Chapter 59 Rice Seedling Raising

The next morning, sunlight shone into the house through the window. Lin Momo rubbed her sore waist and climbed out of bed.

While putting on her clothes, she muttered, "Beast!"

At this time, Cheng Jinghao just walked into the room, "Why don't you sleep a little longer?"

Lin Momo glared at him. "Why didn't you go to training?"

"I took a leave of absence this afternoon. I just finished digging a ditch in the field and came back after finishing it." Cheng Jinghao looked at her rubbing her waist and gave her an ambiguous look.

"Let me rub it for you." He stretched out his big hand and pulled her to sit on the kang.

"Then you make lunch." Lin Momo lay down on the kang, closed her eyes and enjoyed it. She really didn't want to move at all.

I also don't know how this man has such good physical strength. He can stay up until three or four in the morning and still get up early to work.

"By the way, weed the greenhouse later, and remember to feed the chickens." She began to give instructions.

"Okay." Cheng Jinghao nodded. "Are you hungry? I made breakfast and brought it to you."

"Don't eat. I want to sleep." Lin Momo's voice was soft and her eyes were not even opened.

Cheng Jinghao didn't say anything else. He just rubbed her waist gently. When she fell asleep, he covered her with a quilt and went back to work.

After Cheng Jinghao finished his work and prepared lunch, he woke Lin Momo up.

The next day, Lin Momo started to dry the seeds.

Before sowing, rice generally needs to go through four processes: seed drying, seed selection, seed soaking, and germination.

Before sowing rice, choose a sunny day between 10 am and 3 pm, spread the seeds thinly in the sun for 2-3 days.

If it was a book in the supermarket, Lin Momo would actually know that rice seeds need to be processed.

When selecting seeds, Li Hesan all came to help.

Of course, for a worker like Lin Momo, picking seeds is really a tiring job.

When selecting seeds, choose healthy seeds with full grains, and discard shriveled, thin, barren, and empty seeds.

The four of them held a pot of seeds and moved a chair to sit at the gate of Lin Momo's yard, carefully selecting them one by one.

"This is more tiring than growing vegetables." Liu Qian looked up and closed her eyes. Growing vegetables requires physical strength, while this requires your eyes.

"But." Li He followed Lin Momo's instructions and took a moment to look into the distance.

"No matter where we are, this is a job we have to do every day in our hometown." Luo Yumei smiled.

Her family grew rice. "But the people in our village don't work as meticulously as Momo. I won't be so serious. I just pick whatever I want and it's done."

"Good seeds can produce good crops." Lin Momo explained.

"Every process, every operation, of course, has the same results."

This is the same soil, why the yield in 놋's village is high and the yield in 놋's village is low.

When Sanxiao heard this, he felt that what Lin Momo said made sense.

"Anyway, Momo, whatever you say, we'll do it. It will definitely be wrong to listen to you." Li He said with a smile. She had absolute trust in Lin Momo.

"Yes, we will do what you say." Liu Qian and Luo Yumei agreed with a smile.

"Then thank you three sisters for your support." The four looked at each other and laughed.

The seeds can be soaked in clean water at room temperature or lime water. This water is made of lime, so Lin Momo chose to use lime water.

She told Commander Chen about this need, and Commander Chen quickly got her some lime.

During the soaking period, the seeds need to be stirred and the water needs to be changed every day. When the water absorption of the seeds reaches 30-40% of the seed weight, it is conducive to germination.

Zhou Weihong came over that day and brought some White Rabbit milk candies and two or three pounds of meat to Lin Momo.

"I heard from Jinghao that you like to eat this." Zhou Weihong said with a smile.

"Aunt Zhou, why did you leave it for Xiaobao to eat?" Xiaobao is the grandson of Political Commissar Cao and Zhou Weihong.

"He can eat a lot. Besides, he seldom comes down once in a while." Zhou Weihong put the candy and meat on the table for her.

"I came here this time because the commander and the old man in our family asked me to come and see you. They were worried that you were working too hard." She held Lin Momo's hand.

"Commander Chen specially asked the canteen to distribute the meat. He said that you have worked hard, so he wanted you to eat some meat to replenish your body."

"I feel tired." Lin Momo smiled and shook her head. She really didn't feel tired.

She only hoped to see rice fields all over southern Tibet one day earlier.

"What stage are we at now?" Zhou Weihong asked.

"It's already germinating." Lin Momo said with a smile. After two days of cooling down, it can be sown.

Although Zhou Weihong is from Hunan Province, she started growing crops thirty years ago and is already familiar with it.

"Aunt Zhou, the corn planted in the greenhouse has entered the seedling stage. Do you want to go and take a look?" Lin Momo asked.

"Okay, come on, take me to have a look." Zhou Weihong quickly got up and followed her to the greenhouse.

Zhou Weihong looked at the emerald green corn seedlings in the greenhouse and smiled naturally.

"Mo Mo, you are so amazing." Zhou Weihong already knew what words to use to describe her mood.

"Aunt Zhou, you're too kind. This isn't even the beginning." Lin Momo felt a little embarrassed by the compliment.

"That's great." Zhou Weihong held Lin Momo's hand with a slight tremor.

She has been in southern Tibet for more than ten years. Whether it is the vegetables and sweet potatoes grown in this greenhouse, or the corn seedlings now, and the rice that will be planted soon, they are all things she never dared to think about before.

If this twenty-year-old girl was done with it, how could she be excited?

After Zhou Weihong left Lin Momo's house, he immediately went to the military district office to report the good news to Commander Chen and Political Commissar Cao.

On the day of sowing, Commander Chen, Political Commissar Cao and others came along, and Cheng Jinghao set aside a plot of land for growing seedlings.

"After the seedlings are grown, they need to be trimmed again before they can be transplanted," Lin Momo explained.

By then, there will be requirements for the amount of water in the tank.

"This is how we grow vegetables in our hometown." The military family members became suspicious.

"Yeah, that's how we grow it over there."

Zhou Weihong looked at the crowd and asked, "Since you are so capable, why don't you try growing rice when you come to join the army?"

Commander Chen's eagle eyes also swept over the crowd, daring to question his daughter-in-law, "Wait until Comrade Xiaolin grows rice, then don't come and ask."

"How can we grow crops in the same way?" Luo Yumei said.

“Yes.” Li He, Liu Qian, and the family members who followed Lin Momo to build the greenhouse all had great confidence in her ability to grow rice in southern Tibet.

"When Comrade Lin starts planting rice, we will all follow her to work," the crowd said loudly.

[Hint: Planting rice will gain the trust of military families and earn 500 points, for a total of 12,400 points. 】

Lin Momo and Cheng Jinghao looked at each other. These points came quite unexpectedly.