Before noon, the couple prepared a table of food and drinks. The hot dishes included braised fish, braised pork knuckle, a plate of braised prawns, and cumin lamb. They did not prepare any vegetarian dishes.
It must be said that Dongqing's dishes are very visually appealing and make people's mouths water just by looking at them.
The couple brought all the hot and cold dishes they had prepared to the table at once, filling the entire table.
Chen Hong said, "We're not outsiders, why are you going to all this trouble?"
Dong Qing smiled and said, "It wasn't too much trouble. Please sit down and eat."
Dong Qing opened a bottle of wine, which his wife had just brought from home. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a single bottle of wine at home. Although his father-in-law's family lives in the city, they still follow the old customs of rural people celebrating the New Year. A few pounds of meat are enough to get through the New Year. The elderly are used to being meticulous.
Just as everyone sat down, Su Wei's younger sister, Su Ying, came to the house and called them back for dinner. Su Wei said, "Go back and tell Mom we're eating here, don't wait for us."
Su Ying said "okay" and turned back.
Dong Qing raised his glass and said, "Let's all raise our glasses."
Su Wei was pregnant and couldn't drink alcohol, but her mother-in-law, perhaps to maintain appearances, also raised her glass. They were using old-fashioned wine glasses, which didn't hold much wine, and everyone drank it all in one gulp.
Li Yuzhu brought high-end liquor with a slightly lower alcohol content. It wasn't as spicy and was suitable for both men and women, but drinking too much of it could still make you drunk.
After drinking three glasses of wine, Li Yuzhu said, "Eat some food!"
Li Yuzhu's family home has never been as lively as it has been this year, and the meal was very enjoyable.
After lunch, the family sat in the living room and chatted for a while before Su Wei said, "We should go back now."
Li Yuzhu said, "We should go too. Let's take our car back!"
They got up together, walked into the yard, got into the car, and Dongqing said goodbye to his parents-in-law before starting the car and driving out of the villa.
According to custom, Dong Sanmei should have returned to her parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year to pay respects during her first year of marriage. However, since the siblings lived together, there weren't many rules. Instead, her three older sisters came to visit on the third day of the Lunar New Year, and she and Sun Hao went back to their hometown on the second day to visit all the relatives there.
Just after the 90th of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Dongqing and his wife went into the kitchen to start making lunch.
The third sister should prepare a more lavish lunch when she returns to her parents' home for the first time to pay respects during the festival. This has nothing to do with how far away she lives; regardless of where she lives, all three sisters are guests of her parents' home.
Time flies, and the sixteenth day of the first lunar month arrives quickly. The annual Spring Festival is over, and people are busy striving for development in the new year.
After the New Year, there was no business selling porcelain, and Li Yuqiu became a very idle person.
The father said, "Second son, there's a lot of weeds in the wheat field. Come with me to the field to hoe the soil."
Li Yuqiu also has her shortcomings, which can be summed up in one word: laziness. She is 21 years old this year and still can't cook. Even though she is a mother, she is not allowed to cook. When she does cook, the food is extremely unpalatable.
My mother often said, "If you keep going like this, you won't be able to cook a single meal for your in-laws after you get married. Do you think they'll respect you?"
Li Yuqiu said, "Fine, they can look down on me then. I didn't expect them to support me anyway."
After hearing his father's words, Li Yuqiu really didn't want to go to work in the fields, but he didn't say anything. He picked up his hoe and walked out of the house with his father.
After the start of spring, there are many weeds in the wheat fields, and they need to be hoeed all spring. After the New Year, farmers are busy, and it takes half a month to hoe several acres of wheat.
Dongqing has thousands of acres of idle land here, which Li Yuzhu's father could not possibly cultivate even if he worked himself to death. Last year, he only planted a few acres of wheat.
The father and daughter were weeding in the wheat field when Dongqing and his wife came out of the tricycle factory and walked into the field. He said, "Dad, you and my sister take a break. I have something to discuss with you."
As soon as he was given a break, Li Yuqiu moved faster than a rabbit, throwing the hoe on the ground and turning to walk towards the edge of the field.
The father and daughter walked to the edge of the field, and Dongqing said, "Dad, so much land in the back is just sitting idle anyway. Let's hire dozens of people to work on it. There's a well in every plot, so let's install a submersible pump in each one and plant a big vegetable garden here. It's just the beginning of spring, the perfect time to plant vegetables."
My father said, "How are we going to sell all these chives?"
Li Yuzhu said, "If you grow more vegetables, people will naturally come to the field to buy them wholesale. Growing grains isn't worth much; only growing vegetables can make money."
My father grew up in the countryside and was no novice when it came to growing vegetables. He nodded in agreement after hearing this.
Dongqing said, "The factory will produce the tractor plow and rotary tiller in a week. Then I'll have my sister go to the machinery factory to drive the tractor over and plow the land here."
If we grow vegetables here in the future, that idle tractor from the machinery factory will finally come in handy.
Dong Qing continued, "Vegetable planting doesn't need to be so complicated. Just cover the ground with plastic film and plant more cucumbers, then sow 100 mu of scallion seedlings. After the scallion seedlings grow, transplant them through furrows."
It's a shame to leave so much land idle, so my father-in-law agreed without hesitation.
The 100 mu of chives planted last year have started to sprout. Dongqing said, "Sister, you don't need to hoe the ground anymore. Buy a few water pumps and water the chives once to help them turn green again. Don't forget to drive over and buy some urea and spread it all over the chive field before watering."
This is what they call giving someone a pillow when they're just dozing off. Li Yuqiu wasn't really in the mood to work, so after hearing her brother-in-law's words, she readily agreed.
That afternoon, Li Yuqiu bought several water pumps. The place was very close to the bean product factory. He had the factory's electrician connect the power, and the next day he started watering the chives to help them turn green again.
Li Yuqiu bought several truckloads of urea in her tricycle. Before watering the chives, she first spread fertilizer in the field. Of course, she didn't know how to do these things. She only acted like a pampered young lady and left the task of spreading fertilizer to her father.
Even so, her brother-in-law still tricked her. Dragging pipes to irrigate the fields was no easy task, and she was exhausted after a day's work.
When Dong Qing arrived at the field in the afternoon, Li Yuqiu joked, "Brother-in-law, watering the fields has almost killed me. Will the money from selling the vegetables be yours or mine?"
Dong Qing smiled and said, "You paid for the fertilizer and vegetable seeds yourself, so of course it's yours."
Li Yuqiu laughed and said, "Little sister, you're just kidding. I don't want a single penny."
"I didn't concern myself with growing the vegetables. All the profits from the sale will go to Mom. She can lend me some money when she has it."
Dong Qing was speaking from the heart; for him, it was already a blessing to have a place to borrow money.
Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Li Yuqiu is good at business, but she's really bad at farming and housework. In short, she's too lazy. She'll be a lazy wife after marriage. In this respect, she's really not as good as her sister.
A week later, Li Yuqiu went to the machinery factory, drove the tractor to the tricycle factory, and attached the newly produced self-reversing plow to the back. This tractor was powerful and had six plows attached, so he could control the plow's rotation while sitting on the vehicle.
Dong Qing drove the car into the field, and Qi Shang began plowing.
That's the good thing about plowing a field: once you've plowed a plot, you only need one furrow.
Dong Qing plowed more than two acres of land while sitting in the truck. After getting out of the truck to take a look, he found that the quality of the plowed land was excellent, and his self-tumbling plow design was a success.
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