Chapter 502 Remuneration
Zhao Yeqing cried out "Ah!" Damn it, the livestock remembered, but forgot that the silkworms still needed to be fed.
I didn't feed him this morning, and I didn't clean up the mulberry leaves I fed him before I went out yesterday.
Without even bothering to greet his assistant, he ran outside to pick some mulberry leaves to feed the silkworms.
The assistant sighed, this family was living a much more wonderful life than they had imagined.
Zhao Yeqing finished feeding the silkworms and looked at her assistant's complicated eyes. She seemed to have misunderstood and blinked and asked:
"Do you want silkworms?"
The assistant almost nodded, but then he thought that he probably couldn't spare the manpower to raise silkworms, and he also had to plant mulberry trees...
He shook his head: "For now, let's wait until things get better in the future."
Zhao Yeqing understood: "Then you can come back and ask me for it when the time comes."
They visited the vegetable garden with a full range of varieties. This time the assistant did not show any surprise at all, but only praised Zhao Yeqing for his good planting.
When seeing them off, Zhao Yeqing gave each of them a large pot of boiled milk, and even gave the assistant a small box of butter.
"Now your lover can make small cakes."
The assistant was not polite. When he mentioned his lover, his eyes softened instantly. He said to the two of them, "Next time you go to the city, if the time is right, my wife and I will treat you to a meal at home."
Relationships only deepen when there is give and take. Zhao Yeqing nodded: "I will definitely do it next time."
"You still have part of your reward, which I will give to you when you come to the city again."
The cargo plane rose into the sky until it was out of sight, and then the two returned to the house.
Zhao Yeqing couldn't wait to open the big bags and boxes containing things and took them out and sorted them out one by one.
In addition to what they had exchanged before, there were also things that the two of them exchanged for cattle and sheep. Most of them were officially sold items, such as: salt, sugar, oyster sauce, MSG, hand sanitizer, shampoo...this type of food and daily necessities.
There were also various pesticides and fertilizers that Zhao Yeqing had wanted to buy before but hadn't been able to, as well as some hardware parts and materials such as nails, wire, paint...
There are also pure white plastic pipes, long and thick, placed in the yard.
These were loaded on the cargo plane when it came and transported them back. The bamboo waterways used in the yard have to be replaced every year or so, otherwise they will easily grow moss or get moldy in the hot and humid weather.
Now we have replaced it with plastic pipes, which can be used for many years without the need for repair.
There is also the pigpen sewer that she had always wanted to rebuild. Now she has the materials, and she will be able to drain the dirt directly into the septic tank.
Zhao Yeqing planned to ask if there were any experienced construction workers in the city next time he went there to ask for advice on how to better build the biogas digester.
Among the things sent from the city this time, the one that they liked most was probably the official customized retractable shed.
This was the largest item among all the rewards for the cattle and sheep. Many metal brackets were tied together and placed on the grass outside the yard. Originally, they said they would help install them before leaving, but the two men refused. They could do this little work themselves.
The installation is not difficult. Metal pillars are inserted around the grain field and covered with adjustable shed panels.
This thing is extremely flexible. At that time, the assistant carefully asked Zhao Yeqing about the size and shape of their grain fields. When he learned that each plot of land was about half an acre and was the most convenient square plot, he breathed a sigh of relief and immediately asked someone to deliver a retractable greenhouse of the right size.
Each shed is the size of half an acre of land. There are buttons on the side pillars. Normally, the sheds are retracted into the storage box at the edge. If there is heavy rain, you only need to press the button gently, and the shed boards in the box will be pushed out to cover the half acre of grain field.
There are two buttons on the shed for adjustment. One is the fully transparent mode, which can be used when it rains. It can block the rain without filtering out too much sunlight.
One is a translucent mode, suitable for summer when the sun is at its highest.
Originally, this thing was designed to adapt to the extremely bad weather before, but it was unexpected that the sky would become dark not long after it was designed, and it remained dark for the whole year.
When the day comes again, the weather has improved and most of the sheds are no longer needed. They are usually only used in greenhouses where vegetables are grown.
These will just gather dust if left there, so it's suitable to give them to Zhao Yeqing and his team on the grain field where there's no shelter on the meadow and the ultraviolet rays are strong.
The two of them installed it on a piece of land first and found that this thing was indeed easy to use, with flexible usage scenarios. It was also easy to fold it up when not in use, just by pressing a button.
Now we don’t have to worry about the tender seedlings being knocked down by the rain when it rains.
There is no need to worry that the crops grown every year will not survive the scorching summer sun and have to be planted a month or two earlier.
After all, the higher the altitude, the stronger the ultraviolet rays.
Sprinklers can also be installed on the support of the telescopic greenhouse to water the grain field regularly.
Zhao Yeqing did not install it. The electrical circuits and water pipes in her home were self-built and could not handle such a heavy workload. It was just watering, so she politely declined the sprinkler they gave her. She just asked them for a few more faucets, hard thin water pipes and extra-long plastic hoses so that she could water the plants conveniently.
After Mu Xi installed the first retractable greenhouse, he felt that it was not difficult, so he told Zhao Yeqing that he could do it himself.
Zhao Yeqing let go and handed the work to Mu Xi. She still had to go back to prepare the pesticide solution.
Natural vegetables grown without pesticides are of course good, but growing cash crops like cotton without using pesticides is simply an act of self-abuse.
When planting cotton, no medicine was used to soak the seeds, and no pesticides were used to kill insects in the fields. If no intervention is made now, subsequent work will be even more troublesome.
Fortunately, the two had planted garlic in the cotton field before, and the initial aphids were effectively suppressed.
Zhao Yeqing, who has many years of experience in growing various beans without using pesticides, did not take care of them. He just added some farm manure and let them grow slowly on their own.
The newly bought agricultural books at home happened to include cotton planting techniques. It wasn't just a coincidence, but Mu Xi specially selected it from several books. In addition to cotton, there are also books on the planting of mulberry trees. However, since they are not suitable for the balcony party that is popular in the city now, most of them are cash crops, so Mu Xi only spent one dollar to buy it.
It talks about the various fertilizers and pesticides that need to be applied during the early and middle growth periods of cotton.
Zhao Yeqing had no worries when spraying pesticides on this non-edible crop.
With the help of the agricultural sprayer provided by the assistant this time, it will not take long to spray the pesticide on half an acre of land.
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