The cannon fodder of fast wear, she chooses to farm

Before the first rain started in autumn, Xu Yin, her younger brother, younger sister, and a group of servants from the east courtyard finally transplanted all the fruit trees and flowers and trees replanted in each courtyard.

With a wave of moist autumn rain, we can survive the cold winter in the twelfth lunar month, and when spring comes, the flowers will bloom. As expected, the fruit trees and flowers will be alive.

But just in case, when Xu Yin asked her servants to apply basal fertilizer, she secretly mixed in some Taoyuan Xingxi loam and Linghu water, hoping that it would grow more lush next year.

After the transplantation of these trees was completed, the overall repair and renovation of the east courtyard was completed.

In the Bagua field and green leafy vegetable area beside the lotus pond, the vegetable seeds sown a while ago are now ready to be picked and eaten.

Xu Yin asked her servants to pick them and bring them to the kitchen. She washed her hands, used broth to make the most deceptive dish of boiled vegetables.

According to the recipe, cabbage should be used, but the cabbage matures late and the green vegetables are ready to eat.

Every small green vegetable is oily and tender, green and green. If the green vegetables are old, they should be in their young meat stage now.

The fresh and tender green vegetables are made into the most expensive boiled vegetables in history. Even Zhong Minhua, who has never paid much attention to meals, spent two hours on this fresh and refreshing vegetable with rich soup flavor but not greasy. Bowl of rice.

When he put down his chopsticks, Zhong Minhua said with a smile: "This seems to be the first time I have eaten since I married into Xue Mansion. I didn't expect that plain and simple vegetarian dishes can be so delicious. I finally understand why you are so persistent, Yinyin." We need to open some land in the courtyard to grow some fruits and vegetables, and this dish seems to have to be picked fresh and made first, as it will be particularly fresh and tender in the mouth."

Xu Yin nodded in agreement: "No matter how fresh the food is, it will wilt after being delayed for a long time, and the taste will naturally be bad."

It was dozens of miles to get here from the farm outside the city, and it was in ancient times when transportation was extremely inconvenient. The head of the village hurriedly drove a carriage to the house, which took at least half a day. Sometimes when he met a noble person traveling, he had to hurry up. The horse stopped to get out of the way, and waited until all the noble honor guard had passed before continuing. This delay might last another hour or two.

The vegetables picked in the morning may have been delivered to the house in the afternoon. The weather is cool, but if it is hot, will they not wilt?

Therefore, despite the exquisite presentation and luxurious dishes on the dining table of a wealthy family, in fact, the vegetables may not be that delicious. Of course, the masters in the house don't like eating vegetables very much. When they are tired of eating big fish and meat, it is okay to occasionally order a few vegetable dishes to spice things up. It is too difficult for them to eat every meal as the main course. Most of it is the food of the servants.

The most popular period for these vegetables produced in Zhuangzi is probably mid-winter. The scarier the vegetables, the more popular they are. Rare things are more valuable.

But unfortunately, there are too few types of vegetables that can be eaten in winter. The only fresh vegetables that can be stored in the cellar for a long time are radishes and cabbage.

In the long winter, there are only these two things that come and go. Not to mention the rich people who usually have plenty of food, even the poor people have a dull mouth. So as soon as spring begins, the price of fresh green leafy vegetables or seasonal bamboo shoots on the market is extremely expensive.

Thinking of this, Xu Yin rubbed her chin and wondered whether to build a greenhouse.

The current climate is not too cold because of autumn, but it has finally entered autumn. The autumn rain is cold, and the autumn rain is heart-breaking...ah, you are talking nonsense!

But in short, autumn is here, can winter be far behind?

Although Cat Winter is happy, it is also annoying to have no fresh vegetables to eat.

So Xu Yin started brainwashing her mother-in-law again.

When Balabala said it, her mother-in-law was moved.

"You mean, you thought of a way to make vegetables survive the winter? But warm soup? But our Zhuangzi didn't dig out warm soup."

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Only then did Xu Yin know that the Royal Farm also provided green leafy vegetables in winter. Because there is a hot spring in the royal farm, the people on the royal farm grow vegetables around the hot spring for the consumption of the nobles in the palace.

In fact, there are not many dignitaries in the capital who have Wen Tang Zhuangzi outside the city, but there are not many people like Huangzhuang who use the warmth of Wen Tang on a large scale to grow vegetables in winter.

First, the cost is high, and second, it smells bad and looks unsightly.

Wen Tang is supposed to be elegant and exquisite. Can growing vegetables around it be called elegant?

Huangzhuang occupies a large area and has many hot soup holes. If you use a few to grow vegetables, it will not affect the normal use of other warm soups. But in the warm soup courtyard of the courtiers, there may be only one soup hole, which can be used to grow vegetables. How to enjoy warm soup?

Do we want the warm soup pool and the vegetable patch to coexist harmoniously?

When you are lazily sitting in the pool and enjoying it, when you look up, you will see a smelly vegetable patch, which ruins the atmosphere!

However, due to the difficulty of carriage and horse travel in winter, even if there were fresh vegetables, transportation was not as convenient as in other seasons. Therefore, vegetables were cherished in the palace. From the emperor to the concubines, they rarely rewarded vegetables. It's not that they can't put it on the table, but they don't have enough to eat.

Xue Zhaojin had a close friendship with the fourth prince. Before the accident, he often brought vegetables to the mansion. In the three years since he was in coma, the fourth prince had not been out of bed for a year. He sent people to deliver rewards to Xue's mansion when the new year was approaching, and there was always a basket of fresh vegetables among them. .

The masters of the house depended on this basket of vegetables to survive until spring returned to the earth and the ice and snow melted.

Since there are fresh vegetables to eat every year, although the quantity is a little less, these few months are more difficult, so the Xue Mansion has never considered converting the only warm soup courtyard into a winter vegetable garden.

As for the farm that supplies food and vegetables to the house, there is no warm soup at all, so how can we grow vegetables in winter?

Xu Yin said that the method she came up with had nothing to do with warming soup, and it didn't have to be planted in the farm and then brought here in the wind and snow. It could be planted in the Bagua field in the east courtyard. When it is ripe, just like now, you can pick it if you want to eat it, and eat it now without any delay.

Zhong Minhua became interested when he heard this, took Xu Yin's hand and urged: "What is the solution? Talk to my mother quickly!"

Xu Yin broke down the principles of the vegetable greenhouse and told her mother-in-law. Of course, the required materials were all available at the moment.

She told her mother-in-law about two materials to replace plastic films: one is glass with good light transmittance, and the other is thick straw curtains.

Both have pros and cons:

The former is high in cost, but has good light transmittance and can grow many types of vegetables. In addition to shade-loving vegetables, most sun-loving vegetables can also be grown;

The latter is low in cost, but has poor light transmittance, and the green vegetables that can be grown are relatively limited, including onions, ginger, garlic, radish, leeks, coriander, sweet potatoes, and asparagus that can thrive without sunlight.

When Zhong Minhua heard it, could straw curtains also grow vegetables? Can we still grow seven or eight kinds? This is quite a lot!

She doesn’t dislike the small variety of vegetables that can be grown in the straw curtain, but she dislikes the ugly straw curtain.

The final decision was: "Let's go with Liuli! If you don't believe me, just wait. I'll go find the old lady to discuss it. The old lady will definitely choose Liuli too!"

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It’s not the Chinese New Year yet, so I can’t catch up on updates. I took the time this week to go to the hospital several times, and they were different hospitals, such as dental hospitals, eye hospitals, general hospitals...

I had two fillings on my teeth, and I originally wanted to fill in the remaining two small black spots, but the doctor's next scheduled patient arrived, so I had to get up and give way.

It is said that filling teeth is really expensive now, but if you think about the cost of extracting the rotten roots and replacing the ceramic teeth in the future, then you should just fill it up o(╥﹏╥)o

The reason why I need to go to the ophthalmology department is that my degree has obviously gotten worse in the past six months, and I can’t even see the road signs clearly when driving, so I can’t delay it! It dragged down three hundred degrees. Really terrible!

I went to the general hospital to see my knees and review the physical examination items.

For some reason my knees hurt slightly when I climbed the stairs, but I couldn't feel it when I walked. I prescribed some ointment and put it back on.

The re-examination showed that the fatty liver had subsided a little, but the abnormal liver function and blood lipids were still normal, which was finally good news. (*^▽^*)

I promised to go out with my family for a few days during the Chinese New Year. The update is probably even worse than the past few days. I’m sorry everyone... (╥╯^╰╥)