It's strange to say, Gu Changning has never been able to understand why white radishes can't but carrots can.

If you don't understand, you don't understand, the vegetables to be stored for the winter are Chinese cabbage and white radish, and Gu Changning can only choose to accept it.

White radish, like Chinese cabbage, can be sown at any time except winter, and the white radish grows at different times in different seasons.

It is now around the middle of May, it is summer, it belongs to summer radish, it takes almost two months from planting to harvesting, Gu Changning carefully calculated in his heart, this batch of planting will be harvested around mid-July, just in time to plant autumn radishes in late July.

Autumn radishes take longer than summer radish, it takes three months from sowing to harvesting, Gu Changning plans to plant all the harvested vegetable fields with autumn radishes, so as to store the vegetables for the winter.

In fact, according to the Gu family's previous habits, it was usually Gu Shan who harvested the rice in August, and then planted autumn radishes in the ground, and it could be harvested in November.

After harvesting the autumn radish, Gu Shan began to prepare the land, first cutting off all the roots of the weeds growing in the field, and then turning the ground and burying these weeds deep in the ground to serve as agricultural fertilizer.

After ploughing the ground, compost with dead leaves, straw left over from harvested crops, weeds, and rotten vegetable leaves that are removed every day.

Composting takes two to four months to complete, and the compost is completed just in the spring of the next year, as long as the manure is sprinkled in the ground before March, the ground is ploughed again, and the seedlings soaked in water are transplanted in the field before April.

Basically, all the crops are cultivated in this order, so according to this, even if the Gu family's five acres of land have been rented out for three years, they can get at least 200 catties of rice every year and some vegetables planted after the autumn harvest to store them for the winter.

However, Gu Changning knew in her heart that she could not count on the rice and vegetables in the past three years, at least in the hands of this family now, so she decided to use her own vegetable field, how could she grow some vegetables for the winter, and rely on herself to support herself and be self-sufficient.

Gu Changning was spreading the seeds evenly when he heard the sound of apricots coming from the front yard.

"Ning Ning—"

Gu Changning guessed that Xing'er should have sent her eggs that could hatch, so he hurriedly put down the bag containing the seeds, got up and patted the dust on his body, and walked to the front yard.

Yang Huiyun also heard Xing'er's voice in the house, and was just about to come out of the house, when Gu Changning passed by, he saw it and hurriedly said: "A-Niang, rest in the house, I'll open the door, Xing'er should have brought me eggs." ”

When Yang Huiyun heard this, she nodded, didn't say anything, turned around and went back to the house, and let Gu Changning open the door.

"Apricots." Gu Changning opened the door of the front yard and saw Xing'er standing in front of him, and hurriedly called her in, and swept her at will, and found that there was indeed a shoulder basket hanging on her arm, covered with a blue floral cloth, and the shape of the egg could be faintly seen.

"Is it hot? Shall I pour you a bowl of water? ”

Xing'er was coming over in time for the big sun, her forehead was covered with sweat, and Gu Changning hurriedly took her into the main hall of the South House to rest.

"It's okay, you don't have to pour it for me." Xing'er wiped the sweat on her forehead with her sleeve, put the shoulder basket on the table, and said, "This is the fifteen eggs that A-Niang picked for you, A-Niang has seen them one by one in the sun, and these are all chicks that can hatch." ”

"Great, Xing'er, when you go back, help me thank Aunt Chunhua, our family's current situation, there are many people in the village, if it weren't for Aunt Chunhua and Aunt Wang to help us, our family is afraid that it will be even worse than now." Gu Changning gently stroked the eggs, as if he was touching his own child, and said with joy.

Xing'er nodded as if she didn't understand, and admitted: "Okay, I'll tell A-Niang what you said." ”

In fact, Xing'er didn't understand the meaning of Gu Changning's words, there was a sudden change in the family in the previous life, and all the money was cheated away by the villains from all sides, and even the original family still had a few hundred catties of grain, which was sold at a cheap price in order to buy medicine for A-Niang.

When the grain is sold, it will be sold, as long as A-Niang can take care of her body.

However, when A-Niang was seven or eight months pregnant, she and her brother suddenly had a miscarriage, and she and her brother were panicked and at a loss, but thanks to these aunts reaching out and secretly bringing some food to their family, they would not be reduced to the need to go to the mountains to find wild vegetables and fruits to feed their stomachs.

Later, Ah Niang's health deteriorated, mainly because of heart disease.

She suffered a loss of her husband and child in half a year, and her family became destitute in order to buy medicine for her, and her heart was like ashes, and she felt that she had not only affected her two children, but also delayed Gu Huai'an's future.

With such thoughts in mind, she wanted to earn more money to supplement her family, and she also wanted to save a little more money, so that Gu Huai'an could go back to school as soon as possible, so she took advantage of the fact that Gu Changning and Gu Huai'an were not paying attention to doing embroidery work day and night, dragging her body down and being bedridden at the end of late autumn.

Yang Huiyun's condition suddenly worsened, Gu Huai'an decided to go to the town to ask for a more reliable doctor, but the doctor is so easy to invite, going out to see a doctor will cost at least two taels of silver, in the case of no way, Gu Huai'an can only decide to sell the house and treat A-Niang.

The current situation of the Gu family was seen by everyone in the village, and as soon as they heard that Gu Huai'an wanted to sell the house, some people suddenly had a crooked brain.

Because he knew that the house was sold for life-saving money, the person who was willing to buy the house desperately lowered the price, and the house that was originally built with dozens of taels of silver was sold to a dozen taels in this way, and the price was several times worse.

Such a price is very exciting, but it is a pity that the people who have money in their hands have basically chosen the land to build a house, and the people who have no money in their hands still have no money to buy it if they want to buy it, so they can only give it to this person cheaply.

Thinking of these future events, Gu Changning lowered his eyes and looked at the eggs, the hand shrunk in his sleeve couldn't help but clenched into a fist, and a haze flashed in his eyes.

Xing'er was busy wiping her sweat, but she didn't notice Gu Changning's expression, she stretched her neck and looked outside the house, she was shaken by the dazzling bright sunlight, and said a little dizzy: "Ningning, I won't tell you so much, I should go home and help A-Niang cook." ”

Gu Changning's mind was dragged back from the memories, she blinked, nodded and said, "Okay, then you can go back first...... Oh yes! The bowl I took from your house yesterday hasn't been given to you yet, it's been washed and put in the kitchen, so I'm going to get it for you. ”

After saying that, he walked to the kitchen, and Xing'er followed behind him when he saw this.

Gu Changning put the bowl in the cupboard, and was opening the cupboard to take the bowl at this time.

Xing'er stood in the shade at the door and looked at her, a trace of hesitation flashed on her face, and when Gu Changning brought the bowl over, she finally made up her mind and said, "Yes, I'm sorry!" Ningning. ”

"What's wrong? Okay, why do you want to say you're sorry? Gu Changning heard her sudden apology and asked puzzledly.

"I ...... yesterday" Xing'er twisted her fingers around the hem of her clothes, lowered her head a little embarrassed, and said, "I'm a little unhappy......

Gu Changning knew what was going on as soon as she heard it, yesterday when Aunt Chunhua said that she was going to serve her a bowl of chicken, Xing'er's face instantly pulled down, full of unhappiness, and when she left Xing'er's house, she didn't send her, Gu Changning guessed that it was because of this bowl of chicken.

Hearing her apologize to herself at this moment, she couldn't help but smile and said, "It's okay, I know you didn't mean to be angry with me, I didn't take it to heart." ”

It is understandable that if it were Gu Changning in the previous life, and the chicken that she had been looking forward to for a long time would be shared with others, she would also be unhappy, but it would not be as obvious as her.

Seeing that her words didn't look fake, Xing'er immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled brightly at her: "Hmm! ”

"Okay, let's go back and cook, this big sun, eat early and rest early." Gu Changning said with a smile.

"Got it, then I'm leaving, goodbye." Xing'er took the bowl, waved at her and left the Gu family.

Gu Changning plugged in the courtyard door and looked at the hour, there was still half an hour before noon, and it was time for him to cook.

She first put away the vegetable seeds in the vegetable field in the backyard, then took water and watered the vegetable field, and then picked a few vegetables in front of the soil ridge that had already grown, washed them by the well outside the kitchen, and took them into the kitchen.

After scooping the rice and putting it in a large pot to steam, then cutting the cleaned vegetables into pieces, and patting a few cloves of garlic, Gu Changning put the small iron pot suitable for her on the small stove and began to fry the vegetables in oil.

Her hand pouring oil is very steady, and she doesn't have the reluctance to look like other people pour oil with a painful face.

The reason why Gu Changning is willing to use oil is related to Gu Shan and Yang Huiyun.

Gu Shan was a good farmer when he was young, but at the same time, he also had a lot of food, and when he was busy with farming, he could eat ten catties of rice a day, and an average of more than three catties per meal.

Later, after marrying Yang Huiyun, he was reluctant to wronged his daughter-in-law, and began to buy a few taels of meat every once in a while and come back to open meat for her and eat some meat dishes.

Coupled with the condiments of vegetable oil and salt, he does not require a small amount of each meal like ordinary people, but Yang Huiyun put it, and gradually he found that his meal was much less.

Even when the farm was at its worst, he ate six catties of rice a day, and he didn't have dishes like other people in the village, Gu Shan pondered in his heart, and felt that it was still related to the food at home, so the Gu family's recipe for the future was set.

When the rest of the people in the village eat meat once or twice a month at most, the Gu family eats meat every two or three days, and the eggs are kept for their own consumption and never sold, and he does not limit the amount of vegetable oil and salt he puts in.

Therefore, Gu Changning was accustomed to the taste of home, and he didn't panic at all when he poured the oil into the pot, and the spoonful of oil used to cook a meal was more than the amount of oil in a day in the village.

Because most of the people in the village just brushed the bottom of the pot with oil and fried directly, they were very careful when brushing the pot, and they were afraid that they would bring an extra drop of oil out and cause waste.

Even so, there are still people who are reluctant to wash the pot, pour water directly into the pot after frying, add some vegetable leaves, and cook it into a pot of clear soup without oil and salt, and use the thin layer of oil to brush very clean and thorough.