Chapter 14: One Year

After the latrine was repaired, she rested for another day, and then began to open up the way down the mountain, because she was not in a hurry for these, so she did not rush as she did before. She usually works for most of the day and then does some odd and bits at home, such as taking care of the vegetable field and tidying up the vacant space, or making clothes.

It's the middle of summer, today is the day when Yang Xue has been here for a year, and it can be regarded as the day when she is reborn again. After breakfast in the morning, I came to the door and looked at the open space and vegetable patch at the door, as well as the lonely thatched house. Looking at the mountain road that led to the bottom of the mountain but had not yet been opened, she knew that she had begun to take root in this strange time.

Thinking of the embarrassment when I first arrived in this time and space, thinking of the anxiety at that time and the situation of facing hunger at any time, there is a cave where I can stay. Look at the present, although the cave is still the same cave, everything in the cave has what a home should have. There is also the wide land in front of the door, and the vegetables growing in the vegetable field and the thatched house that has just been repaired. She now has a home of her own, albeit a very simple one, and it can even be said to be white. But at least she is no longer confused, she has a goal to fight for, and she wants to live a life without food and clothing. She believed she would do it.

After sighing, she took her things and went to open the road again, and almost one-third of the days plus the previous ones were almost one-third. The ground at the entrance was almost a third of the way in order, and the trees in the field were almost cut down, although there were not a few at all. There were only a few trees left in the ground now, but she was going to cut them down. Whether it was for firewood or for other things to be kept, she didn't want to leave them in the ground to block the sun.

But it's worth mentioning that the fertilizer needed to grow vegetables is the fertilizer, although she is the only one who pulls the sa, but it doesn't prevent her from having other ways. Every time she went to the hut, she would wash it with water, and some unwanted leaves, roots, and grass that she threw in, and now the hut had piled up some of them, except for those that had been immersed in the soil, and although they were rarely very clear, they were always there. Except for green beans, the other vegetables in the field are growing well, and the cabbage is almost finished.

After another two days' drive, she was ready to go down the mountain to buy things, this time mainly to buy scoops, grain, oil and salt. The scoop is to water and fertilize the vegetables, and you have to buy another bucket. The food, oil, and salt at home are gone.

It was not too late to arrive in town today, so I went to the grain store to buy grain and went to the seed shop to buy a lot of vegetable seeds. Then I went to the grocery store to buy buckets and scoops, and on the way I saw a cucumber seller and bought two more. Finally, I went to the butcher shop and bought a few catties of oil and a catty of pork belly. After buying oil, she didn't know what to think of and went back to the grocery store, it turned out that she bought a small jar to take back to fill the oil, and bought a wooden basin. In the end, I went to buy ten steamed buns and went home.

When I got home, I washed the lard in a newly bought basin, cut it into pieces, put it in a pot, and then started to boil the oil. When boiling oil, cut the pork belly into thin slices and put it in a bowl, and after the oil is boiled, the pork belly is boiled again with the oil at the bottom of the pot, boiled until it is half dry, then scooped up, and poured the boiled oil into the jar containing the oil. Looking at the boiled pork belly in the bowl and thinking about it, she pulled more than half of it and poured it into the oil jar, keeping it for later to eat. It turned out that she thought that she wouldn't be able to eat a pound in a day, but now that it's hot, she can put the meat in the oil for a long time, so there is the previous scene.

The next day, she took the bucket she used to hold water and the scoop she bought yesterday to fill the manure water. However, because there was so little dung, her scoop was too short, so she tied a piece of wood to the scoop to scoop it, and she only watered some green beans and a few peppers.

After watering, she divided the whole field into three pieces, and the seeds she bought this time included pumpkin, winter melon, tomato, cowpea and mung bean. One piece is still planted with cabbage, one is used to grow tomatoes, and the other is planted with cowpeas. As for the rest, plant these first, and then talk about it, it's better to plant them with a little seeding method and water them in the same way as before, except for the cabbage sprinkled with some seeds.

As for pumpkins and winter melons, she wants to plant them on the edge of the ground, preferably near a place with trees. In fact, there are quite a few such places, but they have not yet been sorted out. In the end, she chose to be next to a few trees near the thatched house, mainly because there happened to be trees there to fertilize, and more importantly, she felt that the soil near there should be a little more fertile. As for why, of course, it is because the thatched hut is there and some of the fertilizer will soak into the ground. Although the reason is very nonsensical, she still tidied up some places over there and came out to plant pumpkins and winter melons.

But then she planted a few more seeds on the other side of the plant. As for the mung beans, she wanted to pick up the land and plant it again, because she had heard that planting this would fertilize the land, although she didn't know if it was true.

In the next month, she finally picked up all the ground at the door and planted mung beans, but there were not many mung bean seeds, and she only planted a small piece. During the time she was collecting the field, she also harvested a lot of wild vegetables, and she dried them except for the occasional meal. Although she doesn't need to store them now, she may be afraid of starvation, so she will store them as long as she eats.

However, because she is now growing more and more things, the fertilizer that is not available in the first place is even more insufficient. She could barely get enough with ash and ash, but it wasn't enough fertilizer for them. So Yang Xue was going to go down the mountain to buy some chicks and raise them back, so that she would have eggs and meat to eat, and more fertilizer.

This time, when I went down the mountain to buy chickens, I also bought food and a set of men's clothes, and this time I sold a total of eight chickens. Men's clothing is bought mainly for convenience, and it is more convenient for a boy to move around than a woman. And this year she has grown taller again, and she won't look very small as a boy.

For the chicks she just bought, she served them very carefully, and at first she fed them chopped and chopped tender vegetable leaves, and added a little cornmeal to them and mixed well. When she bought the chickens, she also bought a chicken coop, and during the day she kept them in an open space left at the door, and at night she carried them into the cave. And in the days when she just bought it, she didn't go out to work farther away, and she was pulling vines and planting stakes in the vegetable field.

The main thing is to plant tomatoes and cowpeas later, cut some bamboo branches for them, pull the vines that grow to them, and tie them with small pieces of cloth that they didn't need before or leftover from making clothes.

After two more days of doing all this work, I made sure that the chicks had adapted and could almost survive without danger before going back on the road.