Chapter 23: Watermelon
The kernels of the mutated white jujube were a little strange, like a thin needle with very sharp ends, and Lin Xiaoliang carefully planted the two kernels with great anticipation, and poured some spiritual spring water.
- In fact, because of the effect of energy, the crops in the space do not need irrigation and fertilization, but the spiritual spring water has some benefits for the plants, and she will naturally not be stingy at this time.
In the remaining vacant land, Lin Xiaoliang picked a few crops that he could find an opportunity to take out, such as peaches, melons, grapes, etc., and planted them.
After that, she stood next to the new orchard, which was very diverse and had heavy fruit hanging from its branches. Lin Xiaoliang once picked and tasted it, and was surprised to discover the strangeness of these fruits. It can be said that the efficacy of these fruits can be comparable to that of spiritual spring water, but the effect of spiritual spring water lies in the body, but the effect of these fruits lies in mental power. According to 001, these fruits contain a small amount of space energy, and it is speculated that the species in the new space should have this effect, which is not assimilated by the few acres of land on the Lingquan side.
At the corner of the fruit forest, there is a small open space, about half an acre in size, Lin Xiaoliang plans to dig a pond to raise fish, and half fence to raise some chickens, ducks and geese.
Although there are countless aquatic products in the lakes, streams and oceans over there, most of them are anchovy, saury, osmanthus fish, pufferfish, etc., ordinary such as crucian carp, carp, grass carp and the like, but with her current mental power, it is still a little laborious to accurately grasp one of the many living creatures, not to mention that the fish there are all beneficial to spiritual power, and grandpa and grandma will also find clues after a long time. Not to mention those seafood, although Z province is near the sea, but their county is not close to the sea, at this time the traffic is not developed at all, the only rare "seafood" that will appear on the table is only the hairtail, but that is not actually the hairtail fish in the sea, but the Yangtze River hairtail.
Originally, Lin Xiaoliang planned to dig next to the spiritual spring, but when she learned that the land there could make the plant mutation and optimization optimization, she was naturally reluctant.
Moreover, the corners of the orchard are also quite at the junction of the new space and the original space, where the species are less affected, the energy content of the fish raised is much lower, and the effect on mental power is so low that people are imperceptible.
The 1/4 acre pond needs to be dug outside for at least three to five days, but Lin Xiaoliang can solve it in only three to five minutes with his mental power. After digging, she brought in spiritual spring water to fill the pond to eight minutes, and then exchanged some common fish fry, shrimp fry, and crab fry at the exchange shop to put them in.
Native species are very cheap in the exchange shop, and she didn't even spend ten gold coins to buy so many things.
As for the fence, it is more troublesome, she also plans to raise some pigs, cattle and sheep in the fruit forest, so the fence must be fenced, otherwise the young chickens, ducks and geese will be trampled to death by pigs, cattle and sheep. In addition, both ducks and geese have to swim in the water, and it seems that there should be a fence around the pond as well.
In fact, raising livestock has been a little long away from her, that is, when she was still at home, she didn't do much of this kind of dirty work, at most she mixed the feed, and the other fathers didn't allow her to touch her hands, only let her study hard.
But she is not worried at all now, the space has a purification function, and the soil can automatically absorb nutrients, such as animal manure, dead grass, dead stems, etc., will be quickly absorbed by the soil, and there is no need to clean it up at all. As for feed, plants in space grow extremely quickly, but according to 001, animals do not fall into this category, and may grow faster than they do in reality, but they are by no means as exaggerated as plants.
In this way, she only needs to grow some grass in the fence and sprinkle some seeds of aquatic plants that ducks, geese and fish love to eat, and she does not have to worry about feed.
Pigs, cattle and sheep don't have to worry, the fruit forest is so big, she just sprinkles some grass seeds enough for them to eat.
Coming out of the space, it was already time to make dinner, Lin Xiaoliang cooked the sweet potato porridge, peeled the potatoes and cut them into thin strips, made a simple vinegar shredded potato, and fished the crucian carp out of the water and cleaned it up to make a crucian carp soup.
Such a meal is already very good at this time, white rice is still a luxury at this time, sweet potatoes are the staple food, and it is already very good to be able to make porridge instead of dry gnawing, especially not white-hearted sweet potatoes but yellow-hearted sweet potatoes.
The two dishes are ordinary, the potatoes are grown by themselves, but it is rare to be willing to fry vegetables in oil like Lin Xiaoliang, as for the crucian carp soup, this will be the period when there are many flood seasons, if you want to eat fish, you only need to go to the countryside to catch it, as long as the technology is not too poor, you usually will not return empty-handed.
At the dinner table, Shen Zhangming and Luo Yufang were the same as before, drinking several mouthfuls of sweet potato porridge before they could sandwich a small chopsticks of shredded potatoes, and the crucian carp soup would not be touched.
Lin Xiaoliang looked helpless, quickly sandwiched a piece of fish belly meat for each of the two elders, and took out a small bowl prepared on the side and filled a bowl of soup for each of the two elders.
"We don't like fish, you can eat it yourself." Shen Zhangming wanted to sandwich the fish into Lin Xiao's bowl.
Lin Xiaoliang hurriedly blocked the mouth of the bowl, "Grandpa, you know the amount of food I have, how can I eat such a big fish." If you don't eat it, I'll throw out the rest? ”
Shen Zhangming paused, and said with some hesitation: "Then you can eat this fish belly meat, and your grandmother and I will eat the fish back." ”
This granddaughter-in-law is good, but she is not very good at being in charge, she is a little squeamish, she puts several spoonfuls of oil when she doesn't pay attention to stir-frying, and she doesn't put much salt in the roast meat, and she always can't eat a few more meals, and she likes to eat everything fresh.
But no matter how bad it is, she can think of the two old guys in everything, which makes people's hearts burn more than anything else.
"No, the back of the fish is fresher, you two elders let me." Lin Xiao smiled playfully.
Shen Zhangming and Luo Yufang glanced at each other, who didn't know that Wanwan was so considerate of them because of the fish's backspines, their expressions were helpless, but their hearts were hot.
"By the way, Grandpa and Grandma, Shen Chi's letter said that he has a week of family leave on the second day of the next month, let me tell you, he won't write a letter to say it." Shen Chi's letter to her and the letter to her family have always been separate, so there is such a saying.
"Really?" Luo Yufang was happy, and calculated: "Today is the 29th, and I will be back in a few days if I am in the second year of junior high school." ”
"Does Chi Wa say anything else?" Shen Zhangming asked.
Lin Xiaoliang thought for a while and said, "He said that when he came back, he would go to the second aunt's by the way and buy some goods for the family." ”
Hearing this, the smiles on Shen Zhangming and Luo Yufang's faces faded.
"What's wrong?" Lin Xiaoliang was a little unclear.
Luo Yufang snorted and said, "Wanwan, don't we do it when it comes to buying clothes?" ”
"Why? Isn't it a lot of money? Although she didn't ask, she could guess a thing or two by looking at the excitement of her grandfather and grandmother in those days.
"But this heart is always unsteady." Luo Yufang said a little worriedly: "Although it is said that it is reform and opening up, who knows if it will come again?" The two of us are not afraid of not dying, but if we are taken the hat of a capitalist roader on our heads, what will happen to our children and grandchildren? ”
Shen Zhangming nodded, "In my opinion, let's stop it, anyway, the money is enough to go to the provincial hospital, and if there is another revolution at that time, we will sell this courtyard and hide in the countryside." "People in their village usually go to the town to buy things, they don't go to the county seat, and no one will know that they have sold clothes.
No wonder Grandpa and Grandma didn't let her and Xiu'er go to the stall.
Lin Xiaoliang was a little crying and laughing, "Grandpa and grandma, you are too worried, this matter was brought up by Shen Chi, how could he not succeed?" Besides, how can major national affairs be so capricious, and if we talk about revolution, we will revolution, and if we talk about reform, we will reform, isn't it child's play? ”
"But ......" Shen Zhangming was still a little hesitant, for them who had experienced a special period, that memory was too deep and depressing.
"Why don't you wait for Shen Chi to come back and talk to him?" Lin Xiaoliang didn't force it, everything needs to be done step by step, no matter how much she says now, it's useless.
It can only be like this, the second elder nodded a little uneasily.
When Shen Xiu came back from vacation on Saturday, Lin Xiaoliang also told her the news of Shen Chi's family leave.
"That's great." Shen Xiu smiled happily, she thought that when her brother came back, she must tell him about Jiang Youliang.
Lin Xiaoliang only thought that she was happy that her brother could come back, how did she know that there was still an inside story, and said with a chuckle: "I used well water to pour a watermelon in the backyard, if you want to eat it, you can cut it yourself." ”
"Really? Where did it come from? Shen Xiu suddenly asked happily.
"Someone bought it in the alley, and I bought one when I caught up." In fact, it was taken out of space.
"How much is a pound?"
"Five cents a pound."
"So expensive?" Shen Xiu said with some pain: "I heard that the supply and marketing cooperatives are only four cents a catty, sister-in-law, you are expensive." ”
The supply and marketing cooperatives in the county town occasionally have some rare things, but it is useless to catch up, especially those like them who do not know each other in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and they have already been sold out when they hear about it.
"How can it be the same, what I buy must be sweeter than that of the supply and marketing cooperative." Lin Xiaoliang said with great confidence.
How did she know how much a pound of watermelon from the supply and marketing cooperatives was, and she casually said that the price was not too outrageous.
"I'll take a look." Shen Xiu didn't wear shoes either, so she ran to the backyard barefoot.
It didn't take long for Shen Xiu's excited voice to come.
"Sister-in-law, this watermelon is so big, how did you bring it back?" Shen Xiu struggled to hold a round watermelon and walked back.
Lin Xiaoliang was stunned for a moment before saying, "That aunt is very kind and helped me send it to the gate of the hospital, and I didn't spend much effort." "It takes a lot of effort to get it in the space, but she can't say that.
"Even so, sister-in-law, you are too careless, this watermelon has more than a dozen catties, and it is not easy to move it from the gate of the courtyard to the backyard." Shen Xiu complained and was happy at the same time.
It's not that they can't grow watermelons, but watermelons are usually planted in large areas, and only some melons will be planted in their own fields.
"Sister-in-law, you wait, I'll cut it." After saying that, Le ran to the kitchen.