Joe's Farming

The Lingyun market lasted for three days, and the villa was bustling for three days.

At this market, the villa collected more than three hundred taels of silver, and after deducting the costs, it made a net profit of two hundred taels.

Qiao Yu himself also bought a lot of things at the market, and many villagers from neighboring villages would come to Qiao Yu when they were looking for mountain products.

Qiao Yu bought 100 kilograms of green plums and pickled them with rock sugar so that she could drink her own green plum juice next year.

On the last night, Qiao Yu held a bonfire party in front of the villa which had been restored to its original state.

We prepared drinks and food to reward all the staff of the villa who had worked hard for three days.

Because the atmosphere was so joyful, it attracted the guests of the villa and Xu Yuan's family.

Li Xin volunteered to be the host and organized everyone to play games and perform shows.

Whenever someone cheated, Li Xin would reason with them and appeal to their emotions, forcing the introverted people of Dayan to sing a local nursery rhyme with a red face.

As soon as the nursery rhyme came out, Yan Bao, one of the three little ones, volunteered to sing the song "Above the Moon" that Li Xin taught him.

Qiao Yu was so happy that he held his stomach and laughed out loud.

Gu Feng was also amused by Yan Bao's off-tune singing.

"This is life." Qiao Yu laughed enough and sighed as she looked at the little faces of the people in the firelight.

"Hmm?" Gu Feng asked without hearing clearly.

Qiao Yu smiled at him very beautifully: "Husband, I love you so much."

Gu Feng's face turned red all of a sudden, and he said shyly, "Me too."

Xu Yuan also whispered in Xu Ning's ear: "My husband loves Aning so much."

Xu Ning opened his eyes wide, glanced around quietly, and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that no one was paying attention.

She whispered to Xu Yuan, "Tell your husband when we get back."

Xu Yuan: “Ten times.”

Xu Ning blushed: "A hundred times is fine."

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In June, the rice in the fields has already begun to ear.

The potatoes planted in the second season have also begun to bloom.

Qiao Yu felt so comfortable looking at it every day, especially during this period when various vegetables, fruits and melons have ripened one after another.

Qiao Yu prepares delicious food in different ways every day.

For example, for peanuts, in addition to drying them, Qiao Yu also tried making braised peanuts and salt-baked peanuts.

It takes too much salt to make salted peanuts, so Qiao Yu gave up after making it once.

Braised peanuts are now being served at the villa and are quite popular.

What made Qiao Yu happiest was that the peppers were finally ripe.

Qiao Yu didn't know what kind of peppers were here. There were three main varieties: red pepper, green pepper, and one that looked a bit like wild pepper and was very spicy.

The most common crop grown by Qiao Yu is red peppers. During this period, the yard at home and the area outside the villa are all filled with red peppers drying. Qiao Yu also strung a lot of bunches and hung them under the eaves, which looked very prosperous.

After drying, the next step is endless pounding of chili powder.

Before pounding, Qiao Yu would ask them to cut the peppers and fry them in an iron pan. The dried peppers fried in this way would be particularly fragrant, but of course, the spicy taste would also be very pungent.

After pounding it again, it tastes delicious.

Qiao Yu will pound the chili seeds and chili segments separately when eating at home to fully stimulate the aroma of the chili seeds.

The pounded chili powder comes in different grades: slightly coarse, medium coarse and extra coarse.

Qiao Yu wanted to classify the dishes into extra spicy, medium spicy, and slightly spicy, but that was not possible at the moment.

However, as the harvest increased, Qiao Yu discovered that there were still differences between individuals of the same variety.

Some peppers grown from seedlings are much spicier than others, including green peppers.

This made Qiao Yu's eyes light up.

All employees were immediately called together to start a two-day chili tasting tour.

Over the next two days, voices like “Oh, it’s so spicy!” and “Oh, it’s so spicy, so spicy!” could be heard from the pepper fields from time to time…

Then Qiao Yu would mark these peppers and focus on cultivating them in the future.

Gu Feng didn't quite understand why his husband did this.

Qiao Yu explained to him the principle behind it.

"The peppers grown from these spicy seeds will most likely remain just as spicy. As we continue to select and breed generation after generation, we will be able to have peppers of varying spiciness in the future."

Gu Feng suddenly realized: "If our plums don't work, can we try planting Uncle Xu's plums?"

Qiao Yu thought for a while and said, "In addition to the variety of our plums, the problem is mostly due to transplantation.

We can wait and see next year. If it doesn't work, we can go to Uncle Xu's house and ask for some plum branches.

Do the grafting. "

Gu Feng was at a loss, as these were words he couldn't understand.

But he knew that his husband would definitely explain it to him.

Sure enough, Qiao Yu went to the shack and found a branch, then cut the branch with a knife to reveal the cross section.

"For example, this one belongs to our family."

Then Qiao Yu found another branch and sharpened the bottom. "This is from Uncle Xu's house."

Then Qiao Yu cut the cross section of the branch where it was exposed, and then inserted the tip of another branch into it.

"After inserting them, wrap them tightly with a piece of cloth. After a while, the two branches will grow together. This is called grafting."

Gu Feng felt that his husband was really smart.

"The fruit produced in this way is the kind produced at Uncle Xu's house."

Qiao Yu nodded: "Yes!"

Gu Feng drew inferences from one example: "If I graft a peach, will it grow into a peach?"

Qiao Yu was surprised and said, "As long as it can survive, it will! My husband, you are too smart! However, generally the survival rate of grafted fruit trees of the same species will be higher, and the survival rate of different species is very low."

Gu Feng nodded and said with a smile: "It's okay, we can figure it out slowly."

It is impossible to pick all the peppers in a few days. They will continue to bloom and bear fruit until there is nothing left on the plant. The harvest time can be as long as two to three months.

However, because of the shortage of chili peppers last year, coupled with the addition of two major chili pepper consumers, Snack Bar No. 2 and Shanzhuang, as well as Qiao Yu's thriving bean paste and hot pot base business.

Qiao Yu has already started arranging people to sow the second round of pepper seedlings, and this time they have divided the peppers into areas with different levels of spiciness.

As the amount of vegetables, fruits and melons at home increased, Qiao Yu realized that her cellar might not be able to store so many ingredients.

So he paid someone to dig a huge cave on the shady hillside near his home.

The mountain is made of hard rock, and at first Qiao Yu thought there was no way to do it.

After Xu Yuan found out, he introduced a special master.

Then Qiao Yu witnessed the miraculous moment when the masters burned the rocks with fire and then poured cold water on them.

Li Xin shouted at the side: "Ah! Isn't this the principle of thermal expansion and contraction? I'm so stupid that I didn't think of it!"

Although the progress is slow, it is finally being completed towards Qiao Yu's vision bit by bit.

The weather was too hot, so Qiao Yu learned to make many cold drinks at home.

For example, add sugar, water and some ice cubes to make white foam.

For example, boil red and black bubbles into jam and add ice water.

As for cucumbers, Qiao Yu would cut two slices of cucumber, then add two slices of unripe green apple and water.

Some of these cold drinks are delicious, while others taste... well, it's hard to say.

But Qiao Yu never gets tired of it.

Every day, I must prepare a pot of newly invented cold drink for myself and share it with my family.