12. I just want my husband and children to be stable in this world.
Such a kind-hearted husband is quite good. Bai Haitang feels that she really did not choose the wrong husband in her previous life. Even if she doesn't win the top prize, her ordinary life is pretty good.
You carry water and I sweep the floor, you wash dishes and I weave cloth.
Datong, when you come back, I will definitely change our family.
Bai Haitang does not seek to be rich and powerful, nor does she seek to drastically change history in this era. She only hopes that her family will be in harmony, guarding the fertile fields, smelling the fragrance of rice flowers, listening to the flowing water on the bridge, raising her husband and raising her children, and having a vegetarian year.
The years are peaceful and the current life is stable, which is a great blessing.
If Bai Begonia wants to improve its production, it needs the help of Wintersweet.
I looked at the soil in the field and picked up a handful. The soil was reddish yellow.
"Is the soil around here all like this?" Bai Haitang asked Lamei.
"The villages near us have been like this in the past few years. During the autumn harvest, there was a lot of harvest failure. I heard that the soil in the village on the top of the mountain is black, just like ours in previous years. They have a good harvest this year."
Pointing to the distance.
The soil is reddish-yellow, indicating acidic soil.
"How much rain has there been in the past few years?" Bai Haitang asked.
"Sister Haitang, it's not like you haven't been here these past few years. Don't you remember? The rain has flooded the crops one after another," Lamei said.
High temperatures and heavy rainfall are the reasons for the formation of acidic soil. Bai Haitang knows that the high concentration of iron and aluminum oxides in acidic soil is the cause of sour and lean soil and low yield. Only lime and qualified fertilizers can combine these single factors.
Heavy metals.
Lime mines can be refined there.
When you see other people fertilizing in the distance, you know that the fertilizer used here is human excrement. Human excrement can also be regarded as farmyard fertilizer, but after all, it is very simple. If human and animal excrement and water are added together, the effect will be different. Chickens, ducks, geese and dogs
Pigs, horses, cattle, sheep and donkeys eat different things than humans. Mixing various kinds of feces together will make the nutrients richer.
They can increase organic matter in the soil, improve soil permeability, promote microbial activity, and turn insoluble mineral elements in the soil into soluble nutrients, so as to help fertilize the land.
With the auxiliary spreading of lime, the nature of the acidic soil will gradually turn into neutral soil. If this is maintained for a long time, it will only take a few years to recover the black soil.
"I want to make some changes and put some things in the land to make the autumn harvest better. Wintersweet, are you willing to work with me?" Bai Haitang asked.
"Sister Haitang, I am willing to follow you. My mother said that when I get married, she will give me an acre of land as a dowry. I can decide on that acre of land. The rest belongs to my mother, my father and my brother."
Lamei has complete trust in Bai Haitang, but she knows that she cannot speak to her parents.
"Then let's go get the ingredients." Bai Haitang and Wintersweet brought the tools and came to the mine cave again. This time they were making large batches, so they had to be more prepared.
The two of them used shovels, drills, hammers, and sickles to knock off pieces of limestone, and placed them on the wood that had been laid in the shelter outside. They spread it on three floors. They set fire here and burned it for days and nights without anyone noticing.
I found that because this place is inherently hidden, it is also a visual blind spot.
Fist-sized pieces of off-white limestone were scattered all over the ground. Bai Begonia and Wintersweet were already sweating from exhaustion and finally completed the first step.
The second step is to light the fire. Watching the fire burning little by little, Wintersweet thought it would be burned out in a while, just like last time. Unexpectedly, Bai Haitang told her that it would take a full seven days because the amount this time was really large and it would take a while.