In April of the lunar calendar, after two spring rains, the mood of spring is stronger.
The swallows that had flown south for the winter earlier have also flown back.
In this era, there were no pesticides and fertilizers, and bugs were growing in the fields.
In addition to relying on manpower to catch them, we also relied on animals such as swallows and frogs.
Xipo Village is mostly dry land, so frogs are relatively rare, but swallows are common.
The villagers hope that the swallows will like their place and come back every year instead of going to other places, so they are very friendly to the swallows and just enshrine them.
If any naughty child dares to use a wooden stick, broom or other objects to poke into the swallow's mud nest, a beating will definitely be inevitable.
Don't blame the parents for being cruel.
In fact, swallows are too important to farmers.
If they are offended, these naughty children may not even be able to eat in the future.
A beating is nothing.
In fact, swallows are also nostalgic.
Most of them still go there this year under the eaves of the house where they built their nest last year.
The little swallows from last year have grown up and come back with their parents this year.
Each of them forms a new family and builds a new nest.
A pair of swallows chose to build a nest in the Luo family's yard.
Luo Yong and the others were very happy.
The two younger ones at home squatted under the eaves all day long, watching the two swallows come back little by little carrying soil in their mouths. , build a swallow's nest bit by bit.
The weather has gotten warmer, and Liulang and Qiniang have become more lively recently.
They chase the chickens around the yard when they have nothing to do.
When they run happily, they let out a burst of giggles, and the chickens are also They chased him, chattering and screaming.
Although the two brothers and sisters are twins, they don't look very much alike.
They must be fraternal eggs.
The little girl Qiniang seemed to be smart, but Liulang was more graceful and delicate than Qiniang.
The two were the same age, and they often fought.
After each fight, Liulang was always the one crying.
Luo Yong came out of the house, brought the donkey and hitched it to the cart.
When the two young ones below saw it, they quickly gathered around and said, "Brother, brother, where are you going?"
These two little Doudings were said to be four years old during the Chinese New Year, but in fact they were less than three years old.
They could still talk a little, just mumbled, and sometimes they were not very clear.
In the past, before Luo Sanlang's accident, he The two of them didn't remember much, and when Luo Yong woke up later, they were a little bit acquainted with life, but after feeding them delicious food and drink for the past few months, they were already familiar with it.
"Brother, go to the fields and pour fertilizer.
You two stay in the yard."
Luo Yong lifted a few barrels from under the wall and put them on the donkey cart, and also took a long-handled water ladle.
"Brother, I'm going to add some fertilizer too," Liulang said with a sweet voice.
"I want to pour fertilizer too, I want to pour fertilizer too."
Qiniang also shouted.
"Wu Lang, Wu Lang."
Luo Yong stood in the yard and shouted.
"What are you doing?"
Wulang poked his little head out of the canteen.
"Take Liulang and Qiniang to play for a while, and don't let them run around."
Luo Yong couldn't do anything with the two little ones, so he called Wulang to come over and help.
"They don't know how to play by themselves."
Wulang groaned: "I still have to work."
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"Take them to play well.
When they grow up, they can help you."
Luo Yong coaxed him.
"How long will it take?"
Wulang worried.
"It only takes two or three years.
You see, many six or seven-year-old children in the village can work."
Luo Yong said.
"Okay."
Wulang thought for a while and felt that this investment could still be made.
"Brother, I also want to take them and let them work for me."
Siniang heard the news and came out wearing her baggy cloth shoes.
"Okay, Liulang will take care of Shiro, and Qiniang will take care of you."
Luo Yong assigned them to them.
Then Siniang and Wulang happily took Liulang and Qiniang into the canteen and taught them how to work.
At this moment, they were picking beans.
The bad beans had to be sorted out in time to avoid the good ones later.
The beans also got worms along with them.
Seeing this scene, Luo Yong also breathed a sigh of relief.
In the room next to him, his second wife was looking over, so he waved his hand and motioned for her to go about her business.
Having too many children at home is also a problem, especially a big one like Liulang and Qiniang.
It will definitely not work if no one is watching.
Luo Yong and Er Niang have their own things to be busy with, so they have to coax Si Niang and the others to take care of them.
These two are smaller.
Luo Yong drove the donkey cart out of the yard and down the small slope in front of his house.
He first went to the ditch behind the pig pen to scoop up some pig urine.
When his apprentices were building the pigsty for him, they considered that the terrain behind the pigsty was low and pig urine and manure would flow there all year round.
If they built the wall with adobe, they would be soaked in it soon.
It was broken, so I found some stones and built a low wall there with stones, and then put adobes on it.
In the ditch behind the pig pen, a lot of fertilizer has been accumulated recently.
When the stuff first came out, it smelled very strong and didn't look that good.
It just went through a period of fermentation and the temperature started to rise recently.
High, gradually, the dirty water in the ditch turned dark green, and the smell was not so strong.
Luo Yong filled each wooden barrel with about one-fifth of the fertilizer water, and then drove the donkey to his field.
When passing a ditch, he added some clear water from the ditch to the bucket to blend it. , this fertilizer and water will not easily burn the seedlings.
The wheat in his wheat field is now growing taller, and the millet has sprouted.
Taking care of the crops is not an easy job.
Some farmers who are meticulous want to work in the fields every day.
Luo Yong only had about ten acres of land.
Normally, a small household would have half an acre of land.
Some people would also open up some wasteland for farming.
Luo Yong has spent some time on farming recently.
He saw that the people here are still quite backward in planting technology.
Although there is fertilization and watering, the fertilizer is mainly based on human, animal and bird droppings.
There is also compost.
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But I don’t quite understand what retting looks like.
The soil in the Luo family's land is not very fertile.
Luo spent the past two days taking out the soil and fertilizer book in the space and flipping through it.
This book mainly focuses on the structural properties of the soil and the analysis of various elements.
It did also talk about some content about organic fertilizers.
Luo Yong saw an article about green manure earlier and wanted to try it, but when he thought about it, he was afraid that those things would attract pests if they were buried in the fields to rot.
There are no pesticides to control pests and diseases these days.
As for composting, he is also doing it now.
The straw pulled out of the pigsty is piled on a small piece of gravel ground behind the pigsty.
When the weather gets warmer and basked in the sun, it will probably be used. .
If you want to do it more carefully, you have to dig a hole for retting.
Luo Yong hasn't been able to spare the time to do this yet.
Luo Yong saw a note in that book last night.
It should be a class note made by the previous owner of the book.
It said: "Burning soil and dung method, Chen Fu Nong Shu, using hay and fine soil."
Using this method to make fertilizer can not only obtain effective fertilizer in a relatively short period of time, but also kill bacteria and insect eggs, suppressing pests and diseases to a certain extent.
Luo Yong thinks he should give it a try.
After transporting several carts of fertilizer and water back and forth to water the fields, they could not water all the five acres of wheat.
They only watered just over one acre.
Luo Yong made a mark there and will follow it tomorrow.
If you keep pouring according to this mark, you can water all the wheat in three to five days.
When I went back, I passed by the pig pen and watered the vegetable plot I had planted there.
Vegetables eat water very quickly.
When it doesn't rain, they have to be watered almost every day.
When the weather gets hot, it may take a day.
I have to water it twice, but fortunately it is close to home and the vegetable patch is not too big, so watering it is not very strenuous.
Two days later, at dusk, Luo Yong followed what was written in the note and burned soil on a wasteland slope outside his yard.
Seeing the thick smoke rising into the sky, many villagers thought that the Luo family or the Yao family had escaped.
Some of the enthusiastic ones rushed out with wooden buckets and fetched water from the roadside ditch.
I ran towards the entrance of the village, but when I ran over to see what kind of water was flowing there, I saw Luo Sanlang and Yao Weng standing next to a smoking mound talking, both of them looking fine.
"Sanlang, what's going on?"
have come, and these people are not in a hurry to go back.
In the evening, it is the most leisurely time for the villagers in the day.
"I plan to burn some fertilizer for the millet in the field."
Luo Yong laughed when he saw that many of them were carrying buckets.
"What kind of fertilizer should be burned, but it needs to be burned with ashes?"
They also have the habit of using plant ash to fertilize their fields, but looking at the small smoking mound, it doesn't look like it is burned with ashes.
"Hay and leaves are added there.
I guess the crops in the field will like these.
When they are cooked tomorrow, some pig urine will be mixed in."
Luo Sanlang pointed at the pile of things and told everyone Squinted his eyes and smiled.
"What kind of strange method are you using?
Don't destroy the crops in the field."
The villager kindly reminded.
"You see, as long as you feed the pigs some cooked food, they will grow so fat.
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If you make some cooked food for the crops in the field, they might also like it."
Luo Yong combined with his current situation Age, said this slightly naive statement.
When the villagers heard what he said, it seemed to make some sense.
When Luo Sanlang and the others cooked hot food for the piglets, everyone thought it was a little weird, and some of them couldn't accept it.
But the development of things afterwards was obvious to all.
During this period of time, the pigs of the Luo family have become fatter and fatter day by day.
Their round and plump appearance cannot be compared to the pigs of other families.
So now the villagers say that Luo Sanlang is really smart, he can think of things that others can't think of.
This time Luo Yong said that he wanted to cook food for the crops in the field, which was even more absurd than the previous pig food.
But because of what happened before, no one interrupted him on the spot this time.
He just looked at it as a novelty and planned to do it later.
They have to pay attention to the activities of the Luo family for a few days.
If the burned fertilizer is really effective, they will naturally follow suit.
When they came to see it again the next evening, Luo Yong had already poured pig urine on the burned soil.
The soil that had been dried by the fire had absorbed enough water, and it looked a little damp and dark in color.
It looks like it's very fertile.
The farmer didn't mind it being dirty, so he stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful.
It was soft and would not clump together when pinched.
An old farmer with decades of planting experience said immediately: "It's really good fertilizer."
When the other villagers heard this, they immediately started bustling with each other.
It turned out that fertilizer could be made from hay and fine mud.
In this way, they could save a lot of manure.
In this era, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and because of the equalization of land system implemented in the early years, each farmer had many fields in his home.
So many fields needed to be fertilized, and the little human and animal excrement produced by the family was simply not enough.
If Luo Sanlang's method is feasible, then they will hardly need to worry about the problem of insufficient fertilizer in the future, which is a great good thing for farmers like them.
"It is better to put the newly burned things for two days to remove the fire properties, so as not to damage the crops."
The old farmer reminded Luo Yong just now.
"Thank you, old man, for reminding me."
Luo Yong also acted very modestly.
Afterwards, the villagers asked Luo Sanlang for advice on what materials were used to burn the soil, how to pile these things, and how to burn them.
Luo Yong didn't hide anything and told everything he knew.
Then the villagers did not wait for the next day, and began to collect dry grass, dead leaves, fine mud and other things.
That night, someone lit a dung pile near their house.
Thick smoke drifted farther and farther under the dark sky.
Until it disappeared among these mountains, the sunset glow over there seemed to smell like fireworks.
Because many villagers in Xipo Village are engaged in tofu business and have close contacts with people in several nearby villages, this method of burning soil and dung quickly spread.
"I wonder who came up with such a good idea."
One day, in a certain village, a villager was delighted with a pile of earth dung.
He held a handful of the dark, soft earth dung baked at home and said to his the neighbor lamented.
"You don't know," his neighbor said, "this method of burning soil and dung came from Luo Sanlang in Xipo Village."
"Luo Sanlang" The villagers felt that these three words sounded vaguely familiar.
"Could it be Naluo's coffin board?"
His wife asked cautiously.
"Yes, that's him."
The neighbor nodded first, and then immediately said: "Bah, what a coffin board.
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Don't say such nonsense again, or you will tarnish Mr.
Luo's reputation."
"Yes, yes" the couple quickly agreed.
Meanwhile, the same conversation was happening in many other places.
"Who are you talking about" "Luo Yong."
"I've never heard of this name before."
"It's the Naluo coffin board."
"Oh, that's him" "Hush, don't talk about coffin boards anymore."
"Where do you think this method came from?"
"The Luo family in Xipo Village."
"Luo Family" "That's it" "Oh, I remembered, it's the Luo coffin board."
"Ouch, stop shouting like that."
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