I stewed a whole chicken in the evening. It was delicious. I added sugar to color it when frying it, and added star anise when stewing it. I stewed it in a wood-fired pot for more than 20 minutes. The chicken was tender, juicy, and the meat was chewy.

　　The leftover soup base is the most delicious when mixed with rice.

　　Li Da ate three big bowls in a row before stopping. He sat on the stool with a relaxed expression, a smile on his face, and hummed a country tune.

　　Isn’t this day better than when Zhu Laosi has a drink?

　　The Li family is the same as the ones who have been fattened recently. Even the stingy Tian family’s kitchen smells of meat. Aunt Wang’s family next door also ate meat yesterday, but none of them was as generous as the Li family, who ate a whole chicken in one meal. The families who have not been fattened are not very peaceful, and there are always some arguments and quarrels, and they are nothing more than the same few sentences.

　　When I said I would go, you stopped me and see?

　　It’s obviously you who are timid and afraid of getting fat, and now you blame it all on me.

　　We can’t live like this anymore.

　　He started throwing things around and crying.

　　There’s no way around it. The village chief can scold once, but can he always interfere with other people’s homes?

　　At home, the millet was drying, and the dry land had to be plowed and then sown with wheat seeds. October was the busiest and most tiring month, but this year’s harvest, Li Da was very motivated, pushing the plow in front to plow the land, and Li Zhouzhou was sowing seeds in the back.

　　Gu Zhao took over the household logistics, including cooking, washing clothes, and feeding the chickens and pigs.

　　After sowing the seeds in the fields, the millet dried in the yard began to be pounded again and again, the millet husks were cleaned off, and the millet was dried and packed into sacks. At the end of the month, the village chief went from house to house with a smile on his face, and when he arrived at the entrance of the Li family’s yard, many people who came to watch the fun came over.

　　The Li family’s paddy fields could not be covered this year.

　　It was a clear and crisp autumn day, and the table from the main hall was moved to the yard as usual. The village chief and Li Da and Gu Shulang greeted them with smiles, and the fellow villagers who followed were also polite.

　　”What a good harvest! Our Xiping Village has produced a good guy.” The village chief happily praised Gu Shulang.

　　Gu Zhaoying said, “Of course.”

　　Li Zhouzhou served tea.

　　Let’s get down to business. How much grain did the Li family pay from their ten acres of paddy fields this year?

　　The villagers could guess the amount pretty close, but they still wanted to hear it from Li Da himself. Li Da was also happy, and he gestured with his fingers and said, “Forty-three stones is about right.”

　　”Wow!” The people in the same village envied him.

　　But he was not jealous, because he thought that since the Li family had a good harvest this year, his family would also apply fertilizer next year and would also have a similar harvest then.

　　Gu Zhao helped calculate the amount that needed to be handed in, which was approximately 218 kilograms.

　　”It’s a bit late to apply fertilizer this year. If we prepare early next year and find a good time, we should be able to harvest more.” Gu Zhao said to several uncles.

　　Village chief: “More?”

　　”This is not enough, how much more can it be? Can an acre of land produce five stones?” A colleague said casually, how could it be so much.

　　Gu Zhao smiled and said, “I also calculated it based on the wheat harvest and my father’s experience. Originally, the wheat yield per mu of land without fertilizer was 1.4 dan, but after fertilizing, my family got more than 4 dan.”

　　Even without applying fertilizer, the paddy fields can hold 220 to 230 kilograms of fertilizer.

　　Li Da took over and said, “We are all experienced farmers. If we apply more fertilizer in September, we can harvest in October. It’s a little late now, but we will see that the harvest will be ready by then.” He gestured with five fingers.

　　I just mentioned five stones. After listening to what Li Da and Gu Shulang said, I thought it was right. Could it be that one mu of land could really have five stones? I was so shocked that I didn’t know what to say.

　　”Yes, yes.” The village chief said.

　　Thinking about it this way, can I really reach 5 stone by eating more fertilizer next year?

　　This, this is too much. I was shocked and didn’t know what to say.

　　Our ancestors have been working in the fields for generations, but never thought that one day we would be able to grow so much food. We didn’t dare to believe it, but we were looking forward to it. May next year will come soon.

　　He also talked about some farming tips and asked Gu Shulang about dry fertilizer and water fertilizer. He listened carefully and heard Gu Shulang say that he could buy stone powder in advance next year. Urine would smell bad if stored for a long time and there was no place to put it. If he added gypsum and dried it in the sun to make it into fertilizer, it could be stored for a long time.

　　So everyone had experience, otherwise they would go to Dazao Village to buy stone powder. The village chief knew that after going to the town to harvest rice, he would buy stone powder from the stone powder family in Dazao Village. In this way, people kept burning and moved back to the village one after another.