Recently there was a rumor in Weisenburg that the girl the young master liked ran home. He was not in his right mind due to grief and anger, and said he wanted to grow vegetables now.
Everyone who had just heard this rumor looked at their autumn clothes and burst into laughter.
It has entered October, and autumn sowing has ended. It is already too late to plant vegetables that will only grow some leaves before winter comes in November.
People just laughed it off and just treated it like a young man acting like a child, and it would be fine after a while.
One person also thought that Frederick was fooling around, until the principal actually took him to the fields.
At Weisenberg University, Diesel was first responsible for personnel placement and other work, and then was busy with the research tasks assigned by the president. He did not leave the campus until today to report on the progress of the work. Unexpectedly, he was caught working in the vegetable fields as soon as he arrived at the manor.
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Living in a stone castle in winter is uncomfortable, so every October everyone will move to a manor outside the city until March next year.
"Blow up the well?" Diesel asked, pointing to the grass beside the river.
"Yes." Frederick replied, "The rivers in this manor will all freeze in winter, and several deep wells need to be dug for winter use."
Diesel looked at the vegetable plot where the rammed earth wall was being built next to him, and asked doubtfully: "Principal, do you really want to grow vegetables in the cold weather?"
Frederick had heard questions like this a lot recently, and he replied a little impatiently: "Just do as I say. If you can grow vegetables, don't eat them."
Seeing this situation, Diesel agreed, since it was just a piece of cake.
He waved the magic wand in his hand, chanted a magic spell, and in the blink of an eye, several blue cones appeared above the grass.
The first cone in the middle fell and was instantly inserted into the grass. Then there was a loud noise, and the soil erupted from the ground like a volcanic eruption.
Then other cones entered the hole one after another. After a series of explosions, a hole with a diameter of about 2 meters and a depth of about 9 meters was dug.
Diesel said proudly: "This is the latest magic I improved according to the principal's suggestion. It can make a large number of shock waves concentrated in one direction, which is just used to blast out the soil."
Frederick asked happily: "Okay, can the magic circle be miniaturized?"
Diesel replied: "This is a bit difficult at the moment."
Frederick nodded. We will discuss the study of magic later. Now he is calling for people to reinforce the walls of the well.
"I have some things to do this morning." He said to Diesel, "I'll take a look at your results in the afternoon."
He was so busy that he forgot about something very important. He only remembered it when Tarot reported to him the dried vegetables and pickled vegetables stored this winter a while ago.
Diesel naturally agreed and was also curious about what the principal was doing.
Then he was assigned to blow up several wells.
After Diesel finished his work, a convoy came to the vegetable field.
BASF personally followed the convoy, and the carriage was filled with bundles of transparent slime films.
"Principal!" BASF said mysteriously as soon as he jumped off the carriage, "Please come to our workshop when you have time, there will be a surprise!"
Frederick didn't ask what the surprise was, and even if he wanted to ask, he wouldn't say anything.
He pointed to a vegetable patch where rammed earth walls and wooden shelves had been built and said: "Pull a cart of film over there and see if we can build a greenhouse this morning."
No one was talking nonsense. BASF asked the carriage to pull the film to the vegetable field, and Frederick asked the stewards to summon the tenant farmers to work.
This vegetable field is 50 meters long and 5 meters wide. There are wooden shelves that are high in the north and low in the south. There is a thick rammed earth wall 4 meters high on the north side. There are several wooden doors and wooden windows on the wall.
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Frederick and the steward of the manor went to measure the size, and BASF asked someone to move a roll of greenhouse from the car and unfold it on the edge of the field.
"It's so tall!" Diesel asked BASF in surprise, "How did you do it?"
The roll of film now unrolled is 3 meters wide, estimated to be 20 meters long, and 1 millimeter thick.
"It's easy." BASF said proudly, "I prepared a slate floor over 3 meters wide and 5 meters long, poured the slime glue on it, spread it out first, and then used a scraper with wheels to fix the height.
After scraping it with a board, it will become a large film when it cools down."
"When you make the next piece, leave three finger-width pieces from the previous piece and blend them with the new piece. When it cools down, it becomes one big piece."
Following his instructions, Diesel saw thicker marks on the film at regular intervals.
Frederick measured the size of the film needed for the greenhouse, and then began to splice the film.
Set up a small fire on the side, and boil the cut film in the iron pot. After it is boiled, use a brush to brush the overlap of the two films while it is still hot. Before cooling and solidifying, press it and stick it into a large piece.<
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The spliced film was rolled into a large piece, and a large number of people carried it to the rammed earth wall. As soon as they let go, the film rolled over and spread on the wooden frame that had been set up.
The adults fixed the membrane and rammed earth wall, and on the ground, some girls about the same age as Frederick tied ropes around their waists and carefully slid to the top of the slippery and sloping shed like a slide, holding awls in their hands.
, with thin hemp ropes tied to his arms, he worked with the adults in the greenhouse to tie the film to the wooden frame, and finally applied a thick layer of slime glue to the thin hemp ropes and the perforated areas. p>
Everyone was busy until noon and finally put up the membrane of the greenhouse. The sun was quite strong today, and a group of people gathered here for a while before feeling quite hot.
Diesel said in surprise: "It seems like you can really grow vegetables in winter."
Frederick smiled and said: "It's not even close. We need straw curtains to cover the shed at night, we need to prepare a charcoal stove, and we need to hang thick curtains behind the doors and ventilation windows."
"In the past, when it snowed, we had to remove the snow in time. The most important thing is to do a good job in safety education, otherwise we are likely to get carbon poisoning."
The coldest winter here in Weisenling is about minus ten degrees Celsius, with strong winds and a lot of snowfall.
Over thousands of years, countless people have died from carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide poisoning while warming themselves by fires at home. However, the development of alchemy was limited. People only discovered carbon dioxide that can make limestone turbid, and called it carbon gas.
These two points were what Frederick was most worried about, so the slope of the roof of the greenhouse was very large to facilitate the sliding of snow, but the snow had to be removed in time when it snowed heavily. At the same time, several windows were opened on the rammed earth wall, which could be opened when necessary to lower the greenhouse.
The carbon dioxide concentration inside the body is adjusted at the same time.
Frederick had a few words with the manor steward, and he was asked to manage the subsequent greenhouse construction. After each greenhouse was built, the farmer immediately prepared the ground inside, fertilized it, and planted some lettuce, lettuce, and arugula.
Such green leafy vegetables with a short growth cycle.