Chapter 104 It’s really different [please vote]
When they came to the field, the two carefully picked up the small stones in the field and pulled out the newly grown weeds.
Shitou was holding a cloth bag in one hand and a handful of rapeseeds in the other, "Sister, I scattered them."
Shang Wan nodded and watched as Stone scattered handfuls of vegetable seeds into the ground.
After sowing the vegetable seeds, Shang Wan picked up a hoe and evenly covered the vegetable seeds with a thin layer of soil.
She turned to ask Shi Shi, "What happens after the soil is covered?"
"Water." Shitou recalled Liu's words. "It's enough if the soil is wet. If the soil is too wet, the seeds will be damaged."
Shang Wan felt that the order seemed to be reversed. "When the water washes away the layer of soil on top, won't it be washed away? The seeds will also be washed together."
The stone had never been planted in the ground. He scratched his head and said, "How about I ask Uncle Liu again?"
Shang Wan waved his hand, "No, you go back and get a water ladle, let's splash water lightly."
Shitou hurriedly ran back to get the water ladle. When no one else was there, Shang Wan used branches to draw a half-meter long and half-meter wide square frame in the field in front of him, with stones pressing the four corners.
She used the vegetables in the box as a control group.
Taking out a large handful of water from the bucket, Shang Wan thought about it, added a drop of spiritual spring water into it, and then sprinkled it gently on the land in the box.
By the time the stone came back, Shang Wan had already poured the soil in the box.
Shitou didn't ask much when he saw it. He just thought Shang Wan was bored and playing with water.
He scooped water from a wooden ladle and poured it into the ground. It didn't take much effort to cover an acre of land.
Once the seedlings have grown, transplant them to the ground next to them.
Shang Wan said: "Don't move these four stones. I added something to this small piece of land. As for what it is, I will tell you later."
What Shi Shi wanted to ask was choked in his throat.
Looking at the wet vegetable field, he worriedly said: "Sister, what if a bird comes to eat our vegetable seeds?"
It is indeed possible. Shang Wan remembered that the base for growing vegetables seemed to have to be covered with a film, but there was no film in this world.
After thinking for a moment, she said: "Go to Yuanyuan for help."
Stone:"……"
Seeing that his expression was wrong, Shang Wan asked doubtfully: "What's wrong?"
Shitou: "Sister, Yuanyuan won't recruit a bunch of things to bite me again, right?"
He had a shadow about being besieged by voles!
Shang Wan said flatly: "No."
Shitou was relieved and Pi Dian Dian asked Yuanyuan for help.
Shang Wan went for a walk around the village. When he came back, he had a bunch of juicy cabbage produced in the space in his arms.
"Xiao Huan, use these cabbages to make soup for lunch."
"Sister, did you go to the village to buy them?" Xiaohuan asked in surprise, "There are still a lot of wild vegetables we picked yesterday."
"You can eat wild vegetables at night." Shang Wan said, "I want to eat cabbage. You can make soup or stir-fry it."
Upon hearing that Shang Wan wanted to eat it, Xiao Huan immediately had no objection, "I might as well make both. I just want to cook the meatballs for Yuanyuan. You can chop them into pieces and add them in. Yuanyuan also likes them."
Speaking of meatballs, Shang Wan asked: "How much meat do you have at home?"
This meat comes from a series of edible small animals such as wild boar, pheasant, hare, roe deer, snake, etc.
Xiaohuan said: "The wild boar meat is gone. There is still more than half of the roe deer meat that we brought back yesterday. We can eat it for a few days."
"Wait until you finish eating before going into the mountains." Shang Wan said, "If you have too much, you can't save it, and it will break easily." "Okay." Xiaohuan nodded, thought for a while and said, "Sister, why don't you stop hunting wild boars in the future. Wild boars I haven’t cooked it before, it tastes too fishy and I have to add a lot of ingredients every time I cook it, which is not cost-effective.”
Although the spices bought at Yuan's are cheaper than those bought at the drug store, they are much more useful if you can't stand the smell of wild boar.
Especially the pig waste, which has to be washed with flour and wine to remove the fishy smell. Although the final product tastes good and everyone is satisfied after eating it, it is really waste after making it once and it hurts her to use the meat.
"Pork is rich in oil and water, which will satisfy your cravings." Shang Wan glanced at the three masters and apprentices working, "You can't do without oil and water in your meals when doing hard work."
Xiaohuan understood this, but still couldn't help but sigh.
"Okay, don't be so sad. Your brother-in-law and I are responsible for making money." Shang Wan touched her head, "Qiao Yu'an hired your brother-in-law to help with the accounting. He has an income of four taels per month, excluding his pen and ink. I have one or two taels left over for expenses, but it’s not enough for you to buy spices?”
"But we also have to save money." Xiaohuan counted on his fingers. "My brother-in-law needs to go to school after he recovers from his injury, so he will have to spend a large part of his money. Shitou is already sixteen, and he will marry a wife in two years, so he must prepare a betrothal gift. Wait. When there are more people, there is not enough room to live in. In addition to a lot of expenses, we have to build a new house, and we also need money for clothing and food.”
Whenever Xiaohuan thinks about this, she is so worried that she can't sleep.
"You are young, and you have a lot of things to worry about." Shang Wan felt that Xiao Huan was just like a little housekeeper, so he couldn't help teasing her, "You only want to save a betrothal gift for the stone, where is your dowry?"
Xiaohuan blushed and glared at Shang Wan in embarrassment, "Sister!"
"Okay, okay, don't tell me, don't tell me." Shang Wan bent down and picked up the wooden basin filled with cabbage, "Can I go wash the vegetables?"
Xiaohuan rolled up her sleeves and came over to help, and asked strangely: "Sister, have these vegetables been washed? Why are there no mud?"
Shang Wan thought to himself that it certainly didn't come out of the ground, so it didn't come out of mud.
"Ah, I rinsed it in the river. The mud on the roots should have been washed away."
As she got closer, Xiaohuan could smell the fragrance coming from the Chinese cabbage. It felt different from ordinary Chinese cabbage.
She smelled it carefully and said curiously: "Sister, whose dish is this? It smells different and quite fragrant."
"Does it smell good?" Shang Wan didn't pay attention, "Don't all the dishes taste like this?"
Xiaohuan: "..."
Don't question a cook's nose!
She raised the cabbage and brought it close to Shang Wan's nose. "Sister, smell it carefully. It's really different."
Shang Wan sniffed it as he was told, and there was indeed a refreshing aroma, but aren't all dishes like this?
Xiaohuan insisted that it was different. To prove this point, he stopped washing vegetables and dragged Shang Wan to the nearest cabbage patch.
She pointed to a cabbage on the edge of the ground and said, "Sister, smell it again."
Shang Wan had no choice but to get closer and tell the truth, the difference was really not that big.
However, seeing Xiaohuan's serious look on her face, she still nodded, "It's indeed different."
Xiaohuan couldn't tell that Shang Wan was following her instructions, so she couldn't help but suspect that there was something wrong with Shang Wan's nose.
This cabbage patch belongs to the Li family. Li Xiaomei and Li Xiaoshan were squatting in the field pulling weeds. Seeing Shang Wan and his wife sniffing at a cabbage plant, they couldn't help but wonder: "Sister, Sister Xiaohuan, you guys What are you doing?”
Xiaohuan said: "Xiaoshan, I will buy some cabbages from you."
"How can we buy a few vegetables?" Li Xiaoshan chuckled, "There are so many in the field, and our family can't eat them all, so you can just talk about it."
Without waiting for Xiao Huan to do anything, Li Xiaomei quickly picked up a dozen watery plants, tied up the weed stems at hand and handed them to Xiao Huan, "Here."
The little girl is shy and speaks in a soft voice, which is completely different from Li Xiaoshan, who has a loud voice.
Xiaohuan thanked her. Shang Wan turned her wrist and two candies appeared in her palm. She handed them forward and smiled at Li Xiaomei: "One for each of you and your brother."
Li Xiaomei waved her hand repeatedly and refused to accept it.
It’s just a few vegetables, how can we collect sugar?
(End of this chapter)