Chapter 1045: The Lazy and Bad Sister-in-law of a Blessed Farm Girl (40)
The county magistrate happily returned to the county government office with the seeds and the idea of "a barrel of **** mountain".
Xu Yin simply divided the few remaining seeds and gave each member of the literacy class a small handful.
"Did you see these seeds? Even the county magistrate cherishes these seeds. You should take them home and cultivate them carefully. Whoever plants them well will be rewarded with a lotus head. When the lotus roots are harvested in autumn, you can pick one."
“Oh—we have a reward too!”
This made the cubs like Goudan who did not get the top three rewards cheer happily, carefully took the seeds, and went home to cultivate them.
Their family members learned that even the county magistrate attached great importance to these seeds. How could they not support them?
Not only did they support it, but they also rushed to take care of it, for fear that the little cub would be damaged or damaged. If they couldn't plant it later, it would be a small thing to lose the reward, but it would be a big thing to waste the seeds of the Western Region.
Xu Yin planted a small handful in a separate experimental field in her own vegetable garden.
Of course she knows what kinds of seeds these are, including cauliflower, onion, tomato, sweet potato, strawberry, kale, etc.
Yes, she also mixed in the seeds of sweet potato, the king of high-yielding crops.
Sweet potatoes can generally be grown directly from tubers, but the tubers are too big. Comrade Xiaojin was with her when she bought the seeds in Chunzhou Prefecture, so she couldn't make any small moves.
Fortunately, I had a bag of high-quality sweet potato seeds in my hand. I forgot which small world had stocked them, so I took them out and mixed a few seeds into them, hoping that more people would be fed.
During this period, collective lotus ponds were established in Xiaowa Village.
Although it is called a lotus pond, lotus roots will not be planted this year. Ducks will be raised first.
The hatched ducklings are placed in a duck shed built next to the lotus pond. When they grow up, they go to the rice fields to weed and eat insects. When the rice fields are drained, they are allowed to freely forage in the lotus pond.
With the collective lotus pond, the villagers can finish the summer harvest without having to go to town to work part-time. They communicate with each other every day about how many work points they have earned, and look forward to how much money they can share at the end of the year.
Once life is fulfilled, the unhappiness caused by trivial matters will be less, and the small and large villages under Li Zheng's jurisdiction will be harmonious.
Xu Yin didn’t notice the changes in the village. The lotus flowers in her lotus pond were blooming!
The tender pink flower buds rush to bloom around the time of the summer harvest. Large white petals with pink inside open in layers, revealing the bright yellow stamens.
So, after finishing the summer harvest, Xu Yin would come to the lotus pond every morning.
Comrade Xiao Jin was sitting in the pavilion fishing, and she was sitting next to him with her chin propped up, admiring the lotus.
Watching the lotus bloom from its first bloom to full bloom, watching the lotus sprouting from its heart, and watching the fish playing among the lotus leaves, I feel very wonderful.
The vivid and beautiful scenery in front of her made her feel that this was a leisurely and comfortable vacation world!
In the small world of cultivation, apart from collecting water from spiritual springs, spiritual mist and spiritual lakes, what else is there?
system:…
That is for you to nourish your soul, not for you to replenish supplies.
“Are you thirsty?”
Cui Mengjin just caught a grass carp, threw it into the bucket aside, added bait, threw the fishing rod back into the lake, turned to look at Xu Yin, "Drink some water?"
“Meng Jin’s wife—”
Xu Yin couldn't help but be happy: "Have you ever felt that Li Zheng is getting younger and younger recently? Is this what is often said, 'people are in high spirits during happy events'?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a hearty laugh came: "Meng Jin's wife, how did you guess that there was a happy event?" "..."
What a great joy!
County Magistrate Chen allocated 500 taels of silver to their Xiaowa Village, saying that he would support them in building collective lotus ponds and related workshops.
On the surface, the collective lotus ponds in Xiaowa Village inspired the Fourth Prince. The memorials he submitted about collective projects in various villages based on local conditions were praised by His Majesty. In fact, it was mainly due to the bucket of Jiangshan.
The fourth prince has been canonized as Crown Prince!
He wanted to reward Cui Mengjin and his wife well, but he was worried about being discovered by other princes. Just like when he found out the existence of the couple through Zhou Zhihai, it would be more than worth the gain if he did his little tricks behind his back. So he used Chen Zhanpeng to In the name of supporting the construction of collective lotus ponds in Xiaowa Village, a silver reward was funded.
County Magistrate Chen asked Li Zheng to take out one hundred taels and reward them to the villagers who supported the collective lotus pond project according to their merits.
Xu Yin, the proposer, had the greatest credit and was allocated thirty taels. Li Zheng received 10 taels, and the remaining sixty taels were divided equally between the two villages for cleaning up the lotus pond mud in the early stage, for the strong labor force, and for providing duck seedlings. . Each person has about one or two.
With money to be collected before the Chinese New Year came, everyone's hearts became even more fervent.
County Magistrate Chen saw that Xu was only allocated thirty taels and felt that it was less, but he could not regret asking Li Zheng to redistribute it, so he took out another fifty taels from his own pocket and rewarded her in the name of seeds from the Western Regions.
Xu Yin asked curiously: "Have you planted all the seeds you brought back?"
Otherwise, why should we reward her?
Ming County Magistrate Chen: “…”
Well, he sent someone to send the bag of seeds to the prince along with the idea of "a barrel of **** mountain". In this letter, the prince did not mention this, so how did he know whether they had been planted?
He could only say vaguely: "It's being tested."
Xu Yin thought that he was busy with official duties and didn't pay attention to the progress, so he didn't pay attention.
Those seeds have been cultivated through several generations of screening and selection of the best, and their survival rate is extremely high.
She was worried that after planting, people would not know how to eat it and it would be wasted, so she asked the county magistrate to move it to her backyard.
“Sir, this was planted by women of the common people with the leftover seeds, but the time is still short. Only these types are mature now...
This should be a fruit. It tastes sweet and juicy. It is often visited by birds before it is ripe. Adults can try it, because there are not many, and the remaining women plan to save seeds and plant them next year.
This kind of vegetables like flowers, the wife does not know what it is called, it looks like a flower, and she just calls it cauliflower. The woman and the family have already tasted it. The taste is okay.
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Magistrate Chen clicked his tongue in amazement: "I didn't expect that the dishes in the Western Regions are so... uh, strange. Some look like flowers, and some look like fruits..."
He decided to write a letter to His Highness the Crown Prince when he returned. Don’t throw away the fruits and vegetables as poisonous weeds and poisonous fruits just because they don’t look like ordinary vegetables and fruits.
Xu Yin points to that.
There is no way, the sweet potatoes and onions are still too early to mature.
Especially onions, which have the longest growth process. It will be next year before they are ready to be eaten. Then invite the county magistrate to come to your home to try them. I just hope they don't use the green leaves of sweet potatoes and onions as vegetables. They eat the leaves and plow the ground before the fruits have grown, and the seeds are in vain.
(End of this chapter)