Chapter 67: Growing Vegetables

It is not difficult to say that it is difficult to dig a ditch, but it is not so fast to say that it is not fast, but Li Zhu and his wife do it. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Deng dug for a while, and the water boiled, and Deng poured the water into the wooden bowl he had brought, put out the fire with sand, and covered the fire with grass, leaving the fire. Li Zhu went to the stream to see the bamboo basket.

Good luck! There's a fish in there. Li Zhu hurriedly scooped it up, killed the fish, washed it and put it in the pot to cook, there was nothing seasoning, Deng only brought a little salt, and Deng simmered it over low heat. After a while, there was a burst of fish-specific aroma from the small pot, which attracted Li Hai's brother and his wife to look at it from time to time. Brother Li Hai took the opportunity to drink the water in the wooden bowl, looked at the fish soup, looked at the fire, and added a handful of grass.

At noon, Deng added salt to the fish soup, and each person filled a wooden bowl, Li Zhu took out the steamed buns, scalded them in the fish soup, and ate them with the fish soup. Brother Li Hai followed Li Zhu's example to eat and drink. The family eats a fish except for Hamahama. This fish soup is extremely sweet, and Hamahama couldn't stop drinking more than half a bowl, and his stomach was round when he drank it.

Deng Shi saw that Binbin was drinking happily, and said happily: "Look, this kid is drinking so happily." Li Zhu nodded happily. Deng said: "Zhu, don't dig in the afternoon, just I'll get it, you can read the book." Li Zhu thought that he was growing his own food anyway, so he was not in a hurry, so he nodded and agreed.

After Deng washed the small pot, Li Zhu used this pot instead of a small bucket of goat's milk. Li Zhu squeezed a small pot and heated it, Li Zhu found that it was not so fishy, Li Zhu was happy, and the family used this as water to drink in the afternoon.

Li Zhu put Hamahama on his feet and slid down his calves on his thighs, a bit like our modern slides. Hamahama had a lot of fun. Li Zhu was reading a book.

Li Zhu looked at Deng's labor, and had mixed feelings in his heart, raising people's daughters, now for himself, for this family, for firewood, rice, oil and salt, he is tired of hoeing the vegetable field himself. Li Zhu took a look at it, then picked up the hoe and went to the ground to help. Deng Shi hurriedly stopped and said, "Zhu, you just read the book, don't do this." Li Zhu took Deng's hand, touched the cocoon in his hand, and said, "I'll help open the ground, and you will take care of it in the future." You can't do it alone, it's getting colder and colder, and you won't be able to grow any more vegetables. Deng thought for a moment, nodded and agreed.

The two of them worked together to do only half of the day, and when it got dark, they went home with the children and the animals as they had come. Li Zhu's family brought the same thing to work in their own mountains every day, and if they couldn't catch fish, they would send steamed buns with hot water.

Li Zhu and Deng spent four days enclosing the vegetable field. After digging the ditches on the four sides, Li Zhuyi set fire to the grass in the middle. Because the ditch was dug deep, the fire burned in the ditch and went out when there was nothing left. Li Hongshen left all the dung of hundreds of chickens of Li Zhu's family, and when he heard that Li Zhu's family was going to open a vegetable field, he had already sent it to Li Zhu's family. Li Zhu moved the dung of the chickens, cows, sheep, and birds from the house, and buried them in the soil with the ashes of the plants and trees when he turned the ground. Deng and Li Zhu went through the columns one by one, and soaked the ground for three or two days before Deng went down to the ground to plant vegetables, and this time he said that he would not let Li Zhu go down to the ground to help.

Deng's row by row, each dish is a row, if not enough in a row, plant green onions to make up. Hamahama has been holding daffodil bulbs for the past few days, and when he saw Deng planting vegetables, Hamahama moved his hands and feet, and often probed his body underground, insisting on going to the ground. It hadn't rained for the past few days, so Li Zhu put Binbin underground and let her play by herself.

Hamahama touched the soil with a bulb and pulled Li Zhu's pants. Li Zhuyi smiled when he saw it, "Binbin wants to plant flowers?" Binbin was afraid of scaring Li Zhu, so he didn't nod, just pulling Li Zhu and touching the soil. Li Zhu dug a hole in the corner of the vegetable patch, and said to Binbin with a smile: "Just put it down." Hamahama put down the bulb, Li Zhu wanted to cover the soil, Hamahama held the bulb with his little hand, and blocked the soil to cover the bulb. Li Zhu was afraid of hurting Binbin, and with the mentality that this thing was to let Binbin play, he didn't force it, and said with a smile: "Okay, if we don't cover the soil, we won't cover the soil, okay, let's go over and play." Hamahama surrounded the bulb, did not go, deflated his mouth, made a spit motion, and protected it again. Li Zhu said in surprise: "It's watering." When Hamahama heard this, he smiled, his father's comprehension is still good.

Li Zhu looked at Binbin with a look of surprise, but he was more happy, his own child was smart, and he was unhappy to be a father and mother. Li Zhu hurriedly scooped up some water and poured it down a little, Binbin moved his hands and feet, knocked down the water, and poured it into the stem, Binbin saw that the water flowed into the soil, his face was black, and he protected the bulb with his hand, refusing to leave. Li Zhu thought that Binbin was going to water and play, so he loaded another spoonful of water, and when Binbin saw it, he threw the bulb down, put it in the spoon, and saw the bulb floating, and clapped his hands and laughed. As soon as Li Zhu saw it, he understood, forcibly picked up Binbin, went to the stream, dug a small hole, the stream water could flow in, and put the bulb in. Brother Li Hai heard Binbin's smile, stopped practicing calligraphy, came over to see, Li Tao looked interesting, and pulled Li Bo to bring Deng over a few gourd-like seeds. Li Zhu played for a while before starting to read again. Li Zhu read the book for a few days, finished reading the "Analects" in the four books, and wrote them all down in combination with Deng Caixuan's annotations. Li Zhu thought of the Four Books and Five Classics, and he had finished reading one of them, and he was in a good mood, so he read the Analects of Li Hai. Read while pointing to the words. Li Zhujiao is the same as Deng's, he reads it once, Li Hai reads it again, and Li Hai reads it himself. Let Li Haimo recite it again. Binbin looked surprised, looking at Li Zhu's natural look, Binbin thought to himself that with his father's qualifications, not to mention lifting people, even Jinshi is also in the bag.

After a day of nothing, Li Zhu changed "Mencius" to see it on the second day. He also did not forget to teach Li Hai the Analects. He asked Lehi to memorize the passages he had taught yesterday, to tell Lehi his understanding of the passages, and to teach new passages.

Deng is obviously more experienced in planting, and he finished planting in a week. Usually just fertilizing and watering, the stream is next to it, these are very simple. Deng is busy with vegetable fields, mowing grass, raising more livestock at home, and needing more grass for winter than ordinary people. Tang arranged the time well, watering and mowing the grass in the morning, and sewing strips of cloth after eating steamed buns. Deng wanted to use this strip of cloth as a curtain, and the dirty cloth could also be tailored. She wanted to swap it out.

At the end of October, most of the fish caught were fingertip sizes, and Li Zhu imitated the small pit dug for Binbin, leading a big pit out, and the stream water was injected, and Li Zhu blocked the water with a board and poured the small fish in. Binbin looked at the clapping and laughed, his father's ability to draw inferences is still relatively strong.