Chapter 361 Conquering a wise woman to farm in Huangxing (20)
After returning from the trade fair, Xu Yin sat down and carefully sorted out the farming plan for next spring.
But before that, she had to build the waterwheel.
So, before the cold season came, I took the Kaxiu brothers and cut down a few trees from the mangrove forest.
On the way to the mangroves, I saw the bare Kenhuan Lake, and I couldn’t help but think of the oil palm trees growing by the saltwater lake. If you want to transform the soil and water, you still have to plant trees.
Unfortunately, with her current balance of energy points, she can no longer exchange for a few saplings. Then I looked through the system warehouse and remembered that I had stocked up on some fruit saplings before.
Looking around, I found it!
She has stocked up on various fruit saplings and old vines.
The soil around the pit lake is much better than the saline-alkali land of the salt water lake. If you plow it deeply and refill it with some fertilizer, you should be able to survive.
Unfortunately, the cold season is approaching, and it’s too late this year. Let’s wait until spring and the flowers bloom before planting trees. Then we can plant a circle around the pit and build a grape trellis around the lake.
However, in this case, the bees that originally only lived in the Insect Forest and occasionally came to her vegetable patch to collect honey may choose to make their home nearby.
There's nothing else, except that the bees here are surprisingly big, one is six or seven times the size of an ordinary bee. Xu Yin is a little afraid of these little things.
But she is a little greedy for honey, and she is thinking about making a few beehives and placing them in fields and fruit trees. It would be good to experience the daily life of a beekeeper.
Not only can you slowly overcome your fear of these little things through understanding them, but you can also harvest a variety of fruits and honey. Why not?
After making up her mind, she used her few remaining energy points to buy a "Beekeeping Guide" in the system mall, which contained the drawings for making beehives.
So, Xu Yin spent this cold season busy making beehives and water trucks.
Others came to help when they had nothing to do.
Xu Yin gave some simple work to Simon and others, and she was responsible for polishing the fine work and core components.
She had seen an old carpenter build a waterwheel once before during the Yan Dynasty, but this was her first time operating a beehive.
Fortunately, the drawing steps provided by the system are clear, and combined with the "scene simulation" function, I finally succeeded!
Once the cold season is over, she places these beehives at some distance apart near the vegetable fields and Hanghuan Lake.
Before the fruit trees are planted, a wave of rapeseed will be planted first.
Rapeseed flowers should also be loved by bees.
Then load up the water tanker.
People in the interstellar age saw the waterwheel running and delivering bucket after bucket of water to the canals dug in advance, which was different from the surprise of the ancient people.
They were curious because this thing was actually made of wood.
Xu Yingxiong actually knows this ancient craft that is about to be lost? That’s awesome!
The gaze he looked at Xu Yin changed from fear and admiration to worship.
I can’t help but guess: Could it be that because he was too capable, the elders of the Mecha Association who rejected ancient crafts teamed up to conquer the Exile Star?
Whether it was true or not, at this moment, Xu Yin became one of the few inheritors of ancient craftsmanship in their hearts, and their admiration and worship for her was like the water of a lake that never dries up.
Xu Yin didn’t know that during the time it took to assemble a waterwheel, the group of people would be performing a love-hate drama between the mecha and the inherited crafts factions in their hearts.
Spring is the best time for farming, and she doesn’t want to waste a moment.
When everyone heard that they could grow soft, glutinous, delicious and filling natural food, they rushed to Xu Yin’s house.
Xu Yin distributed rice seeds to them and taught them how to soak them.
During the soaking period, let them clear out the land for seedlings first. Growing rice is a two-step process, first raising seedlings and then transplanting seedlings.
Everyone followed Xu Yin, and they did as she taught.
Some of these people once lived a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife, some were once star thieves with no fixed abode, and some once achieved brilliance but ended up in this situation due to a momentary mistake.
However, at this moment, everyone has the same identity, that is - newcomers in the farming world!
Looking at the cautious way they hold the soaked seeds and go to the ground to raise seedlings, they look like beasts sniffing roses.
During the rice seedling nursery period, Xu Yin divided the remaining wasteland around Kenghuan Lake for everyone, so that everyone would not fight over it and affect the harmony.
After the division was completed, let them each dig the ground.
Her hundreds of acres of land that had been cultivated before the cold season had been used to grow grains, fruits and vegetables. As soon as the ice was unsealed, the mud softened, and the "floating light and mist" was activated again, so she could plant it with a little digging. Even one person can do it.
Unexpectedly, everyone came to help spontaneously. They would plow their own land in the morning and come to loosen the soil for her in the afternoon.
In this way, within a few days, Xu Yin took the lead in planting the first crop of vegetables in spring, and then planted ten acres of sugar cane.
In the remaining land, after the rice seedlings have been planted, water will be poured into the fields to transplant rice seedlings.
A group of people were very busy.
They were too lazy to pick up the supply packages. In the end, Andrew, who had the best stamina and was the fastest, was sent to take Kahn to the drop coordinate point, and used a large sack to get everyone's supply packages back.
Others gave each of them a bottle of nutrient solution as payment for running errands, and they both despised it.
“I don’t want to eat any of my own nutrient solution. You’d better give me a pound of rice when the rice is ripe!”
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It only took half a year to go from looting to not fighting or grabbing but only taking my own share, to not even bothering to take my own share.
The looting situation before this lasted for unknown generations.
If the people in the Supervision Office saw this scene, their jaws would probably drop in shock.
Fortunately, they couldn't see that Xu Yin and the native people of the Exile Star worked together to open up wasteland and build homes.
It took a year to completely turn all the wasteland around Kenghuan Lake into fertile farmland.
Everyone has their own field, eats natural food, and lives in a two-bedroom apartment that is the same as Xu Yin's. Some of them have ingenious ideas and even build original buildings.
However, the solidity of the foundation is limited, so living on the second floor is okay, but the third floor is worried about collapse after living for a long time, so only the second floor is built.
After it was built, everyone thought it was beautiful, so before another cold season came and after the food was put into the warehouse, they had nothing to do and collectively had an addiction to infrastructure construction.
Xu Yin couldn't help but build a two-story small foreign-style building next to the original two-bedroom bungalow. The original bungalow became her tool room and granary.
The spring of the following year was warm and the flowers were blooming. She gave each family a handful of flower seeds, which were planted in front of and behind the building. There were bougainvillea, coral vine, wall-creeper, and sky flower... The vines climbed along the courtyard wall to the roof of the second floor. By midsummer, , became a unique scenery.
This is a beautiful home they built with their hands and hard work. With such an environment, let alone their whole life, they would be happy to continue living here in the next life and the next life after that.
There is no longer the frustration, anger, and despair that they had when they first arrived. Now, they have an unprecedented passion for life, and they have endless energy when they open their eyes.
(End of this chapter)