The spring wind blows from the river, blowing warmly on people's faces, like a girl's hand brushing her cheeks, with the fragrance of willow sprouts.

Xiuxiu and Su'er stood side by side, watching Xu Ping lead people to stir basins of lime water. The spring sun shone on their faces, their faces crystal clear and somewhat transparent, and their contours had a faint glow.

Xiuxiu's face was full of curiosity, but Su'er shook her little head from time to time and sighed.

Watching Xu Ping lead people to pour the selected soaked rice seeds into the lime water, Su Er couldn't help but say: "Xiuxiu, let me tell you, the officials must be messing with each other by doing this!" I am from a water town, and I have watched people grow rice since I was a child, and I have never heard of soaking rice seeds in lime, so aren't they all burned to death? ”

Xiuxiu said unconvinced: "The official is reasonable, when did you see him miss?" You people in the water town may not be able to grow rice, the official said that we also planted rice here hundreds of years ago! ”

Su Er pouted: "You listen to him coax you!" If it weren't for the first emperor to promote Champa rice, even Lianghuai would not grow rice now, let alone here! ”

Xiuxiu turned her head and ignored her: "You know a lot!" ”

Su Er shook his little head: "I heard what Uncle Song said, he has grown rice all his life, what do you not know?" The official has never even seen what rice looks like since he was a child, so he blindly commands, who will believe him? Oh, except for you, if you go around him all day long, you will be bluffed by him! ”

Xiuxiu turned around and ignored Su'er angrily. Su Er shook her head, but she was very proud.

Xu Ping had never grown rice before, but he still had the basic knowledge he brought from his previous life. Rice does not germinate easily, and the seeds need to be treated. At this time, there was already a process of seed selection, drying seeds, and soaking, but the selection was to manually pick out the unreal ones with a dustpan, and he changed it to flotation with yellow mud water, which was a common selection method for many crops in his previous life.

Song Laozhuan has never seen anyone use this method, he can't be killed, Xu Ping has no choice, he must respect his expert opinion, establish his authority, otherwise he will be chaotic in the future, so he brought people by himself, divided dozens of acres of real dangerous fields, and used his own method.

In fact, two acres of seedlings have been planted in the seedling field, and Xu Ping used them for training using the traditional method of Song Laozhuan. At this time, there were more than 70 people working in the village, and there were already 13 families who had started a family outside the village, but only six people had planted rice, and the most authoritative was Song Laozhuan.

Xu Ping was afraid that when it was time to plant the seedlings, these northern men who had never seen rice would mess things up, so they specially planted two acres of seedlings for training, and trained them to be proficient first, and it came in handy when they were so busy that they couldn't even eat.

There were too many people, Xu Ping originally wanted to still organize according to the methods of his previous army and implement semi-military management, which would not only save worry but also improve efficiency. As a result, he was trained by Lin Wensi once, in this era, the emperor was most afraid of the rebellion of his subjects, and it was extremely taboo to train the army privately, so he was so scared that he quickly changed it, and learned from the Baojia Law to manage Zhuangke, but only retained a patrol team of about 20 people, which was sent by Zhuangke.

After selecting the seeds and soaking them, Xu Ping proposed to disinfect them with lime water. Because many rice diseases are transmitted from generation to generation by seeds, disinfection can effectively prevent the occurrence of diseases. Song Lao had never seen this method, and the corrosiveness of lime water also made him frightened, so he completely separated from Xu Ping.

It takes more than a month from the beginning of seed selection to the cultivation of rice seedlings, and Xu Ping also intends to extend the breeding period, one is that the strong seedlings are easy to survive, and the regreening is more rapid, and the other is also to prepare for rice and wheat in the future. During the long seedling stage, wheat is planted between the rice rows in advance, and the climate here can be implemented with two crops a year.

In fact, the seedling transplanting technology of rice has not been mature and popularized for a long time at this time, it should be applied on a large scale in Jiangnan in the middle and Tang dynasties. In Xu Ping's previous life, live broadcast technology has risen again, because the effect of mechanization of rice transplanting is extremely unsatisfactory, and live broadcast can improve efficiency and save manpower. But in this era, seed technology, fertilizers, and other basic sciences are too far behind, and live streaming has no advantage at all, and there is no need to promote it.

Lin Wensi was idle, and enjoyed the scenery along the banks of the Nanhe River for a while, and then stood aside with Lin Suniang to watch Song Lao lead people to soak rice seeds. Xu Ping's thoughts were too weird, Lin Wensi couldn't appreciate it, but he just gossiped while watching Song Lao Shuo busy, nostalgic for his youth in his hometown.

After the rice seeds were processed, it was not yet noon, and everyone sat down by the river to rest for a while.

The sun is warm on your body, the breeze blows through the river with a silver light, and occasionally a kingfisher is startled and spends speed through the willow branches, and the bright spring light is intoxicating.

Xiuxiu and Su'er held hands and looked at the lime water basin soaked in rice seeds one by one, the rice seeds in it were distinct, and the water was also clear, and they said together: "This is no different from Qingshui!" ”

Xu Ping walked up to Lin Wensi's side, and asked him: "Teacher, it will be the third day of the third month of March in five days, and the Jinmingchi dragon boat is bidding, shall we go to play together?" ”

"Okay, I've got a few friends on date, too." Lin Wensi smiled, "Unconsciously, it's been almost a year since I came here, and time flies and people grow old." By the way, how have you been studying lately? You've been doing too much lately, and I haven't urged you to do it, don't waste it. ”

Xu Ping replied respectfully: "I was reading a book, and I never put it down." Shi Manqing is going to be released from a foreign post recently, and he is electing officials, so there is nothing to do, and I will ask him for advice. Besides, there were a lot of people who passed the temple test last year, and I am afraid that this year there will be no more courses. ”

Lin Wensi said lightly: "Having said that, you can't let go of your studies. Reading is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, and you can't waste a day! ”

Xu Ping didn't know how much he had heard this kind of truth in his previous life, and he didn't want to talk about it anymore, so he asked Lin Suniang next to him: "On the third day of the third month of March, will you go into the city with us?" ”

Lin Suniang looked at her father and whispered, "I'm afraid it's not too convenient." ”

Lin Wensi smiled and shook his head: "What's inconvenient?" I'm going to meet friends, and you two will be in company. We all have a place to stay in the capital at night, what are we worried about? ”

Lin Suniang blushed slightly, and whispered, "Then I will go with you." ”

Su Er pulled Xiuxiu up quietly, and when she heard this, she hurriedly asked, "Do you want to take us there?" They all said how lively it was, I haven't seen it yet! ”

Lin Wensi said: "Go!" Go! I've been in the countryside for a year, and I'm going to relax! ”

Speaking of gossip, Xu Ping saw that many villagers were lying on the grass, almost asleep under the lazy sun, and did not dare to rest any longer, and he was afraid that he would not want to move for a while, so he said to Lin Wensi: "You look at the willows here, I will go and call the villagers to go to the field, the ground will be reorganized, and some farm tools will be tried again." ”

Lin Wensi nodded, squinting slightly to meet the spring breeze and looking at the two rows of green willows by the river.

Beckoning Zhuang Ke, Xu Ping said to Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang: "You two bring the newly made car, let's try it in the field, don't have problems when you use it." ”

The two agreed to go, and Xu Ping and Xu Chang took Zhuang Ke to the paddy field next to the dam.

At this time, the fields were flooded and the fields were being irrigated. Because it is a saline-alkali land, the first planting should be irrigated and drained several times to wash away the saline, and finally store water to plant rice. So now the water has to be drained in two days, and then the rake is neatly plowed.

When Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang brought a few villagers to carry the transport truck of the paddy field, Xu Ping asked them to put it in the paddy field, roll up their trouser legs and go to the ground to see the iron wheel sinking into the mud.

Pushing it and finding that it was acceptable, Xu Ping said to Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang: "You two go and sit, I'll take a look!" ”

The two sat up, and Xu Ping saw that he hadn't fallen much, so he said, "Okay, move and take two steps!" ”

It was much more difficult to start in the mud than on the road, and after blushing twice, Xu Ping hurriedly said to the other villagers: "Help push the water, it's too difficult to move in the mud!" ”

A few bankers worked together, and the car started to move, slowly moving in the mud. After moving, it was much easier, and Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang were able to ride forward.

Xu Ping was a Zhuang guest and sat in the car, and it was already difficult for one person to go up to the car, and then one person went up, Gao Daquan and Sun Qilang stared at each other, and they couldn't move much.

Xu Ping sighed secretly in his heart, it seems that this car has to transport seedlings, and Shi can't count on it. Fortunately, when the rice is harvested, the water in the field will be drained, and the harvested rice should be fine.