There is a Wangfu wife at home

Chapter 141 Looking for Fertilizer, Catching Wild Ducks (Part [-])
This kind of overturned soil is in large pieces.

After drying in the sun for a day to kill the bacteria in the soil, use a fine-toothed rake to turn it over again, and then expose to the sun for another day.

Then, apply fertilizer and mix it into the soil, and rake it again with a thin nail, and it will become a completely fertile field.

However, there is no chemical fertilizer in this era, so what should be used as fertilizer?

Farmyard manure is too fat, not suitable for young seedlings that have just germinated.

When Li Jiaoniang was thinking about the problem, she heard Mrs. Luo say to Chun Ya, "With so much firewood, it can burn for quite a few days."

It turned out that Chunya found that there was no work to do in the field, so she turned over the weeds and branches that had been cut by the field.

Li Jiaoniang remembered that in her previous life, some people in the countryside also burned platycodon grandiflorum as fertilizer.

Why not use plant ash as fertilizer.

Chunya turned her head and found Li Jiaoniang staring at the pile of weeds in a daze, and said with a smile, "What is Miss Jiaoniang thinking? She's actually fascinated."

Luo Sun curled her lips.

Li Jiaoniang said, "I want to burn some plant ash to make waste from the fields."

"The leaves are still green, can they burn?" Luo Sun pursed her lips.

Chun Ya also said, "Sister Jiao Niang, my grandma is right, I'm afraid it won't burn."

"Don't want this, find some burnt ashes." Li Jiaoniang said with a smile, "Go, Chunya, come with me."

"Good."

Li Jiaoniang thought of another thing, now that the land has been turned over, these tools have to be returned.

Villagers don't have too many farm tools, so they can't borrow them for a long time.

The farm tools were borrowed by Zhong and Luo.

Li Jiaoniang said to Luo Sun, "Ninth Po, Chunya and I are going to find plant ash. You can return these farm tools? Sixth Aunt is going to make breakfast, she has no time."

She intentionally reminded Luo Sun that the Zhong family had something to do, lest Luo Sun push the matter on Zhong again.

Sure enough, Luo Sun choked with anger.

Well, she still couldn't escape being laughed at.

"Everyone knows how to make excuses, just go." Muttering in her mouth, Luo Sun carried the shovel and rake, and went to return the farm tools.

Li Jiaoniang and Chunya went home first.

You need tools to pack plant ash, so you have to find some bags to put it in.

There were leftover bags of rice at home, and Li Jiaoniang kept them all. She rummaged through them and found two old bags.

Mrs. Zhong was making porridge in the kitchen, seeing her busy looking for a bag, she couldn't help asking, "Jiao Niang, what are you looking for in a bag?"

"Put it in ashes."

"...Ash?" Zhong was surprised, "What ash?"

Li Jiaoniang pointed to the ashes in the stove with a smile, and said, "When Aunt Six has cooked the meal, I'll prepare it. I'll go to another house to look for it now."

Plant ashes pulled out from the stove will blow up a whole room of ashes, so how can you eat the porridge in the pot?
"What's the use of this?"

"Extremely useful, Fertility."

Li Jiaoniang took Chunya and the donkey to Xiang's house.

She told Mrs. Xiang the reason for her visit, but she amused her, "Yes, yes, I'm glad you emptied the stove in my house, saving me from digging out the ashes myself and pouring it out. "

The Xiang family has already had breakfast.

Mrs. Xiang led Li Jiaoniang to the kitchen to pack plant ashes.

However, the stoves in the farmhouses are not big, and a stove is hollowed out, and only a small half of the pocket is filled.

Xiang Da Niang smiled and said, "It's so little dust, the place is about the size of a palm, and if you fatten up a whole field, you have to go to the whole village."

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "A little accumulation makes a lot, I will find it slowly, and the field will gradually grow fat."

At this time, Mrs. Xiang thought of something, "By the way, Jiao Niang, why don't you go to the old Yao's house in the village and ask, his house has a kiln, which burns bricks, tiles and pots all the year round. I don't know how much ashes there are. "

The ashes from the brick kilns, of course, are too much.

Li Jiaoniang was overjoyed, "That's great, Aunt Xiang, where is the cave?"

After coming to Jinshan Village for a few days, it was the first time she heard that there was a brick kiln in the village.

He said to the eldest lady, "He is from the village, but the brick kiln is not in the village, it is near Yushan Village."

Li Jiaoniang smiled and said, "It's not far away, just ask around."

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Outside the gate of Xiang's courtyard, Chunya leads the donkey, waiting for Li Jiaoniang.

Xiang Erbao walked out of the house wearing a bamboo hat and carrying a hoe.

Chunya came to stay at Li Jiaoniang's house for a while, and got to know the neighbors nearby. She greeted her with a smile, "It's Erbao, I'm going to weed."

He glanced at Erbao and walked over.

Chun Ya: "..." She didn't seem to have done anything to offend him, did she?This kid, why are you looking at her coldly? "You don't look at me, and I don't look at you, hum."

Chun Ya turned her head away.

Li Jiaoniang came over, saw Chunya humming into the air, and asked her with a smile, "Hey, which flower in the sky offended you? Or is it a bird that is quarreling with you, why do you have such a long face?"

Chunya snorted, "I asked Xiang Erbao to go to the field, but he walked past with a cold face without saying a word, and I didn't offend him, he looked at me like that."

"Forget it, forget it, maybe he has a sore mouth and doesn't want to talk. Let's go to Yushan Village." Li Jiaoniang took the donkey from Chun Ya and walked towards Yushan Village.

Chun Ya blinked, "Sister Jiao Niang, what are we going to Yushan Village for?"

"Chunya, there is a brick kiln adjacent to Yushan Village and Jinshan Village, you know?"

"Yes, Sister Jiao Niang, are we going to the brick kiln?"

"There's a lot of ash there."

Chunya was surprised, "Yes, yes, that kiln is like a small house, with a big hole inside."

Li Jiaoniang quickened her pace and said, "It's not too late, let's go back early."

Braving the cool morning breeze, the two came to the brick kiln.

If you ask a stranger for something rashly, even if it is a waste product, the stranger will not be willing to give it for nothing.

Even if it is given, there are seven or eight conditions.

Li Jiaoniang didn't want to waste time and words, so after entering the brick kiln, she asked the kiln owner how many blue roof tiles there were.

The master saw that it was a young lady who came, so he neglected her a little, and slowly quoted the price.

But Li Jiaoniang was well-informed in her previous life, and after a few words, her words became more sophisticated.

The master didn't dare to look down on her anymore, "Young lady wants to build a house?"

"Well, my house is old and I want to renovate it, so I came here to ask about the price. By the way, I want to build three tile-roofed houses. How many tiles do I need and how much is it?"

The owner quoted a price, "Three brick houses, at least you have to prepare a consistent amount of money to buy tiles."

Li Jiaoniang said, "My family will renovate the house next month."

When they heard that the business would be next month, the owner was a little unhappy.

However, Li Jiaoniang asked the prices of other items and how many more to buy, the face of the host family eased up.

Li Jiaoniang bought ten bowls and two jars for pickling vegetables.

Although not many things were bought, a business must have been made.

Only then did the master cheer up, and helped Li Jiaoniang, tied the bowl and two jars with straw ropes, and hung them on the donkey's back.

When paying the money, Li Jiaoniang glanced at the kiln mouth, and asked the master with a smile, "Your plant ash, the master, can you give me some?"

The master raised his eyebrows.

Li Jiaoniang saved three Wen, "I don't take it for nothing."

Money is easy to talk about.

The master said, "Success, pretend as much as you want."

"Okay." Li Jiaoniang untied the bag from the donkey's back, and excitedly went to put the ashes.

It's worth spending three pennies to buy three bags of plant ash.

Chicken and duck manure fertilizer is not only at this price.

Someone helped to empty the kiln and gave back three coins. The master felt sorry and helped Li Jiaoniang carry the bag on the donkey's back, and gave a hemp rope to tie it tightly.

At this time, it was halfway through the hour, and the sun had risen a little bit. Taking the road without shade just now, although it was closer, it was very sunny and hot.

Li Jiaoniang decided to go home in another way.

The path behind the village is close to the barren mountain. Although it is half way away, because it is at the foot of the mountain, there are tall trees growing on both sides of the path, which is very shady.

Walk out of the tree-lined road and enter the village.

Beside the road into the village, there is a shallow pond with a size of two or three mu. The pond is full of wild bamboo shoots and reeds, as well as some wild horns, some wild lotus, and water hyacinth.

Li Jiaoniang walked to the shallow pond and did not leave, staring at the pond with bright eyes.

Chun Ya followed her to look, "Sister Jiao Niang, what are you looking at?" There is nothing, why is Jiao Niang so happy?
"Shh, don't make noise." Li Jiaoniang waved her hand, "There is the sound of wild ducks."

The sound of wild ducks came from the dense reeds.

Li Jiaoniang took off the little gray curly hair that came to play with from the donkey's back, pinched its small ears, and whispered, "Go, see the situation. If you catch a wild duck, I will give you two duck legs."

"There may be snakes~" Xiao Huimao grabbed Li Jiaoniang's sleeve, refusing to go anyway.

"If you don't go, I'll throw you into the pond, hum."

"Jiao Niang is bad, Jiao Niang is bad..." Little Gray Mao reluctantly let go of his paws and jumped into the pond.

It has a light body, with four short legs stepping on the lotus leaves, and got into the reeds.

(End of this chapter)