The next day, Ziqing was left to watch Zixi and take care of the house, and Zeng Ruixiang took them all to order beans. Zeng Ruixiang said that he could work outside first, and the potatoes at home could be dug slowly. Zifu went to the school on the seventh day of the first month, and when Zeng Ruixiang left in the afternoon on the seventh day of the first month, the beans had not been ordered, but it was said that there was not much left, and it was almost the same time that Shen took Zilu to work for another day.

After ordering beans and peanuts should loosen the soil, the work in the field began to connect, the seedlings in the field said to apply the first fertilizer, after fertilizing the field again, Ziqing heard that the rice should be applied twice fertilizer and two times the field, peanuts should be loosened twice, peanuts should be loosened after the soil is loosened and the soybeans are loosened, in short, this busy time, the days will pass quickly.

In the blink of an eye, in late May, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and there are more and more mosquitoes, which is very unbearable for Ziqing, Shen has to smoke a bunch of wormwood at the door every night, Zixi will also climb, and playing on the bamboo mat every day is his most happy time.

The situation of the family is getting better and better, Shen said that this month to sell vegetables, potatoes, chickens and eggs have saved almost fifteen dollars, Shen has been exchanged for silver, potatoes harvested more than 1,000 catties, it is a surprise to everyone, Shen sent a hundred catties to his brother, his family left three or four hundred catties, the rest was sold, Ziqing planted the potato field with cucumber beans, because the maturity period of the first batch of cucumber beans has passed, this stubble should be able to catch up with the Mid-Autumn Festival. The two batches of chickens in the pioneer family were almost able to lay eggs, and the fifty little roosters that Shen bought later also grew well this month.

The watermelons in the field are more than ten pounds, all over the ground, Ziqing doesn't know if they are ripe, they always like to pat with their hands, listen to the sound, want to pick but are afraid that they are not ripe, and finally wait until May 25, Ziqing compared the sound of the two watermelons, chose a crisp sound and picked it off, and shouted Zilu to carry it back to the well and ice it with well water.

When Zifu came back from school, let Zifu open it, the red sand, Zilu couldn't wait to lick it, Zifu scolded him, and after cutting the melon, Zifu first let Shen eat the first piece, and then everyone picked it up and ate it, Zishou was in a hurry, and the watermelon juice flowed onto the clothes. "It's so sweet. It's delicious. Almost all of them are this sentence, and it seems that this sentence is the most appropriate for the situation.

"However, there are so many watermelons, how to sell them, and we don't know how much Wen a pound is suitable for selling." The Shen family is worried, too, it is indeed a bit difficult for the watermelons of three acres of land to rely on the Shen family to go to the city with Zilu every day to sell.

Ziqing knew that her watermelons in that time and space could reach a yield of 10,000 catties per mu, even if the productivity of this time and space was low, there should be at least 10,000 catties in three acres of land, how many were ripe in the first batch, Ziqing really didn't knock them one by one, and now there are still blooming one after another, some are the size of a fist, and Ziqing doesn't know what to do.

"Or, my uncle sells it, doesn't my uncle's house open a shop?" Ziqing asked.

"My uncle's house is a baked cake shop, how can I sell watermelons?" Shen vetoed.

"Mother, let's still find the shopkeeper of the grocery store, maybe he has a way." Ziqing asked again,

"Mother, I seem to have heard that there is a kind of person in the city called Zhongren, who specializes in running errands for others and earning commissions. If not, we'd rather earn less than let the watermelon rot in our hands. Zifu said.

"That's right, how did I forget the Chinese saying, I'll take half a watermelon to Yaxing tomorrow, and I'll sell it to whoever gives the highest price." Shen decided to go early tomorrow morning.

Ziqing saw that there was nothing wrong with her, so she went to the field to knock on watermelons, and when she saw that it was ripe, she used a straw to mark it, and she got it all the way, and less than half of the land, Ziqing tied up more than 100 of them, and when it was dark, she stopped.

Before going to bed, Shen told Ziqing to take her to Anzhou Mansion, because the grocery store in Anzhou Mansion was where she and Zifu went, Zifu couldn't leave, so she had to go, Ziqing heard that she could go to the city again, and she didn't sleep well all night with excitement. Ziqing didn't expect that going to Anzhou this time would not only change the family's life plight, but also change her own fate.

Early the next morning, Ziqing went to the field to pick a melon, Shen went to the vegetable field to pick a few winter melons and pumpkins, put them in a frame and picked them to the town, took a donkey cart into the city, and separated after entering the city gate, Ziqing saw that her mother gave the coachman four cents, and the two came to the grocery store first, it was still early, so there were not many people, Ziqing saw that the boss was fiddling with the goods, so he stepped forward to say hello.

"Hello boss, remember me?" Ziqing asked sweetly.

"Little girl, who are you?" The owner was clearly not impressed.

"Boss, my brother and I came to your store to buy novel seeds a few years ago, and you were still pushing us around, and then we bought all the potatoes and all the watermelon seeds in your store, think about it again."

"Oh, could it be that you're that little girl? I'm sorry, I can't remember all the people coming and going this day. Are you here today? After speaking, he looked at Ziqing and her mother, "This sister-in-law is good." The shopkeeper greeted with a smile.

"The shopkeeper is good, that's the case, my children bought watermelons from you back to plant, and now they are all ripe, each has a dozen catties, we are a country family, relying on the city to set up a stall to sell is not the same thing, besides, the rice is about to be cut, and there is no such time, so I want to try it with you to see if there is a way?" Shen said.

"Oh, that's the case, no, it's ripe, didn't it last until the end of June in previous years? It doesn't even ripen until early July. Are you sure it's cooked? ”

"Shopkeeper, this is the south, naturally it is earlier than the north, what's strange about this." Ziqing really wanted to roll her eyes.

"It's cooked, shopkeeper, I brought one here, I'll cut it in half for you to taste." Shen was afraid that the other party would not believe it, so he took the melon out after speaking, and found a knife to cut half of it for the shopkeeper.

"Well, it's good, it's sweeter than I've always eaten, so let's do it, I can't do this, I have to go back to our master, count your luck and catch up with our master at home." Otherwise, you will sell the vegetables first, and then come back in an hour. ”

"Okay, I'm sorry for you." Shen led Ziqing to leave, Ziqing hurriedly hugged the remaining half of the melon, and the cut one was enough for the shopkeeper to taste.

"Girl, how inconvenient it is for you to hold this half of the melon and sell vegetables, so let's sell this half of the melon to me, and I will give you fifty yuan, okay?"

"No, we have to go to other stores to ask, in case your master doesn't agree to buy, we can find another store to sell." We bought the seeds at your house, so we came to your house to ask first. Ziqing sells small things, to tell the truth, the shopkeeper has to laugh.