Chapter 109: He dare not leave it to others

Since the corn and rice sprouted, Cheng Er came to the fields five times a day, even if it rained lightly for the past three days.

  And on the fifth day In the early morning, Butler He told him that the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the big kitchen had sprouted. He was so happy that he skipped breakfast and went to the big kitchen

  to check the sprouting status of the sweet potatoes and potatoes in ten bamboo baskets. He calculated the sprouting rate.

  After about three days, all the sweet potatoes and potatoes will sprout. Cheng

  Er drew a picture of the sprouts of sweet potatoes and potatoes in the record book. When he returned to the wing, he wrote two letters to the Shen family and the Cheng family. This was the third time. Letter.

  Five days later, it was cloudy.

  All the fifty kilograms of sweet potatoes had sprouted and were growing well. Cheng Er asked twenty farmers to carry five baskets of sweet potatoes to the dry land for sowing and raising seedlings

  . It will be relatively simple, using sandy soil, facing the sun, and there is no tree around to cover the

  fifty pounds of sweet potatoes. There are only fifty sweet potatoes, and the average one is one pound.

  It took twenty farmers an hour to plant them. , only one acre of dry land was used

  to raise seedlings . Early in the morning, Cheng Er used a new kitchen knife to boil

  the potatoes in hot water for a quarter of an hour. After letting them cool, he started cutting the potatoes into pieces.

The method my nephew recorded before was to cut a potato into four small pieces, each of which had more than two buds.

  Twenty farmers were helping him, such as bringing potatoes to him, such as cutting potatoes.  

 The slices were covered with plant ash, and they were placed flat on a dozen large dustpans.

  Cheng Er did not stop until he was tired, and only took a break for half a cup of tea before continuing to cut potatoes.

, he didn't dare to let others make it.

  There were only fifty kilograms of potato seeds, and he was very precious. Fifty kilograms of potatoes were only forty or fifty potatoes, and the quantity was not much. One potato was worth a whole morning

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Er was so tired that he went to sleep for an hour.

  When he woke up, he hurried to the dry land and asked twenty farmers to move the potato pieces here.

  Cheng Er took a shovel and dug small pits two inches apart . , the rows are two inches apart, and the depth is about one inch. He put the potato pieces into the small pit with the buds facing up, and then used his hands to spread a little sand to cover it, so that the depth was about one inch (15 centimeters).

After learning the Chinese language, I followed Cheng Er's method.  

 It took about an hour for one person to dig a small pit, and another person to fill in the soil. The third day was cloudy.   

It rained lightly.

 On the fifth day, it rained moderately.

  On the sixth day, it rained lightly. On the seventh day, it was cloudy and on the eighth day, it was sunny. He didn't go to the fields, and on the seventh day it stopped raining. He rushed to the dry land and saw that there were no waterlogged potato fields and sweet potato fields   . , the roots will rot and the fruits will rot.   

Cheng Er went down to the ridge to carefully check the development of the sweet potato seedlings, and found that the   dry land here seemed to be very fertile.  

 He went to the potato field to check the potato seedlings. He also found that all the potato seedlings had grown to the soil layer.   

These data were recorded in the record book one by one. After finishing his work, he went to the corn field.  

 It has been fifteen days since the corn was sown. The corn seedlings have grown into corn stalks half a meter high, and the leaves have grown from two to seven.  

 Plant ash was applied once seven days ago, and some cow dung and dead branches and leaves were also applied as base fertilizer before sowing.  

 Tomorrow there will be another watering of manure, and about seven days later, another fermented cow manure top dressing will be applied.   

 Cheng Er rushed to the wetland where the rice seedlings were raised. After fifteen days of growth, the rice seedlings were already more than ten centimeters tall. After another fifteen days or so, they could be transplanted to the paddy fields.

  During this period, the rice seedlings were also applied with plant ash once, and plant ash and cow dung were applied again in the remaining half a month to provide enough nutrients for the rice seedlings to grow.

  ...

  In the blink of an eye, half a month passed.

  The rice seedlings have been growing for thirty days, and are already more than twenty centimeters tall. They are green, particularly strong and lush.

  Cheng Er immediately asked twenty farmers to transplant seedlings into the paddy fields. He even rolled up his sleeves and trousers and went down to the paddy fields himself.

  He held a large handful of green seedlings in his hand, and inserted two or three seedlings into a hole.

  Once, twice, three times...

  After a while, several rows of neatly arranged seedlings appeared under his feet.

  Twenty farmers were divided into five groups, each planting rice seedlings in five acres of paddy fields.

  They didn't dare to be too quick and careless. Once the speed of transplanting was slowed down, the results were particularly neat.

  Cheng Er felt happy when he saw how well they handled the rice seedlings.

  In fact, he has not scolded them once in the month since he arrived at Zhuangzi.

  In addition to his good temper, the more important thing is that they are serious and responsible in their work.

  In fact, they are very smart and have strong learning ability. Sometimes they can think of things that he has not thought of and have the courage to tell him.

  For this reason, he also rewarded three servants with five taels of silver each.

  After working hard all afternoon, I finally transplanted the seedlings into the paddy fields.

  It takes five to seven days for the seedlings to slow down. This period of time is particularly critical, as the water in the field cannot submerge the seedlings.

  Fortunately, it only rained lightly these past few days.

  Cheng Er went to the fields every day to check four crops, and his originally fair skin turned darker.

  Seeing the seedlings slowing down and growing another leaf, he was happier than when he saw his wife Liu in Zhuangzi.

  The couple stayed in Zhuangzi for a day, but Cheng Er couldn't bear it anymore and ran into the fields again.

  Ms. Liu was not unhappy, and even followed him specially to bring him tea and an umbrella.

  And praise him from time to time. After all, he has paid a lot in this month and seven days.

  Liu stayed in Zhuangzi for five days and cooked meals for Cheng Er for five days, which made him feel homesick.

  I miss my parents and my children.

  "If you can work with peace of mind and achieve this great achievement after being separated for a short period of time, then you will be the honor of the whole family and the whole clan.

  When the children take a bath, I will let them stay with you for a day or two." Mrs. Liu It comforted him.

  "Okay." Cheng Er felt warm in his heart. He was lucky to be able to marry Mr. Liu in this life.

  How would he know that several people would come to visit him every few days in the next few days.

  This time it was the three sons. The second time it was the sister who brought her parents. The third time it was the brother-in-law who brought Shen Zhiyuan's six brothers and sisters. The fourth time it was the eldest brother's family, and the fifth time it was the third brother's family.

  They also gave various reasons for leaving the city, including burning incense and worshiping Buddha, donating money for incense, asking for fortune-telling and amulets at Taoist temples, going to Zhuangzi to enjoy farmhouse fun...

  It only takes twenty days for sweet potato seedlings to be transplanted to dry land.

  Sweet potato fields have higher and deeper ridges than potato fields because the fruits are larger and longer.

  Cheng Er personally demonstrated to twenty farmers how to pick sweet potato seedlings, with four to five leaves divided into sections, and lay them flatly on the dustpan.

  Then he stood on the ridge of the field and observed their work. After a quarter of an hour, when no problems were found, he took a bundle of sweet potato seedlings and went to the dry land nearby to prepare for transplantation.