Chapter 59
In fact, Cao Hongmin's statement that the first batch of vegetables planted in the community can be harvested is a bit of an exaggeration.
After all, the only vegetables that can be harvested in the entire community are those grown by the Shen family.
After all, it has only been ten days since other families got the vegetable seeds. How could they possibly get a harvest so soon?
The Shen family had never originally thought of making this matter known to the entire community.
It’s just that the third floor of their house is now completely vacated for Mr. Gu to grow medicinal herbs, and the fourth floor is used by Father Shen to grow corn and peanuts.
Previously, the vegetable seedlings could only be moved to the backyard on the first floor.
Now the Shen family's door is located in the backyard. There have been a lot of things going on recently, with people coming and going every day. The growth of these vegetables is in front of everyone.
Everyone watched with their own eyes as the lettuces and amaranths grew from small seedlings little by little, becoming lush green and tender. Everyone who saw them couldn't help but praise them.
Seeing that the time had come to harvest, there was no need for anyone from the Shen family to tell anyone else. People in the community who were interested and had a good relationship with his family had already come to take a look.
Everyone was extremely envious.
But even though people are envious, no one would doubt it.
Shen Jianyi had already opened a vegetable garden in the yard before the earthquake, and he used it for entertainment whenever he had time. This was known to all the old residents.
Later, when the government called on every household to reclaim wasteland and cultivate land, Chen Cong also specifically emphasized that they should grow vegetables at home.
So they have vegetable seeds and more experience than other families, so they can grow vegetables well, and everyone thinks it is normal.
The only thing that makes people feel uncomfortable is that there is harm only when there is comparison.
The vegetables grown by the Shen family are so good, but the vegetable seedlings grown by other families in the community look very ordinary.
It has been more than ten days since we got the rapeseed back from the community. For those who have taken good care of it, some of the seedlings have already sprouted.
Although he hasn't grown up yet, I can already tell whether he is good looking or not.
In contrast to the Shen family's vegetables, which grew rapidly as if they had taken growth enhancers, the seedlings of other people's families either did not sprout at all, or those that did sprout always looked a little sickly.
Either it grows leggy, with two small leaves on top of a thin rhizome, looking extremely weak, or it is half-dead and looks like it will die at any time.
It can be seen how anxious everyone is.
So three days later, when Shen Jianyi delivered the first basket of green vegetables he had harvested to the property management and asked them to sell them on his behalf, he was stopped by Cao Hongmin.
He had to prepare and give lessons to the people in the community.
There is no need to talk about anything else, just talk about how to grow these vegetables well.
Shen Jianyi's face suddenly turned bitter.
"Xiao Cao, don't make it difficult for your uncle, I have told everyone everything I know!
I also shared the vegetable-growing video that my daughter found earlier. What else do you want me to say? Isn’t that teaching video clearer than what I say? "
Ever since the seedlings started growing, people have been coming to his house to ask for advice, which has been giving Shen Jianyi a headache.
After the whole family discussed it, he directly copied the video materials prepared by Chen Cong for him, such as "The Encyclopedia of Vegetable Growing" and "How to Grow Vegetables on the Balcony", etc., onto a USB drive and sent it to the property management.
Anyway, now the property not only has mobile power supplies, but also solar panels, so it is no problem to use a laptop to read some information.
Shen Jianyi originally thought that the matter was over, but he didn't expect that Cao Hongmin had no intention of letting him go.
Hearing him say this, he leaned over and hugged Father Shen, and said affectionately: “Uncle, don’t be modest, everyone in our community can do it without vegetable growing experience, but you can’t.
You still say you don't have a secret? That little girl Sun Qing, her vegetables are the best in our community except for yours!
She said it herself, that the soil is yours, and she is not the one who can help if the vegetables don't grow well, and you are the one who takes care of it for her.
Uncle, we can’t keep it secret.”
Cao Hongmin pointed at the basket of vegetables that Shen Jianyi had just brought over and said, "Now the town has asked all the gathering points to collect the vegetables and hand them in. We have such a large community, but we are only handing over to your family... This is too stingy.
We can still say that we planted the vegetables late and the seedlings haven't grown yet, but we can't always use this excuse, right?"
Speaking of this, Shen Jianyi was a little depressed. He himself didn't know why the vegetables in Sun Qing's family could grow so well.
He knew that his own vegetables grew well, after all, they were enhanced by the formation, but Sun Qing's vegetables...
When the little girl first received the rapeseed, she had no idea how to plant it, so she took the planting pots and rapeseed to his house to ask for advice.
At that time, Shen Jianyi was raising seedlings at home. Seeing that she didn't know anything, he helped her plant a pot.
But apart from helping her plant the crops, I really didn't do anything else.
The pots were brought by the people themselves, and the rapeseed was distributed by the community. After planting, Sun Qing took them home and did not put them in her own home at all.
So if you really ask Shen Jianyi why he looks so good, he himself is confused.
It can't be that he was born with green fingers and can make people grow vegetables just by touching the pot, right?
Isn't that bullshit?
If that were true, the vegetables he grew himself didn't grow very well at first.
Shen Jianyi wanted to say something else, but Cao Hongmin did not give him the chance. He made a decision for him and asked him to teach those activists in the community a lesson tonight.
Shen Jianyi returned home reluctantly.
After he told his family about the incident, everyone couldn't help laughing.
Chen Xi even teased him: "Dad, what's the big deal? Why can it make you so worried? After all, I have been a cadre for so many years, and I should be familiar with the job of speaking on stage.
Tell them all the stories in your mind!"
Shen Jianyi was so angry that he waved his hands at her: "Get lost, stop standing here and watching your old man make fun of you. If I piss you off, I will still beat you up even if you are this old!"
Seeing that his father-in-law was really anxious, Gu Kai handed him a cup of herbal tea, then sat down next to the old man and discussed with him.
He said, "Dad, everything else is easy to explain. Just share your experience with everyone.
It was Sun Qing's dish. Did you really not add anything to it? For example, did you not add some base fertilizer to it?
Did you put fertilizer in the soil when you were growing the seedlings, and you forgot about it later? Is it because of the fertilizer that her vegetables grew so well? "
Shen Jianyi directly refuted it.
"Who puts base fertilizer in the soil for raising seedlings? This is not transplanting. If you put base fertilizer, how can the seedlings emerge? They will be killed even if burned!
Besides, I didn’t give her my seedling soil.
You all know that girl is very observant. When she saw that I was using the flower soil that we bought specially, she refused to accept it.
She said it was her first time growing vegetables and she was just trying it out and didn’t want to waste our good soil.
Finally, she went to our backyard wall and dug a little herself.
That piece of soil behind the door, what kind of soil is that? There are stones and grass roots in it. We don’t even use it normally!”
"That's strange." After hearing what his father-in-law said, Gu Kai was a little confused for a moment.
Chen Cong was sitting aside and thinking about it. After thinking for a while, she stood up.
"Where are you going?" Gu Kai asked.
"Go check out the backyard."
Seeing her serious look, Gu Kai stood up first and followed her.
Shen Jianyi followed soon after.
Although Chen Xi felt that these three people were a little bit crazy, they didn't stay in the house in such a hot day, but ran out to bask in the sun.
But out of curiosity, I followed behind.
Chen Cong went to the backyard and found the place where Sun Qing had been digging by the door.
Dad was right, the soil here is really just ordinary sandy soil.
Because there was a wall and a house built in the backyard before, and later the house collapsed, there are all kinds of impurities in the soil.
Waste materials and mud are completely different from the nutrient soil that you prepare at home for growing vegetables.
But apart from using their own soil, Sun Qing's dishes really have nothing to do with their family.
"Oh, you know what, the soil in our house is really fertile, you can see the weeds growing stronger than those in other places.
I never noticed it before.
Dad, if Sun Qing uses the soil here, I think it's normal for her vegetables to grow well. Have you ever seen such green grass anywhere else? Even the grass outside is dry!"
Chen Xi also squatted down beside them, but she was not paying attention to the soil, but a clump of weeds in an unnoticed place behind the door.
After she pointed it out, everyone realized that, indeed, the weeds in the backyard of their home grow better than those outside.
Even in such poor soil, and even in the cracks of rocks, clusters of them are still growing tenaciously.
Although there are not many, each one looks full of vitality.
Formation? !
This word popped up in the minds of everyone present at the same time.
Could it be that the formation not only provides spiritual power to plants and humans, but also has the power to improve the soil?
but--
"Where did Dad set up the formation?" Shen Cong looked at her husband and asked.
"The second floor." Gu Kai replied.
“I also remember it was on the second floor.”
Because the old man was always worried about the spread of the plague, he focused on his medicinal herbs and turned the third floor into his medicine field.
But he didn't want the effect to be too amazing, for fear that the herbs he grew in the future would have some extraordinary effects that he would not be able to explain.
So the formation was set up on the second floor.
This is where everyone usually lives, and it is closest to the third floor, so everyone can benefit from it.
Just as he thought, the small medicinal seedlings on the third floor grew particularly well. Even though the old man had no experience in planting, there were no diseases or pests, and the seedlings did not germinate after planting.
The corn and peanuts on the top floor have just been planted, and the results are not significant; although the vegetables in the backyard on the first floor are growing well, their growth cycle is also normal.
The most important thing is that in order to save water and make it easier to care for them, they are all planted in pots.
So much so that the family ignored the changes in the soil in the yard.
Who would have thought that the formation could have such great power on the land in the backyard from such a long distance.
"How can I explain this?!" Shen Jianyi became even more annoyed.
“Don’t mention the formation, it’s not necessarily the only reason.
I was thinking that the poor growth of other people's seedlings might not be entirely due to the soil, but might also be related to the pesticides. "Gu Kai thought for a moment and said.
Seeing that the whole family was looking at him, he had to explain a few more words: "It's normal that our vegetables grow better than others.
But now, except for my family and Sun Qing's family, most of the vegetables planted by the community have not sprouted, and the seedlings that have sprouted are not big. This is definitely not just a problem of soil fertility. Many families in our community also use compost, and when everyone plants vegetables, they will sieve the soil and mix it finely.
I wonder if it has something to do with the large-scale disinfection before?
Besides, even though it's not sprayed this way, the powder will still float over here, and it's normal for it to fall into the soil.
Don't forget, our family was the only one in the entire community whose entire house was wrapped in cloth.
This means that in the entire community, only our home’s soil has not been polluted at all.”
"That's possible. Well, I'll talk to them about this tonight. Maybe that's the reason.
By the way, Xiaokai, go ask your dad again, is the disinfectant powder harmful to plants? It would be more reliable to ask him to confirm it. "Shen Jianyi suddenly realized.
Mr. Gu couldn't give a definite answer, he just said it was possible.
Although according to theory the drug will decompose quickly and there will be no toxic residue in the later stage.
But who can tell the specific situation?
It has been several months since the earthquake, and the odor from the upper floors is still very serious.
People with poor respiratory tract will feel a burning pain in their throat after staying there for a while.
With such stimulation, how could it be possible to say that there was no residue left?
Seeds are more delicate than humans.
It is very likely that crops cannot be grown in the soil that has been covered with medicinal powder.
"What if all the soil sprinkled with pesticide powder cannot grow crops?" Chen Cong suddenly asked.
Everyone's heart skipped a beat when they heard this.
This is not impossible!
Not to mention other places, the entire Bac Ninh area has been disinfected, and the land area involved is huge.
The more they thought about it, the more frightened they became, and they didn't even dare to think any further.
"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's think about what will happen to our family after this is said out." Chen Xi changed the subject.
No one spoke either.
Everyone knew that once Shen's father told others that the reason might be that the soil in his home was not contaminated by disinfectant powder, the two leaders of the community would have to beg the Shen family to share their soil with the people in the yard without the neighbors asking.
There are hundreds of people, some with a shovel, some with a shovel. I guess after everyone has finished digging, the backyard will be one level lower than before!
"That's what we have to give! If it's really because of the soil, we should take the initiative to ask everyone to dig it even without the leader asking.
How long can I sell scraps? It is so hard to find a job now, so growing vegetables and food is the only way to survive.
It doesn't matter if we don't know the reason, but if it's true that seedlings can grow in our soil, we'll have to share some with everyone.
What is a little soil? Can we be reluctant to give up even this little thing? "
"Well, didn't I say I wouldn't give it? What I meant was that there should be a rule. How should we give it? How much should each family give? We can't just let anyone come to our house and dig the soil whenever they want, right?
I haven't said anything yet, Dad, but you've already said so much, making it seem like no one in our family has realized the truth except you."
Shen Xi is the first child of the Shen family and has been favored since childhood.
Later, because I settled abroad and didn't see my parents for many years, I was the one who was most concerned about me.
Therefore, her status in the family is a little different from that of ordinary children.
Anyway, she would say a few words to her parents from time to time, but neither of the two old people would mind her.
Fortunately, Shen Xi is not the kind of ignorant person. He is good at talking and will not suffer any loss, but he is a very soft-hearted person.
He is even more sincere to his family.
Shen Jianyi didn't care about his daughter's criticism, but instead seriously considered the questions raised by Shen Xi.
Seeing his distressed look, Shencong couldn't help but laugh.
"Dad, my sister just said these two words and you were led astray? Why are you thinking this? This should be what Lao Cao and Shi Lei are thinking!
If they really come to our house to ask for soil, they have to tell us a rule. They can't really dig a hole in our house, right?"
"Yes! I was led astray by your sister. You are right."
After hearing what his second daughter said, Shen Jianyi suddenly felt a lot more relaxed and in a much better mood.
Seeing his father happy, Chen Cong added: "In fact, it's okay for us to just mention it. The soil issue is not important. We just have to agree to whatever the community decides.
We have no shortage of soil. Don't forget that the soil we used to dig the basement is still in the space.
After this period of time, we can take it out and re-lay the ground, and then we can fill up any hole they dig, no matter how big it is."
Everyone then remembered that, indeed, there was such a large pile of earth in the gurgling space!
Moreover, the soil was dug from deep underground, which is relatively fine and free of debris, making it more suitable for planting.
Of course, there is one more thing. The formation plate made by Grandpa Gu for her has always been placed in the Chenchong space.
If the soil in the backyard has changed because of the formation on the second floor, then the soil in the space should have changed even more!
——When everyone thought about the fact that there was still a pile of spare soil full of vitality in the space, the reluctance they had in their hearts was swept away.
During the evening meeting, Father Shen raised his family's speculation, and for the first time passed on to everyone the possibility that the plants did not grow because of the disinfectant powder.
The community managers, big and small, were all shocked!
No one expected this.
After all, no one is a doctor, and no one knows the ingredients of medicines, so what the government says must be the truth.
The government said that the drug had extremely low toxicity and would slowly decompose over time and would not cause harm to the human body, so everyone believed it.
Even if the plant doesn't grow well, no one connects that to it.
But once it was brought up, people suddenly realized that it was really possible.
"If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed it. Think about it, there's no grass on the upper floors or around the cracks! The grass that was there before is now dead. There must be a connection."
"Yes, the top management is still shouting when we go there, and we can't touch our eyes with our hands, otherwise we will cry all day. Is this not poisonous? If it's not poisonous, why do they ask us to close the doors and windows and not let us go out for three days?"
"It must be poisonous! What should we do? If this happens, there won't be a single spot in our community with good soil. How much medicine powder was sprinkled on the high-rise buildings and cracks? It was everywhere."
"How can you grow vegetables like this? Aren't you just kidding yourself? You definitely can't grow anything like this!"
"It's over. I spent so much time and effort growing these plants. If I had known I would have done nothing!"
People were talking at once, and the more they talked, the sadder they felt.
"It's not like there's no land there..." Someone whispered in the crowd.
I didn't dare to finish, but those words still entered everyone's heart.
Shen Jianyi raised his hand and said, "Yes, our land was not polluted. At that time, because we were close to the crack, our house was completely covered. Who would have thought that we could save a piece of land because of this."
After that, he looked at Cao Hongmin and Shi Lei and brought it up himself: "We have discussed it and agreed that our neighbors in the courtyard can go to my house to get soil.
Whether you are growing vegetables or crops, you can go and dig whatever you need.
But as for how to dig, our community must have a regulation, and you must discuss it with us first.
We can't all go there and dig deep into our house, and collapse it, right? "
Everyone burst into laughter and responded, "That's impossible."
"Don't worry, if the digging collapses, we will build it for you!"
"Uncle, we have become very skilled now. If it doesn't work out, we can build you a new house!"
Shen Jianyi smiled and picked up a piece of wood from the side and threw it towards the crowd.
He cursed, "Shut up now! If anyone dares to dig a brick out of my house, I will kick him out!"
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