What Li Tong forgot is that the seeds of plants must be germinated before sowing, whether it is Chinese cabbage seeds or wild ginseng seeds, it is necessary to find a wooden bucket and put some water to soak it.

The purpose of germination is to shorten the time for seed germination so that the seeds are kept neat in the ground after emergence.

Li Tong doesn't know how long the wild ginseng seeds should be soaked, but he only remembers that the Chinese cabbage seeds seem to have to be soaked for 2~3 hours, and according to the growth cycle of wild ginseng, it takes 5~7 years, so it should be enough to soak for 3 days.

Half an hour later, Li Tong poured all the soaked Chinese cabbage seeds in the wooden pot on the sheets spread on the field, and then folded the sheets in half and tied them with hemp rope on both sides.

The rest of the time is to wait slowly, untie the twine every hour, open the sheets to ventilate the seeds, and then tie the hole and continue to wait for the next ventilation.

Li Tong quit the virtual farm after completing the second ventilation at the time point, and just got out of bed when he heard the voice of his second sister Li Ailian.

"Mom, is the meal ready? I'm dying of hunger. ”

"It's done, you go wash your hands first."

Li Tong walked out of the south house, and saw the second sister Li Ailian drop her schoolbag and run to the pool in the front yard, accompanied by the sound of turning the faucet, and the cool water fell vertically into the sink.

"Hasn't the big brother come back yet?"

Li Tong found that his eldest brother didn't seem to be able to get off work on time today, this is the third time this week, and he doesn't know how the temporary workers who carry big bags in the grain store are so involuted.

"Don't wait for him, let's eat first. Your eldest brother is estimated to have been left to work overtime again, and temporary workers are not good at this, and they are all close to them for any dirty work. Three boys, you must study hard, and when you grow up, you won't be like your eldest brother and can only be a temporary worker. Li Wangshi said earnestly.

"Well, I'll study hard." Li Tong responded.

"Mom, what about me?" The second sister Li Ailian shook the water droplets in her hand and came back.

"What's the use of girls learning so much, when you graduate from junior high school, I will ask Director Xu to find you a job in the factory in the street, and you can support yourself." Li Wang's tone was not cold.

"Hmph, I don't want to be a worker, my mother is so busy every day that I'm almost tired, I want to be admitted to the university to be the director!" Li Ailian stood at the door and raised her small fist in protest.

"What are you shouting, let's eat quickly, the dishes are going to be cold."

Li Wangshi patted his daughter on the back, bent over and took out a plate of fried cabbage from the pot grate on the ground and put it on the table. The weather is getting colder and colder, and in the era when there is no thermal insulation cover, cooked meals and steamed buns can only be kept warm in the pot.

"Three boys, hurry up and eat, you have to clean the yard after eating, go early and don't let people pick on us, I'll put the broom and dustpan at the door for you." Li Wang took out a corn tortilla from the basket and handed it to Li Tong and commanded.

"Hmm." Li Tong took a bite of the cake and drank the porridge.

The twenty catties of flour that Li Tong brought back a few days ago were not only eaten three meals of white flour steamed buns, but the rest of the flour was locked in the cupboard by his mother Li Wang, saying that he asked his eldest brother to go to the pigeon market to exchange cornmeal and sweet potatoes on the weekend.

In this way, all the food for the New Year at home this year will be solved, and the money saved can also buy more pork and pheasant neck dumplings to eat.

The pheasant neck is a leek, and it is also a product in the greenhouse of Sijiqing Commune, and the price is not cheap, selling for 1 yuan per catty. Because of the cold weather, the upper part of the leek will have a circle of purple, so the common people call it pheasant neck.

After dinner, Li Tong put on his little yellow hat and walked out of the house, picked up the broom and dustpan placed against the wall under the eaves and walked to the two stone steps of the street door, and then swept along the stone steps from the outside to the inside.

To be honest, although more than a dozen families were crammed into a courtyard house in those days, the sanitation was much better than the current community. Mainly there is little household garbage, except for some dirt and leaves, there is basically no dirt.

The main reason is that every household is not full, so naturally there is no leftover food to pour, and rotten vegetable leaves are also useful, which can be used to feed chickens or rabbits.

Li Tong knew that there was a little girl named Chang Aijuan in the class who had a nest of rabbits at home, and the little girl would go to the Dongdan vegetable market or the nearby grocery store every day after school to pick up rotten vegetable leaves on the ground, take them home, wash them with water, chop them and feed them to the rabbits.

"The three boys sweep the floor, and you have to remember not to fight anymore in the future." This is the occupant of the first upside-down room on the left hand side of the courtyard after entering the courtyard.

"Hmm," Li Tong replied as he bent over.

"It's pretty clean, three boys can do it, haha." This is the occupant of the second inverted house.

Li Tong wanted to show a mouthful of small white teeth to the other party.

When Li Tong swept to the door of the third inverted room, that is, Jiang's house, the sound of opening the door sounded in his ears, and Jiang Tianliang, a little fat man, came out of the house with a broom in one hand and a dustpan in the other, but this little fat man showed a malicious smile at the first sight of Li Tong.

Li Tong wiped it around his lips with his hand, confirmed that there was no food or anything, and immediately scolded with a smile: "You guy, what's so funny?" ”

Jiang Tianliang looked around to make sure that no one was looking at him, and then secretly leaned on Li Tong's ear and whispered: "Xu Jingli took the initiative to talk to me today, and asked why didn't you come to school today?" ”

"What did you tell her?"

"I told her that you were opened by Aunt Wang with a feather duster, and it hurt so much that you couldn't sit on a stool, so you didn't go to school today, haha!" After Jiang Tianliang finished speaking, he threw down the broom and dustpan in his hand and turned around and ran, turning around and shouting as he ran: "I'll call Lu Mingtao, this kid must want to be lazy and don't want to sweep the floor." ”

"Who is lazy, I went to the cooperative on the street to make soy sauce, do you think everyone is as delicious and lazy as you, and you are the same as the second senior brother." Lu Mingtao walked in from outside with a soy sauce bottle.

"Who is the second senior brother to call? I see you kid want to beg for a fight again! Jiang Tianliang rolled up his sleeves and made a gesture to break his wrist with Lu Mingtao.

Li Tong ignored the two of them and continued to bend over and sweep the ground, Jiang Tianliang looked at Lu Mingtao, who was standing in place with his hands folded and looking at him defiantly, and swallowed. He didn't think that he could beat Lu Mingtao, the first general among the five tiger generals before, and his coy attitude just now was for Li Tong to see.

Unexpectedly, the third brother was like a different person, bending over and sweeping the floor with a broom without saying a word, but he hung his own dog legs.

Phew, Phew~

It's not a dog's leg, it's a dog-headed military advisor.

The two sides were in such a stalemate for a minute, although Lu Mingtao didn't say anything, but since he was kicked down by Li Tong last time, he was really a little worried when he saw Li Tong again. Otherwise, Jiang Tianliang, a little fat man, dared to talk to him like this, and he would have stepped forward to wrap his arms around his neck and began to practice one-finger meditation.

Nation! Nation! Nation!

A sound of wooden sticks knocking came from far and near, and the door of the Jiang family was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and it turned out to be Jiang Tianming, the second child of the Jiang family, who went out to make soy sauce with a soy sauce bottle.

Jiang Tianliang was so excited that he almost burst into tears, and shouted hoarsely.

"Brother, I'm soy sauce. Phew, I'll help you make soy sauce! ”