Lucky husband

Chapter 227 Ragnarok Rice

During these three days, those who harvested the grain in advance secretly rejoiced, while those who were unwilling to harvest the grain in advance prayed all the time for the rain to stop as soon as possible, regretting that they did not harvest the grain with the big guys.

Three days later, the untimely heavy rain finally stopped, and the farmers who still had food in the fields threw themselves into the fields to grab the harvest regardless of the muddy fields.

Crops that grow on the ground like corn are okay, but sweet potatoes are bad. Sweet potatoes are not so water-loving crops during the ripening stage, and the stems will rot if they are soaked in water for a long time. The continuous heavy rain for three days made everyone The planted sweet potatoes suffered more or less losses.

Not only Shanghe Village and nearby villages, but also the entire Changping County. Fortunately, all the rice has been harvested, and other grains except sweet potatoes are not affected too much. In addition, there are no other areas outside Changping County. It's raining heavily like this, so the price of sweet potatoes hasn't changed much.

Ragnarok rice appeared at this time, because after harvesting the rice, the sweet potatoes were harvested quickly. Li Chengli did not have time to deal with the harvested rice stalks and the rice piles still in the field. The heavy rain for three consecutive days made the rice fields full of water again. , After Li Chengli finished dealing with the matter at hand, he thought about going to the field to deal with the rice piles. He suddenly found that the rice piles had sprouted again.

Rice is a treasure. Needless to say, rice stalks have many uses. Poor families can use dried rice stalks to weave straw sandals, make mattresses, and build roofs. Those with better conditions can use rice stalks to start fires. The rod is flammable and makes a good fire starter.

Relatively speaking, the rice piles are not so good. When the rice was harvested, there would be some rice stalks left on the rice piles. This part of the rice stalks can be used like ordinary rice stalks, but it is much more troublesome because the remaining rice stalks are not Long, not easy to harvest, hard-working people still try to harvest as much rice stalk as possible.

As for the part buried in the ground, it can only be pulled out. It can be dried and shaken to clean the mud and set on fire, or it can be directly burned and sprinkled on the ground as fertilizer. After all, even if the rice pile is not so good, it will not be wasted. .

Generally speaking, after the rice is harvested, the rice piles will be pulled out immediately. One is because the rice stalks on the rice piles can be used, and the other is that it will be more difficult to pull out the rice piles when the water in the ground is dry. And if the rice piles are not pulled out, it will be more troublesome to plow the land in the next spring.

Li Chengli was always thinking about the piles of rice in his field. He was busy processing purple potatoes earlier, but then it started to rain heavily and he didn't have time to harvest them. Now that it wasn't raining and he was free, he hurried to work in the field.

In the past, he discovered something was wrong. Small green sprouts grew on the golden rice piles. The appearance of the small sprouts was obviously the same as the rice seedlings planted during the spring plowing. Li Chengli's eyes widened. , Ignoring the fact that there was still water in the rice field that had not been drained, I jumped down wearing straw sandals.

There are many such things as old trees sprouting new shoots. Li Chengli has seen more than one when he was chopping firewood in the mountains, but he has never heard of or seen new shoots from harvested rice.

After walking around in the rice field and observing carefully, Li Chengli found that more than half of the rice piles had sprouted. If he looked down carefully, he could find that a large part of the rice piles were green. Almost [-]% of the rice piles germinated, and only about [-]% of the rice piles did not respond.

Li Chengli stood up and looked around, and found that the rice piles that had not sprouted were slightly higher, and the rain did not bury their roots.

Rice, rice, if there is no water, there will be no rice. On the contrary, if there is water, there will be rice. Does it mean that those rice piles that have sprouted will grow new rice?

Li Chengli looked at the sprouting rice, his heart was beating like thunder, if his guess came true...

After looking around his two acres of land, Li Chengli wanted to see if there were any paddy fields nearby. What made him more uncomfortable was that there were none. The people with paddy fields in Shanghe Village were hardworking people. After everyone harvested the rice I almost cleaned up the rice piles, and I couldn't find anyone who left rice piles in the field like him and waited for several heavy rains.

Originally, Li Chengli planned to take his son to tear up the rice piles. Looking at his own field, he suddenly hesitated. He was thinking, or wait and see if these rice piles will grow a new round of rice.

He didn't know why he had such an idea. He knew that if he told others about this idea, everyone might think he was crazy, but he just wanted to see it.

When he was undecided, he would go back to discuss with his family members. The elder brother and the third younger brother were the priority candidates. It happened that that day was Xiumu, the county government. After Li Chengshi came back, Li Chengli immediately went to look for him and dragged him to the paddy field to watch.

Li Chengshi was the one among the three brothers who was relatively unfamiliar with the field work, but he also knew how to do it, so he was shocked when he saw the young crops on the rice pile.

Without giving his second brother a definite answer, Li Chengshi said that he would go back and think about it. He really wanted to think about it, and also wanted to see if Brother Jin would have a dream at night, dreaming that this rice pile came out What can a green seedling grow.

To Li Chengshi's disappointment, Li Mingjin didn't have a dream this time, so he was a little uncertain about how to deal with it. Relatively speaking, he didn't think it was necessary to pull out the rice pile so early.

On the same day, Li Chengli also took his elder brother to see the rice piles in the field.

Li Chengzhi is very courageous. After he was dragged by his younger brother to see the young crops in the field, he asked his younger brother to try again. Anyway, the paddy field will not be used for other purposes after the rice is harvested. It doesn't matter what it looks like, the big deal is that it will have nothing when it's cold, and the brothers will go up together to pull out the rice piles.

Li Chengzhi's words gave Li Chengli a decision. Instead of pulling out the rice piles in the paddy field, he poured more water into the paddy field, blocked the water outlet, and sprinkled some fertilizer on the field.

Because everyone’s paddy fields have been taken care of, so when Li Chengli was doing this, few people noticed at the beginning. Later, some people saw him often running to the paddy fields, only to find that the rice piles in Li Chengli’s paddy fields had not been pulled out. New shoots came out, and by then the shoots had already grown to the height of a palm.

It was at this time that old man Li knew what his son had done. He ran to Li Chengli's paddy field in disbelief, and watched the two acres of rice piles with extraordinary information from head to toe, with a dazed expression. .

If you let the big guys see it when the sprouts are just growing, you may not be able to see anything, but when the sprouts have grown to the height of your palm, it is not difficult for everyone to see what Li Chengli is planning to do.

Because of this matter, the old man Li Li and the old lady Li had a disagreement. The old man Li thought that Li Chengli was messing around, but the old lady Li thought it was worth a try. Anyway, the paddy fields will not be used to grow other food, so let them go. It’s also left alone, even if you can’t grow anything in the end, it’s just a matter of spending some effort, and it’s okay.

When the villagers were discussing the two acres of land, Li Chengshi also mentioned this incident in the county government chatting with the county magistrate Zhao Chengze.

When the Zhao family raised their children, they would take the children to their farm to watch the farmers plant the land, so that the Zhao family's children could understand what happened to the crops in the field, so Zhao Chengze was also very excited when he heard Li Chengshi's words. Shock.

After being silent for a while, Zhao Chengze remembered that when he was out, he heard those traveling caravans talk about the situation in the south. What impressed him most was that they said that in the special south, the land there can grow two rounds of grain a year. At that time, he just listened to it as a joke, thinking that the people in the caravan deliberately exaggerated, so that people could pay attention to them.

Now that I think about it, could it be that what they said is true, two rounds of grain can really be grown in the field, and the second round of grain grows on the rice pile?

After thinking and thinking, Zhao Chengze told Li Chengshi what he had heard at the time, and told him to go back and talk to his brother in a good voice, and take care of the two acres of rice piles that have germinated again. If they can really grow food, it will definitely be a great achievement .

Before Xiu Mu came home next time, Zhao Chengze granted Li Chengshi a half-day vacation and asked him to go back and talk about it.

With the "approval" and "support" of the county magistrate, Li Chengli began to take care of the two acres of land seriously. At the beginning of November of this year, the new ears of rice growing from the rice piles could be harvested.

On the day of the rice harvest, Zhao Chengze personally brought people to watch them work in the field, watching everyone harvest this extraordinary round of rice bit by bit.

At that time, the weather had cooled down, but everyone’s hearts were hot. Usually, one mu of land can harvest more than 300 catties of rice. These rice spikes grown on the rice piles only harvested about [-] catties in two mus of land. reduced by nearly half.

Without thinking about it, Zhao Chengze took the rice away with a few ears of rice that had not been threshed.

At that time, Zhao Chengze was in a hurry to go back to write the booklet and did not give Li Chengli the money, but afterward, he directly sent 20 taels of silver to Li Chengli as the money to buy the rice.

A catty of rice is only fifteen taels of money, and two mu of land collected four hundred catties and sold it to the grain shop for six taels of silver. endlessly.

Why are they so diligent? They pull out the rice piles immediately after harvesting the rice. If they had known that keeping the ears of rice in the ground would allow another round of rice to grow, they would never have worked so hard. Yinzi, these rice can be eaten at home or sold!

But what happened later made everyone feel less jealous, because in the spring of the second year, the capital sent officials directly to Changping County, and went to Shanghe Village almost every day to observe Li Chengli's rice planting situation.

In the second year, the entire Shanghe Village and nearby villages did not pull out the rice piles, and everyone planted rice on the rice piles together with Li Chengli.

The yield of this kind of rice is not high, and the taste is not very good, but it is real rice, and the rice is white after removing the husk, a standard fine grain.

People who are reluctant to eat refined grains for their families on weekdays are willing to keep the rice for their own family after they grow this kind of rice pile rice.

This year, the capital sent an agricultural official to record clearly the growth process of this kind of rice. With a swipe of a pen, the emperor named this kind of rice Ragnarok, and rewarded Li Chengli, who discovered it, with a large sum of money.

In less than two years, Li Chengli became the richest, most powerful, and most famous among the three brothers of the Li family.

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