Ma Defu rubbed his swollen head and squinted his eyes and glanced out the window. It was already daybreak, and warm sunlight filtered through the wooden bed into the house. Looking around, he saw that the place he was currently in was clearly a new house.
However, no matter how much he recalled, he could not remember how he got here.
Where's the splash?
Squeak.
At this moment, the wooden door of the room slowly opened, and Shui Hua walked in with a porcelain bowl in her hand. When she saw Ma Defu wake up, she smiled softly.
"Are you awake? Come on, let's drink some hot soup to warm your stomach."
"sorry."
Ma Defu propped up his body and apologized to Shui Hua embarrassedly. After all, last night was the wedding night, but he was so drunk that he ignored Shui Hua. Even though there were various reasons, he felt that this
He was not right about the situation after all.
"What's there to be sorry for?"
Shui Hua shook her head, not minding what happened last night at all. Under the circumstances like yesterday, there was no reason for anyone not to be drunk.
"Come on, drink this bowl of soup quickly."
"Um."
While he was getting dressed, Shuihua had already placed a steaming porcelain bowl on the small table on the kang. Ma Defu lowered his head and saw that it was a bowl of haggis soup. The soup base was white and thick, with bones and mutton inside.
There are haggis and sheep blood.
Ma Defu knew at a glance that this was Shuihua's specialty. This soup must be stewed with the bones. After a night of slow simmering on a low fire, fifteen minutes before starting the pot, just sprinkle a handful of salt to enhance the freshness. As for the rest,
Seasonings and everything else are superfluous.
After a night of simmering, all the essence is concentrated in the soup. Drinking it in one sip can make people lose their soul without any unnecessary smell.
After drinking this bowl of thick soup full of love, Ma Defu couldn't help but show an expression of great enjoyment on his face.
That’s the flavor!
After thinking about it for a long time, Ma Defu put down his bowl and chopsticks and looked down at the time.
This sight frightened him greatly. It turned out that it was already past ten o'clock, almost eleven o'clock.
"Have you finished drinking?"
Shui Hua walked in from outside the house again and saw the empty porcelain bowl on the table. She couldn't help but smile. For those who cook, who doesn't like those who eat to eat the food cleanly?
"Come, wash your face, we have to go... to... dad's place later."
As he spoke, Shui Hua's face gradually became flushed, and his voice became lower and lower, especially the word 'Dad', which was even more inaudible.
Obviously, she has not been able to adapt to her new identity.
"Yes."
After Shui Hua reminded him, Ma Defu finally remembered that there was such a thing.
A few minutes later, Ma Defu wiped his face, put on new clothes, and walked out of the courtyard holding Shui Hua's hand.
Ma Defu now lives in a new house that was just built some time ago. It is located in the south of the village, not far from his original home. It only takes two or three minutes to walk there.
"Dad, Mom, um, you're back."
Before he even stepped into the courtyard, Ma Defu shouted loudly towards the courtyard.
"elder brother!"
When the younger sister Ma Dehua heard her brother's voice, she immediately ran out of the courtyard with her short legs, jumping and running towards Ma Defu with her arms spread wide.
"Ouch."
Ma Dehua threw herself into Ma Defu's arms. Because she rushed so hard, she almost knocked Ma Defu off his feet.
After being picked up by her brother, Ma Dehua smiled sweetly at Shui Hua and said.
"Hello, sister-in-law."
"you're good too."
Shuihua smiled and rubbed Dehua's little head, then glanced at the open courtyard door. She didn't know why, she wasn't nervous at all before, but after Dehua called her "sister-in-law", her
Instead, my heart lifted.
"Defu is back?"
Suddenly, Defu's mother appeared at the door. She looked at the two newcomers with a smile on her face and looked back and forth between them.
"Quick, Splash, come in and sit down."
Ma Defu shouted very naturally.
"mom."
Although Shui Hua's reaction was half a beat slow, she still shouted out the word "Mom".
"mom"
During the conversation, Defu's mother walked up to the two of them with unusual enthusiasm, grabbed Shui Hua and started to walk into the yard.
"Okay, okay, good boy, come in with mom quickly."
Walking into the yard, Ma Defu looked around and couldn't find his father, so he couldn't help but wonder.
"Mom, where's dad?"
Defu's mother looked at the water splash intently and said without turning her head: "Your father and your brother went to the farm next door."
Ma Defu said unexpectedly: "Go to the farm?"
"Well, the seeds I ordered a few days ago arrived. Debao drove a tractor and drove there early in the morning with your dad."
seed?
What seeds?
Ma Defu couldn't help but secretly wonder why no one had ever told him about this.
"What kind of seeds are there?"
Defu Ma casually said: "Licorice."
"Licorice?"
Defu's mother heard the confusion in her son's words and turned her head in surprise.
"Yes, it's licorice, what? You don't know licorice?"
"..."
Ma Defu is a serious agricultural school graduate, how could he not know about licorice?
As we all know, Ning Province has five treasures: red, yellow, blue, white, and black. Among them, the yellow treasure is licorice, and the other four treasures are wolfberry (red), tan sheepskin (white), Helan stone (blue), and Nostoc (black).
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Licorice, also known as sweet grass, sweet root, and Ural licorice, is a perennial herb and a tonic traditional Chinese medicine. Its roots and stems can be used as medicine. It mostly grows in arid and semi-arid desert grasslands, desert edges and loess.
Hilly areas.
The Yuquanying area happens to be a transition zone from arid to semi-arid, and its climate is very suitable for the cultivation of licorice.
However, licorice is a perennial herbaceous plant. If it is planted directly, it will not be harvested until the fourth year. Even if it is transplanted, it will take 2-3 years of planting.
2-3 years, the harvest period is too long, and compared to the extensively grown potatoes, corn, and licorice, it is also a bit delicate.
Although the teacher once mentioned licorice cultivation during his studies at school, licorice is a medicinal material after all, and it is not in line with the professional direction of the agricultural school. The teachers only glanced at it, so Ma Defu did not have a particularly in-depth understanding of licorice cultivation.
It was precisely because of his uncertainty that Ma Defu never proposed planting licorice.
What he didn't expect was that his father would quietly order a batch of licorice seeds.
Does dad know how to grow licorice?
Ma Defu thought carefully for a long time, but he didn't find that his father had ever learned to grow licorice in his memory.
On the other side, at the state-owned farm, after delivering the licorice seeds, with the help of the delivery personnel, Li Jie and Ma Debao successfully loaded a truck full of seeds onto the tractor's dump bucket, preparing to set off and rush back to Jintan Village.