Chapter 104 Don’t Be Brave
I'm no longer annoyed, but I can't miss any of the jokes I have to watch.
Sang Zhixia did not hide her desire to see the slap in the face. She drove the plowing ox out of the field and even raised her eyebrows and smiled at Xu Yu in a good mood.
"See, I told you not to act tough."
Who told you to brag?
If she had not thought about the difficulty of tilling the wasteland that had been abandoned for many years and made preparations in advance, would she have been in trouble today?
Xu Yu learned his lesson and nodded seriously: "You are right, showing off is really not a good idea."
After saying this, he showed a good attitude of admitting his mistakes, patted the mud off his hands and strode over: "Come on, come on, give it to me."
He lifted the heavy plow with one hand, whistled lazily, and said, "Let me accompany Brother Ox on this journey."
Sang Zhixia didn't argue for the credit, but leaned aside and jokingly said, "Can you use a plow?"
"Even if I haven't eaten pork, have I never seen a pig run?"
Xu Yu spoke without much thought, blurting out, "Even in the imperial capital, spring plowing is a major event for the royal family and officials every year. My grandfather was the chief plowman for many years. Back then, I always saw him following behind the royal family, holding the plow and harrow in the fields."
After saying this, Sang Zhixia couldn't laugh anymore.
Even the old man who was smiling didn't want to smile anymore.
Uncle Xu thought about what Xu Yu had been saying, and said with mixed feelings, "Are you saying, have you ever seen a pig run?"
Just like an old man holding a plow and digging in the ground?
Xu Yu opened his mouth and fell silent.
The old man looked at him expressionlessly, and finally snorted in a half-smile.
"You are worthy of being my eldest grandson."
Comparing one's own grandfather to a pig is something that someone who is not so close to him would never say.
Xu Yu, who had been speaking outrageously, was completely speechless with a blank expression. Sang Zhixia struggled to suppress her laughter and said to Uncle Xu, who was watching the joke with amusement, "Uncle, I'm afraid Grandfather has something to say to Xu Yu. Let's go over there and take a look at the ditch where the water is released."
Uncle Xu sighed with regret, and before leaving, he gave Xu Yu a sympathetic look, telling him to take care of himself.
The old man seems to have a better temper now, and he is easier to talk to Sang Zhixia and the kids.
But only Uncle Xu Sanshu and Xu Yu knew that the way the old man taught his rebellious descendants was just one sentence: Thunder shatters stupidity.
Xu Yu will inevitably have to pay the price for his inappropriate remarks.
Half a day later, Sang Zhixia looked at the soft soil that had been thoroughly turned over, even plowed deeper than he had expected, and his eyes were full of smiles.
Facts have proved that even though Xu Yu looks as strong as an ox, there is still an unbridgeable gap between him and the ox in terms of professionalism in plowing land.
The rented cow was returned by Uncle Xu San, and everyone went home. As soon as they entered the house, Sang Zhixia couldn't help but move closer to Xu Yu out of curiosity.
She whispered, "Grandfather told you not to forget what he told you. What did he tell you?"
To be more precise, she wanted to know more about how the old man dealt with Xu Yu.
Xu Yu looked at her with complicated eyes: "Is my liveliness so beautiful?"
Sang Zhixia replied with a sincere face: "It's mainly because your lively behavior is always very interesting."
Whether it was drunken misconduct or being fined, regardless of the consequences or the process, each outcome was quite unexpected.
It's quite interesting.
Faced with Sang Zhixia's undisguised curiosity, Xu Yu's face twitched silently.
He glanced around to make sure no one was paying attention, then waved mysteriously at Sang Zhixia, "Come closer, and I'll tell you something."
Sang Zhixia didn't realize it was a trick and moved closer excitedly. What echoed in her ears was Xu Yu's deliberately sweet voice: "Want to know?"
Sang Zhixia nodded hurriedly.
"If you want to know, just kiss me."
Xu Yu pointed at his own face with ill intent and said in a voice that only Sang Zhixia could hear: "Kiss me and I'll tell you everything."
"Forget about the content, even the tone, pauses, and subtext are exactly the same as yours."
Countless black lines slid down Sang Zhixia's forehead, and she decisively took half a step back to increase the distance between herself and Xu Yu.
A moment later, under Xu Yu's teasing gaze, she pointed her index finger at him in the air and calmly commented: "You donkey, you deserve it."
Xu Yu, who was wearing a donkey's head, laughed silently. Sang Zhixia left him behind and ran away.
I'm busy, I can't bother with the donkey.
Before going to the village chief's field to help the next day, Sang Zhixia took Xu Yu and set out half an hour early. They followed the newly dug canal and poured water into the prepared rice fields, which was just enough to cover their wrists.
Xu Yu had seen the old man pretend to plow the field, but he had never seen the subsequent process. On the way over, he asked curiously, "Don't they need to add water when planting wheat?"
"No, rice needs a lot of water to grow, hence the name rice. Wheat doesn't need that."
"You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. The requirements and details of growing these two kinds of grains are different, so we should take them one by one."
Xu Yu hummed thoughtfully, stroking his chin, and said, "I thought you divided the land into plots so that you could plant the two crops together."
"How could that be?"
Sang Zhixia saw the clarity in his eyes that showed he was oblivious to the details of farming, and said with amusement, "It's true that you can try to intersperse and stagger the planting of different crops. This way, you can avoid the peak growth periods when different crops compete for soil nutrients. This way, you can grow different things on the same piece of soil. And not only can you grow grains and vegetables, but in special places, you can even raise some living things."
Xu Yu blinked: "For example?"
"For example, you can put a batch of fish fry in a rice field. When the rice crop is ripe and ready for harvest, the fish fry that were put in with the rice seedlings will also grow up."
"The small fish are raised in rice paddies and feed on rice flowers and leaves. When cooked, the fish itself has a unique aroma of rice flowers. Fish raised in rice paddies are also called rice flower fish. It is said that they are quite expensive to buy."
Sang Zhixia pointed to the remaining corn stalks on a roadside field and said, "In addition to raising fish in rice fields, this kind of corn field can also be used for intercropping."
"Corn fields can be interplanted with soybeans, corn fields can be interplanted with sweet potatoes, and wheat fields can be interplanted with peanuts, corn, soybeans, etc. In short, the principle of interplanting is the three ones."
She held up three fingers and said, "One tall, one short, one wide, one narrow, one morning, one evening."
"As long as we grasp these three ones, we can achieve dual uses on one piece of land by directly intercropping and staggering the growing season and the mature harvest period, without affecting the yield."
She had worked so hard to build the greenhouse, so she couldn't just wait for time to pass by and only produce one kind of thing on the land.
How uneconomical is that?
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