Chapter 021: Running Henan Cut
The weather is still sunny and it's really hot on dog days. The villagers are very happy, the weather is good in the threshing month, and it is good to work in the sun. It's just that Hong Yan is a little worried, this year's autumn drought and next year's spring drought, most of the time. With the exception of a few places, winter wheat grains have not been harvested and vegetables cannot be cultivated. It is impossible to plant seeds in the spring, and it is difficult to plant rice in the summer. Not only does the green and yellow not pass over, but even the seedlings will be difficult to see.
Life needs to go on. Without the welfare of rebirth, Hongyan would be powerless in the face of the coming drought. At most, at this stage, digging wild vegetables, catching fish and shrimp, picking rice ears, picking sweet potatoes, etc., the best result is to be able to starve less, but he may still not be able to grasp his sister's future. "Fortunately, God treats me well!" Hong Yan expressed his heartfelt gratitude.
The hemp harrier was released after being raised in the fairy garden for a few days, which did not have much practical significance. The greens and kohlrabi in the fairy garden have been dug up and stacked on one side, leaving only a few flowering and fruiting plants for seeding. The two thin half-sized green pigs, although they feed on green vegetables every day, completely changed their body shape after half a month. The meat is smooth and fat, Li Yun couldn't help but be overjoyed, her mouth couldn't close, and she wondered if she would move the two pigs into a circle and buy two little piglets back.
The carob (cowpea) at home is a short, red-skinned bean that generally tastes better the older you get, and children prefer to eat beans. In addition to the normal picking and frying of green beans, the others are kept for the old and peeled rice. In addition, I planted a kind of white green beans, and the beans and rice after peeling off the skin are snow-white, which is very beautiful. Not suitable for stir-frying. At the beginning, I just thought of a variety of points, and I sowed any seed. As a result, they are all squeezed into the same time period, and of course they can't be eaten. A handful can be picked every day, Hong Yan picks it out, and his mother gives it to his grandmother. If only there were beans as long as a ruler in the previous life.
"Are you looking for better vegetables in other places?" Hong Yan touched his chin and groaned.
Both pumpkins and winter melons grow better than the outside world, and Hong Yan has beaten the forked vines, and there is no limit to the number of fruits. However, the melons that bear fruit on the vine are very beautiful from large to small. The largest pumpkin is already the size of a rice sieve, that is, about 60 cm in diameter, and the skin begins to turn yellow, and each petal is quite distinct. When Hong Yan looked at this pumpkin, he was sweet and sweet. Winter melon is also more than 40 centimeters long and about 20 centimeters in diameter. Fortunately, there were not many seedlings at that time, and there were more than 20 pumpkins and winter melons, and it was estimated that 400 could be harvested in the end.
Hong Yan is not good at watermelon planting, anyway, he has to plant pumpkins and knock out some of the branches. However, in my previous life, I heard melon farmers say that only one melon is left for each plant. However, after seeing the growth of pumpkins and winter melons, there are still three left on each vine. The huge watermelon is exposed between the leaves, and the blue and black stripes and the melon frost on the surface are very attractive. Carefully identify that the false roots under the melon vine have been rolled and withered, and the umbilicus is sunken. The watermelon is ripe!
I picked a watermelon, checked it, and estimated that it was twenty catties. Pinch off a pumpkin leaf and spread it on the ground, pat it lightly, and the watermelon will break. It is indeed ripe, and the red black boy is juicy, and he puts it in his mouth to taste: "The taste is really good, crisp, fragrant, and sweet to the heart!" It tastes better than the best I've ever eaten in my previous life. Nodding, the only regret is that the melon skin is thicker. Eat a breath first, and then talk about it.
The earliest rape pods were already 10 cm long, and the top ones were still flowering. At the beginning, there were not many seeds, and almost an acre was sparsely planted, and due to the fertility and sufficient water, the rape grew quite well. The bees collected flowers to make honey, and the rape nectar shaken down by Hongyan was stored in two crockpots, more than 20 catties.
The seven-star pepper is red and green, and the stars go straight to the sky, which is very good-looking. Clusters of red and green peppers are very conspicuous among the sparse leaves. The seven-star pepper was found by home, and the horn pepper was exchanged by Mr. Hong Xiaofang. A few days ago, I picked a small pot of the most tender horn peppers that had just bloomed, cut them into small pieces, and then poured them into a hot pan and added a lot of salt. The spatula holds the tender pepper at the bottom of the pot, without adding any seasoning, the water vapor of the tender pepper is dry, the salt at the bottom of the pot is white, slightly stir-fried, and served out, and a plate of farmer's salt-baked tender peppers is out of the pot. The aroma hit people, Hong Yan, who was in charge, couldn't stop his saliva, and the ancestor who burned the pot also praised the fragrance. As a result, this dish was the most popular at noon, and even Xiao Zheng and Rong Rong were clamoring to eat it. Of course, the pepper itself is not too spicy, and after salt baking, it will not be spicy. Rao is like this, Hong Yan just tasted chopsticks and didn't eat more.
Rice, wheat, and others are also blooming and scattering seeds, and they are filling the grain. In a few days, it will be ripe and harvested, and Hong Yan is still worried about how to harvest and dry. The bean seeds and peanuts that my father harvested at the end were not planted for a long time, but they were growing well, so I didn't have to worry about whether there would be a good harvest. The only fruit tree, five apricot trees, each more than one person tall, has not yet begun to bear fruit.
Hong Yan made a braised eel, and the second uncle who ate the taste went to fish it after three days and two ends of work. Seasoned with chives and garlic from Xianyuan, the more you eat, the more delicious it is. So after catching the production team, they went to the outer team, and then went to other teams. After catching too much, Hong Yan had to pick a few uninjured and vigorous yellow eels every time and put them into the fairy garden to raise. Now there are about 20 large yellow eels. When a small filamentous eel appeared, he moved the big eel to a pond. It is said that large eels feed on small eels. Anyway, eels are also vegetarians, and there are more and more things produced in the space, and it is much easier to feed.
After inspecting his territory, Hong Yanxin was very comfortable. Then the smashed watermelon was thrown into the pig trough, and the two and a half large green pigs immediately got up to nibble on them, squeezing each other and making threatening sounds.
woke up Xiao Feng and the others, washed his face and came to his senses. Xiao Zheng and Rong Rong are no longer like at the beginning, and they have to cry for a while after taking a nap. Now when I wake up, I will have melons and fruits after washing my face. There is something to eat and something to look forward to, so after washing his face, the third child looks at the eldest brother.
Big brother doesn't have a cucumber in his hand! Three pairs of eyes looked around. So what is it? Xiao Zheng and Rong Rong looked at the blue and black round things on the cutting board with wide eyes, and they didn't know each other. Not cucumbers, they were disappointed! I haven't seen it for two children, even if I tasted it last year, it's still melon. In the past two years, there has been no TV to watch real objects, and there is no color pictorial preschool education, and there are too many things that 3-year-old children don't know. However, Xiao Feng's eyes lit up, and he ran to the watermelon and spun around, and then lay on it and sniffed it hard?
"Cauldron, what's the second pot for?" Xiao Zheng didn't know watermelon, but the second brother's behavior was a little abnormal.
"Cauldron, what's that? To eat or not to eat? "The little girl is very concerned about whether she can eat something.
Xiao Feng raised his head and said proudly: "I recognize, it's watermelon, it's delicious." ”
"Xiba, Xiao Zheng wants to eat Xiba!" "Rongrong wants to eat too!" The two children always called the cucumber Huangba, and this watermelon became Xiba.
"Okay, Xiao Feng go and call Zuzu! We eat watermelon. Hong Yan instructed Xiaofeng to run errands.
In the past, Hong Jianguo always asked him to deliver cigarettes to his grandfather or his cousin in the same yard. Later, as soon as Hong Yan heard his father shouting at him to do such a boring thing, he handed over the glorious task to Xiao Feng, and occasionally Xiao Zheng ran around.
When the ancestor walked to the back door with his little feet, Hong Yan had already cut the watermelon. Leave half of it first and cover with a vegetable basket. A quarter has been cut into a fan, and Xiao Feng, Xiao Zheng and Rong Rong gnawed it one by one. After Xiao Feng called Old Ancestor, he ran back without waiting for her, very eager.
Looking at the watermelon juice that flowed down from Sanxiao, the ancestor pulled up the corner of his clothes to wipe it. "Zuzu, leave them alone. Rub it together after eating, you eat first! Hong Yan stuffed a piece in the ancestor's hand and picked the seeds.
"This watermelon is good!" The ancestor smelled it, took another bite, and savored it: "It's sweet to the heart!" ”
Three small nibbles on watermelon, very fast. gnawed on the one in his hand, but his eyes looked at the cutting board, and his eyes were very greedy. Hong Yan was distressed when he saw it. He doesn't remember when he ate watermelon in his previous life, but it should be more than eight years, and when he bought a watermelon, he finally gnawed off a layer of white flesh from the skin of the melon.
The ancestor had a shallow stomach, so he only ate one piece and didn't want it. Xiao Feng barely ate four pieces, and Xiao Zheng also ate three pieces, and Rong Rong couldn't eat any more with a burp before he finished eating three pieces.
"Big brother, don't you want to eat?" Xiao Feng threw down the melon skin and asked. "Let's eat it in a cauldron!" Rong Rong also said.
"Haha, I just remembered that my eldest brother didn't eat it?!" Hong Yan quipped. Old Ancestor also smiled. "Full?" Hong Yan asked with a smile. "Uh-huh, well-fed!" Three little exaggerated strokes of the belly.
The ancestor never asked about the origin of the things in Hong Yan's house, he would eat something if he gave it, and he would not ask if he didn't give it. Wash Sanxiao's face again, wipe his body, and put on his clothes. Hong Yan packed up the melon peel and seeds and poured them into the pig trough, then closed the door, left a message for the ancestor, and went out.
The four of them walked leisurely on the ridge that exuded heat, and what made Hong Yan have a headache was that Rongrong saw the people in the team and said, "Xiba is delicious!" When he went out, Hong Yan told them not to talk nonsense, children, there are new clothes to wear and new toys to show off. As for the delicious things that have been eaten, they will naturally show off. Actually, watermelons are too rare.
What to eat is not terrible, the key is that there is no planting at home, and the parents are not rushing to buy it, which will inevitably arouse people's suspicion and cause unnecessary trouble. Some people responded: "Is it delicious?" Would you like to give me a taste? Some people laughed and left, there was no need to be like a child.
"There's a kid crying?" Hong Yan distracted them. "I hear you, over there." Xiao Feng pointed to the silkworm house. Sure enough, Xiao Zheng and Rong Rong followed their eyes and competed to show that they had seen it.
"What are you crying about?" The little girl came out with a sentence. "He's looking for his mother." Xiaofeng said. His ears are still pointed. Of course, Hong Yan had heard and seen it a long time ago. "Disobedient, mom doesn't want him anymore." Xiao Zheng is very arbitrary. Hong Yan was almost startled, the first thing that the child thought of when he heard this kind of intimidation was a sentence! It seems that he heard this phrase when he was a child.
"Which one?" Hong Yan asked. He really didn't know this child, maybe his childhood impression was gone. "Immortality." Xiao Feng knows a lot of people.
Changsheng cried while walking, and asked people at the same time. "Mother-in-law, did you see my mother?" "Uncle Cousin, where did my mother cut it?" "Sister, where is my mother?"
Hong Yan saw Changsheng asking Wu Guangming in the team. Wu Guangming is a well-known person in the team who does not speak in tune. Sure enough, I heard him say, "Your mother ran to Henan to cut!" Changsheng's dwindling cry immediately became louder, "Wow wow...... Woohoo...... "The whole team could hear it.
Changsheng should be the same year as Hong Yan. Hong Yan didn't expect a boy to cry so much, but in his impression, Changsheng and his father were dependent on each other, and he really hadn't seen his mother.
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