Chapter 221 Picking Cotton

Shen Qingqian was holding a handful of accelerated fertilizer in her hand. When she heard this, her hand shook and the fertilizer spilled out.

She didn't even care to pour the water from the divine spring onto the ground one by one. She quickly walked around the land and turned around and said, "Third sister, there seems to be one on the left. Take a look first."

When she saw that Shen Qingxiao had indeed turned to the left, Shen Qingqian was temporarily relieved.

Just five more minutes and a piece of cotton will grow here.

But at this time, people will feel that time passes very slowly.

Shen Qingqian stared at the ground with wide eyes, and once again witnessed with her own eyes green seedlings sprouting out of the ground quickly, and then growing taller and taller, and white cotton blossoms bloomed in front of her eyes.

She didn't recognize this kind of cotton, but from the appearance, it should be a type of long-staple cotton.

Before Shen Qingqian could think deeply, Shen Qingxiao's voice sounded again, "Sixth sister, there's nothing here. Let me come to your place and take a look."

"Third sister, I found something good, come here quickly!" Shen Qingqian immediately came to her senses and shouted at her.

The straight line distance between the two was not far, but there were too many rocks here. Shen Qingxiao walked around for a long time before reaching Shen Qingqian.

"What kind of flower is this?" Shen Qingxiao looked at the white flowers in front of her in surprise, "Why didn't I see it just now?"

Shen Qingqian had a bit of excitement on her face, "This is cotton! I have seen it in a miscellaneous book before. It is said that this kind of flower can be used to make cotton-padded clothes and quilts. It is very warm!"

She simply ignored Shen Qingxiao's subsequent questions. If she really had to explain it, just say that she was far away and blocked by these twists and turns so she didn't see it.

As soon as Shen Qingxiao heard that this thing could be made into clothes and quilts, her attention was diverted. She didn't bother with the question of why she hadn't seen it before, "How to do it? Sewn into clothes and quilts?"

In the past, their thick winter clothes and quilts were sewn with ordinary cloth strips, or softer materials were broken into pieces and sewn in. But now they don't even have the cloth to make a new suit, so how can they get cloth? What about stuffed clothes and quilts?

The coats and quilts used by the Shen family to keep warm are all animal furs obtained in the mountains. They are really windproof, but they have not been professionally treated and are actually not comfortable.

"It's just sewn in, but it needs to be dried and processed first." Shen Qingqian smiled, her eyebrows arched, and she was in a good mood.

She had taken a rough look just now. The thirty or so cotton plants may have produced a large number of cotton bolls due to the use of systematic fertilizers and divine spring water. She estimated that the seed cotton picked from each cotton plant could contain about 300 to 500 grams. . In total, you can get about six to ten pounds of lint in the end.

Although this quantity is far from enough for the family, Shen Qingqian is not in a hurry. With this batch of cotton, she will find another opportunity to plant the seeds of this batch of cotton. Wouldn't there be more for the next batch?

This year, she can no longer take care of the normal planting and flowering periods of cotton. After the cotton at home is enough, she will collect the seeds and wait until next April to sow them.

At that time, if anyone was wondering why the flowering period of cotton was different from this year, she would ask directly. Anyway, this thing is not available in Dajin. After planting for a long time in the future, they would naturally know what happened, but no one would pursue it at that time. Something happened.

"Then let's pick all these back quickly!" After Shen Qingxiao confirmed it, he also knew that this was a good thing. It was better than Jiang Goudan and the others sewing leaves and roots into the quilt.

The two sisters quickly started picking cotton.

On the other side, the Northern Hubei Army is conducting a review of new recruits.