Chapter 316: Working Animals

As soon as Siming got off the car, he went to the back of the truck and saw Juanjuan with a frown on her face, covering her little butt.

He suppressed his laughter and carried her down: "It must be painful!"

"Yeah. The truck is so bumpy." Juanjuan now feels the pain in her little butt.

Si Jinchen watched with a smile on his face from the side.

"You are naughty and curious about everything." Miao Jiu walked to her and poked her little face with his hand.

"Will you sit here again next time?" Old Madam Si looked at her with a smile.

"It's still possible to sit on it with a cushion." Juanjuan analyzed it seriously.

Her words made everyone laugh.

When Jiang Ze saw them coming, he quickly brought people over to help them take the things down.

Mother Wu delivered the things she brought to the yard where Jiang Ze lived, and planned to prepare food for everyone there in a while.

Si Ning and Jian Menglan went to help her, as did several women from the common people's families.

"Let's go, let's go to the fields and take a look." Siming held Juanjuan and walked towards the edge of the field.

The people were all waiting here, and when they saw them coming, they hurriedly greeted them.

Sima Ming exempted them from these formalities and saw that the fields were already full of rice ears, weighing down the rice stalks so much that they were almost hanging to the ground.

This was something they had never seen before.

"How do you take care of them?" He put Juanjuan down, squatted down and reached out to touch the rice ears.

Every ear of rice is heavy, not even a single grain is empty.

This is simply unbelievable.

Ling Li walked over to him and squatted down: "General, this field is the most amazing land I have ever seen."

"The rice fields are growing faster than we realize, and we don't know whether to apply fertilizer or what to do."

Siming turned to look at him: "Don't know?"

Ling Li nodded. "In theory, we should be fertilizing, weeding, and getting rid of insects. But it seems we don't have to do any of this."

"You don't have to do it anymore?" Miao Jiu also squatted next to them.

"Master Jiu, do you still remember the little fish I threw into the field before?" Ling Li said with a smile when he saw him.

"I remember!" Miao Jiu remembered the small fish he caught while fishing.

Ling Li pointed to the fish growing in the fields and said, "They're completely responsible for weeding and pest control. The rice fields are already fertile, so we don't have a chance to fertilize them."

"So when we had nothing to do, we would sit by the rice fields every day and look at them. One day, someone brought up the idea of ​​pollination, and we thought about trying artificial pollination to see if we could increase yields."

"So this is the result of artificial pollination?" Siming looked at the rice field in front of him.

"We don't know if it is true. We might not have had time to think about these things before, but now that we have free time, we want to give it a try." Ling Li smiled naively.

The wrinkles on his face became more obvious, revealing his simplicity.

"Good try. Let's verify your gains together." Siming praised with a smile.

"Okay, okay." Ling Li immediately said with a smile.

Everyone is familiar with harvesting rice fields, except the three children.

Children from ordinary families did not participate in the harvest, for fear that the sickles would hurt them. They were just asked to hold small baskets and pick up the fallen rice ears.

Juanjuan, Si Jinchen, and Liu Yueya were each given a small basket. They followed the adults and picked up the rice ears that fell on the ground after they finished harvesting.

Songsongruanruan was holding a basket in his mouth, with chicks following beside him.

The chick was responsible for picking up the fallen rice ears and throwing them into the basket that Songsongruanruan was holding.

The people were stunned. They thought these chickens were brought for food, but they found out that these chicks were used for work.

Are all the animals in the Governor's Mansion so rebellious now?

Even the animals have to start working.

The dog's mouth opened wide: "Achen, aren't your chickens meant for eating?"

"No, they are our family. And they are very capable. They can pick seeds, catch insects, and protect the house." Si Jinchen found that after saying this, the chicks at home were so outstanding.

"That's amazing! The chickens we raise are all for laying eggs. If they stop laying eggs, we sell them for money." Goudan felt that the chickens they raised were different.

"They work very hard to lay eggs." Si Jinchen looked at them with a smile.

Whoever's chicks can lay two eggs a day, their chicks are the best.

The people had to say that the governor was really amazing and could even train animals so well.

After everyone finishes harvesting, ox carts will be used to thresh and dry the crops.

Everyone can find something suitable to do. At lunch, Wu Ma and others prepared a very sumptuous meal.

There is rice, meat, vegetables, and fish.

This fish was naturally thrown into the rice field and raised there before. It has grown up now. I don’t know if it’s because of the soil.

The fish raised here grow very fast. Although they are not very big, they are already edible.

People can only have such a sumptuous meal during the Chinese New Year, and what we had at noon today is comparable to the Chinese New Year.

Everyone has a happy smile on their face.

Mother Wu also prepared sour plum soup for them, which was icy and refreshing and very thirst-quenching and summer-heat-relief.

Ling Li sat next to Siming and said, "Commander-in-Chief, the rice fields are growing much faster than normal. What should we plant after the harvest?"

Siming turned to look at him: "Do you have any suggestions?"

"Usually we tend the land after harvest, planting beans, rhododendrons, and ryegrass. But now that harvest is so early, I'm a little unsure what to plant."

What Ling Li said was true.

According to their usual planting practices, they can plant a crop of beans, and after the harvest, the stems and leaves will be burned as fertilizer.

This improves the soil and reduces fertilizer use.

It just seems a little early to plant now.

Madam Si also knows about farming: "We can plant beans first, harvest a wave, and then plant some vegetables. This should be enough for winter."

“We can try winter wheat, although we don’t know if it will work.”

They had never grown winter wheat before, but someone in the newspaper had mentioned it, so she came up with the idea.

"I think the old lady's idea is worth a try. If we can grow it, we can get another harvest. If we can't grow it, it doesn't matter. We can burn it in the spring and use it as fertilizer."

Ling Li nodded in agreement.

A group of children were eating while surrounding Song Song Ruan Ruan and Ji Zai Zai.

It’s just that Songsong has a bad temper and doesn’t let them get close. He runs between Si Jinchen and Juanjuan, and bares his teeth at anyone who comes.

Ruanruan and Jizizi have slightly better personalities, but they are still good to watch but not easy to play with.

Once you get started, they'll turn against you.

So a group of children squatted near them with bowls in their hands and just watched them.

After eating and drinking their fill, everyone decided to work harder to harvest more crops from the fields.

Si Ning looked up and saw a familiar figure.