Of course, Youjin wouldn't put all the treasures on Lizheng's body. After delivering the goods to Yunweixuan the next day, Youjin went around the West Market for several times, and finally found a businessman in the corner who was selling puppies. The old man, and then spent twenty cents to buy four puppies with round and lovely ears, all black and shiny.
"Little girl, let me tell you, don't look at the son of a bitch in our family. They are still young. They can start looking after the home in two or three months. This son of a bitch in my family is very fierce. !" The old man sold four puppies in one go, got twenty pennies, and was naturally happy, so he said a few more words to Young Jin.
Young Jin nodded. Although these puppies looked cute now, she was confident that she would train them to be the best choice for housekeeping and nursing homes. She smiled and thanked the old man who sold the dogs, and put the puppies in the basket. He hummed a song and went home.
The puppies are still relatively cute now, and cute creatures are the easiest to get the favor of the girls. The four puppies returned to Su's house and were slapped by six pairs of claws.
Even the young silk, who had just turned three years old the day before yesterday, hugged one of the puppies tightly and refused to let go: "Eldest sister, is this for me?"
Young Jin found an old earthen pot and filled a scoop of water, and when he saw the bullied puppy huddled into a ball, he crossed his hips angrily: "Don't play, this puppy is going to be brought up to our family. Watch the house!" After saying that, he rescued the four little puppies from the crowd, which was soothing.
The sisters stood obediently under the porch and looked at the puppy who was sticking out his tongue and licking the water, his eyes gurgling. "Elder sister, do they have names?"
"Not yet, why don't you come and name them?" You Jin handed over this authority to a few children, who shook their heads with their little heads for a long time, and then you and I talked for a long time, and finally did Decide on the names of the four puppies: Wang Cai, Xiao Hei, Hei Bei, and Rhubarb.
Young Jin sighed, and it really was a name full of local flavor, but he couldn't bear to spoil the interest of a few younger sisters, so he had to grieve a few sons of a bitch.
From this day on, the Su family has added four more puppies to exercise every day. Every morning, the girls of the Su family took four puppies to run on the river base on the west side of the river, which became a special scenery line of Wuli Bridge.
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The eighth day of April is the twelfth birthday of Youjin. The Su family deliberately changed the set of Youhe's clothes that the Han family sent from Dingyuan when she left, and used it as a birthday gift for Youjin at the age of twelve.
Early this morning, You Ling You Luo also took You Silk to the back of the Su family's house to pick a lot of wild flowers and put them in the east wing. The Su family also made longevity noodles with noodles early. When You Jin returned from the market, the family happily celebrated her twelve-year-old birthday. Although there was only a bowl of longevity noodles and a bunch of wild flowers, it was still young. Jin came here for the first time for his birthday, and in his previous life, no one had given birth to him, so it would be false to say that he was not moved.
The time sequence entered April, and the weather gradually warmed up. The vegetables planted when the Su family first moved in have already been eaten one after another, and the garlic sprouts of the young golden species are also ready to eat.
On the second day after giving birth to her baby at the age of twelve, Youjin cut a basket of garlic sprouts and headed to the city. Now, not to mention Wuli Bridge, she has never seen garlic sprouts even in Luohe Prefecture. She is the only one. .
Huang Erye has been traveling all over the world for so many years. Naturally, he has eaten garlic sprouts, and he doesn't need to spend much time talking. He still wraps up her garlic sprouts and made a gentleman's agreement with her: this year, the garlic sprouts planted by the Su family can only be supplied. Yunwei Xuan.
The price offered by Second Master Huang was suitable, and You Jin would naturally not refuse. From that day on, a crop of garlic seedlings was cut and sent to Yunweixuan every two days. Busy day by day, but also saved a lot of money.
With silver, the natural thought is to buy land. But the Su family are all old and weak, women and children, so naturally they are not suitable for high-intensity food cultivation. This night, Young Jin discussed with Su Clan, and Su Clan naturally would not have any opinion.
Early the next morning, Young Jin went to He Hao's house with silver taels.
"You want to buy the depression on the west side of the river?" He Hao couldn't understand Young Jin's thoughts: "You Jin, when the depression is flooded, it will be submerged, and no food can be grown, why did you buy it? "
With a shallow smile on his face, You Jin said, "It's just that the family is short of money and can't afford fertile land, so I have to buy some wasteland."
"If you want to buy wasteland, there's not a whole piece of land on the higher side, why bother to buy that piece of lowland?" He Hao has grown crops for so many years, and naturally knows that the tidal flat is really useless. But seeing that You Jin was heading for the tidal flat, after thinking about it, he said, "Otherwise, if you buy high-level wasteland, the tidal flat and depression will be considered as your head, how about it?"
This is to give me that piece of tidal flat that is at least two or three acres! Pies fall from the sky, if you don't pick them up, you won't pick them up. However, the young gold was not in vain. In the end, he bought three mu of wasteland at the price of two taels of silver per mu, and bought four mu of tidal flat land at the price of two hundred yuan per mu. In addition to the taxes and fees for changing the red deed, it cost a total of seven or two or four dollars in the end, and Su Youjin had three more acres of wasteland and four acres of tidal flats under his name.
After buying the land, it is natural to start leveling the land. The biggest problem with wasteland is that there are too many weeds. Youjin thought of a way, and took a few younger sisters to cut a firebreak around his three acres of wasteland, and then picked a sunny day, and a fire burned all the barren weeds in his homeland.
Thick smoke filled the air, and the ashes from the burning plants fluttered in the wind. Because most of the weeds in spring are growing, it is not so easy to burn them clean. So for three or four days in a row, the villagers in Wuliqiao first saw the thick smoke coming from the west of the river and thought it was a fire burning the mountain. When they saw the thick smoke later, they knew that the Su family was burning the wasteland, and many of them were laughing. The Su family was stupid: "I don't know how long the land has been abandoned, what's the use?"
You Jin naturally doesn't care what others say, since the first time he returned to the shady side of the moso bamboo forest, Young Jin gave birth to the idea of composting. , coupled with moist rainwater, it is naturally a composting field.
Although the Su family does not have such a large composting field, there is a tidal flat. Isn't this the best composting field? The fertile river mud is ready, just waiting for You Jin and others to start composting.
Retting is actually very simple. After returning from the city every day, Youjin takes a few younger sisters to chop bamboo. All the bamboo leaves are thrown into the mudflat chosen as the composting field, and the big bamboo knots are all split open for drying. Dry as firewood, but within a few days, the front and back yard of Su's house were already full of bamboos that were already dry.
He also bought two large bundles of straw from a family in Wuliqiao for two cents, cut them slightly and threw them all into the depressions that had changed color. Then add the manure, kitchen waste, and a large basket of earthworms that Young Zhu and others had plucked from the bamboo forest, and the raw materials for composting are all ready.
After diverting water from the Wuliqiao River to submerge some of the composting raw materials in the depression, and then stirring it with the water, Xiaojin left the composting field alone. Take the sisters to slowly level the three acres of wasteland that will not be submerged.
Youyin rolled up her sleeves and wiped the sweat from her forehead, stood up straight for a rest, and asked, "Elder sister, what are we going to clean up and grow here?" Isn't the busy farming season over in the spring? Is it too late to plant something now
Young Jin looked up at the increasingly poisonous sun, licked his dry lips, and shook his head: "It's too late for us to plant grain this spring, so we'll level the ground first, and then we'll fatten the ground, and so on. Plant again in the spring of next year, and when the soil is fertile, food will be produced.”
If the soil is fertilized, there will be a good harvest. Besides, the Su family can only be regarded as a small half of the labor force, and there are several others who are very weak. If they are really rushing to plant food this spring, how can they not be exhausted
Youzhu, who was picking up grass roots next to Youyin, sat paralyzed on the ground and sighed: "Eldest sister, can't we do some side jobs? It's really not good, selling some steamed buns is better than farming!"
"Do you know how to make buns?" Youbao on the side complained silently: "Third sister, you can't even cook rice." After hearing this, Youzhu looked slightly annoyed, and glared at Youbao: "You talk too much. !"
Regardless of the small conflicts between the sisters, Youjin patiently explained a few things to the sisters: "In this world, no matter what you do to make a living, there are two things you need. One is capital. Open, how to do it? The second is technology, you don't have the technology, what's the use of money?" He walked to the field and picked up the gourd filled with water, took a sip before continuing: "Then what do we have at home now? There's nothing. Since we can't do anything else, we are farmers, so farming is the best choice, isn't it?"
Young Jin broke what he said, and several people naturally listened to it. Youzhu looked at Youjin with burning eyes, and nodded again and again: "Eldest sister, I understand."
The sisters talked for a while before continuing to work until Su sent five-year-old Youluo over to call him home for dinner, and everyone went home with the tools.
What the Su family eats the most today is bamboo shoots, and the Su family is cooking bamboo shoots stewed with bamboo rat today. Also baked a large pot of three-sided pancakes. Su's craftsmanship is good, and the pancakes are also delicious. One bite of the pancake and one bite of bamboo shoots, several sisters enjoyed eating, and they did not forget to praise Su's: "Mother's craftsmanship is getting better and better!"
With a smile, Mrs. Su gave a few small pieces of meat, and said, "How good is my craft? If I say good craftsmanship, it's my grandfather, or your grandmother, who has the best craftsmanship!" Su's hometown, That's how my grandfather's father was called.
This was the first time Su Shi mentioned her family's affairs. You Jin had never heard of her mentioning it before, so he asked, "Is my grandmother a cook?"
"I also heard from your grandfather when I was a child that my grandfather's grandmother's father used to be a royal chef in the palace, and after the fall of the previous dynasty, he fled from south to north all the way to Xiaohuai Mountain before he took root. "Xiaohuaishan Mountain in Su's mouth is where Su's family is, a small mountain village called Xiaohuaishan: "My grandmother is only my grandfather, so I have passed on all my cooking skills to my grandfather. , but your grandfather and two brothers don't have any cooking skills, so they didn't learn 50% of grandpa's."
"Did that mother learn her cooking skills from her grandmother?" Several children liked to listen to adults tell such legendary stories, and they hurriedly asked one after another when they saw that Mrs. Su had stopped.
Su Shi smiled and said, "Yeah! Your grandmother said that we have three sisters, and I followed him. I was the best at cooking, so when I was a child, I liked to take me around the stove." Speaking of himself The happy childhood time, Su Shi's eyes are full of nostalgia.
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