vrcanaries Chapter 900: Good Growth
Chapter 900: Good Growth
Taohua is now a little manager. She is in charge of the duck eggs and does a very good job.
In the afternoon, she walked around the fields. The rice seedlings and wheat seedlings had been planted and were growing well.
This year, Li and her family planted the two acres of experimental field. The family finished planting in one day. Of course, the seeds were also grown by her. The harvest from these two acres of field has always been higher than that from other fields.
Year after year, new varieties of rice are being planted.
After checking the house once, she had to go out on the third day.
Li said, "Why don't you just stay at home? The spring ploughing is over now, and there's not much going on in other places. Why do you want to go out?"
Zhou Guo has spent more time outside than at home in recent years. How can this house feel like home? "This is just the entire Northland. When the world is settled, you will do business all over the world. I think you will be busier than your uncle and you will not stay at home all year round."
Zhou Guo said, "I have to go to Song County to take charge. This year, the salty and bitter land is being planted with grain for the first time. The village head doesn't understand many things and can't handle them. I have to keep an eye on them. I also transferred the big village heads from Chengding here. I will guide them this year. If the remaining salty and bitter land is planted with rice next year, I won't have to keep an eye on it myself. I am also making plans for next year."
Li opened her mouth but could not utter a word.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Mom, why don't you come with me to Song County and live there for a while?"
Li said, "I can't leave the house. I have to wait until the mushrooms in the mountains are harvested. You have opened a duck shop now. You collect eggs and buy ducks. Our farm is not big, but we have more and more things to do."
Zhou Guo thought for a moment and said, "Then let's wait until the next busy farming season and go to Song County to harvest the rice. We can harvest what we planted ourselves."
"Let's talk about it when the time comes. During the busy farming season, my family will be even busier and I may not be free." Li didn't agree immediately. She thought that if she was free, she would go there. If not, could she fly there?
In this weather, there is no need to take a carriage. Just pack up a few clothes and ride away on horseback.
The old man also followed. It was boring to stay at home for a long time, so it would be nice to go out and travel with him.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Master, you are fine anyway. Masters Mo Da and Mo Er are very busy now. The escort agency's business is getting better and better. The last time I saw them, they all looked very energetic. Do you want to go with them to escort? Anyway, we are just wandering around the north. The weather is just right now, not too cold or too hot. Look at all the wild flowers on the road. It's much more interesting than staying in the farm."
The old man glared at her, "Why, do you dislike me now? You are annoyed by the fact that I am an old man following you all day long, right?"
"Oh my, what's going on? What are you thinking?" Zhou Guo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "I just think it's boring for you to stay at home all day. Why don't you go out and play? Just treat it as a way to relax. If you don't want to go, then we won't go. It's no big deal."
The old man didn't say anything, but when he really arrived in Song County, he stayed with Zhou Guo for two days and then left.
Zhou Guo wanted to see him off, but the old man wouldn't let him. "I'm already so old, I'm not missing any limbs, I have some kung fu skills, and I'm asking you to see me off. It's not like I don't know the way. Okay, go ahead, I'm leaving now."
As soon as the reins were pulled, the horse shot out like an arrow.
Zhou Guo could feel his joy from his back. As expected, everyone was happy when talking about going out to play.
As soon as the old man left, Zhou Guo became busy.
Several counties are growing crops, so she can't just stay in Song County. She has to go there at least once every two weeks.
The plot of land is so large that she brings a group of people to check on the growth of the seedlings in the fields every day. Before the spring, she asked people to spread a layer of hay underneath when deep plowing the land. There has been no salt backflow yet. Although the growth cannot be compared with that of a few acres of experimental land, it is also very good.
At least it was much better than she expected.
The head of the village said happily, "Boss, if the land keeps growing at this rate, the harvest this autumn will definitely be good! It's much better than the land of ordinary people. One mu may yield two and a half dan!"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
This harvest is almost the same as the harvest of ordinary people's fields. The village heads were all very surprised. They didn't expect that this was the first year of growing crops in the salty and bitter land, and they could get such a harvest. By next year, wouldn't they be able to get three or four shi? !
Besides, two and a half shi is already considered good farmland!
Zhou Guo dug a little deeper into the mud with his hands and shook his head, saying, "It's too early to say this now. We have to wait until the autumn harvest to know how the harvest is. We must not take it lightly during this period of time, for fear that the salt will return from underground."
Many people still don’t know what salt return is.
Zhou Guo explained to them, "The salt layer is coming back up from below. If the salt comes back up now, it will be troublesome."
The village heads had never cultivated saline-alkali land before, and they didn't know that the salt layer would return. They were surprised and said, "The salt layer can return again? All the work we have done is useless, isn't it?"
Zhou Guo said: "Don't worry, I'm just saying it. The salt hasn't returned yet. We also took measures in the spring. I don't think it will be that easy."
The hay is not laid out for free, it costs a lot.
It’s just that the wheat growth in other counties is a little worse than expected, but it’s already comparable to the middle and lower-grade land of ordinary families.
She thought that these seeds were ordinary wheat seeds, and it seemed quite good that they could grow like this. The only way for ordinary seeds to grow like this was with the help of fertilizer.
The farmers were very proud. In the first year, they were able to make the wheat survive on the land and grow so well. Wasn't that a great achievement?
Everyone was smiling.
Zhou Guo said, "This is only the wheat seedling stage. It will take several months for it to grow fully. If there is a stubble in the middle, all efforts will be wasted. So before the wheat is harvested, you must not let your guard down. With such a large piece of land, we can't just harvest the seeds this year. If we grow it well, the farmers on the farm can rent it and grow it themselves in two years."
After visiting several counties, she went to Yunzhou.
The business of Yunzhou's Haoguo Escort Agency is getting better and better. The old man has already left with the escort team, and there are only a few people left in the agency.
She looked at the accounts since the beginning of spring and found that there were more and more big orders coming in, and some small orders were also quite large.
Niu Si said, "As you said, when big orders come to us, we handle small orders in a friendly manner just like before. We haven't lost a single customer in the past two years."
Zhou Guo nodded and asked, "I see you are familiar with these routes. How long does it take for us to deliver things from here to Huaiyang? How long does it take for others?"