Chapter 151 You two are acting so fake!!
The next day, after breakfast, Xu Zhiyi entered the space and took out the soaked vegetable seeds, intending to plant the seeds this morning.
He went out with a hoe and a wooden bucket of wood ash, came to the back of the homestead, tidied the land again, and then spread the seeds evenly on the ground.
After sowing the seeds, sprinkle the wood ash in the wooden barrel on top, and then fetch water to water it again. The ground is not easy to dry out, so you only need to water it once every three days or so.
Then he looked at another field next to it where the cabbages planted yesterday appeared to have basically survived.
Before going back, Xu Zhiyi went to the mountainside. This time she deliberately went around the other side to go up the mountain, not knowing what she would encounter on this side.
When I climbed halfway up the mountain, I saw a hawthorn tree, but the berries were a little shriveled. They must be the berries that were left on the tree after the season and had not been picked. I picked one, took a bite, frowned, and quickly spit out the hawthorn in my mouth.
Oh my goodness! They are so sour. No wonder they are still on the tree. But since I have come across them, I might as well take some home! Maybe someone at home likes this sour taste.
When I walked to the other side, I saw a large field of winterberries. However, they must have been watched by the villagers to see if they were ripe. The tall grass was trampled down, which shows that the villagers often came to see if they were ripe.
After picking a large area of fruits, I finally found a handful of red ones. If they were all ripe, I would have to pick a whole basket.
On the way back, I dug up a dozen winter bamboo shoots when I passed the bamboo forest, got a basket of wild vegetables from the space, and about 30 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
When he returned home, he saw only Shen Wuyou, Shen Changan, and the two children of the Su family at home. He couldn't help but ask curiously: "Where are mother and grandparents? Isn't the foundation dug? Tomorrow is the day to officially start the wall. Doesn't everyone need to go there today?"
Shen Wuyou: “Mom and grandmother went to town, and grandfather, uncle and aunt went to the fields to plow the land!”
Xu Zhiyi: "Mom and grandma went to town? What did they go to town for?"
Shen Wuyou: "Mother said that tomorrow is the day to build the wall, and the children in the village will definitely come to see it. Buy some candies and sprinkle some on the children to make them lively."
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi recalled that in modern times, when he saw people building houses, they would really give them sugar-coated steamed cakes, and some even gave them red envelopes.
"Hey, I have a task for you two. Peel off these thirty kilograms of sweet potatoes."
"good"
After bringing the wild vegetables and bamboo shoots back to the kitchen and putting them in the basket, I used a basin to wash the winterberries and the shriveled hawthorns and put them into a bowl.
He picked up a cold berry and tried it. It was two points sour and eight points sweet, not bad. He took some in his hand and walked to Shen Wuyou Shen Changan who was peeling the cold potato skin.
"Open your mouth." Xu Zhiyi fed each of them a winter berry.
Upon hearing this, the two of them opened their mouths subconsciously and put the food into their mouths without even seeing what was inside!
Shen Changan Shen Wuyou: "It's sour, my lady, keep it for yourself."
"I've eaten it, you two don't act like it at all, it's obviously so sweet, but you're pretending to be sour, it's fake"
Then he forcefully fed them all the food in his hand, then went back to the kitchen, left half out, and brought the other half out of the kitchen, shouting, "Manman! Come here, I'll give you something delicious."
Su Manman, who was learning to embroider a handkerchief in her room, heard Xu Zhiyi's call, especially when she heard about delicious food, she quickly put down her needlework and ran out: "Cousin, what delicious food did you make?"
"Here, for you and Mingchuan."
Su Manman took the bowl and cheered after seeing what was in it: "Wow, it's ground berries, thank you cousin."
Then he took five or six and handed the rest back to Xu Zhiyi: "Cousin, you eat too. There are also two cousins-in-law."
"This is for you and Mingchuan. I left some out. We just ate it."
"Really? Cousin, you are not allowed to lie."
"Don't worry, I, your cousin, will never mistreat my mouth."
After Su Manman heard Xu Zhiyi say this, she turned around and hopped over to her brother's room: "Brother, my cousin picked some ground berries."
Su Mingchuan only tasted one, then waved his hand: "You eat it! I don't like it."
"Brother, this is delicious! How could you not like it? You are such a loser."
Xu Zhiyi saw that the yam skins had been almost peeled off, so he found two stone slabs that could be used as millstones and scrubbed them several times with wood ash.
Then he took out two wooden basins, put the stone slabs into the basins, and then used his hands to rub the peeled yam on the stone slabs into a paste.
Shen Wuyou looked at Xu Zhiyi's operation and was a little puzzled: "Madam, you turned this yam into powder?"
Xu Zhiyi stopped what he was doing and pushed the two basins in front of them: "Yes, both of you should grind all the yams just like I did just now."
Hearing this, the two nodded and said, "Madam, rest assured, leave it to us!"
After watching the two of them for a while, and seeing that nothing was wrong, she went into the kitchen to prepare lunch. When Su Manman brought back the empty bowl, she saw Xu Zhiyi busy with lunch, so she followed to help wash the bowls or vegetables.
For lunch today, I fried a plate of shepherd's purse, a plate of winter bamboo shoots, and made leek and egg pancakes as the staple food. After I finished making them, everyone had not returned yet, so I put them all in a big pot, covered it and kept them warm.
Seeing that Shen Wuyou and Shen Changan were almost done grinding the yam, they went to the room to cut some clean cloth, washed it, and filtered out the residue with water. The remaining turbid milky white water from the yam was put into a wooden barrel, covered with a lid, and allowed to settle overnight.
A quarter of an hour later, those who had gone out had returned one after another. They brought out the warm vegetables and leek egg pancakes in the pot and started eating.
Old Man Su took a bite of the cake, swallowed it, and then said, "Today, we went to the fields to turn over a large piece of land. Now is not the time to plant crops. Planting crops will not be done until mid-March next year at least."
"After harvesting the crops, the villagers would plant something else in the fields immediately, and then clear the land for planting the next crop. But if we plant something else now, we are afraid that it will delay planting the next crop."
Xu Zhiyi: "Grandfather, we can grow vegetables in these four months! We can grow any seasonal vegetables in winter! Most vegetables can be harvested in three months. After harvesting the vegetables, we can continue to grow crops, right?"
Su, who was standing by, smiled and said, "Zhiyi, let alone your grandfather's fields, our family has six acres of land. How can we eat all the vegetables we grow? They will rot in the field by then."
Xu Zhiyi: "Mom, if there are any extra ones, we can take them to town to sell!"
Old Lady Su: "How can we sell this? We are all ordinary people. Who doesn't grow vegetables? No, don't waste your time!"
Xu Zhiyi: "People who live in the town don't farm. They usually have to buy vegetables to eat. Rich families have a lot of slaves, plus the master's family, they have to buy at least dozens of kilograms of vegetables a day, right? Otherwise, we can plant a few acres of land to try it out. If this method works, won't it be useful in the future?"
Everyone was silent for a while after hearing this, and finally it was Old Lady Su who made the decision: "Okay, let's plant three acres of land, it's better than leaving it empty for almost four months, right?"
When Old Man Su heard what his wife said, he also agreed: "Then let's give it a try!"
Since both old men said so, others would certainly not object.
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