Although Ms. Cui was used to her eldest son being dull, she couldn't help but get angry when she saw that he didn't even smile at her. On the way back, she muttered to her second and third sons:
"Ms. Xu must have said something in front of the boss, otherwise your eldest brother would show off to me? We walked around half the village to see him, but he didn't say hello to us to sit down, so he should give us a smile, right? You're wasting your money on me. Thinking about him, I carried half a catty of snacks. Your little sister is right, just come and have a look. No matter what you give, it won't be left behind. If you feed it to the chicken, it will also lay a few more eggs for me. Give this It's like throwing money into the water..."
Ms. Cui became more and more angry as she talked.
Cui Er scratched his head: "Mom, no matter what, the eldest brother's leg is injured. As a younger brother, I should buy some things and visit him. Maybe he is in a bad mood because of the leg injury. Mom, don't take it to heart. Big brother is still very filial to you."
Cui curled her lips, just be filial! I am afraid that if I marry a daughter-in-law and forget my mother, I will give birth to a white-eyed wolf!
"Huh!"
When passing by the two acres of rice fields allocated to Dafang, Cui Jikang, the third child, shouted in surprise:
"Mom, look, that's my eldest brother's rice field, right? The rice ears are growing so well? They're so heavy that they're almost bending the rice stalks."
"No way?"
Ms. Cui got closer and took a closer look. It was indeed the two acres of paddy field allocated to Dafang, but the green leaves and branches were isolated and full, and it looked like it was grown in fertile fields.
Didn’t the boss say that he was lazy all day long and didn’t like to work in the fields? I didn't even want to pull out the grass, so I spent a few days on the ground to raise a bunch of ducks for them to peck and eat...
"Don't you think that lazy woman would mind trading two acres of land with someone else because of the long journey?" This was Cui's first reaction.
"Mom, look!" Cui Jikang pointed to a group of ducks walking in the field, quacking and looking for food. "These are ducks raised by my sister-in-law. The ducks have red ropes tied to their feet. I passed by the old house at the end of the village that day and saw the dog. The guys helped tie it up, this is my eldest brother’s field, that’s right!”
"..."
This is even harder to believe.
A lazy woman, she doesn't like to go to the ground at ordinary times, and she won't leave for a while after she does.
In order to be lazy, she also raised a group of ducks in the rice field, and let the ducks remove insects and pull weeds for her.
She is not ashamed, even Mrs. Cui is ashamed of her daughter-in-law.
I am not active in fertilizing. I heard that I have only fertilized twice since the separation, and it smells bad. The fertilizers I applied were all messy fertilizers. One time there was no smell, and the other time was plant ash. If you don't even apply fertilizer properly, how can the land be fertile?
As a result, the rice planted by such a lazy woman actually grew so full?
I passed by Lao Cui's paddy field and compared it... It's unreasonable! It’s so unreasonable!
Ms. Cui pointed her fingers at heaven and earth and complained all the way that God was not very discerning.
After the villagers passing by heard about it, they ran to Xu Yin's field and took a look. It was really weird!
How did Meng Jin's wife take care of her?
Are ducks really so useful if raised in rice fields? Or is there any other trick?
Each family sent its hostess to Xu Yin to make friends and talk about things.
"Meng Jin's family, your rice is growing really well. How do you take care of it? The ears of rice are full and plump, which makes my family very envious. I have to ask you. .You accept these eggs and help Meng Jin recuperate."
"My chickens haven't been very fond of laying eggs these past two days. These are shrimps my children caught in the river. They don't have any meat, they just taste delicious."
This store delivers eggs, that store delivers shrimps, and a few others deliver vegetables freshly pulled from the ground.
Xu Yin: "..."
No need to worry about what to eat tonight.
As for how to do it?
By increasing the fertility of the land, wouldn’t the yield increase?
How to improve?
The fertilizer applied must be fully fermented and rich in variety.
In addition to human and animal excrement, you also need to grind some animal bone powder, rotten vegetable leaves, fish offal, and occasionally plant ash... In short, the more varieties, the better. Just like if people eat whole grains, fish, meat, and vegetables, will they grow healthy? Will eating only grains without meat, or eating only wild vegetables without grains, make you skinny and prone to illness? It makes sense!
"..."
The women who came to the house took Xu Yin's brainwashing experience and returned home in a daze, telling the truth to the head of the family with half-belief.
"Dad, do you think what Meng Jin's wife said is true? Isn't it really because of laziness? I was too lazy to scrape the fat in the manure pit, so I took out the leftover bones, the internal organs that were about to be thrown away after killing the fish, and Some rotten peels and vegetable leaves were thrown together in the compost pile, and the pile remained there for several months. Only when the smell was gone did I remember to pick it up and put it in the ground."
Father Goudan and Father Tiewa are also confused as to why there is so much emphasis on fertilizing crops? Isn’t it really because of laziness?
But the rice in the two acres of paddy fields of Meng Jin's family is growing really well. Meng Jin's wife is rarely seen doing anything, and the work of pulling weeds is left to the ducks...
Recently, because of Meng Jin's leg injury, she hasn't been in the fields for a long time. The rice is still growing so well. Could it be that the fertilizer is applied carefully?
No matter what, just follow it and give it a try. You won’t suffer any loss if you give it a try.
Therefore, these two families believed that Xu Yinshi's fertilizer was exquisite, and followed her to develop a new method of retting.
Although other villagers had also heard about it, they all thought it was ridiculous. Their ancestors had farmed this way for thousands of years. How could the experience accumulated by our ancestors over several generations be inferior to that of a lazy and delicious woman who could make as much fat as she wanted?
Bones, fish offal, rotten vegetables, leaves, and egg shells... Are you sure it wasn't because she was lazy and didn't want to sweep them out of the yard that she threw them all into the manure tank?
Xu Yin: "..."
right! Don't ask, I'm just lazy if you ask!
At this moment, she took the eggs and wild vegetables given by the village women and said to Comrade Xiao Jin with a smile: "I will fry you a wild vegetable egg pancake tonight and mix it with cold dishes. You can eat the bacon I made some time ago. Steam a plate and try it." ?”
Cui Mengjin didn't know why, but when he saw his wife's smile, his ears felt a little hot. Did he like him very much? Otherwise, why would he be thinking about him all the time?
Xu Yin has been going out in the morning and evening recently, the weather is getting hotter, and there is an injury at home, so she tries to stay at home during the day.
Mrs. Cui didn't see her eldest daughter-in-law going to the fields for several days, and she felt more and more that all the tricks she came up with, such as raising ducks in rice fields and new fertilizers, were all due to laziness.
However, the growth of the crops does not lie.
Xu Yin's two-acre rice field turned from green to yellow as the rice ears turned from green to yellow, and the rice stalks were bent under the weight of the heavy rice ears. Following her, Goudan and Tiewa, who were fertilizing the new type of fertilizer, fertilized once before draining the rice fields. The grains seem to be much plumper than before, and the rice stalks are stronger and taller than before.
The villagers had to believe: Meng Jin, this fat wife, is really lazy and blessed!
But this year it is too late. No matter how upset and regretful they are, they have already missed the best opportunity for top dressing and can only wait until next year.
The villagers had mixed emotions, feeling that they had missed out on 100 million taels of gold...
(End of chapter)
