Chapter 21: Cultivating vegetable gardens, physical skills come from life
On the afternoon of the last day of the seven-day long vacation, Li Xiang rode a tricycle and sent Jiang Caier to the main road to wait for the bus.
Jiang Cai'er had quite a lot of luggage, a large wheeled suitcase and a backpack. Mainly because the weather was getting colder, she brought some thick clothes.
The next time we see each other will probably be in November.
Li Xiang gave her the instant coffee from before and asked her to take it to school. A cup of it every morning would refresh her mind and help improve her study efficiency.
It is sugar-free and zero-calorie black coffee, also produced by a foreign brand, but its raw material is selected from arabica coffee from Baoshan, Dian Province next door. It has a rich aroma, a mellow taste, and is strong but not strong.
Baoshan arabica coffee is a national geographical indication product and is well-known internationally. It is one of the best quality coffees in the world.
Since Li Xiang returned to his hometown, he has eaten well, slept soundly, and gotten enough sleep. He has also entered the extraordinary realm, and he no longer needs black coffee to refresh himself.
He actually doesn't like drinking black coffee, but the wild tea leaves grown in his hometown's mountains are more delicious.
The wild tea leaves are picked every year before the Qingming Festival in Grain Rain. Only one bud and one leaf that sprouts after spring are picked and stir-fried by hand in an iron pot. This is one of the ancestral crafts of Lijiacun. The soup is bright green, mellow and refreshing.
The only drawback is that this wild tea tree does not produce much, which is the daily ration of tea.
Li Xiang's grandma would go to the mountains to pick tea every spring. However, the old lady was old and frail, so she only looked for some tea on the side of the mountain. If she could pick tea from deep in the mountains, the taste would be better, but she would have to wait until next spring for Li Xiang to go there in person.
"Cai'er, study hard in school and don't fall in love prematurely." Li Xiang warned earnestly.
Although the end of the world will come, there is no harm in learning more knowledge. In the end of the world, not even one out of ten human beings will survive, human science and technology will regress to the level of World War II, and knowledge-based talents will be even more precious.
Jiang Cai'er couldn't help but curve her mouth in a charming way, thinking in her heart that brother Li Xiang cares about me and is afraid that I will run away with someone else, haha.
"Don't worry, people don't fall in love early. Our teacher said that love in high school is unreliable, and there is no one in our class that I like!" Jiang Caier said with a smile.
The two of them were chatting while taking a ride, when the urban and rural bus arrived. Li Xiang quickly helped carry the suitcase and sent Jiang Cai'er to the bus. He took a look and saw that, fortunately, there was a seat.
After watching the bus go away, Li Xiang rode his tricycle back.
In fact, he has always had an indifferent attitude towards cars, but at this moment, he suddenly felt that it was quite necessary to buy a car. At least, it could send Cai'er to school, right?
With so much luggage, it would be great to drive her directly to the door of the dormitory. If you go to college in the future, if it is not far away, you can also drive there.
Cars are indeed of little use in the end of the world, because gasoline, diesel, and electricity are all controlled and it is very difficult to buy them, but isn’t that still ten years away?
In ten years, it is good to buy a few cars to improve your life.
And he can take advantage of the prophet to accumulate some energy in advance.
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Without Jiang Cai'er, Li Xiang's life returned to its original state.
He got up early, practiced breathing and physical skills in the backyard, and then went to the kitchen to make breakfast for himself and his grandma.
A pound of flour is mixed with water and rolled into noodles. He likes to eat wide noodles, so the noodles cut out are one centimeter wide. This is a serious handmade noodle, very strong.
After cooking, take out the pot and put it into two large bowls, then pour the fried minced meat sauce, cucumber and scrambled eggs, sprinkle with a handful of chopped green onions, and add a plate of hot sauce, a bottle of vinegar, and a few garlic cloves. It is slightly salty and fresh. It's spicy and fragrant. I have to say, it's quite appetizing to eat in the morning.
Grandma didn't eat much, so she took out more than half of it and ate only a small bowl. She told Li Xiang to cook less for her next time, mainly so that Li Xiang could eat enough.
Li Xiang said with a smile that he knew. The excess went into his stomach. He practices breathing techniques and physical skills every day, which consumes a lot of energy.
After eating the noodles, I took a short rest, then took the stand and mobile phone with me, along with the hoe, rake, and shovel, to cultivate the vegetable garden.
Today is the cold dew, one of the twenty-four solar terms. After planting a vegetable garden, you can sow rape, broad beans, potatoes, chickpeas, leeks, cabbages, radishes, etc.
Rapeseed, in particular, can not only be used to extract rapeseed oil, but when the golden rapeseed flowers are in full bloom, it is also a very rare sight.
Just imagine, spring is warm and the flowers are blooming. He is sitting in the backyard pavilion drinking sweet wild tea. His eyes are filled with golden light. The spring breeze carries the refreshing fragrance of rapeseed flowers, and bees are buzzing in the flower fields...
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In the past, grandma was at home alone and ate less, so she planted less. The vegetable garden in the front yard was not large, so he planned to open a small piece of land in the backyard as a new vegetable garden.
When spring comes next year, he will cultivate more land and plant more grains and vegetables. Because then there will be more mouths, but they will not be human mouths, but chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, etc.
Grandma didn’t raise geese, there weren’t many chickens or ducks, and she didn’t even have any pigs. The food rations are usually barely enough, and the physical strength is limited, so I really don't have the ability.
But now that Li Xiang is back, he can try more.
In rural areas, if you don’t kill the New Year pig during the New Year, it always feels like the New Year flavor is missing. This year is too late. Next year, he plans to raise at least five pigs.
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Li Xiang chose a seat, fixed his phone with a stand, turned on the recording mode, and started hoeing.
It used to be overgrown with weeds, and there were also many short shrubs and vines. When Li Xiang renovated the backyard, he eradicated the weeds and shrubs and turned it into a flat land. Now he needs to turn over the soil and break it up to create a loose and breathable vegetable patch. Come.
He waved the hoe high and then brought it down hard. With each hook and turn, a large amount of soil was lifted up and then knocked apart.
Repeating this action over and over again, Li Xiang suddenly discovered that he was using breathing techniques and physical techniques unknowingly.
"This movement is really similar to the physical skills I practiced before, whether it's the energy generated or the breathing rate..." Li Xiang continued training, oh, no, hoeing. After gaining this new understanding, he became more and more skillful. .
"Could it be that the physical skills I practiced before came from life? From hoeing?"
It's not impossible, Taoism is natural, and many senior masters who pioneered physical skills may have gained insights from life.
Li Xiang feels that incorporating breathing techniques and corresponding physical movements into farm work will not only make the work more efficient, but also seem to be more beneficial to practice.
He plowed the vegetable patch with a hoe for half an hour, and felt that his breathing and physical skills had improved again, and the effect was even better than the usual deliberate training.
Suddenly, a prompt popped up in the system in his mind: "Congratulations to the host, for killing three first-order mutant creatures, flame ants, and you will be rewarded with 30 achievement points."
What the hell?
Li Xiang took a closer look and saw that a hoe had dug into an ant nest. The hoe was "huge" and "falling from the sky". In just one blow, he killed countless ants.
Among the dead ants, there were three relatively large soldier ants, all red in color. They were probably the three unlucky first-order flame ants.
(End of chapter)