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

Chapter 542 Planting Potatoes

Chapter 542 Planting Potatoes

The rain came as soon as it came. Mother Su wiped the water droplets from her head and looked at the misty mountains in the distance, her face full of joy. "This rain comes in time. When the rain clears, I can plant the potatoes."

She turned back to the kitchen and lit the fire in the fire pit, "I thought I had to wait until your cousin got married before I could plant it. I guess it will be clear today and tomorrow. I will plant it when the rain lessens." Don’t worry about it all the time.”

After lighting the fire, she put the kettle on the kettle stand and started burning it. "What do you want to eat this morning?"

"Let's eat dumplings. We have nothing to do anyway." Su Ziling licked her lips, feeling a little greedy.

I don’t have time to make it usually. During the Chinese New Year, I only eat shredded dumplings. I haven’t eaten dumplings and noodles for a while.

"Okay, I'll make the noodles, and you can mix the stuffing. The stuffing you make is delicious."

Mother Su smiled and took the basin to scoop out noodles. Su Ziling washed the handle and looked at the vegetables in the vegetable basket.

When Su Zizhong and the others came back yesterday, they picked up a handful of wild onions, and Su Ziling pinched some gray cabbage and shepherd's purse. This was the last time they ate the gray cabbage.

The texture and taste of gray vegetables after the beginning of spring are no longer good. The taste is a bit bland and the texture is not tender.

Yesterday, the 27th happened to be the market. Su's father and others went to deliver vermicelli and said that they had cut the meat. They came back late yesterday, so Su Ziling didn't take care of it and just hung it in the well.

She took out the meat, which was both fat and lean. There was also shepherd's purse. She planned to make one stuffed with shepherd's purse and pork, and then one stuffed with mushrooms and pork.

I just happen to have mushrooms and xiangxin at home.

The mother and daughter were very busy. Mr. Su stood at the door and looked towards the cow pen frequently.

Su Ziling glanced at it and said, "Grandpa, what are you looking at? It's raining and there's a cold wind blowing. Go inside and warm yourself by the fire. Be careful of catching a cold."

"I'm going to check on the piggies. It's raining a bit hard, and I don't know if the chicken coop will leak." After finishing his words, Mr. Su put on his raincoat and hat and rushed into the rain.

Seeing Su Ziling chopping the stuffing, Su A'nai took out the last few glutinous rice cakes. They had been left for a long time, and a little patina appeared on the tops of the glutinous rice cakes.

Su A'nai took a knife, carefully scraped it open, and then placed it next to the fire pit to roast slowly.

She said: "Have you gone to the fields to see? Are the broad beans and peas ready to be harvested? In the past few days, I have been hearing beans being harvested next door."

Su Ziling didn't even look back, and replied while chopping the stuffing: "I just went to see it yesterday, ours will have to wait for another two days. It's probably because the ground is shady, and it's a little late to ripen. I guess I'm waiting for my cousin's marriage. It can be collected after the baby is over.”

Hearing that the peas were not yet ripe, Grandma Su was relieved, "That's fine, I was worried that the peas would sprout after the rain."

Su Ziling's stuffing was chopped, and Su's mother had already rolled out some dough. Seeing Su Ziling coming, Su's mother handed the rolling pin to her, "Go ahead and roll it out. If you're fast, I'll roll it with you."

Su Zizhong and Twenty looked at it for a long time, and then moved over to help wrap it up together, but in the end they were both chased away by Su A'nai.

Not only were the fillings made by the two of them oversized, but they were also ugly. Su Ziling was worried that it would turn into noodle soup when she put it in the pot.

After dinner and nothing else to do, Su Ziling moved the potatoes out. After leaving them in the utility room for so many days, many of them had sprouted lavender buds.

Su Ziling found a knife, scooped out a scoop of plant ash, cut the potato in half, and wrapped the cut with plant ash.

Potatoes are not big, and most of them can be cut into two. Mother Su watched from the side, unable to decide what to do.

"Isn't this going to be planted? Why did you cut it?"

"Cut it this way to save costs. If you don't cut it, you won't be able to plant much with one potato nest. If you cut it into pieces, you can plant two or three nests with one potato." Su Ziling explained carefully while cutting.

Mother Su nodded in understanding, "If you cut it like this, it won't break?"

"No, it's smeared with plant ash. Cutting it like this will help break the dormant period of potato and increase the germination rate. After cutting into pieces, it can also control the number of seedlings that emerge."

Su Ziling took two cut pieces and showed them to her, "Look, each piece has one or two buds. Controlling the buds can also increase the yield. We only have so much excrement. If we plant one whole piece, the number of buds will be the same." Even if there are four or five buds, they are definitely not nutritious. If the buds are too dense, the potatoes will not bear fruit, or they will be too small.”

Mr. Su nodded, "That's the reason. For the same dung, two buds will definitely grow better than four or five."

It rained heavily, but it lasted only a short time. It had already turned light rain the next morning, with a steady drizzle.

The old Su family had dinner early, took their tools, changed their clothes, and waited for the rain to clear up to go to the fields.

The rain finally cleared in the afternoon, and everyone except Su A'nai went to the ground with hoes and potatoes on their backs.

The nest was made in advance, and so was the manure. It was thrown away when the nest was made. After a day and night of rain, the manure and soil were already soaked.

Su Zizhong and Ershi were responsible for returning the soil to cover the manure, Su's mother and Su Ziling were responsible for putting the potatoes, and Mr. Su and Su's father were responsible for covering the soil behind.

The seeds were cut in advance and the nests were laid in advance. It took six people an hour to finish the planting.

There are still a few potato seeds left. Originally, if I didn't cut them, I was afraid that I could only plant half of them. But after cutting them, there were more seeds.

It was not suitable to plant them in other places, so Su Ziling simply took the rest back, thinking that with just a few, they could be planted in the vegetable field another day.

It rained and the water in the river rose a lot. Su Ziling originally wanted to catch a few bighead fish, but she didn't dare to go when she saw the water level. Plus Su's mother and the others kept a close eye on them.

"Why do you like eating fish so much?" Su's mother followed her, fearing that she would run into the river without noticing her. "We will go to your uncle's house in three days. Let your father catch it for you then." go."

Su Ziling didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I know, I know, I don't plan to catch it. The water is so big and I'm so small, I'm afraid it will run away."

"You haven't wanted to go yet. You've glanced at me so many times." Mother Su muttered.

After planting the potatoes, it can be regarded as completing another task. The busy time flies by every day, and in the blink of an eye it is the third day of February.

Early in the morning, before dawn, everyone in Old Su's family got up, sharpening knives, boiling water, and even the pine hairs were moved out in advance.

As soon as the rooster crows, the people invited to kill the pigs come one after another.

The kitchen was half empty, and banana leaves were spread on the floor. After a while, the pigs were killed and the meat was placed here.

There was a basin ready to catch pig blood, and Su Ziling and Su Mu were busy cooking.

When you ask someone to kill a pig, you have to take care of the food. Not only must you be full, but you must also eat well.

Because they knew in advance that their family was killing pigs, and the price was much cheaper than the ones on the market, everyone was waiting in the yard with pots, waiting to buy the meat.

Grandpa Su didn't invite many people, only five, and with his own family there were nine people in total. The pig was not big, so it was more than enough to handle it.