The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 346 - 335 Do You Know?

Chapter 346: Chapter 335 Do You Know?

"Yes," Manbao, who had just gotten excited, now found herself unable to sleep and simply lay on the bed chatting with her, "We had floods here this year, and times have been tough, so we need to plant a season of winter wheat."

Dr. D simply couldn’t understand why planting winter wheat was necessary after a flood, but as a professor of biology, she was quite knowledgeable about the cultivation of such a basic food crop as winter wheat.

Thus, taking winter wheat cultivation as a topic, she started chatting with Manbao.

Manbao looked at the long email that came in and fell silent. What should she do? Many parts were unclear. What does it mean when it says a kilogram of wheat seeds needs to be matched with a certain model of nutrient solution, and how many vials? She recognized every word, so why couldn’t she understand them when they were strung together?

After some thought, Manbao asked, "Do you know how ancient people planted winter wheat and increased its yield?"

Dr. D fell silent for a moment, then remembered that this Mr. Zhou seemed to come from a world with very low technological levels. Should his world be considered what was ancient to her?

Of course, Dr. D knew about this as well, so she wrote another long article and sent it over.

Manbao looked at it and still didn’t understand. It said that ancient people often applied nitrogen fertilizers and other fertilizers to wheat fields, and for one acre, they would use...

Oh, Manbao only knew that her family also composted, but that was not called nitrogen fertilizer, nor potassium fertilizer. It was simply called fertilizer.

Manbao weakly asked, "Do you know how primitive people planted winter wheat and how they increased the yield of winter wheat?"

Dr. D fell completely silent.

This time Manbao waited for a long, long time without receiving any more messages from her. Eventually, her biological clock kicked in, and she couldn’t help but yawn. She decisively exited the system with her consciousness and snuggled into the blankets to sleep.

Manbao got up early the next morning, washed up, and then went to school.

She was still in class at noon when she heard the system’s beeping sounds. Manbao was taking notes and couldn’t look away, so Keke reported to her: "The wheat seeds have arrived, a whole thousand kilograms."

Manbao nodded, her mind still focused on the lesson. A moment later, the message finally sank in, and she felt a slight surge of excitement.

Just in time, the class ended, and Mr. Zhuang announced a break. Everyone rushed out of the classroom to get lunch.

Manbao was two steps slower, first running to ask Mr. Zhuang for leave, saying that she had to go home during lunch and couldn’t use the small stove today.

Mr. Zhuang waved at her, giving his consent.

Manbao then ran to the kitchen to get her meal from her eldest sister-in-law, and with the bowl in hand, she ran home.

At lunchtime, the sun was somewhat overbearing. Ms. Qian was taking a nap inside the house, while third and fourth sisters-in-law were sitting under the eaves sewing. Datou and the others had gone off somewhere unknown, and Sanya, with her brother and sister, was playing in the courtyard.

Manbao peeped around from outside the door and caught Ms. Fang’s attention, but before she could speak, Manbao signaled with her finger on her lips to be quiet and then dashed with her bowl into the next-door Small courtyard.

Sanya immediately followed with the youngest brother and sister in tow.

Ms. Fang turned to ask Ms. He, "Third sister-in-law, what is Manbao up to?"

Ms. He was used to it and said, "Don’t worry about her. If she’s not forgotten something, then she remembered to come back for some fun. She’s always sensible; it’s normal for kids to be a bit mischievous."

Ms. Fang: "Is that so?"

Ms. He nodded nonchalantly, "Yes, children have to be disciplined, but you can’t meddle in everything. Look at my Zhou Liulang; as long as he’s not going down to the river or stealing things, I never bother with him. Otherwise, with so many kids at home, if you have to mind and question everything they do, you’d spend the whole day revolving around them and get nothing done."

She learned this from her eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, who in turn, as it is said, learned from their mother-in-law.

Manbao swiftly ran to Fifth Brother’s door, handed over her bowl to Sanya, and seeing them eye her meal and swallow salivarily, said, "I’ll give you half, but don’t eat it all up, okay?"

Sanya was only a month older than Manbao, but his level of maturity was far from matching hers. He always saw himself as a child, so he nodded generously and let his younger siblings have their share.

As for his little aunt, she was never within the scope of his generosity.

The three kids sat on the step under the eaves, taking turns nibbling from the bowl, while Manbao opened Zhou Wulang’s door and went in.

In the Zhou family’s home, aside from Old Zhou’s room which had a key, the other room doors had no locks—they were just closed from the inside and usually left slightly ajar.

Manbao entered without hesitation, pulled out a stool, clambered straight up and into the grain storage. Then, she instructed Keke to replace the wheat seeds.

Of course, not all were replaced; after all, there were only two thousand jin of seeds. She replaced most of it and then climbed out of the grain storage and hurried to the neighboring room of Zhou Liulang to switch out another batch.

Sanya, engrossed with his siblings in eating, only glanced briefly as his little aunt ran out of Fifth Uncle’s room and into Sixth Uncle’s room.

But he thought his little aunt was acting naughty because her clothes were all dirty. Surely, she had crawled under the bed or into the grain storage.

They always loved hiding in those two places during hide-and-seek, but every time they emerged, they would take a beating from the adults.

Manbao was sitting atop the wheat seeds, finding them a bit prickly against her backside and about to shift her position when Keke suddenly announced, "Your Sixth Brother is coming back."

No sooner had Keke spoken than he stopped the replacement. Moments later, Zhou Liulang entered the room and immediately saw Manbao, struggling to climb out of the grain storage.

The siblings caught each other’s gaze, Manbao blinking in hopes of bluffing her way through, but Zhou Liulang was grinding his teeth at the sight of wheat grains stuck to her clothes: "Manbao!"

Manbao climbed out of the grain storage and patted down her outfit, sending a spray of wheat grains scattering.

Zhou Liulang hurried to pick them up, scolding her in a low voice, "What were you doing in there? Dad would beat you if he found out. No, he’d beat me!"

This thought made Zhou Liulang even less inclined to let their father find out. He quickly helped her dust off her clothes while also feeling pained over the grains scattered on the ground.

"Aren’t you supposed to be at school? Shouldn’t you be taking a nap?" Recalling the sight of Sanya and the others huddled around a bowl when he came in, Zhou Liulang felt a bit dizzy, "Have you had lunch?"

Manbao shook her head honestly.

Liulang cleaned her up, not bothering to gather the wheat seeds from the ground, and hurried her off into the kitchen, "Come on, Sixth Brother will make you some porridge."