Whose farming family has the male protagonist giving three piglets as a gift at the beginning?

Su Yonghe followed Su Ziling with a backpack on his back, "Xiaoqing, where are we going?"

"Tianmen Mountain, I've told you to go and see it a long time ago, but I haven't had time yet." The two of them headed west. They didn't meet many pedestrians on the road, but there were quite a few people working in the fields.

Everyone has started to harvest corn one after another. Su Ziling looked at Su Yonghe and said, "Your family can harvest it too, right?"

Su Yonghe shook his head, "I planted it late and it will mature two days after yours. I will rest for two days and I guess I can finish harvesting."

Everyone was very fast. The ones in the front broke off the corn cobs, and the ones behind started to chop the corn stalks. Then they twisted the grass into ropes and tied them up, leaning against the ground. When the corn was harvested, they carried them in bundles. Go back and use it to start the fire.

After cutting down the corn stalks, the people behind them plowed the sweet potato vines. Plowing the vines can improve the yield and quality of the sweet potatoes, reduce the growth of adventitious roots, and concentrate nutrients on the sweet potatoes.

"How much did your family plant this year?" Su Ziling taught them how to plow the sweet potato vines. How did they know this before? After the sweet potatoes are planted, they lift the grass. Sometimes they accidentally lift it when pulling the weeds. A sweet potato vine, looking at the white roots on it makes me feel so sad.

"Hehe!" Su Yonghe scratched his head, "All the land at home has been planted, and an acre of wasteland has also been planted. It is estimated that there will be no harvest in this first year, but it's okay. We can raise two It can still be used to grow sweet potatoes every year. The land is red soil, and the sweet potatoes grown there are the best.”

"You're still opening up wasteland?" Su Ziling was quite surprised at this. In this dynasty, the cost of opening up wasteland was too high, and no one was willing to open up wasteland. Even if they didn't have to pay taxes on new land in the first three years, no one was willing to open up wasteland.

Reclaiming wasteland requires a lot of energy, including weeding, watering, fertilizing... If there are stones, you have to pick them out. If the wasteland is far away from the water source, it is not easy to water it back and forth, and it has just been planted. Nothing can grow in the wasteland. In the first three years, there are basically the most weeds and it is the most difficult to clean.

In addition to water sources, there is also fertilization. In this era, those who do not raise pigs or cattle will use the fertilizer they make at home. It is better to use it to feed wasteland than to water their own fertilized fields, which can also increase production.

To sum up, for various reasons, no one is willing to open up wasteland. This takes a lot of energy to serve. As a result, there is a high possibility that there will be no harvest in the first three years. The cost is really too high.

"We have planted an acre, and we will take care of it slowly. Now that I am getting wages from you, life will be much easier. It is okay to raise an acre of wasteland. Yongning and I are still young and have plenty of strength, so we will take care of it slowly. Otherwise, the little land we have on our own will not be enough.”

When they reached the foot of the mountain, Su Yonghe called out to her, "You go to the back, I know this place well."

Before Su Ziling could react, he pulled her behind him without any explanation.

Su Ziling raised her eyebrows but followed him obediently without saying anything.

This time the two of them had the intention of going deeper, so they didn't stay outside too long.

It gets cooler the deeper you go, and the weeds and trees are extremely tall. Once the two of them enter, they can basically only see their heads.

Su Yonghe held the knife and chopped all the way, while Su Ziling walked more easily behind.

Walking through a jungle, Su Ziling looked up and said, "Uncle Yonghe, what do you think that is?"

Su Yonghe stopped and looked along the line of sight she was pointing at. He saw a few bunches of fruits hanging on it. The skin was lavender, two or three in a bunch. The shape was very similar to bananas, and some of them had already bloomed.

"What?" He raised his head and stared blankly.

"August melons," Su Ziling's eyes sparkled. The ones on the tree are already ripe and must be very sweet.

"August melon?" Su Yonghe repeated, then shook his head, "I've never heard of it, can I eat it?"

"Okay, the purple ones are the sweetest when they are cracked. They are already ripe."

Su Ziling was already swallowing her saliva. It had been four months since she came here. Except for a few wild sweet potatoes at the beginning, she had never eaten any fruit.

When I was picking up mushrooms, I came across a few peach trees, but they were not edible at that time. After a few days, I saw that most of them had been pecked by birds.

Of course, there are some that haven't been pecked. Once you break them open, you'll find worms inside. No wonder the birds don't eat them.

Su Yonghe's eyes lit up when he heard it was edible. He put down his backpack and said, "Okay, you wait, I'll pick it."

He stepped on the grass underneath, carried the sickle behind his back, and climbed up the tree in a few moments.

"Just pick the split ones, right?"

Su Yonghe cut a hook, pulled a vine from the tree and tied it, then threw it down to Su Ziling, "Put the backpack on the hook."

Su Ziling did as she was told, "You can also pick the purple ones that haven't cracked."

Su Yonghe nodded, "Okay, I understand. Get out of the way and don't raise your head, or you may get dust in your eyes."

The branches above were intertwined with each other, and the vines of the August melon were intricately intertwined. Su Yonghe hooked it with a sickle, picked it and put it in the basket. Su Ziling, who was too far away, cut a long branch with a hook for him. , you can reach it and pick it.

Because no one comes to this mountain, the jungle weeds are deep and dense. I am always afraid that there are insects and snakes in the grass, so I don’t pay much attention to it.

After discovering that there were August melons here, Su Ziling started to look around and saw that there were many August melons around, all of which were ripe, but many of them had already been eaten by birds.

Su Ziling didn't go far, so she picked what she could reach under the tree. After picking, she came back and sat under the tree, eating and waiting for Su Yonghe.

Su Ziling picked a dozen, and Su Yonghe's basket was almost full. "Uncle Yonghe, come down first. Let's bring a few sacks and pick again some other day. We can go in for a walk today."

"Hey, I got it!" Su Yonghe couldn't bear to come down and kept picking more and more.

No one dares to enter this mountain all year round. The materials here are relatively rich. Except for birds and beasts that eat some, most of the rest will rot in the mountain.

After rotting, the seeds began to take root and germinate again, and the cycle repeated, so the jungle was extremely lush and no one could enter.

"Xiaoqing, take it up." Su Yonghe first put down the backpack. When he saw that the backpack was firmly placed, he started to get down. When he was almost on the ground, he jumped down, patted the tree chips on his hands, and still had a handful of tree chips in his mouth. String August melon.

He smiled so hard that he couldn't see his eyes. "There are so many August melons here!" As he said this, he looked up at the ones hanging on the tree, with regret on his face. "You have to pick them quickly, otherwise they will be eaten by birds." It’s going to break.”

"Well, come back tomorrow, bring a sack and pick more." Su Ziling replied to him while eating.

Su Yonghe sat down next to her, "How do you want to eat this?"

"Just eat the pulp inside." Su Ziling took another one to show him.