Chapter 129： farming

  Old man Hu stood on tiptoe slightly, and saw that the car was indeed ice, and the wooden barrels on the car were too far apart to see clearly, and only vaguely saw the ice cubes protruding from the surface of the barrel.

"Children just like to mess around, this river is dangerous, don't go too close, be careful to fall into it."

Mu Yangling responded and pulled the car back to the backyard. Seeing that the two children's hands were red with freezing, Shu Wanniang couldn't help but feel distressed: "Okay, okay, these are enough, you are not allowed to go any more, and you are not afraid of freezing. already."

Mu Yangling took out the bucket, there was a piece of ice on top, and the big fish was struggling underneath.

Put the ice in first, and pile up half of the cellar before lifting the tank in and freezing it with ice.

There are still several live fish in the wooden barrel. Xiao Bowen is fed with water and eats fresh these days.

Mu Yangling brought out two of them to Shu Wanniang, and said with saliva: "Mother, one is braised and the other is boiled."

Shu Wanniang tapped her forehead and said with a smile, "Gluttonous cat."

The fish Mu Yangling picked out weighed three or four kilograms, and Shu Wanniang was worried that she would not be able to finish it. Who knew that the children would pick them out in the end, leaving only a pair of fish bones and some soup on the table.

Mu Yangling hugged his stomach and said, "The fish that are born and raised in the river are delicious. Tomorrow I will go to the river to chisel ice."

Shu Wanniang smiled and said: "You are lucky today, the ice surface has not been opened yet, you made a hole to pick out so many fish, today you broke the ice, and the ice surface on top began to melt, the oxygen in the water is not like How can it be possible to have today's harvest if it is so lacking before?"

Mu Yangling smiled, "Try it, don't care if he has it or not, I'll take it, if I don't, I'll transport the ice back to the cellar."

Shu Wanniang was stunned, "Why are you still going, isn't that enough ice?"

"Enough is enough, but I just want to keep some more in the cellar. In summer, maybe the ice will not melt and still be used to cool off the heat."

Shu Wanniang looked at her daughter helplessly, "You don't feel too cold to panic."

"I like to play with water."

Niang Shu did not stop her when she heard what her daughter said, but said, "Then be careful, don't fall."

Mu Yangling happily responded.

When Mu Yangling went to the river the next day, someone was already knocking holes on the ice. It turned out that someone came to the river early in the morning and saw fish in the hole that Mu Yangling knocked, so they ran home to get a net to catch the fish. This sparked the ice-knocking war.

Mu Yangling packed two carts of ice, and after adding a bucket of fish, he stopped doing it, but squatted at the mouth of the canal to see how fast the ice melted.

Two days later, only a thin layer of ice remained on the river, some of which had even melted into the water, and the water level had risen to the edge of the land where everyone was farming. Only then did everyone recover from their enthusiasm for fishing. Looking nervously at the river, for fear that it would rise again and flood their land.

Mu Yangling saw that there was already water leaking from the river into the canal at the mouth of the canal, but because there were still some ice blocks, the water output was not large. Mu Yangling looked at the situation upstream and downstream, and knocked it off with the last stick. When the layer of ice was removed, the water that had been blocked instantly spewed into the channel.

At this time, Qi Haoran was also standing at the entrance of Reservoir No. 1. Seeing that the ice on the river melted and the water level rose, he took the **** directly from Mu Shi and smashed all the ice at the entrance. Slowly diverted into the reservoir...

Qi Haoran handed the **** back to Mu Shi, and said, "Go and smash the ice at the entrance of the other two reservoirs, and clean up the ice at the mouth of the canal, and inform the whole camp that tomorrow will be a holiday after one day of training, and the holiday will be seven days. No matter what your farming situation is, give me back to camp for training, do you hear me?"

"Yes!"

Qi Haoran left with his sword on his back. Fan Zijin followed behind him and said, "The other camps didn't give the soldiers a holiday. Is it bad for you to do this?"

"What's wrong? Anyway, the elder brother also said that it is not our turn to go to the battlefield for the time being, so it is better to guarantee next year's food and wages." Qi Haoran said in a low voice, "Brother Jiang brought his soldiers with him. They have met the enemy three times..."

Fan Zijin smiled when he heard the words, "Okay, next year at the latest, when you will go out on an expedition."

"I'm going to fight with the soldiers I trained."

Mu Yangling doesn't know Qi Haoran's lofty ambitions. Her biggest goal at present is to become a little farmer and lead her family to live a rich and healthy life.

The night that Mu Shi returned home, Ma Liu poured out the seeds he brought back and said, "Tomorrow, we will plant wheat first. As for rice, we can use the thirteen acres near the river to grow rice. All of them are planted with wheat. It just so happens that the seeds sent to us are also the most wheat.”

Mu Yangling squatted on the ground and touched the still plump seeds, and asked, "Then when will we start planting and breeding?"

"We'll go down when the weather is fine." Ma Liu's family was accustomed to the land, and he made up his mind before the ice melted.

"Tomorrow we will take out the plough and plough the first ten acres of fine land in the south."

Mu Shi and Mu Yangling didn’t know anything about farming, so what Ma Liu said was what.

The next day, the family carried things on their backs and went to the land to the south. Mrs. Ma Liu saw tender green shoots emerging from the ground, and smiled happily: "The ground has warmed up, the grass is budding, and it is time to plant. Come, bring the plow, and I will teach you how to sow."

Mu Yangling carried the iron plough on his back, and Ma Liu helped the plough to open two rows, "Stone, can you see clearly? It drives so fast and so deep, and after a while, the soil is swept away with his feet. Cover it up, and it's done." Ma Liu said regretfully: "It's a pity that I don't have any fat. This year, I don't even have basic fertilizer, so I can only do sow seeds. I'll ask your uncle to go to the city to find out if I can buy some Yexiang. Come back and fertilize."

Mu Shi and Mu Yangling's eyes widened, "Ye, Yexiang?"

Ma Liu glared at them, "What's all the fuss about? If there's not enough fat in the land, don't we all have to go to the city to buy Yexiang? We have more land, and we buy more. Let's go with your uncle and the others to see if we can pay the price to the city. Press down."

Mu Yangling only felt his stomach tumbling, and after a while, he heard himself ask: "That Yexiang bought it and used it like this?"

"Of course not, it's too beautiful to die for you, how can there be so much money at home to buy Yexiang? You still have to dilute it with water and mud, and too much will burn the seedlings. In short, this is a matter of the future, now first Let's plant the ground, stone, you help the plow, and I'll plant the seeds."

Mu Shi just stared at the iron plow in front of him, he couldn't do anything, he knew his own affairs, he didn't learn it at all.

Mu Yangling looked at his father's tangled appearance, hesitated for a moment, and said, "How about I come?"

Mu Shi immediately put the iron plow into his daughter's hand, "Okay, you can come, I'll pull it."

Mu Yangling: "..."