Liu Yi, Song Haonian and others remembered where they had seen the Rose Manor that year, so they changed the original route of going directly to the provincial capital and went all the way there. If you can't find the rose seedlings there, it's not too late to go to the provincial capital.

And at home, Lily has arranged for people to start planting potatoes.

A few years ago, Song Haonian took out the manure in the pigsty and chicken pen and piled it in the ground, so that the sun, rain, and snow water could naturally infiltrate and ferment, and turn it every half a month to make the manure more effective.

As soon as Song Haonian left, Lily took Song Ermei, Wang Yongxing and his wife to plough the land, they did not plough the cattle, and spent some money to rent a head from Liufu Zhuangzi, Wang Yongxing cultivated the land is a good hand, the iron plough turned out the fertile soil underground, and the grass roots were cut off and buried deeply.

Several women put on gloves and masks, carried dried manure in large bamboo baskets, and sprinkled them on the fields to fertilize the fields. Let the fertilizer ripen for a few days before the seeds are planted.

Lily watched a movie in her last life, in which the heroine planted potatoes and planted them directly with the whole potatoes, harvesting seven or eight potatoes in the fall. The film about rural life was highly rated, but Lily felt it was a waste at the time: how can you grow potatoes like that?

Before planting, there is a process of cutting seeds, a pile of potatoes left for seeds are piled there, and several people hold a sharp knife in their hands, and cut them according to the position of each bud, each bud only needs to carry two inches of square meat.

A potato can cut four or five buds at least, and seven or eight can be cut at most, and each piece can grow into a nest of seven or eight or a dozen potatoes, isn't it much more cost-effective than planting it whole?

This method was seen in the countryside when I was a child, and now I can do it, and a few people can cut potatoes for a day, and there are a lot of leftovers, either boiling a pot to eat at home, or boiling to feed livestock, which is very cost-effective.

The cut potato sprouts are placed in several baskets, covered with felt to prevent them from drying out, and Lily takes another bamboo basket, washes a basket of potatoes that have been cut into strange shapes, and directly baskets them and steam them over high heat.

However, in two quarters of an hour, the potatoes are out of the cage, steamed until the skin is cracked, because it is hot, you have to peel the skin while pouring your hands, peel off the skin and take a bite, soft and sweet, fragrant and choking.

Then fry the slurry cabbage with clear oil and put some lard residue into it, which is a plate of fragrant and good dishes.

Afraid of eating potatoes alone, eating too much and feeling sick to the stomach, Lily boiled a pot of tomato egg soup Tomatoes chopped and fried sand, added water to boil, knocked a few eggs to break up, and floated eggs into the soup. Add a few more slices of cabbage heart to add umami.

Two plates of steamed potatoes are placed on the table, everyone can eat as they like, put a chopstick slurry water vegetable and oil residue on the potato, bite down, the potato noodles and the sour aroma of the slurry water are perfectly combined, and it is full and cheap.

Eating two potatoes felt choked, so I drank two mouthfuls of tomato and egg soup, which was also very fragrant, and Lily loved to pick the cabbage heart inside to eat, which was very refreshing.

When the farm is busy, lunch is dealt with like this, and in the evening, there is either a vinaigrette noodle, or a cake with gnocchi soup, which is a good meal.

After dinner, I worked for a while with the oil lamp, and then I finished cutting the potatoes, and several people were so tired that they could barely straighten their waists, and Lily took the black tiger with her, and took advantage of the moon to send people far away, and then came back to sleep on the door.

Early in the morning of the second day, the genius Meng Mengliang got up, went to the tofu shop to cook a pot of soy milk, and helped Li Caifeng make dozens of steamed buns. Yesterday's cut potato sprouts were dragged to the ground and divided into small baskets, Lily and Song Ermei straddled the seeds diagonally, and the other straddled the manure, Wang Yongxing drove the ox to plow out a long and deep ditch, Lily and Song Ermei walked on both sides of the ditch respectively, and threw a potato every two feet

The buds went in, sprinkled a handful of manure, and then Wang Yongxing's family took a hammer to dig the soil and cover the potato sprouts and manure underneath.

Everyone is in charge of one thing and working together is much more efficient than everyone digging from scratch, planting, fertilizing, and mulching. Ancient farmers had never seen the assembly line process in the era of mechanized production, but they had already used it unconsciously.

Rao is four people are willing to endure hardships, even the lunch is prepared by Li Caifeng and sent to the field to eat, at the end of the day, it is still the most kind of good acre of potatoes, and it took four or five days in a row to finish planting.

The lily was afraid that the ground would not protect moisture, so she spread some straw in the ground, which was both warm and moisture, and when the potato seedlings grew to a handful of heights, they no longer needed to protect moisture.

After planting potatoes, plant sweet potatoes, and it is the same to grow hair, but sweet potatoes are sweet, and then steaming and eating is not suitable, easy to get tired, or when cooking sweet potato porridge, it is also delicious with egg cakes.

Several people are too tired of this stubble, Lily has obviously lost some weight, Li Caifeng saw her and said: "You work hard, just plant less, isn't it enough for you to eat?"

Lily smiled and said, "But these days have been hard, and good days are ahead." ”

She knew that hard work and diligence can only be exchanged for a good life when she was a child, and in this era, she didn't dare to be lazy, and she became more and more diligent day by day.

Li Caifeng thought that she was not a lazy woman, and she had no choice but to change her tricks to force her to eat more eggs and meat, lest the land was not planted and the lily people fell first.

Two days later, the lily planted corn again, and soaked the corn kernels in ash water for a quarter of an hour in advance, so as to kill the eggs and let the germ absorb water, so as not to germinate.

Throw three grains of corn in each nest, corn is more delicate than potatoes and sweet potatoes, naturally more troublesome, Song Ermei counted the seeds dazzlingly, and said to Lily: "I have never seen such a fine planting." ”

Lily said: "Look at other people's rice planting, and seedlings, and plough paddy fields, but also plant seedlings, but not more meticulous than us?" Planting rice is the most meticulous and tiring work, Song Ermei worked in the former mother-in-law's house, and still thinks about the bitterness in the bottom of my heart, and then look at the work in front of me, but it is heavier, Lily provides mung bean soup and neat and solid meals every day, saying that it is an employer, people work with them, never steal and play tricks,

is smiling all day long, and several people don't feel unbearable in their hearts.

The sun is big in the field, and Rao is a lily and straw hat is worn tightly. After a few days, she was still a little tanned, and Xing'er was stunned when she saw her: "Auntie, why are you dark?"

Lily is fairer than Song Ermei and several of them, and they haven't realized that they are tanned, but when they heard Xing'er, they stretched out their arms and looked, and sure enough, the back of their hands was not as white as usual, and they were tanned.

She smiled and said, "Auntie shouldn't be careless when she cooks, wipe the pot of coal on her face." ”

Xing'er was shocked, and turned back to Li Caifeng and shouted: "Mother, I learned to cook yesterday and wiped coal on my face, am I also dark?"

Li Caifeng laughed so much that she almost smashed the bowl on the ground, and she didn't know whether to say that Lily was naughty or Apricot was stupid first, so she rubbed her stomach and said, "It's okay, you were born black, and you can't be black." ”

Apricot was devastated, although she already knows how to distinguish between beauty and ugliness, she likes to call beautiful people to hug since she was a child, because she looks better outside of Baiqu, she also likes lily.

Naturally, getting along with two people is more important than their appearance, but in Xing'er's eyes, it is really important to look good.

Xing'er always thought she was very white, but her mother insisted that she was born black, so she ran to the house to find a mirror, and came out to take a picture of her face under the sun: "I'm not black"

Do you believe in your own eyes or believe in your own mother? Apricot is confused.

Now it was Lily's turn to laugh, and she said to Xing'er, "You roll up your sleeves and take a look." ”

Apricot rolled up her sleeves, blacker than Lily, who works every day! Lily couldn't help but wonder: "What are you doing every day, why are you tanned like this?"

Xing'er said embarrassedly: "Let's play together, when I'm in a hurry, I roll up my sleeves." As she spoke, she hung her head and became depressed, she wanted to grow into a beauty in the future, but now she looks like this, but she is afraid that she will not grow a mile.

Lily and Li Caifeng laughed until their stomachs hurt, but their faces were serious, and they comforted Xing'er: "You can raise it back in a few days when you are old, and in the future, you will go to play under the sun less, eat more white rice porridge, and you will definitely be able to come back in vain." ”

Xing'er is getting older, and Li Caifeng is now planning to teach her to sew two needles and threads, draw a pattern, and cook a few home-cooked dishes, but she is used to being wild and can't sit still at all, so she has to beg Lily to hook her with words, so that she can have the patience to learn.

Xing'er has always been willing to listen to Lily, so that Lily is false and real coaxed, and she believes that she will run out less in the future, even if she wants to go out in the morning and evening, when the sun is the biggest at noon, she just nests in the house and asks her mother to hold and learn needlework.

Lily didn't let her go, taught her to learn some simple common words, no paper and pen to draw on the ground with a stick, it was more convenient in the house, any table, with a finger dipped in water can be written. Xing'er practiced needlework for a while and was impatient, so she pointed to writing to relax and relax, but fell in love with writing. Li Caifeng saw that the words were like paintings, and knew that her daughter was learning skills, so she didn't stop her, but said: "You have to learn to write, and in the future, you can not only draw patterns, but also embroider words on insoles and clothes."

, take it out, isn't there a light on your face? ”

Xing'er nodded and said, "I'm so smart, I'll make your face glow!"

Li Caifeng has a headache, why is this girl so unashamed, she is more arrogant than a male baby. Looking back at Lily to complain, Lily laughed: "What's wrong with the female baby, you see, Xing'er will be better than the average male baby in the future." ”

Well, one or two are indulging in apricots, eager to hold her to the sky, no wonder she has such a temperament, and she is not at all cowardly and humble as ordinary girls.

Li Caifeng sighed for a while, and went back to add another homework to Xing'er: learn to roll noodles.

So Lily went to Liu's house several times, and saw Xing'er being a little alone, standing in front of the case on the bench, and her two little hands were facing each other. She used the noodles as a game, either the noodles were more or the water was more, the more and more, Li Caifeng was so angry that she wanted to fight, so she ran down with a smile and hid behind Lily, refusing to go out and be beaten by her mother.