"After the New Year, when the ice and snow melt, you can work hard and go to Wanhua Village." Xu Yin said to the nursing home, "Tell the village head to wait for spring and after the rice seedlings are planted, fish out the fish and shrimp in the river." Come up and sift through it. It's time to give birth to filial piety. Send some to the mansion, and Zhuangzi will keep some for himself. The youngest ones are put back into the river and continue to be raised. Fish fry that are one finger wide are picked out and raised in the rice fields. .”
“Huh? Can fish be kept in rice fields?” The nurse was stunned.
Others also looked confused.
"Of course!" Xu Yin explained, "Didn't the old man say that the water used to raise fish and shrimp irrigates the rice fields and the crops grow well. Why is this? Because the feces excreted by the fish and shrimps moisturize the rice fields and there is enough fertilizer in the fields. Will the crops grow well? In that case, wouldn’t it be more convenient to raise the fish directly in the rice fields?”
“Really!”
The maids, mothers-in-law, and nurses present were suddenly enlightened and felt that new ideas had opened up.
Of course, rice flower fish is not that easy to raise.
After the New Year, Xu Yin wrote down the experience she had accumulated in raising rice fish and asked the nursing staff to deliver it to the head of Wanhua Village.
To prevent Zhuangtou from being illiterate, she deliberately used a multi-frame comic format.
A picture is accompanied by just a few words, which is vivid and interesting. You can understand the meaning of the picture just by looking at the picture without reading the words.
After reading these simple pictures in order about how to raise fish in rice fields, how to prevent fish diseases, and how to make fish grow faster, Zhuangtou suddenly realized: "It turns out that fish can still be raised in rice fields! The methods don't count. Disaster!"
Then what are you waiting for!
As a result, Wanhua Village under the Xu Mansion started raising rice flower fish in full swing.
The fish in the river were overflowing and were about to rebel. Finally, they are moving into a new home. There is no need for so many fish to crowd the river anymore. Fish life is perfect!
The fry, a finger-width apart, was placed in a well-watered seedling field and swam with its tail flexibly.
They also seemed to feel very happy: the original river was too crowded, and they had to compete with a group of big fish for food, so they were frightened all day long.
It’s so spacious here, and you can see small flying insects falling into the water everywhere, and you can eat them by opening your mouth. Even if there are fish competing for food, they are fry that are about the same size as myself, come on! Contest! It also depends on whether you can grab food or not.
In addition to tiny flying insects, the rice flowers have bloomed and buds have fallen down, which is also an extremely fresh and delicious food for fish.
In short, these fish live very vigorously in the new environment.
Zhuangzi under Xu Mansion will deliver Zhuangzi's output to Xu Mansion every three or five times. There will always be encounters, and the people who deliver the goods will get to know each other as they go back and forth.
The raising of rice flower fish in Wanhua Village has become a new topic on the lips of farmers recently. After the family paid filial piety, he came to deliver big fish to his employer, and the farmer who delivered the goods made a show of it.
Other farmers in Liangtianzhuang were quite surprised when they heard this: "Raising fish in rice fields? Can they survive?"
"It's easy to feed! It's more lively than in the river!" said the farmer of Wanhua Village happily. "Our village head said that it was the girl who came up with the idea, saying that the fish lived in the rice fields and the rice seedlings grew well. When the time comes, the rice will be full and the fish will be fat. What do you call this? Kill two birds with one stone! Hehe, I can also use a formal word!"
The farmers of these Liangtianzhuang turned around and told the owner of the village that Wanhuazhuang picked small fry from fish in the river and raised them in the rice fields. They said that the rice grown in this way was fuller than rice without fish.
None of the farmers believed it: "Won't the fish destroy the rice seedlings? Isn't it good to just farm on your own land? You have to make trouble. Let's see, the yield per mu will drop due to the trouble. Let's see how he explains to the owner."
Not only did the village bosses not believe it, but the old housekeeper couldn't help but worry after hearing about this: Fish farming in rice fields? Won’t the fish destroy the seedlings?
Then I thought again: It’s a good thing that a girl cares about her village! It doesn’t matter whether it succeeds in the end or not, as long as the starting point is good!
After all, the weather has been good these past few years, and the grains grown in the village have filled the granaries. Not to mention just a few acres of rice fields used to raise fish, what if the entire hundred acres of farmland in Wanhua Village are used to raise fish? If a girl likes to raise her, then raise her! He will bear it if it is spoiled!
The old housekeeper trembled slightly and pulled out the mahogany box from under the bed that the old man had given him as a reward. Inside it was neatly packed the monthly silver he had accumulated over the years, leaving enough for his pension and a lot left over. He stroked his beard with confidence. , no longer worry about this matter.
The girl guessed right. She had just picked the white gauze and black flowers and painted it with a new coat of paint to give the house a brand new look. Visitors came to the door immediately. There are family friends of the Xu family, colleagues in the business world, and the most outrageous thing is that there are actually matchmakers, and there are more than one, one, two, three, four, five...
The old housekeeper was so surprised that his jaw did not drop.
Even though he has been a housekeeper for so many years, he has seen all kinds of visitors, but he has never seen such a battle - a group of matchmakers among a group of visitors, fighting for space to match his girls.
“Housekeeper, housekeeper, mother-in-law, I am here today because I want to tell the girl in the house about a good marriage that is the only one in the world..."
"Why are you squeezing! You're the matchmaker, aren't I? Don't you understand the first-come, first-served rule? Really!" Another matchmaker rolled her eyes and squeezed away the queue-jumper. She looked at the butler and immediately changed her face and said with a smile. , "Butler, I want to hook up with the girl in your mansion. The fourth young master of Liang Mansion has both talent and appearance, and unparalleled conduct. He is definitely a good husband that is hard to find in this world..."
“Oh, butler, listen to me, Lu Mansion...”
The old housekeepers, one head and two big men, quickly waved their hands and declined: "I can't be the master of this matter, so please go back first!"
The matchmakers won't get the reward if they don't get the job done, so they are not willing to leave easily and continue to talk around the old housekeeper.
“Xu Xing! Xu Xing! See off guests!”
Xu Xing was dumbfounded and reacted: "...Oh! Ladies and aunts, please go back first!"
No one paid him any attention, and they squeezed him out of the hall with a few twists of his butt.
Xu Xing: “…”
This is really useless!
Suddenly, an idea came to my mind, and I ran to the accounting room to bring reinforcements: "Mr. Sikong! Mr. Sikong! I'm offended! Your face...is nothing like that. Let's borrow it and ask them to leave the house!"
Sikong: "..." Are you polite?
But he did not refuse and was led to the hall by Xu Xing.
“Ahhhh!”
Sure enough, seeing Sikong’s face, these matchmakers were startled, “Who are you? You, you, you! What are you doing! Stay away from me!”
“I’ll see you off on behalf of the housekeeper.”
…”
It was obviously to see off guests, but the words coming from this man's mouth were so penetrating! It's like sending them to the west.
Oh yo...the matchmakers couldn't help but shudder.
“Forget it, since the housekeeper is busy, I won’t bother you anymore, come back next time!”
“Then I’ll go too, and please ask the housekeeper to say a few nice words to our Mr. Liang in front of the girl!”
“And our Mr. Lu…”
After saying that, they all ran very fast on their little feet, as if ghosts were chasing them from behind. Xu Xing couldn't even catch up.
Seeing that they had finally left, the housekeeper raised his sleeves and wiped his sweat.
“Sikong, thank you so much today! I never thought your face could be of such use…”
Sikong: “…” To be honest, I didn’t expect it either.