Chapter 163 It hasn’t rained for a long time
At Xia Chan's age, her children are probably two or three years old, but Xia Chan still doesn't even have a partner. At this age, many people are already worried that she won't be able to get married.
By the time she wants to get married, it will probably be difficult to find a first marriage.
But it's okay. If he never gets married, he, the elder brother, will never get married either. It's good that the two of them depend on each other. After all, he doesn't think there is another man in the world besides himself who can be so patient with her.
Their parents are buried not far away. When they grow old, they will be buried not far from their parents. This can be regarded as a family reunion.
The brother and sister chatted quietly for a while and then fell asleep.
When she woke up the next morning, Xia Chan stretched out feeling comfortable, but the back of her head still hurt a little. Fortunately, Lu Lixia didn't hit the most vulnerable spot, otherwise she would definitely have lost her life.
Some women are really cruel, and do whatever it takes to achieve their own selfish goals, without regard for their lives. But now she deserves it. No matter what kind of punishment, she cannot afford it.
Her brothers helped her take a week off, so she didn't have to go to school, so she had another seven days. The brothers also took turns to rest and accompany her. Now the crops in the field were growing at this time, and it was time to weed and weed. During the insect stage, it is not as busy as farming, so it is okay to take a break occasionally.
Today is the day Xia Qi takes leave to accompany Xia Chan. After all, he used all his strength to save Xia Chan yesterday and needs rest to recover.
Xia Chan took Xia Qi to the mountain to break bamboo shoots, otherwise they would not taste good when they get old.
They took a detour without letting the villagers see it. Otherwise, the villagers would definitely say that they have strength to break bamboo shoots, but don't they have the strength to teach? Teaching is much easier than breaking bamboo shoots.
Xia Chan squatted on the ground and broke off bamboo shoots for a while, then she felt a thin stream of cold sweat break out on her forehead. After this calamity, her physical fitness had really deteriorated a lot.
"Xiao Chan, you sit aside and peel the bamboo shoots, and I'll break them off." Seeing Xia Chan's face not looking very good, Xia Qi really didn't want her to move anymore, but she was a restless person. Then let her move her hands!
Xia Chan peeled some bamboo shoot shells and put them on the ground. Then she sat on the bamboo shoot shells and quickly peeled off the bamboo shoot shells. She accidentally looked up at the white and dazzling sunlight, and couldn't help but uttered a confused sound. "Brother, haven't you had sex in a long time? Is it raining? I feel like there hasn’t been a drop of rain since the last snowfall in winter. Doesn’t it mean that in winter, wheat blankets are covered with 30% of the quilt and I sleep with steamed buns on my pillow? Isn’t it a bit abnormal that it hasn’t rained this time? What?”
"Don't worry, it's not raining yet, think about July last year." Xia Qi said.
There will be more rain in June and July. As long as it is not as heavy as last year, it will not affect food production.
Seeing that Xia Chan was still frowning and looking worried, Xia Qi came over and squatted in front of her, stretched out her hand to rub Xia Chan's hair, "Don't worry, if it really doesn't rain and food production decreases, my brothers won't It will make you hungry.”
"Of course I know." Xia Chan smiled brightly. She didn't have a golden finger before, and she didn't have the memory of the 21st century. Her brothers never made her hungry. The food was just not that good, but she was still full. Xia Chan decided to wait until mid-to-late June to see it. If it still rains by then, she would remind everyone to be prepared and bring more of the edible food back home.
Xia Chan herself wasn't too worried, because she had a golden finger. She used the savings from the 21st Century to buy some things at first, and would only use them occasionally later, so there was still a lot of savings left, enough to support the five brothers and sisters. It’s time to live after the college entrance examination is resumed.
So Xia Chan accelerated the speed of peeling the bamboo shoots, and finally the two of them carried two baskets full of tender bamboo shoots back. As for the bamboo shoot shells, they left them here to dry in the sun, and they would take them back to use as firewood in a few days.
After returning home, Xia Chan boiled hot water to blanch the bamboo shoots, fried a large amount of spicy bamboo shoots in an enamel pot, and dried the remaining half in the sun while pickling the sour bamboo shoots to eat. As long as they were bamboo shoots, Xia Chan would make them delicious.
But this is the north and there are no winter bamboo shoots. Summer cicada prefers to eat big winter bamboo shoots. The winter bamboo shoot meat made from big winter bamboo shoots is also delicious. The crispy and sweet winter bamboo shoots are wrapped in fragrant gravy. The two flavors are mixed together, not to mention too much. Delicious.
You can buy winter bamboo shoots at the 'Crossing Mall', but they are too expensive. The price of a pound is as much as the price of a pound of pork. In this era when meat is hard to buy, it is better to buy winter bamboo shoots than to buy meat, so she just eats the small ones here. Bamboo shoots will do.
In the next few days of rest, Xia Chan took one of her brothers to break bamboo shoots every morning. In the afternoon, she dug wild vegetables near the hilltop of her home. In the meantime, she also went to the cave to harvest the water spinach and amaranth planted there and return them to the grapes. The vines trimmed the messy branches and applied some fertilizer.
She originally bought two-year-old seedlings. They were planted last year and counted as the third year. This year is the fourth year. Now some flowers have bloomed. You can eat grapes in August or September.
There are many birds and animals in the mountains. When the fruit setting is stable, you need to start bagging, otherwise the grapes will not be saved.
Xia Chan was very afraid that it wouldn't rain this year. She went to the "Crossing Mall" and bought five large white plastic buckets with a capacity of 2,000 liters, which can hold about 1,900 kilograms of water. Then she went to the stream to clean the plastic buckets. Fill it with water and put it into the space kitchen.
Although they were second-hand goods, the five large plastic buckets still cost her more than 1,500 yuan in savings.
But she doesn't regret it. After all, she has planted so many things on the mountain. If it doesn't rain this year, it is very likely that the whole army will be wiped out and her hard work will be in vain. If she keeps these things, then she can make a lot of money this year. This $1,500 deposit is from the 21st century and is not as valuable as the money from the 1970s.
The water is used to water the things she grows. As for the water for her own consumption, she receives it from the hotel kitchen.
Since receiving the jade products from Xia Bin on New Year's Eve, Xia Chan later traded with the black market boss and wanted more jade products. Maybe the black market boss always had these things, so every time the black market boss gave them to Xia Chan. many.
However, like Xia Bin, there were relatively few jadeite products with good water quality and good quality, so she picked out the good-looking ones and put them aside separately, while the rest of the ordinary ones were put together. She couldn't make a lot of money by keeping the ordinary ones. It's okay to make a little money.
After all, the price is really cheap at this time. After a few decades, if you take it out and sell it for thousands or tens of thousands, you can still make a small profit.