Two days later, Li Xin went to Uncle Zhang's house.

One acre of rice at home is mature and will wither if it is not harvested. There are no harvesters in this era, so harvesting rice is completely manual work. Although it is only one acre, she is too busy to do it. The main reason is that after the rice matures,

You have to rush to harvest it, otherwise it will be overcooked and it will drop. You can't let her work slowly.

When she arrived at Uncle Zhang's house, she asked Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang to help harvest the rice. The other rice was not yet mature, and Uncle Zhang's family was not busy, so she agreed readily. She said that she would start harvesting the rice early the next morning.

Xin then went home.

The next morning, Li Xin got up very early. After getting up, she was busy in the kitchen making breakfast. She asked Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang to come over to have breakfast. When breakfast was ready, Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang also came over and brought some food.

Li Xin’s family has not farmed in the past two years, so they do not have these tools. The tools are very simple, including a sickle for cutting rice, a threshing trough, and baskets for transporting rice.

After breakfast, the group went to the rice fields. Yuexiang and Yueting also went to play in the rice fields. The rice fields of Li Xin's family were not far from home, and they arrived in a short time. Compared with the fields in the village,

It's a bit out of the way, so no one knows when her rice is ripe. On the other side, the two acres of fields next to other people's fields are planted with corn. The corn stalks are tall and strong, but they are also obscured.

out of the sight of others.

"Sister Xin, why does your rice grow like this? It doesn't look tall, but the ears grow well. This should increase the yield compared to other ones!" When they arrived at the rice field, Aunt Zhang looked at the mature rice of Li Xin's family.

This acre of rice was surprising. Although it has not been harvested yet, it can already be seen that the yield is high, and Li Xin also knew that they would be surprised.

"This was given to me by an old man I met by chance in town, so I thought about taking it back and giving it a try. It turned out pretty good. I was worried that others would cheat me!"

"How wonderful! This is so good!" Aunt Zhang pulled off a heavy ear of rice and looked at it, as if she couldn't put it down.

Uncle Zhang had already begun to cut the wheat ears with a sickle. The ears were golden and one big ear, which looked very pleasing to the eye. Li Xin asked Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang to cut the wheat ears first, while she walked along the edge of the field with a wooden basin.

Looking at the best-growing ears, she carefully cut them off with scissors. Although she didn't know whether these rice grains could be reproduced, she still wanted to give it a try. She first selected the strongest ones, with the strongest ears.

long, cut off the top with the most rice grains and save it for making seeds.

If it is conventional rice, it is also necessary to keep selected seeds. If you don't do this, it will gradually become mixed over a few years. Although there is such a thing as survival of the fittest in nature, transplanting into rice fields

After all, rice grown every year cannot be compared with wild rice. After several years of planting, some of the benign genes of wild rice will slowly disappear. Therefore, if it is not cultivated properly, it will be difficult to retain those advantages.

The rice was cut very quickly. Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang separated for a while, and then they left Aunt Zhang alone, while he went to thresh the rice first. Without a machine, threshing was very laborious. The threshing thing was a deep trough.

It is wide at the bottom and narrow at the bottom. Take a small bundle of rice seedlings and beat it repeatedly on the wall, and the rice grains will fall down.

After picking out the remaining seeds, Li Xin also joined the harvest. She was not strong enough, so she could not do the threshing as she was not strong enough. When she picked up the seeds quickly, Aunt Zhang also went to talk to Aunt Zhang.

Went threshing together.

The "bang bang" sound of rice hitting the trough immediately brings people into the joy of harvesting. Li Xin remembers that when he was a child in his previous life, there was no harvester in the village, so such a trough was used to thresh the rice.

, the whole body is made of wood, and when you hit it, it makes a "bang bang" sound like a bang. That sound can travel very far. As long as you hear it from a distance, you will think, "So the rice harvest has already begun."

.It seems that with such a sound, the entire harvest season has arrived.

When she saw the smoke burning in the village, Yuexiang took Yueting back to cook. At noon, Uncle Zhang, Aunt Zhang and Li Xin also hurried home. In the morning, Uncle Zhang ran several times and brought

The threshed millet was carried to Li Xin's house. After half a day, although they were very tired, several people were very happy. Uncle Zhang was very happy looking at the rice piled in the yard of Li Xin's house. Although he thought it would be a good harvest, such a high yield still made people feel sad.

I was shocked. Is this still the rice they have been growing for generations? It took more than half a day to harvest an acre of land, but only about a quarter of it was harvested! There is so much rice?

He remembered that during daily harvesting, he could harvest three stones from one acre of land (there were ancient stones as well as big stones and small stones, and the weights were different in different dynasties, so I took the value of 60 kilograms), which was pretty good. That was it.

Even those who are most proficient in farming and managing fields have never seen so much rice grown in one acre of land!

"Sister Xin, how do you plant this field? You can actually harvest so much millet." Uncle Zhang was very happy as he held the rice in his hands. If all the fields could have such a yield, then there would never be a need to worry.

You will be hungry! Farming has always depended on the weather. If the weather is good, the harvest of that year will be better, and the family will be able to have enough food. If the weather is bad and the harvest is poor, naturally

I am going to be hungry. There is a shortage of food, and there are many times when the family is out of food. The feeling of being hungry is really uncomfortable!

"It's not like I just plant how other people plant. I can't manage so many fields. I'm afraid it's not as good as others. I think it may be a problem with the seeds!"

"Then our family will use this kind of millet to grow next year! Sister Xin won't deny it, right?" Aunt Zhang looked at Li Xin with a smile. Who doesn't like a bumper harvest! Even if the one who gets the bumper harvest is not his own, but that

I’m very happy too! Sister Xin’s family will definitely have enough food to eat this year. It’s the best thing not to go hungry.

"If Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang want to give it a try, they can plant a little bit and try it. The old man who gave me the seeds said that the seeds were brought from far away. He also got some because he was so pleased with it.

Come, but that place is very strange. Some seeds cannot be planted. Even if seedlings grow, there is no harvest. The old man said that you can give it a try, but you cannot plant in large areas. If there is no harvest, it will be harmful to people.

So this year I only dare to plant one acre and take a look." If these are hybrid rice, there will definitely be no harvest, so she doesn't dare to let Uncle Zhang's family plant a lot. If it fails, it will last a year.

What a painstaking effort!

"There is such a thing! I have never heard of it." Aunt Zhang looked incredulous.

"It's better to believe that there is something than to believe that there is nothing. Let's plant a little next year and give it a try. If we can get a harvest, it means we can keep planting. It's only one year, and there's no rush at this time. Just give it a try."

knew."

"Sister Xin is right. Let's plant a small patch next year and see. Sister Xin dares to try it on a child, don't we?" Uncle Zhang looked determined.

(It’s so cold, my hands are frozen, and typing is so slow. Dear friends, please keep warm! Don’t get sick.)


Chapter completed!