The next day I got up early in the morning, before dawn, it was about five o'clock in the previous life, He Zao's family was ready, He Laosan drove the ox cart, and Chen and a few children followed behind.

The little scalper is very busy these days, and they all feel sorry for it and don't want it to work too hard.

I'm still waiting for it to be cultivated in two days.

Pulling peanuts is a more laborious task than breaking corn, because it is more trivial, requiring people to squat there and pluck the whole process, and after pulling it, it is necessary to turn over the soil inside to see if there are any peanuts left.

Peanuts are a precious thing, and the farmers are reluctant to eat them, so they have to sell them, so they can't be wasted.

Because he was afraid that He Zao and Qibao would be too young to pull it out, Chen asked them to go to the front, and she followed behind to watch.

She moves quickly, pulling five or six by herself, which is worth two mornings.

Today they did not bring food, only boiled a few tender corn cobs, because the ground is full of wet peanuts, a lot of water, when hungry they peel peanuts and eat them, quench their thirst and hunger, and they are very sweet, and if they eat too much, there will be an extremely mellow and delicate fragrance at the base of the tongue. That's the peanut flavor.

Peanuts themselves belong to oily foods, and the peanut oil pressed out by later generations has completely replaced the meat oil of this era.

Moreover, He Zao found that the people of this era did not have the awareness that peanuts could also be used to extract oil, and most of the village households ate meat oil boiled with fatty pork.

She also deliberately searched, but did not find rapeseed oil, which has a very common scientific name, rapeseed.

In her opinion, this is an alternate era, and some crops were introduced at a time different from the previous life, such as peppers, tomatoes, and cotton, which were introduced to China in later generations in the Ming Dynasty, but this is not the case here.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, cotton are quite common.

But some rape flowers, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, etc., she had not seen.

He Laosan likes to eat peanuts, after the He family broke up, he has never been particular about food, but every time he goes back to the town, he will ask: "Is there still a lot of benevolence in our family?" ”

If it's less, buy it.

To what extent does He Laosan love to eat peanuts, let's put it this way, if there is no vegetable, just a handful of raw peanuts, and he can eat a bowl with small rice.

Shippo inherited this hobby from him.

Therefore, there are two men in He Sanfang's family who love to eat peanuts, and every time they go to the town, if they think about it, they will weigh a few catties in the morning.

When he was resting, he sat down and bowed his head, and saw He Laosan pinching the peanut shell with his fingers, and then sucked it skillfully, and the two kernels entered his mouth, He Zao couldn't help laughing, and said to Chen: "Mother, if you don't buy our peanuts this year, send the jade millet to my grandmother a little bit, my father and Qibao love to eat it, let's eat it slowly." ”

One and a half acres of peanuts is enough.

He Laosan smiled and said: "How can you eat so much, let's leave one pack to eat for ourselves, and the rest are sold, peanuts are expensive, and they can be sold for a lot of money." ”

He Zao subconsciously looked towards the field of the old house.

The other party has finished his work, and now he is peeling corn husks at home.

When the family was first separated, the rations of Hezao's family went to the old house for the first two months, and when the new grain came down, the third room took out one-third of the old house, and the rest was all three-room.

One-third, not too much, not too little, at least Mrs. He is very dissatisfied.

This peanut is supposed to be given to one-third of the old house, looking at He Laosan's expression, it seems that he didn't expect this stubble?

The peanuts were harvested all day, and the people in the third room could not rest, so they had to go to the wasteland to harvest sweet potatoes again.

The yield of the wasteland reclaimed by the family is very low, and the corn stalks are so thin and low that there is not a single cob in sight, but it is easy to see a corn cob, but the corn seeds in it have not grown.

Just a few acres of sweet potatoes can still produce a little.

Sweet potatoes are highly yielding, drought-tolerant, and can grow well even in extremely poor soil.

Some sweet potato leaves are still very tender, He Chun'er picked up the core and pinched a big bag, saying that he would go back to fry sweet potato leaves and eat them.

This wasteland has more than a dozen acres, and further to the west, it is also a large wasteland that has not been reclaimed, thorns and weeds are everywhere, she walked there, and without paying attention, a gray rabbit sprang out of her feet, and ran away quickly and could not see the figure, He Zao bluffed.

A little further on, He Zao also found a pit dug by hunters.

To the north of the wasteland, at the foot of the mountain, there are many stones. Overgrown.

These lands are all sandy land.

He Zao thought of his plan, and his heart was excited.

But now is not the time to rush this, she barely managed to hold back the agitated mood and honestly produce sweet potatoes.

The roots of these sweet potatoes are small and broken, and some of them are gnawed by wild animals on the mountain.

It took two days for He Zao's family to clean up these things.

After returning in the evening, He Laosan washed more than ten large sweet potatoes in a large wooden barrel and put them in a pot to steam.

He Zao found white cane sugar and prepared to dip it later.

When He Chun'er saw it, she couldn't cry or laugh: "Morning, you will eat." ”

He raised his eyebrows and smiled proudly.

After that, for more than ten days, Hezao's family was very busy, first peeling corn seeds, then drying corn, pulling peanuts, drying soybeans, cutting dried sweet potatoes, and selecting large and stiff white-hearted sweet potatoes and red-hearted sweet potatoes to put away, waiting for the next spring seedlings.

When all this is done, it is time to start sowing again.

He Zao wanted to leave two acres of land to plant rapeseed, but fortunately, He Laosan was a child who loved her, so he let her toss.

He Zao didn't do much research on farming, but only roughly knew that plant ash and rotten leaves were excellent pure natural fertilization materials, when she was entangled for a long time, stumbling and saying that these can fertilize the ground, but He Laosan and Chen laughed.

It turns out that this has long been a fertilization method handed down by our ancestors.

He Zao made a big red face, and then realized that she had seen several large forests, all of which were clean, at first she thought it was a place where children often played, so there were adults in the village to clean up, and at this time she thought that it should be because the villagers deliberately cleaned up the rotten leaves from time to time in order to fertilize.

Due to the difficult winter days, there are almost no vegetables of all kinds, so the farmers will open up a small piece of wasteland to grow vegetables suitable for winter growth.

Just like carrots, white radish, cabbage, pumpkin and other commonly eaten vegetables, the early family took advantage of the autumn ploughing time to choose the most flat two acres of wasteland, so that the ploughing cattle ploughed smoothly, and planted seeds and seedlings.

Afraid that there would be wild things to spoil it, more than a dozen wild jujube trees were transplanted outside, and these wild jujube trees had tenacious vitality, even in the autumn when they were not suitable for transplanting, they took root in less than two days after watering. The wild jujube tree is full of thorns, and it is a good fence wall!

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