To the south of the village is a botanical garden. Beyond the botanical garden, besides a concentrated plant viewing area, there is a rose garden; a peach grove, but there are no peach blossoms this season, so it's not much to see; there is also a ginkgo forest, with only lush green ginkgo leaves; and a maple forest, also lush green, but it's not the season yet, so you can't see the fiery red maple leaves.
The most popular spots in the rose garden are the rose pergola and the maze garden.
The rose corridor is similar to modern tourist attractions with flower corridors. The flowers are wild roses in many colors, and each color is divided into different sections of the corridor. The last section of the corridor is full of colorful roses, which is a feast for the eyes.
Outside the corridor are clusters of flowers and plants, which are originally wildflowers and weeds, but have been designed to be exceptionally elegant.
In some places, there is a large flower house covered with roses. There is an arched doorway in the middle of the house, and the door panel is also covered with plants. Once the door is closed, you can't find it unless you look carefully. When you open the door, you will find that there is no flower house at all, just a wall covered with flowers.
Even so, it still satisfies most people's girlish dreams, not to mention that there is indeed a real flower house, but it sells things inside.
All fake flower houses have one thing in common: although the climbing flowers are different, there is a large wooden barrel on both sides of the house, which is planted with unknown flowers. Next to the flower barrel is a wooden bench, and there is a grid-shaped window on the bench.
At that moment, a playful child stood on a bench, pried open the plants on the window, and laughed at the children resting and playing across the way.
At the end of the rose-covered corridor is a maze garden, designed in a square shape like a mosquito coil, with concentric bamboo fences forming the maze.
Wild roses climbed all over the fence. Once you went in, the only way out was to walk back. Because the fences were all designed in similar circles, it gave you the illusion that you had already walked through them before.
Because of Chen Kai's quirky sense of humor, he didn't tell the tourists that they could get out by simply walking back, so many people thought they could get out by just walking forward, and they kept walking forward, but the further they walked, the more they felt something was wrong.
Many timid people were so frightened that they cried halfway through, thinking they had encountered a ghost wall, which caused quite a few laughs.
Although Chen Kai did not reveal the secret of the maze, he arranged for staff to go in every now and then to bring out those who refused to go.
The maze used to have a haunted house, a modern replica of a haunted house, which really scared people.
So now, when many people visit Anping Village and run into their arch-nemesis, they'll say something like, "If you're so tough, why don't you go visit the haunted house!"
Behind the haunted house is a mountain, which Zhou Zhu has designated as a game area—a pre-written version of a puzzle-solving and survival game.
The starting point is always the same: a treasure exists in a ruined ancient kingdom. It is said that finding the treasure and following the guidance will awaken the sleeping princess and grant a huge fortune.
In layman's terms, finding the treasure and rescuing the princess is considered completing the game, and the so-called "great wealth" is just ten free tickets.
Entering to play a game costs fifty coins, which is nothing to rich people, but free tickets are a matter of face, and you can only get them after completing the game.
Two months later, Anping Village had a bumper harvest.
The chickens and ducks raised in the village have started laying eggs, and the rice harvest has been bountiful.
This year, Anping Village's harvest is much higher than in previous years, making it the village with the highest output in their county.
In the past, one mu of land yielded about one shi of grain, but in most cases it was less than one shi. However, one shi here is only about one hundred jin. In other words, one mu of land yields less than one hundred jin of grain. This yield is frighteningly low.
With the addition of various taxes, very little grain could actually remain in the hands of farmers.
This year, the grain yield in Anping Village was about 130 jin per mu, with the Chen family having the highest yield of 150 jin per mu, a figure that caused a sensation throughout the county.
Not only in Anping Village, but also in the farmland cultivated with the new plows this year, the yield reached one shi (a unit of dry measure), which is much higher than in previous years.
However, despite the bountiful harvest this year, the people of Anping Village still couldn't help but frown, because not a single drop of rain had fallen in the past two months.
Even the river water level has dropped a bit. I heard that some villages have even fought over water for irrigation.
Their village has waterwheels for irrigation, maximizing water utilization, so there's no need to fight for water.
Despite signs of drought, the number of people visiting Anping Village has not decreased and is even increasing.
Because the supply of chickens and ducks in Chishan Village has increased, several new dishes have been introduced: braised chicken, poached chicken, chestnut chicken, spicy chicken, roast duck, braised duck, and various braised chicken and duck products, such as braised chicken heads, duck heads, chicken necks, duck necks, duck wings, duck feet, and duck tongues...
There's also a new product from the workshop: the seed drill—an ancient version of an automatic seed planter.
The seed drill consists of three legs, hence the name "three-legged seed drill". The three-legged seed drill has three furrow openers at the bottom. When sowing, an ox pulls the seed drill, and the legs open furrows on the leveled land to sow the seeds. At the same time, it covers and compacts the soil, achieving multiple benefits in one go, saving time and labor. Therefore, its efficiency can reach "sowing one hectare per day".
The seed drill, used with a seed drill, is similar to a triangular plowshare but smaller, with a high ridge in the middle. It is 10 cm long and 8 cm wide. The drill bit is inserted into two holes on the back of the seed drill's feet and tightly tied to the crossbar. This drill penetrates 8 cm deep into the ground, and the seeds are scattered by the drill's feet, allowing for deep planting and significantly increasing yield. Land cultivated with a seed drill is as if plowed with a small plow.
Before the use of row seeders, seeds were sown by hand. This was extremely wasteful, often requiring half of the harvest to be saved for the following year. Seeds sown by broadcasting would clump together as plants grew, competing for water, sunlight, and nutrients, and there was also the unsolvable problem of weeding.
The emergence of the seed drill, such a powerful agricultural tool, once again caused a sensation in the Great Jin Kingdom.
Of course, the Chen family still operates as usual: if you want goods, they'll give them; if you want blueprints, they'll give them; what, you don't understand? No problem, they'll teach you step by step, just don't forget to pay.
At the Chen family home, Chen Kai and Xiao Tian stayed inside. Seeing that all the dolls had been sent away, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
They all wished they could be tied to their belts at all times, leaving them no freedom whatsoever.
Seeing that everyone had left, Chen Kai asked curiously, "Xiao Tian, what do you want to see me about?"
Xiao Tian replied, "I've thought about creating a spiritual object in your sea of consciousness, which is what you often call a cheat code."
Chen Kai leaned closer to Xiao Tian and whispered, "Can you cultivate now?"
Xiao Tian pushed Chen Kai away and said, "No, there is no spiritual energy here, so we can't cultivate."
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