Based on his experience in soaking soybean sprouts, Han Cheng used a picket to fish out the rice soaked in the water tank, and then placed it in the prepared long rattan basket.
A layer of relatively rough linen cloth was spread under the rattan basket to prevent the water-soaked rice from leaking out.
The rice soaked in the rattan basket is not too much, about one centimeter thick.
After soaking, Han Cheng lifted the rattan basket and set it up on a basin.
There was water in the basin, but not much. It only slightly soaked some of the rice in the rattan baskets.
After doing this, Han Cheng found a piece of burlap, soaked it in water and wrung it slightly, and covered it on the rice spread in the rattan basket. The initial preparations were completed.
The reason why this is done is because it is often soaked in water and easily lacks oxygen, which is not conducive to the germination of seeds.
Of course, Han Cheng didn't know much about how to grow rice, and he needed to figure out many things.
Just like cultivating seedlings.
Of the two jars of rice soaked in water, only one jar was treated like this by him. After the remaining jar was fished out, he put it in a basket, and then carried it all the way to him and flattened it out.
land there.
He grabbed the soaked rice with his hands and spread it in a dense layer on the soft ground.
After spreading it as evenly as possible, use a shovel to scoop up the extremely finely ground soil prepared on the side, and cover it with a layer of soil to cover the soaked rice seeds.
The soil is not covered too thickly, only about one centimeter. If it is too thick, it will be difficult for the seeds to sprout outward.
After covering the soil, the second senior brother, who had been instructed by Han Cheng, came over carrying a water jug.
One of the jugs also had a ladle made of gourd floating on it.
The second senior brother placed the water jar beside the nursery. Han Cheng reached for the water ladle inside the jar, scooped up water and poured it on it.
Han Cheng watered the area very well. He poured about ten cans of water into a small area.
After watering, he stopped for a while, and then together with his second senior brother, he picked up the grass fence woven with dry weeds in winter and covered it.
Covering the bed with a layer of grass grating can reduce water loss and maintain heat.
It is true that Han Cheng has never planted rice seedlings, but he is no stranger to growing vegetables and watermelons.
I have been growing vegetables at home for a long time, so sometimes I will use this method.
Plant watermelons early. If you want the watermelons to sprout early, you will also cover the ground with mulch.
Han Cheng couldn't get out the mulch film or plastic shed, so now he could only make do with things like grass fences. Covering with such a layer was better than covering nothing at all.
Whether it is planting pepper seedlings, tomato seedlings, eggplant seedlings or rice seedlings, it is necessary to allow the seeds to germinate. In this case, it would not be appropriate for Han Cheng to use the method of growing vegetables that he learned from later generations on rice seedlings.
It will be too different.
As for the subtle differences, we can only slowly summarize them through continuous practice in the future, and strive to find a more suitable method for planting rice seedlings.
After doing this, Han Cheng and his second senior brother stood here for a while, then took the tools and returned to the inner courtyard of Jinguan City.
After a while, he came out again.
Now, standing in the inner courtyard of Jinguan City and looking around, the large body of water near the inner courtyard has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to the past.
The water that previously covered the entire body of water gathered into the ditches, and the rest of the area has become dry land.
Lines of field ridges divide this area into irregular areas, and the areas contain land that has been plowed over.
The people of the Qingque tribe are scattered here, and most of them are trying to smooth and break up the plowed land as quickly as possible.
Some other people, further away from the inner courtyard, continue to plow the land that they had gathered before and have not yet finished plowing.
After standing here and watching for a while, Han Cheng, holding the often used copper shovel in his hand, left the inner courtyard with his second senior brother and walked towards this land.
After calling seven or eight people to stop what they were doing, Han Cheng led them to the land that had been raked.
After a few brief explanations, everyone started busy here.
A hole has been dug in the ridges of the paddy fields near the ditches. There are also people digging small ditches at the ditches to divert the water that was previously collected into the large ditches into the fields through the small ditches.
After some excavation, water was led to the edge of the field and flowed into the field along the opening dug on the field edge.
The dry land slowly becomes soaked with water, and as time goes by, more and more land becomes soaked with water.
Several small, somewhat transparent fish followed the flowing water and entered the fields together.
At the beginning, they seemed quite cramped, but as there was more and more water in the field, they became calmer, and began to swing their little tails, clinging to the mud at the bottom of the water, and running around.
With the actions of Han Cheng and others, more and more ridges of the cultivated fields were dug up.
The bright water happily flows into the fields along the gaps in the field ridges.
Over time, the previously dry land slowly turned into water again.
In the fields that have been re-soaked by water, strings of bubbles will rise precariously from time to time in some places.
Standing in the inner courtyard of Jinguan City and looking there, there seemed to be extra bright mirrors under the reflection of the sky.
Han Cheng placed it in the rattan basket, and the rice that was slightly soaked in water sprouted small buds. Some of the rice that grew more anxiously also sprouted some slender roots.
These roots are white and tender, with some tiny, furry little tentacles on them.
Once the seeds have sprouted, they are no longer suitable for cultivation in this way.
Han Cheng, together with several other people in the tribe, carried the germinated seeds that were gathered into the basket and carefully scattered them densely on the hotbed that had been arranged for them before.
Then they were carefully covered with a thin layer of finely divided soil.
After the soil is covered, watering is also carried out.
Opening up the grass fences covering the ground, Han Cheng found that some of the seedling seeds planted using this method had sprouted and emerged from the ground. The tender buds looked very beautiful.
The smile on Han Cheng's face made him happier than when he dreamed of Bai Xuemei.
These seedlings were obviously not enough to plant. After seeing the results, Han Cheng, who was confident, took these people back to the inner courtyard. From the large vat where the rice was stored in the inner courtyard, he soaked more rice in water and soaked it with water.
Come down and prepare for planting the larger seedlings.
Amidst the busyness, time passed quietly, and the direct point of the sun began to slowly return to the north.
I don't know when it started, but the wind on my face no longer felt as cold as before, and the sunlight also became warmer, shining warmly on people's bodies.
Spring is not only a restless season, but also a good time for everything to grow and sow things.
In the inner courtyard of Jinguan City, Han Cheng was digging the ground around a shed with a hoe.
Not all of the planing was done, but an area of approximately fifty centimeters in diameter was dug out approximately in the middle of the three sides of the shed.
Crush the soil and garbage carefully, dig out some soil, put some fertilizer in it, and cover it with a layer of soil.
After doing this, Han Chengcheng took out some seeds from his trouser pocket and lit three or four in one place.
These seeds are quite large, and some are even covered with a thin film.
These are gourd seeds, which Han Cheng got from the older primitive women.
Gourd is a good thing with many uses, so it is necessary for the tribe to have more of it.
When these gourd seeds sprout, let them climb up the shed.
When the time comes, green gourd vines cover the entire shed, with white gourd flowers blooming in some places, and gourds of various sizes hanging down in the gaps.
After moving the vines and placing them under the shed, people lay down on them, and then there was a slight breeze, and they took a short nap. It was a wonderful feeling.
It would be even more wonderful if I dreamed about a group of barefoot gourd kids who couldn’t stop calling grandpa.
Of course, only Han Cheng in the entire tribe might have such a dream.
After planting gourds in the shed, Han Cheng planted some outside the courtyard.
On the east side of Jinguan City, there are still a lot of open spaces that have not been developed, and there is enough space for them to climb.
However, Han Cheng did not plant all the gourd seeds, but kept some to prepare to take them back to the main tribe.
After doing this, Han Cheng also planted another kind of seed not far away from the tribe.
These seeds are the orange seeds that were eaten when eating oranges. Most of them were spit out at that time, but some were kept by Han Chengming for planting today.
The weather here in Jinguan City is getting warmer day by day, and the main tribe of Qingque, the Tongshan residential area, and the Qinling subdivision of the adjacent large mountains are soon feeling the breath of spring.
Trampling on the land where the snow had just melted, Junior Brother Sha brought tools, seeds, food, and the people who had worked with him to build the Qinling sub-tribe, and arrived at the Qinling sub-tribe that had developed a certain scale.
The house they built years ago is still there, and no one took advantage of their absence to occupy the magpie's nest.
After placing the things he carried on his back in the Qinling subdivision, Junior Brother Sha and his people quickly plunged into the intense work of sorting out the land.
As soon as the weather warms up, the days will go by quickly. I always feel that there are still many things that are not ready yet, and spring plowing can be carried out.
That's why Junior Brother Sha is so tight, wanting to reclaim as much land as possible and plant more food before spring plowing...
The furnaces used to smelt copper and tin ingots in the Tongshan residential area stopped emitting smoke once again. Under the leadership of Shang, the people there also devoted themselves to the intense spring plowing.
The same is true here in the Qingque Tribe, and more people are dispatched.
On some land, there are small piles of dung, each pile containing about two dung heads.
Hei Wa held a copper shovel in his hand and scooped up a copper shovel from the small pile of dung. Then he turned slightly and spread it around as evenly as possible.
There were many people doing this with Hei Wa, but Hei Wa seemed a little unhappy.
This is not because he feels that he is very unbalanced and has insulted his status by letting him make pottery like this. A master craftsman of porcelain is spreading shit here.
In the Qingque tribe, no one would dislike working to obtain food.
When spring plowing and autumn harvest come, as long as there is nothing else particularly important, even Han Cheng, the son of God, will still work in the fields, let alone Hei Wa.
The reason why Hei Wa is depressed is not because of farming, but because of the porcelain.
After successfully firing the porcelain, looking at the exquisite porcelain that seemed like it should not appear in this world, the entire Qingque tribe became excited about it.
As a person who fired porcelain, Hei Wa's excitement was not to mention. For a long time after that, he was in a state of excitement.
Through the efforts of him and everyone in the pottery workshop, during this period of time, the Qingque Tribe had a lot more porcelain.
As the number of porcelain in the tribe gradually increased, people in the tribe saw more of it, and it was no longer as rare as before.
However, when people see porcelain, they still unconsciously feel a sense of wonder.
Of course Hei Wa became depressed not because of this, but because of the reaction of outsiders to the porcelain.
Nowadays, people who belong to the Qingque Alliance no longer need the Qingque Tribe to send out trading teams to trade with them. These tribes have needs for salt, soft fur and other things, and they will come directly with the things.
The Qingque tribe conducts an exchange.
This kind of thing will release a lot of the Qingque tribe's labor force, and they don't have to take the risk of walking on the road. They only need to wait for these tribes to send things to the Qingque tribe.
Usually after the ice and snow melt, some tribes will come to exchange for salt from their own tribe, and this year will be no exception.
So Hei Wa was holding back all his energy, hoping to wait until these tribes came and then use the newly fired porcelain from his tribe to exchange for something.
Pottery can be exchanged for so many things from those tribes. I don’t know how much higher quality porcelain is than pottery. These tribes will only produce more and more things.
Just as Hei Wa had thought before, those who came to his tribe for trade after the ice and snow melted, after seeing the porcelain, were all stunned by the exquisite porcelain and could not take their eyes away.
When the people of his tribe expressed that they could exchange food, furs and other things for these porcelains, Heiwa clearly saw the look of surprise and desire in these people's eyes. However, the next development was completely beyond his expectation.
