Red House Farm Stay

"The past few years have been good, and life in Liujia Village has been better. Those who have free labor in the family are willing to be sent to the city as apprentices. No matter how bad it is, there is a way to help others."

After hearing Qing'er finished speaking, Jia Zhuo suddenly realized that life in Liujia Village was much better than that of Grandma Liu's family. Except for chopping firewood or children playing games, almost no one went to Xiaoxishan.It is probably the only one that picks wild vegetables like them every day.

"Dad used to go to the city to do part-time jobs during the slack season." Qing'er recalled the past, and thought that every time Dad came back from the city, he would bring back [-] cents of jaggery and distribute it to her and her brother.A small piece is as big as a finger, and when you put it in your mouth, it can be sweet for a day.She put it on the bedside and ate it very carefully, but she still finished it, and she left the brown paper wrapping the sugar for a long time.

Later, when the family got rich, Dad brought back more things from the city.Hair-tying velvet flowers, white fungus, and fans specially made for girls with fragrance.Thinking of this, she raised her chin and looked back in the direction of Xianghe Village, which was her home.

"Will you go to the city to do part-time jobs? What will you do?" Jia Zhuo was curious.

Unexpectedly, Qing'er shook her head, "I don't know, I only know that once Mother got very angry, Daddy stopped going."

When they got back, Grandma Liu asked them to wash their hands and go learn how to make a net from Mrs. Liu.

After studying for a few days, the talents of the two people showed a difference.Qing'er is dexterous, and he can master it as soon as he learns it. The places that should be tight are tight, and the places that should be loose are loose and flat.

Jia Zhuo is not slow to learn, even faster than Qing'er to understand, but the net made is loose where it should be tight and tight where it should be loose.The same is a peach, Qing'er bears smooth peaches, and Jia Zhuo bears crooked peaches with ten or eight pits on the surface.

Experts will know if they have it as soon as they get started. Grandma Liu looked at the things of the two of them and said: "This talent, each person has a different style, once you learn it, you will know whether it is this material. If it is not this material, you have to work hard. It's just that the hard work depends on whether it's worth it. Like tailoring and making shoes, no matter whether you have talent or not, living at home, how can you not, you must put in the hard work. Embroidery, there will be benefits , there will be no benefits.”

"Won't it be good too?" Jia Zhuo didn't understand, isn't there more than one way to make money?

"Stupid child, there are hundreds of people, all kinds of people, who live on their wives and rely on their wives to support men, how many years are there?" Grandma didn't want to say these words, but she was already at this age, and the two children were both ignorant. At an ignorant age, if you blindly be led into a submissive and obedient way, you don't know how much trouble you will suffer in the future.

When she can speak, she must tell them that people and things in this world are not as simple as you think.

Qing'er was still ignorant, Jia Zhuo said: "Grandma, don't worry, Qing'er and I will not be the kind of fools who are sold and count the money."

"Okay, okay, grandma knows that our little Zhuo can understand." Grandma Liu looked at it with a smile. If Jia Zhuo was there, Qing'er would be a fool in the future, and there would be someone who could grab her, so she was relieved.

"Let's take a break. Tomorrow, I will go to the city with Ban'er, send the woven cloth to the shop, change the embroidery thread and the shed, and come back. I will teach you how to divide the thread first, and then I will teach you how to embroider in a few days. When the vegetable garden at home can be harvested, there is no need to run to Xiaoxi Mountain, and it will be useless to teach you the skills if you don’t practice.”

Mrs. Liu's own skills are only mediocre, and she doesn't expect to teach an embroiderer. When the girl grows up, she has to learn what she should know, but that's all her intention.

When the two younger ones went out, Mrs. Liu said angrily, "Mother, they are still young, what are you talking about?"

Grandma Liu reached out and nodded at her, but said nothing, thinking, if it wasn't for worrying about you, why would I bother to say these things.

In a few days, the cabbage in the vegetable garden can be harvested. This thing is easy to feed, and it can be harvested in a month. If you eat and harvest now, and then plant new ones along the way, there will always be vegetables to harvest in the vegetable garden.

Finally, there are refreshing green vegetables. When Jia Zhuo took the first bite, he couldn't wait to cheer.This is the real green vegetable, much tastier than any wild vegetable.Those who say that wild vegetables are delicious, try to eat wild vegetables boiled in water for a month, they are really delicious to that extent, if you have entered the vegetable garden early, do you still need them as wild vegetables?

In a month's time, the corn has grown to the height of a person, and each one is green, supporting the big leaves, which is very spectacular from a distance.Even Wang Gou'er came to see it several times out of curiosity, but still couldn't figure out what kind of species it was.

More than half a month passed, and early in the morning, she was woken up by the sound outside, and just sat up rubbing her eyes when she heard a knock on the door.

Qing'er jumped down and opened the door, only to see Ban'er excitedly saying: "It's blooming, it's blooming, it's really blooming."

Jia Zhuo, who was sitting on the bed, was shocked, turned over and jumped out of the bed. He didn't even have time to put on his shoes, so he ran to the backyard with bare feet.

The tall stems, the green leaves rustle with the morning breeze, and a bunch of flower spikes emerge from the tops of many stems.It was also the first time for Jia Zhuo to see corn flowering, and he wanted to touch it but was reluctant, so he just stood there, unable to get enough of it no matter how much he raised his face.

Both Ban'er and Qing'er rushed over. Qing'er looked at the cornflowers and at sister Zhuo's face, but couldn't figure out why such a flower bloomed.

"It's great, it's great, if it blooms, it will bear fruit, you say, don't you?" Jia Zhuo smiled, his eyes were still glued to the corn stalks, and he refused to come down.

Ban'er and Qing'er looked at each other, thinking, it doesn't count the blooming, but the fruiting.Flowers are like this, what kind of fruit they can bear, really don't have to look forward to it.

Jia Zhuo didn't care, just recited the relevant knowledge silently in his heart, corn is hermaphroditic, male flowers bloom first and then female flowers, and then ear and bear fruit until they mature.

"Of course it can. If it blooms, it will bear fruit." Seeing Jia Zhuo turning his head, Baner looked at him hopefully, and nodded sharply.

Jia Zhuo smiled, his eyes narrowed, and he even grinned to reveal a mouthful of white teeth.Ban'er blushed, looked around with his eyes, and finally found a bucket of fertilizer water in the corner, made an excuse and stepped back a few steps: "I'm going to fertilize, and when the flowers bloom, you must fertilize well, so that the fruit will bear good fruit." .”

"I'm coming too." Just as Jia Zhuo took a step, Qing'er stopped him.

"Sister Zhuo, you're not wearing shoes..."

"Ah, shoes, shoes..." Jia Zhuo realized that his feet were bare. No wonder he felt that something was wrong. It turned out that the stones on the ground hit the soles of his feet, causing pain and pain.

Qing'er twitched the corner of her mouth and swallowed the words "you didn't wash your face".Seeing her running back quickly, I don't know why, but I looked back at my elder brother. Could it be her illusion?Why does it always feel like the eldest brother is relieved.

There are only 27 corn plants that can survive to flowering. Because of poor grasp of the degree of drought and flood, some of them died because of too much water, and some died of too little water. up.I don't know how many plants will be left when the final fruit is produced, and whether the fruit produced is normal.

After washing his face, Jia Zhuo and Qing'er divided the work, one watering the vegetable garden and the other feeding the chickens.When they were about to carry the water, Ban'er had already picked up the water and poured it into the tank without saying a word.

Instead of going to Xiaoxishan, the afternoon is spent learning embroidery, tailoring and making shoes.Embroidery and netting completely hit Jia Zhuo's determination to dedicate himself to ancient skills.

It's fine if you can't play the net well, but the embroidery is even worse.I embroidered a piece of the simplest bamboo leaf, and the two girls embroidered it together. Qing'er only looked at the leaf and not the veil, as if it was alive.And what she embroidered, not to mention the bamboo leaves, only made people see a green wooden stake. Liu Shi saw it and was very angry.

Mrs. Liu didn't say anything, but took her needle and thread, "Go and play, don't waste things."

"Hey." Jia Zhuo replied loudly, without any embarrassment at all. With all her hard work, she might as well go to water the vegetable garden.

The 27 stalks of corn were eared smoothly, revealing small cobs wrapped in green clothes.Jia Zhuo endured a lot of hard work, so he didn't peel the skin to see how the core inside was.

"This thing is really watery. If you don't pay attention, the leaves will curl up. When the fruit hangs, you need to fertilize more, otherwise the fruit will not grow strong." Grandma Liu was pulling weeds in the vegetable garden. When she saw Jia Zhuo coming, Pointing to the corn stalks to teach her farming experience.

"When the corn grows, let's add another meal." Jia Zhuo waved her hand proudly, and she would come to count every day. There is usually one fruit on a corn stalk, and some can hang two fruits.A total of 39 fruits were produced, which she remembered clearly.

"Is this really edible?" Grandma Liu smiled and threw the weeds aside, clapped her hands, and came over to have a closer look. In her old age, she had never seen such a thing.Moreover, only one or two fruits are hung on a pole, which is really precious.

"It's really edible. Once this batch is harvested, I can plant another batch immediately, and I can harvest two seasons a year." Whether it is really feasible or not, Jia Zhuo can't guarantee it, but since the book says it can, she will ready to try.

"Okay, okay." Grandma Liu walked away with her hands behind her back. In her eyes, these are purely children's playthings and cannot be taken seriously.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and in early summer, I was going to deliver tea to the fields in the afternoon. Jia Zhuo stopped Grandma Liu and took over the job.

It was not the first time she delivered things to the field, and she kept her eyes on.Without him, when the weather is hot, some people just wear a small coat and work in the field with their arms bare.

That's all there is to it, how can the people who work pay so much attention.But when some people see the older girl and the younger daughter-in-law approaching, they deliberately sway past you with their arms shirtless, and their faces turn red when they are shocked, and then they are very proud. to heaven.