Chapter 152: Lu Miao, the shining point
"What?"
Chen Guifen was stunned, her eyes wide open.
Make fertilizer?
How do I get this fertilizer?
Lu Miao became excited, grabbed her hand, and hurried back along the ridge of the field:
"Come on, Auntie! I suddenly had a good idea! Let's go back quickly. I still need to do some calculations!"
"What the hell are you..."
Chen Guifen followed her back helplessly, frowning, her heart full of confusion.
Isn’t fertilizer just manure?
Manure has to be transported by people and animals!
How can it be manufactured?
Could it be some new type of urea fertilizer?
But urea fertilizer comes in individual grains, and we don’t know what the ingredients are. How can it be produced?
Just do some math...can you make fertilizer?
Chen Guifen was extremely conflicted, feeling both confused and expectant.
I hoped that Lu Miao could make fertilizer, but I felt that this was too unbelievable and didn't dare to pin my hopes on it.
"Didn't you say that composting takes a long time? Why don't we just shorten the fermentation time?"
Lu Miao's heart was surging, and his passion was hard to conceal:
"The time is shortened, the number of times is increased, and the fermentation is repeated several times. Even if the fertilizer is still insufficient, it will be better than before!"
"You kid, why does it take so long to ferment? It's because if it's too short, the fermentation won't be good! If you just make it prematurely, you'll burn the seedlings!"
Hearing what Lu Miao said, Chen Guifen sighed:
"Besides, most of the fertilizer the team ferments is manure. We don't even have enough manure as raw material, so how can we increase the frequency and quantity?"
Chen Guifen shook her head repeatedly, no longer holding any hope for this matter, and even slowed down her pace.
Lu Miao couldn't pull her, so he just let go and stomped his feet:
"Who says fertilizer can only be made from fermented manure? Kitchen waste, rotten vegetable leaves... even those hard stems left in the pigpen that the pigs don't eat, when they're all flushed into the manure pit, don't they all ferment together?"
"What's that?"
Chen Guifen waved her hands and continued to shake her head:
"Forget it, Lu Miao, stop messing around. Come back with auntie to make dinner. I'll boil eggs for you tonight. Let's go home."
Listen to the tone of disbelief, listen to the tone of coaxing a child.
Lu Miao pouted and started to get stubborn again:
"I'm not going back, I'm going home!"
Lu Miao stomped his feet and ran home with his head down.
"Lu Miao, Lu Miao!"
Chen Guifen chased for a while, but after all, she was over 40 years old, how could she really catch up with a girl of 18 or 19?
Chen Guifen carried a hoe and shouted for a while, but she still couldn't catch up with Lu Miao.
Sighing helplessly, Chen Guifen carried her hoe and went home.
I was thinking of making dinner in the evening and bringing it back to Lu Miao.
…
On the other side, Lu Miao returned to the Fu family.
Lu Miao was a little frustrated that she didn't get Chen Guifen's trust, but this did not dampen her enthusiasm.
If you think about it, you can understand it.
If fertilizer is really that easy to make, can it still be a "problem"?
But then again, just because other people at this time are not capable doesn’t mean she is not capable.
When it comes to physical labor, she can't compare to others.
She didn't have much patience to watch some of the miscellaneous and detailed work.
But when it comes to brainpower and knowledge, not to mention how many people in this era can compare to her, at least there is no one in Dahe Village at the moment.
Others don't believe her, so she has to make a name for herself!
After entering the house, Lu Miao put on his hat and picked up a sickle. He cleared out the broken basket in the kitchen that was usually used to store dead branches, leaves and other fire starters, and went to the side of the house to start working.
Most of the side and back of the Fu family's house is surrounded by bamboo forests, but there are trees on both sides of the house and in front of the door.
There are all kinds of trees, such as Chinese toon, stinking toon, mulberry, etc.
Where there are big trees, there are small trees; where there are tall trees, there are short ones.
There is actually a large area of ivy climbing the wall on the side of the house, which is very suitable for making fermented fertilizer.
Lu Miao tried, but the ivy was too large and she couldn't pull it out no matter how hard she tried. She was also afraid that forcibly pulling it out would damage the tiles on the eaves, so she simply gave up.
She could only turn around and start collecting from the lower leaves. The thick leaves with high water content and the small branches were her targets.
As autumn approaches and the weather gradually gets colder, you no longer have to worry about insects or snakes. When collecting, you can also clean the side of the house at the same time.
I worked myself to the bone and sweated profusely, but I managed to collect two baskets of branches and leaves, which were far from enough.
Lu Miao found a vacant space next to the jujube tree in front of the door and temporarily gathered the fresh leaves there.
It was gradually getting dark. There were many tree branches beside the house. Lu Miao was afraid of poking his eyes, so he didn't go there anymore. Instead, he turned around and dragged the basket to the bamboo forest behind the house and collected a lot of dry bamboo leaves.
She usually does little work, and when she does work seriously, she works slowly and not necessarily much faster.
After working so hard, I was almost exhausted, and there were two small lumps of dry and wet stuff piled up at the door.
At that time, she was sitting on the doorstep wiping her sweat and breathing heavily, when Chen Guifen came to deliver her food.
Lu Miao's blue flowered jacket looked as black as anything else, and his face was also pitch black.
Chen Guifen was startled and thought she had fallen into a mud pit and rolled around.
"Lu Miao, what's wrong with you?"
Chen Guifen walked over quickly, shouting.
Seeing her nervous look, Lu Miao pointed helplessly at the two piles of leaves in front of the door:
"Aunt, I'm fine. I just did that and I got a little dirty."
Chen Guifen took a glance and said with a sigh:
"Why are you doing all that for no reason?"
Thinking about what happened in the afternoon, Chen Guifen's eyes widened again and she opened her mouth to ask:
"Are you asking about the fertilizer?"
Lu Miao nodded and smiled:
"Aunt, let me try it first. If I get some results, I'll explain it to you then."
It would be easier to talk if we had actual results. Now we have nothing at hand, and Chen Guifen will definitely not understand if we only talk about theory.
Lu Miao is a spoiled person at heart. If you ask her to do something, she may not be willing to do it.
But once she asked Zhen'er to do something, she must have some plan in mind.
Chen Guifen nodded helplessly, and a little hope rose in her heart:
"Go wash your hands and face, and eat first! Is there anything else you need? I'll get it for you."
Lu Miao got up and went to the house to fetch water to wash his face. During this time, he raised his voice and said:
"No need, Auntie. I can do it myself. If you have any vegetable stems or stalks that even pigs won't eat or can't eat, don't throw them away. Bring them to me."
If there were enough rotten vegetable leaves or something, she wouldn't have to go through the trouble of collecting leaves or something.
Chen Guifen nodded and said, "Can it only be vegetable stems or stalks? Or melons?"
There was a rotten pumpkin at home, and Chen Guifen originally wanted to try to see if she could peel out some good pieces to continue eating.
I thought it best to forget it. I don’t want to make the person sick, otherwise I will end up losing more than I gain.
Lu Miao nodded immediately, "Okay, of course!"
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