The villagers clinging to the courtyard gate turned around to see her, their expressions of surprise and embarrassment. They scattered and disappeared in an instant. Ye Nuan was a little amused and helpless as she dragged the bundle of bamboo. Why were these people running? They just wanted to look, what else could she say?
"Ah Nuan, you're back?" Su stood up and said with a smile, "Come and see, is this how to apply fertilizer?"
Ye Nuan carried the bamboo to the clearing and placed it there. She walked over to Su Shi and took a look. The stove ash was a bit scattered, so she took the small iron shovel, scooped some and piled it near the roots of the chives, demonstrating to her mother, "You can get closer. Just put each one at the root."
Su didn't understand and asked, "Can vegetables really grow by adding stove ash?"
Ye Nuan nodded, "Yes, Miss Aqiu said that they all do this." Ye Nuan felt guilty, and Aqiu had no idea how many times she had acted as a shield.
Stove ash is a common fertilizer in rural areas, used as base fertilizer, seed fertilizer, and topdressing. It not only helps crops thrive but also prevents pests. It is also said to be a good traditional Chinese medicine, astringent and antidiarrheal.
"That's fine. I have to cook every day anyway, so I'll fertilize every day from now on. Grow faster and make it green." Su worked hard.
Ye Nuan said, "You can't put it in every day, it will burn the roots. After applying fertilizer today, pile up the remaining stove ashes and save them. Wait until the vegetables grow a little bigger before applying fertilizer again."
Mrs. Su didn't understand these things and just did whatever her daughter said.
Ye Nuan returned the shovel to her mother and began to build a trellis around the bean and cucumber seedlings. Just as she had begun, the villagers who had previously fled came rushing back, lingering at the gates and peering over the walls.
A group of people gathered around Ye Nuan, working on setting up trellises, digging ditches, and applying fertilizers, and it took them the entire morning.
How boring is this? Don’t you have any land to farm at home?
It's not that there's no land to grow crops, it's that even if there were, the crops wouldn't grow well. Over time, the villagers of Dahuang Village became too lazy to work hard, turning the land only casually and rarely digging the ditches. Since the land was already short of water, watering was so rare that no matter how much they planted, the crops would always turn yellow and wither.
When everyone knew that Ye Nuan was asking for dying leek root seeds, they laughed at her and bet that she would never be able to grow them. Now they were really slapped in the face.
I've never seen anything like Ye Nuan's. The soil is plowed thoroughly, squared, and shaped like a block of tofu. Every plant is watered and fertilized. I've never seen anything like climbing trellises before. Dahuang Village only grows vegetables, radishes, garlic, and ginger; nothing requires climbing trellises.
So, what exactly is that thing called planting under the trellis?
The villagers began to whisper to each other. Aunt Wu, who had arrived early in the morning, couldn't help but ask, "Ye family, what are you planting? Why are you sticking a stick in there?"
Ye Nuan's eyes were smiling, and she looked very easy to talk to. "These are cucumber and bean seedlings. When they grow, you can exchange them for your own things."
Cucumbers, beans? What the heck is that?
I asked around, but no one had seen it.
Aunt Wu was shameless and asked again, "You begged for those chives from my house. Now they've grown. Can you give me some?"
The villagers leaning outside the yard immediately shouted: "Aunt Wu, didn't you say before that the leek roots were dead and it was none of your business whether they survived? Why are you asking for a favor here?" She is so shameless.
Aunt Wu doesn't care about all this, the leek roots belong to her family anyway.
She originally thought Ye Nuan wouldn't give it to her, so she took the opportunity to scold Ye Nuan. But Ye Nuan said softly, "Of course, mother, go get a knife and cut a bowl for Aunt Wu."
Su originally wanted to scold her, but since her daughter said so, she had no choice but to do as she said.
Su cut the leeks, and Ye Nuan personally delivered them to Aunt Wu. She smiled at the villagers outside and said, "If anyone has any vegetables that can't be raised, you can give them to me. If they grow well, I can share some with you."
"Oh, that's for sure." Aunt Wu had a mean look on her face, but after getting the benefit, she softened a bit immediately, with smile lines at the corners of her eyes, and left happily.
With such a good thing happening, all the villagers who had been surrounding the yard ran back home, racking their brains to think of what else they could give to the Ye family to plant.
After everyone left, Ye Nuan was still setting up the bamboo frame. Su Shi was a little unhappy and said, "Ah Nuan, that Wu Shi is obviously trying to take advantage of you, why are you bothering her?" Earlier, when she went to do the laundry, she heard Wu Shi gossiping with others, saying that her daughter was having an affair with the boy from the Jin family and was too ugly to be seen in public. When she saw her coming, she immediately shut up.
According to her previous temper, she would have slapped Wu a few times, but seeing that she was outnumbered, she endured it.
Now you dare to ask for leeks, how shameless are you!
"Mom, some losses are actually blessings. Think about it, they bring us vegetables to grow, and we only provide the land, and give them a handful of vegetables when we grow them. We can get a lot of vegetables in return. Your daughter may not be good at other things, but she is an expert at growing vegetables."
Su came to her senses, laughed heartily, and praised sincerely: "Your father is still somewhat useful. He has learned all the tricks from you."
Ye Nuan sneered: "Mom, is there anyone who praises others like you?"
Food was scarce in the wilderness, and normal people only had two meals a day. But Ye Nuan couldn't do that. She worked every day without going hungry, and Xiaohu was still growing, so his mother needed to take care of herself, so she couldn't skip a single meal.
After lunch, people started bringing her vegetables from their homes to plant: greens, radishes, mung beans, and wheat. Even more outrageous, someone brought her a few sick, dying chicks.
Su shouted, "You are not expecting to raise the chicken and take it back, are you?" You can't cut a chicken in half and you have to raise it again. It's not cost-effective.
"That can't be possible. This chicken is dying, and I don't expect to keep it. If you can keep it alive, just give me two next year." These were ten chickens that were hatched with great difficulty. They were about to die, so I sent them to the Ye family to be raised. I had to give it my all.
"Okay, then stay here." That's a chicken. It can lay eggs, and can be made into roast chicken, salt-baked chicken, beggar's chicken, hand-shredded chicken...it's beautiful just thinking about it.
Su pulled her aside and advised, "Ah Nuan, you're crazy. A chick will need so much food to grow up. It's not worth it."
The villagers who brought the chicks listened nervously, fearing that she would not accept them.
After a while, Ye Nuan decided to keep the chicks. Ye Xiaohu's pheasant eggs hadn't yet surfaced, but she was overjoyed to see the chicks. They and the black dog were jumping around them. The ten chicks were sickly, huddled together like quails.
Ye Nuan retrieved the broken bowl from before and squeezed a few drops of the upgraded spiritual spring water into the bottom of the bowl, out of her mother's sight. She then added some water from the water tank. The animals seemed to have a natural affinity for her spiritual spring water, and at the first whiff they all came running to drink. Soon, they were all jumping around.
Su was stunned. She looked around at the chicks, then at her daughter, and stammered, "Is this chick okay?"
Ye Nuan said, "Maybe her family didn't give her enough water, so she got sick from thirst."
The chicks were alive, and the little black dog jumped excitedly and ran after them, with a group of chicks running around the yard happily. Ye Nuan said in shock, "Mom, quickly catch the chicks and put them in the utility room, otherwise the vegetable seedlings in the yard will be in trouble." She was only thinking about the chickens, but forgot that chickens eat vegetables. If they were not kept in a cage, there would definitely be no vegetables left.
The chick was small and agile, and it dodged very quickly. In a moment, the three of them chased the chick all over the yard.
Ye Xiaohu thought they were just playing, and he kept chasing and laughing all the way. Ye Nuan almost got sick from worry.
Her dish! ! ! ! !
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