Xu Yin smiled at him: "Okay!" Then don't read it, let's know a few more words, and don't be blind! ”

The two went to the lotus pond to inspect the progress of their cousins' work.

Lin Xiyun: "......"

I don't know why, I only drank a bowl of gruel in the morning, although the Cui family prepared a snack for him between classes, but he didn't use it, but at the moment he felt full.

Xu Sanqiu shook his head: "The second sister deserves to be the second sister, she is so free to go to school!" ”

He also really wanted to slip away, and it was more comfortable to go up the mountain to chop firewood and go down to the field to farm than to sit upright and listen to his teacher's class.

But I heard Lin Xiyun ask, "Brother Xu, do you also remember the words you said in the last class?" ”

Xu Sanqiu replied weakly: "No ......"

"Then please sit down! It's time for recess. ”

“……”

The dogs covered their mouths and snickered.

Xu Sanqiu was annoyed: "What are you laughing at!" Do you remember those words? ”

“……”

Well, not all memorized.

The cubs sat upright.

Lin Xiyun glanced at the girl who was sitting quietly in the corner and trying to read and write, her eyebrows softened, and she cleared her throat: "Let's continue the class......"

At that time, Xu Yin followed Comrade Xiao Jin to the wetland on the periphery of the lotus pond.

The two of them walked and guessed each other's words that they had learned in the previous lesson to deepen their impression.

When I arrived at the wetland, I heard from afar that a few cousins were envious of Dawa Village while working:

"Dawa Village heard that it was going to build a collective lotus pond, and every family contributed to plant lotus root and raise ducks, and at the end of the year, they sold it and shared the money. It would be good if our village would have one at any time, and the province would go to the town to find work. ”

"There is no lake in our village, how can we do it without a lake?"

"yes......"

"Look, isn't this land quite fertile? In our village, how can this kind of land be barren and no one wants it? ”

"This is called a wetland, Dawa Village is full of wetlands, and so is Xiaowa Village next door, and our village is dry land."

"There is still sand in our village, and the weeds at the foot of the front mountain do not grow."

At the mention of the sand with no grass, everyone couldn't help but sigh.

It's only ten miles apart, why is the gap so big.

Xu Yinxin said: That's because Meihua Village, especially the frontier mountain, is high, and when it rains, it flows to the big and small villages, and there is not much groundwater, which causes the soil to be dry and desertified, and over time there is no way to grow anything.

However, you can grow watermelons.

Watermelon does not pick the ground, and even sandy ground is more suitable for it to grow.

"I have a few melon seeds here, I bought them in Chunzhou Mansion last year, and I heard the stall owner say that they came from the Western Regions, which are suitable for planting in sandy land, but the paddy fields are not viable, do you want them?"

Last summer, Xu Yin missed the sweet and juicy, refreshing watermelon after Jingshui Town.

Later, I bought watermelon seeds in Chunzhou Mansion, and I planned to plant them in spring, but the land in Dawa Village was not very suitable for growing watermelons.

The only acre of dry land in the family was reluctant to vacate it, so after hesitating, he put it aside first, thinking that he would decide after the beginning of spring.

As a result, since the spring ploughing, I have been busy with this and that, and I have forgotten about the watermelon.

If Meihua Village could grow watermelons, she would not hesitate to give them the melon seeds, and there would be ready-made watermelons to eat in the future, how good!

Her cousins exclaimed in unison:

"What? And seeds that are suitable for planting in sand? ”

So what are you waiting for! Absolutely!

Xu Yin gave them the watermelon seeds.

The melon seeds she gave were not the ones sold to her by the Chunzhou Mansion stall, but the preferred seeds that had been cultivated for several generations in the system warehouse, which not only tasted good, but also had a high germination rate.

Although the cousins don't know what kind of melon it is, since it is a melon seed, they still know how to grow a melon.

So, when he went back, one of them brought back a few watermelon seeds. Xu Yinrang, led by Xu Lidong, also brought a few grains to her third brother.

With the mentality of trying, after the melon seeds were budding, they were planted in the sandy loam land at the foot of the mountain in front of Meihua Village, where the birds were too lazy to stay.

Each person opened a ridge and transplanted the melon seedlings.

When other families in Meihua Village saw it, they laughed at them: "Where weeds don't grow, you still want to grow vegetables and melons?" You're so idle. Look, you'll be dead in two days. ”

However, after half a month, someone inadvertently passed by there and found that the sand was crawling with green melon seedlings, and Meihua Village was boiling!

The villagers flocked to the homes of Xu Lidong and Xu Sanqiu, asking them what kind of melons they had planted in the sand, and they had grown up, with thick vines and strong vines.

"I don't know what melons are, they were given to us by Erya. Didn't she accompany my second brother-in-law to Chunzhou Mansion last year? It was there that she bought it, and the vendor who sold her melon seeds said that she had brought it from the Western Regions. ”

"Good boy! Can the melon seeds of the Western Regions survive with us? ”

"Sanqiu, when the melons are ripe, go back and leave a few seeds for my uncle!"

"Lidong, can you leave us a few grains too?"

Xu Sanqiu and the others still don't know how to keep the melons in the Western Regions, how dare they agree, they only say that they will wait until the melons are ripe, and if it is convenient to keep the seeds, they must leave a few grains for them.

As a result, the other villagers in Meihua Village are more looking forward to the ripening of watermelons than Xu Sanqiu, and they all want to see what the melons in the Western Regions are like and whether there are many seeds? Is it enough to give them a share?

However, this year, they didn't want to get melon seeds, because Chen Xianling heard that a green melon seedling was planted in the sandy land of Meihua Village, and after sending someone to inquire in detail, he learned that the seeds of this melon seedling were the melon seeds from the Western Regions that Cui Mengjin and his family bought when they went to Chunzhou Mansion to see a doctor, and immediately asked the officials to take care of the melon field.

As for Xu Sanqiu's melon seedling masters, they became melon planters hired by the county officials. When the melon is ripe, you can receive a reward.

When Xu Sanqiu came to Xu Yin's house for a literacy class, he was happy to mention this: "It's the first time I've been so close to the county magistrate, and he still drank a bowl of water at my house!" My grandmother also hid the bowl that the county magistrate drank water from as a treasure, saying that this will be our family's heirloom in the future. ”

Xu Yin: "......"

Even if you haven't been ordered by the county to drink water, it can become an heirloom for hundreds or thousands of years.

"By the way, second sister, I am now a melon grower hired by the government, and I have to guard the melon field every day, can I not come to class?" Xu Sanqiu asked Xu Yin tentatively.

This guy is racking his brains all the time to skip class.

Xu Yin glanced at him: "Brother Lidong, they are also officially hired melon growers, don't they come to work with me anyway?" ”

“……”

Xu Yin ignored him anymore and discussed with Lin Xiyun: "The summer harvest will be soon, after the next class, the literacy class will have half a month of agricultural vacation, and the summer harvest will resume after the end of the summer harvest." Three days later, the last class before the farm work, we will not have a new class, and we will hold a literacy contest as a summary and recognition of the previous days' learning. ”

(End of chapter)