The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 58 58 Harvest locusts to

  After the Qingming Festival, there will be a few muffled thunders occasionally in the sky, but every time there is no rain, it makes everyone happy every time.

  Li Yu's family's cisterns were also more than half used up. Liu Changmin and Xiao An drove the ox cart and started to pull water from the river home and pour it into the cistern.

  Some of the villagers followed the example of Li Yu's family and began to dig ponds to carry water from the river and pour it into the ponds to store water.

Li Yu asked Butcher He to come to his house to kill the two pigs. The pork belly was cut into small cubes and marinated with aniseed. It was fried with suet and a small amount of rapeseed oil to make fried meat, and the meat and oil were put into a jar. Seal it up.

  The ribs and lean meat are marinated, steamed and roasted into dried pork ribs and stored.

   The rapeseed flowers in the field are already in full bloom, and the golden rapeseed flowers exude bursts of sweet fragrance, attracting swarms of bees to fly in the flowers and keep busy.

  The wheat seedlings also began to grow tillering and jointing. Li Yu and Liu Changmin and Xiao An began to fertilize the wheat to ensure that the wheat could absorb nutrients in time and prevent the wheat from de-fertilization and premature aging, which caused the reduction of wheat grains and production.

Zhou Jia took some salt and sugar to Li Yu's house, and said to Li Yu worriedly: "Xiaoyu, the sky has been so dry, everyone dares not spend it casually, and the business in the shop has plummeted. The aunties stopped work after finishing today's work, and waited until we notified us to start work. Also, these salts are all distributed by the official salt to the shop for sale. If the shop is not sold out and saved, you can pack it up and put it away. If the drought continues like this, I am afraid it will be difficult to see this year's harvest, and I have informed the tenants that this year, except for the food that is taxed, I will not collect rent."

   Zhou Jia rambled, and Li Yu smiled lightly when he saw his worried look, "So you are still a kind-hearted landlord, not Zhou Papi."

"Zhou Papi, who is it?" Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu's smiling face, and suddenly understood, determined that it was not a good word, and pointed at Li Yu's threats, "Okay! I dare to say that I am Zhou Papi, and I dare to speak to my husband. I don't care how I treat you."

   Li Yu smiled and told the story of Zhou Papi learning to croak in the middle of the night, looked at Zhou Jia and said with a smile, "Look, I praise you for being a good person, not Zhou Papi. "

After the two were playing and playing, Zhou Jia felt less worried, and began to tell Li Yu about the situation in the city, "Xiaoyu, some big families in the city have already started to store water, grain and salt, and a few others have already begun to store water and grain. To prepare for fleeing the famine, Xia Tao and his aunt have already prepared to wait until the end of the month, and if it still doesn't rain, they will leave for the capital."

  Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia, "Zhou Jia, after the rapeseed and wheat are harvested, if it hasn't rained yet, are you going to leave?"

   Zhou Jia thought for a while, "Unless I have to, I haven't thought about leaving here and going somewhere else, what do you think?"

  Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia, nodded with a smile and said, "Me too, I haven't thought about going anywhere else."

   Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu, touched Li Yu's forehead lightly, and said softly, "Yu'er, as long as I go with you, I'm not afraid."

  Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia and whispered, "You're not afraid, neither am I."

The two talked, and when Li Yu sent Zhou Jia to the door, Zhou Jia remembered that he forgot to tell Li Yu about the arrow, and Zhou Jia whispered to Li Yu: "I have already made the arrow, and I still have it. I bought two daggers for you and Ah Qing that are convenient to carry around, and I will bring them to you in two days."

Li Yu nodded with a smile, watched Zhou Jia get on the mule cart and pulled the goods away, then went home and picked up paper and pencil and drew two patterns, one was a crossbow and the other was a picture of a sleeve arrow, chasing an ox. The car went to the blacksmith shop in town.

  Li Yu arrived at the blacksmith shop. The blacksmith was making a long knife. He turned around and saw Li Yu smiling and said, "Miss Li, what do you want to do today?"

  Li Yu took out the blueprint and handed it to the blacksmith, "Uncle, I have something to show you, can you see if you can make it?"

   The blacksmith took the blueprint, "Let me see what kind of rare thing it is."

The blacksmith was stunned when he saw the blueprint in his hand, looked around, and whispered: "Girl, you are so delicate, where did you come from? But don't let the yamen know, making these things is to exile of."

Li Yu looked at the blacksmith with a slight smile and said: "Uncle, I came to you when I knew you were a good person. I want to make a crossbow, three sleeve arrows, and arrows, you can help me make more arrows, and you can tell me if you can do it. Are these two things?"

"Alas!" The blacksmith sighed, "Girl, if you are dissatisfied, you say that I haven't touched these things for many years. There are forty taels of hand crossbows, and thirty taels of silver each for sleeve arrows and arrows. You want me Just call it out for you, and you can pick it up in ten days.”

  Li Yu nodded, "The price is fine, I'll pick it up in ten days, thank you Uncle Blacksmith." Li Yu gave half the deposit and went home.

  In early April, the villagers still brought water from the river to the shore before sowing the grain.

Ten days later, Li Yu went to the town to retrieve the hand crossbow and Xiujian and went to the forest alone, aiming the crossbow at the tree trunk. The tree was marked, and the butterfly piece was touched, which led to the arrow mechanism. After the arrow shot out like lightning, it hit the position depicted by Li Yu. Li Yu hid the crossbow and the arrow in the space with satisfaction.

   At the end of April, the rapeseed leaves had already started to wither and yellow, the color of the rapeseed clips had also turned light green, and the wheat ears had begun to fill. Li Yu estimated that the rapeseed could be harvested in early May, and the wheat could be harvested in mid-May.

When the rapeseed was ripe, Li Yu hired Chen Yaohui and his wife in the village, as well as several other men and women who worked neatly in the village. It took four or five days to cut the rapeseed, and the rapeseed was dried on the drying mat. inside.

   When the rapeseeds came out, Li Yu found that the yield per mu was very low, only more than 200 catties. Li Yu put the rapeseeds into the warehouse and began to harvest winter wheat.

  The villagers stood on the field ridge and looked at Li Yu's more than 20 acres of golden wheat with envy. Everyone was thinking about planting some wheat this winter.

  It took four or five days for more than a dozen people to cut the wheat home, and it took a few days to dry before threshing.

  When the wheat grains were cleaned, dried and put into storage, Li Yu weighed it. One mu of land only had a harvest of 500 catties, but the villagers praised Li Yu's family's good wheat harvest and asked her for advice on how to grow wheat.

   Li Yu told everyone about his method of planting and farming, and everyone sighed: "With such meticulous care, no wonder the harvest is good."

   Mr. Li also smiled and said, "I was also saying that the small fish was so meticulously planted at the beginning, and the harvest was not known. It seems that her method is better."

   Everyone was discussing lively there, how to plant winter wheat this winter, and which land to use, temporarily forgetting the troubles of drought and no rain.

   Suddenly Qian Shi pointed to the Daqing Mountain and screamed, "Look, what is that dark cloud over there in the sky over Daqing Mountain?"

  The village chief looked at it carefully for a while, and then shouted, "Oh my God! The locusts are coming, this is not going to give us a way to live!"

   The village chief shouted and ran outside the courtyard in a panic, "The locusts are here, the locusts are here, go and invite the locust god."

   (end of this chapter)