After graduation, I went home to keep bees

Although there was no congratulatory gift, the birthday banquet prepared by Jiang Xiaoman was greatly admired by the birthday star himself.

I can't wait to take this big table of food as my own, and keep it for myself to eat slowly, so that everyone else can eat noodles...

Today's birthday banquet is also different from the usual dishes. In one of the large enamel basins with a koi pattern, there is a whole stewed old hen with a few red mushrooms in it. Next to it is a whole braised hoof .

A big fish weighing more than ten kilograms is made into one fish and three meals, namely the red fish head with chopped peppers, the oily braised paddles, and the fried fish steak with braised vermicelli and cabbage, all of which have excellent meanings.

In addition, the freshly dug shepherd's purse was chopped and stuffed, and meat was added to make two spring rolls with shepherd's purse and fresh meat.

This season is the best time to eat shepherd's purse, but fried spring rolls are very oily, so most people only fry a pot on Qingming Festival to satisfy their greed.

It was the first time that everyone ate spring rolls in spring, and they cherished them so much that they even picked up the fallen puff pastry and ate them.

There are also local specialties such as roasted duck with konjac, roasted pork belly with dried bamboo shoots, roasted chicken with potatoes, braised eggs with wild onions, roasted pork with white-headed mushrooms, etc., which are only available in this season. , even the three Shancha sisters held drinks and ran over to wish their little fish father birthday than Nanshan...

But Jiang Xiaoyu, who loves face, was so complacent.

A table of men, only Jiang Xiaoman didn't drink, he had to borrow a car to go to the town to get chrysanthemum seedlings in the afternoon.

Three thousand emperor chrysanthemum seedlings sounded like a lot, but in fact it was just packed into a big box, and Jiang Baichuan could borrow the school's tricycle to pull it around.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoman thought about it for a while, and felt that after the express station was built, it was time for him to add a car to his family. He couldn't afford the four-wheeled one for the time being, but the three-wheeled one was no pressure.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the courier pick-up point in the town really called, saying that his flower seedlings had arrived, and they were too big to take up space, so he was asked to pick them up quickly.

Jiang Xiaoman rode Jiang Baichuan's electric tricycle and arrived in the town in a short while.

The boss of the collection point was already familiar with Jiang Xiaoman. Seeing that the courier he picked up was so big, he found him two pieces of plastic rope to help him fix the box on the back of the tricycle.

Thinking of hiring people to work on the mountain tomorrow, Jiang Xiaoman took the opportunity to buy a case of beer, a six-pack of local shochu, and two large bottles of orange juice in the store.

Sister Yingzi is also going to learn how to grow imperial chrysanthemums. Her family has no adults to help look after the children, so she will definitely bring two girls with her when she goes up the mountain.

Riding a tricycle back to the village, I opened the box and saw that the roots of the chrysanthemum seedlings were covered with mud. They were bundled with plastic wrap and wrapped with two layers of insulation cotton. The leaves were still emerald green. Jiang Xiaoman Nodding secretly, it seems that he has met a reliable seedling seller.

He bought these emperor chrysanthemum seedlings from a golden silk emperor chrysanthemum grower in Huangshan.

Although the sales volume of this store is not high, but looking at the pictures and text layout, you can know that this store is probably not operated by a team, and it is sold by its own seedlings.

Jiang Xiaoman felt that growers should know better how to store and transport seedlings, and he guessed right!

The emperor chrysanthemum seedlings transported from thousands of miles away should be dug in the morning and evening because of their solid packaging. When they were transported to him, there were still drops of water on the leaves.

The store owner is also a kind person, and even gave him a large package of root powder and a piece of instructions for planting imperial chrysanthemums.

However, when these chrysanthemum seedlings are transported, in order to keep the roots moist, they specially wrap the roots with moist mud, but they cannot be planted directly like this, otherwise the mud will cover the roots, and the roots of the chrysanthemums will not be able to open, and the seedlings will be dead when the time comes up.

So these flower seedlings must be taken back first, remove the plastic wrap, put them in a large pot, first soak the mud at the roots, pour out the water, then replace with new water, pour in the rooting powder and soak for several hours, and then plant them in the ground tomorrow .

Jiang Xiaoman made an appointment with everyone to go to his house tomorrow morning and dig the hole for planting the flower seedlings first, and then plant them after the sun is about to go down in the afternoon, so as to increase the survival rate of the chrysanthemum seedlings.

The next morning, just after breakfast, Shanyan's family came up the mountain together with their disciples, Lang Ying's mother and daughter.

Jiang Xiaoman was about to go to his bamboo grove to chop some moso bamboos and split them to make supports for the chrysanthemum seedlings—he saw many growers doing this on the Internet.

Emperor Chrysanthemum has large flowers and many flower heads. In order to prevent the main pole from being unable to support the heavy flower heads, two layers of supports are generally added during the planting period.

The first layer is to fix the plants with short and thick branches or moso bamboo slices at the beginning of planting, so that the main trunk has a support. When the chrysanthemums are pinched to promote branches later, it is not easy to fall due to "top-heavy".

The second layer is when the flower buds of the emperor chrysanthemum start to swell, and a second layer of supports must be built to support some of the more flower heads.

The advantage of doing this is to prevent the branches from drooping. Once the buds are stained with mud, the flowers that bloom will not look good, and the buds of this branch will all be scrapped.

The other is to prevent branches because there are too many flower buds. Once the wind blows and the whole branches are broken, the yield will be reduced or even lost!

It was only after in-depth research that Jiang Xiaoman discovered that planting imperial chrysanthemums was not as simple as he had imagined.

However, how can there be no hard work in agriculture?

In other words, if you want to make money, it is not easy to do any line of work!

Moreover, compared to growing sugarcane that requires peeling layer by layer, planting artichokes requires weeding and fertilizing again and again under the scorching sun, and planting imperial chrysanthemums only needs to be erected twice, which is already very easy.

There are many people and strength, and when Shanyan and the others came, they were not polite to him, and came to help after putting down their things. They were all young and strong laborers, and they helped Jiang Xiaoman chop a lot of bamboo chips out in a short while.

Lang Ying put the big girl and the second girl to play in the yard, rolled up her sleeves and went into the kitchen. First, she boiled a big pot of herbal tea for everyone—they would cook herbal tea when they hired people to work, and the more they drank plain water, the thirstier they became , I have to drink this local specialty herbal tea to refresh myself.

After making the herbal tea, I asked Jiang Xiaoman where the bag of noodles was. After counting the number of people, I steamed more than 100 large steamed buns made of miscellaneous grain noodles. While the steamed buns were steaming, I took some charcoal from the stove and took Jiang's house Dozens of yams were burned on the brazier.

She cooked the staple food here, and Jiang Xiaoman's pressure was much less.

Not enough bamboo pieces, Shan Yan took Ah Hu and the others to the bamboo forest to cut more than a dozen moso bamboos and dragged them back. Jiang Xiaoman checked the time and rolled up his sleeves to prepare lunch.

Most of the ingredients were prepared last night and placed in the refrigerator, and they can be used immediately after taking them out. Only fresh vegetables need to be picked from the vegetable garden.

"You are busy with your work, I will pick vegetables for you." Lang Ying snatched the vegetable basket from his hand.

Jiang Xiaoman took the opportunity to drink a large cup of herbal tea, and went back to the room to bring the tripod and the mobile phone used for shooting videos.

"Hi everyone, today my family is going to plant emperor chrysanthemum seedlings!"

"Didn't you say that old tea cakes taste too strong before? I think so, after all, old tea soup is too unfriendly to those who stay up late hahaha, so this year I discussed it with my friends in our village and decided to try to grow some. Scented tea, such as golden silk chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, etc., as well as our wild chrysanthemums all over the mountains, I plan to make a batch at that time and see if anyone likes it."

"Let me show you this faucet in my house. In fact, this is not tap water. It is mountain spring water flowing down from the mountain behind my house. My dad and I used bamboo tubes to draw it down from the mountain. When we don't use water, the mountain spring water flows along the pool. It flowed into the big fields below, so everyone can rest assured that our golden silk chrysanthemum really grew up drinking mountain spring water."

"There is also fertilizer, because the picture may cause discomfort, so I won't show it to everyone. Old fans know that my family has two pigs and dozens of chickens, so my family's Huangju uses fermented farmyard manure. , green, natural, and pollution-free.”

"Let me show you the honeysuckle I planted on the edge of the field before. Recently, the weather has warmed up and they have begun to sprout. I bought the big seedlings that bloomed that year, but the store said that the first year's flowers were not large, so this year I will only sell them for the time being. Huangju, honeysuckle may be done less at that time, let's do a lottery in the live broadcast room for everyone."

"Okay, today I invited Brother Yan's family and his apprentice to help my family plant chrysanthemum seedlings. We invite friends to help with the work without wages, but the food is better. Let alone, I am going to cook! Today Show everyone what we eat when the farming is busy here."

With that said, Jiang Xiaoman pointed the tripod and camera at the cutting board, and began to prepare the side dishes.

The bacon was cut last night, and now the potato must be peeled and shredded, and the carrot must also be shredded. Fortunately, he bought a grater on the Internet before, and after peeling, press it on it a few times. The shredded potato, carrot The silk fell down one after another and fell into the basin below. After planing, wash it twice with clean water to wash off the starch, and drain the water for later use.

At this time, Sister Lang Ying also came back from picking vegetables. Jiang Xiaoman went to help, washed the green onions, garlic sprouts and pea tips, took them to the chopping board, shredded the green onions and garlic sprouts for later use, heated the oil pan, poured some fat For the bacon, first fry the fat in the bacon, then pour in the thinner bacon and stir fry.

Then pour in half a bowl of minced garlic, stir-fry for a while, then pour in shredded potatoes and carrots. In a large stainless steel basin.

When people in the mountains are busy with farming, this is the only dish for a meal, and there is also a soup. It just so happens that the pea tips are still edible recently. Pinch some back and make a pea tip egg soup.

His family planted two kinds of peas this year, one is to keep the pea pods for eating, only pinch the pea tips a few times, and keep the long seedlings, and the remaining small piece is specially used to eat the pea tips, for fear of elders , and deliberately planted in the small vegetable field behind the house.

In this season, the pea shoots at the bottom of the mountain were too old to eat, but the pea tips of his family could still be eaten. It must be said that his father was really skilled in growing vegetables.

Lang Ying had already prepared the staple food, and Jiang Xiaoman quickly prepared one dish and one soup, brought them to the nearby restaurant, and yelled into the courtyard, telling everyone to wash their hands and eat first.

Taking advantage of the time when everyone was washing their hands, Jiang Xiaoman quickly brought a few stainless steel pots, filled the main food, freshly fried mixed vegetables, pea tip egg soup, and took a plate with every small pickle Order it and place it on the small dining table next to it.

It’s not that his family doesn’t allow women to eat at the table. The main reason is that Lang Ying has two children. Heshanguoshanhua father and daughter are eating at the small dining table.

In this way, children can sit still, and adults can sit on the side and eat warm food by themselves.

Seeing that he even thought of this, Lang Ying couldn't help being a little envious.

She has a bad life in this life, and she doesn't know which girl in this Langshan family can have such a good life. If she marries a man like Jiang Xiaoman in the future, she will simply step into the nest of fortune!