Xia also remembered Xia Meiniang, and muttered, "No matter what, you have to ask your uncle to take time to pick up Mei Niang to live at home no matter what, they really can't take it back, so I'll go." Before, you were young, and I didn't worry about leaving you at home alone, so I haven't been to see her for so many years. Alas, my poor sister has been hard-tempered since she was a child......"

Xia Li said, "Okay, the second aunt doesn't want to go back to Xia's house to live, so she lives in our house." ”

Xia Shi thought so first, but he was too embarrassed to bring it up. Hearing Xia Li take the initiative to say this, he was extremely happy.

At the end of the next day, the second tiger and the third leopard came to Xia to leave home together. They said that the Li family refused to do the family matter.

Erhu said, "I heard that the Li family refused, and my grandmother was still happy, saying that the refusal was good, and the third uncle could agree to marry the stupid daughter of the landlord Zhu." ”

The three leopards also said stupidly, "My mother also said that it was good to refuse." My mother also said that when the third uncle marries the stupid daughter of the landlord Zhu, our family will be able to eat and drink spicy food together. ”

The two generations of middle-aged and elderly women of the old Yang family are really poisoning the next generation.

Xia Li glanced at him and said, "Landlord Zhu is not stupid, why should he give you his daughter's dowry." Don't think about other people's things, you can't think of them. If you want to live a good life, work your own. At the very least, learn from your father and your brother, strike iron well, work hard, and earn money by your own skills. ”

Seeing the fluffy bear come out, the three leopards grinned and agreed very happily.

However, because of Xia Shan's repeated instructions before leaving, as well as Xia Zhu's obstruction, Xia Laohan did not immediately invite the matchmaker to go to Zhu's house to propose marriage. This made Mrs. Xia and Xiao Yang very unhappy, and the two said that Xia Zhu was jealous of his younger brother and was unwilling to let his younger brother find a daughter from a rich family. No matter how much he scolds Xia Zhu in person, he scolds the Li family.

Li was so angry that he privately asked Xia Zhu to be less nosy.

Xia Zhu's eyes bulged and he scolded, "Mother-in-law who has no knowledge, Shanzi is good, and our family can be good." The family has already married the bad mother-in-law of Xiao Yang, do you want to marry another bad woman? ”

The Li family was angry on both sides, and often came to complain to the Xia family. Xia persuaded her and said that she couldn't marry the daughter of the Zhu family. The daughter of the Zhu family is honest, and the landlord of Zhu is not worried......

Entering the wax moon, the sky is even colder.

People put on the thickest clothes, and they did not go out of the house with their necks bent like bears afraid of the cold, and only walked around the yard when the sun was shining, or ran out and back quickly when they and peeed.

According to the hunter's grandfather, the climate here is much warmer than in the north, and blind bears do not hibernate. They only stay in the cave on the coldest days, and the rest of the time they come out to look for food.

Xia Li changed the old cotton jacket of his own childhood to Xiong Xiang and put it on, so that Xiong Xiang's life was better.

Xia Li asked if he liked it again, and if he liked it, he would make a dress for it.

Dangdang shook his head. In his previous life, he especially didn't like those dogs dressed like goblins. Besides, it doesn't feel that cold.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, the blue sky is like washing, the sun is shining, and the weather is still cold. But Xia Li's family went to the backyard vegetable patch, and they were all happy and happy-because they were going to harvest potatoes today.

The whole family is so happy, not only because the caramo is a new variety that Xia Li has planted with great difficulty, and Xia Ju, Dangdang, and Xiong like like the most like to eat, but also because this is the first time her family has harvested crops, which is the joy of a bumper harvest.

Zhu Er, Zhu Erjia carefully dug out a plant of caramon under the seedlings, Xia and Xia Li wore gloves to pick out the caramot, basically a plant can bear more than ten or twenty, eight or nine catties to more than a dozen catties.

Zhu Er said with a smile, "This taro is really prolific, and it can bear so many seedlings under one plant." ”

Xia was also smiling. Not to mention Xia Ju, Dangdang, and Xiong, they cheered with joy.

After the harvest, the sixteen taro seedlings were harvested more than 160 catties.

These taro seedlings are carefully cared for and fertilized diligently, but because of the weather, they are not very productive, and Xia Li is a little disappointed. If you plant too much, there are no chemical fertilizers in this era, there are not so many natural fertilizers, and even if the weather is good, the yield is not necessarily better than this. However, it is still much more productive than other crops of this era, except for sweet potatoes.

To plant an acre of land, you need to use about 200 catties of potato seeds, and Xia Li was reluctant to use them all, so she decided to use 100 catties of potatoes as seeds, leaving more than 60 catties to eat.

The land in the east courtyard has been reclaimed by Zhu Er, and the potato seeds were planted in early February when the weather was getting warmer.

The potatoes left behind should be sent to the Xia family and the four grandfathers' families for four, and Li Xiucai, the Hao family and other related households for three each, which is ten catties out. These people all know that Xia Li has planted rare things, and it is not good to give them some to try when they harvest it.

If you want to send Liu Changzhao another ten catties, there will only be more than forty catties left. If you want to eat such a little until the next harvest of potatoes, you must save it, and there is no extra money to sell it for business.

At noon, I made a potato roast pork ribs, and the family ate it deliciously.

In the next morning, Xia Li led Xia Ju and Dangdang to Li Xiucai's house to deliver the taro.

The large bamboo forest outside Li's house shades the sun in summer, but looks cold and gloomy in winter, and it feels like the wind is much stronger than elsewhere.

Unexpectedly, Li Xiucai still knew about the potato, he smiled, "This is the potato?" I heard it many years ago, and it tastes a bit similar to our Yamato's taro, which is soft and glutinous. She has the ability to leave the girl, and even this thing has been grown by herself. ”

Xia Li smiled and said, "We have eaten at noon, and the potato and taro are not the same flavor at all...... and he talked about the two simplest recipes, which are potato stew and shredded arrow. Three potatoes can only be used for one dish, depending on how they like to eat it.

Xia Ju also said firmly, "Mr. believes me, this potato is much more delicious than taro, this is my true feeling." ”

Lin smiled heartily and said, "Thank you Lili for thinking of us, and when Xiuwen comes back from the academy, we will eat this rare thing......

She explained why she rejected Xia Shan, "Xia Shan is a good student, smart, motivated, and well-behaved, and my master and I like it." It's just that, alas, we only have Min'er, a daughter, who is spoiled, and I am afraid that she will not serve her mother-in-law if she marries into the Xia family, and she will complain. ”

She said it nicely, but in fact, she felt that Mrs. Xia was a wicked mother-in-law who mistreated her daughter-in-law, and she didn't necessarily have to be rare for her daughter, and she didn't want her daughter to go to Xia's house to suffer.

She has this kind of thought, Xia Li completely understands, and Xia Li, a junior, has no reason to talk too much about this matter. Just laughing and laughing, not much to say.

When Xia left his sister and brother, it was still Li Xiumin who sent them out of the bamboo forest.

Li Xiumin seemed to have lost weight, pouting, sadness in his eyes, and La Xiali's hand was tight. It seems that the little girl still likes Xia Shan in her heart.