At this time, there is no corn yet. After the wheat is harvested, the land can be plowed, fertilized, and millet planted.
Millet, also known as foxtail millet, is a crop that can be grown all year round. It is characterized by drought resistance, tolerance to poor soil and salinity, strong adaptability, and short growing season. It can be used as a post-disaster recovery crop in areas where natural disasters occur frequently. It is more suitable for planting in arid and semi-arid areas in the north and is a stable and disaster-resistant crop for barren land.
Moreover, hulled millet is nutritious, palatable, and easy to digest, making it a key ingredient in Laba porridge, sticky rice cakes, New Year cakes, and glutinous rice cakes during the winter in northern China.
Yue Jiuyue spent a few years in the countryside when she was a child. There were people selling rice cakes at the market when she went to the market, but she had never seen millet in the village. She didn’t know if the village where she lived was not suitable for growing millet. Anyway, she had never seen it and did not know how to grow it.
She didn't know how, but the original owner did. She used all the copper coins in the house to buy millet seeds, and when it was time to plant the millet, she followed behind and scattered the seeds. Yue Jiuyue felt that planting millet was easier than planting sweet potatoes.
Xiaoman can do this job too.
This time, the whole village worked together to plant millet, so the water supply was insufficient. They all chose to plant the millet first and then water it, otherwise the millet could have been planted until the end of summer.
To lighten the burden on Lin Chaodong and the others, Yue Jiuyue secretly watered every hole she buried, but no one knew it.
After the millet was planted, they had to plant sorghum and soybeans. By the time all six acres of land were planted, half a month had quietly passed.
At this time, we need to break off the sprouts from the sweet potatoes buried in the yard and give them to the villagers to plant.
Then, I can relax for a few days.
"Mom, there's nothing to do at home these past few days, so why are you still going up the mountain every day? Are you worried that the sweet potatoes won't survive? I went up the mountain this morning and saw that all the sweet potatoes have survived, and the vines are so long!"
Lin Chaodong stretched out his two hands to indicate the length of the sweet potato vines.
Since the millet, sorghum, and soybeans were all planted, the three brothers had been fetching water from the mountain springs from dawn till dusk, and hadn't had time to care about the family's situation. It was only after Liu Shi saw that Lin Chaodong had finished his work that she noticed Yue Jiuyue's unusual behavior.
"Oh, I saw it too. This isn't the first time I've planted it, so I thought I'd go and see more to learn more, so I'd know what to do next time."
Yue Jiuyue made up an excuse on the spot. She couldn't say directly that she went up the mountain to dig up medicinal herbs and needed to exchange them for money at the market. She was panicking because she didn't have any money on her.
If you don't use your cheat code, is it still a cheat code? We must fill her little treasure trove.
"Oh, Mother is so thoughtful. I'll go to the back mountain more often when I have free time."
"Mom, we'll also go up the back hill more often to check on how the sweet potatoes are growing!"
Lin Chaodong nodded in agreement, and the other two joined in the fun, leaving Yue Jiuyue speechless.
If he also runs to the back mountain every day, how can she properly dig for medicinal herbs to fill her little treasury?
"Well, you can go if you want. While you're at it, dig up some clods of earth and look for earthworms. Didn't the doctor at the clinic say that these are the medicinal earthworms?"
Yue Jiuyue gave a thumbs up to her collective wisdom.
In this way, Lin Chaodong could also dig up the grass on the mountain, and she could then collect it and exchange it for money.
She's such a clever little devil!
No, she's thirty-six now! She even has a granddaughter, so she can't be called "young" anymore.
Sigh! Why am I thinking about such a sad truth again...
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