Back home to start a farm

Qu Chi sat on the rocking chair on the balcony, calculated the income from selling vegetables these days, and hugged Xueqiu in his arms. This is a fairy day that many people envy.

Opening Moments casually, Qu Chi saw that his college classmate and shared roommate had just posted some complaints about work, so he took a few photos and sent them to his old friend who was struggling with work.

The sound of ding ding ding sounded.

A few sporadic words coupled with exclamation marks all over the screen made Qu Chi's eyes hurt from the noise.

Soon the other party sent a photo, Qu Chi looked at the big dark circles on the other party's face, and felt a little sympathy for him, thinking about sending something to reward him in a few days.

But Qu Chi hadn't been happy for long, when a few gusts of wind blew by, the sky suddenly turned cloudy, and the sound of tick-tock sounded, indicating that it was raining.

"My clothes are still drying in the yard!" Qu Chi put the snowball back and rushed downstairs.

Spring rain is as expensive as oil, moistening things silently.

Qu Chi sold the elm coins and acacia flowers outside the house, and just rested for a few days. After the spring rain, there are fresh ingredients waiting for him to pick.

In the early morning, before the sun had risen, the air washed by the rain had a damp smell. Qu Chi left the door with the basket on his back and came to the grass around the bamboo forest.The misty morning light shines on the land, gently pushing aside the green grass on the ground, and you can see patches of tea-brown bark vegetables hidden inside.

Pick up the ground vegetables with your hands, it feels soft and slippery, and you can see the sufficient moisture inside.Gently pinch with your fingers to squeeze out the moisture inside.This is an edible blue-green algae, somewhat similar to fungus, which likes to appear after rainy days.

Qu Chi put the bamboo basket on the ground and carried out a carpet search of the nearby grass.Perhaps it is usually nourished more, and compared with previous years, the ground vegetables that emerged grew larger, and the number was extremely large, almost covering the entire grassland.

It was not easy to pick these. Qu Chi half squatted on the ground and was about to take a step forward in a short while. His legs were already sore after the sun came out.

Even though there were still a lot of bark vegetables in the grass, Qu Chi had no choice but to give up with regret. This kind of cyanobacteria would quickly turn into a black skin after being exposed to sunlight.

Go home with a basket, connect a large basin of water, pour the picked ground vegetables into it, change the water back and forth several times to remove grass leaves and soil, then load it into the car, take other prepared things and drive to Bi Jiang Zhen.

Qu Chi didn't come for a few days after selling the acacia flowers. When he came back, all the street vendors greeted him, which made Qu Chi a little surprised, and said a few words to them politely.

I saw this young man selling various things at high prices before, and he was also a vegetable vendor. With a sore heart, he was able to guess his daily income very closely, which made them envious.

But Qu Chi didn't come over these few days, so they noticed the difference.The things that the little boss sells are different from them, and they are always the same. In fact, they did not steal their business, but attracted more people to the vegetable market.After these people bought the small boss's dishes, they would also buy other ordinary vegetables. It was only after these few days that their income decreased that they figured it out.

Regardless of the street vendor greeting, there are also familiar customers following behind: "Little boss, you are here, what are you going to sell this time?"

"No matter what, I'll order two catties first."

Qu Chi's car hadn't stopped yet, and he didn't even know what he was selling today, but there were already many customers gathered around.

This time the ground vegetables can't be tasted, but buyers who have eaten elm money and acacia flowers are very trustworthy, and those who hesitate a little are pushed to the back.

"There are not many ground vegetables picked this time, 25 yuan per catty, and each person is limited to one catty."

"One catty, it's a bit too little."

Everyone complained, but the complaints were useless, and they could only follow the rules of the small boss.

Qu Chi doesn’t pick many ground vegetables by himself, and there are still a lot of sediment hidden in the ground vegetables that need to be cleaned carefully, so when weighing each share, Qu Chi gave a few more vegetables. After only ten minutes, he worked hard to pick. The ground vegetables are sold cleanly.

Leaving the vegetable market, Quchi turned to the courier point with the fastest delivery speed, took out a foam box from the car, entered the courier point, filled out the form and chose expedited shipping and payment upon arrival, took a photo and sent it to a friend.

I haven't received a reply, so I guess I'm still working overtime.

Leaving the courier point and going to the oil mill, Qu Chi took out the leftover vegetables from the car, went into the house and went to the kitchen to get a basin of water to continue washing.

There was no oil press in the oil mill today, so Qu Deyun and Zhang Yun moved stools to the side to help. Zhang Yun said with a smile: "This year's ground vegetables are also very good. I will fry a plate with eggs at noon."

Qu Chi chatted with his parents while washing. After washing, he took a towel to dry the water on his hands, and said what he had been thinking about these days: "Mom and Dad, I can't stay in the village like this."

"What? Do you want to go back to work? You take a rest, take care of your health, and then find an easy job. As long as you don't work overtime day and night, your mother and I won't stop you." Qu Deyun was equally worried. The son's body, but a good child can't hold back at home every day. You see, you go to the vegetable market to sell vegetables when you have nothing to do. If the son wants to fight for the future, they must support him.

Qu Deyun and Zhang Yun thought that their son wanted to continue to go out to work, but they had no idea that he wanted to stay in the village.

"What if I want to work in the village?" Sitting in front of his parents, Qu Chi said, "I recently discovered that I still have talent in planting."

"Do you want to farm?" Qu Deyun looked at his son, frowning: "There are still a few farmers in the village, and they all go out to work because they can't make much money all year round."

It was because there was no hope for farming, so Qu Deyun and Zhang Yun borrowed money to open an oil mill, and life at home gradually improved.

Qu Chi looked into his parents' concerned eyes and said seriously: "So I want to try it in half a year. I'm still young, so even if I fail, I still have a lot of chances." There will be results, and the income at the end of the year is enough for him to rent the land in the village.

Facing their son's firm gaze, both Qu Deyun and Zhang Yun's hearts trembled.

His son has been very independent since he was a child. They have seen his eyes many times now. When he applied for schools and majors after the college entrance examination, and when he chose to work directly after graduating from university, whenever he showed such eyes, it represented his determination.

"Mom and Dad, let me make today's lunch. You can sit indoors and rest." Qu Chi walked to the kitchen with the cleaned ground vegetables, leaving a separate space for his parents to discuss.

Put rice for three people into the rice cooker, find fresh eggs in the kitchen, marinated bacon from years ago, and bamboo shoots delivered two days ago, Qu Chi plans to make a local dish with scrambled eggs and bamboo shoots and bacon. .

It is said that children from poor families start their families early. When Qu Chi was in primary school, his parents’ annual income was all from farming. When the farming season was busy, the adults could stay busy in the fields until dark.At that time, the firewood-burning ground pot was still used. Qu Chi was hungry and recalled the appearance of his parents cooking, so he put a stool under his feet and learned to cook slowly.

In terms of cooking skills, it is better than Zhang Yun, not to mention the addition of ingredients now.The scrambled eggs with ground vegetables have a lighter taste, and the fried bacon with bamboo shoots is of course more spicy and delicious. When the peppers are poured into the pot, a strong aroma bursts out from the pot.

However, the taste of the food was delicious, and Qu Deyun and Zhang Yun's thoughts were all on their son's words.

"Old Qu, let my son try it for half a year, and he will have time to find a job after half a year." Zhang Yun thought for a long time and voted for it first, but she still felt in her heart that her son would not really stay in the village.

Qu Deyun didn't think so. He clearly sensed from his son's words that his son's plans for the future had completely changed. Whether this was good or bad for his son was still unpredictable.

But even if he objected, it would be useless.

The son is so big now.

His own future is still for him to decide, and he still has the ability to help his son clean up the mess after failing in the village.

"Dad, Mom, it's time to eat!" Qu Chi shouted as he came out of the kitchen with two dishes in hand.

Qu Deyun and Zhang Yun knew each other's attitude from each other's expressions. They got up and went to the kitchen together. One person served the rice, and the other carried the bowl and chopsticks. In the small room, the figures of the three people were particularly harmonious.

With the support of his parents, Qu Chi immediately asked his father about the agricultural machinery.The family's farmland has not been planted for two years, and it needs to be plowed carefully before it can be planted.

There are quite a few stores in Bijiang Town that rent agricultural machinery, and the stores that buy oil press machines from oil mills do this business.The owner of this shop has a good relationship with Qu Deyun, and has a relationship with Aunt Wang, the neighbor next door, so Qu Chi and his preferential price booked the rental of agricultural machinery.

However, the next few days were cloudy and rainy, with light rain every day.Qu Chi went to the vegetable market to buy a few more local vegetables to restore blood to his wallet balance. After waiting for a few days, the weather finally cleared up.

On the day when the agricultural machinery entered the village, it attracted the attention of many villagers, especially the person who drove the machinery asked where Qu Deyun's family was, which reminded people of the youngest son of Qu Deyun's family who returned to the village some time ago.

Since there are fewer people in the village, there are few new things, and we can talk about this for a long time. Many people speculate why Qu Deyun's family suddenly started farming, and some people suggested that it might have something to do with Qu Chi. When they meet on the road, they should ask about it. Two sentences.

To Qu Chi, these people in the village are all busy.

Instead, most of the people who want to stay in the village are left-behind elderly people, and they can answer casually when they ask.

Although the permanent population of Xishan Village has decreased, the household registration remains in the village, and the land in the village is also divided according to the number of people, with each person having three mu of land.Qu Chi and his parents were allotted a total of nine acres, of which three acres were paddy fields, not far apart.

All three acres of paddy fields are planted with rice. Rice is usually raised in advance and then transplanted, and the seedlings are transferred to the field. In fact, they can be sown directly, but subsequent management will encounter more problems.

As for the six acres of dry land, Qu Chi chose to plant sweet potatoes, purple potatoes, taro and potatoes, and the other two acres were planted with alfalfa and timothy grass.Taro should have been planted in early spring, but it was a bit late now, but Qu Chi felt that the temperature at the foot of the mountain was already low, so the problem shouldn't be too big.

The arrival of agricultural machinery made the quiet village lively for two days, and after they left, it returned to its former tranquility.

Before waking up early in the morning, the magpies outside the window began to chirp. Qu Chi got up to say hello to the newly moved birds, fed Snowball again, and then went downstairs to do morning exercises.

Cooking porridge in the rice cooker, Qu Chi found a long water pipe, connected it to the faucet in the yard, and dragged it to the vegetable garden outside the house.There are tender green seedlings growing in the vegetable garden, Qu Chi intentionally sprinkled the seeds densely, and now he can pull some out from the densely populated areas to eat.

After pouring the water and going home to have breakfast, Qu Chi took out his phone and swiped it. He looked at the compliments on the ingredients sent by his best friend, his great desire to live in his hometown, and his sincere gratitude to him as a good brother, and then Make a small request.

[Brother, send me some more of those dishes, I will live on these dishes now! 】

Out of sympathy for the social animals who work hard every day, Qu Chi plans to send him some of the grown vegetables.

Turning off the chat software casually, Qu Chi turned to open the software that sent out the news of finding a rabbit, but there was no news for almost a month, presumably Snowball was really discarded by the owner.

Opened the last local forum, there was not even a new reply under the post, Qu Chi quit and went to the homepage, and was attracted by a post.