Xu Di frowned and said, "I haven't even finished the waterwheel yet. Even if I asked them to dig irrigation ditches, they wouldn't be willing to waste the land by digging them. Don't you see that we only have irrigation ditches on the land we cultivate? Moreover, I've tidied up the land into neat rows, and those people who have been farming for many years still laugh at me, laughing at me for wasting the land."
Zhang Zhaoci sighed and said, "Your father is right. New things really do need time to prove themselves before they can be accepted."
Xu Di said, "Don't worry, once I've finished making the waterwheel, they'll have to dig the irrigation canal themselves."
Zhang Zhaoci said, "Then you think about it carefully, I'll go see what to have for lunch."
Xu Di said, "I just saw Uncle Zhao dig up some shepherd's purse from the ground. Why don't we make shepherd's purse dumplings?"
Zhang Zhaoci said, "Okay, I'll have someone go buy meat, and then we'll use our wheat flour bags."
Xu Di said, "Sure, I think wheat flour tastes the best. Nothing else will do. You can pack a lot more, and I'll see if I can send some to the tenant farmers around here so they can try it."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhaoci smiled and said, "You really know how to do publicity. Alright, I'll go and help Granny Lu with this now."
At noon, the shepherd's purse dumplings were not only made by Zhang Zhaoci and Granny Lu, but also by Li San and a few others from Shouzhuangzi.
Li San and his friends were all recruited from the village. As children from farming families, they had to learn everything at home, and making dumplings was no problem for them. They said they could only make dumplings once a year during the Spring Festival, and they put in a lot of effort to make the dumplings they could eat only once a year delicious and beautiful.
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