Chapter 105 Bodhisattva

Sang Zhixia's mind quickly flashed through the crops that could be intercropped in the greenhouse, and she didn't even notice the slightly surprised look Xu Yu gave her.

After a long while, Xu Yu finally smiled and said, "Seeing how well you know about farming, no one would have guessed you were once the daughter of a wealthy family."

Which respectable young lady would delve into the muddy world?

Sang Zhixia heard his profound meaning but didn't care. She rolled her eyes and showed a playful expression. She waved her hand, imitating the way Xu Yu teased her yesterday. "Do you want to know why I know so much?"

Xu Yu knew it was a trap, but he still tried his best to cooperate.

He leaned closer and lowered his head slightly: "Why?"

Sang Zhixia said in a long, quiet voice, "Because the head mistress of the Sang family is very dissatisfied with me, she even threatened to marry me off to a farmer in the suburbs of Beijing."

"After listening to him, I thought about it and realized that I should hurry up and learn how to farm and dig the land. What if I really marry a farmer and he despises me and divorces me because I can't farm?"

After saying this, she ignored Xu Yu's handsome face, which was gradually darkening, and said with a smile, "What do you think? Am I very foresighted?"

Xu Yu gritted his teeth slightly: "So, should I praise you so much?"

You worked so hard to marry another man, so I should praise you for being ambitious?

Sang Zhixia was modest and smiled reservedly, "If you can't praise me, don't force it. Flattery is a matter of personal will, and I'm not one to force anything."

"Of course, it depends on whether you are aware of it or not."

Xu Yu really doesn't want to be self-aware.

For the first time, he pushed Sang Zhixia away, put on a stinky face and walked forward.

“Diligent study is commendable, but poor motivation.”

"I'm not bragging."

Sang Zhixia narrowed her eyes and smiled, sighing, "Tsk tsk tsk, you're quite stingy."

"You were the one who asked first, so why are you still so angry after asking?"

Xu Yu sneered and gritted his teeth: "You are angry out of shame."

"Why, have you never seen a man get jealous for no reason?"

Jealous?

Sang Zhixia had never thought that one day something like this would be related to her. She laughed so hard that she bent over and stopped. "Hey, Xu Yu, wait for me. Why are you walking so fast?"

Xu Yu slowed down his pace when he heard the sound. He tried to hold back but in the end he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Zhizhi, I wasn't walking fast..."

"You just want to make fun of me!"

"You did it on purpose!"

Don't mess with a woman who gets angry because of shame. Similarly, don't mess with a man who gets jealous for no reason.

Sang Zhixia looked at Xu Yu swinging the hammer vigorously on the field from afar and laughed sadly.

Fortunately, she made it up.

If there really was such a farmer waiting to get married, wouldn't that person be beaten into meatballs by Xu Yu, who was full of jealousy?

She shuddered and suppressed all those thoughts in her heart, then walked towards the group of people who were talking animatedly.

"Village chief, you can't arrange these two plots of land like this. The upper and lower positions are reversed. The drainage channel must go downwards, otherwise the lower plot of land will be difficult to protect..."

With Sang Zhixia's guidance and Xu Yu's hard work, the greenhouse of the village chief's house took shape in a few days.

During this period, the breeding that Sang Zhixia had put so much effort into had entered a critical stage.

The selected grain seeds have germinated well, and the water put into the ground in advance is almost warm enough, so we can start sowing the seeds.

In the rice planting process, sowing seeds is not the most critical step, but Sang Zhixia still left out more details.

When she was breeding, she divided the pots into large and small ones, and in the water-filled fields, she erected mud ridges of different lengths and heights to isolate the water level.

Even though the kang in the greenhouse was always burning, the temperature in the greenhouse was not as cold as outside, but the water temperature was cold after all, so Sang Zhixia lost the right to go into the water and was forced to guide on the edge of the ridge.

Xu Yu was walking in the paddy field with a small wooden bucket in his arms and his trouser legs rolled up. After sowing the last handful of rice seeds in his hand, he saw Sang Zhixia had inserted a small wooden stick with a red string hanging on the edge of the field. He had also inserted several wooden sticks before, but the things tied to them were different.

He said with a smile: "What's the purpose of inserting this?"

"scarecrow?"

Sang Zhixia sighed and said, "I didn't realize you knew so much."

I also know that scarecrows are used to drive away birds.

“This is what I use to mark my mark.”

She stood up and pointed to the grain seeds waiting for Xu Yu to sow, explaining, "Remember when we bought different kinds of grain seeds? I separated them when breeding to prevent them from mixing, and I also separated them when planting."

Using the same fields and the same conditions, she wanted to see the specific differences in growth and yield between different types of crops. Only after figuring all these out and obtaining specific data from the experiment could she determine whether the cultivation plan she had in mind would work.

Thinking of the densely packed breeding plans he had written, Sang Zhixia lowered his head and said, "Actually, the yields of the grain seeds we've bought now aren't high, at least not as high as I expected."

The yield per mu is about 200 kilograms, and this is in a bumper year. But if there is a natural disaster or bad luck, the yield will not even reach the 200 kilogram mark.

This amount of grain production is far from what she would be satisfied with.

So she decided early on to do it herself.

Xu Yu even taught how to sow seeds on the spot, and he really knew nothing about the deeper aspects of this.

He was stunned for a moment and said, "Do you think the output can be higher?"

"sure."

Sang Zhixia picked up a small stone and threw it into the paddy field, saying slowly, "The key to yield lies in the quality of the grain seeds. What we lack now is good grain seeds."

In other words, they are not the only ones who lack good grain seeds.

But it is everyone who lives in this era and relies on the food from the cultivated land for their livelihood.

It took her a lot of effort to build these two greenhouses, and her purpose was not just to see the seedlings grow in an inappropriate season.

She wants to use this place as a test field for improving crop varieties.

She wanted to take out the treasures she had learned from the achievements of great men and display them before the eyes of the world, so that these people would know that the land is the source of miracles.

Xu Yu didn't know what she was thinking, and just smiled softly when he heard her words.

"Did you know that the main source of tax revenue in the court comes from the farming tax?"

After paying heavy taxes, not much of the 200 kilograms of output remains in the hands of the people. So no matter how hard the people work throughout the year, in the end they can only hope for food and clothing and to survive.

He turned to look at Sang Zhixia and said, "If you can really manage to increase the grain yield per mu, you will be like a savior in the hearts of the people."

He is a Bodhisattva who saves people from suffering.