Chapter 210 Beat Him to Death
"Look, these rice seedlings are growing so well!" Old man Yang and the village elders were checking the rice seedlings in the fields.
There are two ways to plant rice: direct seeding and raising rice seedlings.
Direct seeding is to soak the rice seeds in water for three days to germinate, and then sow them when the sprouts are two minutes long. The amount used is three liters per mu, which is a kind of extensive growth.
Raising seedlings is the process of transplanting the grown seedlings, which has three major benefits.
First, it can shorten the growing period of crops, increase the multiple cropping index, and effectively solve the seasonal contradictions of multiple cropping.
Second, it facilitates centralized management and further reduces planting costs.
Third, ensure the quality and size of seedlings, prevent pests and diseases and late lodging, and improve production efficiency.
Raising seedlings and transplanting has existed since the Han Dynasty. The "separate rice" in the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Monthly Orders for the Four Classes of People" refers to raising seedlings and transplanting.
In order to plant two crops of rice in Huanggou Village, the rice seedling transplanting method had to be adopted. The villagers rushed to repair the village road. Su Laosan from the village took several young men from the Su family to grow rice seedlings in their own paddy fields.
The ratio of seedling raising fields to planting fields is 1:10-1:40, and all the paddy fields in the family are used to grow seedlings.
After a winter in the paddy fields, the seedlings grew very well, green and strong.
"Yes, but it will be tiring in the future!" said old man Yang with a smile.
Raising seedlings, pulling out seedlings, transplanting seedlings and other work steps involve many steps, are time-sensitive and labor-intensive.
In the past, the village was poor and the land was barren. We used the direct seeding method, which allowed for quick and easy planting, but the yield was not high.
It is impossible to harvest two crops now without suffering some hardships. The village elders are both happy and worried when looking at the seedlings on more than ten acres of land.
"Everything is difficult at the beginning. Once we have sorted it out this year, we can take the time to make the 'rice seedling horses', and then transplanting rice seedlings will not be so tiring in the future." Su Ying said with a smile.
"Yangma? What is Yangma?" The village elders heard something new.
"It's a rice transplanter! With it, you don't have to bend over. Instead, you can sit or ride on a rice transplanter to pull and plant rice seedlings."
This thing appeared in the writings of Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty. Farmers in Wuchang rode rice-planting horses to plant rice, covering thousands of fields a day, with extremely high production efficiency.
"What does the rice seedling horse look like?" Su Laosan was more anxious than anyone else.
"First of all, it must be able to slide back and forth in the paddy field. Secondly, seedlings can be placed in the front and inserted into the paddy field when it rotates..." Su Ying described the basic functions of the rice seedling horse.
"Da da da..." Several horses stepped on the ridges of the fields, rushing across the fields and running towards the rice seedling fields. Many wheat fields were trampled.
"What are you doing?" The village elders had never seen anyone who didn't cherish food so much, and they were so angry that their blood rushed to their heads.
Everyone stepped forward and stopped these reckless people.
Lu Jie looked at the Su family's experimental field. The wheat was growing stronger and more lush than that of other families. The rice seedlings in the nursery field were all green and tender, better than anything he had seen anywhere else.
"This land is really fertile!" Lu Jie, who knew nothing about farming, was very excited when he saw it. He silently planned to get the land of Huanggou Village and put it in his own pocket.
"Who are you?" asked Old Man Yang.
The greed in the eyes of the luxuriously dressed person in the middle could not be concealed. I think they are the group of people who bought the land that Aying mentioned, but I wonder who they are?
"Whose field is this?" Lu Jie asked instead of answering.
"It's from our village! We won't sell it!" the village elders said in unison.
"Haha, we buy it at a high price, enough for you to have food and drink without worries." Lu Jie coaxed.
"Go away! We won't sell it, no matter how much money you offer!" Old man Yang chased people away.
"Old man, do you know who we are?" Lu Jie looked at him with contempt.
"Who cares who you are? Even the Lord of Heaven cannot do it!" Old man Yang sneered.
“I was sent by the Governor, Lord Lu. Think carefully, I am now discussing this with you;
"When Lord Lu shows up, it won't be a purchase! Even if he doesn't pay, you'll have to hand it over obediently!" Lu Jie was using the power of the tiger to bully others.
"Hahaha..." Everyone present burst into laughter. This was the funniest joke they had ever heard.
"What are you laughing at?" Lu Jie was furious. "How dare you ignore the governor!"
"Boy! Let's go! Stop pretending to be an elephant by sticking a pig's nose into a green onion, hahaha..." Old man Zheng laughed until his stomach hurt.
"Old man, you are tired of living!" Lu Jie was used to showing off his power, and those untouchables were always trembling with fear wherever he went.
But the people in Huanggou Village are like the stone slabs in the toilet, smelly and hard.
"The old man's surname is Zheng, from the Zheng family of Xingyang, this one's surname is Wang, from the Wang family of Taiyuan, this one's surname is Yang, from the Yang family of Hongnong..." Old man Zheng introduced the old men present one by one,
"These are all the leftovers from our past! Tsk tsk, is the Lu family completely empty-handed? They sent a fool like you out here to embarrass themselves!"
Old man Zheng's eyes suddenly became sharp and vicious, completely different from before, as if he had become a different person, no longer the cheerful old man.
"You!" Lu Jie was embarrassed and annoyed, showing off his sword in front of Guan Gong.
There were many fugitives in Lingnan. When Old Man Zheng introduced himself, even a fool could tell that this was a gathering place for fugitives from the previous dynasty. And they were not ordinary fugitives, but all the powerful men who could call the shots in the previous dynasty.
Thinking about how he had just acted so high and mighty and claimed to be from the governor's family, he wished he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
"Get out!" The village elders looked ferocious.
Lu Jie turned his horse around and saw Su Ying, who was watching the show with her arms folded, and felt that she looked familiar.
After taking two steps, he suddenly remembered that it was the girl at the fried dough stick stall that day, "Is it you?"
"It's me!" Su Ying didn't pretend, "Wu County won't sell the land, and Huanggou Village certainly won't! Give up on this idea as soon as possible! Otherwise, it's a waste of effort!"
"Hmph! Just wait and see!" Lu Jie said stubbornly. Damn it, even a little girl dared to humiliate him!
"Gee!" He flicked the whip and ran away, stepping on the wheat seedlings.
"You bastard! How dare you trample on my wheat seedlings! Catch him!" Old man Yang felt so distressed when he saw this, and roared at the horses of the people chasing him.
But two legs can't outrun four legs, so those guys ran away.
"God damn it, you little dog slave!" Old Man Yang cursed angrily, "God bless you, you little bastard!"
Seeing the flowers about to bloom and bear ears of grain, and being destroyed like this, my eyes are red.
"Hurry up and check, prop up the collapsed ones and see if they can be salvaged!" Su Ying commanded.
Many of the fallen plants are certainly damaged, but some that are less damaged can continue to grow after being straightened.
Coming from outside the village, I stepped on a lot of ground, which was heartbreaking.
Lu Jie and his entourage galloped to the road construction section, shouting all the way: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
The newly mortared road surface was trampled into a mess by the horses, and several women and children who were unable to avoid it were knocked over.
She almost stepped on the tiger, and was so scared that Mrs. Pei Wu screamed and rushed over desperately.
A figure appeared from the side, grabbed the reins and pulled them hard, forcing the horse to the side.
Everything happened in an instant. The horse's hoof brushed against Hu Zi's head as it fell. Mrs. Pei Wu crawled and rolled to drag her son away, hugged him tightly, and trembled all over.
Yang Erlang grabbed Lu Jie and punched him in the face.
Lu Jie felt a buzzing in his head and a hot stream flowing out of his nose. Before he could wipe it off, Yang Erlang kicked him away and beat him to the ground.
Yang Erlang was furious. Hu Zi was his only son, and it would be better for him to die than to kill Hu Zi.
He used to be a dandy and unruly boy, with brute force. Although he was not good at anything else, he was the best among the sons of nobles in riding and shooting.
Fortunately, his ability was not lost, otherwise his tiger...
He didn't dare to think about it. The more he thought about it, the angrier he got, so he beat Lu Jie to death.
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