After talking about the fish in the paddy fields, the topic naturally turned to the rice in the fields.

Now that it is summer, under the full sunshine, the three crops of rice that have grown into rice flowers have bloomed one after another in the past two days, and the carp just came to the water to eat the rice flowers that fell from above.

The fragrance of rice flowers says that there is a good year, and the sound of frogs is heard!

I memorized this poem when I was in school, but unfortunately Xiao Han, who lived in the dry land since he was a child, seems to have only seen wheat grown. It was only after he arrived here that he first learned about the appearance of the rice flower.

In the paddy field, those small, tender white tiny flowers hang on the ears of rice. As soon as the wind blew, some of them fell into the water, and in the blink of an eye, they were swallowed by greedy fish.

Rice also needs to be pollinated by flowering, which Xiao Han learned when he was in school. And Xiao Han still remembers that the principle of hybrid rice is to pollinate different rice varieties with each other, and then breed them, so as to select varieties with high yield and good disease resistance.

The yield of native rice is simply too low! Even if the farmer gets up early and works late, at the end of the year, the remaining grain is still pitiful. There will even be a ridiculous thing that has been planted all your life, but you have never eaten a few full meals!

After Xiao Han learned about this, he always wanted to increase the yield of grain through hybridization.

However, the three-season rice here grows too fast, and the other rice varieties planted at the same time do not grow, so it blooms first! So now he can only hope for the three-crop rice that grows in Xiao's Zhuangzi, because the local rice there was planted earlier!

Let's see if they can bloom at the same time, we can find a way to crossbreed, and as for whether there are any good seeds, it depends on the will of God.

The green rice field is pleasing to the eye, Xiao Han is still thinking about hybrid rice, and Lao Feng is trying to stretch out his arm, pull over a rice that has finished flowering, and start counting the grains on it.

"Count what?" Xiao Han, who came back to his senses, saw Lao Feng's actions, and squatted down curiously to watch him count them one by one.

Lao Feng smiled, and after counting the entire ears of rice, he said to Xiao Han: "Master Hou, look! This new seed is indeed good! Not only does it grow fast, but it's also big! There are one hundred and seventy-four grains in this ear! And I saw a big ear yesterday, and when I counted it, I dropped obediently, more than 200 grains! Old man, I have lived for half my life, and I have never heard of a plant that can grow so much, so I thought, if each plant grows so much, wouldn't it be possible to produce as many as four or five stones per acre of land? ”

(Ps In the Tang Dynasty, an acre of land was slightly smaller than now, and the unit of one stone equivalent to the Han Dynasty was 3.75 stone per mu, which is equivalent to 334 catties per mu in today's city system.) According to historical records, one stone of grain is produced in ordinary fields, and two stones are used in high-yield fields. ）

"Four or five stones per mu?" Xiao Han calculated in his heart, that is, the yield per mu is about 1,500 catties!

This figure is astronomical for Lao Feng, but for future generations, it is just a very ordinary real estate. At least Xiao Han knew that in his time, it was common to produce more than one ton per mu, and there was nothing strange. What really made him feel strange was that Lao Feng was so familiar with these mu yield data.

Glancing up at Lao Feng, Xiao Han asked in wonder, "Oh? Lao Feng, are you still so proficient in agricultural affairs in this county order? ”

Lao Feng let go of the rice ears, stroked the leaves of the rice with a somewhat rough palm, and said with some emotion: "Master Hou said that I was also from a farming family. I have been working in the fields since I was a child, and now I still have a few acres of thin fields at home, how do I not know these things? However, this kind of land, all year round, whether you can harvest or not depends on God's face, it's difficult! ”

"Oh? Lao Feng, as a county honor, do you still have to work in the field? ”

"Hehe, in the spring ploughing and autumn harvest season, even the emperor and queen have to go to the ground to plow and harvest, how can I avoid vulgarity?"

"What? The emperor and queen are also going to the ground? Could it be that the emperor is carrying a golden hoe to hoe the ground, and the queen is eating scallion pancakes on the ground? Xiao Han suddenly laughed out loud, because he remembered a very famous joke in later generations from Lao Feng's words.

"What kind of golden hoe and scallion pancake did Master Hou say?" Lao Feng didn't know why Xiao Han suddenly laughed, and looked at him in surprise and asked.

"Golden hoe, scallion pancake is ......" Xiao Han was about to explain, and suddenly felt that this joke was a little silly, so he tried to stop his smile and said to Lao Feng: "Ahem, nothing, nothing, just curious about what kind of scene the emperor is farming?" ”

Xiao Han took it back halfway through his words, making Lao Feng roll his eyes: "Master Hou, don't you know?" Every year at that time, the nobles of Chang'an will work in the fields with the emperor, haven't you been there? ”

"And this rule?" Now, it was Xiao Han's turn to be stunned. He has been in Datang for less than a year, how can he know about this kind of thing, and no one calls him!

"Maybe my grade is not enough, people won't take me to play......" Xiao Han scratched the back of his head and replied uncertainly.

"Uh...... Maybe it's just a coincidence! "It's bad, although I don't know why the emperor didn't ask him to participate together, but it's always embarrassing to expose it like this, Lao Feng hurriedly made up a reason to deal with the past.

was interrupted like this, and the two had no topic for a while, so they could only get up and continue to walk forward to have a look.

Along the narrow ridge, the two soon walked to the ditch on the edge of the rice field.

The water in the small ditch is still clear, and because it is warmed by the summer sun, every evening when the sun has not gone down, there are always people who have worked all day in it to bathe and go to the fatigue of the day.

Xiao Han also loves to take a bath here now, and there is an exclusive place for him in the upper reaches of the water! If you don't swim twice a day, you can't sleep at night.

There were clouds in the sky, but there was also some heat and sweat along the way. Since you have come to the ditch, it is necessary to wash your face!

Stepping on a few stones on the side, Xiao Han cautiously approached the water, and just picked up a handful of water, Leng Buding's dog head floated over from downstream......

"Wang......

"Ah!! Xiaoqi! ”

A sudden dog bark accompanied by a scream came, which frightened Lao Feng and hurriedly looked up!

In the ditch, a big dog and a fish jumped over the dragon gate, carrying countless water droplets up and down his body and rushing straight to Xiao Han! Poor Xiao Han protected his face with his arms indiscriminately, and subconsciously stretched out a foot, but he just kicked the dog's head, and the big dog flew back into the water with its four paws.

"Wangwangwang......" Xiao Qi fell into the water on his back, and he didn't know how much water was poured into the dog's mouth, anyway, Xiao Han could see that it was swimming and trying to spit out......

"!! Lao Tzu just changed his clothes! Hurriedly fled back to the shore first, Xiao Han turned his head and scolded Xiao Qi angrily!

This stupid dog, thinking that he was petite at the beginning, loved to pounce on him when he went crazy! I don't know if it pounced, Ren Qing couldn't stand it?

Not to mention anything else, a few nights ago, there was a half-big wild boar that ran down from the Qinling Mountains, and it was pounced! As a result, he fell to the ground and didn't get up for a long time, and then Ren Qing and the others rushed over when they heard the sound, and then they made a big meal......

After being kicked for no reason, Xiao Qi was a little aggrieved, and climbed ashore by himself, his hair trembled, and a rainbow was printed beside him.

"Go back, stay away from me!" scolded and drove Xiao Qi away, Xiao Han shook the water in his hand angrily. Now I don't have the interest to wash my face, this dog doesn't know how long it has been soaked in water, how to wash its face?