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

It was impossible to work in the fields in this weather, but Su's father and his friends couldn't sit idle, so they went up the mountain to pick tea.

There are many trees in the mountains, and the forests are deep in some places, so it is not that hot.

After Youyou woke up, Su Ziling poured her a cup of Huoxiang tea. He was originally thinking about how to coax her, but who knew that she quite liked the taste. She just tasted it, held the cup tightly, and drank it in one breath.

Su Ziling lowered his head, rubbed his forehead against hers, and smiled happily, "Oh, our Youyou is really great."

Her appearance made Youyou giggle, but then she heard Su Ziling say, "You really take after your father. You're not picky about food and you're easy to feed."

I don’t know if she understood or not, but I saw the smile on Youyou’s face disappeared in an instant.

After teasing her for a while, seeing that the time was almost up, Su Ziling asked Grandma Su to play with her while she started to prepare dinner.

For the staple food, she cooked a pot of porridge and added some mung beans into it, then steamed a bowl of steamed egg with amaranth for Youyou. In the morning, the person who delivered the mushrooms came back and brought her a piece of pork belly and a piece of pork tenderloin.

She pounded the pork tenderloin, chopped the chives and added them together, and finally added some salt.

She also stir-fried pork with green and red peppers with the pork belly, and the rest were some pickles she made.

In this weather, nothing tastes good. Cook a pot of porridge, let it cool down, and pair it with a few bowls of sour and spicy pickles. It is much better than eating meat and fish.

On the last day of June, the weather suddenly changed. Dark clouds covered the sky. After a few thunders, heavy rain suddenly came.

This also made everyone feel relieved, as they no longer had to worry about the crops being killed by the sun.

The rain was heavy at the beginning, and it washed away the ground into gullies. Just when Grandpa Su and the others were worried that the corn would fall to the ground, the rain gradually became lighter the next day, and it continued to drizzle for the next two days.

Although the rain is small, it can penetrate deeper into the ground, which is also the favorite rain for those who grow crops.

If the rain is too heavy, the rain will only harden the soil and create gullies on the ground, and the rain will not be able to penetrate deeper.

On the contrary, the drizzle will slowly penetrate deeper and help the crops absorb water.

The rain came at the right time. After the rain, it was time to apply fertilizer. The rain had not completely stopped yet, so the whole family went out to apply fertilizer. After applying the fertilizer, the rain continued to drizzle for two days, just enough to soak all the manure.

At this moment, Grandpa Su finally breathed a sigh of relief and said happily that there would definitely be a good harvest this year.

In July, the sun was still as bright as usual, but since it had rained before, and after applying fertilizer, everyone was not too worried.

After the rain, not only the crops grow fast, but the grass also grows fast. The situation changes every day, and every household begins the weeding season again.

After being exposed to the sun for more than twenty days in June, not only did the soil crack a little, but even the mushrooms in the mountains were dried up. Perhaps it was because the sun was too strong. After the rain in late June and early July, the mushrooms grew in large clumps like crazy.

The ladies in the workshop were so busy that they didn't even have time to chat.

It was not until mid-August that the corn began to dry. Just as Grandpa Su had said, this year's corn harvest was good. Not only were the trees shorter, but they were also larger.

August is the season for harvesting various things. After harvesting corn, we dig ginger and taro. After digging ginger and taro, we dig islet fruits. After digging islet fruits, we start picking chayote.

Last year, all the bitter melons were sent to the border, but this year that is not the case. Although they still ordered more than 10,000 kilograms, this is only about one-tenth of what they planted.

Last year, the bitter melons sold for a good price, so this year every household planted double the number, especially the Bai family. Last year, they sold them at the market for a penny each, so this year they planted more than 200 trees.

There are more than Su Ziling's family. Look, he started picking bitter melons and selling them as early as July. He sells the tender bitter melons, which are suitable for stir-frying and stewing.

The old ones are peeled and cooked into soup, and they are also easier to preserve.

Perhaps it was Su Ziling who taught him how to sell the melons, so this year he was able to put on a good show. He brought all the utensils with him early in the morning and imitated Su Ziling to sell the melons.

He still brought Yaya with him. The father and daughter, one was shouting while the other was collecting money. They smiled particularly brightly as they watched the melons being sold one by one.

It’s just that he planted too many crops, and he couldn’t sell them after selling about half of them. In the end, he came to ask Su Ziling.

Su Ziling also helped him collect the rest at the price of one penny each.

We kept the seeds for our own consumption, and picked the rest and sent them to the valley.

Su Ziling directly ordered his own caravan to deliver the bitter melon to various places, even sending several thousand kilograms to Kyoto.

They were worried that they wouldn't be able to sell them, but unexpectedly, with Shen Xingye's help, they didn't even have to sell the melons. They directly sent 500 kilograms to the palace. Then the Marquis' Mansion asked for another 200 kilograms, and the General's Mansion asked for another 200 kilograms. In total, 900 kilograms were sold.

Shen Xingye is now a favorite of the emperor. Firstly, his political achievements can be verified, and secondly, his father is still at the border.

Seeing that he and the emperor had bought them, plus the general's mansion, other officials also followed suit and bought them.

You have 50 kilograms, and I have 100 kilograms. We cleared out two-thirds of the melons in an instant.

The people in the caravan were also very capable. They were even thoughtful enough to send a recipe to each government office, explaining how to eat it.

The melon looked full of thorns and didn't look tasty, so no one had any hope. But who knew they would even give us a recipe.

After getting the recipe, we all wanted to give it a try, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be surprisingly delicious and especially suited our appetite.

The cuisine in Shangjing is relatively light, unlike Su Ziling and his friends who like heavy spicy food. They use bones to make a soup, and cook a bowl of bitter melon. The melon is sweet and the soup is delicious, which instantly captured everyone's hearts.

The caravan was originally planning to take the remaining melons to the vegetable market, but Shen Xingye directly set up a store for them and asked them to sell them there. He said that although they might not be easy to sell now, the melons would be sold out in two days.

The demand was so great that the supply could not meet the demand, so they were asked to go back and bring a few more trucks. Later, they changed their tune and said they could bring as many as possible.

When the caravan left, Shen Xingye stuffed a letter into their pockets, repeatedly reminding them to give it to their employer.

When Su Ziling received the letter, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Lu Yan was feeding Youyou steamed eggs and took the time to glance at her. "What bad idea did Shen Xingye come up with again?"

"How do you know?" Su Ziling raised his eyebrows with surprise in his eyes.

"He was so anxious to send people back to get the chayote melons, which means that the melons are selling well. So many officials in Shangjing have bought them. I'm afraid the noble families or merchants behind him will also try it. So he definitely doesn't want to steal the melons."

"Does he want to open a store, and the recipe is in your hands, or does he need to purchase goods from you?"

Su Ziling gave him a thumbs up and said, "It's like this, he wants to open a black bean hotpot restaurant in Shangjing. I'm the only one who has the hotpot base, recipe, and chili peppers. He can't open it without me."

"You agreed?"

"Agree, why not? It's not convenient for me to go to Beijing, so let him open it. After all, it's a 30% profit share, hehe."

Su Ziling was so happy at the thought of the 30% profit margin. She only needed to give a recipe and tell him how to make it, and then she could just lie down and collect the money. It was simply too great.

"Thirty percent is enough to buy you off? What about the chili peppers and fermented black beans? Are they free too?"

"What are you thinking!" Su Ziling glared at him. "As the saying goes, siblings should settle accounts clearly. What's more, we are godly relatives. The black beans and chili peppers should be priced accordingly. Big brother said he will never take advantage of me."

After that, he muttered quietly, "If he doesn't take advantage of me, then it's the same if I take advantage of him."

Lu Yan: "..."

"No, I have to prepare the mushroom jam and sell it in the store. As for the pickled olives, my brother said that as long as I make them, I can sell them. He will help look after the store."

"But he still has to sell the ginger and taro powder. He has his own way of doing things. It's the same every year, so it's hard to change this year. Besides, it will save me some trouble if I let him help sell it."

The more Su Ziling talked, the more restless he became. "Take Youyou and play for a while. I'll go write back to big brother." Before he finished speaking, he was already outside the door.

After writing the reply, she added the recipe and instructions into the letter and prepared all the necessary ingredients such as chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, and fermented black beans for him.

In addition to the bitter melon, some pickled vegetables, mushroom sauce, etc. were also packed. In this way, the caravan set off towards Shangjing again.

After finishing all these, it was already the end of September and time to start harvesting rice. After harvesting the rice, we started picking rice mushrooms.

Every year when the rice is ripe, a wave of rice-ripening fungi will grow in the mountains. They are bright yellow and grow in patches. You can pick up half a basket of them just by taking a stroll in the mountains.

Sweet potatoes start to be dug in October. At this time, the mushroom workshops are basically shut down and the staff are transferred to the sweet potato workshops to start the full-scale production of sweet potato flour.