Chapter 174: Picking Tender Ferns in Spring
Zhang An took them to transplant watermelon seedlings at first, and they only planted one at a long distance.
So everyone subconsciously feels that their transplanting speed is so fast.
So when I transplanted the strawberries now, I spent a long time planting and found that there was not much land behind me.
Looking back, although I am not standing still, it is much slower than planting melon seedlings.
They thought that because they were busy chatting about household chores, the work at hand had slowed down, and the land could not be cultivated.
So I didn’t say much after that and just worked hard on what I was doing.
After all, the wages paid by Zhang An's family are relatively high, almost the same as those working outside.
This is no better than working outside. You don’t have to spend money on food, drink and housing. You get what you earn and you can take care of your family.
They are quite proud to tell others about such good job benefits.
If it was really because I kept chatting and chatting about home matters, I couldn't do this work and wasted time.
They were all worried that when Zhang An’s family looked for someone in the future, they would not come to them.
Seeing them like this, Zhang An smiled and reminded.
Let them not only focus on speed, but also pay attention to the quality of the seedlings.
If the quality is not up to standard, it will be exhausting to patch up the seedlings later.
Spring competes with the sun, and summer competes with the time. Everything should be done sooner rather than later.
Not long ago, I was busy for several days to plant the watermelons and strawberries in the nest.
Zhang An poured water for several days, and the seedlings he planted have begun to take root and grow.
Basically, new buds have grown in the past two days.
As soon as she had some free time, Wang Fang rushed to plant vegetables in her two vegetable plots.
I'm afraid that if I plant too late, my own vegetables will still be seedlings when all the vegetables in other people's fields are ready for cooking.
And after a while, the weather got better and people started coming from the village.
The demand for vegetables will be greater by then. If we don’t plant them now, we won’t have enough vegetables to cook.
Last year Wang Fang planted two cents of hot peppers at home, and last year’s hot peppers produced many and big peppers.
Last year’s pepper production was really high. Originally, Wang Fang thought there was no end to the peppers.
After making chopped peppers at home, there were still a lot of dried peppers left, and I might have to sell some on the street.
But Wang Fang did not expect that the chili noodles and oil chili made at home last year would be liked by everyone.
The chili noodles made by Wang Fang are different. There are paste chili noodles and five-spice chili noodles pounded together with five spices.
Anyway, there are four or five kinds, with different spices added and different tastes.
Almost everyone who came to the door bought some to take back when they went back.
Most of them are locals from Guizhou Province, and they cook chili peppers from snacks to large ones.
They will know if the chili is good or not as soon as they eat it.
So last year, Zhang An’s chili was only reserved for his own family.
The other ones didn’t make it to the end of the year and were already sold out. In the end, I had to buy chili peppers for the villagers to cook.
Wang Fang did not expect that her family was originally a farmhouse, no matter how bad it was, it was still a small restaurant.
But in the end, I made a lot of money from chili peppers.
So when Wang Fang ordered chili pepper this year, she ordered twice as much.
This year I plan to plant peppers in the vegetable patch behind the old house.
I don’t know if people from outside like it, but there are also many people in the village who like Zhang An’s spicy food.
This year has just begun, and when ordering spicy seeds, many people from the village come to ask for spicy seeds.
Fortunately, when I cut the peppers and pounded the pepper noodles at home last year, all the pepper seeds were left.
Otherwise, with so many people asking for it, there really wouldn’t be much to give.
At this rate, Zhang An feels that most of the chili peppers grown in the village in the future will be his own.
After finishing his work in the fields, Zhang Jianguo returned to his old profession.
After breakfast every day, I would drive the family’s sheep and Dahei to the mountains to graze.
And he was not the only one, Huang Erye also drove the family's cattle with him.
These two people drive their animals up the mountain every day when they have nothing to do. They are extremely cool.
The old scalper of Mr. Huang’s family gave birth to another calf this year. Now they have three cows at home, which is considered a wealthy family.
Many people in the village laughed and said that Zhang Jianguo had lived the life of Mr. Huang ahead of schedule.
This is not a joke, but real envy.
Huang Erye's family lives in the village, and with the old man's skills familiar from the mountains, they have always lived a better life than most other families.
Without any pressure in life, you can graze cattle in the mountains without any worries.
Who among the people in the village who are as old as him would not want to be so leisurely.
Herding cattle is easy and hassle-free, but the crops in the fields still have to be worked on.
The vegetable field had just been planted, and Wang Fang hadn't had much rest when someone came and called her to go up the mountain to pick young ferns.
At this moment, Zhang An remembered that it was now the season to eat bracken.
Every year in March, everyone takes advantage of the busy spring period before it arrives.
Busy going up the mountain to dig more spring bamboo shoots and pick some bracken.
Zhang An originally wanted to go, but Wang Fang asked him to watch at home, so that no one would come to the house and there would be no one at home.
Wang Fang has not been out since she harvested her family’s crops last year and has been staying at home.
The villagers jokingly called her boss's wife at first, but they didn't expect everyone to call her the same in the end.
I finally got an acquaintance calling me today, so I naturally wanted to go up the mountain to get some fresh air.
So after Wang Fang followed the maids up the mountain, Zhang An became the shopkeeper at home.
At this time, I realized that it was not easy to stay at home. From time to time, people came over to buy some things.
Some people come here to buy eggs. This is easier. Just give them the number according to the price.
But some people want chickens and geese, and they have to weigh them to calculate the price.
Zhang An didn’t spend much time anyway, and someone came as soon as he sat down.
Wang Fang usually does these things, and Zhang An doesn't care much about them.
After doing this today, I found that I am also quite busy at home.
When it was almost lunch time, no one came to the door.
Zhang An only had time to prepare lunch. His old mother was not at home today.
So Zhang An has to do such a big thing as cooking.
"Zhang An, Zhang An, is anyone home?"
While cooking in the kitchen, Zhang An heard someone calling him outside.
"Hey, why are you here?"
The person calling Zhang An outside was none other than Ding Yi, and there was a woman who came with him.
“Why, don’t you introduce me?”
Zhang An looked at the people next to him who came with Ding Yi and said with a smile.
"Hey, my wife, Li Li, came with me this time."
Zhang An knew that Ding Yi was married and was among the group of people who came to Zhang An's house at that time.
Only Chen Ze is single and not married yet. "Hello, sister-in-law, I finally met myself today."
Zhang An greeted Li Li enthusiastically.
"I said, Lao Ding, you are the same person. You come often by yourself and don't bring your sister-in-law."
"It's not his fault, I've been staying in the provincial capital. "I have wanted to come with him for a long time, but I have never had the chance."
Li Li does not look particularly stunning, but she gives people a virtuous feeling.
Zhang An felt more comfortable while talking to her.
"Aren't uncle and aunt at home?"
Ding Yi asked curiously when he didn't find Zhang An's parents when he entered the house.
“They went up the mountain and may be back soon.”
Zhang An took the two of them to the backyard to sit and talk together.
"By the way, you can tell me what you want to eat today, but my mother is not here today. I am the one cooking, so don't dislike it."
"You can do whatever you want, it's our family anyway. Everything is delicious. Although your cooking skills are not as good as those of my aunt, your cooking is still better than the average person."
Ding Yi is not polite to Zhang An, he now treats this place as his second place. Home.
Just saying this, Li Li slapped her a few times.
"You are really a person who doesn't know when a guest follows the host. How can you talk so much when you are a guest?"
After being said a few words by his wife, Ding Yi said with a smile. So what.
"It's okay, sister-in-law. We are all familiar with each other. We are not outsiders. Don't be polite when you come here."
Zhang An usually can't tell when he looks at Ding Yi, but what happened to him today? It also felt like being chained at home, and I couldn't help but want to laugh.
"By the way, Zhang An, when cooking later, put less chili pepper. Your sister-in-law is not from our area, she can't eat spicy food very well."
"Okay, I won't let you go. Let's make a dipping sauce. If you want something spicy, you can dip it yourself."
When Zhang An was about to finish cooking, Zhang Jianguo drove the sheep home first. Wang Fang then came back carrying a basket of young ferns.
When they saw the car in the yard, they knew they had a visitor at home.
When Ding saw this, he got up to talk to the two of them, say hello, and introduce his wife.
After lunch, Wang Fang did not let Zhang An clean up and asked him to go talk to Ding Yi.
"Why do you have time to come here today?"
This man seems to be quite busy since the supermarket opened, and he actually has time to go to the countryside today.
"Last time I heard that you didn't get a fish tank for the big red carp. I happened to bring a few when the supermarket was restocking. I'll send one to you."
Ding Yi opened the trunk. , with a large glass fish tank inside.
“It’s actually not that busy now. The recruitment of supermarket staff has been completed, and this time Li Li came here to help look after the supermarket.”
Zhang An was not polite to him and lifted the large fish tank out of the car with one hand.
"Wow, Zhang An, are you so strong?"
Li Li was shocked by Zhang An's move of carrying the fish tank with one hand.
You must know that this fish tank is very large and not light at all.
When he came just now, Ding Yi asked two people to carry it together before putting it in the car.
"This man is a freak. He stabbed a wild boar to death by himself before. How heavy is this fish tank?"
Ding Yi and the others have long been accustomed to Zhang An's strange power. After listening to what Ding Yi said, Li Li's eyes changed when she looked at Zhang An.
Zhang An has long been used to such strange looks.
Now that he had the fish tank, Zhang An poured water into it, washed it, disinfected it, and gave the red carp at home a new home.
“Hasn’t your fish produced seeds yet?”
The belly of this fish was already quite big when I caught it last time.
Almost half a month has passed and it is still so big.
"I guess the time is almost up, within the next two days."
When Zhang An just changed the water, he looked carefully at the water in the sand tank.
There is no fish roe in it yet, which means that the red carp has not started producing seeds yet.
Although the red carp was pregnant, Zhang An put a male fish inside to help hatch the roe.
But Zhang An didn’t know whether any of the fish roes produced could hatch red fish roes.
But it doesn’t matter, Zhang An is just waiting to see if there are any more red fish.
If there are any, take out the red fish and raise them. If they are all ordinary carp, then release them into the river.
“What dish did Auntie choose?”
As soon as Ding saw Wang Fang picking bracken in the yard, he walked to the edge to take a look.
“This is called bracken. It’s a wild vegetable on the mountain in spring. It’s the one you just picked up.”
When Wang Fang came back, Zhang An got a handful of bracken. After the vegetables came out, I made a stir-fried tender fern with bacon.
Ding Yi has been socializing with suppliers during this period, and usually eats a lot of big fish and meat.
When I encounter this fresh and tender wild bracken, I can’t stop eating.
“So that vegetable looks like this. Are there many brackens on the mountain?”
“They are everywhere, but they can only be eaten during this period, and there will be less after the Qingming Festival.”
These two days are the time when wild ferns are sprouting new moss. If you want to pick them, you can pick them on the mountain.
"Zhang An, go and ask the people in your village to pick more, and I will take them to the supermarket to sell."
Originally Zhang An thought that Ding Yi was going to take some back to eat. I didn't expect that he was going to sell it in supermarkets.
"No one buys this stuff. It's everywhere. Who wants to spend money?"
Ding Yi smiled and said, "You don't understand. Although you have many in the mountains, there are none in the city." ”
“And I don’t want to make money with it. The mountain products I collected in your village last time were sold out within a few days of being placed in the store. I just thought that there was nothing to sell in the store, so I was ready. Use this bracken to increase the flow of people, otherwise the store will be out of stock and the flow of customers will stop."
It turns out that this was what Ding Yi had in mind, "No need to shout, many of them only go there in the morning. What I picked back is quite fresh now, just in time for you to take it back.”
Then Wang Fang went to the village to inform a few times that everyone who went to pick bracken with her in the morning was now carrying it. Come and gather in the yard of Zhang An's house with bracken in hand.
These bracken are picked for home consumption, so everyone picks the young ones.
After discussing with Zhang An, Ding Yi decided to buy it for the villagers at the price of 30 cents per catty.
The price is not low, even the Chinese cabbage cannot be sold for so much money.
And this thing is zero cost. I go out with a basket in the morning, and when I come back at noon, there is at least sixty or seventy kilograms in the basket.
Originally, they were collected and used to make dried bracken at home. Unexpectedly, Zhang An’s friend also spent money to buy it.
When they heard this, they didn't even think about making dried bracken, and planned to sell them all to Ding Yi. There are still so many on the mountain, you can still pick them after selling them.
After collecting these items, it already weighs almost three hundred kilograms.
Ding Yi didn't plan to publicize it, so he took it back to test the water first.
Because this is a wild vegetable with moisture, it is easy to lose water and wilt, so it cannot be stored for too long.
If everyone goes to pick it, they can get several thousand kilograms a day.
With such a large amount, the vegetable market may not be sold out.
After each person received more than ten or twenty yuan, these maids were extremely happy.
You can get so much money in less than a whole morning.
If you pick for a whole day, you will make more money than you usually do for a whole day.
(End of this chapter)