Chapter 56 Organic Vegetable Pack
"I'm back."
Liu Guizhen came back from the rice fields. The weather had turned warmer and the rice fields began to be irrigated. Yang Guojun and Liu Guizhen went to the fields and did not ask the two children to join in the fun.
Xia Wu doesn't know how to cook, so Liu Guizhen has to come back early to cook at noon every day. She won't let Xia Wu learn even if she wants to. Liu Guizhen never gets tired of making delicious food to compensate her children.
"Mom, what are we having for dinner today?"
As soon as Liu Guizhen put down the basket, Xia Wu went over to check the dishes.
The vegetables they eat every day are all produced by their own family. The vegetables they planted before the New Year are now being harvested one after another, so there is no shortage of seasonal vegetables.
Xia Wu can now recognize most of the vegetables. He looked through the basket and saw leeks, vegetable sprouts, lettuce, and even a bunch of white mushrooms.
"Mom, what is this?" Xia Wu held a green, unfamiliar vegetable in one hand and a white mushroom in the other.
Liu Guizhen put on an apron, swept out the water from the pot, looked back and said, "That's white jade melon, also known as zucchini. When I came back, I passed by Qiu Lan's house and she insisted on picking it for me. The mushrooms were grown by a guy from the next village. Qiu Lan bought some and said she wanted to taste them. If they're good, she'll sell some wholesale in town."
There has been no work in Xia Wu recently, and it just so happens that spring plowing has begun, so everyone has gone back to do their own work. However, people like Qiu Lan and Shi Hongniang, who can't sit still, not only level the rice fields, but also have their own vegetable gardens in mind, and are going to the town to sell vegetables.
You must try something you have never seen before. At noon, Liu Guizhen prepared several dishes, including fried zucchini with local eggs, fried white jade mushrooms with meat, and stir-fried lettuce.
Three dishes and a dish of kelp soup are enough for a family of five.
Zucchini has a sweet taste and a delicious texture. White jade mushrooms have the flavor of mushrooms and a meaty texture, and they also taste great.
Needless to say, lettuce is refreshing and especially suitable for consumption in spring.
After the meal, Xia Wu was very satisfied and even drank two bowls of rice.
I started thinking about what to eat in the evening.
Liu Guizhen asked her to pick the leeks at home, make leek cakes in the evening, stir-fry some cabbage sprouts, and cook some porridge.
"Okay!"
After the family had finished their meal, Xia Wu mixed the leftovers with the rice and called Jindou and Heidou to come and eat.
During the interview, he talked about the dog food sent by advertisers, "Other people's puppies love to eat pet food, but these two are different. They love to eat rice dishes, slurping them."
Old Man Yang said, "How can food made specifically for pets be any good? It's like asking you to eat instant noodles and biscuits every day. It's okay to eat it once in a while, but who can stand eating it every day? Besides, grains nourish the body."
The old man had no idea how high-end pet food was these days, comparing it to instant noodles and biscuits. It wasn't until Xia Wu showed him the ingredient list that the old man was shocked: "Dogs are eating this good?"
Xia Wu laughed and told him that people in the city don't have many children nowadays, but they like to keep pets.
"There's dog food for dogs, cat food for cats, and rabbit food for rabbits. There are also toys and small clothes. There's so much variety!"
Jindou and Heidou were eating from the dog bowl, humming and humming, while Bugs Bunny was squatting on a chair, chewing on a small piece of lettuce leaf.
"People's lives are really getting better now."
After dinner, the family sat and chatted. When the golden beans and black beans were finished, Xia Wu cleaned the dog bowl and found that the two little ones had left a few mushrooms uneaten, which was not like them.
When we stir-fry vegetables at home, they can finish them even without meat.
However, Xia Wu didn't take it to heart. She cleaned the dog bowl and the family members each did their job. She took her brother, Jindou, Heidou and Bugs Bunny to patrol the mountain.
The plum blossoms had fallen long ago, leaving green fruits hidden under the leaves. Xia Wu turned them over and saw the round green plums, and his mouth couldn't help but feel sour.
Some small fruits were blown to the ground by the wind. Jindou and Heidou picked up the fruits and played with them, biting them with their teeth without knowing the consequences. The next second, the whole dog was exhausted from the pain, scratching its face with its claws and barking continuously.
Xia Wu was amused and laughed.
Not only plums, but peaches, apricots and pears have also begun to bear fruit, but their growth cycles are different and their ripening times are also different.
The largest apricot is as big as a one-yuan coin. Xia Wu estimates that the apricots will be ripe by late April at the latest.
Walking from the foot of the mountain to the top, Xia Wu climbed up the water tower as usual to check, and added spiritual spring water into it without hesitation.
When she came down from the water tower, Yang Hongwen was taking pictures of the scenery. The two little ones were scratching the green grass by the canal and kept sticking their heads out to lick the clear canal water.
When building the water diversion channel, Xia Wu focused on practicality and aesthetics, combining the existing streams on the mountain with artificial channels to dredge them. As a result, some sections of the channel were streams, and some sections were made of cement.
In spring, the vegetation is lush, and the canals are lined with green grass. Some of the grass is soaked in water, swaying in the wind from the clear spring water.
Xia Wu sat down cross-legged by the stream and stroked the two greedy puppies.
Drinking the spiritual spring water at home is not enough, and he won’t let go of the mixed spiritual spring water from outside.
but……
Xia Wu suddenly realized something: the two little ones seemed to be very sensitive to the spiritual spring.
Do you like eating leftovers because the cooking water at home is mixed with spiritual spring water?
The water used to irrigate the vegetable fields should also have the function of spiritual spring water.
As for the white jade mushroom...
Because it’s produced in the neighboring village and doesn’t have the effect of the spiritual spring water, it won’t taste as good as the dishes in the village?
The more Xia Wu thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
It has been half a year since Xia Wu possessed the spiritual spring, and he has some experience in using it.
For plants, spiritual spring water is a panacea. Even if a plant is about to die, it can basically survive as long as it is watered with spiritual spring water.
At the same time, Lingquan water can also improve the yield and quality of plant fruits.
For example, strawberries bloom and bear fruit continuously and have a unique taste, all of which are the effects of the spiritual spring water.
Animals are also attracted to spiritual spring water. On the one hand, they like to eat food improved by spiritual spring water. On the other hand, long-term consumption of spiritual spring water can make them smarter.
But for humans, the experience of using spiritual spring water is not as good as that of animals and plants.
Just like the Yang family, drinking water mixed with spiritual spring water will feel sweet, refreshing and thirst-quenching, and eating vegetables and fruits watered with spiritual spring water will feel better than normal food, but the improvement of their bodies by spiritual spring water is a longer process and is silent.
Just like his brother Yang Hongwen, Xia Wu had thought before that animals can become smarter after drinking the spiritual spring water, so would he be able to improve if he drank it too?
So she found ways to give her brother honey water mixed with spiritual spring water every day, and used well water mixed with spiritual spring water to cook at home. After half a year, apart from her brother's better skin and better looks, there seemed to be no major changes in his IQ.
Xia Wu held her face in her hands, while Yang Hongwen knelt on the grass, taking pictures with his camera, focused and serious.
Just like the time Xia Wu first saw him.
Sighing, Xia Wu decided to go down the mountain to do an experiment.
She wanted to verify whether the spiritual spring water would improve the quality of plants in other families in Yanggou Village through water circulation.
"Brother, let's go down the mountain!"
After she called Yang Hongwen, she waited for a few minutes before Yang Hongwen slowly got up and replied, "Okay."
The brother and sister swaggered down the mountain with the two little ones, went home to get some pet food, and then ran around the village.
Many families in the village keep dogs. Xia Wu sat in the car, making "sucking" sounds with her mouth. The dogs, which were originally fierce, immediately changed their behavior and approached her with their tails wagging happily.
Xia Wu spread out the dog food, and each one ate it happily.
It seems that there is nothing wrong with the dog food, it’s just that the two little ones are too picky about what she feeds!
But why do golden beans and black beans rarely eat white jade mushrooms, but can eat zucchini grown by Xia Qiulan?
Xia Wu ran to Qiu Lan's house specially. Qiu Lan was watering the vegetable garden. She was very happy to see her and invited her to come home and sit down.
Qiu Lan's vegetable garden is right in front of her house. It is less than one and a half acres and is kept neatly by her. She grows more than ten kinds of vegetables, some of which have already borne fruit and are ripe, while others have just been planted. Qiu Lan is currently planting cucumbers and tomatoes.
She used water from the village river to irrigate her vegetable garden. Most people in the village did the same thing: they pulled a water pipe, turned on the water pump, and it was convenient to water the vegetables. However, Xia Wu soon realized the difference.
The fertilizer Qiu Lan used for the vegetable garden was obtained from her family.
During the period when winter bamboo shoots were on the shelves, all the peeled bamboo shoot shells were used for composting. In addition to the bamboo shoot shells, the Yang family's kitchen waste was also thrown into the compost pit.
The fertilizer that was finally piled up was very useful. Yang Guojun always believed that the 100% survival rate of the fruit trees on the mountain depended entirely on the fertilizer he piled up.
There are only three people in Qiu Lan's family, and they definitely can't finish eating so many vegetables. She grows vegetables to sell them, and thinking that the fertilizer piled by the Yang family is good, she asked for some and piled it in her own vegetable garden.
It seems to be working well now.
However, such good vegetables cannot be sold at a high price in the town, and Qiu Lan is not the only one growing vegetables. Every day there are old men and women selling vegetables at the market.
Sometimes Qiu Lan had to bring back the vegetables she couldn’t sell, chop them up and feed them to the chickens and ducks.
Even Xia Wu's family is like this.
If I don’t plant vegetables, it’ll be a waste to leave the land empty. If I plant vegetables, my family won’t be able to eat them all and will have to feed the livestock.
Those are all vegetables watered with spiritual spring water.
Xia Wu thought about it and sent a message in the group: "Do you want any of the seasonal vegetables I grow at home? If you do, I'll make a vegetable package and put it on the shelves later."
She squatted beside Qiu Lan's vegetable garden and said, "Sister Lan, can I take a few pictures?"
Qiu Lan said generously: "Take pictures, take pictures as you like, I'll pick some more zucchini for you, right?"
Xia Wu sent the photos he took to the group. There were not many kinds of seasonal vegetables in March, but it would be lively in another month. However, Qiu Lan planted quite a lot of vegetables, including the common leeks, rapeseed, lettuce, and immature shepherd's purse. In a few days, the peas will also be mature.
"Forget the zucchini. My mom's making chive pancakes tonight. Sister Lan, do you want to sell your vegetables online?"
Qiu Lan's eyes lit up, "Let it go! I'll let it go if you want me to. I can't sell it anyway!"
Xia Wu chuckled, "That's fine. Whether or not you can make money is still a mystery. Let's just give it a try."
After buying plastic bags and foam boxes online, Xia Wu quickly ordered the price for the vegetable packages.
69 per portion, each portion contains leeks, rapeseed, celery, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, and six eggs.
The total weight is about six pounds. Excluding packaging and shipping costs, the average price per pound is nine yuan.
Six kilograms of vegetables is enough for a week's eating in different ways if you live alone. If you have a family of three, adding some meat can also make it last for two or three days.
Xia Wu's pricing is based on the current organic farms on the market. She doesn't know whether others are truly organic, but she can guarantee that the vegetables coming out of Yanggou Village are absolutely green and organic.
As soon as the vegetable packs were put on the shelves, they were sought after by some loyal fans.
The composition of Xia Wu's fan base is quite complex, including students, office workers, and some people over 30 or 40 years old who have already started families and careers.
Students don't need vegetable packs, but for some office workers and married people, the 69-yuan organic vegetable pack is worth a try.
At least Shen Ming won't miss it.
As a full-time mother, Shen Ming is very attentive in taking care of her two children.
As soon as winter was over, she started growing vegetables on the balcony. But after a month or two, they were still far from being edible.
She doesn't usually go to the supermarket to buy vegetables. She likes to go to the market where there are many old men and women. She thinks the vegetables bought in the market are fresher and healthier.
The supermarket has a wide variety of vegetables, whether they are seasonal or not.
Related rumors have never stopped.
When pushing the shopping cart back to the community, Chen Ming met a few neighbors downstairs and was asked to stop and chat with them.
“Mrs. Shen, you didn’t buy the bok choy, did you?”
Chen Ming didn't understand what was going on, but he still replied politely, "I bought a pack and was planning to make vermicelli casserole with garlic clams tonight. What's wrong?"
"Oh, haven't you heard? You can't eat bok choy! You'd rather eat big cabbage than bok choy. The experts say bok choy is soaked in chemicals! Eating too much can cause cancer!"
"You can't eat bean sprouts, either. They're soaked in chemicals. You can't eat pickled meat either. The unscrupulous vendors use chemicals to preserve it..."
Several neighbors were talking at the same time and almost rejected all the vegetables on the market.
Chen Ming broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this. She smiled bitterly and said, "Is there anything we ordinary people can eat?"
Several people were stunned for a moment, and thought carefully, living in the steel forest, far away from the land, what else can they do except accept these processed videos.
Some people began to miss the days in their hometown, when they could grow whatever they ate and it tasted so good.
Seeing that it was almost time, Chen Ming said goodbye and went home. On the way upstairs, he took out his phone and searched...
Quite a few people on Kuaishou are talking about the problem of vegetables being soaked in chemicals. It's not just vegetables, but also fruits... They are waxed and soaked in chemicals. No wonder the tomatoes she bought half a month ago are still as fresh as if they were just picked.
But just like Chen Ming said, if we don’t buy these vegetables, the family will starve.
"You'll get used to it. You might develop an immunity after eating it more." Shen Ming muttered as he picked vegetables and checked the messages on his phone. He didn't expect that Xia Xia's group was going to have organic vegetable packages on the shelves.
At the top of the group were a few photos Xia Wu had casually taken. It showed a simple-looking woman standing in a vegetable garden with fresh organic vegetables behind her.
It costs 69 yuan per portion, and contains about six pounds of vegetables that can be mixed and matched as desired. Chen Ming placed an order immediately without even thinking.
If you can avoid eating poisonous vegetables, try to eat as little as possible.
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