Although Yang Heshu has only been in office for a month, he has already visited all the villages in Luojiang County and has a general understanding of the situation in each district and village.

He finally understood why Luojiang County was just a lower county.

Because it is really poor!

In Yang Heshu's understanding, not to mention the privately owned cattle of each household, there must be at least ten cows within one mile, right?

Ten households share one head, which can greatly alleviate the pressure of spring plowing.

But taking Qili Village as an example, they only have one cow per village, and only thirty-three families farm each year. They only farm three acres at a time, and after three acres, it is the turn of the next family.

There are hundreds of households in one mile, which means that it takes two years for a household to have its turn to use its cattle to plow three acres of land at a time.

This time, one of the remaining oxen should be allocated to each mile, which would at least double the efficiency of oxen farming.

After Yang Heshu calculated this, he finally felt better.

He gave up his bright future in the capital and came to this lower county to become the county magistrate, not only to accumulate political capital, but also to do practical things.

He wanted to know if he had to become an official like his father said?

Lao Zhoutou's family had cattle, but they were still very concerned about the cattle in the county government's cattle shed, so they were given the cattle and they knew about it.

The next day when Lao Zhoutou took the cow to plow the field, someone asked Lao Zhoutou if he regretted it, "If I had known earlier that if I didn't buy the cow, the county government would have given it away and given it to us for free. Who would have gone?"

Buy it."

Lao Zhoutou touched his favorite cow with pity, put a rope on it, and said: "Can it be the same? If it is given to Li Zheng, you don't even know when it will be your turn, and

You can only plow six acres of land at most, and with my cattle, you can plow as long as you want."

The other party choked when he heard this and was speechless.

When I looked up and saw Lao Zhou's crooked head, I couldn't help but ask, "Are you attracted to him? Why do you think your eyes are so penetrating? He's even more crooked than when you first became a father and looked at your son."

Lao Zhoutou said: "My cows are much better than the big boys."

Now, Niu's status in his heart has long surpassed that of his sons, almost approaching Manbao's status.

There's nothing I can do about it, this cow is so easy to use and saves so much effort.

However, it is still young, and Lao Zhoutou does not dare to handle it harshly, so he gives it a rest every time it is farmed for a period of time.

Lao Zhoutou, who feeds it, is also very considerate. In addition to letting it freely plant and gnaw the tender grass that has just emerged in the fields, he also lets several children go to the fields to cut all kinds of green grass.

I even stirred up the leftover bean dregs from making tofu at home and gave it to it.

Making tofu involves bean dregs. Before May last year, if they made too much tofu, they would also have too much bean dregs. Apart from eating some for themselves, Lao Zhoutou and his family gave the rest to the chickens. But since the flood, all the bean dregs have been eaten.

They were put away and nothing was wasted. Xiao Qian made them all into various shapes and ate them.

Or it can be fried or steamed and then dried and stored.

Nowadays, a small part of the bean dregs left over from making tofu goes into the stomachs of the Zhou family, while most of it is kept for the cattle.

Lao Zhoutou went to Baizhuangtou specifically to ask for advice. He said that when the farmers were busy, the cows did a lot of work. In order not to hurt the cows, they had to cook beans and rice for the cows to eat.

Only if it eats no less than humans can it do more work than humans.

Lao Zhoutou was actually reluctant to give him beans and rice, but he had no problem with giving him beans and rice.

Of course, he was not willing to use such force on his precious cow.

Manbao was always talked about by Lao Zhoutou every day about wanting to treat the cow queen, so that she also paid great attention to the three cows in the small farm. One day, she even went to the farm to take a look at the three cows and touched them.

Take a handful and make sure they are very strong before you rest assured.

The spring rain was pouring down, then stopped intermittently, and then started to fall again.

But the villagers in Qili Village do not have to wait for the rain to stop before working. The time for spring planting is very limited. If they miss it, the impact on the crops will be great.

Therefore, except for lazy people, no one will delay the farming time.

And with Lao Zhoutou and Qian in the old Zhou family, the Zhou brothers couldn't do anything even if they wanted to be lazy.

After the old Zhou family plowed a field, spread fertilizer and sowed rice seeds, other families in the village began to go to the fields one after another, chasing the tail of the old Zhou family to catch spring seeds.

Then Lao Zhou's family began to plow the land and plant beans.

With the oxen, their speed was much faster, but no matter how fast they were, they were still not as fast as Manbao and the others.

After Lao Zhoutou said that he wanted to start planting beans, Manbao informed her two friends that they could plant beans. Then Baizhuangtou only let out the news, and the peasant women who planted wheat for them last time rushed ahead of the male day laborers.

coming.

Bai Zhuangtou still likes to use them, mainly because they are fast and can do detailed work, which is no worse than men.

It's just that his strength is not as good as that of men.

But there are oxen for plowing, and the three long-term workers in the village can plow each one and one ox, so Bai Zhuangtou took them in and started a vigorous plan to plant beans.

By the time the male day laborers came to look for work, the beans in the small village were almost finished, but Bai Zhuangtou still left a few people to start plowing the fields.

And the peasant women went to plant ginger pieces.

The location where Manbao and Bai Shanbao chose to plant ginger was not very far from the earthen house at the foot of the mountain. A little further ahead was the big ditch.

They circled a piece of nearly two acres of land to grow ginger. Manbao and Bai Shanbao, who made a lot of money from selling ginger every year, both expected it to sell at a high price in winter.

Only Bai Erlang squatted boredly by the ditch and teased the little bugs in the water. He thought these were fry, but Man Bao insisted on telling him, "These are tadpoles and frogs."

Bai Erlang never believed it, "The frog has legs, so it looks like a fish."

But Manbao felt that Keke would not lie to her, so he insisted, "This is a frog. If you don't believe it, let's take it back and keep it for a while."

In fact, she was also curious about how this thing turned into a frog.

"Okay."

So the three of them changed from watching people planting ginger to fishing for tadpoles. When Magistrate Yang came to the field again accompanied by everyone, what he saw were three children squatting on the edge of the ditch to fish for tadpoles.

Their movements were obviously unskilled and they didn't coordinate well. They always splashed water on themselves or others, causing each other to scream.

Yang Heshu stopped everyone's reminders and gathered around to watch curiously.

They didn't bring a net with them, so they used a large leaf to catch the tadpoles, but the leaf was always unsteady with both hands. When they shook their hands after fishing, the water and the tadpoles fell back into the water.

After doing this several times, Man Bao became angry and yelled at Bai Erlang who was squatting in the most advantageous position, "Why are you so stupid? Stop shaking."

Bai Erlang yelled back, "It's obviously Bai Shan who's shaking."

Bai Shandao: "I'm holding a barrel, how can I shake it?"
Chapter completed!