Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Chapter 597 Spring Ploughing and Fertilization

Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Who says it's not possible? Don't we have an ice cellar at home? We can blanch them and store them in the ice cellar. When we want to eat them, we can take them out and soak them in water, and they will fall apart. Although they can't be compared with when they were just picked, they still taste much better than when they were dried."

The family members' eyes lit up when they heard this. Compared to dried ones, they still prefer to eat fresh ones. If they can really do this, then they will have no shortage of fresh ferns to eat all year round?

The old man said, "I said that this year was enough and we would not pinch anymore, but it looks like we have to go for a few more days."

Zhou Guo had been lazy for a few days and was now too busy to do anything.

The flower mushrooms and sheep mushrooms are almost ready to be harvested, and the manure in the farm is piling up, so she has to find a way to sell it.

In the spring, she deliberately pulled cartloads of fertilizer to spread on the fields. About six or seven cartloads of fertilizer were spread on the two acres of paddy fields.

The villagers were stunned by the noise. They thought she was spreading some kind of rotten soil and fallen leaves. They went closer to take a look and found that it was indeed fertilizer, but the fertilizer seemed different from the one they usually fermented. It didn't look like chicken manure or cow manure.

But it’s not easy to ask.

I just feel that Zhou Guo is really reckless in doing things. He uses so much on two acres of paddy fields. Does he not need to take care of the wheat fields?

fend for themselves?

After she finished spreading fertilizer in the paddy fields, she turned around and sent truckloads of fertilizer to the wheat fields. In total, she spread more than thirty truckloads of fertilizer on ten acres of land!

There are about thirty cars!

Have these people spent all their year's fertilizer?

There is still such a long growing period ahead, do we not need to apply fertilizer?

As a result, when they bought the ten acres of land later, there were another twenty or thirty trucks, and the villagers were dumbfounded!

Someone couldn't help but ask Li, "We used so much fertilizer just after the spring plowing. What will we do next?"

"Where does your family get so much fat?"

Li laughed and said, "I don't know. You know, I handed over the work on the farm to my children two years ago. Spring ploughing is also their responsibility. I didn't ask them. Why don't you go and ask them?"

"You are a mother after all, and you have been farming for half your life. How old are your children? Are you really willing to let them do everything on their own?"

Li said, "Don't worry. You can see that the yield of the land I planted is not as high as theirs. So why should I care about it? I can only work in the back and do whatever they say. If I care too much, how can the children work freely?"

The villagers were speechless. "Well, you can't just let go and not care about anything. Didn't you see the fertilizer being poured into the fields by dozens of truckloads? The seedlings growing later also need fertilizer, right?"

Li just smiled but didn't answer.

The crowd was helpless and could not get any useful information out of them.

I had to go to Zhou Guo and ask her where she got so much fat.

Zhou Guo said: "Of course there is fat. If uncles and aunts don't have enough fat at home, you can come to me. I have some here."

Everyone was happy when they heard this. Isn't this what they wanted?

Everyone also scattered a lot, more than in previous years, but not much more. After all, Zhou Guo said he was looking for her, what if she didn't have enough, or didn't give it to her? Wouldn't all their efforts be in vain?

It's okay to be tight-lipped.

Zhou Guo felt that it was time.

She began to spread the word in the village that she had fertilizer, and if a family did not have enough fertilizer, they could come to her and get some. But the fertilizer was not free, and one had to pay for it. But since everyone was a villager, she could give everyone a lower price, and even give everyone two trucks of fertilizer, even if they did not buy it.

The villagers were in an uproar, "Why do we have to spend money to buy it? Who would spend money to buy fertilizer?"

"That's right. I've never heard of anyone paying for fertilizer. You're lying to us, aren't you? You said you'd come to us if we ran out of fertilizer, but we ended up spreading the fertilizer carelessly. Now that the fertilizer is gone, you're asking us to pay for it. If I'd known it would be like this, I wouldn't have spread it so hard!"

Everyone felt the same way and started to complain. We were all from the same village, so why did we have to spend money to buy fertilizer?

Zhou Guo said, "What you said is really funny. That's fertilizer!! For us farmers, fertilizer is the same as food. Who doesn't value the fertilizer at home like the apple of their eye? You still want to take it from me for free? Why, all my fertilizer fell from the sky? Well, you see, Aunt Chen has a lot of land, and there is not enough fertilizer. How about you all give some to her family?"

No one would do this.

"Why should I give her fat? I don't have enough for myself, how can I give extra to others?"

Everyone agreed, that is, in the eyes of farmers, fat is like their lifeblood, so who would give it to others?

Zhou Guo spread his hands and said with a smile: "Look, you didn't even say you gave it to me, and you didn't even want to lend it to me, so why do you come to me and ask me to give it to you for free? Isn't this asking too much? You can't even do it yourself."

"...Well, then, you can't lie to us. What if we run out of fertilizer during the spring plowing?"

"Yes, I spread a lot of fertilizer. I came to you just because you said you had no fertilizer. You have to find a way for me. Otherwise, if the harvest is not good this year, I will come to your house to move."

Zhou Guo said calmly, "I told you to come to me when you are out of fat, but I didn't tell you to lavishly spread all the fat in your home. You know how much wealth your family has, so you can't blame me. Besides, have you ever seen anyone who doesn't give away their own fat for free? Fertilizer is just like money and food at home. Would you give your money and food to outsiders? No way, you can imagine that if you want fat, you must pay something."

Everyone was in an uproar, she raised her hand and said, "But!!"

The crowd fell silent.

"But as I said at the beginning, since we are all from the same village, I will give you two truckloads of fertilizer for free. One truckload of fertilizer weighs 70, 80 or 90 kilograms, so two truckloads weigh more than 100 kilograms! These two truckloads of fertilizer are free, and I don't want your money!"

Everyone looked at each other, "Is what you said true?"

What does it mean to have more than 100 kilograms of fat?

A family like theirs has enough fertilizer for two acres of land. If they are frugal, it will be enough from sowing to harvesting.

Zhou Guo nodded, "Of course it's true. When have you ever seen me break my promise? But we agreed that I will only send two cars. If you want more later, you will have to pay for it. There is no such thing as free food in this world."

Even so, everyone was very surprised. Both cars were fat!

Grain production will increase again this year.

Zhou Guo watched them happily whispering to each other, took the tea handed to him by Hu Zi, took a sip, and waited.

After a while, someone asked, "How do you sell this fat?"

Zhou Guo smiled, "Cheap."

Dapang handed her a piece of charcoal at the right time. She took it. A servant had already set up a large wooden board behind her.

He turned around and wrote the first word on the wooden board.