to see how the crops in the fields were growing.

Jing Yi saw Lin Xiuhan from afar. She asked Song Yuancheng, who had already learned how to prune branches, to teach others how to prune branches. She went up to him and asked, "Brother Lin, why are you here?"

Lin Xiuhan looked at the crops around him and said, "Let me see how your winter wheat is growing. This cotton looks good too. What are you doing?"

Jing Yi replied: "It's time to prune the cotton. I'm teaching them to prune the cotton plant. From now on, the cotton will have to be taken care of even more carefully. In this way, we can harvest more cotton with high yield in autumn."

Lin Xiuhan knew that there was a lot of knowledge in this kind of crops, "I don't understand this. Let's go and see the winter wheat."

Jing Yi nodded and walked to the wheat field with Lin Xiuhan. When they were approaching the wheat field, at a glance, the entire wheat field was like a green ocean. The breeze blew, and the waves of wheat rolling were very spectacular.

it's beautiful.

As he approached the wheat field, Lin Xiuhan sighed: "This wheat is growing really well. Others' wheat is still a seedling. Your winter wheat has already headed, so it will definitely be harvested earlier than the wheat sown in spring."

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Jing Yi said: "The weather in our area is not particularly cold in winter, so winter wheat can survive the winter safely. If you sow it in the autumn of the first year, you can harvest it in early summer of the next year, without any delay in planting the second crop."

Lin Xiuhan immediately asked: "When the wheat is harvested, what crops are you going to plant?"

Jing Yi said: "When the wheat is harvested, I will plant soybeans. In autumn, a crop of soybeans can be harvested. The soybeans can be pressed for oil, and the remaining material can be made into bean cakes to be used as feed for pigs, cattle and sheep. The soybeans are also used for raising pigs, cattle and sheep.

Soy sauce can be brewed, and can be made into tempeh and sauce. Soybeans can also be made into tofu, dried tofu, tofu skin, etc., and can also be eaten raw as bean sprouts. In short, soybeans have many uses.

Just planting one hundred acres of soybeans is not enough for me. In the future, brewing soy sauce will require a large amount of soybeans.

Brother Lin, I think you can encourage farmers to open up wasteland and plant soybeans, and we will purchase them at market prices. This will drive the economic development of Hui'an County and make farmers' lives much easier."

Lin Xiuhan was very optimistic about Jingyi's plan, "As you said, these soybeans are really useful. If you buy them in the future, the villagers will not have to worry about not being able to sell them. I will think about this when I get back."

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Chapter completed!