It is best to hire long-term workers as a family, and the family will be more motivated and efficient when they do things together.

It is good to raise chickens on fruit trees on the mountain bag, and this family only takes care of fruit trees and chickens, and does not need to do other work in the field.

If the wasteland is larger, she will invite three families to grow crops, and when the time comes, she will buy three cows and come back, and it will be easier to plant cattle. However, this matter of hiring a long-term worker is not something that can be done in a day or two, and she doesn't know the situation in the village, so she still has to ask the village chief Wang Gengtian to help them with these things.

Mei Liuer took Qu Ran back from a wasteland and the ginger syrup was divided, everyone went to work, and Mei Liuer took Qu Ran and Wang Liu back to the mountain together.

After another two days, Mei Liu'er's wasteland, including the hill, has been completely tidied up, the tree pit on the hill has been dug up, and now the fence is being built, and the house to be built for the long-term workers in the hill foot wall has also begun to break ground.

The three ponds in the wasteland have been filled with water, the roads and paths have been paved, and the wasteland has been organized into pieces that are convenient for planting.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the spring planting, Mei Liu'er sadly found that there are many seeds in this world!

There are no miles of mung beans and broad beans! If the soybeans hadn't been found in the mountains, they wouldn't have been.

There are no lotus root seeds, Mei Liuer inquired, and everyone said that they had never heard of it directly, I don't know what lotus root is!

It's a world where you need to 'do it yourself'!

That predecessor who traveled through it was so difficult that he didn't develop from the aspect of food, no matter how you say it, you are the emperor! Alas, it is estimated that this predecessor put all his energy into 'defending sovereignty and territorial expansion', and the manly man can eat what he can eat!

Mei Liu'er thought about it, the lotus root is easy to identify, so she drew the flowers and leaves of the lotus root, and drew a lotus picture for everyone to see, don't you say it, you really found it for her.

There is a large pond formed by mountains and rivers between Xiaowolf Village and Xiannan Village, this pond slowly developed into a small lake, I don't know that from that year this lake grew a very beautiful flower, everyone does not know what the name of this flower is, people named it 'Lake Flower' by themselves, because it grows in the lake.

And because I didn't know what this flower was for, no one picked it, and the lake flowers slowly flourished, and now the whole lake is going to be full.

Mei Liu'er almost sighed when she found out, it's really a tyrannical thing, how can such a good thing not know!

Sighing and sighing, Mei Liu'er decided to dig it back immediately, this thing can be dug back to be at ease!

But this lake is between Little Wolf Village and Xiannan Village, and I don't know if it is counted as that village, so Mei Liuer went to ask the village chief Wang Gengtian.

Wang Gengtian told her, "This lake is not from that village, so if you want it, you can just dig it."

Mei Liu'er thought about it and felt that this was not good, it was easy to cause trouble, no one knew what this thing was before, but it will be different in the future, she is ready to use this thing to make money, if she makes money at that time, it is inevitable that someone will have hot eyes, so she said to Wang Gengtian, "Uncle, let's go to Xiannan Village and talk to their village chief first, when the time comes, let us dig directly or what, we can do things well, I am mainly afraid that someone will make trouble in the future."

Wang Gengtian thought about it right, and went to Xiannan Village to find the village chief of Xiannan Village that day, the two villages were not far away and only two miles away, and Wang Gengtian returned to the village in the evening, and told Mei Liuer that he had already negotiated with the village chief of Xiannan Village, and the 'lake flower' in the lake would be dug by the two villages together, and then the two villages would be divided equally after digging.

Mei Liu'er did not have any comments on this, believing that Wang Gengtian, the village head, was better than her in this kind of 'cooperative relationship' in the day-to-day political activities between villages.

On the day when the two villages dug lotus root together, the surrounding of the mountain lake that no one cared about before was lively, and people who didn't know would definitely think what this was for, why so many people.

After the lotus root was dug out, Mei Liuer said to the people of the two villages that after the lotus root was distributed to each family, what she wanted to sell could be sold directly to her, and she gave fifteen yuan a catty, but she still advised everyone not to sell it all, you can leave a little to plant your own seeds, and when the time comes, she will also accept the lotus root that is planted, or fifteen yuan a catty, and she will collect lotus leaves and lotus flowers.

The lotus leaf is ten pennies a penny, but this lotus leaf is a big lotus leaf to be opened, but it is not necessary to wither the yellow lotus leaf that has just opened.

She also harvested the lotus pods that grew after flowering, three fresh lotus pods cost ten yuan, fresh lotus seed rice cost thirty yuan a catty, and dried lotus seed rice cost fifty yuan a catty.

After listening to Mei Liu'er's words, most people still left a seed and prepared to go home and plant some by themselves, which is expensive and profitable!

Someone asked Mei Liuer how to grow this thing.

Mei Liu'er told them that this lotus root is not difficult to plant, dig a shallow pond and fill it with water, and directly plant the lotus root seeds, and the best time to plant is from mid-March to mid-April.

Mei Liu'er told them that this lotus root is just a root, and the name of this thing is lotus, also called lotus flower, but it is not called lake flower, and everyone will call it lotus in the future.

She and Wang Gengtian and Zhang Youfu, the village head of Xiannan Village, said that the lake would be taken care of by the two villages, and the income would be divided between the two villages, so when digging in the lake, Mei Liuer asked the diggers not to dig all of them, but to keep some to do in it.

After digging Mei Liuer's lotus root seeds, she also bought them, and she taught the people in the two villages how to eat a few lotus roots.

The simplest is glutinous rice lotus, wash and peel the lotus root, then remove the lotus root knots at both ends of the lotus, pour the washed glutinous rice into the hollow in the middle of the lotus, and then put it directly in the pot to cook, and the boiled glutinous rice lotus root can be eaten directly.

Then it is the lotus root stewed pork ribs, wash the lotus root and slice it for later use, wash the pork ribs and put them in boiling water to scald the blood foam and take them out, rinse them well, and then put the lotus root and the pork ribs into the pot together, add water to the pork ribs lotus root, boil over high heat, put in ginger, there was originally cooking wine, but if there is no cooking wine, forget it, and then simmer for about an hour on low heat, add an appropriate amount of salt, and sprinkle with minced green onions.

Of course, lotus root pork rib soup is not something that everyone can afford, Mi Mei Liuer taught a common home-style way to eat 'fried lotus root slices', the lotus root slices, you can first blanch it with boiling water and then drain it with cold water, or you can fry it directly, after the lotus root slices are cut, add oil to the pot and heat it, stir-fry the lotus root slices, sauerkraut (can also be diced red pepper) and salt, and after it is cooked, it will become a pot, or you can sprinkle some green onions, it depends on your personal hobby.

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