Splendid Pastoral: Space farmers are good for farming

Chapter 20
Mrs. Chen in the front room sat for a long time before leaving. After going out from Jujiao, she lowered her voice, not knowing what she was talking to Qiao Mandun. I got married, so I took the opportunity to ask Fenix ​​before going to bed: "Sister, what are you doing here today?"

Fennel said, "I don't know either. Dad won't let me listen, so I went out to work."

Ji Jiao secretly sighed, Fennel's temperament is too simple and honest, with such a character, won't she be bullied if she marries into her in-law's family in the future?

Fennel didn't know what she was worried about, so she asked Shan Xing to pick up Maiya, packed the quilt on the kang bed, and went to sleep.

Kikyo was thinking about the purpose of Mrs. Chen's visit, but she didn't tell her father, and she didn't hear clearly when she asked her grandma. She couldn't find out, so she had to write it down, thinking to pay more attention...

Because platycodon, fennel, and apricot are three big and sensible people. Although the Qiao family is sad after Wang Guixiang is gone, life has not changed much. Qiao Mandun hangs one hand to do farm work in the field, and fennel often goes to help , Platycodon grandiflorum and mountain apricot can also take good care of the family.

On this day, Fennel went to the field with Daddy again, while Jigeng and Shanxing were at home doing housework and taking care of Xiaoliu Malt.

Malt gets hungry quickly, so he needs to be fed millet flour five or six times a day.Kikyo can't hold Malt for too long, so Shan Xing is Xiaoliu's royal nanny, hugging Malt every day like a mother.

In the absence of fennel, the work of making malt and millet paste fell to Kikyo.

She boiled water to make a bowl of rice paste, moved the stool and climbed up, touched the sugar jar from the top of the cupboard, opened the lid and saw that it was empty, only a little sugar was still on the spoon.

She had to stir the spoon in the mushy bowl, then carried it into the house to feed the malt with the apricots.

I don't know if the paste is not sweet enough, or the malt is really tired, and I turned my head and cried after taking a few bites, and refused to take a bite no matter how much the platycodon was sent to my mouth.

Shan Xing hugged Mai Ya and wanted to cry, and said: "Xiao Liu hasn't had milk for half a month, and he can't get enough of rice cereal. He's getting thinner every day, and I don't know if he can live!"

Seeing that she was about to cry, Ji Jiao felt very uncomfortable, so she tried to comfort her and said, "It's okay, Kidou didn't have any milk when she was young, so she's still alive, why can't Mai Ya live..."

As she spoke, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "By the way, it seems that it's time for wild ducks to lay their eggs. You can coax her first, and if she eats, then feed her some rice cereal. I'll go to the west of the village for a walk. Let's see if I can pick up a few wild duck eggs!"

"Pick up wild duck eggs?!" Shan Xing's eyes lit up, and said: "Go, go, I'd forget if you don't tell me, if I can pick up wild duck eggs, Xiao Liu's life will be easier!"

Kikyo nodded: "Well, I'm going."

After speaking and walking outside, Shan Xing said worriedly in the room: "Be careful, Kikyo, don't fall into the water..."

"I see, it's okay, don't worry."

Kikyo was responding outside the house while sneaking into the next room.

She first went to the grain store to grab the millet and put it in her pocket, after thinking about it, she went to the corner of the next room to rummage through it.A few beets planted in the small garden two days ago had moss. Fennel thought they were inedible, so they pulled them out and threw them here. Platycodon grandiflorum wanted to look for them. If I was lucky, I might be able to find a few mature seeds from the cauliflower.

She pulled the dehydrated beets and pinched the dried cauliflowers to look for them one by one. Not to mention, she really lived up to her expectations and found a few ripe beet seeds.

She carefully wrapped the beet seeds in a cloth and picked them up, then went out of the house with the basket and walked to Yao Jinfang's house.Duck eggs have to be collected, and food has to be grown, so we must go to this kid.

Ever since she found out that Yao Jinfang's bodhi seed was the portal to enter the space farm, she decided that no matter how the widow Yao objected, she would continue to hook up with Yao Jinfang, because she really couldn't refuse that magical farm.

When she came to Yao Jinfang's house, Yao Jinfang was still wrestling with the Pharmacopoeia. Two-thirds of the thick Pharmacopoeia had been memorized by him. Kikyo really couldn't figure out why this kid's brain capacity was so strong. Sometimes I wonder if he is also a freak from time travel, but judging from his behavior when he is with me, it seems that this is not the case.

Seeing her coming, Yao Jinfang was very happy. He thought that since his mother said that the day Lu Wu was captured, Jugeng would never come to him again.

"Jiangsu, why are you here?!" He said in surprise.

"I'm here to ask you to hang out!" Kikyo said while staring at his chest. She could clearly feel the existence of that thing after entering the space directly from the bodhi seed last time.

Yao Jinfang had no idea what she was up to, and asked naively, "Where are you going to play? Are you going to dig medicine?"

"No, I want to go to the river to pick up wild duck eggs, will you go?" Kikyo felt like an old fox tempting a pure white rabbit.

"Pick up wild duck eggs? That's great, I'll go!" Yao Jinfang jumped up. He has never seen a wild duck in his life, let alone pick up duck eggs.

Kikyo reminded in advance: "But let me tell you clearly, we don't get the duck eggs when we go, it depends on luck, because we are not the only ones picking up duck eggs, maybe others have already picked up duck eggs."

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if there are any, as long as I can see wild ducks, I just catch two and come back to play!"

Kikyo knew that he would definitely go, stepped forward and took his hand, and said: "Let's go, let's go back early, so as not to be seen by your mother."

Yao Jinfang learned to be smart this time, and he also found a small basket to carry, and ran to the small river in the west of the village together with the platycodon.

Shibantun is surrounded by mountains and not near water. There are no big rivers, but only a few small streams that are as wide as one person, so they are called "rivers".The one closest to the village is the one in the west of the village. There are lush aquatic plants along the river, and there are also small water birds inhabiting here. Occasionally, you can see brilliant mandarin ducks, and wild ducks live the most here.This kind of waterfowl lays eggs twice a year, one in spring and one in autumn. If it was in previous years, platycodon grandiflorum might have arrived long ago, but the shock of mother's death was too great, making her forget about it. The crying was so urgent that she might not remember it yet.

She and Yao Jinfang searched carefully in the grass by the river. Platycodon grandiflorum has a lot of experience in picking up wild duck eggs. When you see the grass grows neatly and the plants are uniform, you don’t want to look at it, because there will be no wild duck nests there. When there are clusters of weeds, or a narrow path is stepped out of the grass, she must go and have a look. There are likely to be wild ducks nesting there.

It was just in time for them to come. The wild ducks had just started laying autumn eggs in the past two days. Before them, no one else came to pick them up.

Yao Jinfang was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, he picked up the duck eggs into the basket of bellflowers in a fit of annoyance, and said while picking up: "Here, these are all for you, just for Grandma Qiao and Malt Bubu."

(End of this chapter)