sjar Chapter 113 Offering Rice Seeds
Chapter 113 Offering Rice Seeds
As they walked out of the county government office, they saw the Cheng family surrounding Tian Zhongqing and Tian Zhicheng, pushing and shoving each other, and they didn't know what they were doing.
Lu Tao didn't want to see them, so she pulled Tian Tian and walked around them.
Tian Zhicheng suddenly exerted his strength, pushed away the Cheng family members surrounding him, and rushed to Tian Tian.
He glanced at Lu Tao holding Tian Tian's hand, his eyes flashing with barely concealed resentment.
"You did this on purpose!"
Lu Tao shielded Tian Tian behind her, keeping a wary eye on Tian Zhicheng.
"You did this on purpose!" Tian Zhicheng was even more certain after seeing this.
"You..." His eyes were fixed on their intertwined hands, "You..."
The marriage certificate has been torn up, so Lu Tao is no longer worried.
"Yes!" she readily and openly admitted.
Looking at the crowd making a scene at the door with disdain, he said, "We did it on purpose, we were faking it!"
"You bastards!"
Lu Tao looked at Tian Zhongqing and said, "Tian Zhongqing, you're a bastard, your whole family are bastards, and Tian Zhicheng, you're a little bastard!!"
"Your Cheng family is no good either, always eyeing our money. We'll teach you a lesson with our own money!"
"A greedy and cowardly scoundrel!"
"Give us the money...we might as well buy some meat to feed the monkeys!"
Qian Fulai casually put his hands behind his back, thinking to himself, "Madam Lu is really interesting. Everyone else says to feed the dog, but she insists on feeding the monkey."
Are monkeys often seen in Qingliu Village?
Little did he know that several monkeys were kept in the backyard of the Baishi Teahouse.
"Let's go!" Lu Tao shouted, having had her fill of cursing, and led her family away.
Qin Qingyun, who had been outside, caught up with them. "Young lady, are you alright?"
Tian Xiang shook her head. "It's nothing."
The yamen runners watched the Cheng and Tian families arguing again with indifference.
"Give us back our silver!" the Cheng family shouted.
Tian Zhongqing: "The money has already been given to Madam Lu and Tian Tian, what does it have to do with us?"
“You took our money, saying you would help us.”
"The silver is not in our hands now. Go find whoever took it."
Tian Zhigao said indignantly, "You even said that if we helped you, you would give us five hundred taels of silver."
"Where would you get five hundred taels if you haven't even married her?"
"You are lying!"
You're the ones lying!
"fraud!"
"fraud!"
The yamen runners watched the play and laughed heartily.
Qian Fulai followed Tian Tian back to Baishi Teahouse, waiting for her to collect the high-yield rice seeds.
Tian Tian went into the kitchen and came out with the rice seeds she had bought from the system.
"Is that all?" Qian Fulai asked.
Tian Tian nodded, "There are only ten jin here."
"The others are in Qingliu Village."
The two returned to the county government office, and Tian Tian placed the rice seeds on the table.
"Is this the high-yield rice variety?" Li Huaiyuan approached the table with reverence.
He carefully opened the bag...
The rice seeds are large, plump, uniform in shape, and bright in color.
This is rice that yields 800 jin per mu, and it can be planted for two seasons.
"Tian Er, come and tell me, how can these seeds be planted for two seasons?"
Qian Fulai was also curious.
He doesn't farm, but his parents do.
In Yunzhou Prefecture, rice is always planted for only one season, and after the autumn harvest, the land is left uncultivated.
The main reason is that after autumn and winter, the weather becomes cold, and anything planted will freeze to death.
So no one wasted that time.
Tian Tian patiently explained to the two how to breed, transplant rice seedlings, and rush to plant the second season.
Before the first harvest, the rice seeds for the second season had already been cultivated in the seedbed.
After the first harvest, the seedlings for the second season are ready for transplanting.
This creates a one-month overlap, allowing the second crop of rice to be harvested before the weather turns cold, preventing it from freezing.
Li Huaiyuan stroked his imaginary stubble on his chin, "This method..."
"Okay!"
He looked Tian Tian up and down, genuinely curious, "Tian Er, how did you come up with this idea?"
Tian Tian guiltily touched the braid at her temple. This method was the culmination of thousands of years of wisdom from ordinary people; she was simply using a ready-made...
Li Huaiyuan held the rice seeds and examined them carefully, feeling a mix of emotions and making various plans.
"As soon as spring arrives... no, I'll immediately write a proclamation so that all the people in the county..."
"No, let some of the people plant first..."
"Tsk, which people should be allowed to plant first?"
Tian Tian suggested helplessly, "Sir, spring is not far away now. If you try to get everyone in the county to plant, I'm afraid it will be too late."
The Lunar New Year will be here in about ten or twenty days.
It will be only two or three months after the start of spring.
In the entire Baishi County, more than a dozen villages had to be visited by yamen runners who persuaded them one by one.
Then we'll unify the species.
It sounds simple, but in this era, with its various inefficiencies and the uncooperative nature of the people, it takes a lot of time to organize.
"Why don't you lead the people in the county to plant it first?"
“When people from various villages come to the county, they can see the fields in the suburbs. Once they know that the rice is highly productive, they will naturally cooperate with the adults.”
Only with the cooperation of the people can the progress at each stage be made smoothly.
After thinking about it, Li Huaiyuan decided to do it the way Tian Tian suggested.
"it is good."
“Then I will issue a notice so that people in the county who are willing to switch to high-yield rice varieties can come and register to receive the rice seeds.”
"Let's get them to plant first."
"The people from the other villages, please wait and see..."
As he spoke, Li Huaiyuan walked around to the desk, spread out the paper, picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, and began to write...
A long, flowing piece of paper: "Someone come here!"
A constable entered and said, "Sir."
Li Huaiyuan handed the paper to the yamen runner, saying, "Go, make several copies, post them everywhere, and have someone explain it to the people."
Not everyone can read, so someone needs to stand next to the notice and explain it to the people.
After the yamen runners left, Li Huaiyuan asked Tian Tian to explain the planting method to him in detail.
As Tian Tian spoke, he took notes.
Li Huaiyuan asked very detailed questions: when to breed the seedlings, how to breed them, when to transplant the rice seedlings, when to fertilize, when to water, when to harvest, and when to breed the seedlings before harvesting...
From planting to harvesting, I meticulously recorded every detail, filling more than a dozen pages.
By the time Li Huaiyuan put down his pen, it was past dinnertime...
Madam Li had been waiting outside the door for half an hour before Li Huaiyuan put down his pen and came in.
"Master, look at you..." She gave Li Huaiyuan a coquettish glance.
“If you don’t eat, Miss Tian and Young Master Qian still need to eat.”
She smiled gently at Tian Tian and said, "Second Miss, Young Master Qian, I have prepared the meal."
"Why don't we sit down and talk over a meal?"
The magistrate's wife prepared a meal, but the magistrate was still not satisfied...
Tian Tian glanced at Qian Fulai and readily agreed, "Okay, then Tian Tian will take care of you."
Li Huaiyuan took Madam Li's hand, "Madam, you don't know, Tian Er's rice seeds..."