Chapter 526: Natural Disasters and War Chaos in the World 74
Three months have passed in the blink of an eye.
Ling Xue is now focusing all her energy on spring plowing.
She couldn't help but ignore the reality. It was obvious that this year was a year of severe drought.
There have been few heavy snowfalls in winter and very little rainfall. It is obvious that there is a serious water shortage here, which may affect this year's harvest.
There were only a few light rains in the spring, which probably wouldn't support the wheat harvest.
There are still one or two months until the wheat reaches the harvest stage, so Ling Xue doesn't plan to wait any longer.
She began to grow wheat from south to north. Because the wheat itself had grown to the time of flowering, it didn't take much of Lingxue's superpowers.
With a wave of his hand, large tracts of wheat have matured.
A gust of wind blew by, and waves of golden wheat appeared in the wheat field.
Anyone with a little bit of ability knows that Young Master Shen has inherited the inheritance of the Shen family, so everyone accepts the matter of early maturity of wheat.
For today's people, as long as they have food to eat, everything else doesn't matter.
Ling Xue spent a week ripening the crops in all three of their houses.
Now it's better, the people began to harvest wheat according to the previous group.
This is all good food!
They have been planting fields all their lives and have never grown such good wheat. They took a handful and looked at it. The grains were so plump!
Many officials have gone to harvest wheat, knowing that there will definitely be a shortage of food this year. Everyone here attaches great importance to food production.
Men, women, the elderly, children, anyone who can move basically grows in the ground.
Ling Xue is not idle either. She is growing sweet potato vines and potato cubes. After the wheat is harvested, she will plant sweet potatoes and potatoes immediately. Otherwise, many people will starve to death this year.
It's not that she can't use the cornucopia to copy, but she's afraid that the territory occupied by Zhao Weiqing and the old general will be too much and the copied food will not be enough to eat.
Therefore, Ling Xue can gain as much as she can now.
As for the coming drought, Lingxue is not afraid. She has the Huaquan and Shui Lingzhu fragments in her hands, so what is there to be afraid of?
Because the field where the wheat had just been harvested was also very dry and there was no way to plant sweet potato seedlings right away, Ling Xue specially selected some young ones to dig ditches.
At that time, she can irrigate the fields. Fortunately, there are ditches on the edges of the fields, only the newly reclaimed wasteland does not.
So these people only need to dig the areas where there are no ditches, which can be regarded as saving a lot of engineering work.
Work goes faster when there are more people, especially when the weather is hot.
The harvested wheat was quickly dried by the sun and put into bags. The people felt very at ease looking at the mountains of grain.
After harvesting so much food, they shouldn't be hungry this year, right?
Everyone who participates in labor can receive a certain amount of wheat. This is something everyone knows.
After the wheat harvest was completed, everyone held grain bags and waited for the team leader to distribute grain to them. Everyone's face was beaming with joy.
There were many children in the wheat field looking around, everyone trying to find the ears of wheat that had slipped through the net.
If there are no ears of wheat to be found, they will not reject the grains of wheat. Some sharp-eyed children can pick up the scattered wheat grains one by one and put them in the bag. When they go back, they can be washed and dried and they will still be good food.
Don't look down upon these, a child with quick hands and feet can pick up four or five kilograms of wheat grains in a day!
The orphans were also very diligent. They carried small bags and searched everywhere. They found a lot of wheat grains every day, which made them very happy.
(End of chapter)