After being ambushed and forced to self-destruct, Liu Shile opened her eyes to find herself back in the legendary impoverished era from over a hundred years ago.
Looking at her farm, which ha...
Wang Guangjie was speechless. Perhaps his sister had been poisoned by those two tigers, feeling that he, as her older brother, was now inferior to the tigers.
Look at her, she's mentioned the tiger to him so many times this week. If it weren't for the fact that this is something that shouldn't be told to others, the whole world would probably know that she touched the tiger!
Liu Shile didn't want to waste the land she had cleared, so she decided to plant some things first.
She did a lot for these wastelands, and even specially set aside a piece of land for the green manure and purple clover to upgrade.
Although this type of milkvetch is fertile and a good source of nectar, it is not cold-resistant.
After the upgrade, it has now become a plant that can grow well in all four seasons and is very suitable for fertile soil.
Actually, many of the plants on her farm could be used for planting, but that would be too extravagant.
Nobody's a fool. If she were to directly produce high-yield, cold-resistant, and drought-resistant seeds, it would be strange if others didn't notice something amiss.
If she first sows some random seeds to fertilize the land, and then produces ordinary seeds to plant, people would be more willing to accept a slightly higher yield, right?
She wasn't very interested in studying plants because she didn't need to do any research to get excellent seeds.
So why did she spend time and energy researching it?
She doesn't expect to become famous through this. If someone wants to study it, she'll wholeheartedly support it. This way, her brilliance will be overshadowed, and she'll be safer.
However, she can also grow some vegetables that can be planted and eaten in autumn and winter, such as cilantro and peas.
I'm just growing them for fun, I don't expect them to produce a high yield, as long as they grow normally.
Liu Shile is very knowledgeable about the plants on the farm.
Plants that are planted from scratch on barren land produce slightly higher yields than those grown elsewhere, but the difference is not significant.
The 24 controllable plots are different. Although they cannot be directly used for seed saving, they can be planted until they mature and then transplanted to wasteland.
In this way, the seeds that grow can be planted on wasteland. Although the yield is not as good as that of 24 plots, it is almost twice as high as that of seeds left from wasteland from beginning to end!
In other words, she can control the level of production.
So she smiled and shook her head, "While it's still early, we can sow some green manure seeds to fertilize the land."
"Fertile soil yields higher harvests, which is far more beneficial than cultivating barren, infertile land."
“That makes sense, but what is this green manure you’re talking about, Lele? I only know about wood ash and human and animal excrement.”
Wang Guangying thought Lele's words made sense, but she really didn't know what green manure was.
She was a little embarrassed when talking about human and animal excrement, after all, she was a young woman.
"Well, the kind of red clover with purple flowers that grows by the roadside and riverbank is green manure."
There are actually many other types of green manure, but Liu Shile couldn't possibly tell them all.
The reason it is called red clover (scientific name: Astragalus membranaceus) is because it is also a medicinal herb.
If someone asks her how she knows it's green manure, she can easily say that she saw it in a medicine book and discovered it by chance while researching it.
"Red clover? I thought it was just pretty and useless."
This flower is very pretty, and girls who like it sometimes pick it to take home. Wang Guangying is one of the girls who really likes it.
However, she was surprised to learn that it was also a type of fertilizer.
“I used to think so too. When I was reading a medical book, I saw a plant called milkvetch that looked a lot like it, so I picked a few plants and took them home. It was a coincidence that I eventually found out that they were the same plant.”
Liu Shile smiled, her face also showing surprise and disbelief.
"No wonder there were some red clover plants in Grandma Wang's vegetable garden. I thought they were wild. So you planted them?"
Girls rarely dislike flowers and plants, and Wang Guangying visits Grandma Wang's house every week.
She would naturally find the purple clover in the yard, but she really thought they were all wild.
Without waiting for Liu Shile's reply, she continued, "Lele, you wouldn't have been planning to start a new project all along, would you?"
“She mentioned it last year, but hasn’t made a decision yet,” Liu Shihua said with a smile.
So it turns out my sister had been preparing for land reclamation all along; he thought she just liked flowers and plants.
“I hadn’t made up my mind before, but after the rain disaster this year, I felt that I should do something when I came back.”
Liu Shile sighed. In the past, she wanted to explore new land to toughen up her second brother.
Now, however, I want to do something for the people of this world and this country.
As for the final outcome, she didn't know; she just did it anyway.
It seems that Mayor Wang is trustworthy; otherwise, he wouldn't have allowed his own child to participate in this matter.
As for whether they were deliberately involved in this matter to expose her, the possibility is infinitesimally close to zero.
Her words dampened the spirits of the group.
Finally, Wang Guangying said, "Then let's do our best and treat planting as a learning experience."
It would be even better if one day we could increase crop yields.
"By the way, Lele, I see that the vegetables you grow are growing very well and the yield is very high. How do you do it?"
Uh, shall I tell you that I used seeds produced on a farm?
However, she still shared her analysis, saying that the land was naturally fertile, and they had planted green manure and were very diligent, etc.
While they chatted, they didn't neglect their work at all.
Therefore, they completed the construction of the previously unfinished thatched hut in just over two hours.
The house is small; although it has three rooms and a kitchen, it only has a total area of about 40 square meters.
It was the first time that all of them had built a house themselves, and although it was just a thatched hut, they used the materials available on the spot.
But once it was built, a sense of pride welled up in their hearts, because they had built the house with their own hands!
"It would be even more perfect if we could bring some furniture later, especially the kitchen, we definitely need to build a stove!"
Wang Guangying looked at it several times before finally summarizing.
Liu Shile wholeheartedly supports this move; otherwise, why would she have planned the kitchen's location from the very beginning?
Liu Shihua and Wang Guangjie had no objections. Farming is not an easy job, and it's nice to have a hot meal after a hard day's work.
So they happily decided to find a way to build a stove, but that wouldn't work today, since none of them knew how, and they could only go back and ask others.
Liu Shile does know how, but she won't say it out loud; she's already revealed enough.
So, she needs to keep a low profile from now on.
After the group finished building the house, they didn't rest. That's the good thing about having good physical strength; although working can be tiring, your endurance is really strong.
There are about two acres of finely cultivated land here, and a few acres of rough land that needs to have the stones of various sizes removed before it is carefully plowed.
Big White and Little White are very capable; they can drag the stones on their backs to a fixed location.
Wang Guangying felt a pang of heartache. That beast was the king of beasts, yet now it was working as hard as an ox!