Xiaoguo put Xiaoniu down with a grunt. It was quite heavy to carry along. If it weren't for Mrs. Yang being by her side, her face would have been distorted. If she didn't know that she only had the healing power, she would have really thought that she had secretly activated her strength power.
You must keep down the boasts you make.
“Wow~~”
Zhuangzhuang did not disappoint, and Xiaoguo looked at him with a smile, "How is it, do you like it?"
"I like it, I like it." Zhuangzhuang nodded heavily.
Xiaoguo put the cows down and let Zhuangzhuang play with them. Then he went back to the house, took out the seeds from the basket, and planted them after dinner.
Even with his supernatural powers, Xiaoguo was still tired from riding in the carriage. The simple carriage was made entirely of wooden boards and had no cushions. The rural dirt road was full of potholes, and he felt like all the bones in his body were about to break as he rode along.
I came to the kitchen, thinking about what to cook, rummaged through the vegetable basket, took out two eggplants and a cucumber, and decided to just have some noodles.
After finishing his meal, Zhuangzhuang did not go to bed. He was worried about the calf in the yard. Looking at the slightly gray sky outside, he said worriedly, "Mom, where does the little calf live?"
There is no shed in the yard, but since the cows are still young, it is okay to let them roam in the yard. "Can we build a shed for the calves later?"
"Okay." Zhuangzhuang ran to the yard to play with the cow again.
Xiaoguo remembered that there was talk of heavy rain. Judging from today's weather, it would rain heavily tomorrow. He had to cut some grass for the cows in advance. He also didn't know if the traps he had set on the mountain had caught anything.
Thinking about things in the mountains, Xiaoguo quickened her hands' movements. After dinner, she took out the seeds she had just bought. According to the size of her own vegetable patch, she took out twenty seeds at a time. The vegetable seller said that these were pre-catalyzed seeds and only needed to be planted in the soil, which saved Xiaoguo the time of soaking them.
Take a hoe and go to the vegetable field to loosen the soil first. Because the vegetable field has not been cleaned for many years and has become hard, you cannot use hard soil for planting vegetables. Wait for the whitish soil on the surface to be turned over, and the moist soil underneath will come out. Once everything is turned over, you can plant vegetables.
Xiaoguo dug holes one by one. Zhuangzhuang stopped playing with Xiaoniu and followed Xiaoguo to throw a seed after he dug a hole. "Mom, what kind of seed are we planting?"
"This is eggplant. We'll plant beans, potatoes, cabbage, loofah and leeks here later." Xiaoguo pointed at the ground under his feet, pointing at each piece of land one by one and said to Zhuangzhuang.
With the help of Zhuangzhuang, Xiaoguo quickly planted the eggplants and beans. On the other side, Xiaoguo and Zhuangzhuang planted potatoes and cabbages at two ends. Xiaoguo planted loofah on the side next to the wall, and waited for the seedlings to grow and climb up the wall. The remaining leeks had to be planted in trenches, not one pit at a time. On a separate piece of land opened by Xiaoguo, he dug two-centimeter-deep trenches, a total of five trenches, with a distance of five centimeters between each trench. The seeds had to be evenly sprinkled into the trenches.
After planting, they still need to be watered. A lot of water is needed to wet the ground thoroughly. Xiaoguo did not let Zhuangzhuang help as he could not lift water. He fetched seven or eight buckets of water from the well by himself. After watering, the water could only wet the ground and then seep in. It was impossible to water it thoroughly. This was repeated five or six times. After the last bucket of water was poured in, the ground stopped seeping down and slowly the water was able to be retained on the surface. That's it.
After planting, Xiaoguo was very pleased to see the results of his hard work. He knew that vegetables would be grown soon.
The weather was a little humid at this time. Xiaoguo didn't dare to stay and asked Zhuangzhuang to wait for her at home. She went to cut grass for the calf. Zhuangzhuang wanted to follow her at first, but Xiaoguo had to persuade him to agree to wait at home. If he only wanted to cut grass, she would let him follow her, but she still had to go to the mountain. After repeatedly telling Zhuangzhuang not to go out and to wait for her at home, Xiaoguo felt at ease and carried the basket and machete to go up the mountain.