Chapter 67: Housekeeping
Farewell to Niuniu and Xiaowang, Li Xin took his younger brothers and sisters home first.
"Xiao Wang's uncle and aunt are all like that!" When he got home, Wen Hao complained.
"Don't complain, don't all have a few relatives who don't come to the table, don't like it, just don't come and go. Uncle Zhang's family is good, that's enough. I only have friends with Uncle Zhang's family, and we don't always have relationships with his relatives. It's nothing, you guys go play! Yuexiang and I are going to get ready to cook. Li Xin is also a little disgusted with those relatives of the Zhang family, but that's all, there will definitely not be many opportunities to go back and forth in the future, so let the matter go!
Tomatoes and peppers spread sooner or later, after all, the ripe fruit is wrapped in seeds. But before it spreads, let's plant it for another year! If you make this amount of money, you can spread the word. It's just that she didn't dare to let the people in the village grow for a while. Although those things can be sold for money, they are not food in the end, if someone is greedy and does not grow enough, and the transportation is not developed in this era, selling it will become a problem. If any of them loses money, they must still blame her.
Fresh vegetables are just a small section, and what can really help the people is actually high-yield food. Now, several families in the village have taken away the seedlings of sweet potatoes, and many should be planted next year. Sweet potatoes can be eaten as food, and they are highly yielding, and sweet potatoes can really help more people if they can spread the word.
"I'll help my eldest sister wash the vegetables."
"No need, it's just a table of meals, and Yuexiang and I can cook it. It's hard to have time to play after you go to the academy, so go play! Xiaowang and Niuniu should be coming in a while, so you can take them to play. ”
When lunch was ready, Uncle Zhang's family finally came over. Li Xin beckoned Wenbo and a few people to hurry up and set the meal, and when it was ready, he asked Uncle Zhang's family to sit down first.
"Sister Xin! I'm going to let you see the joke today. Sitting down, Grandma Zhang said helplessly.
"It's just a small thing, I didn't take it to heart, grandma, Uncle Zhang, auntie, don't take it to heart, the past will pass like this!"
"You finally went to the house, and you encountered such a bad thing, and my old wife didn't know what evil she had done in her previous life, and she gave birth to so many beasts, and she couldn't marry a good daughter-in-law. This person is becoming more and more buried. Grandma Zhang's face blamed herself.
"It's not early, everyone should be hungry, let's eat first! The weather is cold, and the food is cold quickly, so let's eat first! Later, I still have something to ask Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang to help me with! ”
After lunch, Li Xin took his younger siblings and Uncle Zhang's family into the main hall of the upper room, put some fruit snacks out, and a group of people sat down to talk.
"Niu Niu, why are you upset? Grab a snack, why don't you let Yuexiang and Yueting take you out to play? Li Xin took the fruit and handed it to Xiao Wang and Niuniu, and looked at Niuniu as if she had been pouting and unhappy, so she asked.
"Sister Xin, uncle, they dug up all my family's sweet potato seedlings, saying that they wanted to plant, our family has nothing at all, and we will have no sweet potatoes to eat next year." Niu Niu looked like she was going to cry.
"Forget it, Niu Niu, if you don't plant it, you won't plant it! Let your uncle plant them! Uncle Zhang looked helpless, those were his brothers and sisters-in-law, as well as his nephews and nieces, those people were one by one, he didn't even have a chance to speak. Later, there was a quarrel, and the eldest brother dug up all the sweet potato seedlings raised at home, saying that they would also plant them at home. He also said that there was enough for a few families to plant, and if he could get it from the Li family again, he would send it to the families of several brothers. The family gave it, but he was embarrassed to ask Sister Xin for it.
Sister Xin's family's life is getting better now, and it is not Sister Xin'er's own suffering, and it has nothing to do with others. He can't shamelessly open his mouth to seek benefits for his own family, let alone help his relatives to ask for benefits. The matter of sour bamboo shoots, Sister Xin has already made his family earn a lot of money, and with that money, he can also hire a good doctor, and his mother's condition can be regarded as stable, and he has not committed it again during this time.
"Niuniu is angry about this! What's there to be angry about, my sister still has seedlings at home! Look at how much you want to plant, and I'll send it to you when it's time to plant. ”
"Sister Xin, forget it! You have to plant it at home, it's too troublesome. Grandma Zhang said embarrassedly.
"It's nothing, I plan to plant a lot of sweet potatoes this year, and I have enough seedlings! It's nothing to give your family some evenness. I also told you about the peppers and tomatoes, I did grow a little in the vegetable garden, and I did sell them to Pinxiangge, which can be regarded as making some money. It's not that I want to hide my secrets and not tell everyone, those are just vegetables in the end, and they may not be sold when they are grown, and if they can't be sold, they will be wasted. In the final analysis, food is the foundation of the people, sweet potatoes are not sold, but they can be kept for eating, and the yield is also high, if the food is not enough, it can also help the family a lot. Boiled and baked, it tastes very good, and it can be made into vermicelli, which not only makes you hungry, but also keeps it for a long time. That's why I want people in the village to grow sweet potatoes. ”
"In this case, Sister Xin'er, you don't need to say it, our two families have always been in contact, what are you, can we still not know? Vegetables are only eaten for a while, and they cannot be eaten as food. Sweet potatoes are very good, and you can harvest thousands of catties per acre! This kind of output was unimaginable before! I thought that if Sister Xin'er had extra seedlings at home, then after harvesting wheat, we would also plant one acre or two acres at home, that is, we would eat it every day, and I was afraid that we would not be able to eat it all in a year! Uncle Zhang said.
"It's good that Uncle Zhang can understand, I still have a few seeds from foreign tribes in my hands, but now I have to slowly experiment, the yield is one, and I also want to see if this place is suitable, if it is really good, I will naturally let the villagers plant it first." By the way, we also planted pumpkins this year, which are very large, have a high yield, and taste very good. Later, Uncle Zhang, you take a few back to taste it, there are seeds in the melon, wash the seeds and dry them, and you can keep them for seeding. ”
"It's only Sister Xin'er, you think about us everything, we are not relatives yet! But some relatives! Tomorrow's life is better than ours, and I went to the house to fight the autumn breeze. Aunt Zhang couldn't help complaining.
"By the way, I went to Uncle Zhang's house today because, in a few days, I will take Wenbo and them to the capital with Shopkeeper Sun, and there will be no one to take care of them at home. I want you to watch it for you, Uncle Zhang. ”
"It's not a big deal, don't worry! The caretaker will help you take a good look at it, and you won't lose anything at home. ”
(I'm sorry, there was something going on today, and I couldn't update it at noon, so I'll make it up to you now.) )