After crossing over, it's hard

Li Ran and Ji Nan hurried back to Jijia Village on the last tail of the setting sun.Li Ran and Ji Nan didn't go home, they drove the ox cart directly to Ama Ji's house.From afar, I saw Xiaoyuan sitting alone in Grandma Ji's yard, and the door opened, looking lonely and pitiful.Li Ran jumped off the bullock cart and walked over quickly. When Xiao Yuan saw A Mu, he also ran over and hugged Li Ran's thigh, tears streaming down his face.Waking up this morning, Ji Xiaoyuan found that he was no longer in his own home, and cried out of fright, thinking that he was given by his father to be a foster husband.When Ji Xiaoyuan's mother ran away with someone, many people told him that his mother ran away with other wild men, and his father was going to send him to someone else as a foster husband. At that time, although he He was still young, only four years old, but these threatening words were deeply imprinted on his young heart.

Li Ran picked up Xiao Yuan, and asked softly: "What's wrong with Xiao Yuan, miss you?" This is Ji Nan driving the ox cart to stop beside Li Ran and the others, Li Ran put Xiao Yuan on the ox cart, Unpacking the burden on the bullock cart, he took out the pastries for Xiao Yuan to eat.

Aunt Ji heard movement outside, came out to look at Li Ran and the others who came back, and asked with a smile, "I'm back."

"En is back, I was in a hurry, so I didn't go shopping much, and I came back after shopping." Li Ran carried Xiaoyuan off the ox cart, and took down the things he bought.Ji Nan dismantled the cart, led the cattle to Grandma Ji's pen, and moved the cart into the yard.

Aunt Ji looked at Xiao Yuan and said, "After you left in the morning, Xiao Yuan woke up and kept crying, calling for Eunuch, and after lunch, she had to sit alone in the yard waiting for you to come back. Xiao Ran, this little girl Yuan really sticks to you."

Li Ran rubbed Xiao Yuan's head with a smile, and said, "This child will kiss me." Li Ran took out the cakes bought for Aunt Ji's house and handed them to Aunt Ji: "Here are some cakes I bought, ah Nanny, show it to Uncle Ji Dong's two children to try." These days, they often borrow Uncle Ji's ox cart, but they don't want the money, and it seems strange, so Li Ran has to buy some pastries and snacks every time. Feed them two grandchildren.Although Grandma Ji is kind and takes good care of them, everything comes and goes, and family and friendship also need to be managed. If you think that it is natural for others to treat you well, you don’t know how to give back at all, you only know how to ask for it , Gradually no one will deal with you, come and go.

Grandma Ji quickly declined, refused to answer, and said: "They are both grown up, why don't they eat snacks, take them back and give them to Xiaoyuan." Grandma Ji only had the eldest son Ji Dong's children with her, and the second son The children are all in Pingyang Town.Uncle Ji Dong and his wife had been married for more than ten years and had no children. It was not until Ji Dong was 29 years old that his husband gave birth to his first son, and four years later his second son.This year his eldest son is 13 years old and his second son is nine years old.

Seeing that Grandma Ji didn't pick it up, Li Ran went into the yard by herself and put the cakes on his dining table.Grandma Ji still wanted to stop her, but Li Ran grabbed Grandma Ji and said, "Grandma, these pastries are not worth anything. If you don't accept them, I won't dare to come to the door again. I borrow cars again and again. , you and your uncle agreed without saying a word, and the money seems alien to you, and you don’t accept it. If you don’t want these pastries, I will really dare not come to the door in the future. Grandma doesn’t want me to come to the door, that’s why Don't accept this pastry." Li Ran jokingly said to Aunt Ji.

Aunt Ji didn't stop her anymore, and patted Li Ran's hand: "Open your mouth, you really know how to say, I wish you would come to my house more, but I can say it, don't buy these things next time, wasteful What is that money for. I will thank you for the pastries on behalf of your two younger brothers."

After returning from Grandma Ji’s house, the sunset has completely set, and the sky is slightly dark. Some people in the early morning are already eating with rice bowls, and some people are cooking later. blown away, faded.Li Ran hugged Xiaoyuan, and Ji Nan took the things they bought, and the family of three returned home slowly.

When they got home, Li Ran lit the oil lamp and cooked in the kitchen, asking Ji Nan and his son to eat some snacks first.It's getting late now, Li Ran didn't do anything more, he fried the meat he bought today, heated up the leftovers from yesterday, steamed an egg custard for Xiaoyuan, and fried the leftovers, this evening It was over in one meal.

The next day, Li Ran tidied up the things he bought from Qingyun Mansion.In fact, I didn't buy anything from Qingyun Mansion, except for the most important watermelon seeds. To Li Ran's surprise, he also bought pepper seeds.Li Ran doesn't like spicy food, but the taste in Jijia Village is mild. Most of them just put some oil, water, and salt and stew it. It's very simple, and there's very little stir-frying, frying, or frying.Of course, this does not rule out that ordinary people do this in order to save fuel and salt.After all, delicious food is based on food and clothing.

In addition, Li Ran also bought potatoes and tomato seeds under the recommendation of the shopkeeper, but they are not called tomatoes here, but red fruits, firstly because the tomatoes themselves are red, and secondly because they brought the tomatoes Businessman with red hair.The shopkeeper told Li Ran that these two things were brought by the merchants from the sea. When they first brought them, no one dared to eat them. After several years, the people from the south gradually accepted them and put them on the dining table. But here in the north of them, it is still rare, and no one dares to eat it, especially the tomato, which is so red and scary, it looks like poisonous at first glance.

Li Ran also took out the vegetable seeds bought in Pingyang Town a few days ago, and prepared to scatter them on the black soil beside the pond along with watermelon seeds, chili seeds, and red fruit seeds. It's being transplanted.Such crops will grow better and taste better. This is Li Ran's experience in growing vegetables for many years in his previous life.

After returning from Qingyun Mansion, the busy farming has really started. Jinan Li Ran’s family has five acres of paddy fields. This is for planting rice. Now we need to fill the fields with water and soak them first. Then we can turn the fields plow.Li Ran's dowry is five acres of dry land, plus four acres of dry land from his family, a total of nine acres of dry land. Li Ran plans to use his five acres of dry land with sandy soil to grow watermelons, and one mu to grow potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes. Three kinds of coarse grains, one mu of wheat is planted, and the remaining two mu of land is planned to grow vegetables and sell for money. This is Li Ran's old business.Although Li Ran swears that he will grow watermelons, he is also a little scared. After all, this is another country that is not suitable for growing watermelons, and Li Ran is afraid that he will not be able to grow watermelons.So you can't put all your eggs in one basket. Li Ran believes that even if watermelons can't be grown by then, growing vegetables can support the family's livelihood.

The family has [-] acres of land, all relying on manpower, which is really tiring.Li Ran thought, it's too late this time, after this busy farming period, I must buy a cow or a donkey, and then I can make a car like Uncle Ji's, and with the car, his family will also have a cow Car or donkey cart, their family also needs such a cart, it is impossible to ask Uncle Ji's to borrow it again and again.

The paddy fields were filled with water, let him soak for a few days first, and Li Ran and Ji Nan fixed the nine acres of dry land first.When Li Ran was with his grandparents in his previous life, he was also used to doing field work. Although he stopped growing food, he was still growing vegetables, so Li Ran was very comfortable with the work in the field, and Ji Nan was also very good at it. Well done, it took the two of them four or five days to rehabilitate nine acres of dry land, just waiting for the transplanting of vegetable seedlings.What Li Ran is most worried about now is the problem of fertilizer. In ancient times, there was no fertilizer to buy. Every household used farm manure, plant ash from cooking stoves, and pig manure.But their family just moved, and they have nothing.Li Ran was really depressed. Did he really go to the mountain to chop firewood and burn it to ashes at home?

Let’s not talk about the fertilizer for now. After soaking the paddy field for a few days, Jinan Li Ran took the agricultural tools and went to turn over the paddy field. After three days of working, he was so tired that he couldn’t stand up straight. Ji Ama's land was done early, and the paddy field was done with a little ease by borrowing his cattle.After experiencing the benefits of having a cow at home, Li Ran's desire to buy a cow or a donkey became even stronger.

After finishing the fields, Ji Nan sowed the seedlings of three-thirds of the field.This was Li Ran's Grandma Ji who asked how many rice seedlings would be raised in five acres of paddy fields.After raising the seedlings, there is still more than 20 days of space in the middle, and the transplanting can only be started when the seedlings are big.The seeds that Li Ran sprinkled on the side of the portable pond germinated early. After ten days of growth, they were almost one or two inches long. The most important watermelon seedlings grew well.Li Ran was going to transplant them all.