take a wife to support the family

Chapter 193 Steamed Potatoes

Liu Yi, Song Haonian and the others remembered where they had seen the Rose Manor that year, so they changed their original route to go directly to the provincial capital and headed there all the way.If you can't find rose seedlings there, it's not too late to go to the provincial capital.

At home, Lily has arranged for people to start planting potatoes.

Years ago, Song Haonian took out the manure from pig pens and chicken pens and piled it in the ground, allowing the sun, rain, and snow to infiltrate and ferment naturally, and turn it every half a month to make the manure more effective.

As soon as Song Haonian left, Lily took Song Ermei and Wang Yongxing to plow the land. The family had no cattle, so they rented one from Liufu Zhuangzi. Cut off and bury deeply.

Several women put on gloves and masks, carried dried manure in large bamboo baskets, and sprinkled it on the ground to fertilize the field.Let the fertilizer ripen for a few days, and then the seeds can be planted.

Lily watched a movie in her previous life. When the heroine planted potatoes, she planted whole potatoes and harvested seven or eight potatoes in autumn.The film with the theme of rural life was highly rated, but Lily felt it was a waste at the time: How can I grow potatoes like that?

Before sowing, there is a process of cutting seeds. A pile of potatoes reserved for seeds is piled there. Several people hold a sharp knife in their hands and cut off each bud according to the position. Each bud only needs two A square inch of meat is enough.

At least four or five buds can be cut off from one potato, and seven or eight buds can be cut off, and each piece can grow into a nest of seven or eight or a dozen potatoes. Isn't it much more cost-effective than planting the whole thing?
Lily saw this method in the countryside when she was a child in her previous life. Now that she is doing it, a few people cut potatoes for a day, and there are still a lot of leftovers. It is very cost-effective to cook them in a pot at home, or to feed them to livestock. .

The cut potato sprouts are placed in several baskets, and covered with felt to prevent them from drying out. Lily takes another bamboo basket, washes a basket of potatoes that have been cut into strange shapes, and steams them directly in the basket.

In just two quarters of an hour, the potatoes came out of the cage, and the skin was cracked by steaming. Because it was hot, you had to peel the skin while turning your hands. Peel off the skin and take a bite. It was soft, sandy and sweet, and the fragrance was so choking.

Stir-fry the water vegetables with clear oil, put some lard residue in it, and it will be a delicious dish.

Afraid to eat potatoes, I feel sick to my stomach if I eat too much. Lily cooks a pot of tomato and egg soup - chop the tomatoes and fry them to make sand, add water to boil, crack a few eggs and break them up, and the eggs will float when you put them into the soup flower.Add a few slices of cabbage hearts for extra flavor.

Two plates of steamed potatoes are placed on the table, and everyone can eat as they please. With a chopstick, put the water vegetables and oil residue on the potatoes, and bite down. and cheap.

I feel choked after eating two potatoes, so I just drink two mouthfuls of tomato and egg soup, which is also very fragrant. Lily likes to pick the cabbage heart in it, which is very refreshing.

During the busy farming season, lunch is handled like this, and in the evening, you can have oil and vinegar noodles, or pancakes with pimple soup, all of which are good meals.

After dinner, they worked with the oil lamp for a while before they finished cutting the potatoes. They were so tired that they could barely straighten their backs. Lily took the black tiger with him and sent them far away under the moon before returning to tie the door to sleep.

Early in the morning of the second day, Genius Mengmengliang got up, went to the tofu shop to cook a pot of soy milk, and helped Li Caifeng make dozens of buns. After a while, Song Ermei and Wang Yongxing both came to the shop and ate buns with bean curd and soy milk. Go to work when you are full.

The potato sprouts cut yesterday were dragged into the field and divided into small baskets. One of Lily and Song Ermei straddled the seeds diagonally, and the other straddled the manure. One person walked on both sides of the ditch, threw a piece of potato sprouts into it every two feet, and sprinkled a handful of manure, and Wang Yongxing's family dug the soil with a pick, and covered the potato sprouts and manure under the ground.

Everyone is in charge of one thing and working together is much more efficient than everyone digging, planting, fertilizing, and covering the soil from scratch.The ancient farmers had never seen the assembly line technology in the era of mechanized production, but they had already used it unknowingly.

Even if the four of them are willing to endure hardships, even Li Caifeng prepares lunch and sends it to the field to eat. In a day, he can grow an acre of potatoes at best, and it takes four or five days of continuous work before he can finally finish planting.

Lily was afraid that the ground would not keep moisture, so she spread some straw on the ground to keep warm and moisture. When the potato seedlings grew to a height of more than one stroke, there was no need to keep moisture.

After the potatoes are planted, sweet potatoes are planted in the same way, but sweet potatoes are too sweet, so it is not suitable to eat after steaming, and it is easy to get greasy. It is mostly cooked with sweet potato porridge, and it is also delicious with egg pancakes.

The few people in this crop were exhausted, and Lily obviously lost some weight. Seeing her, Li Caifeng kept saying, "You should work less, just plant less, isn't it enough for you to eat?"

Lily smiled and said, "It's just a hard few days, good days are to come."

Since she was a child, she knew that hard work can lead to a good life. In this age, she dare not be lazy, and is more diligent every day.

Li Caifeng thinks she is not a lazy woman, seeing her like this, she has no choice but to force her to eat more eggs and more meat, lest the lily people fall down before the land is planted.

Two days later, Lily planted corn again, and soaked the corn kernels in stove ashes for a quarter of an hour in advance, so as to kill the eggs and let the germ absorb water, so as not to germinate.

Throw three grains of corn into each nest. Corn is more delicate than potatoes and sweet potatoes, so it is naturally more labor-intensive. Second sister Song can't count the seeds, and she said to Lily: "I have never seen such a delicate planting."

Lily said: "Look at other people who transplant rice seedlings, they have to raise seedlings, plow paddy fields, and transplant rice seedlings. Aren't they more meticulous than us?"

Planting rice is the most meticulous and tiring work. Song Ermei did it in her ex-in-law’s house, and she still feels bitter when she thinks about it. Looking at the work in front of her, it is just a little heavy. Lily provides mung bean soup and neat and solid meals every day, saying yes The employer, who works with them, never steals, cheats, and smiles all day long. They don't find it unbearable in their hearts.

The sun is strong in the field, and Rao is wearing a lily straw hat tightly.After a few days, she was still a little tanned, Xing'er was taken aback when she saw her: "Auntie, why are you tanned?"

Lily is fairer than Second Sister Song and the others, and she didn't realize she was tanned. Hearing Xing'er's words, she stretched out her arms to look, and sure enough, the backs of her hands were not as white as usual, they were tanned.

She laughed and said, "My aunt accidentally wiped coal on her face when she was cooking."

Xing'er turned pale in shock, and turned to Li Caifeng and yelled: "Mom, I learned to cook yesterday and I also smeared coal on my face, am I getting dark too?"

Li Caifeng laughed so hard that she almost threw the bowl on the ground and shattered it. She didn't know whether to call Baihe naughty or Xinger stupid first. After a while, she rubbed her stomach and said, "It's okay, you were born black, you can't wipe it off."

Myolie was hit hard, although she is small, she already knows how to distinguish beauty from ugliness, beauty from beauty, she likes to be hugged by beautiful people since she was a child, because lily is more beautiful, she also likes lily very much.

Naturally, the relationship between two people is more important than appearance, but in Xinger's eyes, looking good is really important.

Xing'er always thought that she was fair, but her mother insisted that she was born dark, so she ran to the house to find a mirror, came out and looked at her face under the sun: "I'm not dark..."

Do you believe in your own eyes or in your own mother?Xing'er fell into confusion.

Now it was Lily's turn to laugh so hard that she said to Myolie, "Roll up your sleeves and have a look."

Xing'er's sleeves are rolled up, she is darker than Lily who works every day!Lily couldn't help being surprised: "What do you do every day, why are you so sun-dried?"

Xing'er said embarrassedly: "Let's play together, when I'm in a hurry, I roll up my sleeves." As she said that, she became dejected, she originally wanted to grow into a beauty in the future, but now that she looks like this, I'm afraid she won't be able to grow up.

Baihe and Li Caifeng laughed until their stomach hurt, but their faces were serious, and comforted Xing'er, saying: "You are young, you will be able to raise it back after a few days, and you will spend less time playing under the sun, and eat more white rice porridge, you will surely come back for nothing. "

Xing'er is getting older, and now Li Caifeng is planning to teach her to sew a few needles, draw a pattern, and cook a few home-cooked dishes, but she is too used to being wild, so she can't sit still, so she begs Lily to hook her up. Tell her to have the patience to learn.

Xing'er has always been willing to listen to Lily, and told Lily to coax her with falsehoods and truths, she believed it [-]% and she would run out less from now on, even if she wanted to go out, she would only go out in the morning and evening, when the sun was strongest at noon For a while, she just hid in the house and asked her mother to catch her and learn needlework.

Lily didn't let her go, and taught her some simple common characters. If she didn't have a pen or paper, she would use a wooden stick to draw on the ground. It was more convenient in the house. On any table, she could write with her fingers dipped in water.

Myolie got impatient after practicing needlework for a while, so she pointed at writing to relax and fell in love with writing.Seeing that the characters looked like paintings, Li Caifeng knew that her daughter was learning skills, so she didn't stop her, she just said: "You have to learn how to write. In the future, you can not only draw patterns, but also embroider words on insoles and clothes. Take it out. Wouldn't it be a bright face to go?"

Xing'er nodded and said, "I'm so smart, I'll definitely make your face shine!"

Li Caifeng had a headache, why is this girl so shameless, she is even more arrogant than a boy.Looking back to Lily to complain, Lily laughed loudly: "What about the girl, look at it, Xing'er will be able to do better than ordinary boys in the future."

Well, one or two are pampering Xing'er, wishing to hold her up to the sky, no wonder she has such a temper, she is not cowardly and humble like an ordinary girl at all.

Li Caifeng sighed for a while, and went back to give Xinger another homework: learning to roll noodles.

So Lily went to Liu's house several times, only to see Xing'er standing on a bench in front of the case by herself, kneading the face with her little hands.

She played with kneading noodles, adding more dough or adding more water, the more kneading, the more she kneaded, Li Caifeng was so angry that she wanted to fight, so she ran down laughing and hiding behind Lily, refusing to go out and be beaten by her mother.

(End of this chapter)