On a sweltering summer day, a cool air rises from the ground. This unique, cold air emanating from the lower layers of the earth gave Lin Zeng a familiar feeling.

His hometown is in the county seat of Southwest China. His father's hometown was a remote village, a small village that lived on potatoes and corn, with a dry climate and a cellar where almost every household had a cellar to store food.

In the summer, the feeling of walking into the cellar is this cool and comfortable. Of course, the ventilation of the cellars in the countryside is not good, and with it comes a smell of pedantic.

Jiang Hua leaned over and squatted, her hand reached into the entrance of the cellar, only to hear a crisp sound of "pop", and the dark cellar instantly brightened.

Lin Zeng saw that a staircase about a meter wide led to the cellar.

Jiang Hua led the way in front and walked down the stairs, and Lin Zeng had a feeling of opening his eyes.

Her cellar was different from the humble country cellar he had seen. The staircase and floor walls of the cellar are paved with beige tiles, and when the lights are on, the space looks particularly comfortable.

As the lights turn on, there are also indoor vents, and the sound of "buzzing" fan blades turning is not disturbing.

From the top of the staircase, you can see the entire cellar space, and you can see neat rows of wooden shelves. Some wooden shelves have all kinds of bottles, glass bottles, clay jars, ceramic jars, and wooden boxes, which are neatly arranged and clearly classified. Some of the wooden shelves are empty and empty.

Walking down the stairs, Lin Zeng found that there were still a bunch of sweet potatoes stored on the ground in the corner of the cellar.

Qinghe City is located in the southeast of China, the climate is warm and humid, few people grow potatoes, but sweet potatoes are grown in almost every farmer's household. In addition to rice flour, it is the main food that is eaten more often.

Jiang Hua walked lightly and approached a shelf with rows of glass jars. The light was bright, and Lin Zeng's gaze, following her footsteps, was fixed on the amber glass jar.

The transparent and colorless glass jar, filled with viscous honey, has not yet approached, and a unique sweet fragrance of honey fills the nasal cavity, making people can't help but take a deep breath and inhale this tempting taste into the heart and lungs.

Jiang Hua tiptoed slightly and reached out to remove the three smaller glass jars from the top of the shelf. The jars were empty, presumably the ones she used to divide the honey.

Jiang Hua walked to the corner of the cellar, where there was a wooden square table with an electronic scale.

Jiang Hua put an empty bottle on the scale, turned his head and said to Lin Zeng: "On the shelf on your left, the jars on the first layer are winter honey, the third layer is lychee honey, and on the shelf on the right, the four jars with milky white color are loquat honey." The choice is yours. I'll weigh it for you when you've chosen. ”

Lin Zeng admired the honey with different colors in the glass jar, and sure enough, as Jiang Hua said, each jar of honey is slightly different, the color is dark, how much crystallization, no jar of honey is completely similar. Lin Zeng glanced at the shelf, pointed to a bottle on the shelf that only contained half a jar of honey, and said, "That's it, do you need my help to move it over?"

"Okay, thank you!" Jiang Hua took out a long spoon from the cabinet next to the wall.

Half a jar of honey was not heavy, and Lin had placed it on a wooden table. The jar has a label indicating the time and the ground, and the font is clean and upright. From the label, it is known that this is lychee honey harvested in Shaxi last year.

Jiang Hua smiled and thanked him, opened the lid of the glass jar, and scooped out the honey from the jar with a long spoon. The honey trickled slowly from the long spoon, and Jiang Hua's movements paused slightly, and then quickly shifted the spoon over the empty glass jar. The viscous honey flows into the glass bottle.

Lin Zeng searched for the label and moved the other two kinds of honey out of the shelf and placed them on the wooden table.

Jiang Hua filled the honey into cans one spoonful after another, and Lin Zeng looked at the environment of the cellar and said with great interest, "Can I visit your cellar?" ”

"Yes," Jiang Hua said with a smile on his lips, "Thank you for your appreciation, I feel very honored." I can brag cheekily to you that this cellar is a masterpiece that I am proud of. In addition to digging pits, laying bricks and pouring cement, I decorate and arrange everything else. Including the water and electricity of the cellar, tile tiling, ventilation port installation, and wooden shelves are also completed by me. ”

Lin Zeng listened to Jiang Hua's proud words, and his eyes suddenly became a little blank. What did he hear?

This girl, who seemed to be a head shorter than him, could do something that a man couldn't do.

Keeping bees, doing carpentry, tiling, working as an electrician......

Lin Zeng felt that as soon as this girl came out, 90% of the boys could be ashamed.

A girl who is tougher than a man, on the outskirts of the city, runs an artistic farm.

"You did these shelves alone?" Lin Zeng asked in surprise. The six-layer wooden frame is a natural wood color, varnished, and looks warm and bright, and every corner is polished extremely well.

"yes, this cellar took me two whole months. Jiang Hua packed a jar of honey and easily carried the lychee honey back to the shelf.

Lin once walked between the wooden shelves and found that there were many interesting things stored on the shelves.

It seems that Jiang Hua is a very meticulous person. She labeled every jar, every bag, every box. Mark the year, month, and day, and what's inside.

This year's mulberry wine.

Last year's wine.

Orange wine from last winter.

Honey of various vintages.

Last year's sweet potato vermicelli.

Last month's ketchup.

Pineapple sauce from two months ago.

Last year air-dried vacuum-packed plate duck, sausage.

……

Looking at it, Lin Zeng felt that in this cellar, even if he was isolated from the world for two months, he would not starve to death, and maybe he could grow a few catties of meat.

"You've got a lot of reserves here. Lin Zeng couldn't help but sigh. He thought of his nursery and suddenly felt that it was a good choice to have such a cellar.

Unfortunately, he does not own the current nursery, and although he has the right to use it, he cannot make drastic renovations.

Jiang Hua's farm made him think a little more, and the nursery, which usually looked very large, became narrow. A fervent hope came over him that he wanted to have a land that was entirely his own. Able to run a farm of their own.

With a breeder's heritage, he can build a better place than this girl's farm.

"It's my hobby. Jiang Hua quickly filled the three jars of honey. Pull out a small drawer from the side of the table, take out an eco-friendly bag, and put three jars of honey into the bag, "The output of the farm is often very rich, vegetables and fruits, all in season, if you can't eat them, they will spoil." It is better to process them into foods that can last for a longer period of time. Mulberries and strawberries will rot if you don't finish eating, but they can be kept for a long time when made into fruit wine and jam. ”

Lin Zeng nodded approvingly, he thought of the vegetable friends in the forum who had planted seven or eight vine red jade tomatoes at home in one go.

In the peak fruit period, you can harvest four or five catties of tomatoes every day, if you eat tomatoes at once, even eat for three months, it is estimated that you will smell the color of tomatoes.

That's a good idea. Let the fruits of planting be put to good use.

Jiang Hua carried the environmental protection bag and walked towards Lin Zeng. She took a delicate glass jar the size of a palm from the shelf.

The glass jar contains something like a rose-colored flower.

"This is my own pickled roselle preserves, using only honey, for you to taste. She put the glass jar of roselle candied fruit into the eco-friendly bag, winked playfully, and said with a smile, "It's a giveaway." ”