On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, Mangzhong estimated the time when Tian An would get up, and went to Tian An's room with hot water for washing his face and a new dress.
When Tian An saw the new dress, he knew without hesitation that it was prepared by Da Niu.
Ever since she said that girls like surprises and gifts, Da Niu would prepare gifts for her on every festival or important day, and he seemed particularly keen on preparing dresses.
The dress, which is a combination of white and emerald green, is embroidered with leaf veins in a darker color, imitating the look of zong leaves, which is fresh and beautiful.
After Tian An packed up, he took Chun Xi to the homestead.
The houses are almost built, and Tian An is preparing to divide the houses among everyone again.
After arriving at the homestead, still in the same warehouse as last time, Tian An sat at the table, flipping through the black and red lists in his hand, and finally picked out eight families.
When Tian An went to give Peng Zhang a holiday gift yesterday, he ordered more than 40 pieces of coarse cloth from him, intending to give them as gifts to the farmhands for moving into their new home.
Each family that received a house was given two horses, and the number of horses for the families that received houses last time was also increased.
As for those who haven't been allocated houses yet, they can keep it first and come back to get it when they are allocated houses.
Then he took out the account book and settled the wages of the villagers who worked in the workshop. After the money was settled, everyone could celebrate the festival.
When they finished their work and returned home, Chen Feng had already taken Xiaokang to cut mugwort and calamus and put them on the door.
Tian An took out several colorful bracelets that he had made for Chun Xi. Except for the one that Chen Feng let him wear himself, he put the others on them personally.
After they finished wearing the bracelets, Mangzhong also took out a bracelet and gave it to Tian An. Everyone then realized that Tian An had made bracelets for everyone but forgot his own. Fortunately, Mangzhong was careful.
For lunch, my family simply fried two vegetarian dishes and two meat dishes, and the staple foods were braised eggs and rice dumplings.
The main meal during the Dragon Boat Festival here is dinner, so we just have to make do with something at noon.
After lunch, Tian An changed into comfortable clothes, took a small shovel and went to inspect the fields. She spent little time at home, so she wanted to take advantage of the free time to check on the crops in the fields.
Since the rain during the Qingming Festival, the seedlings in the fields have been irrigated and are growing green and tall.
With rainwater irrigation, there is no need for manpower to fetch water from the river to irrigate the fields. Everyone has free time to weed and apply fertilizer.
The weeds in the dry land were removed completely, the subsequent fertility was also improved, and the crop yield naturally increased.
After calculating the time, Tian An found the land where he had planted potatoes before, picked up a potato rhizome that had turned slightly yellow and pulled it out.
Then use a small shovel to tentatively dig up the surrounding soil little by little. The closer you get to the potatoes, the more careful you have to be, otherwise if the potatoes are dug up, they will be difficult to preserve.
Of course, Tian An just wanted to take a look at it first and dig some to eat. It didn’t matter even if it got broken.
Tian An was squatting and digging potatoes with a grunt. The patrolman in the distance saw a head in the ground and immediately thought that someone was coming to steal.
He quietly approached and then shouted, "Who are you? How dare you steal things in broad daylight?"
"Ouch"
Tian An was so frightened by the loud noise that he fell to the ground.
The person in charge of patrol at this time was a young man of about seventeen or eighteen years old. The young man was about to catch someone, but when he walked forward, he found that it was his master. He was embarrassed.
The young man rubbed the back of his head and stuttered, "Girl, I, I thought it was a thief who came to steal things, thief! How, how could it be you!"
Looking at the frightened young man who stuttered, Tian An said speechlessly: "The voice just now was strong and smooth. It was me who was frightened, why did you become stuttering instead?"
After saying that, he stood up, clapped his hands, and shook off the mud on his body.
Seeing the young man still standing there at a loss, Tian An suppressed a smile and said, "Good patrol, keep it up!"
The young man grinned like a fool when he heard that.
Tian An was almost exhausted: "Okay, stop standing there grinning, and go find me something to hold these potatoes."
The young man responded loudly, "Okay!" and ran away.
Tian An just looked at him there, and then he ran back, touching his head. When he passed by Tian An, he said awkwardly: "Run, you're running in the wrong direction."
Tian An shook his head and continued to squat down to dig potatoes. Because of the high-fertility soil in the space and the timely weeding and fertilization in the later stage, the potato harvest was not bad.
This batch of potatoes probably weighed about 4 or 5 kilograms, and by the time the harvest was ready in a month or so, there would be at least 5 or 6 kilograms! Although not as high as in later generations, it was about the same in an era without chemical fertilizers.
When we plant again next year, we can use the seeds in the space. Tian An has already harvested a lot of potatoes from the land in the space, and planting them next year will increase the yield.
After digging the potatoes, Tian An didn't have to wait long before the young man came back with two lotus leaves. After wrapping the potatoes in the lotus leaves, Tian An chatted with him casually as they walked.
"When you get back, tell the old man in charge of this field to pay more attention in the near future. Once he finds that the potatoes are ready to be dug, he should choose a time to organize everyone to harvest them."
The young man nodded and said, "Okay girl, I'll take note of it. I'll go find someone when I get back."
Tian An looked at the lotus leaf wrapped with potatoes and said, "Give me the potatoes, and go do your work! I'll go check on the lotus pond again."
The young man said hello, handed the potatoes to Tian An and ran away.
When Tian An arrived at the lotus pond, Old Man Fang, who was in charge of the lotus pond, happened to be there too.
Seeing Tian An, he hurried over to greet her: "Miss, why are you here? Is there anything I can tell you?"
Tian An smiled and said, "Oh! Nothing, I was busy recently. Today I have some time, so I came to take a look at the fields and also to the lotus pond. How is the lotus pond?"
Old Man Fang said quickly, "Don't worry, girl, everything is fine. It has already started to bloom!"
Tian An picked a few more lotus leaves and looked at them carefully. He said, "It's time to organize people to pick the lotus leaves. Don't pick those that are too old or too tender..."
After giving all the instructions, Tian An went back happily holding the potatoes and lotus leaves. The crops in the field began to be harvested. After paying back the grain seeds to the county government, she would be debt-free.
Today is a good day! I need to treat myself to a good meal tonight.
When Tian An arrived home, he happened to see Peng Zhang coming in: "Tsk tsk, do you have a dog nose? You knew I was going to make something delicious today, so you came running."
Peng Zhang's attention was focused on "I'm going to make something delicious today." Yes, it was "I," not "my family." When had Tian An's cooking ever disappointed anyone?
Suddenly, my eyes lit up. Today is a good day to go out! I really came to the right place.
He stopped arguing with Tian An and chased her, asking, "What delicious food did you make? How delicious is it? Is it better than braised pork?"
"you guess……"
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