coobybook Chapter 302 Harvesting the First Crop of Rice
Chapter 302 Harvesting the First Crop of Rice
The people in the queue behind them stepped forward tremblingly, carefully examining the rice plant. After a while, they frowned, and saw that the stamens had indeed been pinched off.
One of them leaned over and said, "Sir, I've been farming for my whole life. This rice plant simply had its stamens pinched off. It's not naturally like this."
"Yes, sir. I have been farming since I could walk, so I would never make a mistake. The stamens of this rice plant were pinched off by someone." said another person.
"Yes, they are right. The stamens of this rice plant were pinched off by someone," said the third person.
Lin Jingyou said to Xiao Luo standing beside him, "Xiao Luo, drag him away and give him twenty lashes of the cane as a warning to others. If anyone else deceives me and tries to defraud the reward, once discovered, give him twenty lashes of the cane and throw him out of the county office."
"Yes, sir." Xiao Luo clasped his hands together and dragged the man away.
The man was still crying out for justice, but Lin Jingyou would not be soft-hearted. He had just encountered this situation at the beginning, so he had to make an example of him.
After this incident, several people in the queue left in shame, holding their rice, claiming to have stomachaches.
"Okay, next one." Lin Jingyou said again.
The third person came forward with his own rice. He had just seen the man’s rice with his own eyes, so he knew that Lin Jingyou was not lying, and he was not as scared as before.
After checking, Lin Jingyou confirmed, "Yes, it's a plant without stamens. Fang Huai, give him the silver reward."
Fang Huai took out some silver and handed it to the man. After taking the silver, the man thanked him profusely and left.
When the people behind saw this scene, they finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Lin Jingyou was not trying to cheat them of their rice.
There was not much sterile rice to begin with, and soon Lin Jingyou had distributed all the rewards to these people.
After what happened today, no one would dare to deceive him by pinching off the stamens of the plant.
After Lin Jingyou got the plants, he immediately had someone drive a horse-drawn carriage to deliver these sterile lines to Daqing Village.
In the past few days, County Magistrate He and Lin Jingyou both sent people to deliver some more sterile lines. Finally, Shen Wanning counted them and found that there were a total of ninety-three plants.
It is true that there is strength in numbers, and perhaps it is the power of money that makes the people spare no effort to find rice.
After planting the sterile rice in the backyard, Shen Wanning dug up some normal rice from the paddy field and artificially pollinated the two. All that was left was to wait for the rice to mature.
It was already early July, the weather was getting hotter, and a suffocating heat wave filled the air.
Shen Wanning took out a piece of cloth, folded it into four layers, and finally tied the two ends with a hemp rope to make it look like a swing.
Finally, tie the swing to two trees, and you have a simple hammock.
She hugged Lin Hai and lay in the hammock under the shade of the tree. The breeze blew from time to time, making her feel even more comfortable.
Yue Mingzhu stood under the tree, looking at Shen Wanning with envy. But she was too embarrassed to go up to Shen Wanning and talk to her, so she just stood under the tree and watched.
Shen Wanning saw what she was thinking, smiled, sat up and said, "Mingzhu, why don't you come and play? I'll go see how the rice in the backyard is growing."
If transplanted in hot weather, even easy-to-survive plants like rice will inevitably become like eggplants hit by frost.
Fortunately, she built a shed in the backyard to prevent the newly transplanted plants from being killed by the sun.
Yue Mingzhu came over excitedly and said, "Okay, okay, I'll try it."
After Yue Mingzhu lay down on the hammock, Shen Wanning put Lin Hai in her arms.
Mrs. Wen was worried that Yue Mingzhu might accidentally fall into Lin Hai, so she sat aside with cotton, twisting the thread while watching them.
After all, cotton had only been discovered the previous year, so they didn't originally know how to twist it into thread.
It was still the video that netizens sent to Shen Wanning. First, use two dense nail boards to pull the cotton very loosely, then roll the cotton into a roll, and finally pull out a piece from the roll and slowly twist it into a cotton thread.
Because they were going to test Lin Jiang's loom later, they needed to spin a lot of thread before that. These past few days, Wen and Aunt Zhang had nothing to do, so they sat under the big tree at the gate of the yard and spun the thread, and they also called in a few women from the village to help.
Lin Dashan and Lin Jiang had already made a loom, but Lin Jiang insisted on waiting until the spinning wheel was made before reporting it to the court together.
Time flies, and another half month has passed, and the rice is finally ripe.
Shen Wanning gathered the rice planted in the backyard and immediately planted the seeds, waiting for another harvest this year.
It was already late July, and the grapes on the mountain were ripe. She went to see them and picked some more.
After washing them with well water, they were placed under a tree. The family sat under the tree after lunch, chatting and eating grapes, feeling very comfortable.
Since Yue Mingzhu really liked hammocks, Shen Wanning later made one for her.
The two of them sat on the hammock, chatting together and enjoying the coolness brought by the breeze.
"Wan Ning, aren't these grapes going to be made into milk tea? If we eat these grapes, what will happen to the milk tea?" Aunt Zhang just pinched a grape and tasted it. She felt it was delicious, but she didn't dare to eat more.
"It's okay. I plan to use these grapes to make wine. These grapes can make a lot of wine. We can't eat much, and we don't eat it every day." Shen Wanning ate a grape and said.
"Making wine? These grapes can be used to make wine? Will the wine taste like grapes?" Lin Dashan asked.
Men are always more sensitive to things like alcohol.
Shen Wanning smiled and replied, "Yes, the wine tastes like grapes, but the taste will also vary depending on the brewing time. This wine is purple-red in color, so women can drink it too. And drinking wine is good for women's health!"
"Really? Then wait until you brew it, let's all try some." Xu was very interested.
"Okay! I have asked them to pick grapes. We will start today after they deliver the grapes. Counting the days, the five milk tea shops have already opened. I wonder how the business is going. I have to make new fruit products as soon as possible and send them to them." Shen Wanning said.
The method of brewing wine is very simple, and Shen Wanning is not too worried about failure.
After dinner, the family sat in the yard to enjoy the cool breeze. Chen Zihao and several other villagers came in carrying two baskets of grapes.
"Ms. Shen, we picked two baskets of grapes today. It's not easy to store them because of the hot weather, so we only picked this many," said Chen Zihao.
"Well, okay, put the grapes here! Thank you, you've worked hard." Shen Wanning said, pointing to the well.