Chapter 23 Turning garlic into money

The three younger sisters were all burping, and Qinglian poured a bowl of boiling water for each of them and let them drink clearly. She suddenly found that her father's bowl of meat hadn't moved, and she just wanted to ask her father why she didn't eat it, but suddenly her heart was sour: Dad kept it for her mother.

Sure enough, Dad said, "Daddy doesn't like to eat rabbit meat either, so keep it for your mother." ”

Qinglian was moved, she nodded, poured the bowl of meat into the crockpot, covered it and put it in the vegetable cupboard. I sighed in my heart: My mother, you are really a person who does not know the blessing in the blessing!

Qinglian cleaned up the kitchen and began to talk to her father about planting garlic.

She said directly: "Dad, there is a way out for the garlic in our family." ”

"What?" He Hongshan was taken aback.

He Hongshan was surprised and delighted when he heard his daughter say that he had a headache and a lot of garlic for half a year had a way out. I asked her if she had just rushed to the market and heard that there was a garlic harvest.

Qinglian shook her head and said no.

He Hongshan was suddenly deflated, saying that his daughter was talking nonsense, muttering and cursing the black-hearted businessman who sold garlic, and regretted that he knew that no one wanted it later, so he sold it for 2 cents a catty.

Qinglian smiled and said, "Dad, fortunately we didn't sell it, otherwise we would have lost a lot." ”

He Hongshan thinks that the girl's speech is upside down, and she has lost a lot of money if she sells it, and now she is piling it up in the house, and it will not be a loss if she goes to the ditch after the New Year?

Qinglian continued: "Dad, no one wants this garlic, but after it becomes a dish, some people will grab it like crazy." ”

Hearing this, He Hongshan even wondered if there was something wrong with his daughter's brain. I figured it out in my heart, wouldn't it be because I was kidnapped by Li Fugui's bastard?

He took a closer look at his daughter and found that her eyes were clear and her expression was natural, not like something was wrong! He grinned sadly and said, "My stupid boy, what nonsense are you talking about, how can this garlic be turned into a vegetable, you can only cut a few cloves when you fry the vegetables, and it will be uncomfortable to eat too much heartburn." ”

The age of garlic has not yet come out, and my father doesn't understand Qinglian can understand.

She took the opportunity to popularize some garlic knowledge and how to eat garlic for her. He Hongshan still asked suspiciously: "Why haven't I heard of garlic, will this dish be heartburn like garlic when eaten?" Can we get used to it? ”

Qinglian felt that it was useless to talk more now, so she asked him directly: "Dad, what are your plans for our family's six or seven hundred catties of garlic?" ”

He Hongshan said with a bitter face: "What do I have to do, at the beginning, 2 cents a pound is too cheap to sell, thinking about waiting for the price to rise, who knows that in the end 2 cents will not be sold, no one wants it!" No, every household has hundreds of catties or thousands of catties of garlic piled up at home...... Oh, he was trapped, and this farmer should use the land to grow food well, and not grow miscellaneous. ”

Qinglian made matters worse: "This garlic sprouts as soon as it passes the winter, and no one wants it anymore." ”

He Hongshan was about to cry when she heard this, she sighed guiltily: "Alas, it's not, this can't be eaten, can't be sold, and the buds of life will have to go to the ditch." ”

Qinglian smiled: "Then in this case, let me try to plant garlic yellow with these hundreds of catties of garlic in our family, if my father is not at ease, I can plant less first." ”

He added: "I said I was in charge this morning." ”

For this daughter, who has been well-behaved and sensible since she was a child, and he loves the tip of his heart, he tries his best to meet any request she makes. What's more, my daughter just wants a bunch of garlic that can't be sold.

He waved his hand boldly and said, "Okay, okay, if you are willing to try, you can try, but how to plant this winter?" ”

Qinglian was very happy to see that her father agreed, so she said happily: "Dad, you don't understand, this garlic is planted in winter, don't worry, I have my own way to make it grow hahaha." ”

Oh no, how did the girl know that garlic could be turned into a vegetable? He Hongshan asked Qinglian, Qinglian was stunned for a moment, her mind spun quickly, and then said: "I heard it this morning when I was in the market to sell eggs, and that person said that he had eaten at a relative's house in Beijing. ”

He Hongshan said a suspicious "oh", and when he was about to ask something, Qinglian shouted: "Go, Dad, call my sister, let's break the garlic cloves." ”

The whole family started together, broke the garlic cloves for an afternoon, and saw that it was much worse, Qinglian and her father worked together to brush the large vat that was not used all year round at home, and was afraid of freezing, so they carried the vat to the livestock house, added water, and poured the garlic cloves into it. Soak the garlic in water to sprout.

In this era, there is no Internet, and there is no way to query the detailed planting technology of garlic, so Qinglian can only rely on the common sense in memory to plant.

After soaking the garlic cloves, she beckoned her father and sister to dig the ground to make a greenhouse together.

Their yard is large, with an area of four or five points of land, and it is enough to plant garlic.

On the west side of the courtyard, at the base of the wall, they carved a full half of the land and began to dig the earth.

If you dig to a foot deep, there will be no frozen soil below, and the land is also warm in winter and cool in summer, so the deeper you dig, the better the warmth effect.

The depth of the greenhouse was almost over, Qinglian asked everyone to stop, she jumped into the greenhouse, stepped on the soil and leveled it, and waited for the garlic cloves to soak and plant it.

He Hongshan is like a marionette, and he is commanded by his daughter throughout the whole process.

This uses garlic to grow vegetables, and digs a cellar to grow vegetables in winter, which is a job that my ancestors have never done for eight generations!

Well, if you throw it anyway, it's also a throw, and it's up to your beloved daughter to toss.

After the garlic was soaked overnight, Qinglian beckoned her father to put the garlic cloves tightly on the soil surface, poured appropriate water, covered it tightly with a thick plastic sheet, and finally covered the plastic sheet with a thick straw mat to keep warm and shade the light.

Qinglian patted the soil on her hands, and was relieved to see the fruits of their labor, but there was pressure in her heart, although there was not much technical content in planting garlic, but she had never planted garlic!

Leave it to fate.

Today is Monday, the second and third children have gone to school, Qinglian hugged the fourth child and said to her father: "Dad, I have bought shoe cloth for the three of her, such a cold day, the third child still has to go to school, cotton shoes have to be made quickly, I will call my mother from my grandmother's house today." ”

He Hongshan didn't want his daughter-in-law to be at home every day, even if she ignored him, he could see his handsome daughter-in-law when he entered the door, and his heart was beautiful. However, I dare not complain about my daughter-in-law living in her mother's house for three days and two ends. I didn't dare to pick it up, for fear that my daughter-in-law would be annoyed.

Hearing his daughter say to pick her up, he said happily: "That's great, your grandmother hasn't seen you for a long time, she must miss you, and it just so happens that you also go to see your grandmother." ”

Qinglian was afraid that her father would gamble again, so she said, "Then I'll pick up my mother by myself, and you can take your little sister with you." ”

He Hongshan agreed again and again.

Grandma's house is quite far away from their village, more than ten miles away, Qinglian rode a bicycle borrowed from her cousin's house to her grandmother's house.