cultivating immortals and planting the fields

Chapter 40 Well Water Iced Watermelon

When Zhang Wei rushed to the front yard, the little girl Keke was crawling beside Zhang Wei's just-built bamboo mouse nest, holding a big cucumber in her hand, and was feeding the bamboo mouse.

Zhang Wei's yard is quite large in terms of two acres of land, but it's really not that big. The bamboo rat nest Zhang Wei is so full that there is no place to put it in the yard.More than an acre in the backyard is a melon orchard, which cannot be put there at all. The place near the gate and the bottom of the wall in the front yard is full of vegetables. Even Zhang Wei in front of the gate does not have much land, and the road leading to the gate is only Mido Even Sun Xiaolei's car couldn't drive in.The front yard is less than an acre in total. Excluding the old homestead on the east side, there are houses, plus three-thirds of green vegetables and other vegetables occupy a full yard.In terms of open space, there is only an open space under the persimmon tree on the old homestead of the East House.Just under the tree was developed by Zhang Wei, and he planned to plant some more vegetables and expand the scale. This is not to let the beach be prepared for the land.

"Brother, brother, the watermelon you're hugging is so big, is it for Keke?" When the little girl saw the watermelon, Keke immediately shifted her eyes, threw the cucumber in her hand, and immediately ran to Zhang Wei. In front of her, a pair of small hands reached out to the big watermelon that Zhang Wei was holding. If she could hug it, she would probably be able to hug it from Zhang Wei's hand immediately.If the watermelon stalk wasn't too thick, the girl wouldn't be able to unscrew it, and would have unscrewed one early in the morning.

Zhang Wei was looking at a big watermelon in one hand, and two big peaches in the other. Seeing the little girl approaching, Zhang Wei hugged the watermelon a little tighter. Such a heavy big watermelon would not dare to let it go. This little girl met, and Zhang Wei handed over the peach in his hand: "Keke, we don't eat this watermelon now, wait for brother to ice it with well water, let's eat it with grandpa when it's hot at noon, come on, Eat the peaches first."

"Oh, that brother is not allowed to play tricks. You must give it to Keke at noon. By the way, don't give it to Brother Xiaolei. He always likes to steal things from Keke." The little girl held a big peach in one hand, but her eyes were still Can't stop looking at the watermelon.

This girl Sun Xiaolei often buys some snacks for Keke when she pulls vegetables back and forth. She knows that this little girl is delicious, so she loves this girl. Damn it was excluded.I don't know if it's because Sun Xiaolei's character is so bad that he doesn't even like children, but if Ke Ke said he wouldn't give it to him, naturally he wouldn't really not give it to him.

"Okay, let's not give you Brother Xiaolei to eat. Who told him to grab Keke's melon last time?" Once Sun Xiaolei came to fetch vegetables, and it happened that Keke washed the uneaten melon and left it at Zhang Wei's house. The little girl went home to get something, and Sun Xiaolei ate it by coincidence. From then on, when the little girl saw Sun Xiaolei coming, she hid everything she ate.I really don't know how this little girl has such a good memory.

The little girl was holding two big peaches in her two small hands, and she couldn't eat them at all, but she didn't want to drop one and wanted to eat again. Seeing the peaches were almost drooling, in the end, she chose to put down one first, and hugged each other. With a mad gnawing.Although Zhang Wei didn't come here to taste the peaches in the backyard, but judging by the way the little girl Keke ate the juice, he could guess that the peaches must taste good.

Zhang Wei carried the watermelon into the house and electronically weighed it. My dear, this watermelon is a bit heavy for Zhang Wei to hold, but it is still really heavy, 42 catties.

Zhang Wei’s watermelon must be at least as big as two other people’s. I used to buy watermelons in the supermarket, and the ones that weighed seven to eight catties were of average size, and the watermelons that weighed more than ten catties were generally considered large.This big watermelon is almost as heavy as a little girl like Keke. If it is sold for one yuan per catty, it will be more than 40 yuan. However, Zhang Wei is thinking that Sun Xiaolei can sell it at a high price anyway. , if the taste of this melon is okay, we will sell it for two yuan a catty.Anyway, no one will buy good melons, and besides, the food in the restaurant is still the same brand.Just when Zhang Wei was longing for money, the old Sun's restaurant set a factory price for the big watermelon.It seems that the current market conditions are only one yuan and eighty cents.

Zhang Wei found a snakeskin bag from the house, carefully put the watermelon into the snakeskin bag, tied the mouth tightly with a rope, and carried the bag carefully to the well.The skin of the freshly picked melon is crispy and can explode if you are not careful, that's what Zhang Ye said.The water in the deep well is warm in winter and cool in summer.Ice the watermelon in the well water for a whole morning, it tastes better than keeping it in the refrigerator for a day.

Zhang Wei had never eaten watermelon soaked in well water, even if Zhang Wei wanted to eat it, there was really no place in the city to soak watermelon.Since Mr. Zhang said it was good, it was good. In terms of food, Mr. Zhang often said how to make it delicious, and what Mr. Zhang said was really right.Therefore, Zhang Wei also wanted to taste the taste of the big watermelon soaked in well water ice.

The melons were poured into the well water, and then the rope was tied to the well platform. Zhang Wei tried it and it was still firm, but he was afraid that the melon would fall if the rope was not strong.

After putting away the watermelon, I looked back and saw that the little girl Ke Ke had already gnawed a big peach, and took two bites of the other peach in her hand. I don't know if this little girl had a grudge against food in her previous life. On the ground, Zhang Wei looked at the little girl eating peach juice with her face and hands all over her face, as if she had a deep hatred for the peach in her hand.However, this little girl's appetite is really enviable. She can eat whatever she wants, and she has never seen him have diarrhea or anything.It's just that the little belly is round and round, and people walk two steps, and they can still eat as long as they are full.

After the watermelons were put away, Zhang Wei took the basket and pulled out a basket of pigweed. Not to mention, this pig only eats grass. By the end of the year, until the [-]th day of the eighth month, they have to be killed. It is estimated that they will grow five to six hundred catties by the end of the year, which is too big.This pig, that is, Zhang Ye spent the money to buy piglets, and he has never given him any feed, and he has never even given him food. He has been eating grass since he bought it, and he can grow so fast. Anyway, the grass in the backyard can't be eaten up, and after cutting one crop after another, it will grow taller than a watermelon seedling if it is not cut for a few days.A few days ago, Mr. Zhang was thinking about whether to go to the town and buy two piglets to fill them up after the renovation of the village was completed, so that they could grow at this speed.In the Chinese New Year, you can still eat big pork.

After being reminded by Mr. Zhang, Zhang Wei himself felt that the grass in his melon field seemed to be as effective as the professional pig feed prepared by other people's farms.

Zhang Wei concluded that the living soil and pool water in the mustard seeds seem to only have an effect on plants, and have no effect on animals. However, eating plants with optimized living soil seems to have a great effect on animals. The pigs only eat the hogweed that Zhang Wei cuts every day, and the fish that Zhang Wei raises in the rice fields not only have a lot of worms, but also the fish seems to be growing fast because of eating the worms, and it has been sprinkled for less than a month. Now the big ones are almost three or two in weight.If it grows at this rate, when the rice is harvested, it seems no problem for each fish to grow more than a catty.

It's not that Xitu has no effect on people, but it has no direct effect on people. Mr. Zhang, who often eats vegetables grown from Xitu, always said that his body is much stronger than before during this period, and he can withstand a weight of [-] catties. Things don't seem to be a problem.

(End of this chapter)