Chapter 600 Hardworking Little Bee
Lai Fu is like a hardworking little bee. People who are busy in the imperial village don’t know where he is. And Liu Lai Fu, who is also disabled and strong in his will, has felt that he has found the value of life since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked him to take charge of the planting of new crops.
No one is born to be a eunuch. Eunuchs are incomplete men. Most of these eunuchs are poor at home, and so are Liu Laifu.
When he was very young, Liu Laifu was forced to enter the palace to be a eunuch. He was poor in his family and just wanted to find a way out.
At that time, Empress Zhou discovered that this little eunuch was diligent and honest. So she kept him by Zhu Cixuan's side and served as a personal eunuch.
Wangcai was not so lucky. Wangcai was originally a servant and the lowest eunuch. He was originally Liu Laifu and another young eunuch who served the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Cilang, but unfortunately the young eunuch Xiao Guizi died of illness.
At that time, there were not many eunuchs in the entire palace who were about the same age as Zhu Cilang. They were either as stupid as a pig or as thin as a firewood, and Queen Zhou didn't even like it.
Finally, Wangcai, who was a traitor, filled the vacancy. The reason was simple. Wangcai was black, short but strong. Queen Zhou thought to herself that having such a small eunuch by Zhu Cixuan could bless his son to be strong.
After all, it is ordinary for children to die prematurely in this era. It is a miracle that can survive until adulthood.
Liu Laifu accompanied Zhu Cixuan for seven or eight years until he now took charge of the imperial village. Liu Laifu was born a good farmer and an agricultural technical talent.
Therefore, whether it is the imperial village or the surrounding villages and towns, Liu Laifu served as the ambassador for the promotion of new crops. He often visited these villages to see how these new crops grow and what attention should be paid to.
For example, when planting corn, you should not be too dense or too thin. Too dense or too sparse, it will affect the yield. For example, when planting sweet potato seedlings, you should pay attention to the techniques and not damage the seedlings. There is also the burial after watering. In addition, after the sweet potato grows, you should also pay attention to turning over the climbing sweet potato seedlings, so as to better increase the yield.
These are very important. Many farmers do not know the method, and these require guidance. Therefore, Wangcai was ordered by the prince to find Lai Fu and enter the palace, which took some trouble.
Almost all the people who could move in the imperial village were dispatched. Finally, in a small mountain village with a curved and twists, Lai Fu, who was busy farming in the fields.
Lai Fu had no airs at all. As the magistrate of the imperial village, he had the final say in the entire imperial village. Originally, he didn't need to take action in person. But he still came and came to this poor small mountain village called Qingshan Village.
The mountains in Qingshan Village are not very green, but they are a little bare, with only some shrubs and other plants growing. The land here is barren and it was once a famous barbarian village.
When the girl from another village heard that she had married to Qingshan Village, she immediately expressed her objection. Because Qingshan Village is too poor.
Of course, even if everyone is poor, there are still different levels between poor and poor. A village like Qingshan Village is located in a remote area with inconvenient transportation.
The only monkey road is the only way to the outside world. How poor is this village? It is said that the family only has a pair of decent blue cloth pants. Usually, everyone works in burlap.
Only when going out to do business or go to the market will the family find these blue cloth pants and wear them in turns.
I don’t know whether the matter is true or not. Anyway, when Lai Fu came to this village, he was still shocked by this poor mountain village.
In this village, there are all mud thatched houses made of stones, and there is no shortage of tiled houses in the village. There is no shortage of stones, mud and rice husks are mixed with mud and rice husks, roofs made of thatched, and yards made of stones. Here, primitiveness and poverty are revealed everywhere.
Porridge is the staple food that the people are accustomed to. The dried food can only be eaten by men and children first, not because it means discrimination against women. Instead, men are the pillars of the entire family, and children are the time to grow up.
Fortunately, if you are poor, you will think of change. Qingshan Village is the first village to take the initiative to ask for the planting of Huangzhuang crops. Anyway, I am already poor and can’t be poor anymore. I heard that Huangzhuang will promote the planting of emerging crops this year, why not try it?
So Qingshan Village went out and planted new crops popularized by the imperial village, including corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, wheat, peanuts, soybeans, etc.
But the biggest problem is that the villagers were unable to farm and could not understand the method. When Lai Fu came here, he almost burst into anger.
He found the village chief of Qingshan Village and couldn't help but curse: "What are you doing? This corn is so dense, can it still be borne and bear fruit? Do you think you are growing wheat, this is corn, corn!"
The village chief of Qingshan Village is a thin old man, and his face is full of vicissitudes of life. The village chief of Qingshan Village, who is over fifty years old, looks like he is in his seventies or eighties. His face is full of wrinkles, and every wrinkle is full of traces of time.
The old village chief didn't know a few words, and it seemed that Fu was anxious and hurriedly explained: "Eunuch Liu, the land here does not produce grain. We just thought that if we plant it more densely, the yield would be higher."
Lai Fu was furious: "You also know that the land is barren. Since the land does not produce food and you plant so densely, these corns cannot absorb nutrients, so how can they head and bear fruit?"
After Lai Fu asked this, the village chief knew that he had caused a big disaster: "Eunuch Liu, what should I do?"
"What are you doing? Move the seedlings! Remember, move the seedlings on cloudy or dusk, one apart. When moving the seedlings, you must bring out the soil balls of the entire root system. You must not hurt the root system, do you understand if you understand!"
The village chief was timid: "But, we are all sandy land, how can we move seedlings without damaging the root system?"
"Dig a hole and tie it with hemp rope!"
Lai Fu was not very clear whether his method was useful or not. However, if he was wasting so many corn seedlings in vain, he felt really distressed when he saw it.
But I was still feeling distressed. When Lai Fu saw the sweet potato field, he immediately became furious.
"What is this? What is this? Are you growing ivy? Can sweet potatoes still grow after being dragged so long?"
The village chief didn't hear that something was wrong, but instead introduced proudly: "Eunuch Liu, we heard that sweet potatoes are a good thing. This thing produces several thousand kilograms per mu. The people in the village have applied all the fermented fertilizer into the sweet potato field. Look at how prosperous it grows."
Chapter completed!