Chapter 104 Planting Sweet Potatoes
Time flies, it has entered May, the weather is slowly getting hotter, the air is no longer cold, the breath of spring is getting thicker and thicker, and the head of summer is beginning to poke out quietly.
After more than half a month of recuperation, the Tian family had a little tiredness on their faces, their faces were ruddy, and they were very tired.
"Daddy, what about the sweet potatoes I asked you to put in?" This time should be the most suitable for the growth of sweet potatoes, Xia Zhi plans to start planting sweet potatoes, but after looking in the cellar for a long time, he didn't even find the shadow of sweet potatoes, Xia Zhi had to pull his throat to ask Tian Lao Si for help.
"I thought you forgot, why do you remember it now!" Tian Laosi heard the shouts of the summer solstice, and knew that the summer solstice was in the cellar, so he walked down the steps. I don't understand the summer solstice that has been ignored for half a year, why do I think of sweet potatoes now?
"When did I forget, I wasn't there yet, I don't understand! What am I doing with it in the winter, it's better to put it in the cellar, otherwise it will be frozen! "Xia Zhi, who is now nearly seven years old, suddenly grew a section, and has almost quarreled with Tian Laosi's waist, and because the living conditions of the Tian family are good, Xia Zhi no longer has the same thin and yellow appearance as before. But who has ever seen a New Year's doll rolling her eyes at her father.
"You little girl, make fun of your daddy's stupidity, you still got your brain from me, you dare to laugh at your daddy!" Tian Laosi said as he struck Xia Zhi's head with his hand, and then knocked it down one after another. Seeing Xia Zhi covering his head, he waved his hand when he shouted that it hurt.
"How can I say that Daddy is stupid, I like Daddy the most. Dad. Where did you put the sweet potatoes? Xia Zhi covered his head. While flattering Tian Laosi, he muttered in his heart that heroes don't suffer immediate losses.
"Oh, where it is, girl, didn't you say you wanted to plant sweet potatoes at the beginning, why haven't you moved for so long, girl. Let's be honest, if you don't plant sweet potatoes, hurry up and return the dozen acres of land to Ma County, which is allocated to you by Ma County! The sand is not a good land, and it can't grow food, so if you want a field, Daddy will buy you a good field, okay? Seeing the sweet potatoes, Tian Laosi remembered that the dozen acres of sandy land that Ma Shang had allocated on the summer solstice promised to plant sweet potatoes. But it's been half a year now, and I haven't seen any movement on the summer solstice.
"Daddy, when did I say that I wouldn't grow sweet potatoes, I just didn't say it. That time has not yet come, and now I am ready to find it and plant it. It's the right time! Didn't I say before that sweet potatoes must be planted when the temperature is high in order to sprout and grow quickly, and now the weather is slowly starting to get hotter, isn't it just right? Xia Zhi pulled the sweet potatoes in the bag to check whether there were any frozen sweet potatoes, fortunately, the sweet potatoes were very good, and returned to Tian Laosi's question, his eyes were still signaling that he was not stupid, and he couldn't even think of this. It wasn't until Tian Laosi stretched out his hand again and made a gesture that he was going to knock her again, that she quickly turned her head and continued to fight with sweet potatoes.
"Okay, you villain, go, Daddy will help you carry it out, wait for it to be seen, it's dark and winter here, don't look bad at it!" Tian Laosi saw that Xia Zhi was concentrating on the sweet potato in his hand, and his eyes narrowed into a slit because of the dim light. He stepped forward to help Xia Zhi carry the sweet potatoes out of the cellar. The two of them stood in the courtyard.
"I said, you two fathers and daughters, you are standing in the middle of the courtyard at noon to bask in the sun!" Zheng's words are definitely ridiculous, you must know that although the weather is not very hot now, it is unbearable to stand outside for a long time. "How did you get it out?" Zheng saw Tian Laosi carrying a pocket and walked towards the house, and after seeing what kind of pocket it was, he asked.
"Didn't she say that she wanted to plant sweet potatoes before the summer solstice, she felt that now was the time to plant sweet potatoes, so she took them out. I'll go to the eldest brother later, and plow the sandy land she chose" Tian Laosi said to Zheng while walking into the house, and then turned his head to Xia Zhi and said, "Girl, you are here to accompany your aunt, I'll go to your uncle, and when it's ready, I'm informing you, don't make my daughter ugly when you go out at noon!" ”
"Who's ugly, who's ugly!" Growing so big, Xia Zhi hasn't heard anyone say she's ugly, although she was not a big beauty in her previous life, she can be regarded as a small jasper, in this life she has gathered the advantages of Tian Laosi and Zheng's family, the longer she looks, how can she be said to be ugly!
"You! The kids are spoiled by you! Zheng shook his head helplessly, for Tian Laosi's love for the summer solstice, he had learned many times.
"My daughter, I don't spoil anyone! My daughter doesn't hurt herself, and she still expects others to hurt, it's for nothing! "My own child hurts by himself.
"Come on, as long as you love your daughter, I'm a bad person, okay! Hurry up and go to the eldest brother, I don't have a headache! Zheng was very helpless when he mentioned the matter of spoiling his daughter.
"Hehe, you're not a bad person, you're a good aunt and a good daughter-in-law! Then I'll go, the summer solstice is waiting for me! ”
Xia Zhi kept looking down to check the sweet potato, while listening to the conversation between Tian Laosi and Zheng, he was also amused by these two people, obviously they both loved their daughters, but they behaved in different ways, but when they discussed this issue, the two always couldn't talk.
"Daddy, when you and Uncle plough the field, you must make a lot of ridges, and the higher the ridges, the better! It is better to have so high. "The summer solstice is about thirty to forty centimeters high. She vaguely remembered that sweet potatoes had a characteristic of high ridges and dense planting, and she couldn't remember the specific reason for the summer solstice.
"Okay, your daddy promises to make it beautiful for you!" Tian Laosi listened to Xia Zhi's words, turned his head and promised to arrive.
The next day, Xia Solstice came to the sand, looked at the rows of ridges in front of him and nodded, it was not bad, it was completely in line with the standard, and he couldn't help but give Tian Laosi an appreciative look, but in exchange for a beating from Tian Laosi. Xia Solstice pouted, Daddy is so uncute, he has to knock on whether he praises it or not.
"Summer solstice, how are you going to grow this sweet potato! Seeing that the weather is hot, let's quickly plant it back! Tian Laosi stood beside Tian Laosi, and when he saw the father and daughter making eye contact, he couldn't help but interrupt the two of them.
"Uncle, just bury these sweet potatoes under the soil in the ridge and water them with some water!" Xia Zhi felt that Boss Tian might remember to go home to see his son, so he wouldn't waste time, it was about to be noon.
"Girl, you're not fooling your father, just bury it inside, so what about the rest of the land? Didn't you ask for so much land just to put it in good looks? We can't afford to waste it! Tian Laosi felt resentful, thinking that so much land would definitely be planted on the summer solstice, but he didn't expect to plant the corners.
"Daddy, what are you anxious about, you see that the uncle didn't speak, just you are in a hurry, I want so many fields, it will be useful, and you will know the Tao when the time comes! Plant the sweet potatoes and water them and we'll be back, but you'll have to come over and fertilize it in the afternoon! "Without fertilizer, I don't think anything will grow.
"Okay, no problem, then can you tell me why you want so much land for Lu now?" Tian Laosi felt that Xia Zhi must have deliberately hung his appetite, otherwise he wouldn't say anything now.
"You'll know the way then!" Regarding Tian Laosi's curiosity, Xia Zhi said very boldly.
In the blink of an eye, in July, the sweet potatoes on the summer solstice have grown vines, and the vines are crawling everywhere, especially vigorous.
On this day, the Xia Zhi organized the Tian family to take a pair of scissors, carry a basket in his hand, cut the growing and vigorous vines into sections and put them in the basket, and then planted them in the ground next to them.
"Daddy, don't ask, hurry up and help me plant sweet potato seedlings, this is ten acres of land! I didn't tell you, I also listened to people passing by, I don't know what to do for what to do, I'm just trying to plant, try to plant, Daddy, do you understand! Xia Zhi was really annoyed by Tian Laosi's question, in fact, if she wanted her to say what she wanted to do, she couldn't say clearly, anyway, sweet potatoes are grown like this in modern times, and she will draw a scoop according to the gourd. But Tian Laosi kept pestering her to ask what she wanted, and the ghost knew what she asked.
"Eh~ Who made you act so smart all the time, Daddy thinks you know everything!" The black line of the summer solstice, it is said that she is not a god, and she knows everything. Even gods and men may not be able to do it, let alone an ordinary person like her. "Okay, don't be angry, Daddy will help you plant sweet potato seedlings, you go and rest, look at the tired sweat!"
The day of July is already entering the summer, although there is no modern greenhouse effect in ancient times, but this is wearing trousers and gowns, standing under the sun, in fact, there is a little sweat on the head, which is already good, I didn't see Tian Laosi himself was already sweating profusely, and the sweat had wet his clothes. But if he wants to compare himself, he is more worried about the summer solstice, don't suffer from heat stroke at noon, I didn't see that the sisters of the Tian family have already done it in the shade of the trees at this time.
"Daddy, I'm not hot, hurry up and finish plugging these, pour water, and we'll go back!" Presumably, the difference between the modern July and the July of the Wu Dynasty is just now. If this is even more poisonous in the modern sun, then they can still work under the sun now. Sure enough, it is ancient, pure and pollution-free.
After planting the sweet potato seedlings, the four brothers of the Tian family picked up water again, and at this time there was nothing to do with the summer solstice and their female babies, but the summer solstice was still reluctant to go, she watched there, because she had no bottom in her heart, everything was done by relying on the little memory of modern times, and I don't know what the result would be after the most difficult road, if she failed, although she was sad, she would not regret it, because if she didn't work hard, this Dawu Dynasty might not have this sweet potato. (To be continued......)