Yu Lizheng said in surprise, "That's so embarrassing."
The old man had an excited expression on his face. He had already looked around the Shen family courtyard several times and felt that it was really different.
It hasn't been long since so many things were added to this small courtyard.
The half-worn tables, chairs and benches lay in the middle of the main room.
There is a room on one side of the corridor, which is a temporary open-air kitchen. Two large iron pots on the stove are bubbling with steam. On the small table on the inside, there are two stacks of clean bowls and plates, as well as a cutting board, knives, flint, chopsticks and other items.
On the ground beside it, there was first a large, clean vat with a half-covered lid, which was full of water.
There are also several vats of different sizes placed on one side, also covered with oilcloth.
On the other side of the corridor, many jars, sickles, hoes, machetes and other tools were placed on the clean wooden boards.
Two long clotheslines were placed next to the window, with the other end resting on the wall of the courtyard, hung with freshly washed clothes.
There are also many medicinal herbs and other things dried on the bamboo weavings.
In a corner of the courtyard wall near the entrance, the chopped firewood was stacked neatly.
Next to it was a cart, which was also filled with a lot of backpacks, bamboo baskets and other things. Although it was full, it was in order in a chaotic manner.
Although it rained last night, the yard was not muddy.
There were circles of marks on the ground from cart wheels, and the soil was compacted firmly and flatly.
The sounds of chickens, ducks and geese could be heard frequently from the backyard.
Yu Lizheng couldn't help but sigh, this family really knows how to live!
"Grandpa Yu, I asked you to come here because I want to show you something," Chen Xinli washed the dirt off her hands and walked towards the ridge of the field with the old man's support.
Shen Jinshan watched the old man and the child walking forward. He didn't know what his sister was going to do, so he followed behind because he was worried.
"Grandpa Yu, is there enough food this year?" Chen Xinli helped Yu Lizheng walk to the edge of the field and asked casually.
"Alas," Yu Lizheng sighed, "there's no way there's enough to eat. After paying the grain tax, most villagers have traded this year's new rice for coarse grains. We can only hope that God won't be so cruel next year. But what on earth do you want me to see, little girl?"
Yu Lizheng looked at Chen Xinli with some curiosity.
"Grandpa Yu, look, what's in this field?" Chen Xinli asked, pointing directly at the rice stalks in the field.
"What else could it be? It's just some rotten straw. No one has had the time to till the fields these days," Yu Lizheng said helplessly.
"Then take a look at what this is?" Chen Xinli carefully broke open a small rice sprout.
"These are rice ears, but they can't produce rice," Yu Lizheng stated the fact calmly.
“Grandpa Yu, have you heard of regenerated rice?”
Seeing the village head's bewilderment, Chen Xinli explained, "With sufficient sunlight, temperature, and water, the rice stubble will germinate a second time and produce rice."
"You mean this is regenerated rice? That's impossible, absolutely impossible!" Old Man Yu shook his head vigorously.
In the village head's opinion, there has never been a concept that rice can sprout again.
But the rice ears in the rice field in front of him had indeed sprouted. Yu Lizheng couldn't believe it. If these could turn into rice, how much grain would that produce?
Chen Xinli seemed to understand his thoughts and couldn't help but remind him, "Only half of the rice stalks have grown ears. Grandpa Yu, look, there are also many rice stalks with only leaves growing on them.
If water and fertilizer are guaranteed, even if the yield is only one-third of what it was before, it’s worth a try.”
"Really... is it really possible?" Yu Lizheng still couldn't believe it, and his trembling voice expressed his mood at the moment.
"Can……"
Before Chen Xinli could finish her words, she saw her father and her second uncle running down the mountain in a panic.
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