Chapter 106: Busy Planting Vegetables
Early morning, at the foot of Beishan Mountain.
The Shen family was busy in the morning light.
"Mom, Second Aunt," Chen Xinli said with a smile to the two women beside her, stepping barefoot on the newly leveled ground, "We must plant more potatoes, cabbages, radishes, and spinach. Eating hotpot is the best in winter..."
"Okay, I'll listen to you."
Wu replied with a smile.
She didn't know what the pot her daughter was talking about was, but she felt inexplicably happy.
After eating wild vegetables from the mountains and vegetables sent by villagers for two days, the Shen family decided to grow vegetables first.
Otherwise, if you go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables every day, there will be nothing to dig in winter.
There are so many of them, it would be a huge waste of food to feed them.
Therefore, after buying the barren mountain in the north, five acres of wasteland at the foot of the mountain and more than one acre of paddy field, the Shen family immediately started growing vegetables.
Shen Fugui first borrowed the cow from Uncle Niu in the village to plow the wasteland.
Old Man Wu and the Shen Fugui brothers used hoes to level the ground slightly.
At this moment, there were four or five neatly divided vegetable plots lying at the foot of the mountain. Zhang was hoeing one of them, bending down from time to time to pick up stones and throw them far away.
Eventually, the turned soil will become much softer, and seeds will like to take root and sprout in such soil.
Wu dug a shallow pit on a long strip of land that had just been half-leveled.
Chen Xinli held a small basket, rolled the half-peeled potato pieces in the wood ash nearby, put them in the pit, and then Wu covered them with a layer of soil.
The wood ash was obtained by burning the weeds on the ground after clearing the land.
Although the Shen family did not understand Ali's actions.
But no one stopped it.
After Zhang finished leveling the ground, she began sowing cabbage and radish seeds. Seeing her niece's actions, she was still a little worried. "Ali, will they grow if you plant them like this?"
"Don't worry, Second Aunt! These potatoes can be used as food!"
Chen Xinli replied with a smile.
This potato egg was found at the village head's house these two days.
But the potatoes here are very small, only the size of bird eggs, and if they are bigger, they are only the size of chicken eggs.
Chen Xinli was overjoyed when she learned that every household in the village planted this crop.
He immediately persuaded his family to spend one or two taels of silver to buy potato seeds left by the villagers. Of course, he chose seeds the size of eggs.
Then, it’s time to plant potatoes.
Yu Lizheng was originally worried that this was a new species and the family didn't know how to grow it, so he came to the field today specifically to teach them.
result……
I found out that it was actually the little girl at home who was playing a prank.
Chen Xinli does not bury the potatoes whole, but cuts the potato buds into pieces and plants them.
The enthusiastic Yu Lizheng wanted to offer some friendly suggestions, but seeing that the Shen family didn't take it seriously at all, he felt embarrassed to say more.
Therefore, up to now, only Zhang had asked her niece out of curiosity.
On the mountain, Shen Fugui and Shen Fuyou were busy chopping wood. They were not worried that their daughter would plant the wrong thing. After all, they didn't know what it was, so they chose to trust their daughter unconditionally.
Several boys were also running around wildly on the mountain.
Chen Xinli assigned tasks to all her brothers.
Although the weather is a bit cold now, after all, Shu suffered a flood this year, and the soil on the mountain is still very moist.
The sky hasn't been clear for long yet, so maybe there are some hidden mushrooms on the mountain that have just emerged.
In addition, Chen Xinli also asked them to pick tea seeds.
After these tea seeds are dried, they can be taken to the oil mill in town to make oil.
Yu Lizheng has already found a few men in the village to help his family repair the house, so the thatched hut can last until winter.
These are the original words of Old Man Yu.
In fact, Chen Xinli hopes to settle the family affairs as soon as possible and go to earn money to build a house. She really doesn't want to fall asleep to the sound of her family members fighting.
But her idea was unanimously opposed by her family.
Not to mention that there is not much money left at home and we have to save it to buy food.
After the autumn wind blows, winter comes quickly. After winter, the ground freezes and is not suitable for building houses at all.
Besides, if they built a house right after arriving, what if they attracted the envy of the villagers and became targets?
Only then did Chen Xinli give up the idea of building a house immediately.
Concentrate on growing vegetables for the family.
Fortunately, they bought some vegetable seeds and put them in the space when they set out from the north, so the Shen family didn't have to worry about the seeds.
Therefore, the whole family has been very busy these days.
When Chen Xinli went to bed at night, she no longer worried about who was fighting next door. The physical fatigue made her dreams much sweeter.
The family finished growing the vegetables and prepared to go home.
Looking at the neatly arranged vegetable patch, Zhang smiled and said, "Thanks to Ali's thoughtfulness, we can buy seeds without leaving the village."
"Second Aunt, I am a member of the Shen family. I am so thoughtful because you taught me well!" Shen Xinli replied cunningly.
"Hahaha, you're the only one who can talk, little rascal!"
Zhang's hearty laughter once again made the crowd move.
This made the people in the nearby Bear Village feel that life would soon get better.
But they couldn't laugh!
The people of Gouxiong Village have been forced by the snakes for many years and have to be self-sufficient. They dare not go out of the mountains unless they have to buy daily necessities such as oil and salt.
But the past two years have been abnormal. There has been drought in the north and floods in the south.
There are not many rice ears this year.
It happened to be a heavy rain during the autumn harvest. Although the terrain of Gouxiong Village was relatively high, most of the rice fields were still flooded.
The villagers complete the autumn harvest in the rice fields.
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