Farm Girl Turns Everything Around: Sly Husband, Let's Farm

Chapter 1034: Chapter 1034 Successful Engraving_1 Chapter 1034: Chapter 1034 Successful Engraving_1 Qiao Changshun stood to one side, watching Qiao Xiaomai with her nothing-is-wrong demeanor, and after some thought, he spoke up, “Xiaomai, should we start sowing the watermelon seeds?”

There were many things that Tong Sanlang and Qiao Xiaomai dabbled in that he didn’t understand, but when it came to farming, he was superior to the two of them.

Upon hearing this, Qiao Xiaomai finally remembered the watermelons and hurriedly said, “Yes.”

“Then hand me the watermelon seeds,” Qiao Changshun said, stretching out his hand.

Qiao Xiaomai hummed an acknowledgment and rushed back to Mai Yuan, pretending to go get the seeds.

She had asked Yang Ye for seeds once before, and combined with the ones she had specially saved from eating watermelons, there were enough seeds for about ten acres of land.

She didn’t previously reserve any land for watermelons and planned to plant them on a sloping field.

The sloping field covered fifty acres, thirty of which were planted with fruit trees. Of the remaining twenty acres, ten were designated for the watermelons, while the other ten were left vacant as she hadn’t decided what to plant there yet.

So in the following days, Qiao Changshun was busy sowing watermelon seeds, and Tong Sanlang was busy carving characters into clay.

Clay had a certain stickiness; it was first made into uniformly sized small pieces, then characters were engraved into it. After carving, the blocks were hardened with fire, just like firing pottery, and that’s how a character was completed.

For printing, these individual characters were arranged together, and if one was carved incorrectly, it didn’t matter; it was still faster than engraving printing plates.

However, this method had its drawbacks too, as there were too many Chinese characters; searching and arranging them one by one was a hassle.

More than once, Qiao Xiaomai lamented how English was better, needing only to cast twenty-six letters that could be freely arranged.

“In the Royal, with many craftsmen working together, carving and arranging together, the efficiency would still be higher than with engraved plate printing,” Tong Sanlang said. “This is a novel thing; when we present it to the retired emperor in the Capital City, he will surely be pleased.”

“At least one big worry is settled,” remarked Qiao Xiaomai with a click of her tongue. “So, are you going to print that novel?”

“No, that’s too tedious; we’ll leave it to the retired emperor to deal with,” Tong Sanlang refused.

Printing it himself could take half a year or more, and he had many other things to do!

“I still want to research soap,” he said. “That is pressing, as your shower gel in the space is about to run out.”

At his words, Qiao Xiaomai slightly furrowed her brow, “Hm… soap contains alkali, and its raw material is lard. That’s about all I know.”

“I’ll think about it slowly, no rush. We still have over a month before we go to the Capital City,” said Tong Sanlang, feeling quite at ease.

He was yet unaware that Yang Wenxiao planned to have the couple enter the Capital City earlier.

Now, about Qiao Meipan.

She truly couldn’t get anywhere near the manor; whenever she tried to approach it, fierce and menacing guards would spring out to stop her.

These guards, just like Fan Linong, showed no leniency because she was a girl–scolding when scolding was due, and getting physical when necessary.

After trying to force her way in a few times to no effect, she gave up hope.

She even tried to intercept Qiao Changshun in the fields, but now the Qiao Family had many long-term workers, and Changshun didn’t work the fields himself anymore, just arranged tasks within the manor.

She truly couldn’t even get a glimpse of Qiao Changshun anymore.

At her wit’s end and in a desperate situation.

As her mind raced, she took off to find Tong Tiehu.

Although she had previously framed Tong Sanlang with the indecent trousers incident, she was genuinely left with no other option now. Being the Village Chief, Tong Tiehu should give her a hand, right…

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