When the village chief heard that the weak family wanted to buy his homestead and two acres of wasteland to build a house, he happily went to measure the land with them.
Ruoxuan looked at a small pond on the wasteland. It was not very big, but it could be dug bigger. When the house was built, lotus roots and fish could be raised in the pond.
Then there will be lotus roots and fish to eat!
The braised fish she had at Tianxianglou yesterday was delicious. Of course, she still loves rabbit and mutton the most.
"Nai, let's buy a bigger one and buy the pond as well." Ruo Xuan expressed her thoughts.
Mrs. Lei thought that an acre of wasteland was not very expensive. Since she was building a house, she naturally made it as her granddaughter liked: "Okay, village chief, help us measure the pond and buy it bigger. "
The village chief directly measured the entire piece of wasteland near the weak family for them, which was a little more than six acres.
The village chief said: "It is cost-effective to buy wasteland. When the previous county magistrate was still there, there was an official document that bought one acre and got half an acre free, but no one was willing to buy it. You know the tax was too heavy in the past, and the wasteland had to be cultivated for several years before there was a harvest. , It’s not cost-effective. I don’t know if I should give it away now. If it is possible, I only need to pay four acres of money for these more than six acres of land. Even if the wasteland is converted into a homestead, I will have to pay a little land tax.”
Mrs. Lei also knew, "You still have to pay the money that should be paid. The new county magistrate has not issued a new official document, so it should be okay. I also plan to buy more wasteland and mountains. The village chief will measure your house again. Let’s build a homestead, and then we can go see the barren mountains.”
The village chief waved his hand and said, "My land is not big, so I won't measure it. You can just use it to build a house. You don't need to pay any money."
Mrs. Lei: "That won't work. The homestead is almost an acre, so we have to collect money. If the village chief does this, I won't dare to use that land."
The village chief said angrily: "Why are you being polite to me? Xuan Bao led us to sell wild bamboo shoots to earn money. My family has made a lot of money, and we have avoided having nothing to gain. I haven't even thanked Xuan Bao yet. Sister-in-law, don't follow me." I'm being polite. It's useless for my family to keep that land. It's too small. I have a bigger homestead over there. I'll just treat this land as a place for me to grow vegetables for Xuan Bao. Xuan Bao, if you have another dream in the future, remember Just remind the village grandfather!"
"How did the village chief know that I was dreaming again?"
As soon as Xuan Bao said these words, the village chief staggered in fright. The sole of his foot slipped and he almost fell!
No, he was just talking. Why was he dreaming again?
The village chief wanted to slap himself in the mouth. There would be no next time for such a dream!
Mrs. Lei's heartbeat started to beat again as she passed the expressway toll booth - it stopped for a moment and then started to race rapidly.
The village chief asked cautiously: "What dream?"
His voice was very small, as if if he spoke louder, God would hear him and cause some kind of natural disaster.
Ruoxuan had something good to remind the village chief this time: "Grandpa village chief, I dreamed that Grandpa Fairy said we can grow three seasons of rice here, and one more after the autumn harvest."
Xiuxuan looked at the vacated fields. The climate in Shaxi County is warm, and it is not very cold in winter. It does not snow during the coldest time, and the cold period is short. Only a few days of cold waves are relatively cold. It is absolutely ok. A variety of one-season rice.
The village chief's eyes widened: "What? Xuan Bao, what did you say? Is it true?"
Ruoxuan knew that he heard clearly, but she just couldn't believe it, so she nodded her head: "Really, that's what the immortal grandpa said."
After Ruoxuan finished speaking, she looked at Mrs. Lei: "Grandma, are we going to plant more rice this year?"
There were a lot of people in the family, but she found that her brother and father still didn't dare to open their stomachs to eat, and they only dared to eat half full.
This means there is too little food and I am reluctant to eat it.
Of course Mrs. Lei believes in her granddaughter!
She nodded without hesitation: "Grow! Of course."
If you can grow more rice for one season, you can harvest more food for one more season. Do you still have to worry about running out of food?
Mrs. Lei and Old Man Xiu used to be from the north. The winter there is very cold and the snow is very thick. They really feel that the winter in Shaxi County is very warm. She has never seen snow since she came here. When it was the coldest, she only saw a thin layer of frost on the vegetable leaves and fields in the early morning, not much, and it dispersed soon after the sun came out.
Moreover, there are only a few frosty days in the entire winter.
The village chief was also excited, but he was also a little worried. The fields needed to be recuperated, and they would become less fertile due to overuse.
Therefore, after the autumn harvest, everyone will spread green manure on the ground to nourish the ground. When the ground is plowed in the next spring, the vetch will rot in the ground, and the ground will become fertile, which can save a lot of fertilizer.
Besides, there is not enough fertilizer to grow more rice for one season!
There is also little rain in autumn and winter, so is it really suitable to plant rice for one season?
The village chief expressed his worries.
Weak Xuan: "If you don't have enough fertilizer, you can use green manure, weeds, dead leaves, peels, crop stalks, river mud and other things to fertilize! As long as you fertilize on time and enough, you don't have to worry about returning nutrients to the soil! And you don't have to. We plant three crops of rice every year. Isn’t this a disaster year? We can not plant it next year and let the fields rest.”
Planting three crops of rice every year is impractical, tiring both people and land, so it is better to increase rice production.
"Retting? What retting?"
Xiuxuan explained it briefly. Seeing that the village chief didn't understand and was a little worried, she used the rotten leaves fallen from the trees in the forest as fertilizer to supply forest plants to grow in all seasons, and explained how to fertilize.
In fact, the land is not afraid of plant growth, but it is afraid of excessive demands without knowing how to feed back.
How much nutrients have been consumed by forest plants from the soil? The fallen dead branches, fruits, and leaves will return all the nutrients to the soil after decay, or even more, because the leaves of the plants will absorb sunlight, rain, and dew, and some soil from the air. Nutrients not found in it.
And people will only ask for too much. Take rice as an example. When humans plant rice in the ground, they not only harvest the rice, but also all the straw. They only plant rice in the same land year after year, and apply fertilizer. If it is not enough, the soil will naturally become less fertile over time, or may be seriously lacking in certain nutrients.
But the fertilizer in the soil can be replenished, whatever is missing will be replenished!
The village chief thought it made sense, "But how do you know what fertilizer the soil lacks? This land can't talk!"
Ruoxuan: "... Grandpa Immortal also told me."
The village chief thought to himself, this fairy grandfather is too good.
How could he never meet such a god in his dream?
However, regardless of whether this dream is true or false, if you give it a try, you may have an extra season of food, so why not?
If it doesn't work, I won't plant it next year.
"Then I'll give it a try! When I get back, I'll let the old lady soak the rice seeds, plow the ground, and sow the seeds. Come on, let's go see the barren mountains first."
The three of them walked towards the hilltop in the distance.
"Xuan Bao, why did you buy the barren hills? It's difficult to take care of the barren hills. There is no water source, and it's troublesome to cultivate them for irrigation. If you have a way to fertilize, you can buy more wasteland and fertilize the wasteland, turning it into fertile farmland in the future. cheaper."
(End of chapter)
