"That's a good relationship. Thank you, Uncle Chen. Here are two dollars. Please keep it. Please recognize my cousin and let him get it by himself tomorrow." Li Wen pulled Zhou Xiaomo and said with a smile.

"Okay, you can get out now if you have nothing to do, I have to be busy." After collecting the money, blacksmith Lao Chen had a smile on his face.

"Wow, cousin, you actually made me a hoop and a slingshot. You are so great." On the way back, Zhou Xiaomo jumped up and down excitedly.

"Let's go buy rubber bands, and let Third Brother make a slingshot for you. But you can't hit anyone. If you hit someone, I will ask my uncle to confiscate it." Li Wen warned the little guy on the way.

Then Li Wen took the little guy to the supply and marketing store and bought a few rubber bands. When the time comes, the slingshot will be built and put on.

"Awen, you are back." As soon as he walked in, his second uncle, who was sitting and smoking in the yard, greeted him with a smile.

"Uncle, cousin, you have finished work." Li Wen smiled and greeted the two of them.

"Come, sit down and talk. Awen, you are living in the county now. How is your brother Wei Guo doing lately? Has he been to your aunt's house?" Zhou Quan asked about his second son Zhou Weiguo.

Zhou Weiguo works in a flour mill, and because Li Deyou's friends Lao Wang and Lao Chen take care of him, Zhou Weiguo is given a dormitory, which is of course not a single one, but a four-person one.

"Okay, uncle, didn't I rent a house some time ago, and my brother Wei Guo went to help when we moved." Li Wen said with a smile.

"As long as he's fine, I've been doing spring plowing recently, so I've been busy so I haven't had time to go to the county to check on him." Zhou Quan knew his son was fine and nodded while smoking a cigarette.

"Xiao Mo, go and ask your sister and the others to eat, and ask them to be careful. They won't go home until the rice is cooked." The second aunt took out Li Wen's braised pork and pig blood tofu from the kitchen and put them on the table.

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"Wenzi, you are in for a treat once again." Sanzhou Baoguo, the eldest son of the second aunt's family, is 15 years old, half a year older than Li Wen.

"Third brother, if you're lucky, eat more. I'm here to bring you a lot." Li Wen and Zhou Baoguo are similar in age and they often played together when they were children.

"You two go wash your hands and eat quickly, and be careful of your skins." The second aunt said fiercely as she looked at the two daughters who walked in from the door.

"Xiao Li, Lan Lan, hurry up and wash your hands. There is something delicious for lunch today." Li Wen greeted his two cousins.

"Brother Wenzi, you will come to our house more often. When you come, all the meals my mother cooks will be white flour. You will also bring us delicious food."

Zhou Xiaomo said happily while eating soup noodle slices and a cold dish of braised pork and pig blood tofu.

"Hurry up and eat your food. According to what you said, your brother Wenzi didn't bring anything and you didn't let him come." The second aunt Li Xiufang on the side patted the back of the little guy's head and said angrily.

"That's not what I meant!" The little guy quickly explained. Seeing that no one paid attention to him, he stopped talking and continued to fight with the food.

"Aunts, you guys are here, I'm going back." After dinner, Li Wen pushed his bicycle and said goodbye to his second aunt Li Xiufang's family with the reluctance of his little cousin Zhou Xiaomo.

The contents of the car seat box had already been delivered. On the way, Li Wen took another part from the space and took out a big pumpkin.

"Xiao Wen is back. I heard from your mother that you have been living in the city during this time. You have become a city dweller!" Back in the village, Li Wen greeted some old men and ladies he met from time to time.

"Hey, we really want to become city dwellers, but we don't have an iron rice bowl!" Li Wen responded with a smile.

"Xiao Wen, why is your pumpkin so big? It weighs more than ten kilograms." A group of old men and women looked at the big pumpkin tied to the wooden box in Li Wen's back seat and said with envy.

"Xiao Wen, can you give some pumpkin seeds to grandma when the time comes?" the accountant's eighth uncle's old mother asked.

"It's okay, grandma. You can ask your children to come to my house to get seeds in the evening. This big pumpkin still has dozens of seeds." Li Wen patted the pumpkin and said with a smile.

Five or six other old people also asked Li Wen for pumpkin seeds, and Li Wen agreed.

Anyway, I can’t use all these seeds at home, so it doesn’t matter if I give some to the folks in the village.

Li Wen didn't know what was going on. People here rarely grew pumpkins. If they planted more varieties, the problem of food rations would be greatly alleviated.

"Grandma, I'm back!" Li Wen opened the door and shouted toward the door.

"Awen is back!"

The big apricot tree in the yard has bloomed, and the old lady is sweeping away the fallen petals.

"Where did you get the big pumpkin here?" The old lady raised her head and saw the big pumpkin in the back seat of the car.

"Grandma, this is a gift from a reader of my book. I'll bring it back for everyone to try. This pumpkin is so big. After eating, let's keep the seeds and plant some ourselves." Li Wen propped up his bicycle and said with a smile.

"Okay, this pumpkin is really good. It weighs more than ten kilograms." The old lady couldn't put it down while holding the pumpkin.

"Grandma, pumpkin production is huge, why doesn't anyone grow it here?" Li Wen asked his question.

"Pumpkin seeds are difficult to obtain, and the germination rate is very low. Moreover, every household only has a small amount of private land, and they all want to plant more crops."

"A single pumpkin seedling can cover the whole plot, and it will only grow a few dozen kilograms of pumpkins at most, which is not cost-effective," the old lady explained.

"Grandma, this pumpkin has a very high yield. As long as the fertilizer is applied properly, one pumpkin can produce hundreds of kilograms without any problem."

"And I thought about it. Since the land here is relatively tight, we can plant it under the eaves of the backyard and front yard. Let the pumpkin vines climb to the roof and not take up any space." Li Wen said with a smile.

Later generations When Li Wen was a child, many people in the village planted pumpkins in front of and behind their houses. However, in the new century, people had no shortage of food and clothing, and the number of people growing large pumpkins gradually became less. However, in order to pursue the taste, small pumpkins were planted instead.

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Because Sanxing Village is located in a plain area, there is plenty of land. There is no wasteland, ravines, and ridges that can be used. Even if there is, it has been reserved by the villagers.

So Li Wen planned to wait for his parents to come back to discuss planting pumpkins in the front and backyard. Let the vines climb to the roof, and the large leaves of the pumpkins can also reduce the amount of straw that hits the roof during heavy rain.

After putting the pumpkin in the kitchen, Li Wen took out braised pork and pig blood tofu from the wooden box, which made the old lady very happy.

"Grandma, what kind of farming are we doing in our village these days? Are my dad and second uncle still going to pick river workers?" Li Wen put down his bicycle and came to the yard and asked.

"I plant melons and beans around the Qingming Festival. Recently, the village is organizing the planting of some spring crops, and we continue to water the fields."

"Your father and your second uncle stopped going a few days ago. Spring has arrived, the busy farming season, and the work of raising rivers from the reservoir has stopped." The old lady told Li Wen about recent events at home and in the village.

After talking to the old lady for a while, the sixth grandmother from next door called the old lady out to chat.

Li Wen didn't go out for a walk. He got up too early in the morning. After working for a long time, he felt a little sleepy and went back to the old lady's room to take a nap.

I slept until evening, and the little ones had already gone home from school.

"Brother, you're awake! Look at Li Wen walking out of the room." Li Juan, a little girl who was playing in the yard, ran over excitedly.

"Have you been studying well recently?" Li Wen knelt down and touched the little girl's head and asked.

"I'm sure. The teacher praised me for my good handwriting a few days ago. It was because Brother Ayong was naughty at school that he called his parents." After the little girl finished talking about herself, she complained directly.
Chapter completed!