Chapter 4 Oversized Tomatoes
"Wow...... This is our tomato?"
Qi Xiaolian muttered to herself.
"What's going on? Why do tomatoes get so big overnight?"
Zheng Dashan's voice came.
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"Got a reaction?"
Zheng Qilin, who was lying on the bed, woke up with a spirit, got up and jumped out of bed, quickly dressed, and prepared to go out.
"Brother, look, the tomatoes in our vegetable garden have mutated. ”
Yuyan had already arrived at the door, and was about to wake him up.
"Really? I'll take a look. ”
Zheng Qilin walked towards the vegetable garden.
"Qi Lin, what are you doing with our tomatoes?"
The parents pointed to a tomato the size of a small watermelon and said in disbelief.
"Is it mutated by radiation?"
Yuyan was suspicious.
"Probably not, this is when I watered the vegetable garden last night, I added some fertilizer to promote growth, I didn't grasp the amount, and I added a little too much, so it became like this. Rest assured, this must be a healthy and environmentally friendly pure green vegetable. ”
Zheng Qilin explained, while walking along the vegetable garden, observing the changes of all the vegetables in the vegetable garden in turn.
In the whole vegetable garden, except for this tomato, although the other vegetables are much more lush than yesterday, they are still normal, that is to say, the three breaths he blew yesterday all acted on this tomato.
"Wow, that's so sweet!"
Xiaoyu exclaimed.
Zheng Qilin hurriedly turned around and saw Xiaoyu picking a red tomato as big as a small watermelon and gnawing on it.
"Qi Lin, is this tomato really okay?"
Father Zheng Dashan asked out of prudence.
"Hmm. It's okay. ”
Zheng Qilin nodded affirmatively, this "immortal qi" with mysterious power was breathed out of his mouth, and if there were really any side effects, it would have been manifested in his body as early as possible.
"Brother, Mom and Dad, one of you tastes a piece, it's really sweet. It's all watermelon!"
Yuyan broke a few pieces and handed them to Zheng Qilin, Zheng Dashan and Qi Xiaolian respectively.
Zheng Qilin took a big bite, the juice splashed, the tomatoes were completely sandy, melting in the mouth, and a sweet and sour taste washed the buds on the tip of the tongue in his mouth, which was very sour.
Zheng Dashan and Qi Xiaolian looked at each other and tried to taste it.
"It's really sweet, and it tastes good!"
Zheng Dashan's eyes flashed, and he nodded again and again.
"It tastes good, but is it still a tomato when it's so big?"
Qi Xiaolian was puzzled.
"Tomatoes, of course, they're tomatoes. ”
Zheng Qilin smiled.
"The taste is still the taste of tomatoes, and the ingredients and elements contained in them are also the elements of tomatoes, and they must be tomatoes. Brother, can I pick the largest scale and see how much it weighs?"
Yuyan said.
"Yes!"
Zheng Qilin nodded.
"Okay, then I'll take the biggest one off. ”
Yuyan happily walked into the tomato forest and picked a red tomato as big as a football.
"Oh, it's so heavy, I can't even hold it. ”
Yuyan muttered.
"Put it first, brother will give you the scale. ”
After Zheng Qilin finished speaking, he hurriedly walked towards the utility room and brought a plate scale.
Yuyan put the tomatoes on the plate scale, four catties and two taels, which was completely compared to a small watermelon. If it's that kind of hanging melon, it doesn't have to be so big.
"More than four pounds ......"
"If we say that our tomatoes are more than four pounds, will it frighten people......
Zheng Dashan and Qi Xiaolian were shocked, after living for so many years, it was the first time they had seen such a big tomato.
"Let's cut this one and eat it, it's so delicious, I've heard that eating too many tomatoes can still make your face beautiful." ”
Xiaoyu swallowed.
"Eat again at noon. Early in the morning, eating too much of this raw and cold thing is easy to eat bad stomach. ”
Mother Qi Xiaolian said.
"Oh, okay......"
Yuyan nodded.
"Mom and Dad, this tomato rack has to be tied anew, or it will fall to the ground. ”
Zheng Qilin said after looking at it again.
"Yes, I have to hurry up and tie the bracket again, now it's just a dozen big tomatoes, and if it grows for a few days, it's densely packed with such big tomatoes, it will definitely fall." ”
Qi Xiaolian said.
"You go cook for the kids, and I'll tie them up. ”
Zheng Dashan said.
"Hmm. ”
Qi Xiaolian nodded.
"Mom, I'll help you cook together. ”
Yuyan followed her mother to the kitchen.
"Dad, let's tie it together. ”
Zheng Qilin saw his father go to the utility room to look for ropes and sticks, and hurriedly said.
"You're not well, go back and rest first, and stay at home honestly these days. ”
Zheng Dashan said.
"Dad, I'm fine. You see I'm not jumping around right now......"
Zheng Qilin twisted his ass specifically.
"Alright, you can just hand me something. ”
Zheng Dashan gave him a blank look.
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In this way, Yuyan and her mother Qi Xiaolian are cooking, and Zheng Qilin and her father Zheng Dashan are making tomato racks.
Because there were not many tomatoes in the vegetable garden, only thirty or forty, so when they tied up the shelves, their mother Qi Xiaolian and Yuyan just cooked the meal.
The family sat down and had breakfast, then his father and mother were going to weed in the fields, Yuyan was going to do his homework, and Zheng Qilin was going to go out for a walk and study what magical effects the "fairy qi" he breathed out.
At this moment, a middle-aged woman in her forties and fifties, white and chubby, walked through the door.
"Dashan, you're going to the field, the centipedes are coming to the village entrance, everyone is going to sell them, aren't you going?"
This is Aunt Liu, who lives opposite his house, and has a very good relationship with her mother Qi Xiaolian, which is the kind of girlfriend relationship of the older generation.
"I'll go. ”
Zheng Dashan hurriedly put down the hoe, turned around and entered the utility room, and soon came out with three bundles of dried centipedes.
"Oh my God, you've caught so many centipedes!"
Aunt Liu's eyes widened and she was shocked, they usually have fifty centipedes tied together to form a small bundle, Zheng Dashan's big bundle is at least four small bundles, and three bundles are twelve small bundles, which can be sold for at least more than a thousand yuan.
"I didn't sell it last time, so I saved more. ”
Zheng Dashan smiled and hurriedly walked out of the gate.
"Xiaolian, your family is really hard, remember to let him not go to too remote places in the future, my cousin Yougui went out yesterday and was bitten by a centipede, unconscious, and was sent to the county hospital in the middle of the night for rescue, I heard that his life is not guaranteed." ”
Aunt Liu was worried.
"Ah...... It's so serious, my family was also bitten by a centipede last night, and his hands were swollen like pig's trotters, but fortunately, Qi Lin brought back a kind of imported wind oil essence, and it was immediately better after wiping a little. ”
Qi Xiaolian said proudly.
"Oh, this medicine is so powerful? Qi Lin is back? What about the people? This kid is back, but he just came to visit his godmother. ”
Aunt Liu looked around.
"Auntie, I'm here. I only came back yesterday, I was so tired, I slept all day, and I haven't gone out yet. ”
Zheng Qilin walked out of the vegetable garden with a smile.
"What are you kid cat doing there, huh...... Why did you lose so much weight, I feel sorry for my godmother......"
Aunt Liu pulled Zheng Qilin to her and looked her up and down.
"I'm fine. ”
Zheng Qilin was a little embarrassed.
"You kid, you're so old, and you're still shy like a big girl! By the way, is there still that wind oil essence that your mother just said? Isn't that expensive? Can you give your uncle a little use? ”
Aunt Liu hesitated and asked.
"Yes, Mom, do you still have the remaining wind oil essence?"
Zheng Qilin looked at his mother.
"Yes...... Your dad wiped it a little. There's a lot left. ”
Qi Xiaolian replied.
"Then let my aunt send it to Uncle Yougui. ”
Zheng Qilin said.
"Oh, okay. I'll take it. ”
Qi Xiaolian was a little reluctant, after all, this thing was brought back by her son from abroad, and it must have cost a lot of money, and besides, this thing has such a miraculous effect on centipede bites, in case her husband is bitten by a centipede again, this thing can save his life. However, after all, Yougui is in the same village as them, and she is still Aunt Liu's cousin, and now she is in danger of her life, so she can't watch him have an accident, kindness is her nature.