The Reborn Wife is Farming

Except for Mu Yangling, it was the first time for everyone to eat corn, and Qi Haoran said pertinently, "It's delicious, and I didn't make my throat grow louder."

Fan Zijin asked, "Is it because you are still young?"

Mu Yangling nodded, "You can still eat like this in about ten days. The corn gets old very quickly. At that time, you can only take it back, dry it, peel off the corn kernels, crush it and cook polenta to eat." Mu Yangling thought After thinking about it, he still said, "But I think it's better for pigs to eat this stuff."

The aunt stared and said, "Who's pigs are so blessed to eat corn? No matter how unpalatable this corn is, it can't be worse than bran, right? Every year when the crops are green and yellow, who hasn't eaten bran for a month? "

Shu Wanniang also nodded, "If this thing can be used as food to fill their stomachs, it can indeed save many people. Ah Ling, don't say anything about feeding pigs, which will cause outsiders to hear and misunderstand."

In the end Qi Haoran took a basket of corn from Mu Yangling and asked someone to deliver it to Qi Xiuyuan.

Qi Haoran's original intention was to let the eldest brother try something new, but Qi Xiuyuan called him back overnight, and specially asked the messenger to bring Fan Zijin and Mu Yangling with him.

Mu Yangling had just finished watering the wheat and rice fields, and was about to sleep peacefully, but was pulled up when he lay down. Hearing that he was going to Fucheng, Mu Yangling immediately refused, "I have to be at home, in the middle of the night, if My house was attacked by thieves, my family is old, weak, and young, what's wrong with being at home?"

Qi Haoran stared and said: "I asked someone to guard at the door, who would dare to bump into it so blindly? Get up quickly, my elder brother is waiting in Fucheng."

Mu Yangling could only get up, put on some clothes, and climbed onto the horse in a daze.

Qi Haoran saw that although Mu Yangling's eyes were half-closed, he walked without shaking, he was impressed by her ability, jumped on the horse and ran away first.

Fan Zijin followed behind him.

As soon as the horse started running, Mu Yangling woke up, and the three of them headed for Fucheng under the protection of a team of guards.

It only took half an hour to ride horses from Mingshui County to Fucheng, and the few people used the token Qi Xiuyuan gave Qi Haoran along the way to let them open the city gate.

Qi Xiuyuan was sitting in the study waiting for them, and there were wine and food on the table.

The three of them ran for half an hour, all the sleepy ones woke up, and the three of them stood in front of Qi Xiuyuan in a row.

Qi Xiuyuan was gnawing a corn cob in his hand. When he saw a few people coming in, he put down the corn cob in his hand and looked at them carefully. Among the three of them, Mu Yangling was only ten years old, and Fan Zijin and Qi Haoran were only thirteen years old. Thinking of what these three children did, Qi Xiuyuan couldn't help laughing out loud, clapping his hands and saying, "That's right, that's right, I underestimated you all before."

The three children became a little apprehensive, trembling and stealing glances at Qi Xiuyuan, winking with the people next to them from time to time, and asking each other, "Have you done anything bad recently?"

Qi Xiuyuan turned his back, took out a raw corn from the basket on the table, turned around and asked them, "You guys made this?"

The three looked at each other, and in the end Qi Haoran was the first to nod in recognition. Seeing Qi Xiuyuan smiling, Qi Haoran felt that it was not a bad thing, so he boasted: "Brother, this kind of seed was brought by Zhuang Dawei back then, and Mu Yangling took it for planting. These are the ones I picked out and sent over for you to try."

"I know. I asked Fei Bai. I heard from Fei Bai that Ah Ling's corn can grow two cobs on one plant, and each cob is as big as this?"

"It's definitely not possible for all of them to be this big, but it's about the same size." Mu Yangling looked at Qi Xiuyuan's face and said, "Because the emergence rate of corn is a little lower this year, it's a little thin, and the top dressing is good enough. That's why the corn on the cob is so big."

"Then next year, can you plant such a good one again?"

"Next year, with experience and time to prepare base fertilizer, it should be better than this year."

The corner of Qi Xiuyuan's mouth curled up, and he asked, "Then you estimate, how much can one mu of your cornfield produce?"

Mu Yangling's eyes were full of bewilderment, it was her first time farming, and she got back the estimate? Now I can roughly estimate how big a piece of land can be.

On the contrary, Fan Zijin pondered for a while and said, "Big cousin, I have checked carefully. If there is no accident, the yield per mu should be between 500 and 600."

Qi Xiuyuan instantly clenched the corn in his hand, and asked, "What if it is cultivated in a high-quality land?"

Fan Zijin calculated in his mind, and said, "It should be about seven or eight hundred catties."

"This year is drought, how many times have you watered the corn?" Qi Xiuyuan asked Mu Yangling.

"One, one time," Mu Yangling said, "Corn is a drought-resistant crop, so it doesn't need special watering."

Qi Xiuyuan's eyes became brighter, "Does anyone know about the corn planting in your place? Has the news of the high yield of corn spread?"

Fan Zijin already had a vague guess in his heart, only Qi Haoran and Mu Yangling were still confused.

Mu Yangling shook his head and said, "Except for our village and the Liu family in Chaoxi Village, no one knows that my land is planted with corn, because my aunt doesn't have much confidence in planting corn, and everyone doesn't know that corn will produce high yields. , that piece of land is in the middle of my family’s field, near the other side of the mountain, there is only my family’s land, and no one passes by there.”

In ancient times, the land was sparsely populated, and the news was delayed, so no one except the village and my uncle knew that she planted corn. Even the Liu family, only Liu Daqian and Liu Erqian knew about it.

Qi Xiuyuan was completely relieved now, and said to Mu Yangling: "I want you to save all the corn harvested this time as seeds. Next year, 50% of all military fields must be planted with corn, and Yongye Field must also have some corn." Forty percent plant it."

Fan Zijin's expression changed slightly, and he asked, "Big cousin, is there a natural disaster?"

Qi Haoran also reacted, "Is there still going to be a war?"

Qi Xiuyuan looked outside. His guards were guarding outside the study. He could be sure that their conversation was safe. He sighed and said, "The natural disaster has already begun, and the war has also begun. This year, apart from the severe drought in Xingzhou Prefecture, there are also cases in Hongzhou area." It hasn't rained for two months, but the Jinghu area has been raining intermittently from April to now, and it hasn't been sunny for seven consecutive days. Hongzhou and Jinghu are both major grain producers. In previous years, four grains were shipped to the North Cheng came out of these two places."

The eyes of the three of them widened. They only knew that Xingzhou Mansion was sad, but they didn't expect that other places were similar.

Qi Xiuyuan said again: "This year, Jin Guo is only worse than us. Jin soldiers occupied Jingzhao Mansion, and after Hanzhong Mansion area, they forced the people to herd in enclosures, which ruined a lot of fertile land. The food they harvested there was less than 30% of what they had in previous years. , and the spring of this year is full of rabbits, and most of the pastures have been ruined. I heard that many cattle and sheep starved to death. Since April, refugees have appeared. Jinbing is now fighting Xixia, but this situation will worsen. In order to obtain more food and resources, they may drag Da Zhou into it."