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    It took almost half a month, and Dalang and the others plowed the ground in one go.  Xinhu and the others had cut enough reeds and piled them by the lake. Finally, everyone had time to build a thatched shed.  In addition to reeds, everyone chose some thick dry branches at home, then cut down a few small trees and started building a shed.

    At first, Dalang and Xinhu went to the shore to join in the fun, but they were driven back by the adults.  Dalang was so happy that he didn't care. When he came home, he dug out all the seeds and dried them in the sun before sowing.

    Looking at the miscellaneous seeds, Dalang said with a headache: "What should I plant first?" At this moment, he realized that he was too naive. It is not that easy to farm.

    But among all the adults, no one can answer this question.  Aunt Liu said nonchalantly: "Isn't it time to sow now and harvest in autumn?" This was the big impression in her mind.  Dalang had to turn his attention to Xinhu.

    Xin Hu recalled it carefully several times, but she also had a headache. However, she had some theoretical basis and said: "Peas, rapeseed, wheat and sorghum all seemed to be sown at the same time."

    "Are you sure?" Dalang asked suspiciously. Unfortunately, he was also confused and didn't dare to confirm which one to plant first.

    "Well, I remember that peas and rapeseed bloom every April and May, which is beautiful. Then, wheat and sorghum are planted in spring and harvested in autumn." Xin Hu said.  This is the farming situation in her hometown.

    "Then which one should be planted first?" Dalang asked.

    "Peas," Xin Hu said.  She remembered that peas were planted the earliest. It seemed that people in the village started ordering peas in the first month.

    "Is this the first to plant?" Dalang said uncertainly.

    "It should be so. I remember it was like this over there." Xin Hu was actually not very sure.  But you have to choose one first.  Anyway, no one is sure now.

    But she remembered that every year around Qingming Festival, it was the pea blooming season.  The flowering times of peas and rape basically overlap.  She remembered that when the Qingming Festival came, many city dwellers would go to the countryside to play and take photos.  Then, everyone started posting on their WeChat Moments like crazy.

    At this time, peas and rapeseed flowers complement each other. In the middle of the large golden rapeseed field are a few light green peas with purple and white flowers, and then there is a green wheat seedling in the distance. The scene is very spectacular and especially beautiful.  .  Therefore, she felt that rapeseed and peas should be sown at about the same time.

    The wheat may wait a little later.  When peas and rapeseed bloom, they are still young shoots not very tall.  She didn't know much about sorghum. She only knew that during the summer vacation, the ears of sorghum began to turn red.  There are sorghum fields on both sides of the road, which are very prosperous and eye-catching at first glance.

    "Then let's plant peas first." Dalang decided to listen to Xinhu.  Anyway, he only had a vague impression in his mind, as if he had heard someone say that he ordered beans and melons before and after Grain Rain.

    Because the adults didn¡¯t understand and felt that Dalang and Xinhu knew more than them, they didn¡¯t dare to interfere with the sowing, so they all went to build the shed wholeheartedly.

    Dalang had no choice but to go to the fields with Xin Hu to plant peas.  But they didn't remember whether the peas should be soaked to germinate before planting, so they took them directly to the field.  There are not many pea seeds, just a bowl, and it probably won¡¯t take long to plant them all.

    Looking at the field that had been plowed by the adults in front of me, it had been neatly divided into ten small fields, with a half-foot gap between each field to complete the shallow ditch.  Xinhu has a real feeling of returning to the countryside.

    "How to grow peas?" Dalang asked.

    ¡°We should plant them one by one,¡± Xin Hu said.

    She remembered that in her hometown, the seeds of peas and soybeans were called "dianzhong", which meant they were buried in the soil one by one.  When she was a child, she did this job with her grandma. Her grandma dug a small hole with a small shovel, and she put a seed in the hole, and then her grandma buried the hole with the shovel.

    But, it seemed to be still in the first month of the year.  However, the climate in her hometown is warmer than here. It also snows and freezes in winter in her hometown, but the lowest temperature does not exceed minus 8 degrees Celsius.  The snow will not stay frozen for a long time.  It doesn't get cold as long here either.

    The temperature difference between the two places is at least ten degrees, so it should be more suitable to sow seeds now.  These peas are usually planted early.  In the early May of the Gregorian calendar, tender peas were on the market. She liked to eat tender peas very much. She bought two kilograms and peeled off the green tender peas. She stir-fried them at will and added a little water to simmer them. They were very delicious and could be used as a staple food or as a snack.  Where's the food?  When it comes to cooking, there are even more ways to do it, including stir-frying, boiling, and steaming.  Young peas and leeks are a perfect match.

    ?You can eat young peas for more than a month. When the pods get old, everyone will stop eating young peas and will??So tired.  Thirst again.  "Xie Shuer wiped her sweat and said. Although this job is simple, it is also very tiring to bend over and work all the time.

    "Hurry and wash your hands. Come and drink some water." Xinhu poured a bowl of boiled water himself and drank it in one go before he had time to call them.

    Everyone drank water and rested for a while before starting to work again, but the speed was obviously slower than before.

    So, on the third day, Aunt Liu also came to help.  It took everyone three days of work in total to sow all the rapeseed.  With just one pound of seeds, they planted two acres of land.

    "Is it too thin?" Aunt Liu also had the same question as Dalang.

    "Not afraid." Xin Hu said firmly.  It doesn't matter if the seedlings are thin anyway, but it won't matter if the seedlings are thick.

    ¡°Wow, there are so many, can we collect a lot?¡± Xie Shuer asked.

    "I think we should be able to collect two hundred catties." Xin Hu said.

    This is based on some impressions in her mind. The yield of modern rapeseed seems to be 200 to 300 kilograms per mu.  Based on half the harvest, two acres of land here can yield 200 kilograms.  The oil yield of rapeseed is about 30%.  After some calculation, Xinhu realized that the two acres of land could extract up to 60 kilograms of oil.

    60 pounds of oil is really not much for her.  In the past, when she ate alone, she would buy ten pounds of oil.  I also eat several pots of oil a year.  Now, she has estimated this number to be very high. After all, ancient agricultural output cannot be compared with modern times.  But the sixty kilograms of oil has to be divided among three families, which means that their family can only get twenty kilograms of oil, which will last for a year.  It¡¯s just over a pound of oil a month.

    However, as long as she thought about it, since she came to this era, she had never heard the sound of sizzling when the oil was heated, let alone eating stir-fried vegetables.  There is so much oil, so I am extremely happy and looking forward to it.

    She can remember it so clearly because of the import of soybeans. Soybean oil is the oil she dislikes the most.  But soybean oil is much cheaper than rapeseed oil, not only because of genetic modification, but also because the yield of rapeseed cannot keep up with that of soybeans.  And with the use of modern harvesters, rapeseed is not as easy to harvest as soybeans.  So later, farmers switched to soybeans.  As a result, because imported soybeans were too cheap, oil companies bought imported soybeans, and soybean farmers lost money. This happened in the news every day in those years.

    Xie Shuer actually didn¡¯t know how much 200 pounds was, but she just sighed: ¡°It¡¯s a lot.¡±

    Dalang calculated in his mind and felt that the output was good.

    After planting the rapeseed, we started to plant sorghum and wheat again. The planting method of sorghum and rapeseed is the same, which is a lot of trouble, but the planting method of wheat is much simpler, just sow it directly.  So everyone sowed the wheat first.  When planting sorghum and wheat, Aunt Liu and Sister Xie came to help. With two adults helping, the work went much faster.  Three acres of sorghum and two and a half acres of wheat were planted.  Half an acre was planted with peas.

    After planting these, it will be finished in March.  The empty fields are almost full, and there are still two open fields left.  Just stay and plant soybeans.  Xinhu remembers planting soybeans later than these things, because when we eat edamame, it is during summer vacation.  When the peas are almost harvested, we start eating edamame.

    "I didn't expect that with just a few seeds, I could plant an entire acre." Dalang said happily.  He was also worried that there was not enough grain and he had to go out to get it.

    "Great. If the harvest is good, we can eat the food we grow. But our family has taken advantage of you again and has not plowed the land. We will have to work more when harvesting in the future." Aunt Liu said with a smile.  .  In autumn, Little Shitou is older and can help look after his younger brother, and Little Shitou's mother can go to the fields to help with some work.

    She knew that Mr. Xie was going to Beijing after the spring plowing.  The same goes for Jiang Dashan. He won't stay in Luwei Village every day. The autumn harvest will probably have to rely entirely on women and children.  So they take advantage now, but have to do a lot more work during the autumn harvest to make up for it.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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