Dressed as the uncle of farming culture

"Okay, okay," Xiao Le nodded in a very face-saving way, and then continued to work with his head buried.

Xu couldn't say that, the night when he first moved into the wooden house, it started to rain.

It's not big, but Xiao Hengyi and Xiao's father, who were in a light sleep, both woke up.

The bottom of their bed was a large stone slab, separated by a layer of wood, and above it was dried and cleaned hay by Xiao's mother and Lu Wanwan. Xiao Le slept very soundly, and didn't know it was raining until he woke up the next day.

No, Xiao's father was digging stone slabs to let the water flow into the river along the stone ditch.

"It's raining." Xiao Le stood at the gate of the courtyard, frowning worriedly. He looked at the potato field, "I hope it won't be too long."

But this time it didn't stop for ten days and half a month.

Xiao Le even braved the rain to go to the potato field and use wooden sticks to run down several ditches, fearing that the stagnant water would remain in the field and the potatoes would rot.

Father Xiao and Xiao Hengyi also helped with clumsy hands, otherwise he wouldn't be able to do so much in a few days.

Because of the rain, the dried fish that had been dried earlier also had an effect. Xiao Le and the others ate dried fish soup, and when Xiao Le's face was almost green, the sky cleared.

But it was very windy.

Xiao Le stood shivering in the potato field.

In the end, I sneakily pinched a lot of clay dolls and exchanged them for sweet potatoes, which also started with sweet potatoes.

"Is this edible?"

This time it wasn't Xiao Le who "digged" it out, but Xiao Hengyi.

It has been raining for so long and the river is turbulent, so it is not easy to fish, so Xiao Heng went for a walk in the big field behind the house as soon as he had nothing to do, stomping his feet from time to time, but he felt that his feet were hurting somewhere. When I opened it, I "dig" out several big sweet potatoes.

"Eatable!"

Xiao Le picked one up in surprise and ran to the water tank to clean it, then cut it open with a stone knife, "This should be a sweet potato. It can be eaten raw or burned. The book I read It's recorded in the book."

After seeing the sweet potato meat, Xiao Le sniffed it, "There is a faint fragrance."

Father Xiao took it and smelled it, "It's more fragrant than potatoes."

"Then... try burning it?"

Lu Wanwan asked.

"Try it."

Xiao Le nodded.

So the family sat at the stove and put the sweet potatoes under the fire. About 10 minutes later, Xiao Le pulled out the smallest sweet potato.

"smell good."

Mother Xiao was surprised.

"It's very soft and sticky," Xiao Le shared a bit for each of them. Before everyone could react, Xiao Le stuffed a piece of sweet potato into his mouth, then narrowed his eyes and said happily, "It's delicious!"

He ate it all, and the family members stuffed it into their mouths without any hesitation, and everyone's eyes lit up.

"Really good."

"The indescribable taste makes me really want to eat it again."

"I found it over there, I'll go and see it again!" Xiao Heng couldn't wait for a moment, got up and picked up the simple stone pick that Xiao Le made, and went there to dig the ground.

Father Xiao also got up and went to help.

And Lu Wanwan has already carried the basket woven with dried rattan, ready to put sweet potatoes in it.

Xiao Le and Xiao's mother sat by the fire, guarding the sweet potatoes in the fire.

After feeling that the time was almost up, Xiao Le pulled out all the remaining sweet potatoes, "It's a little hot, let it cool down and eat."

"It seems that the materials on Thor's planet are not as poor as we imagined. They all grow in the ground."

Mother Xiao said.

"Yes, but many people can't figure out where they are, so they have nothing to eat," Xiao Le nodded, and after leaving two for Xiao's mother, he gave the rest to Xiao Hengyi and the others, and took a small one for himself. eat there.

"I'll trade with you."

When Xiao Heng saw that the one he was holding was a little small, he said.

"No, no, I'll burn it after you dig it out."

Xiao Le waved his hand, indicating that they can continue working after eating.

Father Xiao ate it in two or three bites, and almost choked, Xiao Le quickly brought him water.

"It's delicious, but it's a bit choking," Father Xiao said with emotion after eating the water.

"It's so soft and waxy. It must be different from the nutrient solution. The nutrient solution is liquid food, and the soil on Planet Hall has been filled with garbage. Naturally, it is not suitable for planting, but this, I think it is possible."

Xiao Le said with bright eyes.

"I also think it's okay. The soil on Thor's planet is full of microorganisms, and the nutrients are enough for these growths. As for why they didn't pop up, it may have something to do with the ground we saw."

Lu Wanwan also said that most of them are dry grass or weeds, and there are very few trees.

While discussing how to store and plant the dug sweet potatoes, they were working.

After five baskets were filled in the dry rattan basket, this piece of land was almost turned over. Xiao Le simply followed the method of planting potatoes and began to plant seeds.

"Sweet potatoes and potatoes both grow in the ground, without sprouting. I think we can try the method Xiao Le said."

Xiao Hengyi agreed.

"Try less, I'm afraid I won't survive, and I wasted so much food," Xiao's mother was more conservative.

So four large baskets of sweet potatoes were left, and the remaining basket of sweet potatoes was used for planting.

While Xiao Le used the sweet potatoes in the basket to plant seeds, he secretly stuffed them with the freshly exchanged sweet potatoes. After going back and forth like this, the basket was filled with all the plowed land.

This confuses the family members.

"Can you live like this?"

"Yes," Xiao Le said affirmatively, "Even if you can't, it's only a waste of a basket."

Although this basket is about 50 catties.

Then, under his constant "addition", I don't know how many catties I have gained.

"I always feel that the wind has been a bit strong these two days." Father Xiao didn't worry about the sweet potatoes anymore. He was worried about the weather changes. "I'm afraid it's going to be cold, we have to be prepared."

The first is food, the second is firewood.

So the family began to prepare for the winter. The men were responsible for bringing back food and firewood, and Xiao's mother and Lu Wanwan were responsible for putting the food and firewood in a place that was not damp.

"this is……"

On the eighth day, the house was already full of potatoes and sweet potatoes found by "accident", as well as dried fish made by Xiao Hengyi and Xiao's father. When the three of them went to carry firewood in the distance, Xiao Le smelled a faint scent of grass, and he followed this smell to a place 10 minutes away.

Looking at the dark thing in front of him, he became thoughtful.

"Xiao Le?"

Xiao Hengyi, who saw no one, shouted.

Xiao Le quickly got up and waved at them, shouting, "I'm here! I found something new!"

Xiao's father and Xiao Heng hurried to Xiao Le's side, so it turned into three people contemplating around the lump.

"Is this the popular agarwood at the auction?"

Father Xiao said.

"...The Chen Xiang at the auction is not so ugly."

Xiao Hengyi retorted.

"Won't it look good after post-processing? It's also good to take it back to fumigate the house."

So Xiao Le saw that Father Xiao started directly, picked up the thing, and tapped lightly on the nearby stone, "Look, how heavy it is."

Xiao Le silently swallowed what he wanted to say, and found a few lumps nearby, but instead of directly using his hands, he picked up some hay and wrapped them up and took them away.

After returning home, while Xiao's father and Xiao Heng were arranging firewood, Xiao Le went to get a fire, then directly lit the hay he brought back, and threw a lump of that thing into it.

"Did you burn the incense?"

In Xiao Hengyi, they smelled the fragrance getting stronger and stronger, walked over to take a look, and saw that thing was burning in the fire, and it could be seen with the naked eye that this thing was very inflammable. not bad.

"I think so," Xiao Le's throat twitched, and he whispered to his family members, "This is not Chen Xiang."

Lu Wanwan squatted in front of the pile of things that hadn't been thrown into the fire, looked carefully, and nodded to confirm, "This is not agarwood, if I guess correctly, it is the excrement of a certain herbivore."

Xiao's mother and Xiao's father's expressions suddenly changed, and they immediately stepped back a few steps. The fragrance that they thought was good before seemed to stink.

Xiao Heng glanced at Father Xiao who had an ugly face, squatted down to look at it holding back a smile, "I always thought it wasn't Chen Xiang, but old Mr. Xiao said it was, and I can't refute it."

"..." A certain old comrade Xiao was speechless.

"I heard from my brother that on the grasslands of the planet Amu, some people used this kind of excrement as firewood, and it is also very resistant to burning. I think we have found better firewood."

Lu Wanwan couldn't hide her surprise.

Mother Xiao said with difficulty when she heard the words, "But this...is excrement..."

Are you comfortable with the smell?

"It's completely dried, it's part of the soil, it doesn't have that...dirty smell, even if it's burned, it won't have a peculiar smell, instead it smells like green grass, mom, dad, don't worry, It's good stuff."

Lu Wanwan talked about the benefits of this thing again, and at the end of hearing it, Xiao's mother pushed Xiao's father, "Go and pick some up tomorrow, it's better than firewood."

Father Xiao nodded silently.

The thing that Xiao Le burned didn't go out until they were going to sleep.

Now Father Xiao couldn't stop nodding, "It's really good."

So in the following days, Xiao Le and the others started looking for this thing again, and Xiao's mother named them Burning Incense.

"We all forgot one thing," Xiao Le suddenly mentioned while on the road one day, "There is such a big burning incense, so the grass-eating animals are also big, right? Then...can I eat it?"

Hearing this, Father Xiao and others stopped in their tracks and looked over.

Xiao Le blinked, "Did I... say something wrong?"

"No," Xiao Heng shook his head, and patted Xiao Le's shoulder with a complicated expression, "I just felt emotional for a moment. In the past, when you mentioned animals, you always thought about how to protect them, how to get close to them, and how to tease them. Now..."

"Am I the only one who thinks so?"

Xiao Le was a little ashamed.

Unexpectedly, Father Xiao also nodded, "You are right, but the incense has been dried and there is no fresh one, which means they have left long ago."

"It's a pity," Xiao Le felt that the meat in his mouth was gone.

Xiao Heng laughed.

There were too many incense sticks picked up, so they built another simple house for burning incense. Before the house was fully filled, it snowed.

The family closed the wooden door tightly, listening to the sound of wind and snow blowing outside, Xiao Le was not only emotional.

"It's a good thing we have stone walls, otherwise our wooden house would be miserable."