Chapter 30: The tomatoes are ripe
The spring in Jiangcheng has always been "randomly played all year round".
It was extremely hot yesterday, and today it started snowing. Although the snowflakes melted as soon as they hit the ground, the temperature has indeed dropped a lot.
Fortunately, Xu Xinxin had just built a new greenhouse, otherwise the seedlings that had been grown previously would probably have been frozen.
at this time.
Sun Kunpeng, who was staying in the supply and marketing mart, was also holding a thermos cup in his hands, drinking hot tea with dried wolfberries, and chatting with his cousin Xia Runlin.
"Brother Runlin, the good stuff our store can receive has been decreasing recently. Do you have any good stuff?"
"No," Xia Runlin just came to see him on the way, picked up an orange, peeled it and ate it.
A sour taste made him frown.
"Don't you say you don't accept mutant fruits? Why is this tangerine so unpalatable?"
Sun Kunpeng also picked up a small tangerine, peeled it and ate it, sighing, "There's nothing we can do. Since the capital has been opened up, many people with special abilities in Jiangcheng have gone there.
Without a wood-type mutant, no one can grow evolved plants well, and ordinary plants are prone to mutation... Although mine is a mutant fruit, the mutation value is only "-3", which is considered low. Others are all negative ten levels, so don't be ungrateful."
Xia Runlin didn't come here to eat fruit. He only ate one small orange and then stopped.
"Your mother asked me to tell you that the granddaughter of the Gu family will come to see you in the next two days."
“Ahem…”
Sun Kunpeng was eating an orange when he choked on the juice. He coughed and pointed at him, saying, "I was wondering why you came to see me out of kindness, but it turns out you came to laugh at me. I tell you, you won't be able to relax for long. At most in two years, your grandfather will have to arrange a blind date for you."
"I have already delivered your message. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
"you……"
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"Do you want to eat water spinach?"
Xu Xinxin has been busy in the greenhouse for two days. All the water spinach and tomato seeds have been planted and all have grown and borne fruit.
Especially the water spinach, which is green and looks particularly crisp and tender.
At the beginning, Xu Xinxin took in two voles and asked them to help with work, and their reward was these evolved vegetables.
It just so happened that Xu Xinxin was preparing to cut some water spinach, pick off the leaves, and leave only the stems for sticking.
"No problem, I'll give you some vegetable leaves later," she said.
As Xu Xinxin said this, he took a pair of scissors and a low stool and went into the greenhouse.
She first used scissors to cut all 30 water spinach plants, and then removed all their leaves, leaving only the stems.
Bend the bare stem into several sections, leaving a node on each section, and that's it.
Xu Xinxin cut the stems into small pieces, inserted them obliquely into the soil in a certain direction, poured a little water on them, and induced them to grow one by one.
The originally bare small piece of stem, after being stimulated to grow, instantly grew new leaves.
The original 30 water spinach plants have now become more than 100 plants.
After repeatedly inserting the poles to ripen the vegetables a few times, she will have a large field of water spinach.
Xu Xinxin generously gave all the picked leaves to the field mouse. She wanted to eat fresh tomatoes today.
Next to them, there are 30 tomato plants, each with fruits hanging on them. One of them, Xu Xinxin had already ripened its fruits the day before yesterday.
Although this tomato plant that was ripened prematurely produced ordinary fruits, each one was bright red, round and particularly shiny.
Moreover, these tomatoes are not sprayed with pesticides and can be eaten right after they are picked. Just take a light bite and the juice will burst out immediately. It is sweet with a slight sourness and a soft and glutinous texture, making you unable to resist eating it all in one bite.
This is what tomatoes should taste like. A few years ago, before the world was devastated, the tomatoes sold in supermarkets were all hard and had no tomato flavor at all.
It would be a shame not to use such good tomatoes to make scrambled eggs.
The day before the hen laid eggs, it laid two unfertilized eggs. Xu Xinxin risked being pecked by it and begged it for a long time before she finally got the eggs out of the nest two days ago.
We have tomatoes and eggs, so how can we live without white rice?
Xu Xinxin luxuriously scooped out two large bowls of ordinary quality rice, cooked a large pot of rice, and then started cutting tomatoes.
This tomato vine has produced a lot of big tomatoes. They are delicious when eaten raw, served cold, cooked in soup, or fried with eggs.
Xu Xinxin simply took a big bowl, cut ten tomatoes in a row, put them in a small bowl, sprinkled sugar on it, and it became cold-boiled tomatoes.
She doesn’t have much sugar left, so she’ll go buy some more next time she sells some vegetables.
The remaining tomatoes can be made into tomato egg soup or scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
It’s a pity there were only two eggs, otherwise she would have been even happier.
After working for a long time, Xu Xinxin took a large bowl and three small bowls and filled them all with rice.
"Little orange cat, field mouse, come and eat!"
"Meow~"
"Squeak~"
“Squeak.”
Xu Xinxin shouted towards the door, and soon, the little orange cat and two voles came running over.
Xu Xinxin poured a large spoonful of tomato and egg soup on the rice for each of them, and then went to feed the two chickens.
Finally, she poured the hot scrambled eggs with tomatoes directly on her big bowl and started eating.
Wow, the hot fried tomato and eggs served with rice is so delicious.
More importantly, these are all "normal" ingredients, without any bitter taste, which is really satisfying.
God knows, she always eats mutated rice and it feels like her tongue is degenerating.
Now, even when she drinks plain water, she always feels a "medicinal taste" in her mouth.
Ordinary ingredients are already so delicious. I wonder how happy she will be when her evolved food matures.
Xu Xinxin felt full after eating a big bowl of tomato scrambled eggs on rice and a bowl of tomato egg soup.
But she also has salad tomatoes.
The sweet white sugar sprinkled on the chopped tomatoes had already melted completely.
The tomatoes have released a lot of juice after being pickled in sugar, and they taste sweet when you take a bite of them.
After taking a bite of the cold-mixed tomatoes, Xu Xinxin felt her appetite had been whetted. Her stomach, which was so full just now, could have another big bowl of tomatoes!
After eating the tomatoes, Xu Xinxin really couldn’t hold on any longer. She was afraid that she would have indigestion, so she quickly ran out to walk a few laps.
After having a full meal, Xu Xinxin felt a little sorry for the two chickens at home.
She, the little orange cat, and the field mouse can eat some normal quality food from time to time, and even eat evolved food in the future.
But her two chickens can only eat chicken feed made from mutated food.
No, she has to plant some rice as well. When the rice harvest is good, her family will not eat the mutated rice anymore. At the very least they will have to eat ordinary rice.
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Xu Xinxin was full of ambition. It was drizzling outside. It rained for two days in a row and the temperature actually rose.
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