Chapter 230 231 Harvest
Ruyi clumsily hugged the child and hurriedly said to Mrs. Zhang, "Sister-in-law Zhang, hold it. I'm afraid of the soft rake." Everyone laughed when they saw Ruyi's nervous look.
After Ruyi handed the child to Mrs. Zhang, she rushed into the delivery room and saw Xiaoyu lying there with a pale face, even her hair was soaked with sweat. She felt distressed and gently wiped her with a handkerchief: "Bad boy, If you don’t choose a cool day, you will have to cover yourself up in such hot weather for more than a month!"
Listening to Ruyi's words, Mrs. Wen burst into laughter, "Little brother, how can you choose the time to give birth to a child? It's all predestined, it's fate!"
Ruyi took it seriously and kept nodding: "Yes, it's fate, fate." Then she remembered that she hadn't given Po Wen a red envelope yet, so she took out two pieces of silver from her pocket, handed it to Po Wen, and said with a smile: "Excuse me, please." Now, please come again after three days of washing." Po Wen happily took the money and said happily: "I will definitely come."
After Wen Po packed up the delivery room and walked outside the door, Li Yu gave her another red envelope. Wen Po accepted it happily and saluted, "Thank you, madam, thank you very much." Wen Po took the purse and was given away by Liu Po.
Three days later, a baptism ceremony was held for the child at the county government office. Ruyi gave the child a nickname of Qijin. Everyone saw that the child looked the same every day, and in a few days he became white and fat.
The days flew by in late June, and Li Qing was about to return to Tongzhou to attend Zhaodi's wedding. Li Yu went to the village and broke a few bags of tender corn back and cooked them for Li Qing. Li Qing gnawed on the cooked corn. , feeling sour and sweet in his heart, he said to Li Yu: "Sister, I'm not a child anymore. You boiled such precious seeds for me to eat."
Li Yu looked at Li Qing, who was slender and taller than himself. He divided a set of jewelry given by the emperor and put them in several boxes. Some were given to Zhao Di as gifts, and some were given to Zhao Di. Li Mei and Laidi.
Li Yu put the gift in Li Qing's bag and said reluctantly: "You will always be the little Ah Qing in my sister's eyes. You have to be careful along the way and don't rush too much. Both Xu Chun brothers are old people. , you should listen to their opinions more and don't act impulsively. Give the jewelry and gifts in the box to your aunt, and tell her not to be too tired."
Li Qing held back the tears in his eyes, turned to look out the window, and said in a hoarse voice: "I remember, don't go to the city gate to see me off later, my brother-in-law and brother Ruyi will see me off."
Zhou Jia entered the room and said to Li Qing: "The auspicious time has come and it's time to set off. Things that you should pay attention to in the provincial examination are all recorded in the notes that my brother-in-law gave you last time. You go back and study hard. We will get together after the provincial examination. Yu'er, you are at home, I Send Ah Qing out of the city and back."
Li Yu nodded and reluctantly sent Li Qing to the door. Seeing Li Qing get into the car, tears couldn't stop falling. Li Qing sniffed. The two siblings waved goodbye and looked at the car. After walking far away, Doctor Wen said to Li Yu who was standing at the door: "Xiaoyu, go back! We can see you again in a few days."
yes! There is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever. Li Yu sighed in his heart and looked at Mr. Wen with a smile: "Yeah! I just can't bear to part with it."
After sending Li Qing away, the days flew by at the end of June and beginning of July. The corn in the cornfield had matured, and the leaves on the corn stalks had turned yellow and withered.
Ruyi and Yang Wei, along with the long-term workers, looked at the fields full of corn cobs with joy. Everyone quickly broke off the corn cobs and moved them back to the drying yard. Following the method taught by Li Yu, they tore open the corn leaves and tied four or five corn cobs together. Put them into a string and hang them on a bamboo frame that has been set up in advance to dry in the sun.
After the corn was taken home, Yang Wei led people non-stop to take back the beans from the field. The beans in the corn field were planted in the furrows, and they only collected more than 20 bundles of bean poles from two acres of land. Everyone still felt that Happy, because these beans are an addition to the harvest of these two wastelands.
After the fields were vacated, Yang Wei and his long-term workers plowed and fertilized the wasteland that had been cleared to dry in preparation for planting the second season of corn.
In early July, the fragrance of rice flowers filled the entire land of Qingchuan. Li Yuchen took Ruyi and Yang Wei to the edge of the four-acre breeding field at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. During the flowering period, the flowers should be harvested after this time, and the flowering period is only a few days. We must take advantage of this period to help wild rice flowers and pollinate, increase the success rate of breeding and increase yields."
Ruyi and Yang Wei carefully noted down, and under Li Yu's command, they pulled the rope to pollinate the cultivated wild rice. It took Ruyi and Yang Wei an hour to complete the four-acre breeding field.
When Li Yu returned to the village, he saw that the corn cobs in the sun drying yard were also dried. Li and Yu Niang, together with the daughters-in-law of several long-term workers, were sitting in the shade of the verandah, rubbing the corn kernels. Li Yu said to several people: "Remember to put the dead seeds aside so that you don't have to pick them again when planting."
Yu Niang pointed to the picked corn kernels and said: "Madam, most of the corn kernels are removed from the top of the corn cob. We separate the corn kernels removed from the top and put them in a separate basket, and then use the wind machine to blow them. If you choose once, it will be much easier to choose.”
After hearing this, Li Yu gave a thumbs up and said, "I didn't expect that our Lady Yu is a smart woman and deserves praise."
Yu Niang looked at Li Yu angrily and said with a smile: "Madam is becoming more and more glib, and she knows how to drink me the ecstasy soup."
"Madam, you dare to say that your skin is itchy, right?" Mrs. Li threw a corn cob on Yu Niang, and everyone laughed.
Li Yu calculated that he had harvested nearly twenty stones of corn seeds from two acres of corn, and selected more than twenty acres of land that could be planted. Seeing that the corn cobs were almost finished, he planned to take a look at the newly opened sloping land.
When we walked to the slope, we saw that the open land had been spread with fertilizer. Uncle Dashui, the long-term engineer, saw Li Yu coming to check the slope and said to Li Yu: "Madam, fortunately we dug more than a dozen deep pits for fertilizer. Since the nearby villagers knew , the fallen leaf fertilizer on the mountain can fertilize the land, I have brought all the fallen leaf fertilizer back home, and now I can’t dig even a basket of fertilizer up the mountain.”
Li Yu said with a smile: "If you add leaves and rotten vegetable leaves, the manure will be the same. There is no need to go up the mountain to find fertilizer. The wasteland is opened and you need to put enough fertilizer into it so that the crops can be harvested."
Dashui and other long-term workers knew that Li Yu was better at farming than them. He smiled and said to Li Yu: "Madam, don't worry, I will do everything as you told me. When plowing, spread fertilizer once, and when plowing deeply, I sowed it once, and then spread it again while raking the ground, and it’s very fertile.”
Li Yu nodded and said with a smile: "Everyone, do a good job and I will give you red envelopes during the Chinese New Year."
When the long-term workers heard that red envelopes were given out during the New Year, they all smiled happily and said, "Thank you madam, we will wait for you to send us red envelopes and have a prosperous New Year."