After being replaced, she changed from a miserable daughter-in-law to a lucky wife

Chapter 226 Straight Plow

Xia Wanniang looked at the jackals eating voraciously in front of her in silence, then raised her head to look at the forest behind her. It would be a real problem if these little animals didn't come back.

After hearing what she said, Xiao Chiye looked up at the forest and said, "This forest is a lot lonelier without the animals."

Xia Wanniang waited until the jackals ran back to the forest and said, "Let's go. We'll see what happens later."

Lai Fu reached out and grabbed her trouser leg: Little fox, where is my roast chicken?

Xia Wanniang looked at it greedily and said, "I'll get it for you when I get back."

When Lai Fu heard this, he immediately jumped up and ran home.

They slept for two days and were so busy that they didn't have time to eat, so she took out some food from the space, and the two of them ate while walking back.

When Xia Wanniang and the others came back, they saw that there were already quite a few people in the yard. Mao and the others had come to help, and they were all talking about the Lantern Festival.

She did not interrupt, watching the three children learning to read with Aunt Xiao, and did not disturb them. She changed the medicine on Xiao Chiye's wound and let him rest at home.

Huang saw her coming out, stood up and walked to her side: "Zi Mu Niang."

Xia Wanniang: "You have something to tell me?"

Huang nodded: "I want to talk to you about the rent."

Xia Wanniang has been busy lately and has forgotten about this matter: "Have you decided how many acres you want to rent?"

Huang: "Ayu and I want to rent three acres of land."

Xia Wanniang: "Is that enough?"

"That's enough. There are too many. We can't take care of them alone." Huang hesitated for a moment and thought, "Well, can I borrow some rice seeds?"

Xia Wanniang thought for a moment and said, "Sure. We also need to grow seedlings at home. You can take them when the time comes."

Huang quickly thanked him gratefully: "Thank you."

"Don't be so polite." Xia Wanniang said and looked at Mao: "Yayaniang, how many acres are you going to rent?"

Mao quickly told them what they had agreed on: "Can we rent eight acres?"

Xia Wanniang thought about it. There were only three people in their family who could work in the fields. Yaya, a half-grown child, could not do much either. "Can eight acres be cultivated?"

Mao nodded: "Okay, there are three of us in our family. We are just a little tired during the spring plowing, but it's fine at other times."

Xia Wanniang nodded. With this calculation, eleven acres of the family's rice fields had been rented out, leaving nine acres, and she had no plans to rent out any more.

She plans to use the land to grow crops with her family, and she also wants to grow some vegetables that are not available here.

Speaking of this, she remembered that she had always said she wanted to go to the fields to take a look, but she never went.

She asked them to be busy and she carried Lai Fu in her arms and walked towards their fields.

This is not the northernmost city, the snow has stopped long ago and has begun to melt.

Walking on the muddy road is not easy.

Xia Wanniang looked at the mud on her boots, found a relatively clean place, and seeing that there was no one around, she took out a pair of rain boots from the space and put them on her feet.

Lai Fu stuck his head out and looked at the mud outside: Where are we going?

Xia Wanniang patted its little head and said, "Go and have a look at our rice fields. We will start planting rice fields soon."

Lai Fu didn't quite understand, but that didn't stop him from enjoying the scenery.

Xia Wanniang came to their rice fields, where the original color of the soil had already been revealed.

She squatted down and touched the ground with her hand. The surface of the ground here was a little soft.

She recalled the plow that the old farmer gave her when she bought the cow. Aunt Xiao said it was called a straight-beam plow.

She remembered reading in some old books that the straight-beam plow was not only laborious but also required two oxen to pull it, which was very inconvenient.

Later, a kind of plow called curved plow was developed which saved time and labor and was more convenient for deep plowing.

Thinking of this, she started searching in the exchange space and actually found a curved plow. She exchanged items for some curved plows and prepared to use them during the spring plowing season.

She was also worried that the land was too barren, so she exchanged some fertilizer and prepared to use it when the time came.

Xia Wanniang checked all the fields at home and confirmed the conditions of the land. The inferior land was mostly sandy loam.

This kind of land is not suitable for growing other things, but it is excellent for growing potatoes, sweet potatoes, watermelons and the like.