Planting trees has always been a top priority. After getting permission from Qiu's mother, Qiu Yuling expressed her desire to plant a saxaul tree in front of her door, so she could smell the flowers in spring, provide shade in summer, and eat saxaul in autumn.
Qiu's mother agreed, and Qiu Yuling asked weakly, "Can we plant a few more jujube trees in the backyard?" Jujubes are delicious and can replenish blood and qi.
"Ask your father. See if he can find a sapling. Do you think it can survive just by sticking a branch into the ground?"
Qiu Yuling: Don't think so. Even if you trick me into thinking that a root can survive, I will definitely find a way to make it grow. She is familiar with the problem of replacing zombies with peaches and plums.
Even though Qiu Dashu is now the "animal officer" of this family, Qiu Yuling is actually the invisible boss of these kids. Pointing at the handful of weeds they get every day, they can only call it being alive at best, but the extra meal that Qiu Yuling gives them after school is the real animal life!
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the fertile pasture, where they could eat delicious bran, wheat, melons and fruits to their heart's content. How happy they would be if they could even sleep here!
Qiu Yuling was very cautious and would always have a substitute to stand guard for them, for fear that someone from her family would suddenly come back and see them.
She also sneaked into the space to prepare for the harvest. Originally, because the climate in the space had no four seasons, she could only harvest twice. However, after the upgrade, the cycle was shortened by half, and she could harvest once every three months.
Now money is like game coins to her, which she just uses for fun. She still needs to actively invest in reproduction to make this fruitful result form a virtuous circle.
Qiu Yuling did not save money this time. She sold the harvested crops and then continued to buy fields, land and livestock.
Now she has planted four acres of grain, four acres of rice, two acres of corn, one acre of potatoes, one acre of melons, and one acre of vegetables.
100 apple trees; 100 jujube trees; 1 peach tree. Because they were seedlings bought from the space, they were too small to be pruned and grown.
There are 10 elm trees. She tried to bring them from outside into the space farm, but the cost of raising seedlings was a little higher, 50 points per tree. But it’s okay, as long as they grow up, she will have a forest.
10 Elaeagnus trees; 10 poplar trees; 100 willow trees (there's no need to grow them from seedlings, just poke them and they'll grow). 10 apricot trees.
The Cute Pet Manor has also grown greatly, with chickens, ducks and rabbits having bred to thousands.
The number of pigs, cattle and sheep is maintained at around 500 each.
The whole farm is thriving.
She tried to sow a lot of grass seeds and shrub seeds in the walking forest, but success or failure depended on luck.
When she leaves this barren land in the future and can travel all over the mountains and rivers, she will copy all the trees and grasses she has seen into this forest in space.
After counting the assets, Qiu Yuling took the chickens, sheep and pigs back to where they belonged. She had just finished kneading the dough mixed with bran when Qiu's mother and the others finished work.
The third brother was very capable. Every day when Father Qiu and the eldest brother came home from work, they would each carry a small haystack.
If you don't care about the suffering of the world and just take care of your own little piece of land, then life will be promising.
When Qiu Yuling arrived here, she discovered that no matter whether it was spring planting and autumn harvest or dry summer and cold winter, the days when women gathered together to chat and gossip as she had imagined seemed to have never happened.
In addition to going to work, Qiu's mother had endless work to do every day when she returned home. Not only did she have to wash and mend clothes, but she also had to sew the hemp ropes for shoe soles, straighten and flatten rags of clothes, apply starch, and make them into jackets...
Life is so poor and comfortable.
Qiu Yuling held the yellowed pages of the book and asked her mother, what is the water tofu they are talking about?
Mother Qiu didn't think there was anything wrong with what Qiu Yuling asked. She couldn't even remember how long it had been since she had eaten. However, she asked Qiu Yuling to read the steps on the pages of the book carefully and write them down one by one.
She would then exchange some soybeans for tofu. One pound of soybeans could not only make several pounds of tofu, but also produce oily bean curd skin and bean juice.
Not only is it filling and filling, it can also change the taste of the food for the kids.
Mother Qiu wiped her hands and looked around the house to see that there was still a lot of sesame. Her daughter wanted to eat tofu, so she could wait until the next market to exchange for some. But today she planned to show off her cooking skills and give her something she had never tasted before - sesame jelly.
First, she took a little bit of wheat straw and used it to wash the glutinous rice. After the glutinous rice was washed, she put the pot on the fire and poured the washed glutinous rice water into the pot and kept stirring it. Qiu Yuling helped to add firewood at one end, and Qiu's mother stirred it for a full hour.
Seeing that it was almost done, Mother Qiu put some salt in the pot and asked Qiu Yuling to bring all the pots and bowls of different sizes from home. There was nothing she could do as the utensils were not complete.
Quickly scoop the paste from the pot into a basin and a bowl, then place it in a bucket of cold water and wait for it to cool down and take shape.
Mother Qiu tore off the dried skin on the edge of the pot and let Qiu Yuling eat it first. She went to the backyard and picked a few green onions and garlic leaves, rubbed a layer of oil on the bottom of the luxurious pot, stir-fried the chopped green onions, put in the mixed noodles and added some water, took a separate bowl and stirred some noodle water and added it in to make the stew.
This was the first time Qiu Yuling had seen her mother put so much thought into making tea and food; she seemed to have quite a bit of skill. In the past, she'd just cooked whatever tasted bad. She reasonably suspected she was worried she wouldn't be able to afford it if it was too fragrant.
Mother Qiu told Qiu Yuling not to touch the jelly in advance, and that it would be ready to eat when Father Qiu and his friends came back in the afternoon.
Qiu Yuling: ...
In order to make her mother's worry worthwhile, she calmly poked her, and while Qiu's mother was muttering, she went to the backyard to feed the chickens.
Seeing that Qiu's mother actually followed him, he wondered, are mothers so belligerent?
It turned out that Mother Qiu came here to pick leeks. She also made some extravagant chili oil today, but in order to save oil, she mixed the chili with boiling water before pouring a little oil on it. With a "sizzling" sound, the fragrance wafted straight into the backyard.
Qiu Yuling had everything ready in advance. Her third brother would be back early soon and promised to take her to the purchasing station at the commune to exchange newspapers.
After begging for two cents from Qiu's mother, she had no idea what its purchasing power was. Once she could have a legitimate income, she wouldn't have to pretend to be in financial difficulty like this anymore.
Qiu Dashu came back when the sun was at its highest. He only had time to drink half a bowl of fennel tea that his sister had given him before he was forced to take it out impatiently.
Fortunately, we arrived at the purchasing station before it closed. The old man guarding the station saw that we were two children, raised his eyelids and chased us away.
"Go away, this is not a place for kids to play."
Qiu Yuling took out the fruit candies she had prepared in advance. The ones she exchanged were exactly the same as the ones her aunt gave her last time. She felt around in her schoolbag, and two more candies slipped out as her hand loosened. She put the three candies in the old man's hand.
"Uncle, this is some candy I saved up. It's delicious. Let me give you some sweets to sweeten your mouth. Can my brother and I go in and see if there are any books or newspapers we can read?"
The old man didn't want the candy from the child, and was about to stuff the candy back before he even said anything.
Qiu Yuling took a look and thought, is this too little?
He took out three more from his schoolbag and put them in the old man's hand. "Grandpa, that's all I have. I won't hide any more."
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