Early in the morning, Xu Jianguo woke up early. He had to go to work in the team today. The autumn planting had just ended. Weeding, irrigation, and fertilizing were all very important. He didn't want to give people a chance to talk about him, so he still had to do the work he had to do.
She steamed a few buns and made some seaweed dumpling soup, which she served with fried eggs and pickled mustard greens. Although it was simple, Funiu still enjoyed the meal very much.
After the little girl finished drinking a glass of milk after dinner and fed Xiao Hei some food, Xu Jianguo carried a bamboo basket and led Fu Niu towards the brigade headquarters.
As it was approaching the end of October, the temperature in the mountains dropped a lot. Xu Jianguo dug out his thick childhood clothes for Funiu to change into, so that the little girl would not catch a cold.
After arriving at the brigade headquarters, Xu Jianguo went directly to the farm tool warehouse, asked Li Meifeng for a hoe, and then went to work in the fields assigned to him by Li Mancang yesterday.
When they arrived at the edge of the field, Xu Jianguo put the backpack on the ridge, took out a wooden bench from it for Funniu to sit on, then used the health pot in the space to heat the well water to 50 degrees, took some honey, poured the prepared honey water into the military water bottle and gave it to Funniu.
Taking out a comic book bought at the government office, the little girl drank honey water while reading the book. Although she couldn't read yet, it didn't prevent her from enjoying her wonderful childhood. Her big eyes narrowed into crescent shapes again.
Looking at the green wheat seedlings in the field, Xu Jianguo went down to the field and started weeding. It took him a whole morning to clear all the weeds in the wheat field.
The original plan for the afternoon was to go to the team to pick up fertilizer and then apply it to the fields, but Xu Jianguo did not go. He thought of the space well water and wanted to try if it could have any surprising effect.
After looking at the surrounding fields, Xu Jianguo drew well water from the space and irrigated the wheat fields.
Not long after the space well water was poured into the wheat field, the wheat seedlings, which were originally only a dozen centimeters high, began to grow rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and only stopped when they grew to more than thirty centimeters.
Xu Jianguo was shocked and thought to himself that he was a little careless and had no way to explain it.
But since it has been done, let it be!
Just as he was about to return to the ridge of the field, he suddenly remembered something. In his previous life, when he visited the agricultural company under the group, an old expert from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences had talked to him about things in the 1950s and 1960s. He said that at that time our country did not have its own fertilizer technology, and farmers used ordinary farmyard manure, that is, manure, when farming.
When this old expert was working at the county agricultural bureau, he met an old farmer by chance and learned from him a method of using manure and straw to make fertilizer. Later, after experiments, this method achieved remarkable results and could fundamentally solve the problem of insufficient farmyard manure.
This method of composting is very simple. Dig a deep pit, then spread a layer of straw, and then a layer of manure. The manure can be anyone's, human, chicken, duck, goose, pig, cow or sheep.
When the manure and straw in the deep pit are spread to three-quarters, add water to the pit to wet the straw and manure, then cover the pit mouth, add water and stir regularly, and after a period of time, the fertilizer can be used.
After thinking about it, he decided to talk to Li Mancang and suggested that he give it a try first. If it was really feasible, he would try to promote it in the whole village.
At noon, Xu Jianguo used the space kitchen to make a big bowl of green bean and clam noodles for himself and Funiu. The broth was made with water from the space well. The little girl almost swallowed her tongue while eating it.
After lunch, Funiu returned the comic book to Xu Jianguo and said, "Haha, I've finished reading this comic book. Can you give me another one?"
"Of course!" Xu Jianguo took out another comic book and handed it to her, which made the little girl very happy.
In the afternoon, Xu Jianguo packed up his things and brought Funiu to the brigade headquarters.
Li Mancang saw Xu Jianguo come in and asked, "Uncle, I have something to tell you."
"Oh? What's up?"
"Look, when I went to the government office this time, I saw a book in the Xinhua Bookstore that specifically talked about composting. I think what it said makes a lot of sense, so I wanted to ask you to discuss it."
"Fertilizer? Come on, tell me!" Li Mancang's tone became urgent when he heard that it was related to grain.
Xu Jianguo relayed the words of the expert from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the method of composting to Li Mancang verbatim.
After listening to Xu Jianguo's story, Li Mancang did not speak in a hurry, but frowned, as if thinking about something.
After a moment, Li Mancang asked, "Jianguo, composting is a matter of vital importance to our village's grain production. How credible do you think the book says?"
"Uncle, I think it's very credible. I also specifically asked around and found that people in many places are already using this method. I think we can give it a try. If it succeeds, it will benefit the whole village. There are only about a hundred people in our village, and if we want to use fertilizer on all 200 acres of arable land, it won't be enough."
"Jianguo, to be honest, I can't make the decision on this matter alone. We need to hold a meeting to discuss it. After we come to a conclusion, I need to report it to the commune. After all, there is only so much manure stored in the village. If I use some of it to try a new composting method, it would be fine if it succeeds, but if it fails, I can't explain to the villagers. After all, it involves food, which is a big deal and cannot be taken lightly!" Li Mancang said.
"I understand. I just saw it said so in a book and thought it made sense, so I wanted to learn from you." Xu Jianguo said with some guilt.
"It's okay, uncle knows you mean well!" said Li Mancang.
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