Su Qingxue saw that Zhou Huaian stopped bothering her and just lay quietly beside her looking at her. She relaxed and fell asleep unknowingly.
Zhou Huaian was thinking about asking for leave to go to work tomorrow, and when he came to his senses, he saw that his wife had fallen asleep.
He leaned forward and kissed her forehead, then took her hand, clasped their fingers together, and lay down beside her, ready to sleep.
The next day, Zhou Huaian went to work, and the first thing he did was to ask for leave. He also talked to Sun Rui about it, and the two of them asked for leave together.
On the third day, early in the morning, Zhou Huaian and Sun Rui carried several sacks and prepared to go up the mountain.
Su Qingxue wanted to go with them, but neither of them was willing. With such a big belly, how could they feel comfortable letting her go up the mountain?
I can only wait for them at home.
While I was bored, I cooked myself a pot of salted peanuts and fried a pot of sunflower seeds.
Anyway, after they get them back, there will be peanuts and sunflower seeds at home, and we can quietly take them out of the space. The more we eat, the more we will have, so we need to be careful in this regard.
I moved a stool and sat under the eaves in front of the living room, eating the freshly cooked salted peanuts. I felt that they seemed to taste better than ordinary peanuts.
I don’t know whether it tastes good because I worked so hard to grow it, or because it’s nourished by the wood element’s special powers.
She peeled about two pounds of salted peanuts and ate them all.
When I felt full, I stood up and walked around in the yard.
Although she felt very tired just walking around after her belly got bigger, Su Qingxue never slacked off in this regard in order to make the birth easier.
I walked to the backyard and saw that the chili peppers had turned red, so I simply took out a basket and picked all the red chili peppers.
By the way, all the red tomatoes were picked as well.
As soon as the cherry tomatoes turn red, they will be picked and not too many will be left on the surface, so not many are picked, just enough to eat for one or two days.
There are not many fruits at this time. I originally wanted to plant two fruit trees in the yard, but I felt that it was unnecessary to go through the trouble.
Fruits are quite cheap at this time. Some families in the village also grow fruits. If you want to eat some, you can just exchange some with them, and you can also eat more varieties.
After planting fruits, there will definitely be some naughty children who will come to pick them. The wall of my house is so high that I am worried that they will climb over the wall to plant them. What if they fall?
After thinking about it, I decided to just forget it. There’s no need to create another thing.
I picked about 20 pounds of chili peppers, washed them clean in a wooden bucket by the well, then placed them on a reed mat in the yard and poured the peppers directly on the mat, waiting to dry out.
She needs to think carefully, should the peppers be dried and ground into pepper powder, or chopped directly into pepper sauce?
Finally, I thought of drying the chili peppers and grinding them into chili powder, and then chopping them into chili sauce next time I pick them. Anyway, now is the beginning of picking them, and after the fruiting period, I can pick them several times.
Spreading the peppers on the mat to dry, Su Qingxue prepared to pick some vegetables for dinner.
I took a walk around the backyard first. The corn can be eaten fresh, but few people would eat it. Everyone was reluctant to eat it because it was food after all.
Su Qingxue broke off a corn from each stalk, which together filled about two sacks. She left about 20 stalks in the kitchen and put the rest into the space.
You don’t have to worry about not having fresh corn when you want to eat it.
I took another look at the sweet potatoes next to me. The sweet potato vines were growing everywhere, and they were particularly dense. It was a pity that they were not used to feed pigs. If they were used to feed pigs, they would probably be fatter.
Start pinching the tenderer vines directly from inside. Those tender ones are quite delicious when stir-fried.
It took more than half an hour to harvest two sacks of tender sweet potato vines. Although I could continue pinching, I thought it would be too conspicuous, so I stopped.
I left some for dinner and put the rest into the space.
I thought that I hadn't been to the vegetable garden at the educated youth camp for a long time. Every time, it was Zhou Huaian or Sun Rui who went there to pick vegetables. Today, I happened to be interested in it, so I picked all the ripe vegetables.
Simply dry the vegetables into dried vegetables and stew them with various meats in winter.
Winter is only a little over a month away, and after I have given birth and finished my confinement, it should not prevent me from going up the mountain to hunt.
Carrying the largest backpack in the house, he went straight to the private plot at the educated youth's site.
When I passed by the fields on the way, I saw the villagers in the fields were busy harvesting.
There are far fewer people doing the autumn harvest this year than last year. The remaining people are working day and night so that they can feel at ease once the grain is stored in the warehouse as soon as possible.
It can be said that there is no idle person in the village. Even the elderly people are working in the fields, and even the very young children are helping to pick up food in the back.
Fortunately, Su Qingxue's belly was too big and no one dared to ask her to work in the fields. Otherwise, people would really be fed up with seeing such an idle person wandering around everywhere.
It can be said that if Su Qingxue goes out now, anyone who has no bad intentions towards her will unconsciously avoid her, for fear that they might accidentally touch her belly.
In the eyes of others, her belly was like a bomb, so big that it seemed like it would explode if touched.
Su Qingxue wished that other people would stay away from her so that she could live a carefree life.
When I arrived at the private plot next to the educated youth site, I looked in the direction of the site from a distance. There was no movement at all, so I knew that everyone must be busy.
There should be no new educated youth coming this year.
However, what is certain is that there will definitely be more educated youth coming next year. It seemed that the sending of educated youth to the countryside stopped only in 1978. At other times, there would be several batches a year at most and at least one batch a year at least.
When we entered the vegetable garden, we saw that the vegetables in the three people's gardens were ripe and would become old if they were not picked.
Without saying a word, he started picking the ripe vegetables.
You may not be able to get it back all at once, so you can only let the space go quietly.
All the water spinach that grew during the drought was harvested, two large bundles in total. It tastes great when dried and made into sauerkraut.
I put them aside, and picked all the eggplants and beans and put them directly into a sack. The two kinds of beans together filled almost a sack. There were some tenderer beans on top, but I didn't pick them all.
After picking all the fruits, pull out the eggplant and bean seedlings.
All the leeks that were a little old were cut, and the old pumpkins were picked, more than twenty in total, each weighing at least ten pounds.
The winter melon can still be kept for a while. It is not old enough now and will not last if picked.
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