Chapter 27 Planting Sweet Potatoes

This morning, Su Qingtong took the bus to Qingxi Town by buying vegetables for his grandfather.

Su Qingtong was embarrassed to sell twice as expensive vegetables to Qingxi Hotel because the vegetable farmer's summer vegetables were about to go on the market, and even some new vegetables were already on the market, so she came to make it clear to Huang Zhixin this time and asked him to find other sources.

And Huang Zhixin also wanted to tell her about it.

Although her vegetables are delicious, but with the fresh vegetables of the nearby vegetable farmers on the market, it cannot be regarded as a scarce and expensive source, if the Su family girl sells the vegetables to the Qingxi Hotel, the price has to be adjusted to the same as the price of the vegetable farmers, otherwise there is no way to explain the above audit.

He was figuring out how to speak.

Who knew that Su Qingtong would talk about this matter first: "Uncle Huang, I don't plan to deliver food next week." ”

Huang Zhixin blurted out, "Then what business are you going to do?" ”

Su Qingtong said: "I plan to sell fruits, and I will bring some fruits for you to taste in a few days, if you think it is good, continue to take care of my business." ”

Huang Zhixin laughed out loud: "Okay, it's good to sell fruits, our hotel needs fruits all year round, but the amount is not much, if you really have good goods, Uncle Huang will not let you suffer." ”

Su Qingtong's eyes narrowed with a smile, and he quickly nodded and said: "Okay, don't worry, the taste should be no worse, the types of fruits I sell include peaches, watermelons, melons, pomegranates, plums, loquats, pears, etc., there may not be many goods, but watermelons and melons are enough." ”

Huang Zhixin said: "Yes, I believe the quality of the things you sell is guaranteed!" ”

"Then you'll have to try it first."

The two of them agreed that when the melons and fruits were ripe, they would bring them to Huang Zhixin to try, and then he would think about what price to help her.

Huang Zhixin smiled and breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the back of Su Qingtong leaving, thinking that this girl really had a seven-trick exquisite heart, how did she know that he wanted to tell her about this, and she didn't even need him to bring it up, and probably felt that if he said it, it would affect the friendship that had been established between them with great difficulty.

Su Qingtong had already pulled out the vegetables a few days earlier, and now he is sending a batch of goods accumulated in the space.

Today's vegetable fields are full of watermelons and melons, most of them have already laid buds, and watermelons have even hung fruits, or it won't be long before the melons and fruits will be fragrant, not that she is afraid that Huang Zhixin can't take the initiative to put it forward, but that she really has no vegetables to sell.

Su Qingtong first went to the department store in the town to buy a few clothes, and then went to the sewing shop to pick up a few newly made seasonal clothes, thinking that there would be no need to deliver food at two ends in three days in the future, and he was relieved, in fact, it was very hard to deliver food.

When Su Qingtong went home in the afternoon, she naturally didn't bring the uncle who sold vegetables, nor did she bring forty or fifty catties of vegetables home, she only brought a dozen catties of green peppers, beans and eggplants home.

Can't Qingxi Hotel don't have out-of-season vegetables, she can still buy it, isn't it suspicious.

And she also left two points of vegetable land in the space, and she did not plan to sell it for money, purely to supplement the family's food, the family eats vegetables very well, and it is not good to leave two points of land, otherwise she will face the situation of having no vegetables to eat.

Uncle Su was not satisfied with the vegetables brought back by his granddaughter: "Why is there only such a little?" ”

Su Qingtong said to his grandfather: "The uncle who bought vegetables said that this is the last batch of goods, and the supply is not sufficient, so we can only give us these, and he will not sell vegetables in the future, because the vegetables of the vegetable farmers are already on the market, and he can't make money, so he plans to sell watermelons and fruits." ”

Uncle Su was shocked: "Why does he care if other people's dishes are not on the market?" As long as he has vegetables, he sells them, isn't this a good sale? ”

Su Qingtong thought to herself, there is still a price problem in the middle, and she can't affect her financial resources for the sake of a small number of people's tables.

"Uncle said that there was no goods coming in, and he couldn't sell it even if he wanted to."

"Where did he buy the goods from, he doesn't want to do this business, he can let us do it, you go to him and ask for clarification."

Su Qingtong said 'ah', and couldn't help but want to roll his eyes: "Uncle said that the person who grows vegetables doesn't grow vegetables anymore, it's not that he doesn't want to do this business, he said that he can also sell other vegetables, but he can't afford to sell them, he doesn't want to waste time and energy." ”

Uncle Su was speechless for a moment, and he walked in the house and said to himself: "But he can't say that if he doesn't sell it, he won't sell it." ”

Su Qingtong returned the extra money to his grandfather and said, "Grandpa, what do you have to buy his vegetables for?" Anyway, the vegetables grown by our family can be eaten soon, whether you buy vegetables or not, you have to eat, and you also have vegetables to eat if they sell vegetables or not. ”

Uncle Su said: "You don't know, the vegetables he sells are a hundred times better than the ones we grow ourselves." ”

Of course, Su Qingtong knew what was good, but he deliberately pretended not to know and said: "It's not the same vegetable, the first vegetables grown in our family are very delicious." ”

Uncle Su said, "Then how can it be the same? These out-of-season vegetables are good for the body, eat a few more meals, and even the small problems on the body have disappeared, which is most suitable for older people, and the effect can be seen soon, and the vegetables at home are really just meals, and there is no effect. ”

Su Qingtong really didn't know very well, but she vaguely felt that the dishes she sold were better than ordinary dishes, and they were originally vegetables that grew in space, so how could they be mortal, otherwise, she wouldn't have sent vegetables to her aunt regularly.

At this time, I had to appease my grandfather and said, "It's better to wait for the end of the year, and at the end of the year, there will be out-of-season vegetables to buy." ”

Uncle Su was very sorry in his heart, and he was a little unwilling, so he asked his eldest granddaughter again: "You didn't ask him where he lives today and what is his name?" ”

Su Qingtong said: "I asked, he asked me to call him uncle, said that he lived in Xianshan, and said that I didn't know where it was when he told me." ”

"From uncle? Immortal Mountain? Uncle Su muttered, "Didn't you tell you anything else?" ”

Su Qingtong shook his head and said, "No, he didn't want to tell me his specific address, and he said that I shouldn't tell others, he was troublesome." ”

Uncle Su had to give up, and he also understood that the out-of-season vegetables were so popular, and this uncle didn't have to worry about whether his vegetables could be sold at all, but he was afraid that he was really afraid of annoyance and was unwilling to tell his real name and home address.

I had to say, "You go, next time you meet Uncle Cong, you must bring him to the house to play." ”

Su Qingtong nodded helplessly, grandpa is so unwilling, and he is still thinking about seeing the vegetable seller.

Su Qingtong also knew that her grandfather knew that it was impossible for her uncle to come to the house to play, he was just pinning a little hope on him in desperation, pinning his hope on a little child, it was originally an unrealistic idea, and this matter became a foregone conclusion.

Although Uncle Su was quite disappointed, he had nothing to do.

When Su Qingtong climbed to the sweet potato field in the back mountain, her mother was digging the soil, so she helped pick up stones and dry grass, and then threw the dead branches and hay under the hillside behind her house.

The mother and daughter were busy for a long time, and the father also came up with a hoe on his back, and saw the eldest daughter squatting in the soil to collect stones, and told her to go home and mix the manure from the chicken coop with firewood ashes and carry it to the mountain, and then fill it separately into the small soil pit dug out to plant sweet potato seedlings.

Su Qingtong endured the dirt and smell, and finally cleaned up all the chicken manure in the chicken coop.

After Su Qingtong finished filling the chicken manure, her father asked her to plant sweet potato seedlings, he and his mother went to fetch water to water the seedlings, and the three of them finished planting five points of sweet potatoes before it was completely dark, and then they went home exhausted to cook on the fire.

Growing sweet potatoes in the countryside is not an easy thing, sweet potatoes are drought tolerant, most of them are in the poor soil on the mountain, and they need to be watered twice in the morning and evening when they are just planted, which is really the same as climbing the mountain and wading through the water, tired and half dead, and the adults are too hard, let alone a child.

When he was a child, Su Qingtong was most afraid of watering sweet potato seedlings, especially watering sweet potato seedlings with his father.

Her father always urged her to hurry up, and if she couldn't keep up with his rhythm, he would yell at her loudly and scold her, and even run over to beat people after leaving what she was doing.

Su Qingtong has always been afraid of him, so he can only climb the mountain desperately, after all, he is young, his height and physical strength are not good, and he almost fell downhill many times, and it was okay to fall well, that is, it hurt to break the skin and flesh for a few days, but if he fell badly, he would break his hands and feet, and some people even accidentally fell to death.

But his father never thought about this problem, he only thought about supervising her to do things, and sometimes he would give Su Qingtong a feeling of putting the cart before the horse, as if his father was watering the sweet potato field together specifically to grind her, not to urge her to water the sweet potato field.

At this time of year, Su Qingtong hopes that the sky will be beautiful, and it will rain heavily, so there is no need to carry water up the mountain every day, but this year's sky is not beautiful, the sun is shining every day, and the climate is hotter than in previous years.

Su Qingtong can now use the water of the space to irrigate, so he doesn't want to water sweet potato seedlings with his father, an originally simple thing has become complicated and hard because of his father's involvement.

She wanted to send her father away, otherwise she didn't know when the torture would end.

If so, she deliberately pretended to be sensible and said to her father: "Dad, if you have something to do, go and get busy, I can just water these sweet potato fields alone, don't worry, I will water every bag wet before going home." ”

Su Xiuqian looked at her daughter in some surprise, thinking that she was so sensible? How does it smell of conspiracy?

People are sometimes very strange, what you ask him to do will not want to do, what you don't let him do, he will rush to do it, Su Xiuqian at this time has this subconscious.

"Dad doesn't have anything to do for the time being, as long as you don't be lazy, we will be able to finish watering the sweet potato field soon."

Su Qingtong couldn't cry or laugh, so she had to secretly irrigate with the water of the space behind her father's back, and she couldn't make it too obvious, it was really embarrassing for her.

She followed her father to carry water without love, and deliberately walked ten meters away from her father, because the water in her bucket was not full, and if her father saw it, she would have to be beaten and scolded, so she followed not far away, and when she got in front of her father, she led water out of the space to fill two buckets.

Five days later, it finally rained heavily, and after this heavy rain, the sweet potato seedlings planted before were alive, and they no longer needed to be watered every day, just wait until a month later to loosen the soil and pull weeds for the sweet potato seedlings for a few more days.

After the heavy rain, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the children love to move, and after running around outside, they take off only a shirt.

On May Day, Liu Lihui, who was on vacation, originally wanted to go back to City C, but later he didn't know why he didn't go back, but went to his uncle in the Mashan production team.

At this moment, Su Qingtong was standing in the paddy field with chemical fertilizer, holding a handful of seedlings in his left hand, and twisting a locust that had just been torn off his calf with his right hand, rubbing vigorously.

After a while, the water on the locust was slowly kneaded dry by her, and the body was tightly glued to her fingers, and Su Qingtong slowly squeezed the leech's transparent body, until the blood it sucked burst out, until there was no drop left by her, and it turned into a thin and resilient skin.

"I'll let you suck my blood, I'll let you suck my blood, you just suck blood, you still make my wounds itch so much......"

Suddenly, there was a loud shout from behind: "What are you doing standing there?" Why don't you hurry up and do something? ”

Su Qingtong was so frightened that he threw the soft locust on his finger towards the paddy field next to him, and hurriedly bent down to plant seedlings.