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Chapter 77 Planting Vegetables

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    It's another winter and spring. Chen Yao's impression always feels that it was yesterday when she looked up at the wild geese flying south, but in the repetition of going to school and working after school every day, the wild geese returned north.  She remembered what was said in the textbook that wild geese would form a line or herringbone. To verify, she always looked at the migrating wild geese seriously.  Wild geese are so nice, they have the sky, they can go far away, what is the distance like?  Will I go to a distant place one day in the future?  Mom said that university is in the city, and university is her dream. Is there her distant place?

    The weather in March, the sun is shining brightly, although there is still some residual chill, but the land has begun to no longer freeze.  Especially at noon, the ground will always be damp under the sun.  Yang Yi has already taken the time to clean up all the sundries in the yard. It was originally dry firewood left in winter, firecrackers let off during the Chinese New Year, remnants of corn stalks, and corn bones from knocked out corn.  Fragments, these fragments lie quietly on the land throughout the winter, and then when spring comes, Yang Yi will clean up all of them from the land and stuff them into the stove, and they will burn themselves for the last time,  provide energy.  Although Li Changqing went to work during the day, he was always looking for work after get off work.  Now, under Yang Yi's order, he is turning over the land in the yard with the pointed shovel, and Yang Yi is going to plant vegetables.

    Growing vegetables is a very important thing for Yang Yi. Year after year, she does not know how much money she has saved for her family in this way.  She always said that she was forced out of poverty, but no matter what, it was her hard work that brought healthy and nutritious food to everyone in the family.

    Chen Yao also picked up another pointed shovel and began to help her father Li Changqing dig the ground. Usually, she would help Yang Yi do some work on the stove, but today Yang Yi cooks simple meals and does not need her help.  So, she started digging shoulder to shoulder with Dad.  However, her physical strength was always inferior to Li Changqing, and the width of her father's plowing was twice that of hers. Even so, she was still happy that she could help her father.  When Li Changqing was working, he seldom spoke, and would whistle by himself when he was happy. Under normal circumstances, he worked quietly, like an old scalper plowing the field.

    "Dad, aren't you tired?" Although Chen Yao had only turned a few steps away, she was already panting from exhaustion. When she was working with her father, she would always find a way to talk to Li Changqing about something.

    "Not tired." Although Li Changqing's answer is so concise every time.

    "Then why am I so tired?" She followed Li Changqing's way and picked up a piece of small stone beside her, and vigorously removed the sticky soil from the head of the shovel, while chasing after her father and continuing to talk.

    "You are still young." Sometimes Chen Yao would not know how to answer the call, so she could only continue to work silently with her father.  By the time the symmetrical three-meter-long and four-meter-wide land on both sides of the road in the yard had been dug up, the setting sun had completely sunk to the west, and the crescent moon rising above was always accompanied by an unknown star.  Yao felt that the star was so loyal, how could she stay by the moon's side all the time?  She wanted to know the answer, but no one in the family knew, not even Yang Yi, who graduated from No. 1 Middle School, could tell. Although my great-grandfather could tell many stories, he didn't know why.

    On the second day, Li Changqing would use a rake to break up those large pieces of soil, and then make a vegetable bed. Both sides of the vegetable bed were bounded by raised soil to separate different vegetable beds.  Then, after several days of full water irrigation to ensure that there was enough water in the vegetable bed, Yang Yi began to sow.  Of course, there is one thing in the yard that needs to be protected during the whole process, which is the persimmon tree.  Li Changqing will protect the persimmon tree and dig a shallow pit to water the persimmon tree.

    Some of Yang Yi's rapeseed is bought, such as cucumber seeds, radish seeds, and bean seeds. These are the most important sources of vegetables for the family throughout the year. She is never sloppy and always chooses the most expensive ones to buy.  There are also some cultivated seedlings bought directly from the market, such as tomato seedlings, green pepper seedlings, and eggplant seedlings. Most of these things are bought into shaped seedlings and then planted directly.

    "Did you do a lot of homework today?" Yang Yi asked Chen Yao while taking out the tomato seedlings. Her seedlings have been bought for four days, and they have been kept in pots with water, and they can no longer wait.  But for the past few days, Li Changqing has been busy with the work in the field, and the spring planting is about to happen. He wants to sprinkle manure on the ground, and clean up the weeds that have grown up before the spring planting.  A few mu of land is enough for Li Changqing to work for a long time.

    "Not much, do you want to grow vegetables? Let me help you do it together." In fact, there is not a lot of homework today, but Chen Yao has been listening to her mother nagging for the past two days. If the tomato seedlings are not planted, I am afraid they will be killed  The wind sucks.  her homework?As long as you stay up late at night, you can finish it.

    Yang Yi found a few bent mulberry sticks, which she kept when she was planting vegetables last year. Some of them were broken together when the plastic film was removed and burned as dry firewood.  Will continue to be used this year.  Then I found some mulberry strips from the bundles that bound the peanuts that she had accumulated last fall.  The mulberry strips used to bind peanuts have already formed an arched shape under the effect of that autumn. You only need to trim the upper branches with a knife to ensure that its smoothness will not damage the plastic film.  up.  She handed over the work to Chen Yao, and then went to plant the seedlings by herself.  The ground should be moistened with water during the day, and now the softness and moisture are at their best, and the seedlings are transplanted much faster.  After transplanting the rice seedlings, she didn't have time to rest, so she picked up the small pickaxe and started digging ravines around. The plastic film will be buried in the ravines to ensure the healthy growth of these thin rice seedlings.  The ravine won't be very deep, it just needs to turn up the soil on the surface a little bit.  Yang Yi always tries to save every dime in every small place.  Last year's plastic film, she will shake off the dirt and store it, and will use it again this year.  It's just that the thin film can't withstand the blows of the wind and rain, and it will always break some, but these don't bother her, she will use the two layers together, and cover the undamaged part of the upper layer  The broken part of the lower layer not only allows the plastic film to be used again, but also slightly increases the ability to keep warm.

    "Come on, you go to the front and drag it." Yang Yi ordered Chen Yao to help her.  She wants to fix the starting point here at the top of the vegetable bed.  When Chen Yao tightened the plastic film, she would put the reserved front plastic film into the gully, and then start to bury soil on it with her feet, and when it was fixed, she would release her hands and go together.  Bury soil inside, so the speed is much faster.  As long as it is fixed at the beginning, you only need to put the plastic film into the ditch step by step, and then bury it in the soil.

    Yang Yi is a smart person. Although she did not go to university, the scientific and cultural knowledge she has learned has always subtly made her life much easier.  For example, she has always had her own experience in farming. Manure is a very important fertilizer, and the base fertilizer must be put in, and when to use urea fertilizer. These are adjusted according to the seasons. Only chemical fertilizers  Only the right amount of nutrients can be absorbed by the crops, and they will not be burned to death by chemical fertilizers.  These experiences are all accumulated by her from farming over the years, and it is precisely because of her carefulness that every year her family's one acre of land always harvests more grain and sells for more money than others.  The same goes for growing vegetables. She has grown vegetables for many years, and has already mastered the seasons for planting various vegetables and the things that need to be paid attention to during the growth process. She always looks after them like a child, so they always produce abundant fruits.  return.  Today she planted plants that need to be planted in advance, and some rapeseed plants. When the weather is warmer, they can be directly covered with soil instead of plastic film to keep warm. The seeds planted at that time will still be  The rapid growth will not only not delay eating, but also just make up for the gap with these vegetables planted at staggered times, so that they can eat all kinds of vegetables throughout the summer.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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