After a morning of harvesting, manual threshing is still not fast enough.
If Zhao Ruyun hadn't been there, Su Luo would have liked to take out her rice threshing machine from her spatial storage. After harvesting the rice, she could thresh it all by herself in less than half an hour.
Su Luo decided that in the future, when she buys more fields, she must modify a rice harvester to save time and effort, and make it something that the people here can easily accept.
Zhao Ruyun used a gourd ladle to scoop the rice into a basket, shoveling away the straw left on top, her mouth and eyes beaming with joy.
"This rice is really good, Luo Luo. I almost thought we would have no harvest this year because of the insect infestation."
This one mu of land can feed their family for half a year. Now, with such a harvest, Zhao Ruyun is already satisfied. Next year, she will plant rice on the three mu by the river so that they won't have to buy grain.
"This harvest isn't very good!"
Normally, one mu of rice can yield 1,000 jin, but this is not hybrid rice, so the yield is lower but still 800 jin.
This is Su Luo's prediction: after a plague of insects, there will be only about 600 jin left here.
"It's already very good to have this many."
The two carried a load back to the kiln. Yan Chuan and Yi Huan hadn't had enough fun yet, and neither of them wanted to go back.
"Mother-in-law, you can cook at home later. There's still some rice in the rice bed. I'll go and pick some more."
"Okay, later pour the millet onto the bamboo mat to dry, and you can pick it out when the basket is empty."
They had a simple breakfast, rested for a while, and then took Yan Chuan and Yi Huan to continue harvesting.
As they walked into the field, they saw Chen Ping'an and Liu Fangfang: "Uncle and Aunt, have you finished harvesting your two acres of land?"
Chen Pingan put down the rice bed and said, "The harvest is finished. There's only this one mu left. What about you?"
Su Luo: "We can finish collecting them today."
Looking at the golden fields, Chen Ping'an was overjoyed.
“Su Luo, you’re right. If you thin out the rice seedlings a bit, the rice yield will be higher. I didn’t listen to you on my two mu of land, and each mu only yielded about 500 jin.”
"Just looking at this one acre, you can estimate much more profit than those two acres. Uncle, next year I definitely want to learn how to manage it like you do."
Liu Fangfang patted Chen Ping'an on the shoulder from behind and said, "You should have listened to Su Luo a long time ago, otherwise our family could have had more than 300 jin of extra rice this year."
"I will definitely listen next year."
Chen Xiaoxiao also came with Chen Ping'an and the others. The adults were harvesting in the autumn, while the three children were catching grasshoppers and playing in the field.
Laughter filled the air, and the sounds of rice shoveling across the fields echoed louder and louder.
There were rustling sounds and the timbre of adults chatting happily.
However, there was one thing Su Luo couldn't understand. According to her calculations, they only had one mu of land, so it was normal for them not to have enough to eat. But Chen Ping'an's family had three mu of land, so why did they still need to eat broken rice?
However, Su Luo soon found out what was going on.
After a day of harvesting rice, my body was covered in rice dust and itchy, so after dinner I could only come to the river to bathe.
Fortunately, people in this era are conservative; otherwise, the riverbank would be packed with people at this time of night.
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Two days passed, and Zhao Ruyun got up early to make breakfast for the workers at the village entrance. During their two days off, Fan Gaocen cooked all the meals.
Yan Chuan and Yi Huan were also used to getting up early and followed Zhao Ruyun to the village entrance.
"Young Master Nangong, how long have you been here?"
Su Luo was too tired these past two days and hadn't even gotten up yet when she heard Zhao Ruyun's voice.
“Auntie, please forgive my intrusion. I came to see Su Luo, and without permission, I can only wait outside the fence.”
Nangong Qing is not only gentle and refined in appearance, but also polite, humble, and impeccably courteous.
"Luo Luo hasn't gotten up yet. Please wait a moment while I go and wake her up."
When Zhao Ruyun entered the kiln, Su Luo was already getting dressed.
"Luo Luo, Young Master Nangong and Ah Xu have arrived."
She stretched and said, "I heard you. Grandma, you take Yanchuan and Yihuan to the village entrance first."
"Hey! Hurry up, don't keep them waiting."
After saying that, Zhao Ruyun took her two children over there. The two dogs in the house had become the guard dogs at the entrance of the village, where there was always plenty of leftover food.
Su Luo came out and saw Nangong Qing and A Xu still waiting outside the fence. She said to them, "Come in."
The two men carried in four or five turnips and placed them in front of Su Luo.
"Su Luo, this is a turnip I personally obtained from Beiliang. I asked someone knowledgeable in plant management to look after it along the way. Now I'm handing it over to you."
Su Luo looked at the turnips they brought back. They had dug them up with the soil and roots still attached. They were still seedlings, and the leaves looked a bit like radish leaves.
It can survive as long as it is watered and the weather is not too hot.
“You’ve preserved it very well. Let me freshen up, and then we’ll go find rapeseed.”
Su Luo remembered that there were a few rapeseed plants about twenty meters away from the kiln, but now she saw that there was a lot of dog poop next to them, and the rapeseed plants had been eaten clean.
Ah Xu and Nangong Qing looked at Su Luo, and the three of them looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Lady Su, is this the rapeseed you mentioned?"
Ah Xu pointed to the base of the tree, which was surrounded by dog feces and was completely unrecognizable.
“This was done by Stone and Flower. Go and reason with them.”
"How could I possibly argue with a dog?"
Holding the sword to his chest, Ah Xu straightened his posture.
He and the young master went through so much trouble to bring back turnips from Beiliang, but Su Luo couldn't even keep an eye on a few wild vegetables. She's so unreliable.
"It seems we'll have to look elsewhere."
Both items were transplanted, and Nangong Qing was worried that they wouldn't survive.
"Then we can only go to those places in the mountains. Almost all the nearby areas have been dug up by the villagers to feed their chickens."
Su Luo was also helpless; she couldn't look after the two dogs every day.
Back at the kiln, Su Luo carried a basket on her back and a small hoe for digging vegetables.
Ah Xu was chased by Su Luo and Nangong Qing to wait for them outside the fence. When he came back, he accidentally picked up some dog poop and started cursing.
"Lady Su, eating your dog on the Winter Solstice is disgusting..."
Ah Xu now only wants revenge for the shit he was given.
Su Luo walked ahead of A Xu, then suddenly turned around and said coldly, "If you kill Yan Chuan and Yi Huan's dogs, I'll let you be their pets."
Ah Xu: "..."
He's not even as good as two dogs.
"My lord, if I am humiliated, then you are humiliated too..."
Nangong Qing waved his fan and said calmly, "Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you."
The three of them searched around but couldn't find any rapeseed, so they had to look further afield, especially at the foot of the mountain, where it tends to grow best near water.
As the three of them traveled together, Su Luo would dig up some herbs whenever she saw them.
In the blink of an eye, the two disappeared from Su Luo's sight.
"Ah Xu, Nangong Qing..."
They've been climbing the mountain for an hour now; hopefully, these two won't get lost.
The mountains are just ahead. Zhao Ruyun said there are large animals there, although Su Luo has never seen them.
However, we cannot deny that such primeval forests do not exist.
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