eurekapd Chapter 224: Building a Fire
Chapter 224: Building a Fire
After more than two hours, all the vegetables had been picked and brought back to the large kitchen warehouse for storage.
But only a small part of the sweet potatoes and potatoes were dug out.
Han Shunde looked at the dark sky and saw that the temperature was getting lower and lower.
At this time, it should be after the Yin hour.
It looks like we won’t be able to finish digging today. We can’t stay up all night, so we’ll have to work.
He discussed it with Zhang Deshui.
"Brother Zhang, I don't think we can finish digging today.
Otherwise, we can build a fire here and keep watch all night.
This way the temperature won’t be too low, let’s do it again tomorrow morning!”
Zhang Deshui was worried that the temperature was too low and would freeze these treasures.
But it seems that this is not a solution.
Said helplessly.
"Okay, let's call it a day. Let's prepare the fire first. The women and children can go back to the kitchen to eat."
Han Shunde said to the adults and children who were working tirelessly in the fields, "Everyone should go home first, eat your fill and warm up, take a nap, put on a light coat, and come back to work tomorrow so that no one will catch a cold."
No matter how anxious you are, you can't achieve it all at once.
The adults and children had no choice but to clap their hands, take their tools, and retreat back to the village. After washing up, they went to the dining room to prepare for dinner.
They picked up their bowls and started queuing up for food.
While eating, everyone did not forget to congratulate Li Lanzhen for having a big fat grandson.
The men congratulated Han Minghai on having a big fat son.
Next, let me tell you how they dug potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Happiness and satisfaction are reflected on every face, even happier than eating a bowl of braised pork!
Li Lanzhen hardly slept a wink that night.
The temperature dropped, and she was worried that it was cold in the house where Zhang Yu Niang was recuperating after her confinement, so she went to see her.
Han Yuemei had already lit the kang.
The room was warm and the mother and daughter were asleep, so she felt relieved.
He came out and put a slaughtered chicken, more than 30 eggs, and a pound of brown sugar in Han Minghai's kitchen.
He told Han Yuemei to make chicken soup for Zhang Yu Niang and asked her to take care of Zhang Yu Niang during the next two days and not to go to work in the fields.
Then she turned into the cafeteria and watched Xue Nizi and the others preparing meals for tomorrow morning.
"Mom, why don't you go home and rest?" Xue Nizi asked her.
"Let me see you."
"Sister, we are preparing meals for tomorrow morning. Let's prepare it early so that the people working in the fields can have breakfast before going back to work." Tonghua knew what Li Lanzhen was thinking when she saw her come to the kitchen, and said quickly.
Li Sanya also said so.
"That's right. Eat breakfast before going to the fields. Otherwise, your breakfast will be cold when you eat it in the fields. Eating cold food will give you a stomachache."
See they are all arranged.
She turned back to the fields.
Piles of fire could be seen from a distance.
Han Minghai and his men patrolled the fields back and forth, adding firewood from time to time to ensure that every fire in the field had smoke.
At this time, the temperature in the canyon is estimated to have dropped below zero.
The sudden drop in temperature is indeed bad for crops.
The fire in the ground could not be extinguished, and the temperature should be the lowest at dawn.
Li Lanzhen really wanted to use her own space to harvest all the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the field.
Then put it in the storage room of the big kitchen.
Resisting the urge, I watched Han Shunde lead everyone to light a fire around the ground.
Li Lanzhen reminded them when she saw that they were not wearing thick clothes.
"Why don't you guys take turns going home and put on your cotton clothes? It will probably be very cold when the sun rises. If you freeze, you won't be able to do any work."
When Zhang Deshui heard that they were frozen and couldn't go to the fields and work, he became anxious and urged them to go back and put on cotton clothes while he stayed in the fields.
Li Lanzhen said to Zhang Deshui.
"My dear, you don't have to stay here in the fields at night. Let the young people stay here."
Zhang Deshui shook his head, "No, no! I have to watch from here!
Even if I go home, I will be too worried to sleep. It is better to watch here and feel more at ease!"
Li Lanzhen looked at him and saw that he wanted to hug Sweet Potatoes and Potatoes like their children.
I won’t say any more. Okay, do whatever you feel good about.
After leaving the sweet potato field, Li Lanzhen went home and slept for less than an hour before getting up.
After putting on a thick cotton coat and washing up, I went to the big kitchen.
Last night, several little kids went to Ye’s house and slept on the same kang.
This morning, Ye was still watching them and didn't let them go to the fields because it was too cold.
Wait until noon when the weather warms up, then take them to the fields.
Li Lanzhen came to the big kitchen and saw Xue Nizi and the others had already cooked cornmeal porridge.
Making wild vegetable pancakes in the pan.
While they were not paying attention, Li Lanzhen added spiritual spring water from the space into several large pots of mushy soup.
Whether it is useful or not, adding some of it can always improve your body's physical condition a little bit.
Li Lanzhen was afraid that everyone would go directly from home to the fields.
When breakfast was ready, he simply blew the whistle.
Invite everyone to breakfast.
After breakfast, we came to the big field.
There was indeed frost, but fires were set all around the fields and on the ridges in the middle.
The land was still relatively fine, but looking at the canyon near the mountains, all the grass was covered with a layer of white frost.
Seeing this, everyone felt a sense of urgency.
In the morning, people quickly got into the mood and began to work in a division of labor.
In the end, Li Lanzhen still used the space.
She was afraid that people would not be able to bear it if they worked here for too long.
Because it’s my first time living in Taohuayuan, I don’t know the weather conditions here.
We will know next year when to plant and when to harvest.
Zhang Deshui also remembered this time point. He said that next year, he would look at the climate and compare it to know the time to harvest the crops in the future, so he would not be in a hurry.
On this day, the sun came out at noon and the temperature rose slightly, so we had lunch in the fields.
In this way, everyone worked in the fields for a whole day.
When the moon rises.
Only then were all the potatoes and sweet potatoes from the fields transported back to the warehouse in the big kitchen.
Li Lanzhen directly collected one third of the sweet potatoes and potatoes into the space and sent them back to the warehouse.
What Zhang Deshui, Han Shunde and others are most concerned about is the yield per acre of land.
So they specially transported one acre of sweet potatoes and one acre of potatoes separately in advance, and stored them in separate places.
After they returned, they started weighing the goods impatiently with torches.
There are only two beam scales in Li Lanzhen's space.
Zhang Deshui and his colleagues used estimation methods to estimate the yield per mu.
Weigh out one pile first, write down the weight, and then start piling them up one by one.
In this way, the estimated yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes per acre was finally obtained.
The first person to jump up was Master Xu.
Because he was always recording the numbers, the final yield per mu was also spoken by him.
So he was shocked and shouted out.
"This is simply very productive! Very productive!!"
After he sighed loudly, he reported the yield per mu.
This is the per-acre yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes planted in Taohuayuan in the first year.
"Village chief, in Taohuayuan, we harvest 5000 kilograms of sweet potatoes per acre on average."
Mr. Xu shouted at the top of his voice.
Li Lanzhen looked at everyone's surprised expressions, and then she couldn't help but talk and laugh with each other.
The happiest person was Zhang Deshui. He had been farming for so many years, but this was the first time he heard of such a high yield per mu of crops.
In fact, Li Lanzhen knew that the sweet potato yield per mu was so high because the land in Taohuayuan was relatively fertile.
If the land is barren, the yield per mu is about 2000 to 3000 kilograms.
Then, Zhang Deshui said in confusion, "We dig sweet potatoes and potatoes really fast!"
Li Lanzhen thought to herself.
If the harvesting speed is normal, it will take about two days to harvest one acre of land.
Now, it only takes more than a day to harvest so many acres of sweet potatoes and potatoes.
She knew in her heart that this was because she had taken advantage of the space, and it seemed that she would not be able to use it easily in the future.
The yield of potatoes is similar to that of sweet potatoes. On average, more than 5000 kilograms are harvested per acre.
But potatoes are more durable and easier to store than sweet potatoes.
Therefore, Li Lanzhen reminded Han Shunde and others to eat sweet potatoes first as much as possible.
Zhang Deshui and his colleagues are calculating how many acres of sweet potatoes and potatoes they will plant next year, and therefore how many kilograms of seeds they should keep.
Li Lanzhen said, "There is no need to save seeds, as we have eaten all the sweet potatoes and potatoes we harvested this year.
I will provide you with better seeds next spring."
They looked at each other and didn't say anything.
This is to tacitly agree with Li Lanzhen's statement.
Li Lanzhen said to everyone, "It's too late today. Tomorrow we will go to the big kitchen and prepare a sweet potato feast for everyone."
Han Mingjiang asked Li Lanzhen.
"Mom, are all the meals tomorrow going to be made of sweet potatoes and potatoes?"
Li Lanzhen was right, "Tomorrow I'll let you taste how delicious the food made entirely of sweet potatoes and potatoes is!
This way, everyone will be more motivated next spring!"