Chapter 255: Germination
Fee Chapter (12 points)
The sun hung high in the sky, and the wind blew warmly on the face, making people feel the comfort of their limbs and bones after almost a winter.
Lian Man'er moved her arms and legs outside the house, and after the Qingming Festival, Zhang finally agreed to let her take off her thick cotton pants and cotton jacket and put on thin cotton clothesclips. The weight of the clothes suddenly decreased, making even Man'er's arms and legs more flexible and powerful.
Zhou walked out of the upper room with a scoop of chaff, planning to go to the chicken pen to feed the chickens, but when he raised his eyes, he saw Lian Man'er smiling and jumping around, and suddenly felt like a thorn in his eye.
Even Man'er also saw Zhou's, and when she saw Zhou's face was heavy, she laughed secretly in her heart, and without waiting for Zhou's to speak, she quickly returned to the West Wing. Chapter 255: Germination
On the kang head of the west wing, there are several large bowls and plates, each of which is tightly covered with wet gauze.
When the weather is warm, it's time to plant vegetables. In order to increase the yield of vegetables, farmers have to germinate the seeds of vegetables before sowing them. For example, cucumbers, pumpkins, hairy stalks, beans, etc. There are also some vegetable seeds that are not suitable for germination, such as eggplant and cabbage, which can be sprinkled directly in the soil when it is time to sow seeds.
The way to germinate is also very simple, that is, to select the fullest seeds, put them in a large bowl or plate, then sprinkle water, and cover them with gauze to moisturize, and then put them in a warm place, and sprinkle water every day to ensure humidity.
Lian Man'er keeps the dishes filled with seeds on the kang to keep warm, and when the sun is at its peak at noon, she will move these dishes to the windowsill where the sun can get the sun, so that the vegetable seeds can germinate faster.
"Sister, have they all sprouted?" As soon as Lian Man'er entered the house, he saw Lian Zhi'er uncovering the gauze to see how the seeds germinated.
"Almost, I think it will be planted in two days." Lian Zhi'er said.
Even Man'er climbed onto the kang and looked at it one by one, the teeth of the beans were the best, and Chapter 255 was the slowest to sprout the teeth of Mao Yan, perhaps because Mao Yanren was still wrapped in a hard shell. However, it doesn't matter if it germinates slowly, and the general hairy food is to be planted last.
Maoji is not a necessary vegetable, but a snack for children. Generally, farmers mostly plant a few hairy trees in the vegetable ridge or other idle corners, which is enough to stuff the children's teeth, and will not occupy a serious vegetable field.
Lian Man'er looked at the vegetable seeds on the kang and came down from the kang again. In the corner of their house against the wall, a rectangular nursery was made of broken bricks and stones, and the nursery was piled with fine sand. Inside the fine sand are potato cubes. Potatoes are sown not from seeds, but from rhizomes. Lian Man'er squatted down, and he could see potato teeth emerging from the fine sand. She checked it a little and found that most of the potato pieces had sprouted, and in a few days, she could transplant the potato teeth into the vegetable patch.
After checking the potato teeth, Lian Man'er stood up and looked out, she was stealing from the shop, she was anxious to see the germination of vegetable seeds, and now it was almost noon, and she had to go back to the shop.
"Sister, I'm going back to the shop." Lian Man'er said to Lian Zhi'er, "Are you going with me?" ”
"Wait a minute, I've fed the pigs just now, and I'll go get some more food for the chickens and ducks. …… Man'er, you go and add a scoop of water to the pig. Lian Zhi'er said.
"Hey." Lian Man'er agreed, scooped a scoop of water from the water tank in the outhouse, and walked to the door of the pigsty. The pigsty wall was much taller than her, and even the pigsty door of the stone wall was similar to her height. Lian Man'er stepped on a protruding boulder at the pigsty door, and her body was half lying on the pigsty door, so that she could pour water into the half-broken wooden barrel specially filled with water in the pigsty.
When the three little pigs in the pigsty heard the movement, they spurred and scrambled out of the pigsty shed, crowded in front of the broken barrels and began to drink.
The three little pigs have all grown in size, and even the vine has visually examined it, and each of them is more than two feet long, and its weight must have more than doubled. According to this growth, by the time of the Chinese New Year, there will be three fat pigs. Lian Man'er thought with a smile, and turned her head to look at the pig food trough next to the bucket, and there was still the remaining pig food. The habit of pigs is like this, even if they have just eaten, as long as someone comes to feed them, they will run out and eat again.
Lian Man'er walked back with an empty water scoop, and saw Old Man Lian standing in the vegetable garden under the east wing with a cat on his waist.
"Master, what are you doing?"
Lian Man'er asked, walking, looking in through the low wall.
Even the old man was standing next to a small square vegetable bed, the soil in the vegetable bed was very wet, full of green young seedlings, and next to the vegetable bed was a wet grass curtain.
"I'll see what the smoke looks like." Even the old man raised his head and said.
Even the old man loves to smoke dry tobacco, and it is said that this year, in this vegetable garden east of the front yard, he plans to plant dry tobacco. Dry tobacco is a delicate species that needs to be bred before transplanting. Even the old man dug a small vegetable furrow, covered it with a straw curtain to keep warm, only at noon when the weather was warm, the straw curtain was opened, and the smoke seedlings were allowed to bask in the sun.
The dry tobacco in this garden is not only enough for the old man to smoke, but also sells for two or three hundred catties. The price of dry tobacco is much higher than that of ordinary vegetables. However, it also requires more careful care, and the post-harvest drying process is time-consuming and laborious.
"I can see that it's very good, when will you start planting?" Lian Man'er said.
"I have to wait a few days, the seedlings are still too small, and they have to grow so long before they can be planted." The old man Lian compared with his hand and told Lian Man'er. As an old farmer, he likes to talk to people about growing vegetables and crops. Among the juniors in the family, especially among the girls, only Lian Man'er cares about these, so the old man Lian loves Lian Man'er a little more.
"Later, you can ask your father, whether you will plant dry tobacco this year, this seedling is enough." Old man Lian said to Lian Man'er.
"Okay, I'll ask my dad in a moment." Lian Shouxin has no habit of smoking dry tobacco, and Lian Man'er's family has no plans to grow dry tobacco this year. However, Lian Man'er still replied.
This time, Lian Zhi'er has finished feeding the chickens and ducks, Lian Man'er put the water scoop back into the house, and the two sisters checked the inside and outside of the house, locked the door, and went to the early shop.
When they walked to the official road, the two sisters separated. Lian Zhi'er went directly to the breakfast shop to help Zhang's cook. Lian Man'er went to the construction site of the new shop to see that Lian was trustworthy.
In order to catch up with the construction period, the house was built before the farm was busy, and even Shouxin later invited some more people to come, and now the beams of the new shop have been put up, and the purlins and tenons have been completed, and the roof was made yesterday, and today the last important process is being carried out - tile, that is, tiling on the roof.
Tile laying requires a skilled craftsman to do it well, so there are not many people on the roof, and more people are busy finishing the work inside and outside the house.
Behind the shop, there are helpers building a wall, and a small courtyard is besieging the city. There were two rooms in the courtyard, which were built with scraps left over from the shops, and were intended for the hire-use to live in the future, as well as to store miscellaneous goods. In the corner of the small courtyard is a cattle pen for the little cattle.
In front of the shop, there are also a few helpers who are busy, they are building flower beds with broken bricks. This is what Lian Man'er requested. The open space next to the shop should also be sorted out, and some places should be put with wooden stakes or stone piers, which are reserved for future guests to tie horses and park vehicles.
Lian Shouxin is busy coordinating inside and outside, and he is already in a supervisor's posture.
Building a house is a laborious thing, these days are busy, even Shouxin has hardly slept a night, the amount of food is larger than before, but looking at people still lose weight, but the spirit is better than ever.
At the last minute of the project, we could not relax at all.
"Man'er, what are we going to eat at noon?" When Lian Shouxin saw Lian Man'er coming, he asked.
"My mother said to eat pork stewed vermicelli." Lian Man'er replied crisply.
"Did the big guy hear it, eat pork stewed vermicelli at noon," even Shouxin shouted at the people who built the house.
Cheers rang out immediately from the house, under the house, in front of the house, and behind the house. Even the family built a house, and the food was provided very well, which has spread. There is a cheap pork stew of vermicelli waiting in front, and the big guys are more energetic.
Lian Man'er smiled secretly, she even kept her faith that this was deliberate. This trick boosts morale, and it is really a hundred tried-and-true.
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After lunch, Lian Shouxin took people to the new shop again. Lian Man'er discussed with the Zhang family to start planting vegetables.
"Mother, then let's put the tent on it today." Lian Man'er said. There is still a day or two to wait for the seeds to be ready. There is no fence around the land they bought, and they have to put a tent around the vegetable plot to prevent chickens and ducks from breaking in and spoiling the vegetables.
"Okay." Zhang nodded.
Zhao and Lian Ye'er had lunch in the shop, and they were not in a hurry after that, and they were not in a hurry to wait for the clothes to be washed today, and they both said that they would stay and help. Shi Wazi, who ran the hall, also said that he wanted to help.
"Mother, then Xiao Qi and I will go to set a plow stick, before going to school, we can plow the ditch out, so that you don't have to plane a little bit." As Gorou spoke, he and Xiao Qi went to the back to take the plow and put on a plough stick.
Xiao Qi Morning Glory, Gorou behind the plow, along the vegetable field around the plow out a depth of more than half a foot, even a few vines followed behind the tent. The straw used to clean the leaves is used to clamp the tent, insert it into the ditch, and then backfill the soil on both sides and step on it with your feet. In order to make the tent stronger, it is generally necessary to clamp horizontal straw on it, and use maran leaves as a rope to tie it strongly.
With plough sticks and oxen, this process is much less time and effort.
After finishing the tent and returning to the shop, Lian Man'er was sorting out the accounts when he heard footsteps outside.
"Oops, Lu is here"
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