Agriculture Idol

Chapter 50 Sending roses is not as good as broccoli, because eating is happiness ([-])
"You don't need to go home to eat," said Uncle Chen, putting away the machete for harvesting broccoli. "Let's cut some and eat now!"

"Okay, I'm sorry to trouble you!" Li Chengxin and the two followed Uncle Chen's pace.

Uncle Chen took the broccoli from Li Chengxin, picked up a bottle of mineral water from the field, and rinsed the surface of the broccoli with mineral water.

【what's the situation!Why are you eating again? 】

[Isn't it time to eat yet? 】

[I guess I just break some raw broccoli to whet my appetite, everyone calm down. 】

"It's enough to wash off the dust on the surface a little bit. The buds grow very tightly, so there will be no dust inside."

After shaking off the water on the surface, Uncle Chen pulled in a small chair from outside the camera, with a cutting board and knife already placed on it.Uncle Chen carefully disassembled the broccoli bit by bit from the bifurcation of the flower stem at the bottom of the flower bud, making it into small pieces, which ended up looking like a clean vegetable and fruit platter in the supermarket.

The next moment, a pot with a gas stove entered the shot.

Uncle Chen poured the remaining mineral water into the pot and turned on the fire.

【Lying trough...】

【My snacks were all shocked... Σ(っ°Д°;)っWho just said eating raw broccoli!Come out and die! 】

[...It really burned directly into the ground]

Add a little salt to the water, and Uncle Chen puts the chopped broccoli into the pot.There is very little water in the pot and the broccoli is just slightly saturated.Put the broccoli in the pot and cover the pot.

Uncle Chen introduced: "Although it looks like it is being boiled, this method is more inclined to steam. There is a saying that because vitamin C is water-soluble, if you put too much water and boil it, the nutrition will be lost."

A few minutes later, Uncle Chen opened the lid of the pot.

"Hey, the color has darkened!" Li Chengxin noticed the change in the pot.

"Hey, really, the green part has turned dark green, and the yellow part is still bright yellow, and it feels more beautiful!" Brother Xiaoyong praised, "The water has also boiled dry, and it looks delicious."

Brother Xiaoyong was quick and took one into his mouth regardless of how hot it was: "It's so delicious!"

"The taste of the dish is very strong, with natural sweetness, and the taste is just right, not too soft, and the bud part still has a fragrance." Li Chengxin picked up one and ate it slowly.

When Li Chengxin picked up the second yuan, Brother Xiaoyong had already eaten four yuan.

"Hey, it seems to be even sweeter when it's cooled." Li Chengxin slowly savored the second piece of cold broccoli.

Brother Xiaoyong, who started to eat the sixth piece of broccoli: "It's really, it tastes sweet as soon as it's cold."

Uncle Chen said with a smile: "You can even eat frozen broccoli, unlike many other vegetables that will freeze if frozen. Some cold foods and sashimi here in summer also use frozen broccoli as a cooling agent."

Several people cleaned up the remaining broccoli in the pot and tidied it up again.

Li Chengxin picked up a whole thick stem left over from cutting broccoli before and said with emotion: "When I usually buy broccoli, it is a short stem. This is the first time I have seen such a long stem."

"The flower stalks can also be eaten." Uncle Chen said, "You can eat this raw."

As he spoke, Uncle Chen took out the kitchen knife and cutting board that he had just put away, put the flower stem upright on the cutting board, and used a knife to cut off the thick skin of the stem, revealing the inner cylinder with a jade-like color and a green inside. It is translucent and white, with a warm and moist glow in the sun.Uncle Chen cut the small cylinder in half and gave it to Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong.

Li Chengxin held the flower stem and said strangely: "If the flower stem can also be eaten, why haven't I seen it in the market?"

Uncle Chen replied: "Oh, it's really hard to say. I guess one is too small, and if there are too many, it is not suitable for shipping. After all, I know that the flower stalks in my family are edible, but you buy one broccoli at a time, that's all. Two flower stems."

Brother Xiaoyong didn't open his mouth, and directly ate the flower stem in his hand.

There was a crisp "click" sound, and a section of the flower stem broke in Brother Xiaoyong's mouth: "It's delicious! So sweet!"

Uncle Chen smiled: "In fact, the flower stems contain more calcium and potassium elements than the flower buds, and they are also very nutritious, but they are a little less."

When Li Chengxin tasted his share of flower stems, Brother Xiaoyong suddenly asked: "Uncle Chen, what kind of soil is this broccoli plant in your family? Look at the red ones."

Li Chengxin looked at the ground under his feet. The surface of the soil was mixed with fertilizers. At first glance, it was difficult to distinguish the color of the soil itself, and he didn't know how Xiaoyong could see the red color.

Uncle Chen didn't say much, he just picked up the shovel and dug down for a while, stepping aside for Xiaoyong and Li Chengxin to see.

The soil under the excavated pit was orange-red. Brother Xiaoyong took a piece and rubbed it in his hand: "This is red clay soil! Although clay soil does not have an advantage in drainage, it still has a strong ability to retain fertilizer."

Li Chengxin seemed to have discovered a new continent: "Brother Xiaoyong, why did you suddenly become so knowledgeable about soil?"

"Of course I learned it by reading!" Brother Xiaoyong had a frightened expression, "The characteristic of clay soil is that the soil particles are more fine. For ordinary soil with large particles, fertilizers are easy to lose from the gaps between the soil, and for small particles Clay soil, not only does not have this problem, but nutrients are also easy to adhere to the soil, so the nutrients applied are easier to be retained. Broccoli can therefore absorb more nutrients, so it is really good to grow broccoli with red clay clay A good choice!"

Li Chengxin recalled that recently, because of the cold weather, everyone didn't go out very much, and when Li Chengxin went to play at Brother Xiaoyong's house, he often saw Brother Xiaoyong reading with a book in his arms.

Brother Xiao Yong continued to talk about his understanding of soil: "Most of the vegetables we made in the past were made from soil with good drainage. The lack of water in vegetables will make their own taste more condensed. So in this aspect, Will it actually change due to different vegetable varieties?”

"Yes," Uncle Chen affirmed, "The clay soil doesn't drain very well. It retains nutrients and water easily at the same time. If the water is too high, the taste of broccoli will be loose. But here, it is really rare in winter. Rain. From October to March, the northwest monsoon blows, and the humidity drops to about 65 percent, so it's pretty dry. You see, the broccoli leaves are kind of curled up."

Li Chengxin checked and found that it was the broccoli season, and the sunshine time near Qiongdao City was very long, and the weather was always sunny.Therefore, according to Brother Xiaoyong and Uncle Chen, even with the water retention of clay, broccoli will still lack water due to drying. In this way, the ratio of nutrients and water can still bring delicious taste.

"No wonder this is the largest broccoli-producing area in the country." Brother Xiao Yong nodded in agreement, stroking the broccoli leaves that were curled due to drought.

"We're done talking, let's start harvesting!" Seeing that there was nothing more to talk about, Li Chengxin suggested harvesting.

Harvesting broccoli is completely done by hand. Uncle Chen squatted down and demonstrated with a small machete.

"First cut off the stem about 20cm below the bud."

Uncle Chen grabbed the top of the bud with one hand, cut off the stem of the broccoli with a knife in the other, and stood up holding the cut stem with one hand.

"Then cut off the leaves, and then cut the flower stems to a length of about 16 cm. This is the delivery state of my broccoli, so looking at it this way, the flower stems of my broccoli are indeed longer than what you can see in the vegetable market. But broccoli is also a flower, and part of the stems will be trimmed off every time it is transferred, which is probably why the broccoli stems that consumers get in the end are very short."

After trimming the broccoli in his hand, Uncle Chen put the broccoli in the delivery state into a small basket on his back.

"I used to carry a pesticide barrel for fertilizing on this carrier before. Later I discovered that the pesticide barrel can be dismantled and put into a small basket, which is quite useful. I just need to put the broccoli in the basket on my back. Be careful not to damage it. In addition, using this small backpack requires you to be flexible, otherwise you will not be able to turn your hands to the back." Uncle Chen demonstrated by twisting his hands back 90 degrees and carefully placing the broccoli at the bottom of the basket.

Brother Xiaoyong carried another small basket on his back, picked up another small knife, and imitated Uncle Chen's method to harvest a broccoli, peeled off the leaves and brought it to Uncle Chen.

"Uncle Chen, how about this tree?"

"Very good!" Uncle Chen praised, "Xiao Yong, you have a lot of farming qualities!"

Brother Xiaoyong was showing off his praise to Li Chengxin when Uncle Chen added another sentence.

"Do you want to change careers and work as a small worker for me?"

"Hey, it's not impossible, then... Brother Xiaoyong, I will accompany you to Geyue Entertainment tomorrow to terminate the contract?" Li Chengxin joked.

"Don't be like this..." Xiao Yong knelt down.

Li Chengxin also tried to harvest a broccoli, and the evaluation he got was "okay". The skin on the next flower stalk, so that this broccoli cannot be sold as a standard commodity.

"It's okay, we'll just cook and eat what you harvested later." Uncle Chen could only comfort him like this.

Most of the day passed, and several people loaded the harvested broccoli into Uncle Chen's small truck.

"It's okay, there's almost 500 catties here." Seeing more than a dozen small baskets filled with four big baskets of broccoli, Uncle Chen estimated.

The three squeezed into the cab of the pick-up truck, and Uncle Chen drove to his family's small warehouse.

Freshly harvested broccoli is about to start boxing right away.This time, Uncle Chen's wife also came out to help.

The two quickly placed the broccoli in a staggered manner in a box. After the eating and broadcasting was over, Uncle Chen was about to drive the broccoli to the market for shipment.

　Don't worry about geography, I'm a science/engineering student.Alas, in the blink of an eye, I have written 50 chapters...

　　
　
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