Three months passed in the blink of an eye.
Ling Xue now puts all her energy into spring plowing.
She had no choice but to take the reality seriously. It was obvious that this year was a year of severe drought.
There have been few heavy snowfalls in winter and the rainfall is very little. 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, and I'm afraid it won't last until the wheat harvest.
It will take another month or two for the wheat to reach harvest time, so Ling Xue doesn't plan to wait any longer.
She began to promote the growth of wheat from south to north. Since the wheat had already grown to the flowering age, it did not require much of Ling Xue's supernatural powers.
In the blink of an eye, large fields of wheat have matured.
A gust of wind blew, 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 Shen family's legacy, so everyone accepts the fact that the wheat matures early with ease.
For ordinary people today, as long as they have food to eat, nothing else matters.
Ling Xue spent a week to ripen the crops in their three prefectures.
Now, the people began to harvest wheat according to the previous groups.
This is all good food!
They have been farming for their entire lives but have never been able to grow such good wheat. Just grab a handful and you will see that every grain is plump!
Many officials went to harvest wheat, knowing that there would definitely be a food shortage this year. Everyone here attached great importance to grain production.
Men, women, the elderly, children, anyone who can move basically lives in the fields.
Ling Xue was not idle either. She was promoting the growth of sweet potato vines and potato pieces. After the wheat was harvested, she would immediately plant sweet potatoes and potatoes, otherwise many people would definitely starve to death this year.
It’s not that she couldn’t use the cornucopia to copy, but she was afraid that Zhao Weiqing and the old general had conquered too much territory and the copied food would not be enough.
Therefore, Ling Xue now tries to gain as much as possible.
As for the coming drought, Ling Xue is not afraid. She has the flower spring and the fragments of the water spirit bead in her hands. What is there to be afraid of?
Because the fields were dry after the wheat harvest, it was impossible to plant sweet potato seedlings immediately, so Ling Xue specially picked out some young and strong people to dig ditches.
Then she could release water to irrigate the fields. Fortunately, there were ditches beside the fields, except for the newly reclaimed wasteland.
So these people only need to dig the places where there are no ditches, which saves a lot of work.
Work gets done faster when there are more people, especially when the weather is hot.
The harvested wheat was quickly dried in the sun and packed into bags. The people felt at ease looking at the mountains of grain.
Having harvested so much food, they shouldn’t go hungry this year, right?
Everyone knows that everyone who participates in labor will receive a certain amount of wheat.
After the wheat harvest was completed, everyone held their grain bags and waited for the team leader to distribute the grain to them. Everyone had a happy face.
There were many children in the wheat field, looking around, each trying to find the ears of wheat that had escaped the net.
Even if they couldn't find any wheat ears, they didn't mind the wheat grains. Some sharp-eyed children would pick up the scattered wheat grains one by one and put them into their bags. After returning home, they would wash and dry them and they would still be good food.
Don’t look down on these things. A child with quick hands and feet can pick up four or five kilograms of wheat grains a day!
Those orphans were also very hardworking. They carried small bags and searched everywhere. They could find a lot of wheat grains every day, which made them very happy.
