My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 256 Growing Vegetables and Ginseng

   "Really don't go out and run around today, school will start in two days, write down your homework, and organize your schoolbag."

  After dinner, Wang Susu sat on a bamboo chair and hugged her son to breastfeed, not forgetting to remind her little sister.

   It has been raining constantly these days, and my son is also at ease. The little guy likes rainy days very much. If it rains at night, he is the best time.

   Maybe he was used to sleeping peacefully, or maybe Chen Ling brought him to the cave a few times in a row.

   Now it's not too much trouble, which makes the young couple feel a lot less worried.

   No, Wang Susu has the heart to discipline her sister.

   "Homework? My homework has already been written."

   "I even finished the papers that the teacher gave me."

  Wang Zhenzhen waved his hand when he heard this, shook his pigtail, and raised his chin proudly.

   After saying that, he was about to run out again.

   It has been raining these days. She lives on the farm. There are many things to play and delicious snacks. Otherwise, if it rains, she can't get out of the house, and if she doesn't eat or play, she will be suffocated to death.

  Unfortunately, just as she was about to run, she was grabbed by Wang Susu, handed her son to Chen Ling, and dragged her sister to the back of the farm without saying a word.

Today, Wang Susu has shown her power as an older sister, and while walking, she scolded: "Look at you, you are like a crazy girl all day long, your hair is messed up like this, and you don't know how to comb it, and it's still like this when school starts, so you're not afraid. Laughed at by teachers and classmates."

  Wang Zhenzhen immediately called Qu: "Sister, my hair is growing so fast, and you don't cut it for me. It will mess up when I sweat. How can you blame me?"

   "Huh, why would you sweat if you stay at home, it's not because you always go out and run around."

  Wang Susu said, dragging the little girl to the back of the farm. The boiled water in the kitchen is ready-made, and then call a small half basin of cold water to neutralize it. After the water temperature is suitable, she will wash her hair.

   This girl is still reluctant, and wants to simply wash and deal with it by herself.

  Wang Susu would make her wish, dug out a ball of shampoo, walked to her side, and after wetting her hair, rubbed it with her hands, and went to help her wash her hair.

  The shampoo melted away.

  Wang Susu took a light sniff, this smell is quite fragrant.

   This is also given by Liang Hongyu and the others, but it is not often used at home. It was brought in a glass bottle during the New Year, and I have only used half of the bottle so far.

   "Sister, my eyes hurt, and the bubbles got in my eyes."

   After a while, Wang Zhenzhen shouted.

   "What are you doing so much?"

   groaned, but Wang Susu hurriedly washed her eyes with clean water.

   "Whoever has more troubles is that you became stupid after giving birth to the baby, and you washed your hair and gave birth by hand. Brother-in-law said that you were stupid for three years when you were pregnant."

  Wang Zhenzhen's face was full of water droplets, his eyes were tightly closed, and his mouth was not at all willing to show weakness.

  …

  The two sisters were washing their hair behind the farm, bickering, and listening to Chen Ling happily.

  However, he didn't take it easy after listening to it. After he took his son and went outside to release the chickens and ducks, he took out the scissors and the cloth for them, so that they could use it when they cut their hair.

  Then the son urinated and went to change him a clean diaper.

   He recently asked his son to treat it, and that is called a diligent.

   is about to become a model worker.

  In the past, I took my dog ​​for a walk on the mountain, and I couldn’t stay at home if I had nothing to do after dinner.

  He had just cleaned up in the yard when Wang Cunye and Gao Xiulan came over.

  Wang Cunye also carried half a bag of wheat bran and said it was sunny, so let's plant cabbage in the vegetable garden today.

  Early planting is good, the cabbage will sprout early, and you will not be afraid of the rain later.

   "Yes, it's autumn, it's time to plant cabbage."

  Chen Ling thought so too, so he handed his son over to his mother-in-law to watch, and he and his father-in-law went to clean up the farm tools, preparing to clean up the vegetable garden and plant the cabbage later.

   As the saying goes, the first place is radish and the second is vegetable, and the third is to grow buckwheat.

   means that after summer enters Futian, it is suitable to grow radish in Toufu, cabbage in Erfu, and it is not too late to plant buckwheat in Sanfu.

   Generally speaking, after Erfu, it happens to be "Liqiu", or a few days after Liqiu, neither cold nor hot, cabbage is the best time to emerge.

  Now the lentils and cowpeas in the vegetable garden are getting old, and the cucumbers and loofah have long been hard seeded, so some corn and pumpkins are still growing, and there are places to grow cabbage.

   I didn’t care about it for a long time. The grass has grown to the waist of a person.

This vegetable garden is about half an mu of land set aside in the spring. It is close to the foot of the mountain in the west. This half mu of land is a little too much. At first, I wanted to grow some radishes, potatoes and sweet potatoes. Later, I had a lot of work at home. I haven't even had time to plant radishes, let alone others.

   Now, it’s time to grow cabbage, which can’t be missed anymore.

   Radish and cabbage are both winter dishes and should not be sloppy.

   "What's wrong with this chicken? Why did it get slaughtered?"

   took out the cabbage seeds, and Wang Cunye pointed to the **** that Chen Ling had killed and asked.

   "This is a rooster that has just grown up. Recently, he has been fighting a lot, and it has been annoying all day. I am too lazy to castrate it. Kill it and eat it."

  Chen Ling hugged a wooden stake and said, the thickness of the bowl of the wooden stake was used to select the location and set the pit for the cabbage when preparing to grow cabbage.

   "You. You kill and eat at every turn. How can anyone raise chickens like you."

  Wang Cunye gave him a helpless look, then shook his head.

   "With such a big rooster, it's easy to have trouble if you castrate it. It's time for a fight. I'll give them some herbs to keep them from fighting. It's okay."

   Also, capons are all castrated roosters. When the roosters grow to half their size, they want to step on the back of the hen. At this time, castration is the best.

   At this time, they are growing their bodies, the wounds heal quickly, and it is not easy to cause death.

  If the big rooster is castrated, the wound will be big, the healing will be slow, and it will be easy to die.

  Chen Ling was too lazy to think about it so much, just like what he said before, if he fights again, he will eat it, and the rest will be obedient, how simple it is.

   But now that the old man said he could feed herbs so that they wouldn't fight, he was still curious.

   "Actually, using herbs to castrate capons is much safer than using a knife to castrate." Wang Cunye explained.

   "Oh, that's it." He thought there was something new, but it turned out to be from physical castration to drug castration.

   Actually, there are many prescriptions, etc., the old man didn't hide it from him, but when he didn't use it on weekdays, he couldn't think about it, and he didn't take these things seriously.

   So when something happens, it always seems that he will be the same in everything.

   "Well, I'll give you some medicine these two days. You can feed the chickens with some food at night for six or seven days."

   "Okay, the hen is fine."

"fine."

  Weng and his son-in-law were talking like this, picked up farm implements and walked out of the farm to the vegetable garden.

  The vegetable garden is to the west of the sunflowers.

  You have to walk through a lot of sunflowers to get there.

   Now the sunflowers have grown to about 50 centimeters high. After the rain, they are full of green and fresh green, and now there are small flowers growing on the top of their plants.

  Wait for the flowers to grow up and gradually become large flower discs, it is time for them to mature.

   After passing through this green sunflower field, the vegetable garden arrives.

Here is the foot of the mountain. In the ditch, the little white cow was grazing leisurely. When he saw the two of them walking with farm implements, he raised his head, stared at the **** eyes and yelped softly, wiggling his tail. , with a questioning look in his eyes.

  Chen Ling smiled and waved at it, indicating that it didn't need its help today, and it continued to lower its head and nibble on the grass.

   "The grass in the vegetable garden is too prosperous, so we need to **** the grass first." Wang Cunye didn't notice the cattle, he put down the farm tools and hurriedly went to work in the field.

  The elderly are in a hurry when it comes to work.

  Chen Ling was too embarrassed to be behind, and quickly followed.

   As soon as they were busy, Weng and husband-in-law hoeed the grass and began to turn the ground peacefully.

  The land here at the foot of the mountain is small and not very flat, so it still needs to be cleaned up.

   This kind of work, Chen Ling is naturally the main force.

   It has been raining and stuffy at home for a few days, and he is willing to work hard to sweat.

  吭哧吭哧 finished turning the ground, then raked the ground twice with an iron rake, and then rubbed the soil in the middle to create several boundaries to form several even vegetable beds.

   This is where cabbage is grown.

  In the past, when planting grain, the cultivated land that had been renovated had to be quiet and dull for a few days before sowing.

   The main purpose is to make the overturned land naturally solid and not too empty.

  In such an environment, the germination and survival rate of seeds will increase.

   But growing vegetables is different. In the end, it is simpler and rougher than growing grains.

   Just use the wooden stake with the thickness of the mouth of the bowl, just like ramming the foundation, and gently tamp it on the ground a few times.

   At this time, a circular flat pit will appear on the ground, and then take out the cabbage seeds, sprinkle the cat's waist into the pit, and then water it uniformly.

   This process is quite fast.

   After all, to grow cabbage, at most five or six vegetable beds, or three or four vegetable beds, enough to eat in autumn and winter, and enough for pickled vegetables.

   However, it is not finished after watering.

  Beside the vegetable pit, grab some fine soil to cover the cabbage seeds, not too thick, just a thin layer.

   In the end, the two of them mixed the wheat bran with the ash from the stove, and sprinkled it back and forth in the vegetable garden two or three times.

   This year's Chinese cabbage has been planted.

   As for growing cabbage, why sprinkle wheat bran?

This wheat bran is actually a protection for cabbage. There are many insects in the late summer and early autumn. The crickets, grasshoppers, crickets and other pests in the vegetable field will swell and die after eating the wheat bran, and they will not be eaten again. 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. They must be replanted again, which is much more tiring than spreading wheat bran.

   Weng and husband-in-law have been busy all day planting cabbage.

The two days after   , the weather was fine, and the cabbage seeds soon sprouted.

   When I went to see it on the morning of the third day, the sprout had already burrowed out of the ground, revealing a pool of green seedlings.

  There were also a few dead crickets in the vegetable field at this time, their stomachs were stretched out, lying there.

   At this time, Wang Zhenzhen would happily bring the wheat bran over and sprinkle it a few times again. In the evening, when he saw that crickets and crickets had eaten the wheat bran and died, he was always excited.

  Chen Ling was not interested in these dead bugs. After watching the vegetable seedlings, he would always whistle and take the harriers to catch mice and birds around the fruit forests and fields.

  After the second bald man's injury was healed, his body increased sharply again, and he became more and more fierce when he was hunting.

  The sun sets in the west, and the tired birds return to the forest.

  Chen Ling wore leather shoulder pads on his shoulders, and a fierce harrier stood on it.

   He stretched out his hand and pointed to a tree a hundred paces away, and said, "Go."

The second bald man on his shoulders fluttered his wings and flew away with a swoosh. The birds on the tree had just returned to their nests from outside. At this time, they seemed to have noticed something, and they screamed in shock, hula-la. The chorus fled out, and the sky was full of birds for a while.

  Er Bald took aim at the target, and the wind galloped past. Even Chen Ling didn't know what happened. After a loud chirping, he saw two birds falling from the sky in the distance.

  The second bald man showed his body shape, hovering in the sky and falling down unhurriedly.

   is really majestic to the extreme.

   Waiting for the second bald man to pick up the two birds, Chen Ling let it fly around with some small stones in his mouth, and he also completed them one by one, and brought the stones to the designated position, which was a good job.

   "Well, it's definitely not bad to bring it into the mountains to find medicine and plant ginseng."

  Chen Ling gently stroked Erbaldzi's feathers and was very satisfied, "I will go up the mountain tomorrow, first spread some ginseng seeds, and then find some places to plant my own ginseng seeds."

   He thought about it again, and planned to take advantage of this trip to the mountain to dig up the herbs that were marked before.

  With Erbald, some herbs that don’t need to be mined and grow in a relatively steep location, you don’t need Chen Ling to get started, you can let them do it for you, which saves worry and effort.

  Some rare medicinal materials can also be properly harvested. Anyway, he has spiritual water, even if the appearance is destroyed, it doesn't matter, just regenerate.

   In short, this harrier can help collect herbs, which is much better than simply using it for hunting.

   (end of this chapter)