strictlysupreme Chapter 318 Autumn Harvest
Chapter 318 Autumn Harvest
After Shen Qi finished speaking, he sighed in his heart. He understood the reasons why his granddaughter refused their help. First, she didn't want to cause trouble for Yaowang Valley, and second, it was because of Jiang Dichen.
This is because, as long as someone from Yaowang Valley is involved in her affairs, they will be directly related to Jiang Dichen. If things go wrong, their Yaowang Valley may be harassed by the royal families of several countries.
Shen Qi looked at his granddaughter who always cared about him and felt very guilty. He had wanted to make his granddaughter's life easier, but he didn't expect that they would become a burden to her.
Shen Ruolan didn't know what her grandfather was thinking. She looked at him and smiled and said, "Okay."
As soon as Shen Ruolan finished speaking, she heard Ji Ning reporting from outside the door: "Master, Manager Miao has sent someone to pick you up."
When Shen Ruolan heard that Miao Wei had sent someone over, she quickly finished the last bite of her meal and said to her grandfather, "Grandpa, take your time eating. I'm going to harvest the rice."
After Shen Ruolan finished speaking, she gave instructions to the two children and got up to leave.
Shen Qi watched his granddaughter leave in a hurry, and taught his grandsons, "Look at your sister Lan. Is she not as good as you in medicine, or is she not as wealthy as you? She is a woman with two young children, but she works so hard. You young masters who have everything you want, why don't you work hard?"
After Shen Yizi and the others heard what their grandfather said, they all bowed their heads in shame and said, "Yes, Grandpa, we will study hard in the future."
Especially Shen Hui, who had just been clamoring to help Shen Ruolan, after hearing what his grandfather said, he now wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Shen Qi looked at everyone and said, "I hope you will do what you say."
After he finished speaking, he paused and continued, "However, Lan'er is busy with the autumn harvest recently. You should go and help her harvest the grain first."
"Yes, Grandpa." When they heard that they were going to the fields to harvest the crops, they took their bowls and gulped down the porridge in them. Each of them took a pancake and went out.
Shen Ruolan and Ji Ning came to the field and saw that everyone had already harvested one acre of land. She hurriedly said to Miao Wei: "Miao Wei, weigh it quickly to see how much rice can be harvested from one acre of land."
Miao Wei packed the rice and said to his master with a smile: "Master, I'm getting ready to weigh it."
After he finished packing the last bag of food, he called out to the villagers nearby: "Uncle Liu, come over and help me."
"Hey, here I come." After hearing what Miao Wei said, several villagers who were busy with their work quickly put down their work and came over to help.
After Shen Ruolan finished weighing one acre of land, she calculated that it was a little short of 270 kilograms. After drying, the yield per acre was expected to be around 250 to 260 kilograms.
Miao Wei saw that his master had been silent for a long time. He touched his head and asked anxiously, "Master, how much grain did you harvest from this acre of land?"
Shen Ruolan looked up at him and smiled, "Almost 270 kilograms. After the moisture is dried, the yield per acre will be between 250 and 260 kilograms."
When Miao Wei heard that one acre of land yielded more than 200 kilograms, he looked at Shen Ruo excitedly and said, "Master, this is really great. I didn't expect that this wasteland could yield so much in the first year."
You know, if their ordinary cultivated fields are not well-fertilized and managed, they can only harvest this much. If this becomes a cultivated field, won’t the yield be even greater?
The more Miao Wei thought about it, the more excited he became. If things continued to develop in this way, within three years, not only would they not be able to finish eating all the food in the mountains, but they would also have a lot of surplus.
Shen Ruolan was also surprised that one acre of wasteland could yield more than 200 kilograms of grain. She looked at the excited Miao Wei and said, "Yes, it's quite unexpected, but this also proves that everyone is working very hard."
"Hehe" Miao Wei touched his head and smiled.
Shen Ruolan looked at him and said, "Pass the order down and have everyone harvest the rice quickly. After the rice is harvested, we will give everyone an extra meal on the day."
"Yes, master." After Miao Wei finished speaking, he quickly passed the message to everyone.
When everyone heard that they would be given a snack after the rice was harvested, they all worked very hard.
"Sister Lan, we are here to help you harvest the rice." Suddenly, Shen Hui and a group of disciples of the Shen family, each holding a sickle, walked towards Shen Ruolan.
Shen Ruolan looked at the nobles walking towards her and felt a headache. She rubbed her brows and said to her brothers, "Cousin, you should study quickly. I don't have much rice and it will be harvested in a few days."
Shen Ruolan was telling the truth. She only had about 1,000 acres of rice this year. There were more than 10,000 people in her village. If all of them worked, they could finish harvesting it in two days at most.
However, she didn't have that much stuff, so she had to do the cleanup over several days.
It was a rare day that Shen Hui didn't study. He held up his sickle and said to Shen Ruolan in a good mood, "Sister Lan, it was Grandpa who asked us to help you harvest the rice. Don't refuse."
After he finished speaking, he walked to an unharvested rice field, bent down and started harvesting the rice.
Seeing this, others hurried to follow.
Shen Ruolan looked at her brothers who were doing their best and worried that they would waste the food. She quickly followed them and supervised them, saying, "Third cousin, be gentle and don't shake the rice off the field."
"Second cousin, you left the rice roots too high. Cut them lower."
"Seventeenth cousin, please don't step on the rice."
The brothers and sisters of the Shen family cut the grass for the whole morning, and Shen Ruolan shouted for the whole morning, her voice was almost hoarse, but fortunately there were no mistakes afterwards. "
Ji Ning handed her the kettle and said, "Master, have a drink of water and take a rest."
Shen Ruolan drank some water and said to Ji Ning, "Ji Ning, you will be responsible for keeping an eye on everyone this afternoon. Don't let them waste the food by mistake."
She worked hard for a year and finally harvested a little bit of food, so she was reluctant to waste even a grain.
Ji Ning said to his master: "Yes, Master."
In the next few days, Shen Ruolan's village was busy with the autumn harvest. At the end of the fifth day, she lavishly asked the villagers to kill three pigs to celebrate.
You know, she has bought a total of twenty-one pigs, big and small, since she entered the mountains last year.
Among them were two sows, one boar, and ten piglets. She bought them when she went to Cangling City last time. They were still very small, and she killed three of the big ones at once, leaving almost no pigs left.
Shen Ruolan looked at the processed pork and instructed Ji Ning, "Ji Ning, we will keep ten pounds of pork belly, two ribs, three pork legs, and three portions of pork offal, and send twenty pounds to Neishan. The remaining meat will be divided equally among the several kitchens."
"Yes, master." Ji Ning replied.
Shen Ruolan looked at Ji Ning's back and said, "By the way, go and distribute food to everyone so that everyone can cook dry rice tonight."
Everyone has worked hard for a year and finally made it to the autumn harvest. She, Shen Ruolan, can't afford to give more, but it's no problem for everyone to have a meal of dry rice.