Tian Jing buried the seeds in the wooden box while talking to Sister Niu, "Sister Niu, the reason why I use the box to grow pumpkins is not only because the soil has been sifted, but also because when the sun sets in the evening, I will move the box into the house.
, and then move it out when the temperature outside is suitable during the day."
"After the pumpkin climbs the vine, insert thin bamboo branches on the edge of the box to make a climbing frame. The box can still be moved in and out. If the planting is successful, there will be pumpkins or other vegetables to eat in the winter."
Tian Jing pushed Sister Niu with her mouth wide open, "Do you understand?"
Sister Niu came to her senses and said, "I understand, I understand. As you said, I can grow whatever I want, right?"
"That's right. It also depends on whether the sifted soil is strong enough, and because it has to be moved into the house, farmyard manure cannot be used."
Tian Jing said in advance that if farmyard fertilizer was used, he would not be able to move into the house.
"That's definitely not possible. Use plant ash. By the way, you didn't mix the plant ash into the soil just now."
I want to use supernatural power, what kind of plant ash to use? "When I use plant ashes to turn water, it will be the same for watering during the day. I'm afraid the ratio is wrong and the seeds will be burned."
"That's that, that's that." Sister-in-law Niu agreed. Seeing Li Min carrying a few more dung baskets of soil, she was busy and wanted to help sift the soil.
Tian Jing looked at the sky and urged her to go home, "Sister-in-law Niu, just let Li Min and I do this. Go back quickly and come back to see the starch tomorrow morning."
"Okay." Sister-in-law Niu was also anxious to go home and cook.
"By the way, does Mrs. Niu have some garlic at her house? Let's exchange the pumpkin for ten heads?"
"No, no, I'll just bring you a few tomorrow."
Sister-in-law Niu felt that she had learned a lot from Tian Jing. A dozen heads of garlic were nothing.
But she couldn't resist Tian Jing's insistence, so she could only go home with a pumpkin weighing about ten kilograms.
Li Min doesn't understand.
Tian Jing glanced at her lightly, "What you see is that she is learning skills from me, but what others see is that she is helping me."
"The skills she learned will not be effective for a while, and it is true that she helped with the work, and it is also true that the time has exceeded the cooking time. If she goes back empty-handed, she will not be scolded by her mother-in-law? Or scolded by a man?"
"Tomorrow, if she gives me garlic again, will it cause greater conflicts and misunderstandings? If so, will you feel better? Will it be easy to interact with her in the future?"
Li Min was taught to lower her head.
"Go and heat the pork liver and steam the pumpkin."
Tian Jing asked Li Min to do some work, and continued to sift the soil to grow pumpkins.
…
When Mrs. Niu was making sweet potato noodles, her mother-in-law, Mrs. Niu, looked a little ugly.
After the eldest daughter-in-law finished her work, she left again. It was already past the cooking time. Before she came home, Aunt Niu's face dropped. She stood waiting outside the gate of the fenced yard. She wanted to see the eldest son.
Wife, do you still want this home?
Sister-in-law Niu, who saw her mother-in-law in the distance, lowered her head and looked at the pumpkin in her hands, and suddenly understood why Tian Jing had exchanged the pumpkin for garlic.
Who doesn’t have a few braids of garlic? Of course, except for the most difficult Li family, Tian Jing knew that she came home late and it was hard to explain.
"mother."
Sister-in-law Niu brought the pumpkin to her mother-in-law, "Tian Jing asked me to bring it back for my mother to try. Tian Jing is Zheng Guo's little wife. She asked me to bring some garlic over tomorrow and said I would help her make it."
It took half a day's work."
"Actually, mother, you also know, why am I here to help? I am totally shameless to learn other people's craftsmanship."
"Tian Jing has no objection. She taught me clearly that when the slurry water settles tomorrow morning, I can dig it out and dry it. She also said that after it is dried, she will teach me and Li Min how to make sweet potato vermicelli."
"The sweet potato vermicelli can be cooked with cabbage and tofu. It can also be collected and eaten slowly after drying. When the harvest is harvested in which year, won't the sweet potatoes that come back from being dug out be a headache?"
The last words of the eldest daughter-in-law made Mrs. Niu lose all her anger. She laughed and scolded: "You are just a shameless person who went to learn a craft without saying a word."
"Zheng Guo's little wife is pretty good. You should get closer to her, protect her, and learn from her how to behave."
"That's right. She insisted on giving me this pumpkin. I didn't understand. When I saw my mother standing at the door waiting for me, I understood." Mrs. Niu looked like she was not afraid of being scalded by boiling water.
Aunt Niu, who turned around and walked into the courtyard, stopped, turned around, raised her hand and nodded her forehead, and said angrily, "You are thick-skinned, but you really dare to say anything to others. Go to the kitchen to do some work."
, the second child’s family is cooking, you can also help her out tomorrow.”
"Okay, I'll definitely help you tomorrow. I'll cut a piece of pumpkin to cook pumpkin porridge. When I was at Li's house, I could still smell the scent of pumpkin. It was so fragrant that I almost drooled."
"It's okay, I haven't eaten pumpkin for a long time, and I'm a little greedy."
Mrs. Niu who was cooking in the kitchen curled her lips, and everyone was willing to praise the Li family's bad behavior. Isn't it just because the lame Li Zhengguo came back after beating a wild boar?
She looked up at the pickled pork hanging on the top of the stove. This was a good thing that made people want to look at it. A pumpkin was considered a rarity. She had enough to eat at her parents' house.
After the pumpkin porridge was cooked, no one ate as much as she did, and she said with a sneer on her face, "Sister-in-law, didn't you say you would go to the Li family to work tomorrow? If you want another pumpkin, the rest will only be enough to cook for two
For porridge, the baby in my belly wants to eat just this."
Aunt Niu only drank a bowl of pumpkin porridge. Seeing how greedy her daughter-in-law was and thinking about her belly, she just endured it. Who knew it would end up hurting her face?
"What? What's in your belly is more valuable than mine? This pumpkin was given to me by your sister-in-law from the real country. For the rest, steam a piece for me every day, and no one will want to eat it."
Aunt Niu felt a burst of comfort in her stomach, and felt that she shouldn't feed these white-eyed wolves. She spent most of the year eating sweet potatoes, and her iron stomach couldn't bear it.
Sister-in-law Niu glanced at her younger siblings' bellies and sneered in her heart. She had given birth to two sons for the Niu family, and the Niu family was not short of men. Her younger siblings dared to earn food from their greedy mother-in-law, and she would not accept it.
She took out the dozen pumpkin seeds and changed the subject, "Mom, these are the seeds Tian Jing collected on the mountain. I have never seen such plump and shiny seeds."
"She also taught me to use wooden boxes to grow pumpkins and vegetables. I want to try it. It just takes some time. It's not troublesome to make a few wooden boxes. If I can grow them, I won't have to worry about winter."
Aunt Niu took the seeds, and they were indeed very good. She had never seen such good seeds, but the eldest daughter-in-law wanted to grow vegetables in the winter... "What kind of seeds?"
"Don't worry, mom. When I go back to my parents' house in the first month of the year, I'll bring some more back, and those relatives' homes can also have some."
"Well, just give it a try. Everything is difficult at the beginning, so try a little first. If it doesn't work, there will still be some seeds left."
"Well, listen to me, give me a few of these seeds, and let me keep the rest."
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On the Li family's side, after Sister Niu left, Li Zhengguo packed up the things on the roadside and came to help Tian Jing.
All four wooden boxes were filled with soil. Tian Jing only planted pumpkins in two wooden boxes. She also wanted to grow some vegetables.
Li Zhengguo moved the boxes into the main room and cleaned the door.