The next morning, Zeng Ruixiang took Zifu to buy some daily necessities, and went to the blacksmith shop to book plows, hoes and other farm tools. In the afternoon, I returned to the county seat with great reluctance, and I heard that I would not be able to return home until the end of February. Zifu also started school, went out early every day, and couldn't go home until the sun went down.

The old chicken woman at home has not yet held the nest, on the twentieth day of the first month, Shen went to the bazaar to buy fifty chickens back, Shen said that such a big yard, it is a pity not to raise chickens. Ziqing wanted to raise ducks and big white geese, but Shen said that they would be put in the pond in the village, and the family really couldn't take their hands, so it was much more convenient to raise chickens.

When Shen came back from the bazaar, he went to see the field, saying that the rape flowers were blooming, and the small peas on an acre of land had also begun to bear pods, and the wheat seedlings were also a few inches long, and there was no work in the field these days.

As soon as the two of them left, Ziqing asked Zishou to accompany Zixi, and the bunch of seeds he found and bought, as well as the bunch of potatoes, Ziqing opened it and saw that they had sprouted. Ziqing's previous home was in a small county, her mother loved to grow vegetables, her brother was very busy, and it was usually Ziqing who went to talk to her mother, and her mother always liked to talk while doing it, so Ziqing was still a little confident in planting vegetables, thinking of her mother, Ziqing couldn't help but be sad, perhaps, her mother was also missing her at the moment.

Ziqing thought that now is the season to plant potatoes, but he can't turn over such a large piece of land at all, but Ziqing still scattered the potatoes and put them outside, and now the temperature is about 10 degrees at night when it doesn't rain, just right for germination, and Ziqing found a bowl with a missing corner, soaked a few pepper seeds with warm water, changed the warm water about an hour, and then put it outside to bask in the sun, found a hoe by himself, and dug a small piece of land by the wooden house, less than one square meter, resting and stopping, Shen picked up a load of pine hair and came back, Zilu carried a basket in one hand, which was full of pine towers, and there were actually a bunch of mushrooms on it, and he also dragged a few large dead branches back with one hand.

When Ziqing saw her mother coming back, she asked Zilu to accompany her to wash clothes, but she was still unfamiliar with the village and was afraid of getting lost. Ziqing saw that there were a lot of fine duckweed in the pond, which was used to feed the chickens, so when she went home, she asked Zilu to cut a thin bamboo, found a piece of gauze for mending mosquito nets, sewed a circle of hollow on the side, no thin wire, and used a wicker to brush her teeth to pass through, and then found a rope to tie it.

When Zifu came back in the evening, Ziqingyang leveled the piece of land, turned it a little bigger, and divided it into two furrows. After dinner, Ziqing said to Shen: "Mother, let's ask Grandpa to come over and use the cow to turn over the ground in the yard of the house, how long will it take to turn it over with a hoe?" The potatoes have sprouted, so we need to plant them as soon as possible. ”

"My mother said that you are a housekeeper is really not bad at all, you have to worry about everything, how do you know that potatoes can be planted, this thing has not been planted in our family before."

"Mother, the owner of the grocery store said that you can plant it when it sprouts, and our yard is just empty now."

Speaking of this vacant land, Shen said that he just turned over the ground and sprinkled some cabbage seeds, which grow fast, and the seedlings can be pulled out and eaten, and there is no vegetable field at home, and he can't go to the old house to pick vegetables every day.

Who knew that the next day Shen just opened the gate of the courtyard wall, he saw her eldest brother's third son Shen Wanfu carrying a basket and carrying a cloth bag.

Shen brought his three nephews in, Shen Wanfu's basket was full of vegetables on the top and eggs on the bottom, there were about twenty of them, and there were soybeans in the cloth bag, saying that He knew that Shen had no vegetables to eat here, so he asked him to bring over and send some bean sprouts to eat. "Sister-in-law, is there anything to do, grandma and my mother have explained, my uncle is not at home, let me do something diligently."

Shen Wanfu looked really honest when he touched his head, no wonder he was left alone in their family to farm at home, and I heard him say that his younger brother Shen Chunfu also went out to apprentice this year.

I was really sleepy and sent a pillow, and Shen didn't say anything polite to his nephew, so he took him to the old house to take the morning glory, and then went to take the custom-made plow to cover the wooden handle. Ziqing took the opportunity to spread the soaked chili seeds evenly into the ground, spread a thin layer of soil, sprinkled some rice washing water, and brought some straw over, preparing to spread it warm at night.

When he came back, Shen Wanfu did it, and at the end of the day, about an acre of land was turned over, and it was leveled, Ziqing and Zilu threw out the stones, grass roots, etc., and Shen Wanfu divided the land into five meters long and half a meter wide ridges, and hurried home after eating, saying that he would come again tomorrow.

In this way, Shen Wanfu was busy for five or six days, coming every morning and going back in the evening, and finally leveled the ground in the yard, Shen scattered two small cabbage seeds, and Ziqing taught her mother to cut the potatoes into seven or eight pieces according to the sprouted sprouts, and then buried the sprouts upwards in the soil. After planting the potatoes, Shen also explained that Shen Wanfu didn't need to come over, and there was nothing to do at home. If there is something that cannot be done, he will find someone to send him a message. Shen Wanfu agreed to leave, and Shen also lamented that there was really nothing to give her nephew at home, just these three or two taels of silver, the family had not yet stocked food, and everything had to be carefully calculated.

Next, Shen began to take Zilu out to loosen the hair every morning, wanting to take advantage of the farm to prepare more firewood, Ziqing thought of her test site, turned over a little thin soil, Ziqing saw the sprouted pepper seeds, about to arch out, happy, back to the house cucumbers, eggplants, beans, bracken and other vegetables are all soaked in warm water, Ziqing thought that in this way, the vegetables she planted should come out at least half a month earlier than others, seize the opportunity, and can sell at a good price.

So, Ziqing came out every morning to remove the straw, and then spread it at night, and finally one day found that the potatoes were the first to emerge green leaves, and the cabbage also sprouted small green shoots, and then the small peppers also emerged, and after ten days, all the vegetable seeds sprouted, and some could be transplanted. Ziqing goes out to wash clothes with her second brother every afternoon, except for rainy days, in addition to fishing duckweed, there is one more job, picking up long branches, bamboo branches, piled together, preparing to make shelves in the future, beans, cucumbers have to build shelves, Zifu comes back from school every day, he goes outside to find thorns and shrubs, digs around the vegetable garden, one day actually digs a few honeysuckles back, and there are flowers on it. But Ziqing was so happy that he asked him to dig more honeysuckle.

When Ziqing took her mother to see the vegetables that grew, Shen was very surprised, she was busy outside every day, and she didn't know when Ziqing sowed the vegetable seeds, how they could sprout so quickly, and it didn't seem to be in season.

"Mother, I just saw that you were too tired, so I sprinkled the vegetable seeds, didn't Qing'er watch my mother sprinkle the little cabbage seeds? Qing'er learned from you, and they were planted like this, and they came out. ”

"Really? My daughter is so smart, my mother is so happy. Shen was really surprised, and hugged Ziqing and kissed him several times.

"It's good that the mother ordered a small hoe for Qing'er, this Qing'er can't hold it, it's all the eldest brother's help, and the little hoe that Qing'er wants is just a foot long."

Shen hesitated for a moment, looked at the vegetable seedlings growing in the ground, and said, "Okay, my mother promises you, but you have to be careful yourself, don't hurt yourself." Try to get your two brothers to help you turn the ground. ”

The next day, Shen didn't go out, and took Zilu to transplant vegetables, fortunately, there was a lot of rainy season in the spring in the south, and there was no need to water much, which saved a lot of work, and so the pepper seedlings in the experimental site were removed. Ziqing thought that the watermelon seeds should also be seedlings. So, she found the watermelon seeds, the shell was thick, Ziqing soaked it in warm water for two more days before burying it in the test field.

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