Chapter 99: Vegetable Greenhouse
Xiangqin had never touched a game console, and she didn't know how to use the guรฒ handle to remotely control the small tank in the TV, she lowered her head and carefully studied the buttons on the controller, and her clumsy appearance looked very cute.
Parsley sat on a warm electric blanket and fiddled with the gamepad, a shadow behind her, followed by an oppressive force.
She turned her head sideways and met Hong Cheng's face.
The breath was intertwined, the four eyes were connected, and both of them were stunned.
Parsley quickly withdrew her gaze, but the back of her ears was burning like fire because of Hong Cheng's breath.
Hong Cheng slowly exhaled, like a sigh, and like a gasp.
Parsley's heartbeat lost its rhythm, and the heat spread from the root of the ear to the cheeks, and the burning heat was enough to sting the skin.
Seeing Parsley's panic and embarrassment, Hong Cheng suddenly felt that his throat was abnormally dry.
A tomato, which was still green, seemed to have been enchanted, and in the blink of an eye, it ripened and became so red that it tempted the appetite. For a hungry and thirsty person, it is a question โof whether to eat or not, but for Hong Cheng, it is a question of picking or not plucking.
Can't believe in magic!
Hong Cheng decided to let the tomatoes grow naturally!
At this time, Duan Yongyuan, whose eyes did not leave the screen and controlled the handle with both hands, suddenly shouted: "Parsley, your tank is going to be killed!"
After Xiangqin came back to her senses, she was in a hurry again, blindly pressing the buttons on the handle, and her eyes didn't know whether to look at the TV screen or the handle.
Hong Cheng laughed sullenly for a while, took the game controller from Xiangqin's hand, and wanted to teach her to play the game by hand, but heard Xiangqin say:
"You two have fun, I'll go out for a walk."
Hong Cheng threw away the handle and said to Duan Yongyuan, who was concentrating: "You play alone, I'll take Parsley out for a walk."
Hongjia Village is sandwiched in the center by river embankments and fields, and the idyllic scenery is very beautiful.
Looking into the distance of the field, you can see the dark forest shadows in the white mist, which makes people mistakenly think that they have fallen into a paradise.
When he came down from the river embankment in Hong Cheng's car, he passed by a large vegetable field, and Parsley saw through the car window that there were several acres of vegetable greenhouses built in it. She was itching in her heart, and she always wanted to get closer and take a closer look.
Seeing Xiangqin walking in the direction of the greenhouse, Hong Cheng half-jokingly, "How do you know where my land is?" โ
"Is that your land?" Parsley is not very surprising, after all, now it is necessary to build a greenhouse of one acre of land, within a radius of ten miles and eight townships, and there are very few people at home with such conditions.
"You came here to see the greenhouse, so you got a greenhouse on an acre of land." Hong Cheng walked in front of Parsley and led her along the ridge through a cabbage field.
The cabbage in this field is not good-looking, neither fat nor strong, and the yellow leaves of the cabbage are hanging on the ground, forming some ice ballast, wilting and languishing, and it seems that there is no energy at all.
Some of the cabbage was still frozen and almost rotted in the ground.
Xiangqin felt a pity, and couldn't help but say: "Whose cabbage is this one, it's all frozen, and I won't accept it!"
"I don't know which lazy one's family it's from!" Scolding himself like this, Hong Cheng felt blushing.
There are only two people in the family, he and his father, and the three meals a day are basically solved in the hotel. The vegetables grown in these fields are also used as ingredients in the hotel in the end, which can be regarded as self-produced and sold.
The vegetable greenhouse is taller than an adult's size, and the translucent water-colored insulating plastic film glows with a faint blue light. Approaching the plastic film, you can vaguely see the green scene inside the greenhouse, but because the plastic film is slightly thick, the inner layer is also covered with water droplets, blurring the scene inside the greenhouse.
"What's growing here?" Xiangqin couldn't see clearly, so she asked Hong Cheng.
"I'll take you inside."
Hong Cheng took parsley around the greenhouse, and the edge of the greenhouse was deeply embedded in the soil, and the soil was raised high, and there was a circle of bricks around it.
The north and south of the greenhouse are located, and it is impossible to distinguish which side is the head and which side is the tail.
There is a long plastic zipper on the plastic film on the south side, and if you pull the zipper, you can drill into the greenhouse.
The greenhouse is a closed insulation space, and the plastic film not only plays a role in thermal insulation, but also blocks the loss of carbon dioxide in the greenhouse.
As soon as you enter the greenhouse, you will feel the warm and humid breath on your face, but you will not feel that the air inside is thin.
The skeleton that supports the plastic film is a steel structure, which is different from the bamboo structure and the wood structure, the skeleton of the steel structure is not easy to be blown down by the wind, nor is it easy to be crushed by heavy snow, and the cost is higher, but its service life is very long.
In the greenhouse, there are four rows of vegetable vines, two rows of cucumbers, one row of loofahs and one row of bitter gourds.
Hong Cheng ran to pick a cucumber, dropped the cucumber flowers that had not yet bloomed, rubbed off the cucumber thorns, and gave it to parsley.
Parsley looks at the cucumber, the cucumber is small, not yet ripe, but it can be eaten.
"These vegetables in your greenhouse are grown for your own consumption?" Parsley asked.
"I can't eat much by myself, some of them are given away, and some of them are taken back to the hotel." Hong Cheng scratched his head and became cramped, this can be regarded as a lonely man and widow in the same room, and he always feels a little embarrassed.
The cucumbers in this greenhouse are sweet and crunchy, and Parsley thinks that the cucumbers that grow in season are still delicious.
She looked around and saw that the plastic film of the greenhouse was very clean and new, "Hasn't this greenhouse been built for a long time?" I think the plastic film is still new. โ
"The plastic film is new, and the greenhouse is two years old." Hong Cheng said, "The children in the village are very naughty, and they used stones to scratch the plastic film, but they have replaced it with a new one." โ
At this time, the winter sun is already in the west.
Looking at the sun through the plastic film, I felt that the sun seemed to be a ball of marshmallows composed of a circle of white halos.
Hong Cheng walked over, faced the sun side by side with Parsley, pretended to be helpless, and sighed bitterly, "My family lacks nothing, but it lacks a woman." โ
"Then let your dad marry you a stepmother." Parsley is not covered.
"Why are you going to twist my mind?" This time, Hong Cheng was really helpless.
The cold wind passes outside, and the plastic film is blown up, making a whirring sound, like a fierce beast outside the greenhouse, which occasionally makes people's hearts hairy.
When he returned, Hong Cheng picked a few more cucumbers that had grown into shape, and took an onion, a tomato, and three green peppers from his aunt.
Hong Cheng can't cook, but his knife skills are amazing.
He shredded the washed onions and green peppers, and sliced the tomatoes, rubbed the three things into a bowl, put some salt, monosodium glutamate, vinegar, and some sesame oil, and mixed them with chopsticks.
Duan Yongyuan looked at the bowl of cold dishes, and felt shabby and wanted to shed tears for Hong Cheng.
"You're going to serve us cold dishes, huh?"
It's one thing to be shabby, it's winter now, what kind of cold dishes to eat in winter!
"I don't have anything at home, so let's make do with this." Hong Cheng tasted the cold dish he mixed by himself, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and said "delicious".
"It's delicious, you can eat it yourself." Duan Yongyuan had eaten from the hotel, and he still didn't feel hungry.
Hong Cheng ate a few bites, but he couldn't stand the spicy and wanted to drink cold water.
Parsley couldn't stand it, so she told him, "Go to the field and steal a cabbage and come back, and I'll make it for you." โ
Parsley went to the kitchen, which had not been used in a long time, and a thick layer of ash had fallen on the stovetop, and cobwebs were still knotted on the walls.
Parsley brushed the pot three times and added some water to the pot.
She grabbed a handful of sun-dried rice leaves and lit them with a match on the stove, and threw them into the dark stove hole, and she added a few dry rice sticks to the hole, and only after the fire was burning did she put the firewood in it.
Soon after, the water in the pot began to sizzle.
Hong Cheng's kitchen is large, and there is a cabinet standing next to the wall facing the stove. There are all kinds of kitchen utensils on the cabinet, and there are two cabinet doors, one cabinet door is for dishes, chopsticks and plates, and the other cabinet door is for rice noodles and cooking oil. There are also three drawers on the door, which are filled with various spices and spices.
Xiangqin looked at the rice noodles, and she didn't know when most of the bag of rice was, so she grabbed a handful of rice and came out, and the rice was full of rice worms.
She brushed a pair of chopsticks, scooped a small half bowl of flour, washed it with water, stirred it into a batter, waited for the water in the pot to boil, poured the batter from the steaming bowl into the pot, and slowly pushed the batter in the pot with a spoon.
When the porridge was cooked, Hong Cheng came back with a cabbage.
Parsley put the porridge in a bowl, brushed out the pot again, and fried it with the cabbage vinegar that Hong Cheng brought back.
"If you don't have a bun, you can make do with it."
"What's this called improvisation, it's much better than improvisation!" Hong Cheng's heart was warm. "I can't remember the last time I used the kitchen."
"Then you can eat, I'll go back with my brother." If he didn't have time to be moved, Xiangqin's words were equivalent to pouring a basin of cold water on Hong Cheng's head.
"Play for a while, why don't you leave tonight, I see your brother is having fun." Hong Cheng was reluctant to let go.
"I'll call him." Xiangqin sat there and played games for more than an hour with Duan Yongyuan, but she couldn't be like Dou and stared at the TV! Walking through the hall and entering the inner room, she saw that Duan Yongyuan was really still holding the handle and playing tank battles. "Brother Yongzi, let's go back!"
Duan Yongyuan was on the rise, and after pressing the pause, he looked around for the clock, "What time is it?" โ
"It's almost five o'clock." At this time, the sky is dark, and if you don't leave, you will have to walk at night.
Duan Yongyuan is reluctant to give up, he hasn't enjoyed it yet.
Hong Cheng sucked the porridge, "Don't go back today, I'll call Xiangzi and ask him to bring a message to your grandfather and your grandfather." I'll send you back tomorrow. โ
Xiangqin naturally didn't want to stay, "Brother Yongzi, if you don't go back, I can go back." โ
Duan Yongyuan struggled, holding the handle and reluctantly putting it down, he begged Xiangqin, "Let's play for a while." โR1152