Chapter 145 Fisherman
"Have ambition." Shang Wan pinched his face.
Chu Xu stopped talking and muttered: "Don't pinch my young master's face casually."
Shang Wan clicked his tongue secretly, it was awkward for a child.
"Mom!" Yuanyuan crawled over and raised her fair little face to look at Shang Wan.
Shang Wan lowered his head and kissed her little face. The kiss made the little guy smile so much that his eyes curved into arcs. He put down the turtle and hugged Shang Wan softly.
Chu Xu watched from the side, thinking that as long as the little girl didn't crawl on her with a turtle, he couldn't play with her.
After coaxing the children, Shang Wan went to the kitchen and grabbed a small bag of dried meat, and walked into the field while eating.
After harvesting the cabbage, the five acres of wasteland that had been opened up were temporarily uncultivated. Originally, I wanted to plant wheat, but Shang Wan thought about it and decided not to do it.
Food can be grown in space, it takes a short time and is easy to put away.
She plans to use her land to grow vegetables and herbs.
Collecting herbs from the mountains is fine in small quantities, but if you really want to do the medicinal business, you have to rely on artificial cultivation.
However, each herb has different growth habits and has different requirements for soil acidity and alkali, environmental humidity, weather temperature, soil fertility, etc.
Some herbs can grow in mountains and forests, but they may not survive when artificially planted in the ground. Even if some herbs do survive, their medicinal properties will be greatly reduced.
The environment of the mountains and forests cannot be imitated by just a few acres of land.
Besides, ordinary land is no better than space spiritual fields. When planting things in the spiritual field, you only need to sow the seeds and wait for the harvest. You don't even need to water them. Ordinary land requires more attention.
Shang Wan believes that there are always more solutions than difficulties. She has been thinking about this recently and plans to start with both seeds and soil.
Seeds are not difficult to make. Judging from the experimental results of planting Chinese cabbage in the ground, the seeds produced through space have fundamentally changed. Not only are they 100% able to germinate, but they also grow faster than ordinary Chinese cabbage. I want to think about herbal seeds. Same thing.
Now the only thing missing is the soil.
Shang Wan had an idea. Since Lingquan water can improve people's physical condition, can it also improve the soil?
Of course, the current stock of spiritual spring water in the space is not enough for her to squander it in the ground, and she is not so wasteful.
However, pure spiritual spring water is not enough. You can still try diluted spiritual spring water.
For the past two days, she mixed several barrels of diluted spiritual spring water with Shi Shi to water only two acres of land, creating a control group with the other three acres of land.
When Shang Wan arrived at the field, the soil had already been watered with stones. In strict accordance with Shang Wan's request, only two acres of land were watered.
"Sister, these cabbage seeds should be ready for harvest." Shitou pointed to the dozen or so cabbage seeds specially used for planting.
Shang Wan walked over and knelt down to collect one of the plants into the space.
She wanted to see if space could automatically collect the seeds for her.
In terms of results, no.
The space will only automatically collect the seeds of spiritual field crops.
The seed-bearing cabbage you just put in is what it is outside the space, and it is what it is inside the space.
Shitou knelt down and pulled weeds, "Sister, we really don't want to plant some wheat. I see everyone in the village is planting it."
"The race of the people in the village is the business of the villagers. Our family does not do it."
Shitou was worried: "What will happen then when we pay the grain tax?"
"I can plant it in space, or buy it directly." Shang Wan said, "Are you worried that you can't buy food if you have money?"
Shitou nodded, and the weeds at his hand were piled higher and higher. "Sister, since we watered them, these weeds have grown very fast. They can grow up to their ankles in just one night." Shang Wan thinks this is a good thing. , the better the soil, the better the grass will grow, but you will have to work hard to pull out the grass frequently.
"It's not hard, Yuanyuan can help me." Shitou smiled, "Yesterday Yuanyuan asked monkeys to help me pull out weeds on two acres of land. When we plant the herbs later, I have to teach them to distinguish between weeds. Grass and herbs, don’t pull out the herbs we planted.”
Shang Wan began to sympathize with the monkeys. She collected all the cabbage seeds into the space, and then helped Shi Shi pull the weeds together.
The newly grown weeds did not have deep roots and were pulled up quickly. The two of them were talking and they had pulled out all the grass in the ground in less than half an hour.
The stones disperse the weeds and select those that can be used to feed cattle and sheep. The remaining ones are left untouched and can be carried back to start fires after they are dried in the sun.
After another two days of this, Shang Wan took Shi Shi to the mountains to collect some herbal branches suitable for cutting, cut them into short and even lengths, soaked them in Lingquan water before inserting them into the ground to increase the survival rate.
The two of them were inexperienced, and Shang Wan's insertion was a bit better. The one with the stone was crooked, like an earthworm, randomly driving an obsessive-compulsive person to death.
"That's it." Shang Wan wiped the mud off his hands with a blade of grass and washed them in the bucket.
She said to Shitou, "Xiaohuan said I would make pickled fish at night. I will go to the river to catch two grass carp. You take the things back first."
Shitou: "Okay."
When we came to the river, the water was rippling and the river breeze was gentle, which felt very comfortable on our face.
Shang Wan looked at the mountains in the distance with his hands behind his back. He was dressed in green clothes as tall and straight as bamboo. His black hair was tied behind his head with a simple piece of red silk. The river breeze fluttered the skirt, making it look like floating waves.
There are many people by the river, including those washing clothes, fishing, playing, and washing pots and pans.
The children ran barefoot on the river beach, picking up stones, fighting against strange stones, floating in the water, and making crisp laughter.
Shang Wan bent down and picked up two small stones and held them in his hands. He slowly approached the playing children. With a flick of his wrist, a stone flew out and floated on the river for more than twenty times before sinking into the water. .
"Wow!" The children exclaimed, looking at Shang Wan with admiration in their eyes, and clamoring to learn.
"It's easy, just follow me." Shang Wan made a slow motion signal, "When throwing, use your arms instead of your wrists. Only when you use your arms will you fly far."
After saying that, she threw the pebbles in her hand out again. They floated for more than thirty times in a row until they were almost out of sight before they fell into the water.
The children's faces turned red with excitement, and they followed Shang Wan's example one after another. Suddenly, several pebbles fell into the water, and the sound of "plop" was heard all the time.
The fisherman seemed to be disturbed and lost interest. He pulled down the brim of his hat and left with his fishing rod and fishing basket.
Shang Wan glanced at the direction he left, lowered his head and asked the child closest to him, "Is that fishing guy from the village?"
The child was the second fat man. When Shang Wan asked, he raised his head and glanced at the place where the man was fishing. He pursed his lips and thought about it seriously, then shook his head, "I can't see my face in the hat."
Shang Wan asked a few more children, and they either said they hadn't seen it or they didn't know. Some of them didn't even notice that there was a person there.
Shang Wan: "Do you usually play here?"
"Come often."
"I will come when my mother comes."
"You can catch crabs here, and you can also net small fish after it rains."
"I'll pick up the rocks."
the children chirped in reply.
It can be heard from the answers that as long as the water does not rise and it rains heavily, children often come to play by the river.
Shang Wan smiled and distributed the dried meat to the children. It was not much, just one piece for each person, but it also made the children cheer.
Some stuffed it all into their mouths, some shared it with adults, and some were reluctant to eat it and put it away quietly.