After Xiang Jin returned from Aunt Liao's house, she collected the sets of thermal underwear belonging to her mother, her grandfather, and Xiang Lan, took them to their yard, and started cleaning them.
Just when she was getting into washing, Yan Chen came and asked, "Why don't you take a break and wash clothes right after you come back?"
Hearing his voice, Xiang Jin raised his head and said, "It's okay. I'll clean it for them first. When it gets cold, they can just take it out and put it on. My mother is usually busy, and Xiang Lan is doing laundry now.
It's not clean, and my grandpa probably doesn't know how to wash clothes. He might have put it in water and drank a few sips of water before taking it out to dry again."
Yan Chen just laughed.
Xiang Jin asked her, "What do you want to do here?"
Yan Chen said, "My grandma asked me to come and tell you that you should come to our house for dinner in the evening."
"But I brought rice noodles back. My grandpa and Xiang Lan asked me to make fried rice noodles for them at night."
Yan Chen said, "Then let them eat it tomorrow and make breakfast for tomorrow."
Xiang Jin said, "Well, I'll go to your house with my mother for dinner, but I don't know when my mother will come back, and the chance of my grandpa going to your house for dinner is probably low. You also know who he is.
I never like to move around much, I just like to stay at home.
The second one is that since someone buried that nasty thing under the ground when our house was laying the foundation last time, he has never dared to leave a step, so you can see that he has been living here for several months.
On the other side, even if he goes back to Aunt Liao’s house for dinner, we will bring him three meals a day directly here.”
Yan Chen nodded, "I heard about that incident later. Do you know who did it?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "I don't know, but I'd better go in and talk to them."
Yan Chen nodded, "Then I'll go with you."
Xiang Jin nodded, and then the two of them entered the house together. Then Xiang Jin told the two of them the purpose of Yan Chen coming to their house.
Without exception, her grandpa refused, "Boy Yan, help me tell your grandpa and grandma that I appreciate their kindness, but I won't go. One is that I want to stay and look after the house.
The second thing is that you also know that Girl Jin brought back so much rice noodles at that time, we have to eat it as soon as possible, otherwise it will probably go bad if we put it tomorrow, which is a pity."
Xiang Lan nodded vigorously at the side, "Yeah, yeah, brother Yan, please help me tell Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo that I thank them for the invitation, but I also have to eat at home.
Pho, so I won’t go to your house for dinner this time. I’ll go there next time.”
Yan Chen understood what they meant, so he nodded slightly, "Okay!"
Then he looked sideways at Xiang Jin and said, "My grandma asked me to take your thermos bucket back, saying it will be filled with rice when the time comes."
"Is that so? That's okay," Xiang Jin thought for a moment, then agreed, "But wait a moment," after saying that, she turned around and ran out of the house. After a while, she took the
My own thermos bucket and a plastic bag of rice noodles came back.
"Bring some back to Grandpa Zeng and Grandma Mo and let them cook them as a late-night snack. I see they really like it."
Yan Chen reached out to take it, and then the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, "Okay!"
Then Xiang Jin urged him, "Go back quickly. If they haven't steamed the rice yet, ask them to put in less rice. Otherwise, it will be wasted if it steams too much and can't finish it. Although you have a refrigerator at home, it's still a waste."
It’s better to eat as few leftovers as possible.”
Yan Chen responded, "Okay, then you can come directly to our house for dinner at around 4:30, and I won't call you?"
"I know, don't worry, I'll be there on time for the appointment at half past four."
After Yan Chen left, Xiang Lan hurriedly asked, "Sister, you are going to Grandma Mo's house for dinner later. What will happen to my and grandpa's meals?"
Seeing her anxious look, Xiang Jin teased her, "You must do it yourself," then she turned around and walked into the yard.
Xiang Lan was chasing after her with a grimace on her face, "No, sister, I want to eat fried rice noodles, but how can I cook it?" He could only cook a pot and cook porridge, but she couldn't do anything else.
Neither.
Besides, she just turned down the invitation from Grandma Mo and her family just so she could eat the fried rice noodles made by her sister. If she had known that this was the case, she would not have turned down the invitation.
Seeing her aggrieved little look, Xiang Jin rolled his eyes at her angrily, "Okay, okay, put away that depressed face of yours. I'm annoyed just by looking at it. Let's see what you can do."
To meet your requirements and achieve your goals, you can act aggrieved for me, right?
What do you have to be aggrieved about? What qualifications do you have to be aggrieved? I have contributed both money and effort, which is not called aggrieved. Why do you call me aggrieved? I want to spoil you? Let me tell you, Xiang Lan, if you do that in front of me again
With that attitude,
Don't think about the benefits of the future, I didn't owe you anything in my previous life." She was in her twenties. She was worthy of the heaven and the earth, and she also had a conscience in the middle. She died just like that in the prime of her life, and she didn't even have time.
To owe someone something.
When Xiang Lan heard that there was something going on, he immediately became happy and hurriedly ran over and said, "I know that my sister is the best. You must not care about my relationship with grandpa, right? You must want to stir up trouble."
We went to Grandma Mo’s house for dinner after the powder was cooked for us, right?!"
Xiang Jin glanced at her angrily, "You know how to figure out my thoughts. Now, hurry up and go back to do your homework. Don't bother me with washing clothes anymore. It's delayed my time."
Don’t blame me if you don’t have time to fry rice noodles later?”
"Oh, oh, oh, I have the order, right now, right away, I'll get out!" The little girl jumped three feet away and disappeared in a flash.
Looking at the direction she was leaving, Xiang Jin said "cut" angrily, but he could bend and stretch.
Xiang Jin washed the clothes as quickly as possible and dried them. Then she checked the time. It was exactly four o'clock. Half an hour was enough to make fried rice noodles, so she didn't bother to rest, and then
Entered the kitchen again.
Although Xiang Lan was ordered by her sister to go back to her room to do her homework, the little girl had always been obsessed with the fried rice noodles, so her thoughts were not fully spent on studying. She always finished her homework after a while.
She wanted to run out, then hide behind the door of the living room and peek secretly into the yard to see what condition her sister's clothes were in. For example, how many pieces were left to be washed?
At this moment, she saw her sister heading towards the kitchen, and then she ran over, "Sister, I'll cook a pot for you!" After saying that, she slipped into the stove again.
He sat down on the small bench.
Seeing her aggressive attitude, Xiang Jin's eyes twitched twice, but she didn't object. It happened that she really needed someone to help her cook the pot. It was rare for this little girl to be self-conscious.
"You can cook the pot later. First, go to the ground and pull out some garlic sprouts. I also need to prepare some more ingredients here."
"Oh, okay," the little girl was stuffing firewood into the stove with a pair of tongs, when she suddenly heard her sister say this, she put down the tongs with a "bang", and then rushed out of the kitchen.
In the end, Xiang Jin didn't wait half an hour to fry the rice noodles for them. Her grandfather sat at the table and looked at the large plate of fragrant fried rice noodles and said, "Why do you put so many eggs and meat?"
"
Xiang Jin took off his apron and said with a smile, "I ate early today, and there was no cooking, so I only ate rice noodles, so I put some more meat and eggs in it for you, so that you can withstand hunger at night."
Some."
Xiang Lan nodded and said, "Yeah, the fried rice noodles made by my sister are the most delicious. Not only our family likes to eat them, but Hu Cai and Ahua also like them. I just saw their doghouse."
It’s a lot of fun eating there!”
Xiang Jin was speechless, and she couldn't tell the truth, so this was the trouble of talking to younger people, because they were always not on the same channel. Xiang Jin didn't bother to pay attention to her, but continued to talk to her grandfather, "I
The rice noodles are all fried and there is not enough left in the pot. When you are done eating, you can fill it up yourself."
Xiang Lan kept nodding her head and saying it was delicious, and said she wanted to eat another plate after finishing what was on her plate. Xiang Jin slapped her on the shoulder and said, "Finish what you have on your plate first. Don't stop there."
The eyes are big and the belly is small, and the ground is yelling."
Her grandfather said that this plate was enough for him, and that the contents in the pot would be left for her mother to eat when she came back. Xiang Jin said, "My mother, I served it for her. When she comes back, she will put it away."
Just steam the pot and heat it up a little. You and Xiang Lan can eat the rest in the pot. If you can't eat it later, wait until a little later."
"Well, okay, you can go to your Grandma Mo's house for dinner. Don't make people wait for a long time and call again when the time comes," her grandfather nodded.
Xiang Jin nodded, washed his face again, combed his hair, changed his clothes, and then left the house.
After arriving at Grandma Mo's house, Grandma Mo asked, "Where is your mother? Is your mother back?"
Xiang Jin said, "My mother hasn't come back yet."
Grandma Mo said, "Oh, that's it, that's okay. Then you and Yan Chen eat first. After you eat, you go back to school. We'll eat later when your mother comes back."
Xiang Jin took her hand and said, "Grandma Mo, don't wait any longer. My mother doesn't know when she will come back because she still has to braise meat on the street and she won't come back until the meat is braised.
And I’ve just left the fried rice noodles there for her, and when she comes back, she can just steam them in the pot and heat them up before eating, so you really don’t have to wait for her.”
They also knew that she was telling the truth, so they nodded and said, "Okay, then we will eat together, but you eat first, and I will call you Aunt Liao."
Xiang Jin nodded, but she and Yan Chen did not eat first, but waited for them to join them.
After Grandma Mo and Aunt Liao came back, she saw that they were not eating at the table at all, but were watching their old man playing with the flowers and plants in the yard, so Grandma Mo said, "Oh, you didn't eat any of them."
ah?"
Grandpa Zeng smiled and said, "He said he would wait until we all arrive together."
Grandma Mo frowned, a little worried, "But you have to go back to school for self-study in the evening. What will you do if you are late?"
Xiang Jin said, "No, our evening self-study officially doesn't start until half past six. It's not even five o'clock yet. It only takes us half an hour to walk to school, so we have plenty of time."
.”
Besides, that crazy guy Yang Cheng doesn't teach them anymore. Even if they are a few minutes or ten minutes late, the other teachers won't have much objection.
Grandma Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and then everyone went back to the house to eat together.
People of the older generation like to talk while eating, and Grandma Mo and Aunt Liao are no exception. While everyone was eating, Monet asked Aunt Liao, "I see you are leveling the land in front of the house."
It’s been a day, what are you going to dig out and plant?”
Aunt Liao said, "It's nothing. I just plan to plant a few more seedlings of that cabbage. As you know, when the cold winter comes every year, those cabbages and cabbages in the field are always easy to grow."
It's frozen, so there won't be anything to eat during the Chinese New Year.
So I thought that while the weather is still not too cold, I would plant some more vegetables, and then I would dry some dried vegetables. When the New Year comes, even if the vegetables are gone, I will still have dried vegetables to eat. Oops.
Every year, in February and March, there is no harvest, and there is no food to eat."
Grandma Mo nodded and said, "That's right."
Xiang Jin said, "Why eat dried vegetables? Isn't it better to just eat fresh vegetables? In our area, it is very cold in winter, and those vegetables are indeed easy to freeze, but that's just
Vegetables grown in the open air are like that, we can grow vegetables in greenhouses."
"Greenhouse vegetables?" Everyone heard it very novelly, and then all looked at her, and Yan Chen also looked at her, because he knew nothing about farming, and he had never paid attention to this.
Xiang Jin nodded, then put down the bowl and chopsticks and said to them, "Well, last time I accidentally opened a book, it seemed to be published by an agricultural university, and it mentioned that you can use this to grow vegetables in greenhouses.
To develop the economy, what we are talking about is a shed built with a plastic film that has high light transmittance, is strong and durable, and is not prone to dust and condensation."
"Develop the economy? How to develop the economy?" Aunt Liao caught the key words in her words and asked.
Xiang Jin said, "Because in this greenhouse, you can grow many kinds of vegetables, such as eggplants, cucumbers, tomatoes, winter melons, pumpkins, peppers, etc. that we eat in the summer. You can also grow mushrooms and other things in it."
, after growing these things, you can sell them in the vegetable market? Isn’t that the development of the economy?
I took a look and found that these are the things that are usually sold in the vegetable market in our town. It seems that there are no eggplants, cucumbers, and tomatoes anymore. There are only winter melons, pumpkins, and some spinach.
There's nothing unusual about it. Basically, every household has some edible vegetables like this. In winter, it's basically Chinese cabbage, lotus cabbage, carrots and white radish. At that time, every household has them.
, there is nothing rare about it.
The suitable temperature for the growth of most vegetables is 20 to 30 degrees, and the lowest temperature is 5 to 8 degrees. For example, the climate here at the beginning of winter is usually a few degrees below zero. Sometimes it may be even colder at night.
A temperature of about minus ten degrees below zero is not conducive to the growth of plants.
However, we can completely grow off-season vegetables by building a greenhouse, because the greenhouse has a certain thermal insulation effect, especially in winter. The temperature of the greenhouse can be adjusted to at least between a few degrees to ten degrees, and then some thermal properties can be configured.
Good nutrient soil with good air permeability can completely reach the normal growth temperature of vegetables."
Grandma Mo suddenly became interested, "Oh, this is okay?" There is still an open space in their house, about two or three minutes, and she is considering whether to use it to replant some wheat or use it for planting.
Rapeseed is good.
Aunt Liao was also very moved and kept nodding "Yeah, yeah, yeah".
Yan Chen said, "I seem to have seen that book before."
"Huh?" Xiang Jin was stunned for a moment.
Yan Chen explained to her, "Last time your family moved, I helped you organize your books, and I saw this book. Now it seems to be placed in the second row from the right on the bookshelf in your room.
The position of the thirteenth book."
Xiang Jin was very surprised, "Wow, you remember it so clearly?"
Yan Chen said, "I usually remember the things I have sorted out more clearly."
Xiang Jin gave him a thumbs up, "Awesome!" His memory is so good, I'm so envious!
Then she smiled at several adults and explained, "I bought this book last time from an old man who came to our bay to collect rags. I wanted to read it later, but I never had the time.
Look, Grandpa Zeng, you are
I'm taking care of your flowers and plants. I should know everything about these aspects. Otherwise, you can take a look at them and then study them carefully. Maybe you, Grandma Mo and Aunt Mo, you two can create one by then.
A lot of income is coming."
Grandma Mo and Aunt Liao's emotions became more and more intense, and both of them looked at him eagerly.
Grandpa Zeng looked at the two of them for a moment and then smiled, "That's right. Growing vegetables in the greenhouse is more interesting than taking care of those flowers and plants, right?"
Grandma Mo said, "Isn't that right? Anyway, we don't have anything to do in the winter. It's still cold sitting in that room all day. It's better to walk around in the fields and stretch our muscles. It's still warm. If we really do it
It’s done, we can still make a profit by then, right?”
Grandpa Zeng nodded, "Well, that's the truth." Although his monthly retirement salary is still more than a thousand points, it is good to save more money for retirement, so that his children will have less to worry about.
He had to pay a little, and besides, their grandson and grandson were all grown up right away. It was estimated that in a few years, they would start a family and start a business. He also thought of giving each of them a big red envelope when the time came.
I have to say that Mr. Zeng still thinks a little too far.
Aunt Liao nodded her head, "Yes, yes, I think so too," her Xiangyang is also in love, and the relationship between the two children is now very stable. As long as her Xiangyang reaches the age of
, they are about to get married, so she also wants to save some money at home before they get married, and then make up for it for them, and then let them buy a house in the city. This is also the right thing for her to be a mother.
A little bit of their thoughts.
"Okay, Girl Jin, then you can lend the book to Grandpa Zeng to read. Grandpa Zeng will study it carefully based on it," Mr. Zeng then said to Xiang Jin.
Xiang Jin said, "It goes without saying that I borrowed it. I'll give the book to you directly. Anyway, it's just a decoration if I leave it there." Moreover, their family and her two uncles' families now have business to do, so
There is no need to rely on greenhouse cultivation to make money, it is better to hand it over directly to them for use.
Grandpa Zeng immediately smiled and narrowed his eyes, "Oh, okay, okay, then Grandpa Zeng will thank you in advance."
Xiang Jin said, "You're welcome, but Grandpa Zeng and Auntie, since you are just starting to get involved in greenhouse cultivation, I suggest you not to plant too much at the beginning, and try to plant those that are both cold-resistant and time-effective.
Vegetables that are short and have a relatively high return on price.”
Grandpa Zeng nodded, but Aunt Liao asked, "What is a dish that is cold-resistant, short-lasting, and has a relatively high return?"
Xiang Jinjiu said, "Generally, these are leafy vegetables, such as spinach, rape, chrysanthemum, chicken feathers, coriander, Chinese cabbage, etc., as well as some off-season, easy-to-store vegetables such as tomatoes, eggplants, beans, zucchini, and green peppers.
, like those leafy vegetables, it usually only takes about half a month to twenty days to grow."
Aunt Liao nodded, "Oh, I understand."
Grandpa Zeng nodded, "Well, I will study this carefully when the time comes."
Xiang Jin looked at Yan Chen, "Maybe you can contact Han Che and ask him to help you keep an eye on the provincial capital. Look at the vegetable market over there, which is the kind of place that specializes in selling fruits and vegetable seeds. There are
There are no vegetables that are available over there but we don’t have them here. Yes.
If so, you ask him to mail you some seeds. If we want to plant something fresh, we must plant something fresh. If we grow conventional crops, we won’t be able to sell them at a price, and people will soon follow suit.
Then there will be no advantage at all, it’s boring.”
Yan Chen said, "Yes, there are chrysanthemum, lettuce, and water spinach over there, but not here." He often ate these dishes in the provincial capital, but he had never eaten them here.
Pass.
Xiang Jin nodded, "You can ask him to mail more." Speaking of which, she had only eaten these vegetables in her previous life, and she had never had them in this life.
Yan Chen said, "After dinner, I'll give him a call."
The adults were very happy after hearing this. Xiang Jin looked at each of them with extremely excited expressions, thinking that they would have a big fight next.
"Eat, eat, let's talk about anything after we finish the meal," Grandpa Zeng greeted with a smile on his face.
After the meal, Grandma Mo didn't even bother to clear the table immediately, so she pulled Xiang Jin and asked, "Girl Jin, what did you mean by configuring some nutritious soil with good heat and good air permeability? What do you use?
A match?"
Aunt Liao also listened with pointed ears.
Xiang Jin laughed, "Oh, the book said that chicken manure is a hot fertilizer, and cow manure is a fertilizer with good air permeability. The two fertilizers seem to be 20% each.
Mix it with the 60% fine soil to form nutritious soil and then spread it on top of the soil layer when planting vegetables."
Grandma Mo suddenly understood, "Oh, this is called nutritious soil. Is this how nutritious soil comes from?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Yes, that's how nutritious soil comes from."