The soil inside the greenhouse was hardened by the shoes during its construction. Yan Sisi rested for a night, and the next day she and her mother went into the greenhouse to dig the ground with shovels. After a while, they began to feel slightly hot.
Yan Sisi came in wearing a sweater. After digging for a while, she felt that her breathing was a little difficult and she began to sweat. She quickly ran to the door and opened the door of the greenhouse to let the outside air flow in.
The influx of a large amount of fresh cold air caused the temperature of the greenhouse to drop a lot instantly. Yan Sisi couldn't help but shiver all over. She lowered her head and propped the door with a stone before turning back to continue digging the ground. The two of them dug inside for most of the day before they loosened all the soil.
After resting for an hour, Yan Sisi continued to sow seeds on the ground, cover the soil, and water the crops. When she finally closed the greenhouse door, it was already dark.
In the next few days, Yan Sisi took a small notebook in the morning and recorded the daily conditions of the seeds in the notebook, from when they germinated to when they matured. She finally determined the growth cycle of plants planted with diluted spiritual spring water. Different seeds have different growth cycles.
Among them, the green vegetables with the fastest production cycle are the green vegetables, which grow and mature in just a dozen days, followed by some other green leafy vegetables. As the weather gets colder, the temperature in the greenhouse also drops a lot. For this reason, Yan Sisi specially collected some worn-out and useless clothes, washed and sewed them into a huge rectangle, and covered the greenhouse at night to ensure that the temperature in the greenhouse at night would not be too low to freeze the vegetables to death.
The vegetables in the greenhouse matured very quickly, and the family could not finish them all. At Yan Sisi's suggestion, every morning Yan's mother would pick some ripe vegetables and put them in a basket to sell. Although Yan Sisi didn't know how much she spent, the basket was empty every time her mother came back.
Time passed slowly day by day. When the Chinese New Year was approaching, Gu Jingping came to say goodbye and returned to his hometown. Father Yan's feet also got much better after the treatment of Lingquan water.
Before the Chinese New Year, the family went out to buy a lot of decorations, such as couplets, lanterns, stickers and firecrackers, which made the small courtyard look particularly bright and colorful.
On the night of New Year's Eve, at the intersection of the new year and the new year, Yan Sisi made a solemn New Year's wish: a new yard, a new year, I hope everything will go well next year! My parents are in good health!
On the first day of the new year, Yan Sisi and her family of three stayed at home, eating melon seeds and watching TV. They nestled in the warm living room, roasting sweet potatoes and pears by the fire. The hot food went into their stomachs, making them feel warm and comfortable.
The next day, the family went to grandma's house carrying bags of things, where they ran into uncle's family who came to pay New Year's greetings. The adults chatted with each other about recent events, while Yan Sisi looked at her cousin and hid aside to watch TV.
Then she went to her uncle's house and received a generous red envelope. Since then, Yan Sisi has been staying at home, reading books and taking care of the vegetables and flowers in the yard every day. Time passed quickly.
Soon, the weather began to warm up and Yan Sisi returned to school.
It is a new semester. Most of the knowledge taught in the last semester was theoretical. This year, the school actually allocated a piece of land for them. Everyone chose the plants they wanted to grow and planted them in the school's experimental field. Under the guidance of the teacher, they recorded the growth status of the plants and the treatment methods when pests appeared, which deepened their understanding of plants.
This semester, Yan Sisi spent every day in school and gained a lot. The yard at home was taken care of by Yan's mother and father. In the spring, Yan's mother suddenly told Yan Sisi that she had rented a storefront not far from the school. Yan Sisi was shocked. Only then did she realize that her parents' business was particularly good.
Yan Sisi fully supports her parents' idea. Every day she takes out some seasonal fruits from the space to serve as a display for her parents' vegetable stall.
Yan's mother went to the store every morning and in two hours, all the vegetables and fruits for the day were sold out. The vegetables sold faster, while the fruits were a little slower, but there was basically no leftover every day. As time went by, more and more people knew about it, and in the end, many people lined up at the store door early every day just to buy their vegetables.
As a result, the vegetables grown in the yard could not meet the demand. They did not have any extra land in J City, and rural land was not allowed to be rented. Yan Sisi could only find a way to build some shelves in the yard, on which she placed long wooden boxes made by carpenters. The boxes were filled with black soil moved out of the space, and then she planted the seeds in them and took care of them carefully every day. Only then did the situation get better.
After his foot healed, Yan's father did not go out to work. Instead, he and his mother took care of the yard and sold vegetables. Their monthly income was much higher than when they were working before. Yan's father also planted vegetables in other rooms with yards in the house. Running back and forth every day made him much stronger.
Yan Sisi and Gu Jingping have been getting along with each other in a dull manner. They go out to play when they are free, and they don't see each other for half a month when they are busy.
In the second half of the year, every time Yan's mother saw Gu Jingping coming home, she would nag Yan Sisi many times about why the two of them hadn't gotten married yet.
The reason Yan Sisi gave was that she had not yet completed her studies and was afraid that she would not be able to concentrate on her studies after getting married. In fact, she was thinking: What if I get pregnant after getting married, what will happen to my studies?
Both Yan's mother and father tried to persuade Yan Sisi to get married, but neither of them did. Sometimes, when Yan Sisi was annoyed by being urged, she would ask Gu Jingping if she wanted to get married.
Gu Jingping’s answer was: Of course I want to get married, but I would rather respect your idea. We can get married when you want to. I have the confidence that I can hold you tightly. Just do what you like.
Only then did Yan Sisi feel relieved and focus on her studies.
I study, experiment, and record every day. During summer and winter vacations, I will also ask classmates to go to other cities to collect plants and seeds and plant them in the space.
Over the years, the space has absorbed a lot of green energy and expanded by almost ten times compared to before. It is now filled with countless various plants, herbs, fruits, and flowers.
Basically, anyone who knows Yan Sisi knows that she likes to collect seeds, so every year on her birthday Yan Sisi will receive many varieties of seeds. The accumulation year after year plus the seeds she goes out to find every year, there are really too many to count.
The year they graduated from university, Gu Jingping and Yan Sisi finally got married...
On this day, Yan Sisi sat in her own room, facing the mirror and applying the last step of her makeup to her lips: applying lipstick.
Bright red matches snow-white skin, the delicate little face is matched with light makeup, the curly bangs fall on the forehead, and the curly hair on both sides of the cheeks make the face more beautiful.
Is she really getting married today?
Yan Sisi stared at herself in the mirror in a daze. In the blur, she seemed to see her original self, smiling happily at herself, and she could hear her sincere blessings in her ears: You must be happy!
Yan Sisi stretched out her hand towards herself in the mirror and said firmly, "Yes, you must be happy too."
As soon as the voice fell, the door outside the house was opened with a "bang", and the visitor began to praise exaggeratedly: "Student Sisi, you are so beautiful today, just like a fairy."
Yan Sisi looked at Jiang Siyue who came in from the door and said with a smile: "Siyue, you are here."
"How could I be absent on such an important day as your wedding?" Jiang Siyue walked to the side of Yan Sisi, looked at the beautiful Yan Sisi, held her hand and said solemnly; "On such a happy day, I must try to find a satisfactory partner this year."
This made Yan Sisi laugh, "After all these years, I didn't expect you, Siyue, still believe this."
The next second, another person ran in through the door. Guo Lan ran in and closed the door with force. She took a breath and said, "Sisi, the groom is coming. Get ready."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Siyue quickly helped Yan Sisi sit on the bed covered with a red quilt, hid her shoes, and said to Guo Lan, whom she did not know, "Then you should quickly block the door, and do not let the groom in so easily."
Ever since Yan Sisi heard that the groom had arrived, her heart started pounding wildly. She was originally not nervous, but suddenly she became nervous. She stared straight at the door and pricked up her ears to listen to the noise outside.
Tang Mingze, who had been prepared early in the morning, was standing in the corridor outside, talking loudly about something. Yan Sisi vaguely heard Gu Jingping's voice in it. After a long while, she heard a knock on the door.
From the moment the voice rang out, Yan Sisi felt that her expression was a little stiff, until Gu Jingping outside the door answered the difficult question posed by Guo Lan and opened the door.
The first thing Yan Sisi saw was Gu Jingping in a black suit. He looked even more handsome than usual. She couldn't help but smile. She shyly met his smiling eyes and she felt completely relaxed.
Jiang Siyue in front of him said to the groom, "Groom, if you find the bride's shoes, you can marry the beauty."
Yan Sisi looked at Gu Jingping tossing and turning in the room and couldn't help but wink at him. She was immediately noticed and said, "Hey, the bride feels sorry for the groom."
The crowd immediately started to make a noise, causing Yan Sisi's face to turn red. Gu Jingping smiled and said, "It's useless for you to be jealous. This is mine."
After saying that, he picked up the shoes he found, gently lifted Yan Sisi's feet and put them on her. The crowd immediately made strange noises in unison, and Yan Sisi's face felt hot from the shouting, and the temperature wouldn't go down.
Gu Jingping stood up amid their jeers. At this moment, Tang Zeming, who was standing nearby, heard the sound of firecrackers outside and knew that the time had come. He stopped the others who still wanted to make noise, bent down and squatted in front of Yan Sisi, carried her on his back, and walked down the stairs step by step. The relatives who had been waiting downstairs for a long time saw the bride finally come out, and greeted her one after another. Yan's father and mother looked at them with joy, feeling sad that their daughter was finally getting married.
Yan Sisi looked at her parents and suddenly felt a little sour in her nose. An inexplicable emotion surged in her heart and her eyes couldn't help but become moist. From today on, she would leave her parents and be with another person. Facing the unknown future and the fact of leaving her parents, an emotion she had never experienced before emerged.
Seeing that her daughter's expression was not right, Yan's mother quickly approached her daughter, patted her back to comfort her, and said in a hoarse voice: "Today is your big day, you can't cry."
Yan Sisi held back her tears and nodded. Under the gaze of her parents, Tang Mingze carried her to the side of the car. Gu Jingping, who had been waiting there for a long time, took her over and gently carried her into the car. He said to Yan's father and mother who had followed, "Dad, Mom, we're leaving."
No matter how reluctant you are, you still have to go through this. Mother Yan patted her hand from the window and said, "Hey, go!"
Father Yan stood behind Mother Yan, so his expression could not be seen clearly. He just said to Gu Jingping in a serious voice: "Be good to my daughter, otherwise I will not be easily bullied."
Gu Jingping nodded in response, turned around and got into the car. The driver stepped on the accelerator and started the car. Yan Sisi waved vigorously through the car window at her parents who were standing there, and only put her hands down after turning the corner and could no longer be seen.