mtl008 Chapter 157 Biological or not?
Chapter 157 Biological or not?
Jia Yi and the others looked at each other, exchanging glances.
"Speak your mind, don't beat around the bush." Noticing their expressions, Jiang Bai frowned.
Several guards in black lowered their heads, and the first guard stepped forward with a stiff upper lip and said, "Master, the blood of the second young lady and the young master can be absorbed into the bones. Does this mean that the remains belong to the master?"
According to common understanding, Jiang Bai and Jiang Lu, who are siblings, may not be biologically related.
But none of them dared to say it.
"what?"
Jiang Lu spoke in shock.
She didn't understand the meaning of the dripping blood, but after thinking for a moment, she understood what Jia meant.
Does this mean that if blood can seep in, it indicates a blood relationship?
But... but Dad is still alive.
The little girl was incredulous, her brows furrowed, and she didn't say a word for a moment.
"This only proves that the remains are related to Er Ya and the others, but it does not prove that these are my father's remains."
Having witnessed more precise methods, Jiang Bai's acceptance of bone marrow kinship testing was not as high as that of Jia Yi.
The black-clad guard in charge of the autopsy wanted to say something, but was glared at by Jia, so he swallowed his words.
Jiang Lu, who was standing nearby, had not yet recovered from her shock when the remains were buried back in their original state.
"Sister, that really is..."
"Not necessarily." Jiang Bai was also unsure, but whether it was true or not, it was impossible to verify at the moment.
As for the one who is alive, whether it's real or fake, they'll eventually slip up.
Before leaving, Jiang Bai took a deep look at Jiang Anliang's grave, his mind filled with puzzlement.
If bone marrow kinship testing is completely useless, why were Jiang Lu and Jiang Songwen's blood able to seep in?
If it's useful, then why couldn't she and Jia Yi infiltrate it?
Unable to understand, she could only keep it to herself.
No one knows that about an hour after they left, a dark figure appeared here, did something, and then left again.
Jiang Bai's life settled down, and Song Shi also settled down in Pingshan with peace of mind. As for Jiang Anliang, he had not woken up since he came to this courtyard.
In the blink of an eye, the fifty acres of beans planted by Jiang Bai were ready for harvest.
Jiang Bai is not like he was a year ago, with no one around him to rely on.
She offered a high price of fifty coins a day and entrusted the task of collecting beans to the people of Jiangjia Village.
There are many good people in the village, and in just two days, all the beans were harvested and laid out to dry on the village's threshing floor. Once they were dry, they could be stored in the warehouse.
The land, more than 50 mu in total, was planted with beans, except for the yams. After the beans were harvested, much of the land was visibly overgrown and the soil's fertility was severely depleted.
"Tsk tsk, Da Ya has used up all the fertilizer in the soil by planting these beans. I'm afraid she won't be able to make it in time for spring planting this year."
Because of the cold weather that lasted for a long time, spring plowing this year was nearly three months later than in previous years.
Many villagers have recently returned from the sweater factory to work on their own land.
Even so, at least one person was assigned to work in the factory.
It's not just a sweater factory, but also a livestock farm.
As soon as the beans were harvested, Jiang Bai gave new instructions, distributing bags of pre-collected animal manure to the villagers and instructing them to bury the manure in the soil according to her instructions.
"Da Ya, what's this fertilizer for?"
The villagers knew that they could use human and animal manure to irrigate the land, but they only used manure piled up in their own outhouses and had never seen this kind of dried and processed fertilizer.
They had some guesses in their minds, but fearing they might be wrong due to their limited knowledge, they asked.
"This is for fertile soil."
"Spring plowing will be in a few days. Burying these fertilizers in advance, and then irrigating and preparing the land after some time, will help the crops yield a better harvest."
"Really?" The villagers stared in shock.
It is said that Jiang Bai planted so many beans, and beans consume a lot of fertilizer, so after planting, there is not much fertilizer left in the soil.
Who would have thought she had already made plans?
"It's true."
“If there is any land left over after my family has used it, everyone can spend money to buy it. We can buy enough land at once to use all the land. We can plant one or two acres first, and if the harvest is good, we can buy more next year.”
Jiang Bai's breeding farm supplies meat to the army of Prince An, and it raises quite a few chickens.
They also raise a lot of pigs.
However, since the pigs eat grain and feed has not yet been produced, the number is only a few dozen.
The most urgent task is to grow more grains to increase the scale of animal husbandry, then collect more animal manure, produce more fertilizer, and then obtain more grains, thus forming a virtuous cycle.
Unfortunately, there are still too few things that can be grown right now. If we had sweet potatoes, we could raise more pigs.
With the help of villagers, Jiang Bai's land was the first in the village to be planted.
Of the fifty-five mu of land, thirty mu were paddy fields and twenty-five mu were dry fields.
All the paddy fields were used to grow rice, while the dry fields were temporarily left uncultivated. Apart from one mu (approximately 0.16 acres) planted with yams, the remaining twenty-odd mu (approximately 1.3 acres) were planned to be planted with beans.
We can also plant some vegetables, and potatoes should be planted as well.
This is only the first year, and she didn't produce much fertilizer. After using it on more than 50 acres of land, she only had less than 100 jin left.
The village head's family, the clan head's family, and the Third Aunt Liu's family bought some from her, and about twenty catties were left.
Jiang Bai wasn't in a hurry. He figured they would come back to buy more once they had planted the crops and had a good harvest.
After the fertilizer was buried at home, Jiang Bai began the process of grinding it into powder.
In ancient times, with limited mechanical power, grinding beans was a troublesome task.
Due to the varying quality of the soil, the yield of soybeans ranged from 30 to 60 kilograms per mu. Jiang Bai planted about 53 mu and harvested more than 2,000 kilograms of soybeans.
If she were to do it all by herself, who knows how long it would take.
So she decisively ordered another factory to be built and bought another hundred donkeys, specifically for grinding soybeans.
She had already figured out how to cook the beans.
Some of it is made into soybean flour, which can be eaten for breakfast; some is used to extract oil; and some is made into tofu, dried tofu, and bean curd sticks, which are then sold.
While she was busy with her own affairs, the Prince of An's army was also engaged in fierce fighting with the barbarian elites.
The barbarians are skilled warriors, and even when fighting on foreign soil, their fighting power should not be underestimated. Several months have passed, and Prince An has only managed to stop them outside Xuchuan City, while the surrounding people have all fled.
Because of the constraints imposed by Prince An's troops, they have been unable to deal with Nan'an County, which has led to many people from Xuchuan Prefecture fleeing here.
Just then, Jiangbai was recruiting workers, so new houses were built at the foot of Pingshan Mountain.
Strangely, the Nan'an County government was unusually quick to approve these residential land plots.
As the number of refugees at the foot of the mountain increased, the villagers of Jiangjia Village became more and more worried. The clan chief had not seen Jiang Bai for a long time. Because of the refugees settling down at the foot of Pingshan Mountain, the old man finally stepped out of the boundaries of Jiangjia Village and came to Jiang Bai's new home in Pingshan.