The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 28

"Mother, it's not expensive. Let's pay more. They will work hard and finish quickly. It's the same reason." Su Ling doesn't think the price is expensive, it's only sweet enough to mobilize them With his enthusiasm, he works harder, no matter how you calculate it, this is a profitable business.

The three of them discussed it, and it was finalized immediately, and Su's father went to invite someone.

On the second day, Su's father took a group of men to the riverside with an ax each on their shoulders. The woman Su Ling only planned to invite them for one day, and did not let them come over to help plant Su Ling until the last day when Su Ling was finished.

In May, the sun was already very hot. At noon, a group of men were sweating profusely, but for the fifty big money, everyone worked very hard. Now the job is hard to find, even if you find it, It doesn't necessarily have that much money, so everyone is very grateful to Su Ling.

Su Ling was worried that they would get heatstroke if they acted so recklessly, so she asked Su's mother to boil a big pot of mung bean soup to relieve them.

"Uncles, uncles, the weather is too hot, let's take a rest and drink some water." Su Ling shouted.

Seeing that everyone was sweating profusely, Su's father wiped the sweat off his face, "Everyone take a break, it's too hot today, let's work after a break."

Seeing Father Su speaking, everyone stopped their movements, wiped the sweat off their faces, and walked under the shade of the tree.

"Uncle, drink water." Su Ho has already served everyone tea and water very thoughtfully.

"This is mung bean soup. Everyone should drink some to cool off the heat." Seeing that Su Ling talked about the effect of this mung bean soup, Su's father asked everyone to drink a bowl to cool off the heat.

"Ling'er's mung bean soup is really delicious, and sugar is added, so it's very sweet." Uncle Li praised.

"Drink more if it tastes good. Everyone has worked hard to get rid of the summer heat."

Everyone put sugar in this mung bean soup one day, and they took a bowl to drink it if they didn't want to drink it.The Su family is really willing to let sugar be so expensive.

After finishing the mung bean soup, everyone rested for a while and continued working again.

Su Ling went home to help cook today's dinner.

There are so many people working, and the work is heavy, so we must do more to reward everyone.

The meals prepared by Su Ling and Su's mother included steamed buns with white noodles, and the weather was relatively hot. Su Ling also took some leftover japonica rice from the last purchase to make porridge.

For the dishes, I prepared stir-fried pork intestines and stir-fried pork belly. She made the streaky pork into Dongpo pork, which could smell the aroma from a distance. Braised crucian carp in soy sauce. Roast duck!
When everyone came back from work, they could smell the fragrance from a distance, and their appetites were whetted.

"I said Second Brother Su, what kind of food does your family cook! You can smell the aroma from afar, and I will eat more later." Niu Tian is a more cheerful man.

"Okay, I'll keep enough for you, and everyone will eat more later." Father Su's hearty voice came into the yard.

There were too many people and the kitchen couldn't fit, so Su Ling set up two tables in the yard.

"Father, you are back, wash your hands first, and then you can eat." Su Ling greeted everyone.

As soon as everyone heard it, they all went to wash their hands.

After everyone sat down, looking at the table full of dishes, they were very moved. They may not be able to eat such meals even during the Chinese New Year. They thought it would be good to have two steamed buns and a pot of fatty pork, but it will look The food on this table is speechless.

"Everyone has eaten, it's been a hard day. Didn't Uncle Niu just say that he wants to eat enough? He's using his chopsticks!" Father Su seemed to have read everyone's thoughts, and he didn't expect that Su Ling would prepare so much. But now it's all ready, and it's a waste if you don't eat it, so I'm busy telling everyone to eat it.

Everyone is not reserved now, just pick up the chopsticks and eat the vegetables.

"Wow! What is this! It's crispy and chewy." Niu Tian was the first to move his chopsticks, and ate a piece of pork belly.

"This is pork belly, which belongs to the category of pig offal." Father Su replied.

"Second Brother Su, are you kidding me! Can you eat it in the water?" Niu Tian obviously didn't believe it.

"Am I kidding you! This is Ling'er's researched eating method!" Speaking of Su Ling's daughter, Su's father is full of pride.

"I'll ask the child's mother to come over and learn from my second sister-in-law some other day. Otherwise, it's really..."

"Okay! Another day you ask your younger siblings to come over, and I'll ask your sister-in-law to teach her..."

After five days of rush work, the land has almost been repaired. Now is the time to raise the ridges. Su Ling collects plant ash and manure to make manure for sweet potatoes. The land is not fertile enough now, and the land must be fertile enough to ensure sweet potatoes. growth.

But Su Ling's family didn't have pigs. Fortunately, people nowadays don't know how to use livestock manure as fertilizer. Su Ling spent a little money and quickly collected enough fertilizer.

When raising the ridge, Su Ling asked Su's father to bury the manure.

Today is the last day of trimming, and the sweet potato seedlings can be planted tomorrow. Su Ling and Su Mu must cut the sweet potato seedlings into small sections. It is best that each section can have roots, so that will grow faster.

Fortunately, Aunt Li knew that Su Ling and Mother Su were too busy, so she brought Xiaocao to help. Su Ling was very grateful for this, and asked Aunt Li to plant with their family. There is nothing left, for those who treat him well, Su Ling generally doesn't mind giving them a hand!Besides, Aunt Li's family had nothing to say to their family.

Aunt Li is also happy. She just came here to do a little favor, and she got such benefits. In the past six months, she has also seen that Su Ling is unusual. Now that the sweet potatoes she planted, many people in the village said Su Ling was stupid. , even Su's father and Su's mother let her go, but she didn't believe it. You must know that they bought bamboo shoots and sold fish to make money before, but they made the villagers jealous for a long time. Now, she believes that this sweet potato must be a good thing.

Several people worked hard all afternoon, and finally finished the sweet potato seedlings, waiting for planting tomorrow.

The next day, Su Ling got up early!In order to cultivate sweet potatoes, she has spent so much effort, she will definitely do well in this step.

The people Mother Su invited to help arrived soon after, and each of them picked up a load of sweet potato seedlings and went to the field. Father Su wanted to follow, but Mother Su understood that he was too tired these days and let him stay at home. Take extra rest.

Su Ling had taught Mother Su long ago about the method of planting, but now the people invited by the meeting did not understand. Su Ling and Mother Su demonstrated again. Mother Su made a small hole on the ridge with a small hoe, and Su Ling went to Sprinkle a handful of fire ash in the pit, insert the sweet potato seedlings, cultivate the soil, and step on it lightly.

"Everyone should be careful when stepping on the soil, don't step on it too tightly, otherwise it will affect the growth of sweet potatoes." Su Ling instructed.

As soon as everyone saw that the work was easy and not tiring, they got busy.

Su Ling is in a group with Su's mother, Aunt Li is in a group with Su's aunt, Third Aunt Su is in a group with Fourth Aunt Su, and the other group is Niu Tian's wife and Zhang Sheng's wife.

(End of this chapter)