Chapter 26: The Arm-Thick Cucumber
Zheng Qilin came to the vegetable garden and took a serious look.
The beans are still in blooming state, not suitable, in case the flowers are only big after watering the fairy water, and it will be wasted if the beans fail to bear fruit.
Eggplant doesn't even have flower bones, and it doesn't fit.
All that was left were peppers and cucumbers, both of which were flowering and bearing fruit, peppers were the size of soybeans and cucumbers were as long as little fingers.
You have to choose one of these two, or just pour some fairy water on both.
After thinking about it for a while, I thought it would be better to choose cucumbers, because chili peppers can only be used as vegetables, and if the restaurant doesn't want them, it will be troublesome if you can't sell so many chili peppers.
But cucumbers are different, cucumbers can be used as fruits not only as vegetables, but also as fruits, even if they can't be sold, they can be cut into strips to dry.
Once you've chosen your cucumbers, close the knife and start watering.
The water flowed into the vegetable field, and the originally dry land was finally moistened instantly, and the vegetable leaves, which had been slightly wilted after a day of sun exposure, were irrigated by the cool well water, and they were immediately energetic.
Irrigate one by one, and when it's the cucumber's turn, take a deep breath and slowly spit it out at the outlet of the water pipe.
I saw a few faint wisps of purple air instantly merge into the water flow and fall into the field.
"Bang la la la ......"
The clear and cold well water mixed with his fairy breath and watered the cucumbers. I vaguely saw a purple air flow around the roots of the first few cucumbers that came into contact with the well water, and the few that came into contact with the back could not see the purple air flow, and thought about it, he could blow out two or three mouthfuls of fairy gas a day anyway, and he only used one bite today, so he might as well blow another mouthful, so he blew a mouthful of fairy gas into the water outlet of the water pipe.
After blowing this mouthful, I obviously felt a little weak.
It seems that it is more reasonable for him to blow two mouthfuls of immortal qi a day, but three mouthfuls of immortal qi are a bit overdrawn, and his body can't hold it.
At this time, I was relieved to see that the roots of the remaining cucumbers also had a faint purple air flow surrounding.
After a while, the vegetable garden was irrigated, he turned off the gate knife, put away the water pipe, called Huzi, and asked him if he would be busy tomorrow, and if he was not busy, he would go to the county seat with him to buy some things.
Huzi didn't hesitate and agreed directly.
Hanging up the phone, Zheng Qilin entered the house, ready to sleep, and at this time, his mother Qi Xiaolian pushed open the door and walked in.
"Qi Lin, are you ready to go to bed? When you watered the vegetable garden just now, did you add the kind of fertilizer you brought back from outside?"
Mother Qi Xiaolian walked to Zheng Qilin's bedside, sat down in front of him and asked.
"Well, add a little bit to that cucumber, I guess it will surprise you and my dad tomorrow morning. ”
Zheng Qilin said with a smile.
"Yes, don't grow to the size of zucchini, or it'll be the same as tomatoes, and no one will buy it. ”
Mother Qi Xiaolian said worriedly.
"Don't worry now, I know a restaurant in the county, and I can sell them cucumbers when the time comes. ”
Zheng Qilin said with a smile.
"Oh, that's good. Qi Lin, Mom, I'll tell you something. ”
Mother Qi Xiaolian took out a bank card from her pocket and handed it to Zheng Qilin.
"What's the situation?"
Zheng Qilin took the card from his mother's hand suspiciously.
"This card was given to you by Xiangxiang. ”
Qi Xiaolian hesitated and said.
"Ah...... What's going on?"
Zheng Qilin was startled and hurriedly returned the card to his mother.
"This afternoon, Xiangxiang went back to the city, and I happened to meet me on the way back from the field, so she gave me this card and gave it to you. At that time, my mother didn't ask for it, but after listening to Xiangxiang's explanation, my mother felt that she could give it to you. ”
Qi Xiaolian stuffed the bank card into Zheng Qilin's hand.
"Mom, you're really confused, this bank card is money, not just a random collection. ”
Zheng Qilin sighed.
"Mom isn't confused. Xiangxiang told her mother, if you want to engage in breeding and planting in our old house, the initial investment is very high. Your father also said that it is three or four thousand a year to contract that wasteland, and if you want to contract for twenty years, it will be almost seventy thousand. Buying those greenhouses, Xiangxiang asked, even if it is only four or five meters wide and more than ten meters long, the cost of one is tens of thousands of yuan. If you build five or six at will, you'll get fifty or sixty thousand. The next step is to maintain the greenhouse, and the electricity and water bills and other bits and pieces begin, and they have to get thousands of dollars a month. When the vegetables in the greenhouse come up, you have to take them out and sell them, you can't always let Huzi help you, Xiangxiang said, the kind of pickup truck that can pull things in ordinary order, it costs forty or fifty thousand yuan. That's 200,000 for these expenses. Where do you get that much money? So, don't think that just planting a greenhouse in our countryside costs a lot of money, but it's actually expensive. Xiangxiang said, there are 200,000 yuan in this card, which is lent to you first, so that you can start early. As for when it will be repaid, wait until you have the money, and then talk about it. ”
Qi Xiaolian said meaningfully.
"Alas...... Mom, it's not as simple as you think. This money, you can't ask for it. ”
Zheng Qilin shook his head.
"Why? Don't you like Xiangxiang? Or do you dislike Xiangxiang and divorced?"
Qi Xiaolian was puzzled.
"No, the main thing is that I want to live quietly for a while, cut off the past, and see my heart clearly. So now I don't want to get emotionally involved. Forget it, I'll take the card first, and I'll still be fragrant when the time comes. I'm a little sleepy and want to sleep, Mom, you should rest early. ”
Zheng Qilin said helplessly. What his mother thought, he knew very well in his heart.
"Okay, Qi Lin, I think you can really think about Xiangxiang this time. This child was grown up by his mother, whether he is good to you or not, my mother knows in her heart. ”
Qi Xiaolian muttered out of the room.
"I know ......"
Zheng Qilin couldn't smile bitterly.
......
At six o'clock the next morning, Zheng Qilin woke up and got up, walked out of the door, and saw his father, mother and son busy in the vegetable garden.
"Qi Lin, are you awake? ”
Mother beckoned.
Zheng Qilin walked over and saw a shocking scene.
The cucumbers in the vegetable garden grew overnight, and on the shelves hung were dense and tender cucumbers as thick as zucchini, sixty or seventy centimeters long.
"How big has it been?"
Zheng Qilin said in surprise, I really let my mother guess correctly last night, this cucumber has grown into zucchini......
"Qi Lin, your fertilizer is too powerful, I was shocked to see such a big cucumber when I woke up this morning, if it wasn't for your mother who said that you applied that magical fertilizer when you irrigated the vegetable garden last night, I would have thought I hadn't woken up from my dream." ”
His father, Zheng Dashan, held a piece of string in his hand and tied cucumber vines.
"Qi Lin, do you want to take off these big heads? You are not going to the city today, by the way, sell and sell, do you want anyone. ”
Mother Qi Xiaolian said.
"Well, you can take it off, and I sold it by the way today. ”
Zheng Qilin nodded and picked a cucumber down. This cucumber was picked and grabbed in his hand, heavy, sixty or seventy centimeters long, thicker than his arm, Zheng Qilin felt that this cucumber was at least three or four catties.
"Click......"
He broke it off, took a bite and ate it, it was crisp and delicious, and there was a faint fragrance in his mouth, and the taste was quite good.
"Mom and Dad, you can try it too. ”
Zheng Qilin broke it in two and handed it to his parents.
"Well, it tastes good. ”
"It's crispy, and I feel like it can grow a little bigger. ”
Parents said.
"It's okay, no matter how big it is, it won't be as crisp and tender as it is now. ”
Zheng Qilin said, muttering in his heart, the taste is good, but such a thick and long cucumber, is anyone willing to buy it?