Chapter 118: Opening the Courtyard
Shen Yunxi took a shovel and began to plan to dig a pit and plant fruit trees.
Shen Yunxi dug a pit, and Zheng Guizhen used a basket to carry fertilizer. The children put the saplings in the pit and cooperated with each other.
Orange trees and mandarin saplings are still very small. As they grow, the land they occupy becomes larger, so the space between each tree will be slightly larger.
Shen Yunxi would put these six grape seedlings in a special place, build a shelf, and let the branches and leaves of the grapes climb up to make a grape shelf.
In the summer, there is a deck chair and it is also nice to have tea under the chair.
Yang Dacui saw Shen Yunxi planting trees with the children, and asked in surprise, "What are you planting?"
Shen Yunxi replied with a smile: "Auntie, I have a lot of children. I saw some fruit trees, so I dug some from the forest. Anyway, the yard is so big that the fruit trees don't take up space. In the future, children will have snacks to eat. ”
Yang Dacui listened, clapped his hands and said, "Hey, I didn't expect it!" The yard was also empty. It's too late to plant vegetables. After all, our vegetable garden has been planted elsewhere.
There are wild fruits in the forest, and when we eat them, we have to go to the mountains. It was convenient to plant them in our own yard! When we went into the mountains, we saw fruit trees, and we dug them up. ”
Zheng Guizhen said with a smile: "I don't know if it's delicious or not, it's something new, so it's for children."
Yang Dacui nodded in agreement: "Yes, I think so too."
Shen Yunxi saw that there was still a large open space in the courtyard. The farming genes in the "blood" are deeply rooted in the bone marrow. When she saw the clearing, she picked up her hoe.
"Auntie, I'll go to your house to get a tin plow. The yard is too big. I'm going to plant something out of it. Shen Yunxi couldn't suppress her urge to farm, so the field she couldn't see was empty.
Yang Dacui was stunned and smiled. "Youqing's family, you are so diligent. But if you open up the land and you don't have seeds, you don't know what to plant, isn't it a waste of time?"
Shen Yunxi explained: "Auntie, I went to the sweet potato field that day and found a few broken sweet potato seedlings. That day, I didn't bend down to pick them up. Unexpectedly, when I went there again today, those sweet potato seedlings actually took root in the ground and survived.
When the land is well opened and fertilized, the sweet potato seedlings in the field will grow more. Then I'll try to plant some in the yard. If we survive, we earn it. If you can't, that's okay. It's just a matter of effort. After all, it can be replanted!"
Yang Dacui was surprised: "It can still be like this!" Since sweet potato seedlings can be cut alive, we first use an iron plow to open the ground and plant sweet potatoes, and then our family will plant them again. By then, you will have more sweet potato seedlings, and I will be embarrassed to ask you for them. ”
Shen Yunxi nodded: "Okay, it's decided."
Shen Yunxi went to Yang Dacui's house, brought an iron plow, and put it on the old cow. It took her two full days to open the wasteland at the door.
Shen Yunxi roughly estimated that there were two and a half acres, which was a large area. If the sweet potatoes grow well, it is estimated that thousands of catties can be harvested.
Because I was very tired from clearing the wasteland, I had to eat three meals a day.
There was rabbit meat and chicken and it was very tasty. Quail eggs are small, but there are many of them. They like it very much, they can cook it and make it into egg soup with wild vegetables.
Tian Erniu is the best at thinking. While eating the delicious quail eggs, he asked with a puzzled face: "Mother, you see so many bird eggs, what do you see the birds?"