Chapter 256 Planting Vegetables and Ginseng
“Don’t go out and run around today really. School will start in two days. Write your homework and organize your schoolbag and everything.”
After the meal, Wang Susu sat on a bamboo chair and held her son to breastfeed, not forgetting to warn her little sister.
It has rained a lot recently, and my son has become more at ease. The little guy likes rainy days very much. If it rains at night, he is the best behaved.
Maybe it was because he was used to sleeping peacefully, or maybe it was because Chen Ling took him to the cave several times in a row.
It doesn't cause much trouble now, which gives the young couple a lot of peace of mind.
No, Wang Susu is already thinking about disciplining her sister.
"Homework? I've already finished my homework."
"I've even finished the papers the teacher gave me."
Wang Zhenzhen heard this. He waved his hand, flicked his pigtails, and raised his chin proudly.
After that, he ran out again.
It has been raining these days. She lives here at the farm. There are many things to play and delicious snacks here. Otherwise, she would be unable to go out because of the rain, and would have nothing to eat or play, which would suffocate her to death.
Unfortunately, she was grabbed by Wang Susu just as she was about to run away. She handed her son to Chen Ling and dragged her sister towards the back of the farm without saying a word.
Today Wang Susu showed off her power as a sister and scolded her as she walked: "Look at you, you act like a crazy girl all day long. Your hair is so messed up that you don't even know how to comb it. School will start soon. Even though I’m still like this, I’m not afraid of being laughed at by teachers and classmates.”
Wang Zhenzhen immediately cried out: “Sister, my hair grows so fast, and you don’t even cut it for me. It grows on its own when I sweat. It’s a mess. How can you blame me?”
"Hmph, if you stay at home, why would you be sweating? It's not because you go out and run around all the time."
Wang Susu sighed and took the little girl to the back of the farm. The boiling water in the kitchen was ready. Then bring half a basin of cold water and mix it with it to neutralize it. After the water temperature is right, wash her hair.
This girl still had a look of reluctance on her face and wanted to simply wash her hands and deal with it.
Wang Susu couldn't let her get her wish. She took out a dollop of shampoo, walked to her side, wetted her hair, rubbed it open with her hands, and went to help her wash her hair.
The shampoo melted instantly.
Wang Susu took a slight sniff and found that the smell was quite fragrant.
This was also given by Liang Hongyu and others, but it is not commonly used at home. It was brought during the Chinese New Year in a glass bottle, and only half of the bottle has been used so far.
"Sister, my eyes hurt, the bubbles got into my eyes."
After a while, Wang Zhenzhen started shouting.
“Why do you have so many things to do?”
While she was complaining, Wang Susu quickly washed her eyes with water.
"Who has more things to do? It's because you became stupid after giving birth. You even washed your hair and got pregnant on your hands. My brother-in-law said you were stupid for three years after being pregnant."
Wang Zhenzhen's face was filled with tears. , closed his eyes tightly, and refused to show weakness at all.
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The two sisters were washing their hair behind the farm and chatting, which made Chen Ling very happy.
However, he was not idle after listening for a while. After carrying his son outside to let the chickens and ducks out, he took out the scissors and scarf for them, so that they could use them when they cut their hair later.
Then my son peed and I went to put a clean diaper on him.
He recently asked his son to treat him, which is called diligent.
They are almost becoming model workers.
In the past, I would have taken the dog for a walk in the mountains. I couldn’t stay at home with nothing to do after dinner.
Not long after he finished cleaning up in the yard, Wang Cunye and Gao Xiulan came over.
Wang Cunye was still carrying half a bag of wheat bran and said that since the weather was fine, he would plant cabbage in the vegetable garden today.
It’s better to plant early, and the cabbage will sprout early, so you won’t have to worry about it raining later.
"Yes, it's the beginning of autumn, so it's time to plant cabbages."
Chen Ling thought so and handed his son over to his mother-in-law, while he and his father-in-law went I packed up the farm tools and prepared to clear the vegetable garden and plant cabbage later.
As the saying goes, you can plant radish in the first half and vegetables in the second half, and you can plant buckwheat in the third half.
It means that after summer enters the Dog Days, it is suitable to plant radish in the first day of summer, and it is suitable to plant cabbage in the second day of summer. When it comes to the third day of summer, it is not too late to plant buckwheat.
Generally speaking, after the second volt, it happens to be the "beginning of autumn", or a few days after the beginning of autumn, when it is neither cold nor hot. Cabbage is best for sprouting at this time.
Now the lentils and cowpeas in the vegetable garden are old, and the cucumbers and loofahs have long been hard-seeded. Only some corn and pumpkins are still growing, and there is room to grow cabbage.
Just because I didn’t take care of it for a while, the grass has grown up to a person’s waist, and the vegetable garden has become barren, and the grass needs to be hoeed before it can be planted.
This vegetable garden is more than half an acre of land set aside in the spring. It is close to the foot of the west mountain. This half acre of land is a bit too much. At first, I wanted to plant some radishes, potatoes and sweet potatoes. Later, there were many things at home. I didn't even have time to plant radishes, let alone others.
Now, it’s time to plant cabbage, and you can’t miss this again.
Both radish and cabbage are winter vegetables, so they should not be careless.
"What's wrong with this chicken? Why did you kill such a good chicken?"
Taking out the cabbage seeds, Wang Cunye pointed at the rooster that Chen Ling had killed and asked.
"This is a rooster that has just grown up. It has been fighting a lot lately and is annoying people all day long. I am too lazy to castrate it. Let's kill it and eat it."
Chen Ling said holding a wooden stake. The thickness of the bowl mouth of the pile is used to select a location and determine the hole for the cabbage when preparing to plant cabbage.
"You. You kill and eat them all the time. How can you raise chickens like you."
Wang Cunye looked at him helplessly after hearing this, and then shook his head.
“For such a big rooster, it’s easy to get into trouble if you castrate it. It keeps fighting and it’s time to fight. I’ll give them some herbs to keep them from fighting. That’ll be fine.”
Also, capons are all capon roosters. When the roosters grow to half their size, they start to want to step on the hen's back. At this time, it is best to castrate them.
At this time, they are growing, and their wounds heal quickly and are not likely to cause death.
If a large rooster is castrated, the wound will be large, the healing will be slow, and it will die easily.
Chen Ling was too lazy to think about it so much. Just as he said before, if he fights again, he will be eaten and the obedient ones will be left. How simple is that.
But now that my father-in-law said he could feed them herbs to prevent them from fighting, he was quite curious.
"Actually, it's safer to use herbs to castrate chickens than to use a knife to castrate chickens." Wang Cunye explained.
"Oh, that's it." He thought there was something new, but it turned out that it was physical castration instead of drug castration. In fact, my father-in-law didn't hide many prescriptions from him, but he didn't even think about them when he didn't need them, so he didn't take them seriously.
So when something happens, he always seems to know everything the same.
"Well, I will prepare some medicine for you in the past two days. You can mix it with some food and feed it to the chickens at night. Just feed it for six or seven days."
"Okay, will the hen eat okay?"
"It'll be okay."
The two sons-in-law and Weng just talked like this, picked up the farm tools, walked out of the farm, and walked to the vegetable garden.
The vegetable garden is to the west of the sunflower.
You have to walk through a large field of sunflowers to reach it.
Now the sunflowers have grown to about fifty centimeters tall. They are green after the rain, and the eyes are full of fresh green, and now there are small flowers growing on the tops of their plants.
When the flowers grow up and gradually turn into a large flower disk, it is time for them to mature.
After passing through this green sunflower field, we arrived at the vegetable garden.
Here is the foot of the mountain. In the ditch, the little white cow is grazing leisurely. When he saw the two of them coming carrying farm tools, he raised his head, stared at his big black eyes and barked softly. He stood, wagging his tail, and his eyes looked questioning.
Chen Ling smiled and waved to it, indicating that it would not need its help today, so it continued to lower its head and gnaw the grass.
"The grass in the vegetable garden is too strong. Let's hoe it clean first." Wang Cunye didn't notice the cow, put down his farm tools and hurriedly went to work in the fields.
Old people tend to be anxious when it’s time to work.
Chen Ling was embarrassed to fall behind and hurriedly followed.
After a busy day of work, Weng and his son-in-law hoeed the grass clean and then began to plow the ground to level it.
The land at the foot of the mountain is small and not very level, so it still needs to be taken care of.
Chen Ling is naturally the main force in this kind of work.
It has been raining and I have been bored at home for a few days, and he is willing to do some hard work and sweat.
After plowing the ground with a bang, he then raked the land twice with an iron rake, then raked the soil in the middle, and drew out several boundaries to form several uniform vegetable borders.
This is where cabbage is grown.
In the past, when growing grain, the plowed farmland had to be quietly dreary for several days before sowing.
The main thing is to let the turned land naturally sink and not be too empty.
In such an environment, the germination and survival rate of seeds will be improved.
Growing vegetables is different. After all, it is simpler and rougher than growing grains.
You only need to use the wooden stake as thick as the mouth of a bowl to lightly tamp the land a few times like a foundation.
At this time, a circular flat pit will appear on the land. Then take out the cabbage seeds and scatter them into the pit. After scattering, water them uniformly.
This process is quite fast.
After all, when growing cabbage, you only need to plant five or six vegetable beds, or three or four vegetable beds, which are enough for autumn and winter, and enough for pickles.
But it’s not over yet after watering.
Beside the vegetable pit, grab some fine soil and cover the cabbage seeds. It doesn’t need to be thick, just a thin layer.
Finally, the two of them mixed the wheat bran with the plant ash in the stove and sprinkled it back and forth on the vegetable bed two or three times.
This year’s Chinese cabbage has been planted.
As for why cabbage is planted with wheat bran?
This wheat bran is actually a protection for cabbage. There are many insects in late summer and early autumn. Crickets, grasshoppers, crickets and other pests in the vegetable field will bloat and die after eating wheat bran. You will no longer eat the newly grown cabbage seedlings.
The cabbage seedlings that have just grown out are very delicate. If they are bitten off, they will never grow again and will have to be planted again. This is much more tiring than spreading wheat bran.
Weng and son-in-law worked hard all day to plant cabbage.
In the next two days, the weather was fine and the cabbage seeds sprouted quickly.
When I went to see it on the morning of the third day, the buds had already poked out of the ground, revealing a pool of green seedlings.
There were also a few dead crickets in the vegetable field at this time, lying there with their bellies stretched wide.
Every time at this time, Wang Zhenzhen would excitedly bring the wheat bran over and sprinkle it several times. In the evening, he would always be excited when he saw crickets and crickets dying after eating the wheat bran. .
Chen Ling was not interested in these dead bugs. After seeing the vegetable seedlings, he always whistled and took his kite to catch mice and birds around the orchards and fields.
After Erbaldy recovered from his injuries, his size increased sharply, and he became more ferocious when hunting.
The sun sets and the tired birds return to the forest.
Chen Ling wore a leather shoulder pad with a fierce kite standing on it.
He stretched out his hand and pointed at a tree a hundred steps away, and said: "Go."
The two bald men on his shoulders suddenly flapped their wings and swooped out. The birds on the tree had just returned to their nests from outside. At this time, they seemed to have noticed something. They screamed in fright and fled out in unison. The sky was full of birds for a while. Son.
Er Baldy took aim at the target and passed by with lightning speed. Even Chen Ling didn't know what happened. After a loud call, he saw two birds falling from the sky in the distance.
The second bald man then revealed his figure, hovering in the sky and falling slowly.
It is really majestic to the extreme.
When Er Baldy picked up the two birds, Chen Ling let them fly around with some small stones in their mouths. They also completed them one by one and brought the stones to the designated location. They did a great job. good.
“Well, it will definitely be a good idea to take them into the mountains to find medicine and grow ginseng.”
Chen Ling gently stroked Er Baldy's feathers, feeling extremely satisfied, "I'll go up the mountain tomorrow, scatter some ginseng seeds first, and then find some places to plant my own ginseng."
He thought again. Thinking about it, I planned in my mind to take advantage of this trip to the mountains to dig out the herbs that were marked before.
With Er Baldy here, there is no need for Chen Ling to get started with some herbs that do not need to be paid attention to where they are collected and whose growth location is relatively steep. He can let it do it for him, which saves worry and effort.
Some rare medicinal materials can also be collected appropriately. Anyway, he has spiritual water. It doesn't matter even if the appearance is damaged, he can just regenerate.
In short, this kite can help collect herbs, which is much better than simply using it for hunting.
(End of this chapter)