Chapter 169: Teaching Ginger Planting (Additional chapters after 135,000 Yunqi recommendation votes)
Except for studying, Manbao is only enthusiastic about things for half a minute, and then forgets them after a while. Of course, this is also because she is young and her brain capacity is limited, so she can't store much.
For example, the day before yesterday, a villager greeted her and wanted to exchange some ginger seeds with her. She agreed, but then she forgot about it. She went to school, went home from school, read books, and played every day, and she had no idea about it at all.
Little Qian still remembered it. After asking Qian and Zhou Silang, she dug up the remaining ginger in the field. After keeping enough seeds for her own family for the next year, she gave the rest to the people in the village.
However, few people gave money, most of them gave eggs or a bamboo tube of rice.
Xiao Qianshi didn't care. She just looked at what was brought and how much there was, and then she considered changing some for him.
When Manbao finally remembered what happened, Xiao Qian had already finished replacing the ginger. She ran back to her room, took a look at the jar full of eggs, cried out twice, and said, "Sister-in-law, let's boil eggs for dinner."
Xiao Qian looked at her mother-in-law.
Qian smiled and said, "Okay, let's boil some eggs. Boil more so everyone can have two."
"I want to poach an egg," Manbao requested. "Just add a little ginger, and it will be delicious without adding anything else."
Qian pointed at her little mouth and said, "You are the most picky about your mouth."
Manbao laughed heartily, then took Xiao Qian's hand and asked, "Sister-in-law, whose families are exchanging ginger? Have you told them to bury the ginger under the sand so that it can be preserved for a long time? Also, when planting ginger in spring, remember not to water it too much and to apply more fertilizer..."
Little Qian was overwhelmed by what she heard. She said, "They didn't say whether we were taking the ginger back to eat or to grow. How could we just tell them that for no reason?"
"Then tell me whose house has been changed, and I'll go and tell them."
When Xiao Qian saw how eager she was to try, she knew that she was bored at home and wanted to go out and play.
He said, "Except for Zhou Dayuan's family, almost all the other families in the neighborhood have changed. If you want to give instructions, just go along the road and visit each family one by one."
Manbao became excited and turned around to invite Datou and the others to go together.
Datou had to go play with his friends and was busy, so he refused.
Daya has been very interested in sewing and mending recently. She was squatting next to Aunt San and learning, and didn't want to go. In the end, Ertou and Erya brought Santou and Sanya to catch up. Even the youngest, Sitou, took his short legs to chase them and wanted to play too.
So Manbao went downstairs to visit his neighbors along the road in front of his house.
It was broad daylight, and most people in the countryside wouldn't close their doors. Manbao simply stood at the gate and asked the people inside, "Auntie, have you exchanged ginger with me? Do you want to plant it? Do you know how to plant it? I'll teach you..."
Or, "Sister-in-law, I heard that you and my eldest sister-in-law exchanged ginger. Are you planning to plant it in the vegetable garden? Do you know how to plant it? I'll teach you..."
Under the pretext of teaching how to grow ginger, Manbao toured the entire village and collected a lot of rare things.
For example, a very beautiful chicken feather, a very nice stone, Manbao was happy no matter whether he received the thing or what he received.
She put the things she received in her shoulder bag. If her bag couldn't hold them anymore, she would hold them in her arms. When she came back from her shopping trip, her arms were full of all kinds of messy things.
The two girls also had a lot of fun playing together, and even said to Manbao, "Auntie, let's play like this next time."
"We need to find a good excuse," Manbao said with some regret, "it would be great if they asked our family for yam seeds, then we can go on another journey."
Xiao Qian: ...She really couldn't understand what was so fun about going door to door.
The adults couldn't understand, but the children envied Manbao very much, especially Bai Shanbao. After he knew that Manbao had visited most of the houses in the village yesterday, he expressed his envy and said, "Next time you go to visit, remember to invite me."
Manbao patted his chest and said that it was no problem.
The villagers followed Manbao's advice and buried the ginger pieces they had exchanged in the sand. Surprisingly, even after several days, when they dug them out, they were still plump and not dried up at all.
So everyone buried it in the soil and left it there without any worry.
They exchanged ginger with the Zhou family, and took some of it back to eat. After all, the Chinese New Year was approaching, and the family would occasionally have to eat meat, so they inevitably needed some ginger to remove the fishy smell.
Or when the weather is cold, ginger is needed to dispel the cold.
The rest is used for planting.
Not to mention the ginger that the Zhou family planted in the fields, just look at the one they planted in the vegetable garden, it is still growing well now.
Grow some at home, and you won’t have to buy ginger in the future. You can just dig it up in the vegetable garden. It’s so convenient and saves money.
At that time, the villagers did not know how much money the Zhou family made from ginger. After all, Zhou Wulang and his friends went to the county town to sell things by going from street to street, and did not have a fixed place in the market.
Therefore, only the Zhou family knows how much money they have earned.
And precisely because of their ignorance, the villagers' attitude towards ginger is just that it is an additional ingredient in the vegetable garden, which saves them the trouble and money of going out to buy ginger.
No one found it strange that Manbao went from door to door to teach people how to grow ginger, because people in the village often exchanged such planting experiences.
The melons I grow are better than yours. When you asked me how I grew them, I told you, so this is a perfectly normal thing.
Koko, invented by future humans, pays great attention to technical privacy, but he watched all this and said nothing, allowing the host to fly here and there like a busy little bee, and when he was tired of playing, he would honestly lie back in the room and read, looking very well-behaved.
Keke then said: "Host, the New Year is coming soon, why don't we summarize our achievements this year."
When Manbao heard there was something new to do, he immediately put down his book and sat up straight, his eyes shining, "Great, great!"
Keke threw out the statistical table for her to see, and said, "Host, look, in the past year, you have added a total of 18 plant species and 4 animal species to the system. Excluding three extinct plants and seven endangered plants, the rest are common species..."
Manbao exclaimed, "I'm so amazing! I actually found so many endangered plants."
Keke: "...But the collection activity was mainly concentrated in the first half of the year. In the second half of the year, you only included three plants, and they are all common species."
In fact, it didn't want to collect it, but Manbao insisted that the flowers and grass were beautiful, and she had never collected them before, so she insisted on collecting them.
What can Koko do?
I can only give her a few reward points.
By the way, I would like to inform everyone here that the daily life of the rich second generation of immortal cultivation has been temporarily blocked because it involves some military and political content. It will be released after the modification is passed. I hope all book friends will inform each other.
(End of this chapter)
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