Start being a Shennong today

"Okay, okay, I'll call you Tingzhou, come in and sit down quickly." Tao Shengwen led the guests into the main room, and asked Tao Ran to make a cup of hot tea.After the two exchanged pleasantries, Tao Ran asked his father, "Why isn't my mother here? Did you leave the house alone?" When Tao Ran came back, only his father was at home, and his mother, Tian Yuxia, was nowhere to be seen.

"Your mother went to sell snowflake cakes under the Peach King Tree. Why, didn't you see it when you came back today?" Tao Shengwen took out the chilled strawberries from the refrigerator and brought them to Li Tingzhou: "Tingzhou, try the strawberries grown by Tao Ran. , I don’t know where he got the new variety, it tastes quite good.”

"I took the small road home today and didn't go to Peach King's. My mother is selling there alone, why don't you buy one?" Tao Ran didn't go on the main road today, so she was worried that the villagers who were curious would ask I had to introduce Li Tingzhou to them one by one, so I took a detour and went home.

"It's not because of your strawberries. Recently, the strawberries you planted have become more and more popular. Every day, outsiders come to buy them. Those people are hard to get rid of. Your mother dislikes those people and disturbs the villagers under the peach king tree. You let me Come back and deal with them at home." Tao Shengwen was a little annoyed when he said this, and just about to take out a cigarette from his pocket and put it down again, he recently started to quit smoking again.

"No wonder people want to buy it. I haven't tasted better strawberries than this one. Tao Ran is really amazing. He can grow such delicious strawberries." After tasting the strawberries in Taoyuan, Li Tingzhou realized that Li Yuan's words sometimes It's really not that exaggerated. Compared with Taoyuan strawberries, all the strawberries in the world can't be eaten.And he felt that it was not only the seeds, but also the water and soil of Taoyuan Village, and even Tao Ran's special cultivation method to grow such strawberries.

Tao Shengwen was even happier when he heard Li Tingzhou's praise. He likes others to praise his son, which makes people happier than himself, and he is much more enthusiastic about Li Tingzhou.

Tao Ran didn't get involved in the chat between the two, but fell into his own thoughts, thinking about the increasing number of outsiders, and still thinking about how to further develop Taoyuan Village.Suddenly a burst of laughter interrupted him, and he came back to his senses. It turned out that Tao Shengwen laughed heartily after hearing what Li Tingzhou said.

"Hahaha, then I want to try your handicraft at noon." Tao Shengwen was also a little surprised when he heard Li Tingzhou said that he opened a small restaurant. This person doesn't look like a cook.However, as the chat gradually deepened, the two became closer. Tao Shengwen was not polite at all, and began to regard Li Tingzhou as his junior.

It was almost noon now, and Tian Yuxia returned home with an empty snowflake bamboo basket.As soon as I entered the door, I saw a strange figure.She thought it was another outsider who came to buy strawberries and was going to hide, but the sharp-eyed Tao Ran spotted it in time and stopped him: "Mom, I brought my friends back!"

Tian Yuxia's footsteps paused, she turned to the side as if nothing had happened, put the bamboo basket in the kitchen, and then slowly replied: "I knew you were back, so why make a fuss, don't treat the guests I'm scared."

After speaking, Tian Yuxia washed her hands carefully. On the way back, she helped a child who ran and fell in the village just now. Now her hands are covered with dust, so she can go out to entertain guests after washing her hands.After wiping her hands with a clean towel, Tian Yuxia walked to the living room, and she saw Li Tingzhou the first time she entered the door. This person is very conspicuous, standing in the crowd can immediately attract the attention of others.

Li Tingzhou saw a middle-aged woman in a light gray cotton suit with her hair pulled up. She looked very clean and neat as she walked in, so she knew it was Tao Ran's mother: "Hello, Auntie, my name is Li Tingzhou, and I'm Tao Ran's roommate, Li Tingzhou. My distant cousin, when Tao Ran returned to school this time, I heard him talk about the scenery of Taoyuan Village, so I wanted to come and see it."

"You are Li Zi's cousin, you can just treat this as your own home, you are welcome, I will cook you something delicious at noon." Tian Yuxia also remembers Li Yuan all the time, and sometimes Li Yuan will interrupt when chatting with her son Say something.

"Don't play tricks in front of Guan Gong. Ting Zhou is a chef. He said he would show us his skills at noon."

"Hey, there are people like you who let guests come to cook. Also, why are you so happy? Do you dislike my craftsmanship? Or are you tired of eating?" Tao Shengwen was so angry that Tian Yuxia Yes, a series of questions were uttered.

Li Tingzhou saw that the situation was not right, and his proposal was about to trigger a family battle, so he hurriedly stopped him: "Auntie, I offered to cook for you. I opened a small restaurant and thought it was my own. The craftsmanship is not bad. Living in your house during this time has bothered you too much, and I didn’t bring any gifts here, so I can only let you taste my craftsmanship.”

"You are too polite. You are Ranran's friend. We welcome you to live here casually. But you really run a restaurant, so you can't tell." Under Li Tingzhou's repeated explanation, Tian Yuxia talked with Li Tingzhou again After a lot of tips about growing vegetables, I realized that this guy really knows how to cook, and he should be very proficient, and I am still looking forward to today's lunch.

As for why she was angry just now, she didn't seem to remember.

Tao Ran couldn't help admiring Li Tingzhou who had completely wiped out the upcoming war at home with just a few words.Seeing that cooking was about to be done, he took Li Tingzhou out to pick vegetables and took him to see Taoyuan Village.

As soon as he went out, Tao Ran led Li Tingzhou to Taoshan.It is almost January now, but today is a rare sunny day.The soft sun is shining on the body, warming the body.Tao Ran and Li Tingzhou were both wearing sweaters and simple thick coats, which were warm and did not hinder their movements. They walked briskly and slowly up.

Now people in the village are reluctant to let outsiders go to Taoshan, mainly because they are afraid that they will pollute the Shennong spring.People in Taoyuan Village regard Shennong Spring as a gift from Shennong. Even young children are taught to cherish Shennong Spring, but people outside the village don't think so.

Although a sign prohibiting pollution has been erected beside the spring, and people from Taoyuan Village take turns guarding it spontaneously, there will still be negligence.These measures can prevent adults who can read, but it is difficult to prevent ignorant children.During the period when strawberries were first sold, a Taoyuan villager stopped a foreign child who almost polluted the Shennong Spring, and ended up having a quarrel with the bear’s parents who protected the bear child. The villagers collectively decided to prohibit people from other villages from going to Taoshan went up.

Now the only way for outsiders to obtain the water in the Shennong Spring is to ask the villagers of Taoyuan to help them to collect water from the mountain and then take it down.It's like Wang Weijun and Guye, two old men who are familiar with Tao Ran's family, and often exchange tea drinking experience with Tao Shengwen, and ask Tao Shengwen to help fetch Shennong spring water every time.

And Tao Ran was quite familiar to the Taoyuan villagers, and there were still anecdotes about Tao Ran, Shennong Temple and Shennong Spring in Taoyuan Village.Now seeing Tao Ran walking towards Shennong Spring with a stranger, the villagers who volunteered to guard Shennong Spring greeted Tao Ran without even asking.It is unfair to let other villagers who cannot get close to Shennong Spring know about the differential treatment.

After Li Tingzhou took a sip of Shennong Spring, he only felt that the spring water was sweet, much better than all the famous mountain springs he had drunk, leaving only the good water and soil of Taoyuan Village in his heart.Li Tingzhou's attraction was completely attracted by the vegetable field beside Shennong Spring. The green lettuce, white and yellow Chinese cabbage, spinach, lettuce, and radish all looked very beautiful.

Watching Li Tingzhou go straight to the lettuce produced by the system, he couldn't help but wonder if the cooks are good at identifying the best ingredients, so he followed with the bamboo baskets for vegetables.Although these vegetables are grown with Shennong spring water, only the lettuce seeds are produced by the Shennong system. Although the other vegetables taste good, they are still a bit inferior to lettuce.

This batch of lettuce was only planted a few days before Tao Ran went to school, so it's only been a week now.Even if the growth cycle of lettuce is short, and the growth time of the system will be shortened, but in just one week, it is only enough for the lettuce to germinate and grow to the length of a little finger, which is considered a very hard work.

Li Tingzhou also realized that the lettuce was not ready to eat, so he could only regretfully give up the lettuce and turn to other vegetables.These Chinese cabbage grow very well, the plants are compact, the bottom is white and the top is yellow. The yellow color is like a new sprout. When Li Tingzhou pinches it lightly, the juice will flow out, fresh and crisp.Li Tingzhou chose a big one, enough for four people to eat.

Gently pull out a radish, let Tao Ran see that it is almost the same as the popular radish at Tao Zhu's house.They were all unearthed without mud, with distinct blue and white colors, without any scars, but seeing Li Tingzhou carefully put the radishes into the bamboo basket, one knew that he was very satisfied.

The spinach and lettuce that followed surprised Li Tingzhou. The quality of these vegetables exceeded his expectations. This place is simply a chef's paradise.After carefully selecting vegetables enough to feed four people, Li Tingzhou took a few more glances at the ungrown lettuce, and then sadly picked up the bamboo basket and left Taoshan together with Tao Ran.

Seeing Li Tingzhou looking at the lettuce reluctantly, turning his head three times at a step, Tao Ran felt that Li Tingzhou looked very cute like this.

The middle-aged man saw that everyone was staring at him, but he was a little proud: "Do you see how many strawberries are there in this basket? Do you have 70? It's only 150 yuan, and only 2 yuan is a strawberry for a fool to buy. He looked at everyone with a look of "everyone is drunk and I am alone".

When he said this, he directly offended the four people who had bought strawberries.Wang Weijun was so angry that he was about to speak when he was patted on the shoulder by Tao Ran. He was taken aback for a moment, and Tao Ran walked past him to the front of the crowd.

Tao Ran looked directly at the middle-aged man in the crowd. The middle-aged man couldn't help but took a step back, and said confidently, "What are you looking at? You are a profiteer and don't let anyone tell you." Then he looked at Wang Weijun Four people: "You four are their trustees, no wonder they kept boasting along the way."