It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 340

It's not just Field A that needs weeding; the sorghum field also needs to be weeded.

Feeling lazy, Jiang Yan successfully lured Mu Yang, Jiang Taiping and Jiang Li to help her pull weeds by offering them a bowl of egg custard each.

The two hens raised at home have started laying eggs. Since Jiang Yan does not plan to save eggs to exchange for things like the villagers do, he is willing to eat them.

After a long time, the weeds in the field were basically pulled out. Jiang Yan stood up and pounded her tired and numb legs... Should she pinch her head?

Anyone who has been to school knows that for plants like No. A that need to bloom and bear fruit, in addition to sufficient pollination, the more flowers they have, the better the harvest will likely be.

She can't help with pollination for the time being, but the flowers of the plant in front of her are blooming on the side branches, which are relatively few in number, while the main trunk is growing upwards... The apical dominance must be suppressed!

Jiang Yan silently encouraged himself, then flew his hands left and right based on his feeling, pinching and pushing forward, shocking Mu Yang and others who were piling up the weeds and preparing to leave.

Jiang Yan only finished half of the pinching and stopped again because she suddenly remembered that she had not learned this subject well in the past. If she applied the knowledge incorrectly, all the energy she had spent during this period would be wasted.

Also, should pinching be done before or after flowering? Is pinching after flowering effective?

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Ten days after the corn harvest, Dongshan Village hosted two weddings in quick succession. The village was abuzz with activity for quite some time, and even a manager from the Fufu Farm came to offer congratulations.

However, Jiang Yan was the first to learn that the groom was not Jiang He and Jiang Ju, who were approached to propose marriage, but Jiang Hu and Jiang Fu.

Uncle Jiang Hu's new bride, Aunt Miao, was introduced by Jiang He's maternal grandparents, while Uncle Jiang Fu's new bride, Aunt Zhao, was brought back to the village after Grandma Zhang was persuaded by the matchmaker and asked Aunt Jiang Lu to take her to see it with her own eyes.

Grandma Gaohua whispered to her that this was because their village's life was getting better and better.

Dongshan Village pushes back a cart of grain from the outskirts of the county every two weeks. Even if they are careful to conceal it, there are times when they are seen, especially by villagers from villages along the way.

After this happened many times, those people started to have some ideas in their minds.

I also heard that some people from Dongshan Village had gone to work for Fu Mansion, a wealthy family in the county, and that the people of Dongshan Village did not sell their land even when life was so difficult in the past two years. Many families in Dongshan Village raised chickens, and the people of Dongshan Village were no longer skinny and seemed to have gained some weight... All these showed that Dongshan Village was on the rise.

Jiang Yan did not know the thoughts of people outside the village in detail, nor did he know that speculation about their village had quietly spread to the county.

While queuing to enter the city, she vaguely dismissed two strangers who asked her about village affairs, and struggled to shake off a matchmaker she met who had come to Dongshan Village to arrange a marriage and also wanted to introduce marriages to other single men and women in their village.

On the way, Jiang Yan also met a grocery stall owner whom she often visited. The stall owner reminded her that there were also outsiders asking them about the situation in Dongshan Village during this period.

Foreigner?

Given the chaotic and unclear situation in the outside world (which she didn't know) and the current positioning of Dongshan Village, she didn't think it would be a good thing.

Jiang Yan went straight to the Hao Mansion with a nervous mood and delivered the freshly picked mushrooms and the first batch of ripe wild fruits in the mountains to the steward Hao San.

She told Manager Hao San that there was an emergency in the village recently and they might not be able to go to the city to trade for a long time.

Manager Hao San did not ask the reason, but looked clear.

Is this true knowledge or just a false one? Jiang Yan wanted to ask, but after hesitating, she held back.

There are some things that cannot be revealed by her no matter whether the people in the Hao family know them or how they know them.

However, if you encounter something unclear, you can find a backer.

Jiang Yan quickly knocked on the side door of the Fu Mansion again. After explaining the whole story and her own guesses to the manager who was said to be in charge of the matter, she requested the mansion to dispatch a few guards to garrison Dongshan Village and take her back to the village.

As the old saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. It's a pity that the manager neither recognizes that Dongshan Village is a dangerous wall, nor does he think that Jiang Yan is a gentleman who needs to cherish his life... Looking at his expression, he doesn't think that the work being carried out in the Tiankeng Mountain cave is very important and necessary.

Jiang Yan was not very happy, but there was nothing he could do for the time being. He just repeatedly asked his superiors to report the matter and investigate it as soon as possible, and then he ran back to the village very carefully.

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Dongshan Village had been secretly on guard for nearly ten days, but no one had come to the village. Just when Jiang Yan was wondering if he was being too suspicious, the person who was following him finally showed up.

At the end of July, Jiang Yan followed Uncle Jiang Hu, Uncle Jiang Fu and Aunt Gao Ni to a suburban farm in Fu Mansion to collect food rations for the next half month.

Jiang Hu and Jiang Fu went into the manor to move the things, while Jiang Yan, Gao Ni and the manor manager stayed outside to watch the car.

Jiang Yan suddenly realized that someone was watching her.

The vast tracts of land nearby all belong to the Fuji family. Because they have enough manpower, the mature corn has already been harvested, so apart from the farm in front of them, the view is very open and it is basically impossible to hide people.

She spotted the furtive man in brown at a glance.

Although the man in brown explained that he was an ordinary person who had just moved to a nearby village and got lost because he was unfamiliar with the road conditions, no one believed him, especially the farm manager.

This is the second year that several nearby villages have volunteered to become tenant farmers at the Fu Mansion. The farm manager, who believes that he works diligently and frequently interacts with the tenant farmers and is well aware of the developments in each village, does not remember the existence of such a person.

Not to mention that when he was called over to answer, the man in brown's eyes were still moving quietly, probably wanting to write down more information and details.

The farm manager winked at Jiang Yan and Gao Ni beside him, then rushed forward to arrest the man.

Many people in Dongshan Village had seen the farm manager in Furong Village. At that time, he was a bandit with strong fighting ability. He could easily beat three ordinary people by himself.

But now the man in brown was able to fight him back and forth... Jiang Yan, who had not understood the eye contact at first and was two steps behind, saw this and quickly pulled Aunt Gao Ni back a few steps, while shouting for help.

If close combat doesn't work, then use tools.

Gao Ni pulled out the wooden stick on the cart, and when the man in brown was in a stalemate with the farm manager and was barely moving, she hit him hard on the shoulders and knees with the stick.

Jiang Yan also looked at the exposed areas, and then continued to move forward, hit, and retreat. Unfortunately, the manager was too close to him, otherwise she could stand at a safe distance and throw stones directly.

After a while, the man in brown was finally captured by the team. After he was tied up tightly with hemp ropes so that he could not move, the manager gritted his teeth and rubbed parts of his body to relieve the pain.

In addition to being hit by the man on the ground, he was also accidentally injured by Gao Ni and Jiang Yan's wooden sticks, especially Gao Ni, who was really strong, even stronger than some adult men.

Jiang Yan watched the farm manager's eyes fall on their wooden sticks, then quickly glanced at Aunt Gao Ni, her cheeks twitching, not knowing what she was thinking.

Her eyebrows suddenly jumped, and she asked, "Steward, do you need us to take this man into the mansion?"