I still have some vegetable seedlings in my garden. If you don't mind, you can pull them up and plant them after work. They will grow for two or three months and curl up, so it won't delay the harvest."
Of course, the two of them didn't mind. Guard Dong said, "No, no, we are all educated young people. Neither of us has ever grown vegetables, and we don't know how to grow them. Can you please come over and give us some pointers when the time comes?"
Tong Yiya thought about it and realized that she was at home today and had a good relationship with the two people. They were all neighbors and she never knew when she would need their help in the future. So she nodded and agreed, "Okay, then you guys come and pull up the seedlings and I'll follow you."
"Okay, then we won't delay your work and will go back first," said Fu Shinian
"Okay, then take care." Tong Yiya didn't think of keeping the two of them for dinner because she hadn't even started cooking yet.
After the two men left, she went into her kitchen and started to cook her own lunch. After she was done, she ate in the kitchen. After cleaning up the dishes, she went to the pharmacy to get medicine.
She spent the whole afternoon preparing the medicine. When she was done, she looked at the watch on her wrist and saw that it was already 4:30 in the afternoon. She left the pharmacy and went to look through the herbs in the yard.
The summer sun was strong, and the herbs were almost 70% dry in one day. She turned them over, thinking that after drying them for another day tomorrow, they could be stored.
Just after turning over the herbs, Dong Weibing and Fu Shinian came over. This time, they brought a scoop to pick up the seedlings.
Tong Yiya was afraid that the two of them wouldn't know how to pull the vegetables out, and would damage the root system of the seedlings, making them difficult to survive, so she went over and taught them how to pull them out, and also how to distinguish which seedlings were which vegetables.
Otherwise, the two of them would get confused and it would be difficult to tell them apart. After teaching them, she washed her hands and went into the house to pour a bowl of water for each of them. Seeing that they were still busy, she said, "Why don't you two have a drink of water first? It's hot, and if you don't drink water for a long time, you'll easily get a heat stroke."
Guard Dong had been thirsty for a long time. When he heard Tong Yiya calling him, he stood up and walked over. He took the water and drank it in one gulp without hesitation. He put the bowl on the table beside him and went back to work.
Fu Shinian also stood up behind him and took the water. He thanked him before drinking the water, then put the bowl down and continued to pick the seedlings.
Tong Yiya didn't know how wide the vegetable patch in their yard was, but if she kept the seedlings she could only watch them bloom, so she simply asked them to pull them all out. If they couldn't finish planting them, she could just plant some in the corners of the yard. As long as they were fertilized and watered, it would not affect their growth.
It took the two of them half an hour to pull out all the seedlings, and Tong Yiya followed them to the next yard.
After entering the yard, Tong Yiya first went to see the two people turning the soil for the first time. Seeing that the depth of the soil was acceptable, she picked up the rake she brought and first taught them how to loosen the soil in the ground and then make ridges.
She only taught it once. After the two of them learned it, Fu Shinian brought her some cakes and poured a bowl of sugar water on the small table under the eaves, and asked her to sit there and direct the two of them.
She didn't refuse. She sat down and picked up the pastries on the table. She watched the two of them work and took a bite of the pastries from time to time.
When she saw that they had not done a good job, she would speak up. After the ridges were ready, she would get up and pick up a seedling. She would dig a hole in the ridge with her hands, put the seedling in it, then straighten the seedling with her hands and compact the soil around the roots of the seedling.
She planted one for the two of them to see, and then told them the spacing of the vegetables. After that, she watched the two of them actually plant one. Seeing that they were doing well, she went to wash her hands and went back to sit and continue watching.
The two of them worked quite quickly. Within an hour, they had planted the vegetable garden full of vegetables. There were still about twenty seedlings left, so Tong Yiya asked them to plant them in the corners of the wall.
Finally, she told them to water the plants, wait for a while, and apply organic fertilizer, and then she went back.
The two didn't know what farm manure was at first. Tong Yiya thought that they had just arrived and had not enjoyed the smell of farm manure all over the village during spring and winter, so she told them what farm manure was.
The two of them were starting to doubt their lives, but Tong Yiya didn't care anymore because it was getting dark and she had to go back to collect herbs.
In fact, she was reluctant to use farm manure at first, but the vegetables did not grow well without fertilizer.
After using farm manure, the whole yard was filled with a smell, so every time Tong Yiya used the fertilizer, she would go up the mountain early every day. After the smell dissipated a little, she would sprinkle a layer of firewood ash to cover it, and the smell would slowly disappear.
If it rains later, it may solve some problems, otherwise the smell will really affect your appetite.
As for Fu Shinian and the others, it took five minutes after Tong Yiya left for them to come to their senses. Thinking that the vegetables they ate were all grown with farm manure, they were both racking their minds to wonder whether they had washed the vegetables carefully before eating them.
In the end, the two had no choice but to accept it, mainly because Tong Yiya said that this vegetable, not only does it not grow well when it is fat, but it is also easily eaten by bugs.
The two men thought that the vegetables they grew would be for their own consumption and could be used by children and educated youth, so they, two grown men, didn't want to be pretentious.
But these vegetables cannot be fertilized now, so they need to be watered first. So the two of them started carrying water to water the vegetables.
After running a few times, Guard Dong was so tired that he stood up and panted and said, "It's too tiring to carry so much water at once. We should use something to collect the water for watering the vegetables in the future, otherwise it will be too difficult to carry."
"Okay, let's go ask the village chief tomorrow if there's a broken water tank. We can get one back and collect the dirty water to water the vegetables," said Fu Shinian.
"Okay, do you want to have dinner? I'm still a little nauseous and have no appetite," Guard Dong asked him.
"Eat, what's so disgusting about it? If we don't eat, how will we have the energy to work tomorrow? You'd better not be disgusted. I'll cook some cabbage for you with some animal oil. Who knows how delicious it will be for you to eat it," Fu Shinian said jokingly.
"Well, well, since I came to the countryside, I haven't had a meal. I'm afraid I'll faint while working the next day. It's too hard."
"Okay, if you still have the energy, go cook the rice first." Fu Shinian couldn't bear to see him like this, so he could only send someone to cook.
When Tong Yiya returned home, she washed her hands and brought the herbs back into the house. Then she watered her vegetable garden and went to the kitchen to cook dinner.
In the following few days, she went out to the mountain early every morning. During this period, the village was also turning the soil and planting cabbage and radishes. After they were planted, people from the commune would come to harvest them before winter. In this way, the villagers would have more income and would get more when the money was distributed at the end of the year.
Not long after planting these, the village will start the autumn harvest, and she will not have time to go up the mountain to dig herbs then, so she goes up the mountain every day these days. Even if the villagers can't find her and report to the team leader, the news will not reach her.
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