Crossing the Unknown Country

Chapter 215 Su He arranged for Zhuangzi to start ecological farming

Su He also said with a serious face, "You must tell everyone in the village not to spread our business outside. This is related to the big customers in the city."

Village head Wang also said nervously: "Young master, don't worry. The people in our village are basically very honest. They usually don't go out. They go to the town to buy things and then come back. Going to the city requires money, and no one is willing to spend that money."

The wife of Wang Zhuangtou said, "There is no one who talks too much in the village. We are all honest people who stayed here for the master. We just need to explain it to them. The indentures of everyone are with you, the master. We all know what to do."

Wang Zhuangtou also repeatedly said: "I will go down and explain everything one by one. Don't worry, the owner, we must not let our business be affected."

At the end of the day, Wang Zhuangtou sent people to the town to buy all the necessary things, and also ordered the shelves from the village, which would be delivered tomorrow. Some small things that the people in the village could make by themselves could be made in the village.

Su He's father asked what the people in the village could do, so he would know what kind of people to buy next time.

In the afternoon, Su He's father took Wang Zhuangtou and found several men in the village to learn composting together, which could also help increase the fertility of the fields in the village. After all, the village is mainly based on farming, so this must be done.

After they learned how to compost, Su He's father said to them, "If you work hard on the fields, the grain yield per mu will go up. We tried it last year and it was very useful. Now everyone in our village is doing it!"

Their eyes lit up. This was a great thing. Their families relied on farming to make a living. Apart from what they paid, the rest was their own food. If the yield per mu was high, they would have more surplus food. Who wouldn't be happy? Although the owner would give them some food in case of natural disasters, they still had to eat their fill.

The people in the village were very glad to have met a good master. As soon as the master arrived, he started to build chicken pens and increase the number of chickens. The chicken manure produced by the chickens could be used for composting. In this way, they did not have to worry about finding fertilizers. In addition, the ready-made wood ash and dead branches and leaves, and the rotten leaves left over from cooking and the water used to wash the pots were all used.

Su He also asked Wang Zhuangtou to send people to buy fruit trees, and plant them at the edge of the field and inside the wall of the village. Don't plant them too close to the wall. Plant some low berry bushes near the wall. The thorns are just to prevent bad guys from climbing in. Plant some apples, pears, peaches, apricots and other easy-to-grow trees further in. When the fruit trees are ripe, you can eat them yourself, make some jams and canned food, and sell the good ones for money.

In this way, some open space in the fields and farms can be used. The unsatisfactory fruits can be fed to chickens, pigs and other animals. Sometimes chickens can be released into the forest to eat insects, forming an ecological farming.

There is a small pond on the farm. Su He asked Wang Zhuangtou to divert water to the fields so that two acres of rice can be planted. Some fish fry can be put in the rice and some ducks can be raised. When the rice harvest is good, the fish and ducks can also be raised well. This is also an ecological farming.

Village head Wang was worried that no one in their village knew how to grow rice. Meng Qiang happened to be chopping wood and heard them talking about growing rice. He smiled and said, "Master and village head, don't worry. This old man knows how to grow rice. Our former master's family grew a lot of rice. I lived in the village when I was young, and I know how to grow it."

Wang Zhuangtou no longer had to worry. Su He smiled and said to Meng Qiang, "Uncle Meng, are you growing rice seedlings?"

Meng Qiang smiled and said: "For the seedlings, we specially paid people from the south to come and teach us how to grow rice. This is also what we learned from them."

Su He was relieved now, knowing that it was not a big problem. Everyone was originally a farmer, so they should be able to learn this quickly.

Meng Qiang added: "But they don't raise fish and ducks in the fields. I don't know if this is feasible. We have never done this before."