Bi Qiao’an lay motionless in the icy snow, watching helplessly as the falling flakes slowly buried her. As her consciousness faded, her mind drifted back to the three arduous years she had spent ...
Chapter 53 Harvest
The next day, when Shen Yanming woke up, it was already ten o'clock in the morning.
Chen Yanming tiptoed to lift the quilt, and after getting out of bed, he quickly tucked the quilt in again, picked up the slippers under the bed, gently opened the door, squeezed out and gently closed it, put down his shoes, put them on, and walked to the public bathroom in the living room to wash up.
After tidying himself up, Shen Yanming opened the refrigerator and saw that it was full of drinks, milk, beer, and eggs. Shen Yanming took out two eggs and closed the refrigerator.
I went to the kitchen, scooped out a bowl of rice from the rice bag in the cupboard, poured it into the rice cooker, rinsed it, and added water to cook the rice.
Then he took out a sea bass from the space, washed it, stuffed onions, ginger and garlic into the fish's belly, put it in a porcelain plate, poured in steamed fish soy sauce, and steamed it for 15 minutes.
Shen Yanming thought about it and decided that he needed a vegetarian dish, so he took out two tomatoes and a handful of chrysanthemums from the space, washed them, and fried them into a tomato and egg dish and stir-fried chrysanthemums.
Half an hour later, the meal was ready. Shen Yanming looked at the delicious food in front of him and felt extremely satisfied. Well, it was already amazing to be able to achieve this level.
When he walked out of the kitchen, he saw that Bi Qiaoan was still asleep. Shen Yanming put the dishes on the plate into the space, cleaned up the kitchen knife and cutting board, washed the pot and wiped the stove, then sat on the sofa and checked Weibo, waiting for Qiaoan to get up and eat.
It was not until half past twelve that Bi Qiaoan got up with his messy hair. After washing up, he dragged his weak steps to the living room and sat next to Shen Yanming.
Bi Qiaoan put her arms around Shen Yanming's waist, rested her chin on Shen Yanming's left shoulder, raised her head and said softly, "Honey, I'm hungry!"
When Shen Yanming heard this lingering and lazy voice, his whole body trembled, and his Adam's apple rolled up and down, "Be good, dinner will be served soon!"
Bi Qiaoan spoke highly of Shen Yanming's lunch, which can be said to be a performance beyond his level by Shen Yanming.
Shen Yanming looked at Bi Qiaoan's happy face and gave himself a thumbs up in his heart.
After finishing the meal and clearing the tableware, Bi Qiaoan pulled Shen Yanming into the planting space.
At this moment, only half of the fifty acres of land has been cultivated.
Now, there are about fifteen acres of land in the space planted with various crops, two acres of land planted with various vegetables, one acre of land planted with flowers, and the remaining seven acres of land, of which three acres are planted with fruit trees that have already borne fruit, and the remaining four acres of land are planted with fruit tree branches grafted by Bi Qiaoan, all of which have survived, but the trees are still young and have not yet borne fruit.
Since he felt that the connection between the space and himself had deepened in the early morning, Bi Qiaoan wanted to try whether he could collect the fruit with his mind.
Bi Qiaoan walked under an apple tree, looked up at the big red apple on the top of the tree and silently said, "Come down, into my hands, quickly!"
The apple seemed to be blown by the wind, swaying left and right, swaying again and again, and suddenly, it fell down.
Bang! Bi Qiaoan squatted on the ground, holding her nose and about to cry. It hurt so much!
Bi Qiaoan secretly glanced at Shen Yanming in the wheat field. Well, the man was fiddling with the harvester that had just been released and didn't notice his embarrassing situation.
So, Bi Qiaoan sneaked up and hid behind the apple tree, making sure that Shen Yanming couldn't see her even if he looked over. Then she covered her nose, stamped her feet, and wailed silently.
Chen Yanming had noticed the situation here a long time ago. He couldn't help laughing when he saw Bi Qiaoan's performance out of the corner of his eye. He shook his head and got into the harvester to harvest the wheat first.
Bi Qiaoan waited behind the apple tree for a while, until his nose stopped hurting, then he picked up the small basket and started picking the fruits.
The fruit trees in the space are not very tall, and they are mainly grown horizontally. Fortunately, the distance between each fruit tree was large when they were planted, so most of the fruits can be picked by Bi Qiaoan just by tiptoeing and raising his arms.
Bi Qiaoan picked up the apple that hit him before and complained in his heart, Newton discovered gravity after being hit, Steve Jobs changed the world after being hit, but Bi Qiaoan almost had a nosebleed after being hit...
Bi Qiaoan sighed, stood up, picked those apples he could from the trees, and put them in a cardboard box in the middle of the orchard.
After picking the apples, Bi Qiaoan picked a mango and smelled it. It smelled so fragrant, sweet and happy. Bi Qiaoan gently pinched it with his hand. It was hard and slightly soft. It seems that the space can keep the fruit in the best condition after it is ripe.
After picking mangoes, there are also lychees, cherries, loquats, etc. Most of them cannot be bumped or squeezed. Bi Qiaoan puts fruits of the same type in a cardboard box, seals the box after it is full, and writes the type of fruit on the box with a marker.
In the orchard, the ten cartons that Shen Yanming had prepared in advance were soon filled up. Bi Qiaoan looked up and saw that Shen Yanming had already harvested the wheat and was now harvesting soybeans.
Bi Qiaoan didn't call Shen Yanming, but put the picked fruits on the ground, and placed a pile of them under a tree...
Until Shen Yanming came to find Bi Qiaoan, Bi Qiaoan looked up and saw that half of the grain fields had been harvested. Bi Qiaoan looked at his side and saw that half of the grain had not been harvested yet. Bi Qiaoan curled his lips and asked unwillingly: "Is this the difference between manual labor and machine work?"
Shen Yanming wiped the sweat off Bi Qiaoan's forehead with a tissue, "Well, they are all integrated machines. It takes about twenty minutes to harvest one acre of land. It took me three hours."
Shen Yanming found an open space in the orchard, took out a hanging basket lounge chair and a coffee table from the storage space, took out a pot of tea, and placed a few plates of snacks on the coffee table. He waved to Bi Qiaoan, "Come over and take a rest. You look tired!"
Bi Qiaoan was not polite. After sitting down, he patted his side and said, "You should take a rest too."
Shen Yanming shook his head. "I've been sitting in the car the whole time. Now is a good time to stand up and move around."
Bi Qiaoan didn't force it and drank tea leisurely.
As for Shen Yanming, he first put the ten cartons in the center of the orchard into the storage space, then put out a pile of cartons, put the fruits under the trees into the boxes, and finally stored them in the storage space.
Half an hour had passed since Shen Yanming finished picking up all the fruits under the fruit trees.
Shen Yanming sat down next to Bi Qiaoan, picked up the cup and drank a cup of slightly cold tea, "Let's go out first, it's already five o'clock, and I guess we have to collect the desserts later. After dinner, we can come in and pick the rest."
Bi Qiaoan nodded and pulled Shen Yanming out of the space.
Bi Qiaoan picked up the phone and saw that Manager Bai had sent a message saying that a batch of desserts had been prepared and could be picked up at the door.
"It seems that we don't have time to buy an oven today, so let's go collect the desserts first." Bi Qiaoan pointed at the message on the phone and said to Shen Yanming.
After changing their clothes, they drove out and arrived at the Sweet Pastry House in no time.
Manager Bai and the waiter helped put the packaged desserts into the car, filling up the trunk and back seats. Both parties also confirmed that they would come back at the same time the next day to collect the second batch, and the order would be completed in about a week.