104: A vegetable cellar was found in the yard
Lao Pu understood and agreed readily:
"Okay, if I happen to run into them today, I'll ask for you. Iron pot, right? What else?"
"Not for now, let's take it one by one."
"good."
Yu Xiaoye was about to leave when Lao Pu called her back. He then quietly took out a small paper bag from his pocket, handed it to Yu Xiaoye, and said in a mysterious tone:
"Here, your Aunt Jinhua asked me to give it to you."
"What is it?"
Yu Xiaoye took the paper package and opened it to see that it was actually a bag of glutinous rice sticks, the kind that are fried in oil and coated with a little sugar.
In her previous life, Yu Xiaoye disdained this kind of glutinous rice noodles, but now it is a good thing to her, very precious. Who in an ordinary family would be willing to eat this?
Lao Pu said with a smile:
"Eat it secretly, don't let your parents know."
"Okay, thank you Uncle Pu, thank you Aunt Jinhua!" Yu Xiaoye held the glutinous rice noodles and showed a row of neat glutinous rice teeth.
Who can understand the joy of being fed every day?
When Lao Pu saw that Yu Xiaoye was not polite to him, he also laughed. The more he looked at this girl, the more lovable she became.
Yu Xiaoye went home happily with a handful of small fruits. Of course, she still disobeyed Lao Pu's instructions and did not eat this delicious food alone. She saved it for the evening so that the three of them could eat it together.
But in the end, she ate the most, and her parents only tasted a bite.
After Yu Xiaoye returned to his home, he continued to busy himself with Yu Jiahui.
Now there is nothing to worry about the house. The fence has been replaced, the interior and exterior walls have been freshly painted, the chicken coop has been erected and the chickens are raised, and the kitchen has been cleaned up. We are just waiting for the big iron pot and firewood to arrive so we can start cooking.
What else is important right now?
Just growing vegetables in the yard!
So Yu Xiaoye borrowed a hoe and came back to dig the ground.
First, dig the ground and loosen the soil. Xu Ying said that she has been working with the women in the company to prepare vegetable seeds these days. Once the seeds arrive, they can plant vegetables.
Not only do they have to grow vegetables, they also have to grow more.
Why?
Because they have space to store vegetables, they can plant more and harvest fresh vegetables. If they can't finish eating them, they can take out some and store it in the space.
This way, we will have fresh vegetables to eat in winter.
Otherwise, the Great Northern Wilderness of that era did not have the advanced vegetable greenhouses like in later generations, where people could eat a variety of out-of-season vegetables.
In the 1970s, the variety of vegetables available in Northeast China in winter was very limited, with only cabbage, radish, potato, carrot and pumpkin.
Chinese cabbage is better, it can be stored for the whole winter, and it tastes sweet. As a northerner, I can’t get enough of it even if I eat it every day.
However, radishes will become rotten if left for a long time, and potatoes will sprout, which makes them not very delicious.
If they planted more vegetables in the summer, such as beans, eggplants, cucumbers, and tomatoes, and picked a few more, they could put them on the yacht. They didn't need too much, just about two or three hundred kilograms, which would be enough to last them the whole winter.
If you want to grow more vegetables, the vegetable garden in the yard is obviously not enough, and you have to open up a vegetable garden near your home.
As for the farm, there’s nothing special about it, except that there’s a lot of land!
As long as you don't go too far and don't occupy public arable land, no one will care if you open up some private plots. Every household has a private plot, and as long as you are willing to take the time to take care of it, basically no one will interfere.
Yu Xiaoye discussed with his father and planned to expand his own private plot of land.
But for now, let’s finish the work on this piece of land in the yard.
Yu Xiaoye was waving a hoe and digging the ground in the yard carefully. When he dug next to the kitchen, he suddenly dug a hole with the hoe. The ground suddenly seemed to collapse, and the soil on it fell down.
Yu Xiaoye was frightened and ran away dragging his hoe.
After running several steps, I suddenly remembered, hey, this seems to be a vegetable cellar?
By the way, almost every household in Northeast China has a vegetable cellar, as is also written in the book, but she had overlooked it before.
She turned back and looked at the hole. It really looked like a vegetable cellar, but she still didn't dare to get too close. She could only call her father:
"Dad, Dad, I think I dug out a vegetable cellar, come over and take a look!"
Yu Jiahui ran over when he heard the sound. When he saw a hole in the ground, his face lit up with joy.
"It really is a vegetable cellar. How come we didn't find it before?"
"I guess it was the wind and rain, plus the grass growing on top, that smoothed out the entrance over time, so we never found it. I think I walked over it before and didn't fall in. I'm really lucky."
Yu Jiahui walked to the vegetable cellar, and Yu Xiaoye followed carefully.
The father and daughter gathered at the entrance of the vegetable cellar and looked inside. There was a simple bamboo ladder extending to the bottom, but it was pitch black inside and they couldn't see anything clearly.
Yu Jiahui turned around and glanced at his daughter.
Yu Xiaoye guessed what her father meant, and leaned back timidly while waving her hands repeatedly:
"Dad, don't look at me. I don't dare go down there. There might be some strange animals in there, like rats or snakes. I don't dare go down there!"
Yu Jiahui lowered his head and looked into the vegetable cellar again:
"It's not that I'm afraid of rats or snakes, it's just this ladder. I'm worried that it won't be stable after a long time. Okay, we have to start working again and build the vegetable cellar."
The father and daughter squatted at the entrance of the vegetable cellar and listened for a while. Finally, Yu Xiaoye found a match, lit some hay and branches and threw them in, wanting to listen for any living creatures below.
But as soon as the lit branches fell in, the flames went out. It seemed that the area below was closed all year round and there was insufficient oxygen, so it was really impossible to go down.
It needs to be opened for another day or two to ventilate it.
But before going down, you have to bring the ladder up and check it.
The father and daughter worked together to drag the ladder up.
When he was dragged up, he was surprised.
Wow, this ladder is more than five meters high, which means the cellar is also five meters deep.
Perhaps only in the Northeast are there such deep vegetable cellars. In other places, the vegetable cellars of ordinary people are probably only two or three meters deep.
When Yu Jiahui was a child, he lived in the countryside. His family also had a cellar where they stored cabbage, sweet potatoes, and other vegetables in the winter. He remembered that only children could stand up straight in it, and adults could only bend over or squat.
But I guess even an adult can stand up straight in this vegetable cellar.
It seems that the family who lived here before really put a lot of thought into it. It would have taken a lot of manpower to dig such a deep vegetable cellar, and now they have found a loophole. Wow.
The father and daughter carried the ladder to the outside of the courtyard gate. Yu Jiahui checked each joint one by one to see if there was any looseness or rot. Bamboo ladders are supposed to be durable and can be repaired and used for ten or eight years without any problems. He hoped that this ladder would be as strong.
Yu Jiahui was checking the ladder when he heard another carriage coming. He looked up and saw that it was Lao Pu driving the carriage.
There seemed to be a pile of firewood and a pile of miscellaneous items behind the car.
Yu Jiahui laughed in his heart. Wow, it seems that Lao Pu really found the two brothers and bought firewood from them.
However, Yu Jiahui just pretended not to know and greeted with a smile:
"Lao Pu, where are you going?"
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