Chapter Fourteen
Mingxiu knew nothing about Xie Zhan's plans. She was only busy preparing materials for her family to open up wasteland.
Naturally, Mingxiu didn't need to worry about the tools for weeding and plowing the soil. Even though Ming's father and mother didn't really agree with Mingxiu's move to open up wasteland, since they had decided to do it, at least they would have the farm tools ready.
"It's rare that Xiu'er has anything she wants to do. It's just an acre of land. Even if it doesn't work, we can save some money later and buy enough fertilizer in the town to raise it."
It was nothing more than a waste of one year's tax-free time. Ming's mother thought about it openly and didn't think it was anything.
Let’s not talk about Mingxiu’s confusion when she was a child. Now that she has become more enlightened, she has never made many requests to them. Naturally, this rare time is especially cherished.
Ming's father also had this thought.
But even if they doted on their daughter, they saw Mingxiu going to the mountains to pound the bark of dead grass and trees, digging for fertilizer in the village's manure pits, and buying quicklime. This series of actions made Ming's father and mother completely give up on opening up wasteland this year.
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Even though he was still working as usual, in his heart he was just playing for Mingxiu.
Ming's father was happily being ordered around, thinking in his mind how much effort Mingxiu would have to waste next year to clean up the ground after Mingxiu was so noisy this year.
Xie Zhan followed the work thoughtfully, but couldn't help it when he found out that he was going to the cesspit.
"Why use these filthy things?"
His face was faintly blue, and the smell on the tip of his nose was really unpleasant. He was already very calm when he was able to ask questions when he was close to this place.
Mingxiu glanced at him. He had a piece of cloth tied on the tip of his nose to block the smell, but he still said plausibly, "This is not filthy. For plants, this is the best fertilizer!"
"How do you say that?" Xie Zhan looked confused. Although he had not participated in the production of the fertilizer used in this matter, he knew the general process. Although the production process was not very clean, he would not touch these things.
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Can the agricultural products grown from these crops really be imported?
Seeing Xie Zhan's look of asking for answers, Mingxiu knew that if he didn't explain clearly, he wouldn't wait for the work to happen.
Although these things were extremely rare in the desert country at this time, they were common knowledge to everyone in later generations.
Therefore, Mingxiu didn't think there was any secret.
"Let me ask you, why are there so many plants on the mountain? Even the orchid grass, which is extremely difficult to grow, is so abundant in the mountain?"
Xie Zhan was stunned for a moment when he was asked. He knew that flowers in uninhabited places grew extraordinarily tough and straight. Everyone said that flowers and plants were arrogant and did not bother to be raised by others. However, he had not thought about why this was the case.
"Because...the uninhabited environment is more suitable for growth?"
"This is also a reason." Mingxiu did not deny Xie Zhan's statement, "But more importantly, there are many animals on the mountain, and the animal excrement is naturally dissolved in the soil, and the substances in it are excellent for plants.
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Herbivores depend on plants, and carnivores depend on them. The excrement and dead leaves and flowers of all animals are also nutrients for the land.
Mingxiu sighed, "This world is inherently cyclical."
No aspect is absolutely useless, it just depends on what is right.
From this standpoint, the most useless people are people.
Mingxiu sighed in her heart, and had no intention of saying anything more to Xie Zhan, and she didn't hear clearly what he was saying. She only responded vaguely and then directly took Xie Zhan to work.
Xie Zhan didn't expect Mingxiu to have such a profound opinion, and for a moment he couldn't help but feel a little complicated in his heart.
What is the origin of the woman in front of me? If she is really just a country woman, she will never be able to find out like this.
Although there was a tacit understanding, Xie Zhan still couldn't help but want to explore Mingxiu's true origin.
There was a lot of noise about the Ming family's land reclamation, and everyone in the village had heard about it.
Most of them are mainly about watching jokes.
"The poor Ming family still wants to open up wasteland? If they don't open up wasteland, they will starve to death." During the off-season, rural women like to sit in front of the house and talk about their parents' shortcomings.
"That's right, to open up wasteland, it's better to follow the example of Mingxiu before. He only went to the mountains to sell a few kilograms of mushrooms. With good luck, rich people will take notice of him, and life will be easier in the past few years!"
"Don't let someone eat the mushrooms picked by her and get poisoned before they are sold to a wealthy family. This is a waste of money and life!" One person shook his head and sighed.
It was also because there were too many poisonous places that they had no intention of imitating Mingxiu and picking mountain products to sell.
Otherwise, there won't be enough for them to pick from the things on the mountain.
"Mingxiu has always been a capable person. Maybe even if someone eats poisonous food and is killed, he can pretend to be crazy and act stupid."
Chapter completed!