The most fertile soil is the silt in the fish pond, or the soil that has been fermented with farm manure. It is strong and vegetables grow well.
But the silt in the fish pond is difficult to deal with, and the smell of rotten farm manure is too strong. If we bring it back, won’t the whole yard stink?
Si Lu was a man of great powers. He got a large cart of silt from somewhere and went to the outskirts of Beijing to buy soil, which he then brought into the yard in carts.
Many neighbors came to watch the fun and asked Si Xinnian, "Are you going to plant some crops? Why are you getting so much soil?"
"I want to have a vegetable garden and grow some flowers. My two children are in kindergarten, so there is nothing to do. We can tend to the vegetable garden to kill time."
Si Xinnian said this very beautifully, and it makes people envious.
"You two, sister-in-law, have a really good relationship." During those years when Si Xinnian's temperament changed drastically, she was really disliked by everyone, but only the Si family members had good tempers and always tolerated her.
Anyway, the neighbors couldn't stand it anymore, and when they saw her and the Wang family coming back, they couldn't help but point fingers. Don't blame others for saying bad things, it was just that she was too pretentious at that time.
Later, something happened to the Wang family, and Si Xinnian's poison was cured and she returned to her parents' home. Ning Yu even visited other people's homes and told everyone about all the bad things the Wang family had done, letting everyone know that it was not that the Si family didn't know how to teach their daughter, but that the Wang family was too mean. Only then did everyone realize that they had misunderstood.
In the past few years since Si Xinnian returned home, he has been silently contributing, helping Jiang Yan take care of the children and accompanying his elderly father at home. The relationship between the aunt and sister-in-law has also become better and better.
Si Xinnian smiled and said nothing, "Aunt, I won't talk to you anymore. I'll go back and help."
By the time Si Lu and the old man's guards had finished spreading the soil, it was almost dark, but they had only spread half of it and would have to work on the other half tomorrow.
When Jiang Yan came back, Si Lu had just finished taking a shower and changed his clothes.
"Not bad. You finished half a field in one day. You are very efficient."
"Lu Bao helped me with it. There's no way I could have done it so quickly by myself." Si Lu had worked all day, but he looked energetic and not tired at all.
He was a soldier and his physical fitness was originally stronger than that of ordinary people. In addition, he has been drinking spiritual spring water and exercising in recent years. Therefore, even though he is doing clerical work most of the time and does not have high-intensity training, his body is as good as ever.
I have worked all day, but I still don’t feel tired.
"Are you tired? Take it easy and don't strain a muscle or anything."
Si Lu looked at her with a meaningful look, "Even though I have worked all day, it won't stop me from doing something else in the evening."
Jiang Yan originally wanted to pull his hand over to see if it had blisters, but after hearing what he said, she immediately threw his hand aside and said, "Hurry up, go downstairs to eat."
A look of disgust.
This man has become more and more arrogant. He has already given birth to two children and is not serious at all.
Ning Yu's cooking skills are getting better and better, and the table full of dishes makes Lu Bao dizzy with the aroma.
"Aunt, my family often eats this dish, but I don't know why it's not as delicious as yours! They're the same eggplant and potatoes, why is yours so delicious?"
Ning Yu was so happy to hear this, "If it's delicious, eat more. This dish goes well with rice. I'll plant the vegetables tomorrow, and when they're harvested, you can come home and try some."
"Yeah, yeah." Lu Bao nodded while biting a steamed bun, still having the mentality of a child.
That night, Si Lu used practical actions to prove to Jiang Yan that such small tasks as turning the soil and hauling the earth were nothing more than a drizzle to him and would not interfere with his work at all.
Before going to bed, Jiang Yan was still thinking that this bastard had extraordinary physical strength and he should be sent to the Great Northern Wilderness to open up wasteland, so that he wouldn't have too much energy and wouldn't have time to do other things.
The next day, Jiang Yan went to work. Si Lu went to Jiang Yan's house and brought Jiang Yan's parents and Jiang Chuanjun and his mother home.
Ning Yu didn't know what to say. Isn't this nonsense? If you want to invite people over, you should wait until the land is leveled and the vegetables are planted. Inviting people over now is obviously asking them to do the work.
Li Yuejin probably saw what Ning Yu was thinking, and he took her hand affectionately and said, "You are very successful now, you even have a vegetable garden. We heard the news and hurried over to help. When the vegetables come down in a while, don't forget our contribution and send some to us."
"Oh, it's just a small garden, why do we need your help? Si Lu can do it himself. Our old man's guards have all gone to the fields, and they can finish it."
"It's a good thing for young people to stretch their muscles. Chuanjun just needs to rest. He is Yanyan's elder brother. It's only natural for him to help his sister with some work."
On the other side, the old man was showing off to Jiang Baitao, "When I was young, I opened up land in northern Shaanxi, and dug the world with a pickaxe..."
"The millet over there is very good, and the dates are also good. In-laws, did you do farm work when you were young?"
Jiang Baitao waved his hands and said, "Don't be afraid of you laughing at me, but with my background, I really don't know anything about farming." The Jiang family used to be a wealthy family. Even if they weren't the richest, they could be ranked among the top three.
Jiang Baitao was born into a wealthy family and had servants to take care of everything from food, clothing, housing and transportation. If he went to the fields, he could not tell which were seedlings and which were grass.
Later, he was sent to the Northeast. Although he worked every day, he just did whatever he was told to do. Every day, he did dirty work like carrying manure and cleaning the cowshed and horse stables...
"You know how to grow medicinal herbs!" Si Qianjin said happily, "I heard from Yanyan that back then, Western medicine was too expensive, so you grew herbs to treat people's illnesses!"
Jiang Baitao didn't expect that the old man of the Si family knew all about this!
"Isn't there no other way back then? Western medicine is not only expensive, but also controlled. It's in the hands of the common people, and you can't buy it just because you have money! At that time, it was harder than climbing to the sky to buy some penicillin. You could only go to the black market and spend a lot of money to try your luck!"
Si Qianjin also thought of the past days and nodded with emotion, "It was hard back then! Comrades were injured and either had to undergo amputation or lost their lives. The price was too high! At that time, not to mention penicillin, sulfa was also difficult to get! If we had the medicine, how many lives of comrades could we have saved!"
Having said that, it’s a bit heavy!
"You can grow herbs, so you must be good at that kind of vegetable too!"
"Okay, I'll come over when I'm free, old leader, teach me how to grow vegetables!"
The two smiled at each other, looked at the young man in the yard, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly!
They are the future and hope of the country! The days ahead will surely get better and better!
Jiang Chuanjun used a hoe to turn the soil, breaking up the clods of earth, and carefully picking out the stones and debris in the soil...
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