The next day, after Li Lanzhen finished eating, she didn't pay attention to whether Han Shunde and his wife had already set off for Forget-Worry Valley.
She didn't take the oxcart; instead, she walked slowly towards the greenhouse vegetables.
Li Lanzhen wanted to see how the more than one hundred cotton seedlings she had planted in the vegetable greenhouse were doing.
When we planted these more than one hundred cotton seedlings.
Zhang Deshui didn't know what kind of plant it was.
They firmly disagreed with occupying the farmland and insisted that Li Lanzhen plant the more than one hundred cotton seedlings in the vegetable greenhouse.
But when he learned that Lanzhen had told him it was a cotton seedling, he treasured it terribly!
I wish I could hug the cotton seedlings every day, sleep with them, eat with them, and live with them.
He and Zhang Songshu used wooden sticks to build a high fence to separate the more than one hundred cotton, sweet potato, and potato plants.
Therefore, even when people come to work in the sweet potato and potato fields, they will not find that more than a hundred cotton seedlings have been planted there.
She noticed last time she was digging sweet potatoes and potatoes that the cotton bolls had already formed.
Yesterday, Zhang Songshu quietly told her to go check on the cotton plants today, as more than a dozen had already bloomed.
Zhang Deshui instructed Zhang Songshu to secretly tell only Li Lanzhen.
He didn't dare let everyone know because he was afraid that when the cotton flowers bloomed, adults and children would swarm into the greenhouse and ruin his precious cotton plants!
When it was time for Li Lanzhen to plant sweet potatoes in the greenhouse.
Zhang Songshu was already waiting outside the greenhouse, and he saw her waving at her from afar.
Li Lanzhen quickly followed him into the greenhouse.
Walking all the way to the back of the greenhouse and around the tall fence, Li Lanzhen saw more than a dozen cotton bolls in bloom.
A snow-white flower, like a cloud from the sky fallen on the lush green cotton leaves, is truly beautiful.
Zhang Deshui grinned from ear to ear, speaking softly to Li Lanzhen as if afraid that raising his voice would disturb the cotton-like creature.
"Lanzhen, look, how beautiful the cotton is!"
I've worked in the fields for decades, facing the loess soil with my back to the sky, and I've never seen such beautiful cotton!
It's snow-white, soft and fluffy, and look how long the cotton fibers are.
If we could weave this into thread and spin it into cloth, then we could have clothes to wear and wouldn't need to buy them.
Li Lanzhen's eyes lit up upon hearing this, but then her gaze dimmed again.
Easier said than done!
To weave cotton into cloth is a huge undertaking. First, cotton must be planted on a large scale, and then advanced spinning wheels are needed.
But anything is possible with effort, so give it a try!
If it doesn't work next year, then the year after; if it doesn't work the year after, then postpone it for another year.
Li Lanzhen thought that one day it would be made into cloth.
After thinking about using cotton for textiles, she thought of another plant.
After the ice and snow melt, she wants to go up the mountain again to look around and see what's going on.
Judging from the temperature here, wild ramie should grow here.
We can use it to weave cloth and make clothes.
Thinking of this, she started talking about ramie with Zhang Deshui and his son.
"...If we can find this ramie, we can also plant it on a large scale on the mountain."
Then it can be made into linen, which can then be used to make clothes.
Based on Li Lanzhen's description, Zhang Deshui and Zhang Songshu recalled for a moment, and both shook their heads, saying that they had never seen this plant on the mountain.
Li Lanzhen thought about it and realized that the father and son had hardly ever gone up the mountain since they came to this Peach Blossom Spring. They were always buried in the soil, either farming or on their way to farm.
"Okay. Brother Zhang, carefully pick the cotton and collect the seeds."
"Once the snow melts, Brother Zhang, which plot of land do you think is suitable for cotton? We'll plant over a thousand acres of cotton there."
"Haha, okay, Lanzhen, I got it. We'll plant cotton when the snow melts."
By the way, Lanzhen.
Is it true that you'll plant rice, wheat, and corn next year?
Li Lanzhen said with a smile, "Yes, it's true."
I plan to plant as many acres of rice paddies as possible on the other side of this river.
That way we can have white rice to eat next year.
Thousands of acres of wheat and cornfields can also be planted here.
This autumn, the variety of grains will be greater, allowing us to eat a wider variety of foods.
Zhang Deshui rubbed his hands together, his eyes shining as if he could see white rice and golden corn, and he just kept chuckling.
Li Lanzhen came out of the greenhouse, but she didn't go to check on the vegetable field.
She knew that all kinds of vegetables were growing well in the vegetable garden, and that the people, whether they came from Hanjiacun or were from the small mountain village that had just arrived, were all very skilled at tending to the vegetables.
She kept walking along the path through the vegetable greenhouse.
The sun was high in the sky, but it still didn't provide much heat.
The cold wind was blowing fiercely.
Li Lanzhen didn't feel cold; she was going to visit the poultry farm and the livestock area.
After the poultry farm was built.
She put the chickens, ducks, and geese inside while it was dark.
The next day, he told Han Shunde that from now on, whether it was slaughtering chickens, ducks and geese from the farm or wild chickens caught from the mountains, they could do so.
Any animal with feathers should have all its feathers collected, scalded with boiling water to clean them, dried in the sun, and then stored away; they will be very useful.
Although Li Lanzhen didn't say what her method was useful, everyone knew that if Li Lanzhen said it was useful, then it must be useful, and they should just do it!
Following her method, all the feathers of the chickens, ducks, and geese were collected, packed in baskets, stacked one basket at a time, and placed in the warehouse of the breeding farm.
After arriving at the poultry farm and chatting with several women for a while, she went to take a look around the warehouse.
All kinds of eggs were packed in baskets; not many were stored.
To ensure the freshness of all kinds of eggs, they generally need to be handed over every five days.
They were either pickled or delivered fresh along with the vegetables to Hua Zixi, who then transported them out of Peach Blossom Spring to exchange for silver.
The artificial incubation of chicks by Huangshanhua was a great success.
With her method, the survival rate is as high as 90%.
Another batch of chicks, ducklings, and goslings have been released into the farm and have now shed their down.
She walked north through the main road leading to the poultry farm and then entered the cattle and sheep farm and the pig farm.
Goat milk and cow milk are commonplace on the tables of Taohuayuan Canteen.
Xue Nizi and her friends often stew eggs with milk.
At first, it was only given to children and the elderly to nourish their bodies, but later, as more and more milk was produced, everyone could have a few sips every day.
Not to mention the milk tea that Li Lanzhen taught them to make by boiling goat's milk or cow's milk.
The tea was brick tea from the space. Li Lanzhen used a sledgehammer to break all the brick tea into pieces, put them in cloth bags, and brought them over specifically for them to brew milk tea.
The milk tea was a hit with both adults and children the first time it was served.
Especially when the weather gets cold, drinking a bowl of steaming hot milk tea in the morning warms you up from head to toe, and soothes your internal organs.
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