The Lucky Farmgirl

The weather at the start of this spring was exceptionally good, with three or four days of sunshine followed by two days of light rain, then another two or three sunny days, and then it would rain again.

The Zhou Family plowed the fields for seedling cultivation, airing out the fertilizer that Zhou SiLang had piled up to confirm its usability. After drying for two days, they did not hesitate to spread it generously onto the fields.

The night before, the family had already soaked the grain seeds. Due to the suitable temperature, they simply hung the seeds in cloth bags overnight. The next day, upon inspection, they noticed that the grains had sprouted tiny white shoots.

Confident that the seeds would all germinate, Old Zhou headed out early in the morning with his two sons to sow the seeds.

Manbao, after all, did not replace the family’s rice seeds because, just as Keke said when harvest time came in autumn, some particularly good ears of rice would certainly be kept for seeding. Keke had mentioned that using these rice seeds a second time could lead to various diseases, possibly infecting other rice plants, which would not be good.

Since everyone’s fields were large continuous swathes, it would be bad to cause everyone’s crops to get sick because her family used a different kind of rice seed.

Since the grain seeds couldn’t be changed, Manbao shifted more of her energy, apart from studying, onto planting ginger and yams, as well as foraging for wild vegetables.

She would check on the ginger and yams in the fields every few days and was pleased to see them grow well. She even tried fertilizing them.

Of course, she personally only did a bit of the work, as the rest was handled by Zhou SiLang and his two younger brothers. This was their second time fertilizing, the first being when they initially sowed the seeds, laying down a thin layer of fertilizer.

However, recently the ginger and yams were growing rapidly, particularly the yams. Zhou SiLang noticed the leaves were slightly yellow, so he decided to fertilize them.

The real situation was that seeing a good portion of the fertilizer from his pit being taken away by his father, he felt he couldn’t just sit by idly. So, he simply spread the remainder of his fertilizer over the fields.