Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

In a blink of an eye, Zhang Xiuhua arrived home. Li Jianguo took the love letter and couldn't wait to read it. It's worth mentioning that this love letter was well written. There was no love story in the whole letter. The focus was on describing how beautiful and good Shanghai Jiaotong University is.

It made him want to take a look at this university!

He sighed, "If I were 20 years younger, I would also like to apply to this university." He folded the letter and said, "Is this from Jidong?"

"Not all of them! Jidong and Youcai wrote them together." Zhang Xiuhua asked Yaoyao when she would be done with school.

"There are still four days left." Li Jianguo asked how to fill it up.

"Put the envelope in her book when she isn't paying attention. She will definitely find it then." Zhang Xiuhua had already thought of it.

Li Jianguo thought for a moment and said, "I think we should wait a little longer. What if she receives a love letter and goes to find Ye Xingyu? We can wait until she gets her grades and then put the letter in her schoolbag. The classes will be divided in the second year of high school, so she won't have a chance to find Ye Xingyu."

Zhang Xiuhua hesitated, "No need? Yaoyao is so shy, she definitely wouldn't dare to look for Ye Xingyu."

"It's better to be safe than sorry." Li Jianguo thought it would be better to be cautious. "It's only more than 20 days anyway."

Zhang Xiuhua finally agreed, "How is her study recently? Has it declined?"

Li Jianguo shook his head, "First year of high school is not like third year of junior high school, where there are exams every other day. The last one was the midterm exam, and the next one is the final exam."

But he was very worried about Yaoyao's academic performance. "I heard from Zhuzhu that she was always in a daze when doing homework at home. I think she will continue to fall in the final exam this time."

Zhang Xiuhua sighed, it’s really depressing!

Zhang Xiuhua stayed at home for three days and helped with watering the plants for three days.

The radishes have grown and there is a water shortage. Li Jianguo uses a hand tractor to pump water, but the water pipes have to be changed and cannot be pumped from the same place.

Li Jianguo smiled and said to Zhang Xiuhua, "Xiuhua, the radish seeds you bought this time are great. The radishes are so big! One is worth two or three."

"This is a foreign variety." Zhang Xiuhua said with a smile, "We don't use chemical fertilizers here. If we did, the yield per acre would be at least 4,000 to 5,000 kilograms!"

Li Jianguo's eyes widened. "So many? Do you have cabbage seeds? The yield is so high?"

"Yes!" Zhang Xiuhua said with a smile, "In the second half of the year we will plant high-yield cabbages."

"You can buy some cabbage later." Li Jianguo thought for a moment, "Should we tell the villagers to plant it too?"

Zhang Xiuhua glanced at him and said, "It's different now that you're the village chief. You always think about the villagers."

Li Jianguo thought she was angry, "How about one more year later? Let's make a year's worth of money first?"

Zhang Xiuhua made a lot of money by reselling on the train. She didn't care about this little money. She waved her hand and said generously, "Forget it! I'll earn you some sales. You talk to the villagers and see if they need seeds. I'll buy them for them later."

Li Jianguo smiled and nodded, "Okay!" He said happily, "My wife is still the best."

Zhang Xiuhua listened to his smooth talk and said, "Don't praise me yet. They may not listen to you."

"No! With these radishes as samples, they must also want to grow high-yield cabbages. Don't worry. Besides, they only have their own private plots, so even if the yield is not high, they can afford the loss." Li Jianguo didn't think there would be any difficulty in selling the products.

Zhang Xiuhua looked at him and asked, "How many households in the village grow vegetables?"

"Some families grow staple food. Many families also follow the trend and grow vegetables. Aunt Wang's family grows a field of cabbage, and the old village chief's family grows a field of celery. My eldest brother's family grows carrots. I think they may have discussed it." Li Jianguo didn't know how they discussed it. But these few families dared to grow vegetables.

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Then you can ask them."

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye, and Zhang Xiuhua came back. No one was at home, and Aunt Wang came out of the house. Seeing her coming back, she immediately said, "Jianguo went to the field to pick radishes. The radishes in your house are really big."

Zhang Xiuhua smiled, heated up the food, and after she had eaten and drunk her fill, she also went down to the fields.

Yaoyao has finished her exams and is pulling radishes in the fields, with Zhuzhu also helping.

Many villagers were weeding the fields. At this time, pesticides were as scarce as fertilizers, so they could only weed manually.

The corn stalks have already grown up and are in good condition, but the grass in the soybean field is growing tall and needs to be pulled out quickly to prevent the weeds from stealing all the nutrients.

Zhang Xiuhua walked over to Li Jianguo and asked, "Where's Jilin? Why didn't he come to help?"

"I asked him to watch the small animals in the woods. He can't be left alone!" Li Jianguo replied.

Zhang Xiuhua piled the radishes she had pulled together. When villagers passed by their fields on their way home, they would come over to take a look and ask, "Oh, did you apply a lot of fertilizer this year? How come these radishes have grown so big?"

Zhang Xiuhua said no, "This is a variety from abroad, and it is not the same variety as our local white radish."

"Well, then you can save a few radishes to grow seeds, and give me some when the time comes." Aunt Li Si was very fond of them. Each radish weighed two kilograms. It was half the size of the old one.

Zhang Xiuhua shook her head, "This kind of seeds cannot be saved. It's just like hybrid rice. We have to buy seeds every year."

Aunt Li Si suddenly realized, "Then you can bring me a pack too."

"Okay." Zhang Xiuhua agreed readily.

They picked more than a thousand kilograms of radishes every day. Li Jianguo carried the radishes onto the cart. Since they were carrying the radish seeds, they were not put in bags.

When they got home, the whole family cut the radish berries together, which could be fed to the fox.

"How much is a pound of radishes this year?" Zhang Xiuhua's hands kept moving.

"Five cents for two kilograms." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Our yield from this acre of land is two thousand kilograms. It is a full 1,300 kilograms more than the old varieties."

Zhang Xiuhua also laughed, "Then we can get fifty yuan per mu of land?"

"Yes!" Li Jianguo nodded.

"That's great!" Zhang Xiuhua narrowed her eyes and smiled. "We planted the land for one hour, and that's 750 yuan. It's enough to pay the grain tax and taxes."

The children were happy too.

While she was busy, Wang Honghua came over and wanted to buy some radishes from her house.

Wang Honghua's private plot in front of her house has been empty this year. She bought all the vegetables this year. She wanted to plant ginseng, so she had to cultivate the land a year in advance.

"Do you need to keep piling so much fertilizer on the land in front of your house?" Zhang Xiuhua had wanted to ask this for a long time, but she was too busy at work to ask.

Wang Honghua smiled and said, "Yes, we piled up chicken manure and nursed the land before planting. Ginseng needs too many nutrients."

Although her family doesn't grow crops in the fields, it still takes a lot of energy. It takes a lot of time to maintain the land every day, and they have to add fertilizer over and over again and adjust the acidity and alkalinity of the soil.

Zhang Xiuhua suddenly realized. Well, although this is black soil, without chemical fertilizers, the yield will not be much higher. If you want to increase the yield, you can only use farmyard manure. The chicken farm in Lijiatun provides sufficient fertilizer. But it is too expensive and there is no output at all.

Zhang Xiuhua helped her weigh a basket of radishes. She paid for the radishes and went home carrying them.

After cutting the radish, Li Jianguo packed them in bags and planned to transport them to the orchard to feed the foxes tomorrow. He also packed the remaining radishes in bags and took them to the old village chief's house.

The village chief said that he would keep a record of the bill later and settle the bill all at once after all the radishes were picked.

The next morning, when Zhang Xiuhua woke up, Li Jianguo was no longer at home. He had gone to the orchard to look after the small animals after spending the night with her.

Although the little animal is still small, it is worth a lot of money. He can't be away for too long.

Zhang Xiuhua was eating at home, and many villagers were asking her about radish seeds.

Zhang Xiuhua quoted the price. It was not expensive and the villagers could afford it.

"By the way, Jianguo said there are high-yield cabbage seeds. What is the yield per mu of that kind?"

"The yield is higher than that of radish. If enough fertilizer is used, it can reach 10,000 kilograms. But without fertilizer, the yield is very low, about only 3,000 to 4,000 kilograms."

Even if it was only three or four thousand kilograms, it was enough to shock the villagers, "Then let's decide on this. I'm going to plant some in my own plot."

Zhang Xiuhua asked them to register and she would buy it for them later.

After registering, the villagers left happily.

Aunt Wang is planting cabbages this year, which will be harvested soon, but she roughly estimates that the yield will be only one or two thousand kilograms.

"I will also plant your variety in the second half of the year. The yield will be higher then." Aunt Wang asked her to help buy seeds.

Zhang Xiuhua agreed.