The leaves of the roadside trees had all fallen into the yard. Chen Hong parked the car in the garage and took a broom from the tool shed.
First, I swept up the dead leaves and debris in the front and back yards together, then found a plastic basket and put all the trash in it.
It took three trips to empty the trash in the yard.
After cleaning the yard, Chen Hong opened the front door and went inside.
Chen Hong has never touched the furniture, appliances, or decorations in the house since she bought them.
Just like when she came to see the house, Chen Hong turned on the TV and air conditioner and let the appliances run for a while.
If home appliances are not used for a long time, the electronic components inside will be corroded by moisture.
Even if no one lives in the house and you only come back occasionally, you shouldn't be afraid of wasting electricity; you should still use it when necessary.
Chen Hong went to the kitchen to clean up and boiled a kettle of water from her spatial storage to make tea later.
While the water was boiling, I quickly wiped down the furniture and then the living room on the first floor.
She roughly cleaned the first floor, but didn't go up to the second floor at all. The beds in each bedroom were covered up, and since no one was staying there, Chen Hong didn't plan to touch them.
The water boiled, and Chen Hong made herself a cup of tea, rested for a while, and then went to check on the vegetable garden in the backyard.
The spinach, cilantro, bok choy, and celery in the field have all sprouted, forming a lush green patch, and the seedlings have emerged quite evenly.
These were planted by Chen Hong last time. They've only been here for six or seven days. They've been mixed with water from the space, so they're growing really fast, and the seedlings are very strong.
Chen Hong first thinned out the seedlings, and after thinning them out, she pulled out the water pipe and, while watering the vegetable garden, cheated by adding space water to the tap water.
In half an hour, Chen Hong finished watering the entire vegetable garden. She then used the hose to water the pomegranate and apple trees in the front yard.
Finally, I watered the grapevines, jujube trees, and fig trees in the backyard.
With the addition of water, the survival of these fruit trees is definitely not a problem, and they should be able to bear a small amount of fruit next year.
As she watered the plants, Chen Hong thought to herself that next time she came, she would need to buy some bamboo strips and plastic film for building small greenhouses.
Even if we don't build a large greenhouse, we should at least set up a few small arched sheds so that we can eat leafy greens in the space during the winter. We still need to rely on the vegetable garden in the villa as a cover!
These fruit trees also need to be wrapped with some straw rope to cover them up for next year's survival and fruiting. Chen Hong dared not be too careless; there is never a shortage of clever people in this world.
She does what others do, and if she does it well, she won't attract too much attention. She shouldn't be lazy, and she absolutely shouldn't try to save trouble.
Chen Hong calculated the work she would need to do next time she came, and then put away the water pipe and went inside.
The front door was already locked, so Chen Hong entered the space through a blind spot in the living room. Once inside, she picked up a sickle and began cutting millet.
This millet was a local old variety called Qi Sui Huang, which she secretly bought from the countryside.
This type of millet has a low yield; even a skilled farmer in good years can only harvest a maximum of five or six hundred catties per mu (approximately 0.16 acres).
Compared to the new varieties that can easily yield around 1,000 jin per mu, planting Qisuihuang is not cost-effective.
The market price is the same everywhere, and people are increasingly reluctant to grow this old variety. Only a very small number of farmers still grow a little, just for their own consumption.
However, this Qi Sui Huang variety tastes particularly good. When used to make millet porridge, it produces a golden, fragrant, and nutritious porridge with a thick layer of rice oil that can cover the boiling water at the bottom of the pot.
Unlike the newer varieties, the millet porridge made from this type of millet is whitish in color, has a very faint aroma, and contains very little rice oil.
When you cook porridge with this new variety of millet flour, the porridge not only turns white and loses its aroma, but it also dissolves easily and is not sticky or clings to the spoon.
Chen Hong swung her sickle swiftly, and the feeling of doing farm work as a child came back to her.
The difference is that her body, now modified by the spatial artifact, allows her to do even more farm work without back pain, hand weakness, or sweating.
Chen Hong first cut two acres of millet. After cutting, she took two bunches of millet, intertwined the ears of grain, twisted them in opposite directions with both hands, and twisted them twice to make a rope for tying the millet.
Bundle the millet together in handfuls and tie them into waist-thick stalks.
The two plots of land yielded a total of seventeen millet stalks, and each stalk could produce about ten catties of millet.
This means that two fen (0.2 hectares) of land can yield 170-180 jin (50-60 kg) of millet, and one mu (0.067 hectares) of land can yield 800-900 jin (400-600 kg) of millet.
This yield is comparable to that of new varieties of millet, but that's not surprising, as the land here is incomparable to that outside.
This is because Chen Hong planted the soil too sparsely. If the soil were planted more densely, the yield per mu would be no problem, around 1,400 to 1,500 jin.
With the ears of grain facing upwards, three grains stood together, and then another one was placed on top of them, making a group of four grains. Chen Hong then laid the grains out to dry in the field.
When she gets back, she'll have to figure out how to buy a multi-functional threshing machine, since the millet needs to be threshed after it's dried.
Corn, wheat, and rice all need to be threshed, so buying a threshing machine is quite necessary.
Seeing that it was getting late, Chen Hong picked some vegetables and fruits in her space, took a handful of seaweed, and collected some chicken and duck eggs before leaving the space.
I packed everything into several plastic boxes and went to the garage to load them into the car. Then I went back inside, poured out the tea leaves, washed the cups, and put them away.
He took the trash out to throw it away, came back and turned off the appliances, turned off the power, water, and gas, locked the door, and drove out of the villa.
She went directly to the school to pick up her child and bring them home. In the evening, Chen Hong steamed a pot of seaweed buns, cooked a pot of rice and mung bean porridge, and made a cold salad with dried shrimp and cucumber.
It had been a long time since Chen Hong had steamed seaweed buns. She used sea lettuce, added one-third of a Chinese cabbage, and some scallop meat.
The oil used was lard rendered from fatty pork. After rendering the lard, Chen Hong chopped up the pork cracklings and poured them all into the filling bowl.
The room was filled with the rich aroma of pork fat. Chen Hong added minced scallions and ginger, five-spice powder, a little pepper, and fine salt to the filling.
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