Today's meals actually contain meat!

Fried bacon with leeks.

There was no more bacon, just three slices were cut, and the rest were all leeks.

There was a piece of Zhu Ming, a piece of Zhu Guoxiang, a piece of children, and three pieces of bacon were divided. There was no way to refuse. Grandma Yan picked up the meat with chopsticks and stuffed it into their bowls.

The corn porridge was also replaced with corn rice, but it still did not shed its shell. The taste was a bit poor, but it was dry at least.

After breakfast, Grandma Yan carried a hoe and said she wanted to weed the wheat. Her family had more than 20 acres of land, most of which were rented to the villagers, but she also kept one acre to cultivate herself.

Chen Yourong went to wash dishes and wash the pot, then fed the chickens, and then swept the floor.

I swept several rooms and came to sweep the yard again.

When sweeping the yard, there were unexpected harvests and two pieces of horse manure were found. Of course, horse manure had to be collected and used to compose and grow crops.

Clean the inside and outside the house, Shen Yourong and weed under the fence wall, and bring dishwashing water to water the vegetables in the vegetable bed.

As for the little brat, he is concentrating on practicing calligraphy.

Perhaps in order to save paper and ink, Bai Qi used a brush dipped in clean water and squatted in the yard to write on the ground.

I am not afraid of hurting the brush strokes. This broken brush is made by myself. I bought the one I wrote about the "Three Character Classic" for Zhu Ming.

"Hey, Dean Zhu, what are you looking at?" Zhu Ming reached out to block his father's vision.

Zhu Guoxiang looked a little embarrassed, and he withdrew his gaze and said, "I'm looking at what vegetables were grown by the people of the Song Dynasty."

Zhu Ming joked: "Why do I think you are watching the person who waters the vegetables?"

"I'm not a pervert." Zhu Guoxiang refused to admit it when he was beaten to death.

Zhu Ming smiled and said, "Just peek, just peek, why are you quibbling? It is normal for an older bachelor to suddenly become young and feel turmoil in his heart."

"It's not what I thought," Zhu Guoxiang explained anxiously, "Look at this lady Shen, does it look like your mother when she was young?"

Zhu Ming sarcastically said: "In your old eyes, as long as you are a beautiful woman, she looks like my mother when she was young. Anyway, the final explanation is up to you."

Zhu Guoxiang said anxiously: "I'm not talking about appearance, I'm talking about that kind of temperament. Do you understand the temperament?"

"Temperament is so mysterious. You can say anything. I understand, no need to say it anymore. Explanation is just a concealment," Zhu Ming laughed, "If a person in his fifties marry a pretty widow in his early twenties, should you say that this should be called an old cow chewing on tender grass? Say yes, you have become younger again. Say no, your mental age..."

"Get out!" Zhu Guoxiang was so angry that he was embarrassed.

Zhu Ming pursued the victory: "I'm anxious, someone is anxious. I know who it is, but I won't say it."

"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you." Zhu Guoxiang walked away angrily.

After winning the bickering, Zhu Ming was proud and whistled with joy.

Zhu Guoxiang slowly walked behind Chen Yourong, looked at the rapeseed field in the distance and asked, "In another month, these rapeseeds will be cooked. What should I change to plant after harvesting the rapeseed?"

Chen Yourong was still watering the vegetables, but he didn't raise his head and replied, "Grow rice."

"Are all rapeseed rice planting in Xixiang County?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Chen Yourong stood up and rubbed his waist: "I didn't know how to take turns to planting and waste the power of waste. My father said that it was a method brought by the people of Shu. The transshipment commander ordered all prefectures and counties to promote it."

Zhu Guoxiang asked again: "Miss Chen's family also grows rapeseed and rice?"

"Orphans and widows cannot plant that," said Chen Yourong. "When planting rapeseed in the season, it is better to plant less. If there are more than one or two acres, it will be very troublesome to drain and turn the ground. If there is a slight mistake, it will be a mistake to farm. The family needs to have strong laborers to get busy."

"It's just about transplanting rapeseed seedlings, where can I be busy?" Zhu Guoxiang said.

Chen Yourong said in confusion: "I only know that seedlings can be transplanted, and these rapeseed seedlings can also be transplanted?"

"Yes." Zhu Guoxiang began to carefully inquire about the farming methods of the Northern Song Dynasty.

After a while, I understood the question before going back to discuss with my son.

Zhu Ming smiled so hard that he said, "Yes, President Zhu, they all started to hook up."

"Don't talk nonsense," Zhu Guoxiang said with a serious expression. "I don't know the south. I just said that the rice planting process in Hanzhong has basically matured, but I still don't know how to control the water and drought seedling cultivation. Therefore, rice planting is more severely restricted by climate and geographical conditions, and cannot reach the limit of ancient rice yield."

When he heard that he was talking about serious matters, Zhu Ming also put away his smile: "How much yield can the water control and drought breeding method increase?"

Zhu Guoxiang explained carefully: "It is difficult to count, it depends on the specific situation. The advantages of this method are to improve the quality of seedlings, reduce the cost of seedling cultivation, and enhance the ability to prevent and resist diseases."

"Why can dry seedling cultivation improve the quality of seedlings?" Zhu Ming was a little curious.

Zhu Guoxiang sorted out his words and tried his best to make Zhu Ming understand: "Control water and drought cultivation, seedlings grow in a drought environment, soil moisture affects the differentiation of seedling roots, controlling the occurrence of some seedling roots, thereby increasing the number of latent roots. At the same time, the cytoplasmic concentration of the seedlings is increased, nutrients accumulate abundantly, and the plants are always in a high-energy state. When the seedlings are transplanted into the paddy fields, the root base that has differentiated but has not elongated will rapidly develop into new roots, forming the explosive power of the roots..."

"Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, don't talk about it anymore." Zhu Ming was really not interested in this thing.

The technology of water control and drought cultivation appeared and promoted in the Ming Dynasty, which made the yield of rice per mu in the Ming Dynasty quickly surpass that of the Song Dynasty!

Although Zhu Ming did not know how to farm, he knew how to use this matter: "If we guide technological innovation and help the people increase their production and income, we can quickly gain the respect of the villagers and thus gain a firm foothold in Xixiang County."

Zhu Guoxiang continued: "Also, farmers in Hanzhong area have mastered the technology of rapeseed rice. But they do not understand rapeseed seedling transplanting, so they have to rush to plant when changing rapeseed, and they need to double their labor force in the short term. If rapeseed seedling transplanting technology is used, it can not only reduce labor force investment, but also improve the quality of rapeseed seedlings, enhance the disease resistance of rapeseed, and increase the per mu yield of rapeseed."

Zhu Ming couldn't help but ask: "Seedling is very simple, right?"

"It's very simple, but there are tricks," said Zhu Guoxiang, "and it can be combined with water-controlled and dry seedling cultivation technology, because dry seedling cultivation can delay transplanting, so that there is no need to seize the time when planting.

Farm and drought rotation can improve the breathable and water permeability of paddy fields, improve soil fertility, and reduce the harm of pests and weeds.

The emergence of rapeseed rice rotundum was a breakthrough in agriculture in ancient China.

At present, the rotation method of rapeseed rice is only less than dry seedling cultivation and rapeseed seedling transplantation. If it is supplemented, it means that this method is completely mature.

Zhu Ming asked: "Doesn't you grow rice at Niangzi's house?"

Zhu Guoxiang shook his head and said, "No, most of her family's land has been rented out. He only planted some wheat, millet and the like in the dry land. It takes labor to serve paddy fields, and it also involves plowing oxen, irrigation, and it is difficult for orphans and widows to work on them."

Zhu Ming said: "Your two new methods cannot be told directly to the farmers. They don't believe it if they talk nonsense. We must first make some achievements so that the villagers can know that we are agricultural experts, and then they will be obedient. When the increase in production and income tastes the sweetness, the farmers will be completely convinced and respect us."

"But Mrs. Chen's family does not grow rice and rapeseed, so we have no place to demonstrate. The paddy fields rented out by the tenant cannot be taken back as soon as possible. It is equivalent to destroying the tenant's job, which is not good for Mrs. Chen and our reputation." Zhu Guoxiang said with a headache.

Zhu Ming said: "We have sweet potatoes and corn seeds. We can plant them by clearing land on the mountain. We will definitely become famous when harvesting. Do you have any other tricks?"

Zhu Guoxiang looked at the mountains in the distance: "Collection of wild mushrooms from the mountains and make their own strains. You can artificially plant mushrooms. By the way, make fungi of Ganoderma lucidum and plant them as big as millstones!"

Artificial mushroom cultivation technology also existed in ancient times, but it was necessary to wait until Zhao Jiu established the Southern Song Dynasty. The inventor of this technology was Wu San, who was respected as "Wu Sangong". After his death, he built temples and worshipped him, and the people regarded him as the "Mush God".

Zhu Guoxiang pointed to the vegetable bed under the fence and smiled and said, "Did you see it? Daylily."

"I saw it, it has not bloomed yet." Zhu Ming said.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "With daylily, colchicine can be extracted and plants can be induced to cultivate good varieties. Vegetables, grains, and mushrooms can be done in this way."

Zhu Ming asked: "Does high-end equipment need to be extracted?"

Zhu Guoxiang said: "You have to get the distilled liquor first, just above 50 degrees. Wash the yellow flowers, soak them in alcohol, and reflux them at high temperature to extract them. The supernatant obtained is rich in colchicine."

"That's so simple?" Zhu Ming said in surprise.

Zhu Guoxiang asked back: "How complicated do you think it can be?"

Chen Yourong took care of the vegetable bed, then went under the eaves of the kitchen, cut some of the firewood that he had picked up before and moved it to the kitchen, and all the rest were placed neatly against the wall.

At this point, the farm work has not been completed.

Chen Yourong took out a clean linen, wiped the mulberry leaves collected in the morning one by one, and mentioned it to the silkworm room to feed the silkworm baby.

After feeding the silkworms, they collected the silkworm poop and composted it. Chen Yourong finally came to the yard and said to Zhu Ming: "Dalang, please explain the "Three Character Classic" for a long time."

Not only to children, but also to adults.

Because Bai Qi couldn't remember it when he was young, he could only help him tutor his son in the future.

It was noon at this time, but there was no smoke from every household.

Zhu Ming sat down in the yard and asked, "Miss Chen doesn't understand where he can point it out."

Chen Yourong actually knew many allusions such as Meng Mu, Dou Yanshan, Huang Xiang, Kong Rong, etc. The first question raised was: "It is called the zodiac, the sun is swayed, the equator, the central power. What does this sentence mean?"

Zhu Ming went to the pile of firewood under the eaves, folded a piece of dead branches, and drew patterns on the ground: "This is the earth, this is the sun. There are 365 degrees in the sky, and the sun walks 1 degree a day, connecting the position of the sun every day to a circle. This circle is called the 'zodiac'. This is called 'zodiac', which is what the sun is circulated'."

Then, Zhu Ming drew a large sphere: "This is the celestial sphere, which wraps the earth. The above is the celestial North Pole, the lower is the celestial South Pole, and the north and south poles are connected as the axis. A circle around this axis is drawn in the center of the celestial sphere. The circle drawn is the 'equator'. This is called 'equator, the middle power'."

This thing is somewhat similar to the geocentric theory. The universe is a celestial sphere. The earth is in the center of the celestial sphere, and the sun rotates around the earth.

Zhu Ming cannot explain more, nor can he talk about modern astronomical knowledge.

After all, Chen Yourong couldn't even figure out the ecliptic equator. What's the use of saying too much?

Looking at the pattern on the ground, Chen Yourong thought about it carefully, digested it for a long time before he figured it out, and sincerely admired it: "Dalang is really knowledgeable!"

Bai Qi, the little brat, was stunned at the circle representing the earth, and couldn't help asking: "Is the earth round?"

Before Zhu Ming could speak, Chen Yourong said, "The sky is round and the earth is square."

Bai Qi asked again: "Why don't the earth float in the celestial ball?"

Chen Yourong couldn't answer, so he looked at the patterns on the ground and couldn't help but look up at Zhu Ming.

Zhu Guoxiang didn't like to fool his character. He snatched dead branches from his son and drew a model of the solar system on the ground: "The earth is round, not only round, but also a ball. This is the sun, which does not move in the middle. The earth, gold, wood, water, fire and earth, rotates around the sun day and night. This is the moon, and the moon is also a ball, rotating around the earth."

Chen Yourong was dumbfounded when he heard this, but Bai Qi's eyes shone. This little brat thought it was so magical.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Guoxiang relied on the solar system model to explain why the moon was in phases and why the sun rose to the east and set towards the west.

Chen Yourong clenched his fists, treated his fists as the earth, and said dizzyly: "We live on the ball, can there be people living under the ball?"

"Someone." Zhu Guoxiang said.

Chen Yourong was worried about the humans on the other side of the earth: "What should those people do if they fall?"

"If you can't fall, the earth has universal gravity." Zhu Guoxiang said.

"What is gravity?" Chen Yourong asked.

Listening to my father's continued explanation, Zhu Ming curled his lips and walked to the fence to see the scenery in the distance.

Just like these 100,000 Whys, today I don’t want to talk about the Three Character Classic. Since my dad is so leisurely, Zhu Ming is too lazy to get involved.
Chapter completed!