Chapter 199 Spring Farming
It is extremely inconsistent when used on two people. Zhou Qinchuan repeatedly reminded himself that he must not recite this poem with impulse.
"No wonder, it's not strange, even if it's a limerick, as long as it's not like the one just now, it's specially used for fun."
Qin Qi, who was beside her, said with a smile.
"The wrong poem is also done? Well, let me think about it carefully, Yourong, Miss Qin, you can rest."
Zhou Qinchuan grabbed his head and said goodbye.
"Sister Qin Qi, do you think Brother Qin Chuan is OK? Can you really write a poem for us?"
Looking at Zhou Qinchuan's back, Su Yourong asked.
"Hehe, how can you know if he can do it if he doesn't try it? That wrong poem just now is pretty good. He must have written it specifically for everyone to amuse you.
It is not easy to think so thoroughly in just a short time. Let’s wait and see, Sister Yourong.”
Time passed like a flash of time, and it passed in a flash.
After the Lantern Festival, it felt like the middle of spring was in February in just a few days.
There was no more snow in the sky, the snow on the ground began to melt, and in Bansheng City, the snow in the main lanes had been almost gone by people.
The river water outside the city gradually thawed, and the loud noises of the ice fractures could be heard from time to time, and the gurgling sounds of the long-lost flowing water returned to the earth.
When the snow on the grassland was not enough to block the horse's hooves, Zhou Qinchuan followed Qin Bo to practice riding. After ten days, he gradually got better.
Just as we continue to work hard, we have to temporarily stop. The reason is that as the weather warms up and the snow melts, we have to prepare for spring plowing.
Not only did they fail to ride horses, but they didn’t even have time to shoot archery and fight each other. They only had morning jogging and strength practices in the morning and night, and Zhou Qinchuan led Xiao Ji to persist.
After Qin Bo used his old tricks again and asked Qin Qi to them, he disappeared early before the spring plowing.
This time he didn't go hunting. Spring is the season when all things are reproduced and grown, and it is generally not possible to hunt.
What's more, after just one winter, the birds and animals were very thin, so it was not much fun to get it back.
It is said that the Qin brothers and sisters followed their parents to the grassland early, and both of them admitted that they could not farm. Therefore, even when they arrived in Bansheng City, they did not go to find the Bailian Sect to ask for land and farm.
Their daily expenses depend on Qin Bo, who made a living by hunting in autumn and winter. In spring and summer, they rely on the riding skills and lasso he had learned on the grassland over the years to herd horses and sheep for the Mongolian people.
These large animals were very thin after a winter of coldness. Spring was the time to eat grass and gain weight. According to Qin Bo, at this time, people urgently needed skilled hands like him and made a lot of money to grazing for others.
Su Yourong was born into a businessman, and Xiao Ji was born into a family. It would be better not to mention it. The common sense of hunting and grazing in any season is that Qin Bo would listen to whatever Qin Bo said.
Even Zhou Qinchuan only knows some simple common sense from books, such as not hunting in spring, etc.
Therefore, the three of them were easily confused by Qin Bo and became Qin Qi's nanny again.
Their usual routine is to cook, toast and sell bread. Whether Qin Bo is there or not is actually not a big difference.
It was only after the spring plowing officially started, that I felt that if there were one more person, it would be much easier.
The bread business did not decline but rose at this time, which was unexpectedly good.
People in Banshengcheng, as long as they have some spare money, are willing to bring a few breads to make dry food when they go out to work. This thing is so hungry that it is delicious and not easy to break. It is much better than the pancakes and steamed pancakes they make themselves.
The business is so good that no one can give up, so naturally they have to work harder.
Zhou Qinchuan ran in the morning, washed up, and after eating, he had to knead the noodles first, and then he could leave the city with food and plow the fields with Xiao Ji.
As for the task of toasting and selling bread, they can only be handed over to Su Yourong and Qin Qi.
Farm tools such as plows and hoes have been bought long ago, and as for the livestock that plows, they have them themselves.
Zhou Qinchuan picked a strong big mule from more than a dozen mules and horses. These guys had been idle for a winter and it was time to do their best.
Using mules and horses to plow the land may not be as stable as oxen, but it is not much worse.
Although there is no shortage of livestock here, there are actually not many families who use cattle to plow the fields, but many people use mules and horses.
The main reason is that cattle are not used for other purposes except plowing the fields, so they are difficult to maintain.
When he arrived at his own fields, Zhou Qinchuan shouted to hold the mule, set up his sled, and started plowing the field.
Xiao Ji followed him and picked up the stones that were turned out from the ground.
After several days of teaching by Liang Wu, Wu Baye and others, Zhou Qinchuan can now barely plow the land alone.
I'm not very skilled yet, and I don't plow much every day, and some of them are not enough to see.
However, compared with those families who often have more than 30 to 40 acres of land, their land is only 20 acres, so there is no need to worry.
They don’t expect to dig food from these twenty acres of land to survive. They now have wealth and supplies to sell bread. Even if they don’t farm, they can live a very comfortable life.
It was entirely because I had asked for this free land before and there was a regulation that Banshengcheng was not allowed to abandon wasteland, so I had to plow the land and plow the spring plowing together.
Of course, this is Zhou Qinchuan’s own opinion. Su Yourong and Xiao Ji are both extremely happy to have their own fields and attach great importance to spring farming.
Not only did he pull Zhou Qinchuan to ask for advice on many Tianma, Liang Wu, Wu Baye and Tan Meng, but Su Yourong also came forward and invited him to help for a few days.
These twenty acres of land are all raw land and need to be cultivated twice.
After the first plow, you have to get out the gravel in the field, level the land the second, then ridges, fertilize, water, and finally sow seeds.
There are actually two ways to cultivate cooked land, but after the autumn harvest last year, they plowed it first. This year, the beginning of spring will naturally save this step.
When the sun moved to the middle of the sky, Zhou Qinchuan invited Xiao Ji to the river to wash his hands, and then rest and eat.
After just taking a few bites, Su Yourong and Qin Qi came.
During spring plowing, bread is baked early, sold early, and sold quickly, and usually can be closed before noon.
Therefore, in the afternoon, Su Yourong and Qin Qi had to come to the field and bring some side dishes to the two brothers.
Sometimes they would follow two followers - Tang Dan and Shi Jian. After eating bread at Zhou Qinchuan and others, if they wanted to move, they would come out together.
Putting down the dishes brought to Zhou Qinchuan and Xiao Ji, the two girls laughed and ran into the field to make trouble, calling it helping cultivate the land, but it didn't look like it at all, but it was like a spring outing.
Zhou Qinchuan had no hope for the output in his own field, so he let them make trouble, eating and drinking with Xiao Ji, thinking about his thoughts without hesitation.
The weather became warmer and the snow melted, the idea of leaving the grassland and returning to the pass circling in Zhou Qinchuan's heart, but he had never talked to anyone.
Chapter completed!