Xie Qingshan hurriedly gave Xie Pingtian and Xie Ping'an a look at the father and son, and he raised his feet and went out of the kitchen door.

"Rejoice? What's the matter with you? Xie Qingshan's somewhat surprised voice came from the courtyard.

Xie Xuan saw that Xie Pingtian had hidden the piece of He Shou Wu, and also went out of the kitchen door, and saw that it was the iron rooster Wu Qingxi, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, their Xie family and Wu Qingxi's family have never dealt with each other much, and they don't know what this iron rooster is doing today.

"Nothing? Just ask Uncle Xie to borrow a shovel to use! Wu Qingxi said with a smile, but the pointed head was looking around the kitchen.

"Zhiyuan, bring the shovel to Uncle Wu!" Xie Qingshan's body stopped in front of Wu Qingxi and did not move, opened his mouth to support Xie Zhiyuan, and then let Wu Qingxi go to the hall, "Let's go, rest in the house!" ”

"No, no, no!" Wu Qingxi hurriedly excused himself, and saw that the chimney on the kitchen kept smoking, and when he rolled his eyes, he said, "My aunt has made something delicious, I'll take a look!" With that, he went into the kitchen.

Xie Xuan gave Xie Qingshan a look, but Xie Qingshan didn't stop him and let him in.

After entering, I saw Xie Ping'an sitting in front of the stove to light the fire, Xie Pingtian was cleaning up the hazelnuts and chestnuts and other mountain goods on the ground, Xie Wang and Lin were cutting vegetables and stir-frying, they were all busy, the kitchen was not big, the stove and cupboard firewood occupied a lot of space, and occupied many people, he could only stand by the door and look around, as if looking for something.

"Rejoice, what do you see? Do we have flowers in our kitchen? Xie Wang's heart didn't want to see Wu Qingxi's thief's eyebrows, and said.

"Nothing! Nothing! I'll just see what delicious my aunt cooks......" Wu Qingxi said perfunctorily, and retreated a little unwillingly.

Xie Xuan was suspicious in his heart, could it be that Xie Qingshan's father and son dug medicinal herbs on the mountain and revealed their whereabouts, this iron rooster is here to find out the news today? Thinking about it, his eyebrows furrowed.

After Wu Qingxi took the iron chisel and left, Xie Qingshan closed the courtyard door, plugged the door upside down with a wooden dowel, and returned to the kitchen with a calm face.

As soon as he entered the house, Xie Pingtian said: "I don't think Wu Qingxi is here to borrow something, but he looks at the east and west, but he looks like he is looking for something?" ”

"This is such a greedy and cheap pickled goods, we don't usually have anything to do with him, why did you suddenly come to borrow a shovel? Besides, who doesn't have a shovel, and it's worth borrowing it? I don't think he's kind! Xie Ping'an didn't have a good impression of him.

"I thought it was we digging medicinal herbs in the mountains to reveal the hidden herbs, and he came today to inquire about the news!" Xie Qingshan expressed the worry in his heart.

"Oh, what's going to be done?" Xie Wang put down the spatula, and couldn't help but show a worried look on his face.

"This scoundrel, I have to beat him up!" After all, Xie Ping'an was young and vigorous, and he was about to get up as he spoke.

"Sit down! Why did you beat him? What reason do you have to beat him? He didn't steal us and rob us, didn't you blame you for beating him? Xie Qingshan scolded him a few words, "Frizzy, think about the consequences before doing things!" ”

"So that's it?" Xie Ping'an asked unwillingly.

"What else can I do, I can only forget it......" Xie Qingshan squatted on the threshold, pinched a hazelnut and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed tastelessly, and sighed.

The atmosphere in the kitchen was a little lifeless, and the Xie Zhiyuan brothers didn't dare to speak loudly, so they quietly slipped out.

"Grandpa, I think you were followed by Wu Qingxi when you were digging medicinal herbs in the mountains recently, or why did he immediately go to our house to inquire about the news as soon as he dug up the hundred-year-old Shouwu?" Xie Xuan said the suspicion in his heart just now.

The Xie family's face is even worse now.

"Grandpa, uncle and uncle, when you go up the mountain again tomorrow, you will just hunt mountain goods, don't look for medicinal herbs for the time being! Keep an eye out for someone following you. Xie Xuan continued.

"Huh!" Xie Qingshan agreed, and then let out a long sigh.

Xie Xuan saw that everyone was angry and worried, and couldn't help but persuade: "Although this digging of medicinal materials is a business, it is not a long-term business, no matter sooner or later, it will always be known." Besides, the money earned from selling He Shou Wu can't be spent, and if you make money, you have to buy land and land, and there must be a saying that our family suddenly became rich. ”

"It's all because I don't worry about it, I don't know if no one is following me!" Xie Pingtian blamed himself, he felt that his father was old and didn't pay attention, his younger brother was young and inexperienced, and he was actually followed when he was young and strong, and he didn't find out, which was really undeserved.

"Alas, blame me!" Xie Qingshan's face was hidden in the gray-white smoke, and he said in a deep voice.

Seeing that everyone was still a little sad and depressed, Xie Xuan had no choice but to tell everyone what he had been thinking about recently, "Grandpa, when the snow closes the mountain, no one can do this medicine digging for a living." There are few varieties of vegetables in winter, so I thought of a way to grow vegetables in winter, and you said, if we can grow vegetables that others don't have in the winter? Can it be sold for money? ”

"Growing vegetables in the winter? It's true? Xie Qingshan stopped smoking, and asked Xie Xuan in surprise, "What kind of vegetables can you grow?" ”

"Leeks and garlic are leeks and garlic seedlings that don't see the sun!" Xie Xuan explained: "In previous winters, there were only cabbage, radish, winter melon, bean sprouts, and the rest could only eat pickles and dried vegetables. ”

In fact, as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, there were already out-of-season vegetables, and the "Book of Han" recorded: "Taiguan Garden planted winter onions and leeks, and covered them with roofs." ”。 "Hanshu Zhaoxinchen Biography" clearly records the ancients eating out-of-season vegetables: "Taiguan Garden planted winter onions and leeks, covered with roofs, lit fires day and night, and waited for warmth to be born. The faithful thought that this was an occasional thing, and that it was not suitable to be offered to others, but that it was illegal food, and that it would save tens of millions of years. Zhao Xinchen said that out-of-season vegetables are "things from time to time, and they hurt people" is obviously blind, the real reason is "tens of millions of years old", and the planting cost of out-of-season vegetables is too high, so don't be too extravagant for the royal family.

In ancient times, in the early days, more natural heat sources were used to produce off-season fruits and vegetables, and the Tang Dynasty planted out-of-season fruits and vegetables in the "inner garden" for the court, so it introduced hot spring hot water to create a temperature suitable for the growth of vegetables. Tang poet Wang Jian's poem "Early Spring in Front of the Palace": "The inner garden has a warm soup water, and the melon has been entered in mid-February", which is what he said. In places where there are no hot springs, the production of out-of-season fruits and vegetables is to build a greenhouse, through the fire channel to increase the temperature, and there are also digging pits to use the ground temperature to promote germination and seedlings.

After the Tang and Song dynasties, out-of-season vegetables have been generally accepted by people, and "to the things that are out of time are precious", out-of-season vegetables are regarded as mountain delicacies, but because of their high cost, "the poor can't do it".

After the Tang and Song dynasties, there was a "yellowing" vegetable, and the "Book of Agriculture" recorded: "When the wind is not seen, its leaves are yellow and tender, and it is called leek yellow." "The yellowing of vegetables such as leeks, onions, garlic, celery, and bean sprouts was common in the Song and Yuan dynasties. Yuan Wangzhen's "Book of Agriculture, Hundred Grains Spectrum Collection No. 5, Vegetable Genus" recorded the situation of people planting leeks at that time: "In winter, move the roots and hide them in the shade of the ground house, cultivate horse manure, warm and long, high can be a ruler, do not see the wind and day, its leaves are yellow and tender, called leeks." Leeks are more expensive, "several times easier than leeks", and northerners regard leeks as a rare vegetable in winter.

Because of the high cost, it is only the aristocratic rich family can afford to eat, and Xie Xuan knows that the leek and garlic planting technology has been updated by modern experiments, the cost is lower, and the technical means are also very simple, so I want to test the water with leeks and garlic first, if the benefits are good, I can make money, and then find a way to get the greenhouse out.

After listening to Xie Xuan's plan, although the big guy was still a little depressed in his heart, he was still a little happy when he had a way to make money.

Xie Qingshan extinguished the cigarette pouch, beckoned everyone to eat, and said that he would talk in detail while eating at the dinner table.

Lin went out and shouted, Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng came back mysteriously, because everyone's attention was on planting vegetables in winter that Xie Xuan said, no one paid attention to Xie Zhiyuan and Xie Zhicheng, and the two occasionally glanced at each other secretly, pretending that nothing had happened.

Because Xie Xuan said at the dinner table that it was better to buy the hundred-year-old Shouwu directly to Baicaotang, and the size could not be seen after cutting the slices, for fear that others would not know the goods after concocting and lower the price. So Xie Qingshan decided to go to the county seat early the next morning to sell the hundred-year-old Shouwu that he had dug up.

In the evening, Xie Wang's and Lin's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, plus Xie Ping'an, took turns looking at the kitchen stove, adding water to the pot in time and adding firewood to the bottom of the stove, so that the He Shou Wu on the steamer would be steamed for 16 hours, and the others would go to sleep without mentioning.