More than a month has passed, the yard of the home has changed a lot for more than a month, and the previous desolation can not be seen at all, a few honeysuckle vines climbed on the side of the courtyard wall, Zifu surrounded a vegetable field with thorns, and used a taller shrub mixed with honeysuckle wreath to prepare to plant watermelons, watermelon field Ziqing estimated that there are three acres of land, accounting for almost half of the yard, and there is an empty piece of land in the middle to raise chickens and prepare to build a house in the future, Ziqing looked at the green and neat vegetable field at home, and the chickens that gradually grew up, There is also an old hen with the nine chicks that have just hatched to bask in the sun, and Ziqing's heart is full of joy.

Immediately, Ziqing was worried again, what kind of fertilizer is used for such a large piece of land? At her suggestion, Shen bought a small wooden bucket, and Ziqing had to carry the big wooden bucket that was poured to the courtyard wall every morning, and let Zifu water the ground every few days, so all the vegetables grew gratifyingly, and the cucumber rack and bean rack were half built. It is estimated that it can be listed more than 20 days earlier than others, and it will definitely be sold at a good price.

Old man Zeng came to visit, looked at the scene in the yard, and showed a satisfied smile. However, Ziqing heard him tell Shen that he asked Shen to clean up the chicken feces in the yard every day and sprinkle it in the sand, which is also a good fertilizer. After saying this, he suggested that it was better for the Shen family to raise a pig, and the pigsty fattened much faster. After talking about fertilizer, he said that the wheat was about to tassel and should be fertilized, but there was really no use of plant ash and so on.

It seems that the old man still cares about Ziqing's family, at least he knows that he is worried that the Shen family does not know how to farm, and he is afraid that the crops will be delayed, so he is here to give advice.

Ziqing then remembered how she forgot such an important thing, there were sixty or seventy chickens in the house, and their excrement was everywhere, and they were piled up in the corner after every sweep, which could not be used as fertilizer for melon fields. As for wheat or something, it is not within Ziqing's concern, whether the family can get rid of poverty this year depends on the watermelons on these acres of land.

Before leaving, the old man suddenly said that there was something to ask Shen's opinion. It turned out that there were still two days to celebrate the 100th birthday, and the old man asked if he still had to set up a table of wine to entertain guests?

Shen Shi listened and asked, "Dad, where can I ask if you want to be invited?" Do we spend the money or do my parents pay for it? ”

The old man listened and said, "They have all been separated, and you have such a big place, of course you invite yourself." Where do we have this spare money. ”

A minute ago, Ziqing felt that the old man cared about his own family, and this involved his own interests, and the old man also flashed quickly.

"Dad, we just moved in, we lack more things, and we don't even have some food at home, let alone this spare money."

The old man listened and looked at Shen and said, "I don't care about your business, you can do it yourself, anyway, it's almost the end of the month, Ruixiang should come back, you can discuss it together, and then tell me." After saying that, he walked away with his hands behind his back.

Shen looked at the back of the old man leaving, and he was so angry that he didn't know what to say.

Ziqing was confused day by day, and after asking her mother, she found out that it was February 26, and Zishou was the full moon of the eighteenth month of the lunar month, and Ziqing still had the impression, but it would be twenty-eight the day after tomorrow. It turns out that Zeng Ruixiang has three days off at the end of each month, ten days for spring ploughing, one and a half months for summer harvest, and ten days for autumn harvest, and then festivals such as Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Winter Solstice will be closed.

Ziqing asked again: "Mother, if the younger brother sets up wine for a hundred days, will the aunt's family invite it?" "Ziqing is really not interested in that family.

"I must please, it's a serious aunt. I'm afraid that everyone will come when I invite it, and every time there is something at home, the whole family will come, and her family will have a table, and she can eat it very well, and it will not look good if there are fewer things prepared. This time, your grandmother will have two tables, and your grandmother will have two tables, how can our family have all this spare money. It seems that the resentment in Shen's heart is not ordinarily deep, completely forgetting that Ziqing is still a six-year-old child, and actually complains of bitterness.

Ziqing really wanted to say that she didn't want to invite it, but she thought that this was not something that a six-year-old child could decide, so she should shut up and do what she could do.

"Mother, then don't invite it, no one will say that our family is good if they are invited. The last time Zishou and Sanmao fought, it wasn't because Sanmao was angry when he saw his younger brother wearing a new dress, and felt that his grandmother was biased, so he didn't make new clothes for us, so he caught his younger brother angry. You see, every time they come to Grandma, they don't cut some meat, we can only smell some meat, and we have never robbed them. Rao is like this, they still feel that Grandma is partial, as if everyone has treated them badly. Such people, you just pay all the money to others, but I am afraid that they will be too little and not satisfied. There are too many places where our family is short of money, so we don't have to worry too much. "At dinner, when Shen and Zifu discussed, they didn't expect Zifu to say this.

Ziqing was relieved when she heard it, every time she wanted to say or do something, the eldest brother could always say it and do it in front. All you need to do is arch the fire.

In the past few days, Ziqing found that there were a lot of small yellow frogs in her yard, Ziqing and Zilu made a beat, and every day they took some chopped and vegetable leaves to feed the chickens, and sometimes they would catch some small tadpoles when fishing duckweed, and the small screws in the ditch were smashed, and a piece was fed to the chickens, which Ziqing took her to do when she was a child in her previous life, and also took her to fish for frogs. Thinking of this, Ziqing thought that when Zifu came home in the evening, he would definitely let him make a fishing rod, and let Zilu take him to fish for frogs, and in a few days, the tadpoles would grow into frogs and not be able to catch them.

On the twenty-seventh of the next day, after Shen sent Zifu away early in the morning, he still planned to take Zilu to go around the field first and then go to the mountain to collect some firewood. After Ziqing sent them away, she stood on a stool and tied the door of the courtyard wall, and went back to the room to see that Zi Shouzheng and Zi Xi were having a good time. Ziqing saw that the weather was very warm, so she took a basket and padd clean straw, then wrapped Zixi, put it in the basket, took it to the door and put a stool on the sun, took a handkerchief to block the child's eyes, and moved a small stool for Zishou to sit next to him, and took a small broom specially tied by Shen to clean the excrement of the chickens in the yard, and then poured it into the watermelon field, the watermelon should be able to move seedlings, this thing Ziqing can't do well, I have to wait for Shen's time, and the cucumber shelf Ziqing is also crooked, so it was also handed over to Zifu, Zifu took Zilu to build a few every night when he had time, because there were a lot of cucumbers planted, so he was only half done. Ziqing always felt as if she had missed something and didn't do anything, just a flash of thought, and she was meditating there when she heard someone shouting loudly outside the courtyard wall.