Chapter 125 Don’t spend money indiscriminately
After digging for a while, she finally dug out the first cassava tree. She broke off the cassava root by root and put it into the basket, while the cassava tree was put aside to be dried in the sun and then taken home as a pawn. Firewood burning.
Xia Chan dug up several cassava trees until she filled her basket and went back. She felt that she could not complete this task by herself, because she had planted thousands of cassava trees, covering almost two acres of land!
And the same goes for konjac, and there are also large tracts of wild yams. She wants to complete the harvest of these three things in a month. The workload is really huge, and the task is also very heavy.
Cassava and konjac are dug in the same year and cannot be left until the next year, otherwise they will rot in the ground. However, wild yams are different, so it seems that the only priority is to dig cassava and konjac. As for wild yams, just dig them out and eat them first. , and the rest remain there.
As for handing it over to the village, she wouldn't do it. She would rather dig it out and hand it over to the village instead of telling the village where the wild yams are, otherwise she wouldn't be able to keep the things she grew on the mountain in the future.
But it can be handed over to the village until next winter, because she can transplant some to other hills in the village and let everyone dig on other hills in the future, so naturally no one will come to dig on the hill near her home. .
After all, few people come to the hilltop where her home is, so naturally they won't find these things on the hillside. And if they do find it, there is nothing they can do. They can only take it as they come, and take a step at a time!
When the time comes in the future, she must contract the hilltop so that she can enclose what she grows so that no one else can get close to it.
Xia Chan carried the cassava to the edge of the stream, washed it, and took it home.
"Xiao Chan, what are you carrying?" Xia Qi saw Xia Chan coming back with a heavy basket and quickly took the basket over. She was a little surprised to see the clean cassava inside.
"You'll know what this is tonight." Xia Chan pushed Xia Qi to the kitchen, filled the large iron pot with water, placed the steamer on it, and then placed the cassava on the steamer.
The first time you try cassava, just steam it and eat it!
Wait until she goes to the ‘Travel Mall’ to buy a guide to eating cassava, and then study the various ways to eat cassava!
Steamed cassava is the same as sweet potato. You can eat it after tearing off the skin. However, the texture of cassava is somewhat similar to yam. It is a bit sweet and silky, just like eating old sweet potatoes with tendons, although not as good. Yams and sweet potatoes are delicious, but filling your stomach is absolutely no problem.
With this thing, people who don't have enough food can eat with open belly.
But Xia Chan doesn't want outsiders to know about this this year, otherwise her cassava forest will be destroyed and she won't be able to grow it in the future.
And even if you want to plant next year, you can only plant some farther away, and you can only plant a little bit here and there.
"Brother, how do you feel about this cassava?" Xia Chan asked expectantly.
"It's not bad, but it needs to be paired with soup, otherwise it will be a bit choked." Xia Qi patted her throat, then took everyone's teapot and poured a glass of water for everyone.
Sweet potatoes, taro, potatoes, and cassava are all a bit dry when steamed directly. Adding some water to the soup will make things better. "Then next time we stir-fry it, we won't do it this way." Xia Chan said.
The cassava leaves can be kept to feed the pigs, but Xia Chan did not dare to tell the team leader, fearing that everyone would worry and that there would be problems if the pigs ate them, so she did not keep the cassava leaves. After digging the cassava, she directly removed the cassava tree and leaves. Put it somewhere to dry, keep it for firewood.
Xia Chan went to dig cassava after breakfast every morning. Sometimes when she came back from get out of class in the evening and her brothers hadn't come back yet, she would dig cassava. She persisted like this for a while, and finally she got all the cassava from about two acres of land. Dig.
As for how many pounds she had collected, she didn't know because she didn't have such a big scale to weigh her.
Cassava cannot be stored for a long time as it is easy to rot, so she did not store it outside. Instead, she stored it in the hotel suite. Fortunately, the hotel suite was large and could fit it in. However, after putting the items down, she could not move around at will. !
After all, there wasn't that much room for her to move around.
Xia Chan gave a basket of cassava to each of the cowshed, Qin Hongmei's family, the brigade leader's family, and several other families with whom she was close, and told them how to eat cassava, but did not say that it was dug on the hillside near her home. They said they found it outside, dug it up and brought it back.
Anyway, no one saw cassava leaves, even if they really went to the mountains to look for them, they couldn't find them.
A basket weighs dozens of kilograms, enough to feed a family for a few days. This can save a few days of food. Who would make such a silly fuss over such a good thing?
As for the brigade leader's family, Xia Chan was given to the brigade captain's eldest daughter-in-law, because the brigade captain had to think about the people in the village, and Aunt Lin was the women's director. The two of them would definitely give it more consideration, so Xia Chan found her. The captain's eldest daughter-in-law asked her not to tell the outside world. After all, it was just a little bit, and there wouldn't be much left to share.
By this time next year, Xia Chan will definitely tell the captain about the cassava, so that all the villagers can eat cassava.
After digging the cassava, we started to dig konjac. The konjac poles are also edible, but now that winter has come and the poles have withered, we can only dig konjac. Each konjac can grow several kilograms. If you want to dig this thing, you have to dig it. It takes some effort.
However, we didn’t grow as much cassava as we did at the beginning, so we didn’t have to work so many days.
When Xia Chan was digging konjac, she kept the small ones and planned to use them as seeds, because she did not want to spend money to buy seeds and seedlings next year. She planned to cultivate them herself. She only had a little savings in the 21st century. You can't spend it randomly, you have to keep the flowers on the cutting edge.
When she first dug cassava, she also saved the ones suitable for making seeds, which would save a lot of money.
In September, Xia Chan went to the yam farm and picked a lot of yam beans. The yam beans can be eaten or kept as seeds. She kept a lot of them to use as seeds for planting. Go somewhere else.
She couldn't let anyone notice her near her home anyway.
Xia Chan was busy quietly every day, and she lost a lot of weight without knowing it. Even though the food at home was good and she ate either meat or fish every day, she still lost a lot of weight.
Fortunately, she didn't lose weight where she shouldn't. Her legs, waist, and shoulders had lost a lot of weight. She could clearly feel it when she took a shower.
Maybe it's because she has grown taller. After all, she is only eighteen years old and not married. She has good food at home and it is normal for her to grow taller.