Chapter 167: 167. Chapter 167: Autumn Planting

167. Chapter 167: Autumn Planting

After all, regarding Yun Ying, the Old Li family did indeed wrong her, and he could understand why Sun Shi was angry.

"I spit!"

Li Family Old Woman spat and cursed viciously: "How can that sallow-faced woman be worthy of our son? Shoude is a scholar now; he could even marry an official's daughter! Look at how capable she thinks she is day after day! I get angry just looking at her face... Ouch, stomach, stomach... it's coming again..."

Halfway through her curse, Li Family Old Woman clutched her stomach and cried out in pain: "Quick, quick, help me to the latrine! I can't hold it!"

In the few days after the Jiang family finished the banquet, the villagers also began autumn planting, sowing buckwheat one after another.

Buckwheat only takes about three months from sowing to maturity. Rice matures and is harvested in September, and it won't be sown again until April of the following year. This period is just right for sowing buckwheat.

Buckwheat doesn't need a large amount of water like rice; it needs very little water. Just one rain to soak the ground, and the wheat can bloom and produce plump grains.

In recent years, several villages near Yong'an County have experienced droughts, and the villagers no longer dare to sow crops that require large amounts of water. Buckwheat is the best choice.

The buckwheat grown doesn't need to pay extra taxes, which can make up for the shortage of grain in the village. Otherwise, relying solely on that little bit of rice, the villagers wouldn't be able to survive until the autumn harvest next year.

Seeing the villagers busy one after another, Jiang Wei also had an idea and planned to find Li Zheng to buy another piece of land so her family could also plant some buckwheat.

Buckwheat ground into flour can be used to make flower rolls, cakes, steamed buns, and noodle soup, which is also a good kind of grain.

And by planting buckwheat, her family's grain source would have an explanation.

However, as soon as Jiang Xiaoxiao heard her mother's plan to plant buckwheat, she became anxious.

She hadn't forgotten that there would be a major snow disaster this winter!

Buckwheat is easily frozen to death when it encounters frost and snow. Planting buckwheat this year is completely thankless.

She didn't know how big this snow disaster would be, but the hailstorm that still made the villagers feel lingering fear wasn't even highlighted in the original work, just mentioned in a few strokes. But this snow disaster was described with a lot of ink in the original work; it definitely wasn't as simple as a small snow disaster!

She couldn't stop the villagers from planting buckwheat. After all, Yuhe Village sows buckwheat every year. If she proposed not to plant it, not only would no one agree, but she would also be treated as a monster spouting nonsense.

But she could still stop her mother...

"Mother, I don't think buckwheat is a good choice." Jiang Xiaoxiao said, "I read in a book that buckwheat has the characteristic of absorbing a lot of fertilizer, which will make the soil thin and lead to low grain yields... Let's not plant buckwheat. It's better to wait until April next year to sow rice together."

What she said was also correct. The level of productivity in ancient times was low, grain yields were not high, and there were no various chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Crops were severely lacking in nutrition. If buckwheat were planted, it would only make the already overburdened land worse.

Jiang Wei pondered and agreed with her: "Alright, then let's wait until next year to plant."

Jiang Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. Fortunately, she had maintained the persona of a book-loving person in front of her mother, and she liked to hold a book and read regardless of whether there was anything to do. Otherwise, she wouldn't know how to make up these words...

"By the way, Mother, I always feel that this year's winter will be very cold..." Jiang Xiaoxiao said after deliberation, "Why don't we slaughter some of the rabbits at home and save the rabbit fur to make some warm clothes, okay?"

"Sure, it just so happens I have time these few days." Jiang Wei said as she rolled up her sleeves to go to the kitchen to get a knife. She was a decisive person; she did what she said.

These few days, the village was busy with autumn planting. Except for Master Zheng leading his disciples to build the soap workshop outside the courtyard, there was no one else at home. Even Qiulian Niang was busy at home and had no time to come to her house. Zhao Dasao had time, but she had already been arranged to fire the kiln.

The mother and daughter chased rabbits in the backyard.

These rabbits ran too fast. With a jump of their powerful legs, they jumped more than ten feet away, and she couldn't even touch their fur.

Jiang Xiaoxiao ran on her two short legs, sweating all over, but didn't catch a single one.

"These rabbits run too fast; they don't look like normal rabbits at all. This speed is almost catching up to the cheetahs on the great grasslands..." Jiang Xiaoxiao said, panting while holding her knees.

Turning to look at Jiang Wei, she had only caught two rabbits in her hand.

These rabbits were too good at escaping; she didn't know when she would catch them...

At this moment, a half-grown tiger rushed into the backyard, picked up a fat and strong rabbit with lightning speed, turned around, and sent it into Jiang Xiaoxiao's hands.

Jiang Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up. She held the rabbit in one hand and stroked its head with the other: "A Huang is great!"

"Aowu~"

The half-grown tiger seemed to understand Jiang Xiaoxiao's praise, rubbed her hand with its furry head, and made a happy "aowu" sound.

"A Huang" is its name now.

When the tiger cub first came home, Jiang Xiaoxiao could barely hold it with both hands. But now, months later, I don't know if it's because it often drinks ability water or because it doesn't lack food or drink at home, but this tiger cub has grown fast and is almost as tall as an adult's waist. Calling it "Little Tiger" is truly inappropriate, so she simply changed its name to A Huang.

"A Huang, go help me catch a few more rabbits." Jiang Xiaoxiao simply handed the heavy task of catching rabbits to the tiger.

"Aowu~"

A Huang responded and then turned and rushed into the rabbit nest. Those hiding rabbits, upon seeing the fierce tiger, felt a fear from their bloodline. The rabbits were so scared they shivered and didn't dare to move.

A Huang, without any effort, picked one up in its mouth and sent them all into Jiang Xiaoxiao's hands.

Jiang Xiaoxiao held the rabbit by the neck and sent it to her mother's hands.

Jiang Wei's knife fell, one knife per rabbit, followed by skinning, deboning... smooth and clean.

Jiang Xiaoxiao on the side was stunned. Mom, her mother is too amazing!

When can she learn this unique skill?

However, she didn't even dare to kill a chicken when she was in the modern era. If she were really asked to kill these lively rabbits, she still wouldn't dare...

Jiang Wei had just finished slaughtering a rabbit, and A Huang sent over a rabbit it had caught, so the mother and daughter didn't need to chase rabbits anymore.

Moreover, it followed Jiang Xiaoxiao's instructions and didn't catch the pregnant mother rabbits and young rabbits.

The clean porcelain basin was already filled with cleaned rabbit meat. Jiang Wei was still slaughtering rabbits when she suddenly made an "eh" sound.

"What's wrong, Mother?" Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was holding the rabbit that kept struggling to escape in her hand, turned to look.

Her mother was holding a stone the size of a peanut in her hand, which seemed to have been dug out of the rabbit's head, still stained with blood and yellowish-white brain matter. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 168 =====