Chapter 57 56. Cultivating Vegetable Fields

How big is 20 square meters?

In fact, it is only as big as a living room.

But now Huaiyu worked from morning to noon, and the mud on her boots became thicker and thicker, so much so that she felt that there was something wrong with the land! Why was it so big? !

She didn't have enough strength to even swing the hoe. She needed to use her body's strength to push the shovel down, and she felt tired after doing it several times.

Now, looking at this large piece of turned-over land, my hands and feet feel hot and painful.

The ground was still wet, and every time I shoveled it out, it felt heavy. The weeds, which had just begun to show their tender green buds, had roots crisscrossing underneath.

Like a net, it firmly grasps the surrounding water and soil, making the soil solid and heavy with water.

Every time after digging it out with great effort, she had to pat and beat the soil to get rid of the grass roots.

The land looks flat now because it was deliberately flattened when the Rose Mansion was planned. There are still some gravels and stones underneath...

If it weren't for the high quality of his multi-functional shovel, Huaiyu would have really lost another point.

Fortunately, after a morning of hard work, the square piece of land in front of us was finally turned over.

However, we cannot rush to build ridges now. After the winter, there are probably many insect eggs and bacteria hidden in the soil. Huai Yu wiped the sweat off his forehead, looked at the big sun above his head, and decided to let the soil dry in the sun for two days.

And...she was hungry.

Three meals a day is normal, but the day she woke up, she was full after drinking only one bag of nutrient solution.

Later, we built the house in a hurry. There was a lot of hard work that required us to hold our breath to complete, but we only had to eat and drink in the morning and evening.

But now, she is not as tired as before, but she needs three meals a day. Is it because the food she eats is too monotonous, or is the nutrition in the nutrient solution really rich? She thought of the unpalatable nutrient solution and couldn't help but fall into a painful struggle.

But when I look at my thin white wrist again, it is really thin. In fact, it cannot be said to be beautiful. Before, my skin was white and my complexion looked good, so I didn’t look weak and pale.

At the same time, Zhou Qian's words echoed in his ears: "...Eat more, you look like you are sixteen or seventeen years old..."

Huaiyu fell into deep thought.

She felt that she should be older than sixteen or seventeen, but everyone she met so far would first call her a minor.

Sister, sister, little girl...

As for herself, she subconsciously feels that she is an adult, but when facing other people, she can call them "uncle, brother, sister, aunt" without hesitation.

That's not quite right.

She thought about it and thought about it until she was hungry, but she still couldn't figure out why. Could it be that she was a strong and talkative peasant woman in the past? Well, that seems to be okay... After all, now she has experience.

Huaiyu sighed helplessly.

But she couldn't think about it anymore. She was so hungry that she was panicking! She immediately threw away all thoughts and quickly carried the pot to the new stove in the straw shed.

Now that the weather is warmer, I can cook here during the day.

Have some noodle dumpling soup with pickled fern for lunch!

After thinking about it, he took out a bag of nutrient solution and started drinking it painfully.

…

After lunch, Huaiyu went into the tree house and found that the house only had a frame today, so the moisture would dry faster.

Now that I am in it, I don’t even feel the dampness anymore. I estimate that it will be completely dry by tomorrow at the latest.

The only ones that didn't obey were the wisterias.

When Huai Yu was induced to give birth, there was no experience, so their roots took root too deep.

Although the tree trunks used for the frame have stopped supplying nutrients, new wisteria seedlings have sprouted at the edge of the tree house and at the base of the tree trunks used for beams and pillars.

Huaiyu stared at it again and again, but finally decided not to care about it.

After all, they are obedient enough, with roots planted here and sprouts coming out from the other side. And when they grow up, they may be able to work together with the beams and pillars to support the straw shed, which will be even stronger.

Go into the house again and take a look at the pot of bean sprouts.

The bean sprouts have grown too much and can no longer be contained in a pot. Although they are placed under the shade of blue bricks, the warmth from the sun still makes them grow rapidly.

Now, they have grown into clusters of tender bean sprouts.

If there is a hot pot base now...

Huaiyu was drooling, but he didn't dare to think too much about it.

After all, the slightly spicy dish in the morning, although delicious, made her stomach feel a little uncomfortable for a while after eating it.

My body is really too fragile. It seems I need to be more cautious when eating spicy food.

Although bean sprouts can’t be used in hot pot, it should be okay to make pork fat and vegetable porridge at night, right? There is no egg, no meat, and no sauce. Otherwise, it must be delicious when wrapped in a burrito…

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Huaiyu lay on the bed to rest for a while, but his mind was full of all kinds of food. The more he thought about it, the more his saliva started to drip, and his full stomach didn't seem that full anymore.

She sighed and turned over and sat up.

Forget it, let's get back to work. The sooner we finish cleaning the land, the more food we can have.

By the way, think about those pork, chicken, duck, etc., how many points do you need to buy them now? Greed makes people motivated!

Huaiyu started mowing the grass again.

The hay I had collected but had grown moldy and rotten in the heavy rain, the hay in the wasteland, the branches and twigs in the woods on the hillside not far away, the wet leaves and grass buried deep inside...

After collecting sacks one by one for several hours, they finally collected a pile as big as a small hill.

Huaiyu took out a lighter.

“Pah.”

As the flames came into contact with the hay, wisps of smoke drifted away, and the branches and dead leaves in front of him slowly began to emit more and thicker smoke.

There is a lot of moisture in this pile of leaves, so it probably won't burn out that quickly. Besides, there is flat land with only scattered weeds all around, so it is relatively safe to burn.

Huai Yu took the shovel and took the opportunity to go back to the field, turning over the clods of earth again and breaking them into even smaller pieces.

At dusk, all the dirt was broken into smaller pieces. Huaiyu rubbed his arms and estimated that after another day of drying and turning the soil again tomorrow, it should be almost done.

The fire nearby had gone out, and the surface was covered with black and grey ashes, which flew everywhere in the wind, making it hard for people to open their eyes.

When Huaiyu turned it over with a shovel, he saw hot steam rising rapidly from inside.

It's still hot.

The ash pile was broken up and spread out, causing the heat inside to quickly dissipate in the evening breeze.

When it was not so hot anymore, Huaiyu brought a large bucket and carried the ashes to the vegetable field bucket by bucket, then poured them into the soil layer by layer.

Wood ash kills insects and bacteria, and can also be used as base fertilizer. When it is soaked by dew tomorrow morning, the nutrients inside will penetrate more...

Oh!

There is so much land anyway, why not dig another piece tomorrow!

Update 1. I'm going out to do some errands this afternoon, I'll write the rest later.

(End of this chapter)