Chapter 174: Plant the lotus roots
Xia Runlin noted the location of this lotus leaf and said, "I'll bring you here when the time comes."
Xu Xinxin nodded repeatedly.
Back at the farm, Xu Xinxin prepared to plant the lotus roots immediately.
The newly built pond did not have much water in it. Xu Xinxin and Xia Runlin rolled up their trouser legs and were just able to stand in it. The water level was just above their calves.
Xu Xinxin squatted down, cut the lotus root into pieces, and then buried them in the mud to stimulate their growth.
The evolution level of this lotus root is not high, so it can be easily accelerated to grow. Green lotus leaves quickly emerge in the water, followed by pink lotus flowers, and finally ordinary quality lotus pods.
Now Xu Xinxin does not plan to collect lotus pods for seeds. She directly digs out the lotus roots that have grown again in the mud and saves them for cutting into pieces later to stimulate sprouts.
After working on it for half a day, Xu Xinxin finally made most of the pond grow green lotus leaves and filled the pond with water. A few pink unopened buds also grew among the lotus leaves.
In addition, she had a few lotus roots left and a large basket of ordinary lotus seeds.
There are quite a lot of fresh lotus leaves, which can be dried and stored for making lotus leaf chicken later.
I heard that it can be made into tea, but Xu Xinxin doesn’t know how, so she won’t try it for now.
Anyway, she has a lot of lotus leaves in her pond, so she can slowly deal with them later when she has time.
Xu Xinxin looked at the fresh lotus leaves all over the ground. Not wanting to waste them, she picked some, washed them, and planned to steam some lotus leaf rice.
We don’t have chickens at home... Yes, we do have chickens, but they are live chickens, and there are not many of them. They are all kept for breeding, so we can’t make lotus leaf chicken now.
However, lotus leaves can also be used to stew meat.
Marinate the steamed pork with rice flour, wrap it in fresh lotus leaves, tie it with a straw rope, and steam it directly in the pot. The steamed meat made in this way will be fragrant and not greasy to eat.
Xu Xinxin sipped a mouthful of saliva, then said to Xia Runlin: "I will cook dinner today and show you my cooking skills."
She held a lotus leaf in her hands and carried a basket of lotus pods in her hands, and was about to walk towards the house.
After Xu Xinxin took two steps, she realized that she was so excited that she forgot that she had her own space.
Xu Xinxin turned back again and collected all the lotus leaves and lotus pods beside the pond into the space.
As soon as there was space next to the pond, she felt like something was missing.
The June wind blew nearby, and Xu Xinxin noticed from afar that the green branches of the huge willow trees growing beside the river seemed to be swaying in the wind.
Oh, there are weeping willows beside the pond.
Xu Xinxin ran to the riverside again, grunting, broke off a lot of willow branches, then ran back to the pond and walked around it to induce labor.
Not long after, a few weeping willows grew beside the pond. When the wind blew, they swayed gently, making the lotus leaves and flower buds in the pond appear greener.
Not bad, not bad. It would be even better if there was a pavilion built nearby.
But the construction workers have all left, so we can’t build it now.
Xia Runlin said, "Don't bother. I'll make you a stone bench and a stone table here, and a 'stone pavilion'. You can grow some insulating climbing plants next to it and cover the top of the pavilion. When the weather is good, you can come and sit here."
When the weather is bad, who would want to go out? The most important thing is to stay in the house and "survive".
When Xu Xinxin heard this, he thought it was a good idea, and he pointed out a location on the spot and asked Xia Runlin to build the "Stone Pavilion".
After the stone pavilion was built, Xu Xinxin got some evergreen ivy and let it climb up the pavilion, growing layers of leaves on the top of the pavilion.
The stone pavilion has just been built, and people standing inside it still feel a little hot.
But Xu Xinxin helped the ivy to grow, and the temperature in the stone pavilion dropped several degrees in an instant.
The wind carrying water vapor from the pond blew slowly over, and it was quite comfortable to sit on the stone bench in the stone pavilion.
Xu Xinxin was very satisfied and immediately ran to the kitchen, saying, "Xia Runlin, I'll go cook now. Let's eat here tonight."
Xu Xinxin was said to be preparing dinner, and Xia Runlin was not idle either. He helped her peel garlic and then pick vegetables.
Xu Xinxin extravagantly prepared an evolved sweet potato, intending to put it under the steamed meat and steam them together.
Anyway, she has a lot of evolved sweet potatoes here, and she can't bring them all out at once, so it doesn't matter if she eats one or two occasionally.
After all, there is still life to be lived.
In addition to steamed pork with rice flour, Xu Xinxin also made tiger skin green peppers, fried green peppers with poached eggs, and tomato meatball soup.
Finally, she steamed another pot of fragrant rice of ordinary quality.
It’s done, let’s serve the food.
Xu Xinxin put the food into the space and went to the pavilion with Xia Runlin.
It’s not so hot now, the sun is about to set, the temperature has dropped a little, and it’s more comfortable to sit in the pavilion.
After putting the food on the table, Xia Runlin got a few mosquito repellent bags from somewhere and hung several of them next to the pavilion.
Xu Xinxin saw this and praised him, "You are really thoughtful."
But this also reminded her that she could plant some more mugwort here tomorrow to repel mosquitoes.
All the food was placed on the stone benches and was still hot.
Two field mice and a little orange cat came over here after smelling the scent.
Xu Xinxin never failed to feed them and also served them a bowl of food.
Then she served a bowl of tomato meatball soup to Xia Runlin and herself.
After a sip of warm, sweet and sour tomato soup, have a meatball and then a piece of steamed pork with rice flour.
It’s really delicious.
Then, Xu Xinxin picked up another piece of steamed sweet potato with chopsticks and instantly felt that this was the best of the whole place.
While eating, she recommended this to Xia Runlin: "Eat this quickly, it's delicious."
Xia Runlin also picked up a piece of the evolved sweet potato with chopsticks, his face slightly surprised, and said: "This evolved sweet potato must be at least level 30, right?"
Xu Xinxin took another piece of the evolved sweet potato with chopsticks and nodded, "Well, I tested it, and it's level 39."
As she spoke, she told him about how she had just arrived here and moved away most of the evolved sweet potatoes from her home.
"I don't know who to get this from. With such a high level, I guess it must have cost a lot of favors."
As Xu Xinxin was speaking, she noticed that Xia Runlin opposite her had his eyebrows twitching, and then he looked at her with a smile in his eyes.
She suddenly reacted and said in disbelief: "Could it be you?"
"Yes," Xia Runlin nodded and said, "I took these sweet potatoes and asked someone to exchange them for some solar generators."
Since the world disaster, many solar generators have been attacked by animals and plants and have been damaged on a large scale.
The rest are basically not circulated in the market.
Unexpectedly, Xia Runlin actually asked someone to replace this.
I just don't know what he collects this for.
Xia Runlin explained: "At that time, we wanted to build a factory and needed to maintain a constant temperature. The temperature difference in the constant temperature room was a bit large and unsafe, so I collected some solar generators and used air conditioning to maintain a constant temperature."
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