Transmigrated as a Stepmother: Time to Bring the Family to Prosper!-Chapter 68 - 67: I Can Eat Shit Too

Of course, Liu Ji couldn’t catch up with the young Liu Fei, unsurprisingly, his private stash was confiscated and he got punched in the face.

Liu Ji covered his face, angry but unable to speak out, still had to prepare a good hot water foot soak to serve well at night, "Wife, calm down, this is all a misunderstanding, I was just teasing Liu Fei that kid, who knew he took it seriously."

"How could I possibly not pay? You can ask around the village, even if I, Liu Ji, buy vegetables and the owner isn’t home, I’ll make sure to deliver the money the next day."

Qin Yao didn’t respond, she closed her eyes while soaking her feet, feeling comfortable enough to fall asleep.

Liu Ji clenched his silver teeth, didn’t even seem like she heard the nice things I said!

After a good night’s sleep, Qin Yao got up in high spirits for some morning exercise, finished, and took the rice seeds Liu Ji bought from the old house, dumped them in a basin, added some water, soaked them to let them sprout quicker.

If there’s pesticide available, add it now to prevent pest damage.

Liu Ji didn’t farm in the past, didn’t know the correct sequence, did whatever Qin Yao instructed.

Thus, it wasn’t until the villagers scattered all the sprouted seeds in their fields that he hurried home looking panicked.

Seeing Qin Yao standing in front of the breeding stand, he shouted loudly: "Wrong, wrong! The sprouted seeds should be scattered in the fields, there’s no such thing as breeding!"

Qin Yao stood in front of the breeding trays both of them worked hard to set up, the wooden trays filled with soil they dug from the fields, the seeds were already sprinkled, a total of twenty trays, all had sprouted tender green shoots, looking very pleasing.

Da Lang and his siblings, all four of them, came to watch every day, like pets, caring a lot.

Fearing it might get cold in the morning and evening, the family of six wove mats, wrapped the entire rack up like a small room, nurturing them meticulously.

So now Liu Ji tells them this was all wrong?

In the eyes of farmers, food is more important than anything, Da Lang and his siblings were panicked, almost about to cry.

If this was wrong, everything would be ruined.

However, Qin Yao never let the four siblings down, she frowned slightly, calmly stopped Liu Ji who was shouting until his voice broke, and asked steadily:

"Did all the villagers scatter the seeds directly into the ground?"

Liu Ji nodded frantically.

"Did Dad scatter all of them?"

"Not exactly." There’s still a hundred acres left, it’s hard to scatter them so quickly, Liu Ji said, "There’s still tens of acres near home unfinished."

Good fields need careful tending, also need a layer of fertilizer before scattering seeds, so a bit late.

Liu Ji anxiously said, "What’s the use of asking this now, the key point is we made a mistake, how do we scatter these sprouts?"

All grew to about thumb height, how do we scatter!

Qin Yao said, "You go home first, quickly tell Dad them not to scatter the rest, need to breed first, after breeding, then transplant seedlings, wait for the seedlings to grow, then distribute to other fields, this kind of rice will be more resistant to lodging, and they are genetically selected after breeding, the yield will be better."

"What?" Liu Ji puzzled for a moment, "What kind of method is this? Where did you hear this?"

Although he had no farming experience, the rice planting procedures he saw from childhood were not like what Qin Yao said.

It was all about plowing the field well, turning into a muddy flat with water, scattering sprouted seeds, wait for rice to grow big, then store water, until mature for harvest.

Qin Yao said irritably, "I learned it from agricultural experts, are you more skilled than experts? Hurry up and go, if you’re late and affect this year’s yield, I’ll beat you!"

Upon hearing of a beating, Liu Ji ran faster than a rabbit, vanished in the blink of an eye from the courtyard.

Da Lang’s four siblings also curiously ran after him, not trusting the accuracy of their dad’s message delivery, fearing he might say something wrong and give stepmom bad reputation.

Once they arrived at the old house, Da Lang was glad he came along, his dad indeed couldn’t explain clearly, shamelessly just said not to scatter any more seeds, didn’t explain the reason to people.

It was still Da Lang who stepped up, and told what Qin Yao said before, only then did everyone at Liu Family’s old house understood the reason.

However, "Never heard of planting rice this way, is this reliable? If the season is missed, then those dozens of acres of good fields will have no yield."

Liu Zhong held deep skepticism, feeling nobody knows farming better than himself.

If it was someone else from the village saying this, he might think over the feasibility.

But the one saying this was Qin Yao, at first couldn’t even plow, how can one trust her?

"Whether you believe it or not, I brought the message, it’s up to you." Liu Ji clicked his tongue, called Da Lang and his four siblings, "Let’s go home!"

Like they came in a hurry, the father and four sons also left like a gust of wind, gone in the blink of an eye.

On the way back, Da Lang said, "I think stepmom makes sense, Dad, let’s listen to her."

Liu Ji raised a brow, "Did I say not to listen to her?"

The point is, can he not listen?

Second Lang, Sanlang, Si Niang secretly laughed, also said if stepmom couldn’t grow rice, they’d go dig wild vegetables to eat.

Da Lang touched his cherished slingshot hanging on the side of his waist, "Come autumn, stepmom promised to take me hunting, we can eat meat then."

Liu Ji felt a bit jealous, sarcastically asked, "If your stepmom told you to eat shit, will you do it?"

Si Niang nodded "Uh-huh", "I’ll eat."

Sanlang followed, "I can eat shit too!"

Second Lang laughed till tears flowed, "Two idiots!"

Liu Ji said "Tch", "All idiots!"

Da Lang looked at the bunch of silly ones, took a deep breath, feeling really exhausted on behalf of stepmom.

Qin Yao’s planting method gained full support from the family, the family of six quickly became anomalies in the village.

While the seedlings in other people’s fields started growing, their family of six just started transplanting.

Qin Yao and Liu Ji carried boards to the field, placed boards in dried water fields leaving only a shallow layer of water.

Then Qin Yao took seedlings already grown to ten centimeters, the whole family stood on boards, methodically and neatly inserted the seedlings into the field.

Planted two acres, took three days.

Just finished planting, Chunyu rain started.

They say spring rain is priceless as oil, this saying proved true, seedlings in the field grew a knuckle taller each day, after over half a month, it was taller than the surrounding rice seedlings.

Moreover, the rice seedlings in other fields were chaotic, only their two acres were neatly arranged, had a very different aura.

At first, people laughed at Liu Ji’s family for nonsense, some truly kind-hearted ones ran to Old Liu’s house urging him to intervene.

But even if Old Liu intervened, it was useless, he himself nearly persuaded by Qin Yao.

Yet ultimately they conservatively stuck to the original method, not daring to risk.

Liu Dafu saw they only planted ten acres, thinking it’s not too risky, plus Qin Yao as a benefactor deserves face, he didn’t say much.

Later, when those two acres of seedlings grew tall and robust, the sound of doubt gradually diminished.

Finally, seeing Qin Yao’s family continuing to neatly replant knee-high seedlings acre by acre into other fertilized rice fields, each seedling tall and robust, standing firm against wind, rain didn’t bend them, the voice of doubt was left with just one—

With so much effort, is the yield going to be more or less in the end?