Chapter 32: The Gift of the Four Sisters
"It's okay, grandma, I'll cook a meal for you and your sister at noon."
As soon as Tao Ran's words fell, Dongmei cried "wow".
She knew that it must be Hou Ye who disliked the food she cooked.
"That's... Girl, I'm not saying that the food you cook is not delicious, you see that grandma and sister eat very deliciously, I just want to change the taste of grandma and sister. Tao Ran said apologetically.
"How can a boy cook by himself, not to mention that you are still a marquis." Grandma said displeasedly.
"Grandma, don't you know, my grandson has been cooking for himself since he was six years old."
The words made the old lady touch her tears again, it seems that her grandson has suffered a lot over the years!
"Child, I've really hurt you all these years!" Grandma said guiltily.
"Grandma, the child has never suffered hardship, when he was six years old, the child took the initiative to learn to cook with the master."
"Why does a boy doll's family have to learn to cook?" Grandma said dissatisfied.
"Grandma, when you try your grandson's craft at noon, you will have the answer!" Tao Ran said confidently.
"Brother, brother, we have to taste it too, brother's handicraft..."The four little girls chirped and cheered.
"Of course, the four little sisters are the meat of my brother's heart. Come, see what gift my brother has brought you? ”
After speaking, Tao Ran took out the four potatoes that he had been reluctant to eat from his backpack, and there was no sunlight for more than a month, and the four potatoes began to sprout, which was a good time to sow seeds.
"Brother, what is this?"
The four little girls asked in unison with big curious eyes.
"Brother, let me tell you, this thing is expensive, it is a kind of food, very delicious food."
"I see, brother, are you letting us eat?" The eldest girl spoke.
"Brother, I let you eat, but not now. Now my brother only has these four potatoes, so he has to stay to make seeds. ”
"Seeds, are they seeds planted in the ground?"
"Yes, it's the seeds planted in the ground, now my brother will take you to plant potatoes, while it has just rained, the soil in the yard is relatively soft, and the seeds we planted will bear potatoes and you can eat them."
"Okay, okay, there will be delicious food in the future." The four little girls were very happy.
The old lady looked at her grandson curiously, tinkering with something she had never seen before.
"Kid, can you really eat this? How much is the production? Grandma asked.
"Grandma, this is not only edible, but also very delicious, you will know when the time comes, is the yield?"
Tao Ran quickly calculated in his mind that the yield of potatoes per mu in his previous life was a normal level, and even if the land at this time was not fertile, it would be no problem to produce 800 catties per mu!
"The yield per mu is about 800 catties." Tao Ran said conservatively.
"What did you say?" Grandma's body shook and she was almost frightened by Tao Ran's answer.
"Where did you get such a precious species?"
"Grandma, of course it was left to me by the master, there were a lot of them, but on the way back to Chang'an, my grandson ate a lot when I was hungry, and the remaining four have not been willing to eat, isn't this a gift for the four younger sisters!" Tao Ran touched his head and said with a smile. Sometimes the feeling of deceiving relatives is really uncomfortable.
"Cuckoo, go to the shop and buy a dozen iron buckets, and plant them in the iron buckets for the time being." Tao Ran said to the cuckoo.
"Okay, Master Hou, the cuckoo will go right away."
Under the gaze of his grandmother and the four little girls, Tao Ran took out the Swiss military industry and carefully cut the potatoes with him.
Have at least one or two potato sprouts on each slice of sliced potatoes.
"Dongmei, you go to the kitchen and prepare some grass ash for me." Tao Ran said to Dongmei, who was watching from the sidelines.
"Master Hou, Dongmei will go right away."
Before Tao Ran could finish cutting all the potatoes, Dongmei had already brought the ashes of the plants and trees.
Tao Ran wrapped the side of the cut potatoes with knife cuts and plant ashes.
Then he said to the four little girls, "Okay, now you can take it to the window outside and dry it." ”
Although the four little girls didn't understand what air-drying meant, they understood that their brother asked him to put the potatoes on the windowsill.
The iron bucket that the cuckoo bought was sent to the house by the guys. Tao Ran stabbed the bottom of the barrel a few times one by one.
The old lady who watched was only distressed. "Son, what did you do to cuckoo's new iron bucket?"
"Grandma, you don't understand, this is a gasp for potatoes." Tao Ran said with a smile.
"Potatoes still panting? Grandma is stunned to see you kid! ”
Grandma's words made everyone laugh.
After piercing the bottom of the four iron buckets evenly, a few eyes.
Tao Ran began to fill the bucket with soil, too dry soil will not work, and too wet soil will not work.
Soil that is too dry has no water, which is not conducive to the germination and growth of potatoes, and soil that is too wet is too sticky is also not conducive to the growth of potatoes.
Tao Ran turned over the soil that had been soaked by the heavy rain yesterday with a shovel.
About 20 centimeters of ground is the best land, and all four iron buckets are filled to seven percent full of soil.
Tao Ran said to the four younger sisters who were engrossed in watching his every move.
"Well, tomorrow morning, you can plant the dried potatoes in the bucket. When the time comes, the four of you, each of you will be responsible for a bucket, and whoever plants it well will be rewarded by my brother! ”
"Okay, good, brother is so good..."The four little girls happily accepted their brother's agreement.
Not only can you grow delicious potatoes, but there are also rewards, so why not!
At noon, Tao Ran really didn't break his promise, he personally cooked a few dishes.
There are stewed mutton, scrambled eggs with chives, and more than a dozen green onion cakes for everyone.
In the end, after a pot of bone broth, Tao Ran found that his grandmother and sister were too weak, so he decided to give them a good condition.
The four little girls looked at the table full of colorful and fragrant meals, and drooled greedily.
Grandma Tao Ranhei filled a bowl of bone broth and put a few pieces of stewed mutton in the bowl.
"Grandma, try it." Tao Ran filial piety brought the bowl to his grandmother.
"Well, it's delicious, it's delicious..."
Dongmei had already divided the soup and mutton for the four little girls.
Grandma looked at the four little girls with shiny eyes and said.
"Look at what you are gluttony, do you still have the appearance of my girl's house? Who will dare to marry you in the future? ”
"Grandma's words are not right, those who marry our four sisters in the future must be both civil and military, with my brother to check it, you old man can rest assured!"
"You guys will be blessed by your brother." The old lady said with a smile.
"Who made me their brother, grandma, you should announce the start of the meal, look at the sisters are in a hurry..."
"Haven't I forgotten happily..."
When the family was eating, the cuckoo came in a hurry.
"The old lady is not good, that girl can't see it......"