The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 25 Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi

The boy hurried to Su Dong's school in a carriage, and found that Su Dong was already waiting in front of the academy.

"Brother, here." Seeing that Su Dong was in a daze, Su Ling called out.

"Woo." The boy stopped the carriage.

"Brother, hurry up and get in the car!"

When Su Dong saw Su Ling poking his head out of the carriage, he was stunned for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses and got into the carriage.

"Ling'er, where did you get this carriage?" Su Dong thought that his family probably didn't have a carriage yet, it would be nice to have an ox cart, and he didn't know the boy driving the carriage.

"Brother, this is the carriage of Tianyue Restaurant. Shopkeeper Qian sent me to take me back." Then Su Ling told Su Dong about the cooperation with Tianyue Restaurant and the popularity of Yuet Restaurant yesterday.

Su Dong looked at his younger sister in high spirits. For a moment, he felt that this younger sister was far away from them, but seemed very close. It worked. As the eldest brother, he couldn't bear the burden of the family, and his younger sister had to work hard for the family. Even the Shuxiu he studied was earned by his younger sister. He was deeply ashamed of this, and secretly swore that he would I have to study hard and not let my family down, especially this younger sister.

Soon the two arrived home, Su Dong helped Su Ling move the basketful of sweet potatoes into the yard, while Su Ling called the young man into the house and sipped tea, after all, he was tired after driving for so long.

The boy was indeed thirsty, although the sun in April was not particularly hot, and he couldn't stand the sun for a long time, so he didn't hesitate to go in generously.

Su Ho is a little kid, but seeing the horse-drawn carriage is very novel. You must know that horses are not often seen in Huaxi Village. When I see them, I want to go up and touch them. timid.

"Sister, take me to pet this horse, I dare not go up alone." Su Ho pulled Su Ling to act like a baby.

"This horse is very docile, Second Miss can go up and pet it, don't worry." Seeing that Su Ho wanted to pet the horse but didn't dare to go up, the boy said.

"Did you hear that, go forward and pet it! But you must be careful." She led the young man in as she said that, and she didn't worry about hurting people when she heard that the horse was tame, after all, a trained horse usually doesn't hurt.

When Su Ho heard that the horse was gentle, she boldly stepped forward and touched it. Originally, she wanted to touch the mane on the horse's neck, but she was not enough, so she could only touch the horse's body instead. This already made her very happy, and she was busy running out to show off with her friends.

After the boy left, Su Ling quickly summoned Su Dong, and discussed with him about raising sweet potato seedlings. Father Su and mother Su, who had just returned from the field, were shocked when they heard Su Ling say that the yield of sweet potatoes per mu could reach two to three thousand catties. Well, the most important thing farmers care about when growing crops is the yield. If this sweet potato is really that good, it is still worth a try.

In particular, Ling'er said that the two to three thousand catties were just a conservative estimate, and if the output increased, it could reach five to six thousand catties. When Su's father heard this, he was shocked, and expressed great interest, saying that he would help.

In fact, the sweet potatoes can't be planted directly now, they must be raised. After Su Ling told Father Su about this, Father Su directly asked how to raise seedlings.

Su Ling asked Su's father to rearrange the entire yard again, and made three or four ridges. I don't know if I can find these sweet potatoes, but it's safer to keep them in front of my eyes, and the soil in the yard is very suitable for planting sweet potatoes. It is also good for growing seedlings, and it is easy to water.

Su's father didn't care about his physical fatigue at the moment, and led Su Dong to quickly get out the few ridges.

Su Ling left the sweet potatoes to dry for two days, filled a large wooden basin with water, put the sweet potatoes in, soaked the whole sweet potatoes in the water, and put them under the eaves. The sweet potato seedlings must be kept leeward to the sun and kept in the water. It is known that the sweet potato will grow leaves and white roots. This process will take about ten days.

During these ten days, Su Ling had to check on the sweet potato every day, to add some water to it, or to move it when the sun was shining directly.

On the tenth day, seeing that the sweet potatoes still didn't seem to have changed, Su Ling was anxious!Obviously the method is correct, and the temperature is maintained, so why is it still not sprouting!
But it's no use worrying.

Finally, on the 13th day of No. [-], Su Ling found round white buds protruding from both ends of some sweet potatoes. Su Ling was so happy about that!It's like my own child has grown up.

Reported the results to Su's father that night, and Su's father was also very happy.

In the next few days, the sweet potatoes grew crazily, and the water demand was particularly large. Su Ling had to water it two or three times a day, but she was very happy to see the sweet potato seedlings growing so well.

Finally came the day of planting sweet potatoes. Su Ling carefully planted the sweet potatoes one by one and watered them one by one. Of course, the sweet potatoes planted now are only for cultivating more seedlings.

After about a month and a half, the sweet potato seedlings had to be re-cut and cut into small sections. Only the sweet potato seedlings that were planted could grow more sweet potatoes.

Time flies like a white horse, day by day, and before people realize it, it has already arrived at the Dragon Boat Festival.

Of course the Dragon Boat Festival in this era is not to commemorate Qu Yuan. Su Ling doesn't know the reason for this festival, but he also knows that rice dumplings will be made when the Dragon Boat Festival comes.

In the eyes of farmers, the Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as a big festival. Rich people wrap glutinous brown rice, and even poor people wrap yellow rice brown.

Su Ling learned that there are few varieties of zongzi now, some are just white rice with nothing in it, there is another kind with red dates stuffing in it, and there are meat zongzi, which are wrapped around and read.

This year Su Ling is here, of course she wants to make new varieties, such as mung bean stuffing, red bean stuffing, and salted duck egg stuffing are all good choices, and they can be sold at that time, and they can try something new at home, so I have to Said that Su Ling is now particularly interested in anything as long as it can be linked to money.

After listening to Su Ling's idea, Su's mother expressed her support. Of course, Su Ho was the happiest, because there was another food she hadn't eaten before, and she would definitely have to try it.

Of course, because Su Ling's family didn't have glutinous rice, they had to go to the town to buy it. Of course, this great task was handed over to Su's father. Su's father soon borrowed an ox cart and went to the town to buy rice.

There are still three days before the Dragon Boat Festival, and the zongzi must be made, because there are a lot of zongzi to be made. Su's mother called Aunt Li to help, and she notified in advance.

When it came time to make zongzi, Aunt Li brought Xiaocao to help. In order to make zongzi for Su Ling's family, Xiaocao's made the zongzi a day earlier.

Originally, Mother Su planned to go to the old house to ask for help, and her aunt, third aunt, and fourth aunt would definitely come to help, but then she thought that there were so many people in the old house, and she had to make her own rice dumplings. They will not agree to help.

(End of this chapter)