When Jiang Zhi returned to the village, he hired a carriage, which not only brought some seasonal pears, but also the pork, oil and various daily necessities promised to the villagers.
There used to be pear trees in Xujia Village, but they had been cut down by the refugees who gathered to build shacks, so now there is naturally no food.
Jiang Zhi gave a pear to each household, finishing the basket, which made the children happy.
On that day, more than a dozen people who came to work received their wages. The first five days of rush work was 50 cents a day, and the latter 30 cents a day.
Putting money in his pocket, the atmosphere in Xujia Village changed.
Although every household has to save money to buy wood, bricks and build houses, some people still spend 20 cents to buy a pound of meat and make a meat and tooth sacrifice for the family.
So the tempting aroma of meat wafted out from several thatched shacks.
The smell entered Xu Changming's nose, and he suddenly felt that the vegetables he was holding were mushy and could not be swallowed.
"Boss, second brother, you will also go work for the Jiang family from now on!" Xu Changming said to his two sons.
Both of his sons are honest, but they listen to their father in everything. The only struggle is probably to raise their hands when choosing the village chief.
But the family didn't go to Mrs. Jiang's house to work because their father and village chief Jiang didn't deal with it.
Seeing that other families were eating meat and his family was still drinking this tooth-crushing whole grain bean porridge, Xu Changming really couldn't hold it any longer.
If you want to save face, you must first die.
This time when they returned from the county town, everyone found that Village Chief Jiang had become particularly active.
In addition to letting the villagers continue to collect various medicinal materials and leaves, they also began to use the techniques of planting crops, saying that these were learned by walking around outside.
No one has any objection to Village Chief Jiang's sudden new demands.
The people of Xujiaben Village know that although Mrs. Jiang was evil and violent in the past, she is a good farmer. The food she can produce from a few acres of land is enough for the family to eat and drink.
But she didn't get close to people in the past, and no one knew what she was capable of.
Tian Gui and the others had been to the county government office. When they saw Village Chief Jiang getting close to the officials and government officials inside, they naturally thought that it must have been passed down from the government.
No matter what, Village Chief Jiang can make everyone get food and money, no one will say anything, and if she offends her, she will be scolded and beaten.
The second crop of young corn that has been sold is only half a person tall, but the villagers' corn has already reached the stage of heading and blooming, and they will be able to see the grain in another month.
Each field has different terrain, sunshine, wind direction, and geology, and the corn grown at the same time also grows differently.
Some are in bloom, and some are still green leaves, which greatly reduces the chance of wind pollination.
Therefore, in order to increase the yield, it is necessary to manually shake the flowers for pollination. This was done in the first crop of young corns.
This time, instead of simply shaking the flowers, Jiang Zhi asked the villagers to go to their own fields and shake the pollen from each corn plant, while also catching it in a wooden basin.
After the pollen in a field is shaken, the collected pollen is put into a bamboo tube, and the mouth of the tube is covered with a layer of mesh gauze.
Through the gauze, just like sprinkling pepper, sprinkle the pollen evenly one by one on the pistils of the corn, that is, the corn whiskers, ensuring that every tender whisker needs to be soaked with pollen.
This is more detailed than simply shaking the flowers, and there will be no omissions or missing corn whiskers.
All pollination needs to be completed every morning when the sun is still not strong, and it will not end until the pollinated pistils shrink.
It's just that this job is not easy to do. When I shake the flowers, the pollen falls all over my head and face.
Walking through the corn fields that are taller than a person's head, those long leaves hurt the skin and flesh, and when soaked with sweat, it hurts and itches.
But every household is doing it conscientiously. These are the grains that can fill their stomachs. If you can harvest more grains, you will get one grain. It is you who will be harmed by being lazy.
Beside the field, two young oxen were grazing on the grass, and Tian Xiaoquan and Lin Xiaohu were herding the cattle.
The boys who used to be like monkeys now hold the rope and dare not play anymore.
Although the two cows were bought by the village head Jiang, each household takes turns to raise the cows. They are assigned by lot and each household raises the cows for ten days.
The whole village is keeping an eye on who owns the cows. Anyone who dares to be lazy or lazy will not only be stabbed in the spine, but also be deprived of the right to use cows in the future.
On Laoyun Cliff, Qiaoyun was distilling mosquito repellent liquid again.
There was no mother-in-law at home, so in order to prevent Caixia from being burned, the child was sent to the cliff early and asked Grandma Xiaoman and Xu Dazhu to help take care of it.
At this time, Jiang Zhi was taking Er Rui and Chun Feng, and Xiao Man was picking honeysuckle.
The wild honeysuckle on the mountain has not been managed by anyone, and it grows wildly, with long vines covering half of the hillside.
These wild honeysuckles are difficult to pick.
Normally Jiang Zhi can only pick some flower buds from low places, but now that he is making mosquito repellent, he plans to pick all the honeysuckle flowers.
honeysuckle
Honeysuckle is seen as two colors. In fact, it is white on the first day it blooms, and turns yellow on the second day. At different times, there are two colors with the same stem, but different gold and silver.
The vine of honeysuckle is called Lonicera vine. It is boiled in water and washed externally for eczema.
Only the buds of honeysuckle are used as medicine to clear away heat and detoxify. However, extracting mosquito repellent from Jiangzhi is not so particular. All flowers are picked regardless of whether they are in bloom or not.
Several people gathered wildly around the vines on the small slope, but they still dared not approach the steep part.
Jiang Zhi looked at the honeysuckle that was going to waste and said, "Wait until December and transplant these honeysuckle seedlings to various hillsides, especially in places burned by mountain fires."
Honeysuckle does not care about the soil topography, it tolerates dryness and shade, and is the easiest to plant. In the future, you will need honeysuckle more often, and you need to plant a large number of them to control the cost.
The four people worked hard for two days to collect various herbs, and it was time to deliver potions to Lihua Town as agreed.
Since it now takes three days to deliver the medicine, Jiang Zhi cannot deliver it to Pingchuan County every time. She still sends it to the Baicaotang in the town for Huo Yanjie to take with him when he returns to the city from the market.
Tomorrow is the market day in Ewha Town, and it is also the time when potions are delivered for the first time.
In the past two days, Qiaoyun has prepared several medicinal hydrosols.
Jiang Zhi mixed various hydrosols in proportion, and distilled and purified the wine he bought from the county town again, obtaining a small amount of high-quality alcohol and blending it into the mosquito repellent liquid.
The next day, the liquid was filled in an earthen jar sprayed with high alcohol, then put into a bamboo basket lined with hay, and Er Rui carried it down the mountain.
During these several business discussions with the Huo family, Jiang Zhi always intended to have Xu Errui by his side, and he would take over the delivery of goods in the future.
I used to be a country boy who only knew how to work and didn't even go to town much. To step into business negotiation, it would take a long time and all-round learning.
After all, there are too few geniuses and everyone is mediocre.
As long as you can pass the study and make no mistakes in a down-to-earth manner, you are a talent.
Xu Errui went to deliver the potion with Wu Yang in the village, while Jiang Zhi stayed in the mountain. She had other things to do.
The rice on the mountain will bloom in a few days, and the hybrid rice seeds cultivated through "emasculation" last year will have to wait until this autumn's harvest to see the effects.
This year Jiangzhi will continue to cultivate hybrid rice using local methods.
She is not an agricultural school major. She has only heard that wild rice and "sterile line" rice are important among improved rice varieties, but she does not know the specific situation.
Therefore, we can only use the simplest and most stupid method of "castration", which is also unable to produce large-scale seeds.
