Xianggong farming

Chapter 207
When the watermelon seedlings were transplanted, they didn't invite anyone else, just the four adults and three uncles.

Aunt Zheng had never seen a watermelon before, so she was curious while working: "My nephew and daughter-in-law, what is this thing?"

Ji Xinmiao smiled: "The Jiang family, a big family in the city, asked us to grow it. We don't know what it is called. I only know that it is the same as the cucumber and pumpkin we grow. It can be eaten. However, this kind of melon is not eaten as a vegetable. , but as a snack."

Aunt Zheng said in surprise: "Huh? There are also melons that can be eaten as snacks? However, only rich families can afford to spend such a large cost on growing these snacks. We country people, with such a large piece of land, Even if you can't grow rice, you can still grow a lot of corn. But this rich family is different, and they use such a large piece of land to grow snacks."

The reason why I don't want to explain too clearly is that no one in the village knows about watermelons. She heard from the shopkeeper that only nobles in the capital can afford this kind of food.Second, in case people in the village are curious and ask the three members of the Liu family, they can be dealt with.It is not a good thing for people to know that they are growing rare pumpkins.

However, the more you want to keep a low profile, the more difficult it is, and the troubles caused by this have brought a lot of sequelae.

It is said that when Qi Liu saw that he could not get any news from Qi Silang, he murmured to Qi Li: "Mother, you said that this sister-in-law is really powerful. She gave Shiro six hundred dollars a month. She seems to feel that she It's like giving six taels of silver. This Shiro either picks up the mud into the back shed every day, or picks up the plant ash into the backyard. The vegetable field in the back is only so small, so much soil and plant ashes are used? I see her like this I'm afraid that Shiro will be lazy!"

Although Qi Li didn't answer Qi Liu's words, his face darkened a lot.Qi Liushi was very proud, who is her mother-in-law, how could she not know?

Qi Silang was her youngest son, and he had always been pampered and raised.The mother-in-law was distressed that he and Qi Erqin were twins when they were young, and she forcibly separated half of his flesh and blood from his daughter, so she felt that Qi Silang was weak.So she withheld the family's food and tried every means to send him to school, so as to save him the hardship of the field.

But the mother-in-law thought that the son who listened to her the most was disobedient. He stopped reading and didn't speak, but went to learn farming from the couple.Qi Lishi hasn't passed the hurdle in her heart yet. Now that she said that again, can't she nail it in her heart?

That night Qi Silang came back after fertilizing the last watermelon he picked, and it was almost dark when he got home.

Qi Li stood in front of the door with a dark face and asked, "Silang, are you the only one who came back from the field?"

Qi Shilang was very happy when he saw that the pumpkin seedlings had survived within a few days, and they were growing very well.Unexpectedly, his mother stopped him with a face like a door god.After a moment of surprise, he replied, "Yes."

When Qi Li heard it, he immediately scolded: "I said, are you stupid in reading and reading! Isn't it only twenty dollars a day? It's worth your hard work? They both knew they were hungry, so they quit work early. Go home. It’s better for you, treat six hundred dollars a month as six taels of silver a month, and let them do it to death, I wonder if you have any brains!"

Qi Silang was scolded by Qi Li for a while, and after scolding inexplicably, he frowned: "Mother, what are you talking about? When did the eldest brother and sister-in-law go home for dinner? When I came back, they were still pouring the last seat What about the water, which eye of yours saw them come back? Besides, I went to my elder brother’s house to learn how to farm the land, not to earn wages, what nonsense are you talking about!”

"I'm talking nonsense? My brother followed him to learn some skills, and he let you do such a heavy job. They obviously have no good intentions and treat you like a bully! Don't think that your mother has no eyes and can't see clearly. Huahuachangzi! Tomorrow, you go to the field and take a look, don't be so stupid to kill and do it! Shiro, let me ask you, what is your elder brother asking you to provoke the field to plant?" The son's rebuttal made Qi Li The anger is even greater.

Since Qi Silang worked with Qi Dalang and his wife, their upright and upright personalities have long made Qi Silang fall in love with them.Qi Li's teaching, like everyone else, went around asking about his elder brother's family, which made him frowned even more, so he shook his hand: "Mother, what do you care about these things? Didn't I tell you a long time ago, this It’s a fruit melon that Brother Jiang Jiatuo helped to plant, the same melon seeds as the cucumber and melon. I’m too lazy to tell you! I’m hungry and I want to eat.”

"Huh! They are lying to you, you fools don't understand. If it is really just a kind of melon and fruit, how can they be so mysterious? Could it be a kind of treasure like ginseng or ganoderma?" Qi Li was even more excited when he heard his son say this. Do not believe it!
Ginseng?Lingzhi?My own mother's thoughts are not small, and all she thinks about are those precious things.Qi Shilang thinks that Qi Li is really a person who can't tell the truth. He used to see his mother and his sister-in-law quarreling, and sometimes he still thought that the sister-in-law must have disrespected her.Now it seems that my mother is a person who makes trouble out of nothing!
Seeing that his son dared to shake face with him, Qi Li's face became even darker.But she was not willing to make her precious son unhappy, so she put this account on Ji Xinmiao again.

Qi Erqin knew about this when Qi Liushi came to provoke him, so when Qi Lishi stopped Qi Silang from speaking, she was already standing behind the door, trying to make things right.

Afraid that Mrs. Qi Li would pull Qi Silang to ask this and that again, when she heard Qi Silang said that she was hungry, she immediately answered: "Fourth brother, go and wash your hands, the elder sister brought your favorite chili tonight Stir-fried large intestines are delicious."

When Qi Silang heard that he had large intestines again, he ignored Qi Li's nagging, and hurried to the back of the kitchen: "Sister, hurry up and get some food, I'll be right after I wash my hands."

When he passed Qi Erqin's side, he said softly: "Sister-in-law San is talking to mother in the afternoon!"

As soon as Qi Silang heard it, he immediately understood the reason for what happened to his mother tonight, and he said with a look of disgust: "They are all people who eat and have nothing to do and make trouble!"

When Ji Xinmiao and Qi Dalang returned home, it was already dark.She didn't know what happened in the yard. When Aunt Qi told her what Mrs. Qi and Li said, she smiled and said, "Then let her call fourth uncle back!"

Aunt Qi took a look at her: "Aren't you bullying her? If she had the ability to control the fourth brother, she would still gossip here today? But you have to be careful and guard against her when you get these new things. For those two of them, success is not enough and failure is more than enough.”

Qi Dalang nodded thoughtfully: "Eldest sister is right, daughter-in-law, you must not have the heart of harming others, and the heart of guarding against others is indispensable. Tomorrow, we will explain more to the fourth brother, and be careful in everything without letting others It's good to be suspicious."

(End of this chapter)