As soon as the beans are ripe, the corn cob will swell up, and it will be ready to eat.

Previously, Lily asked Wang Xiaofu to buy some melon and vegetable seeds, Wang Xiaofu was clever, not only bought common seeds, but also asked someone to spare a bag of corn seeds that he had never seen.

People only think of it as a fresh and casual thing, and only Lily knows that this thing is expensive and takes extra care of it.

It was not yet time to harvest the corn, but the tender corn cob was lying there, and the juice splashed everywhere when I pinched it, and the lily's saliva was about to come down.

At this time, the corn is far less big than the lily used to eat in the previous life, much thinner, and there are not so many corns on each corn stalk, but this year, an acre of land only produces a few hundred catties of wheat and rice, if it is replaced with corn, an acre of land can have thousands of catties, and the yield is already very considerable.

Lily took a knife and cut off the cob of corn, and put it in the corner of the wall with the green leaves on the outside, so that it would not wilt in a moment.

She chopped a piece of corn stalk, tore off the outer skin and chewed it in her mouth, sweet!

Lily was overjoyed, she remembered that when she was a child, the corn stalk was watery and sweet, similar to sugar cane, and even the way to eat it was the same, and she never ate sweet corn stalk when she grew up, it turned out to be this kind of breed that had not been improved by hybridization.

The corn stalks were put on the ground, and when Song Haonian came back, he cut a section for him to eat, and Song Haonian said: "Hey, this thing is similar to sugarcane, delicious." ”

It's just that there is more dregs than sugar cane.

Lily let him eat the sweet mouth of the corn stalk, boiled water by himself, tore off the outer leaves of the corn cob, leaving only a few pale yellow young leaves wrapped in the corn cob, and put it in the pot to cook.

After a while, the sweet fragrance wafted out of the pot, and the neighbors' sisters-in-law came to ask: "Danian's, what kind of delicious rice is this?"

Lily smiled: "I didn't plant some corn, I heard that northerners often eat it, we are rare here, today it looks almost cooked, just cook a few and try it." ”

"I've heard people say that I haven't eaten it in the north for many years, and it was all brought back from overseas by our emperor, and I don't know what it tastes like, can I cook it like this?"

The neighbor's sister-in-law was wary of this uneaten food, and planned to wait and see how Lily reacted before deciding whether she wanted to taste it.

The tender corn boiled for a quarter of an hour, and Lily took them out with long bamboo chopsticks and beckoned Song Haonian: "Idiot, come and taste it." ”

Song Haonian didn't have any doubts at all, his daughter-in-law said that he could eat it if he could, Lily tore off the corn husk, and carefully picked out the corn whiskers, and said: "Just gnaw it directly, be careful of scalding." ”

Song Haonian said in his heart, my daughter-in-law is treating me as a child, and she is not verbose, he bites it down, and his eyes widen: the corn kernels are tender and sweet, and the mouth is full of tenderness when chewed, and there is no scum at all. said that it was sweet, and the taste of the grain was very strong, which clearly reminded him that it was a grain.

After eating a few bites, Song Haonian knew where the best corn was, so he broke off the part by the tail, peeled off the part he had gnawed, and handed it to Lily: "It's delicious here." ”

Lily took a bite of a small piece of corn, squinting at the same taste as the boiled corn she had eaten when she was a child!

No matter how much I look for it when I grow up, I can't find that pure taste.

Tender corn is fragrant, in the end it is not rice, it is easy to feel uncomfortable in the stomach after eating too much, the lily leaves two or three for his own family, and the rest is called Song Haonian to go out for a walk, and there are not a few roots, and it will be scattered in a while, everyone will taste it.

The neighbor's sister-in-law saw that Song Haonian and Lily were all good, and she believed that this thing could be eaten, and she also gave her own men and children a point, everyone said it was delicious, and she regretted it in her heart: If she knew this, she should have tasted it herself.

She patronized others and forgot to keep a bite for herself.

Thinking of the corn in the field, the sweet potatoes grown in Master Liu's house, and the lilies are gearing up, there are more meals and snacks she can make, and there are many uses for corn and sweet potatoes.

Since then, no matter how hungry he is, he will not cut the tender corn and eat it, but will wait for them to mature, and the corn kernels will grow and harden one by one, and then harvest them, and leave some for next year to make seeds, and slowly adjust the rest to various diets.

Speaking of keeping seeds, except for cabbage, radish, and courgette, Wang Xiaofu will still be brought from the city next year, and how to keep seeds for pumpkins, cowpeas, and lentils, Lily knows.

Some beans grow the largest and strongest, and when it is past the time to eat, the lilies will not pick them, let them stay on the shelf and continue to mature, and wait until the pods turn yellow before picking them back, bundle them into a bunch and hang them under the eaves to dry, and peel them out to plant in the next year.

The pumpkin should be taken out when eating, and there are many pumpkin seeds in the pot, and some of them can be dried as seeds, and the rest can be fried and eaten.

The melon seed face that people often say is that the face is shaped like pumpkin seeds, and the chin is pointed, but it is not the narrow and long face shape of the sunflower seeds that Lily often ate in his previous life, and it is not good-looking.

A pumpkin vine can grow seven or eight pumpkins, lilies to make them grow bigger, deliberately seedlings, a vine on four or five, all grow thick and fat, now from the verdant through some yellow out, until the whole body becomes golden yellow, you can pick.

Lily went back to Liufu to talk to Aunt Sheng, and talked about her own corn: "I cooked a few while it was still tender, it was sweet and fragrant, and it was strange and delicious." ”

Aunt Sheng said: "Yes, when I followed our master in the provincial capital, I also ate this thing, and I said it was delicious." It's just that our master doesn't like that smell, and he doesn't grow it at home. ”

If you want to say what new crops are going to be added to this Qingliu Town, it must start from Master Liu's grange, not to mention anything else, that is, the sweet potatoes of the ten acres of land, as long as the harvest is good this year, every household will follow the trend and plant it next year.

Master Liu doesn't like to eat corn, he has never planted it on the grange, and no one has learned from it, so the corn in Lily's land is the first in Qingliu Town.

She heard Aunt Sheng say that she likes to eat, so she smiled and said, "Then I'll cut down two trees, and Auntie will also try them." It's just that I planted less this year, and I still want to keep more seeds, but now I don't dare to eat more. Wait until next year to plant more, and then satisfy your cravings. ”

Aunt Sheng smiled: "Then it's biased for you." ”

Lily said clearly, she was not annoyed that she was stingy, but felt that this was a successful person: if she wanted to please her, she would not care about the work of the family, and she would not look down on those who did not care about her head.

After laughing again, because she didn't see the spring, Lily talked about her sister again: "Is she still obedient?"

Aunt Sheng said: "The spring girl is a heart-to-heart, and when the idlers compete for her, she is still young, so she is inevitably impatient." ”

Lily's face was red, this is a euphemism for Aunt Sheng, she mentioned that she was impatient to welcome the Spring Festival, presumably the girl was really impatient, and also called Aunt Sheng a little unhappy, so she said this. "Although she is younger, she should be sensible, we sent her to the house to let her learn some skills in receiving people and things, not to ask her to shake her majesty, and she has no majesty to shake. If she does something wrong, the eldest mother just says that she will only know the eldest mother when she has seen more in the future

"Lily did not excuse the spring, but asked the eldest lady to take care of her.

People say that the prime minister's family is a seven-rank official, and Aunt Sheng has been in Liufu all her life, and the people in the town dare not provoke her. She has a shelf, but she is not bad, she is a little old-fashioned, and she is a rare person who understands.

Lily knows that her father is weak and her mother is confused, what can Yingchun learn from them? Not to mention anything else, as long as she and Zhu learned the same stinginess and quick temper, it will give Lily a headache.

If the rising lady is willing to guide the spring, Lily would like to ask the spring to kowtow and recognize the promotion of the eldest mother as a godmother. It's just that Aunt Sheng is in charge of the kitchen of Liufu, a place with a lot of oil and water, and who is not allowed to scold her up and down the house?

In the end, Lily is an understanding person, Aunt Sheng was a little dissatisfied with Yingchun Yuan, and she also revealed it in her face, and said: "The little girl is competitive, and it is also common in the original, and now she is still angry in the house, you go to see her and persuade her to say a few words, but I am afraid that she will listen." ”

Lily said goodbye and went to the spring house, and as soon as she pushed the door in, she saw that the girl did not raise her head and said, "Go out!"

"Which one to call out?" Lily asked with a smile on her face, too.

Yingchun heard that it was not a little sister who was doing work together, but a big sister. She doesn't look down on her eldest sister's soft temperament on weekdays, but now she feels wronged, so she treats her as a confidant, and her eyes are red and she wants to cry.

Lily saw her crying for a while before persuading: "You Chengri's family said that the three girls shed urine, why do you cry so badly?"

"You don't know the bitterness in my heart!" Yingchun asked when she saw her eldest sister, so as not to complain a few words about her own thoughts.

After listening to this, Lily smiled dumbly, she also said that it was a big deal, it was a long time, but the little girls were strong in pinching their tips, one was not convinced and the other was awkward. Originally, she was smart in the spring, and her heart was high, she was a standout among the little girls, but she didn't have a backer in this house, and there were a few girls who had been in the house for two or three generations, and the background was much deeper than her

Get up.

Aunt Sheng is impartial, the two of them each hit fifty boards, told themselves to reflect, and said extra seriously to Yingchun, telling her not to be so public, and to see how other big girls act steadily.

Ying Chun snorted angrily: "I don't have a foundation in this mansion, if I am more stable, anyone can give me anger!"

She has endured hardships and tiredness, but she has a temper, and she refuses to suffer a little grievance.

As she spoke, she lay down angrily again, facing inside and pretending to be asleep.

Lily smiled and pushed her: "You are even angry with Aunt Sheng, she is helping you." ”

"Why did she help me?" Yingchun didn't believe it.

"You think about it, everyone has been working in this house for decades, you two little girls are just noisy, it's really a big trouble, are the masters of the house biased towards you, or biased towards that end?" "Sheng Da Niang is really for your good to let you restrain yourself, you don't know the hearts of good people, I tell you, you should be careful about those who pry you out, since it's a good thing, why don't you go, I want you to come out? You still think of yourself as your own outstanding, it's really sold to people and paid back the number of people!"