Chapter 64: Preserving the Potatoes

I went back to my mother's house with Aunt Liu, and harvested a number of red envelopes, all of which were given by Miao's uncle, and a few red envelopes wrapped with five copper plates were wrapped by those cousins and sisters-in-law who became relatives, Ah Miao felt that he had a huge sum of money in an instant, and the five uncles each gave half a cent of silver (about fifty copper plates), the eldest uncle did not give it, plus five cousins gave, Ah Miao calculated that she probably had about three hundred copper coins, and Ah Miao originally wanted to rely on this huge amount of money to reach the peak of her life, Unexpectedly, the money was taken away by Aunt Liu before she could cover the heat in her hand, and only a fraction was left for her - five copper plates, that's right, five copper plates, Ah Miao wanted to cry without tears, and then the summary of the world was not wrong at all, one of the lies told by her parents in those years was 'red envelopes for your parents, and they were all saved for you.' Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info' Aunt Liu said that 'you have so much money in your child's family is easy to lose, let your mother here first, and then your mother will return it to you.' ’。

Although five copper plates are also a lot of money for Ah Miao, who didn't have a penny before, but after having such a large amount of money, Ah Miao always feels that five copper plates are too little, especially when she sees the envious expression of the little fat man, she relented for a while After dividing the two copper plates of the little fat man, Ah Miao looked at the three copper plates lined up in front of him, how to think how he felt how he was so easy to deceive, what Aunt Liu said he believed it, and now when he asked Aunt Liu to ask, Aunt Liu would tell her casually:" Didn't I give you five copper plates? "Thinking about Ah Miao wants to perform the sadness at a forty-five degree angle.

However, there are also things that make Ah Miao happy, her potatoes are finally ripe and falling.

On a sunny evening, Ah Miao used a small hoe specially given to her by Liu Jizong to dig up the potatoes that were waving in the wind, and sure enough, she lived up to Ah Miao's expectations, and harvested a total of two larger potatoes and four or five small potatoes, which was much better than Ah Miao's expectations. Aunt Liu saw that Ah Miao dug up the potato seedlings and was still thinking, this child finally figured it out, before the flowers fell off and was reluctant to pick up the flower seedlings, since the child likes flowers so much, when the time comes, let the head of the house find a flower similar to this one.

The harvested potatoes are to be used to keep the seeds, to keep them well, and then plant them in August and September, and then grow more potatoes in November, but now these dug potatoes are stumped by how to preserve them, and Miao's previous potato observation diary is only over when the potatoes are cultivated, she knows several ways to preserve potatoes, but in her previous life, she has not tried what kind of preservation is the most effective, if the potatoes are not well preserved now, they will rot before they can be planted, Then her potato plan will be in vain.

Miao tried to recall what the old uncle who taught her to grow potatoes said at that time, potatoes are easy to rot when they are hot, and they can get frostbite when they are cold, so temperature is very important. Ah Miao originally played the idea of the cellar behind Liu's house, the days are getting hot day by day, the potatoes have been exposed to high temperature and are easy to rot, and the cellar Liu has a low temperature, which is suitable for storage, but then I thought of the problem of ventilation, although the temperature in the cellar is low, but it is not very ventilated, once the ventilation is poor, it will affect the normal breathing of the tubers, and affect the emergence rate of the tubers in the future, Ah Miao can only give up the cellar, which is a good storage place. It's been a few days of hard work, and Miao is heartbroken about how to store potatoes.

In the end, Ah Miao still referred to the storage of taro, first dried the potatoes outside for a few days, and when the surface of the potatoes was dry and puffy, Ah Miao asked Aunt Liu for a broken basket that he didn't want, and pestered Liu Jizong to repair the basket a little better, so that it would not fall apart, and then spread a thick layer of straw under the basket, and then put the dried potatoes on the straw, and then spread another layer of straw on top of the potatoes, cover it with soil, and put it in the utility room. To make the bottom of the basket hang in the air, Ah Miao specially ran outside and picked two large stones of similar size, and put the basket on top of the stones, and the basket was sandwiched by two stones, and the bottom could be exposed. In addition to the cellar, the utility room of the Liu family is the coolest place, once Aunt Liu took the flat shoulder out of the utility room when Ah Miao passed by, and found that the inside was much cooler than the outside, and the utility room is better than the cellar is that the utility room has a window, which is ventilated.

Ah Miao can't hide such a big move from Aunt Liu, so she reported to Aunt Liu early in the morning, and the reason is: she likes this flower very much, and when she digs up the flower, she sees that there are seeds in the ground, and maybe they can bloom again if they are planted in the future, so she should keep the seeds of the flower well and plant them next year. Aunt Liu was so crying and laughing by Ah Miao, she didn't expect the flowers sent by Ah Yuan, the seeds did not grow in the flowers but grew in the soil, but looking at Ah Miao's high spirits, Aunt Liu was not good at dampening Ah Miao's enthusiasm, so she let Ah Miao go, as for why the seeds of the 'flower' were stored like this, it was better to explain, Ah Miao said to Aunt Liu: "Sister Qian said that his taro is put like this." I think this flower grows in the mud like taro, so it should be put in the same way as taro. Aunt Liu was shocked by Miao's 'crooked reasoning', she didn't expect Miao to observe so carefully, anyway, Miao likes it, she can do whatever she wants, so Aunt Liu not only did not stop Miao's strange behavior, but provided a lot of convenience to Miao.

Hiding the potatoes, a big thing in my heart, Ah Miao entered a state of nothing to do at home, followed behind Aunt Liu's ass every day, Aunt Liu saw that she was idle at home every day, so she planned to let her learn embroidery with Sister-in-law Liu, learn the basic stitching first, Aunt Liu also smiled and encouraged her: "Our Ah Miao is so powerful, this year my father and my grandfather are looking forward to Ah Miao's socks." ”

Miao was very interested in embroidery in his previous life, but it is one thing to be interested, and it is another thing to really do it, Miao embroidered cross-stitch in his previous life, it was two dogs, and it was embroidered for a summer vacation, and when he bought it, he was ambitious to think that it was two puppies, and it was completed in a week, but he didn't expect to look at such a small painting, embroidered so troublesomely, there are dozens of colors of light, and only a small piece was embroidered after a few hours, which is too much of a test of patience. Now Aunt Liu wants her to learn embroidery from Sister-in-law Liu, she resists first in her heart, and when she sees Sister-in-law Liu putting things out to teach her to recognize, she is even more frightened, and she is unwilling to learn.

Sister-in-law Liu comforted her: "I didn't let you learn this, I still can't walk, I want to run, sister-in-law will teach you flat needles first, come here, practice with this cloth first." As he spoke, he handed Ah Miao a piece of snow-white cotton cloth, which was not big, and it should be leftovers. So Ah Miao started his embroidery career, Ah Miao as an adult, a little better than a real child is that since he did it, he didn't say to give up, even if he didn't like embroidery in his heart, Ah Miao still learned very seriously.

Sister-in-law Liu likes Ah Miao's learning attitude very much, and also teaches hard, and when she starts calling in the summer, Ah Miao has been able to make a pair of socks, Aunt Liu has checked, and the stitches are still a little immature, but considering that Ah Miao is only four or five years old to be able to do this, it is already very powerful, so she praised Ah Miao in front of her family.