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Chapter 45 Planting melons and beans

Before and after the Qingming Festival, melons and beans were planted. After the aunt passed by, Lily took the winter plums to plant melons and vegetables.

In the past few days, the river mud has been fully dried in the vegetable field, which can not only retain moisture (Note 1), but also prevent the seeds from rotting in the field due to too much water as when it was just fished out.

Lily felt that her strength was greater than that of Lamei. She dug out long shallow ditches with a pickaxe in front, and Lamei followed. She pinched a few seeds and put them in the ditch at a certain distance, covering them with a layer of soil and pressing them down slightly. Reality.

It didn't take long for Lily to be sweating profusely, panting while leaning on the shovel, and Lamei switched with her, digging the ditch by herself, and letting her sow the seeds.

The two sisters came in rotation, and only half of the plants were planted in one day.The seeds Wang Xiaofu brought were one more corn seed. This surprise exceeded Lily's expectations. The original two points of land were not enough. To grow corn, another point of land had to be cultivated.

Lamei didn't know that corn took up space, so she asked Lily, "Can't we squeeze out a small piece of land?" She also thought that corn was similar to rice and leeks.

Lily refused to waste these rare seeds lightly, she had to plant them well. Although she was exhausted, she still managed to open another piece of wasteland. After a few days, her appetite increased a lot.

Cucumbers and pumpkins are planted together, lentils and cowpeas are neighbors, cabbage and radishes each occupy a piece of land, and the corn next to it occupies a large area of ​​land.After several kinds of crops were planted, at a glance, the ground was still bare, only the shallow traces of shovel heads criss-crossed.

Lily imagined that in a few days there would be green seedlings poking out from the ground, swaying and stretching in the spring breeze, and she was very happy.

Lamei was also sore from exhaustion. Fortunately, she also had a lot of daily work at home. Although she worked harder now, she didn't have to be scolded by her mother. She was happy in her heart.What's more, the eldest sister often persuades her to sleep more, so that she doesn't have to get up early in the morning to work.

After her body was exhausted to the limit, Lily decided to give herself and Lamei a day off. She let Lamei lie on the bed, and she pinched her shoulders and loosened her bones.

Lamei has never been touched like this since she was born, and while crying for pain while trying to hide, Lily patted her on the back lightly: "Don't move around, it will be comfortable after pinching!"

After pinching and pounding, Lily broke out in a sweat, and Lamei got up and stretched her waist, "It's really comfortable!"

Lily lay down on the bed, "Squeeze my bones as usual."

Lamei is a person who has done farm work, and her hands are strong among girls, and she can squeeze Lily very comfortably. She is a little tired these days, and fell asleep without knowing it.

After pinching the bones for the eldest sister, Lamei wanted to wake her up, but suddenly found that she was asleep, so she had to back out lightly, and fetched chaff from the kitchen to feed the chickens.

The nutrients in the river mud alone cannot make these seeds grow well, so Lily put on the most shabby clothes, and took wintersweet to the road to pick up dung.In fact, the smell of cow and horse manure is not too strong. Lily still needs to overcome her psychological problems. Lamei has long been used to the life of picking up manure and firewood at home.

Sprinkle two baskets of manure evenly on the vegetable field. As the seeds germinate and grow slowly, the fertilizer will seep into the soil little by little and be absorbed by the crops.If you pour manure directly on the seeds, it will "burn" them instead.

The days are slowly getting longer, and the time for dinner is also delayed accordingly.The two sisters were sweating from hard work during the day, and their bodies smelled like manure, so they washed their clothes, washed their hair, took a bath, and then cooked a delicious meal.

After eating, close the chicken coop, sit in the yard to dry your hair, first comb it with a wooden comb, and then use a grate to prevent lice from growing in your hair.

Li Caifeng took Xing'er to the outside of the fence gate, saw Lily combing Lamei's hair, and said with a smile, "Have you eaten yet?"

Lily also hurriedly said hello, let the two people in and sat down, and asked them if they had eaten.

Xing'er was holding a basket in her hand, her eyes were shining brightly with excitement, "Aunt Lily!" Her big eyes rolled around, as if to say, "Guess what I brought you!"

Lily didn't disappoint Myolie, she squatted down and asked her, "What good things did Myolie bring for auntie?"

While saying "Guess", Xing'er couldn't help but put the basket under Lily's eyes: "Look!"

In the basket was a little black dog, only the size of two palms, with fleshy flesh, looking at Lily with dark and moist eyes, whimpering softly.

Li Caifeng said: "I told my uncle about the dog a long time ago. I only found a good one in the past two days. He and Heizi are still in the same family. Seriously, it will call Heizi 'uncle'."

Speaking of the dog's seniority, the two adults couldn't help but smile.

Before Xing'er entered the yard, Heizi kept wagging his tail at her for a long time, seeing that the little master didn't pay attention to it, and just stared at the basket wholeheartedly, so he also walked over to look into the basket.

After looking at it, Heizi uttered a threatening cry, and Li Caifeng hurriedly said, "Heizi, you are not allowed to bully it!"

Lily reached out to take the puppy out, let it sniff her palm, and asked Lamei to give it the remaining rice soup from the house.Seeing that the little thing's rice bowl was not the same as his own, Heizi was a little relieved, and seemed to smell a familiar smell from the little thing, hesitated, licked the puppy's back, and accepted a new family member.

"The puppy needs to be taught. Let Heizi take it first. After a few months, all the melons and vegetables you planted will grow, and it will grow up." Li Caifeng said.

Xing'er jumped on the ground, trying to attract the attention of adults: "Auntie, give it a name!"

Lily observed the new puppy. It was still round, but it was already resembling Heizi, with slender and flexible limbs.Because he is too young, he is still a bit of a tiger head.

"Just call it Black Tiger!"

"Hi Heihu!" Xing'er thinks the name is good, and she knows that Heizi and Heizi belong to the same family.From then on, the puppy will be called Heihu.

Li Caifeng patted the puppy's head twice: "Hei Hu, you have to grow into a good dog, as majestic as a tiger."

Only when she is prestige can she calm some malicious thieves and let Lily have something to rely on when she is alone at home.

After delivering the puppies, Li Caifeng went to Lily's vegetable field before it was completely dark, and came back and said to her: "I think your field is still not enough manure, it's just a matter of days, and the vegetable seedlings grow bigger. If the fertilizer can’t keep up, it won’t grow.”

Vegetables and fruits must be fertilized before they grow, otherwise the vegetables that grow will be yellow and thin, which will not taste good.

Lily said: "What my sister-in-law said is that I am worried about this matter. I originally thought about picking up dung on the road every day these days, but you also know that there are many dolls picking up dung on the road, and I can't grab many. I I also want to sell raspberries, it’s not good to do both at the same time.”

She sells raspberries for people with extra money, and most of these people are particular about buying berries only when they see her clean.If she smelled like manure, she wouldn't even want to touch the food, let alone someone who bought fruit?

"It's okay," Li Caifeng thought for a while, "I have pigs at home, and when you need fertilizer later, you can go to my place and ask for it."

Fertilizer is a bit dirty, but the country people take it very seriously. With it, the farmers in the fields can grow well and the harvest can increase.

There is a joke about a person walking on the road in a hurry to urinate, and others tell him that he can find a place to solve it, but this person insists on holding back for half an hour before going to his own field to urinate.

It is not empty talk in the countryside that the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, it is a real situation.The main road is clean because each family sends out their teenage children to play and pick up dung, but Lily can't compete with those skilled children.

Li Caifeng's willingness to share her own fertilizer with her is a great favor. Lily was very moved, and after a while she said, "Sister Caifeng, I don't even know how to repay you."

Li Caifeng smiled and said: "What are you talking about! What is the relationship between our two families? I still want you to repay me? Don't talk about my family and Da Nian, just talk about how much this little magic star has benefited from you these days. How could I not?" Did you see it?"

Xing'er hugged the little black tiger to play with Heizi, and said to Heizi, "Don't bully Heihu." Then she told Heihu to grow up well, her tone and demeanor were very much like Li Caifeng's.

La Mei pursed her lips and smiled, Lily saw that Xing'er was imitating Li Caifeng, so she couldn't help smiling: "Our Xing'er is so sweet."

Li Caifeng saw that Lamei was always silent, and knew that she was timid, so she wanted to talk to her.Lamei used to hide from people when she saw people, wishing she could shrink herself into the cracks in the ground, but now she can feel better. When Li Caifeng talked with Li Caifeng, she listened and laughed.

But when Li Caifeng asked, Lamei showed her original form again, her eyes dodged, her face was red and she couldn't speak.She felt very ashamed, tears welled up in her eyes, and hurriedly hid in the kitchen.

Li Caifeng looked at Lily with some embarrassment, Lily laughed quickly and said, "You know she is timid, I am teaching her slowly." She also sighed, "I don't know when I will be able to teach her."

Li Caifeng followed with a smile: "Do you think that everyone is just like you, and suddenly become smart?"

She saw Lily's changes and was very pleased.Lamei is just another lily of the day, but she doesn't have the opportunity of her eldest sister. She has been in the town these days, and she just blushes and smiles when she sees her, and never opens her mouth to call her sister.

What she knew was that Lamei was timid, so she let it go.People who don't know are afraid to say that Lamei is ignorant and looks like no one in her eyes.

It seems that Lily wants to take all the things that happened before Lamei's marriage to herself. Lamei is not enlightened, so she can bear it.However, Li Caifeng couldn't tell Lily to ignore Lamei, she was Lily's own sister, and it would be depressing if she ignored it.

Li Caifeng sighed, and the next time I see Xiaofeng, I will tell her to talk to Lamei more when she is looking for lily to play, and don't always neglect her.They are all little girls, I'm afraid they can talk more together.

Xiaofeng was not very happy to talk to Lamei, "She is very boring, I don't want to play with her."

Li Caifeng was so angry that she poked Xiaofeng's forehead with her finger: "That's your sister Baihe's own sister. If she is not well, how can Lily be well? I told you to take her to play, not to feed her, you are not happy anymore! "

Once Xiaofeng was taught a lesson by the eldest sister, she took this matter to heart, and when she went to play with Lily in the future, she would always have a chat with Lamei, and tried every means to get her to talk.

(End of this chapter)