On Sunday afternoon, Song Xi packed ten of the apples she encountered when she went to the market for the first time, and then went to the village chief's house.
Wu Zhuhua was bending over to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden, holding a large handful of fresh vine vegetables in his hand.
Due to the effect of the spiritual spring water, no one will feel bored even if they eat rattan vegetables every day.
"Xiao Xi, why are you here?" Seeing Song Xi coming, Wu Zhuhua hurriedly came out of the vegetable garden.
"Aunt Zhuhua, you are busy with your business. I have nothing to do. I just came to talk to Uncle Qian." Song Xi smiled and handed the apple to Qian Chuntao, "Xiao Tao, you can wash it and eat it yourself, okay?
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"Okay, thank you, Sister Xiaoxi." Qian Chuntao took the apple sheepishly, then turned around and ran to the kitchen house.
There is a water tank in the kitchen house. It is very dangerous for children to go to the well to fetch water by themselves. It is better to use ready-made water.
"Your Uncle Qian went out for inspection, but he will be back soon. Xiaoxi, if you are not in a hurry, you can wait for a while." Wu Zhuhua placed the vegetables in his hands on the stone platform beside the well.
After she washed her hands, she went to the main room and soon brought out a bowl of sugar water for Song Xi.
"Aunt Zhuhua, you are really too polite. I come to your house often and just treat me like an ordinary neighbor."
Song Xi didn't like drinking sugar water, but she was too embarrassed to refuse, so she had to politely take the sugar water and put it on the chair in front of her.
When Qian Chuntao washed the apples and came out, Song Xi gave Qian Chuntao the sugar water to drink.
Song Xi didn't wait long. Qian Chuntao only ate an apple and drank a bowl of sugar water, and Qian Weimin came back.
Song Xi waited for Qian Weimin to wash his hands and clean up before he said, "Uncle Qian, I want to use the two barren mountains closest to the school. Please tell everyone during the meeting that Uncle Qian will not go to those two mountains in the future."
It’s a mountain, even if you dig wild vegetables, you don’t have to go there.”
Because she wants to grow wild vegetables, if someone else is opportunistic and doesn't want to go out to find wild vegetables and just go up the mountain to dig up the wild vegetables she grows, wouldn't her efforts be in vain?
"Okay, I will communicate with the others. Don't worry, I will definitely not let the villagers come and disturb you. I will leave those two mountains to you." Qian Weimin said seriously.
He knew that Song Xi was a capable person. There were not even a single good tree on the barren mountain, just weeds and malnourished saplings. Let Song Xi and his students toss them around. No matter how bad they were, they could get worse.
Where to go?
"Thank you, Uncle Qian. I will definitely make good use of those two barren mountains." She has spiritual spring water, but she doesn't believe it. She can't grow anything.
As long as there is a soft place to sow the seeds, they will surely sprout.
In the evening, after the sun gradually set, Song Xi and Zhou Yi moved the dried potato slices and dustpans into the main room together. Each layer of dustpans was separated by two bamboo sticks.
Because the potato slices are not completely dried yet, they cannot be stacked directly on top of each other. They will need to be dried for another day tomorrow.
Song Xi took a piece of potato slices, brought it to her nose and smelled it, "Brother Yi, how much do you think will be left after these more than 600 kilograms of potato slices are dried? Can half of it be left? It shouldn't have such a high conversion rate, right?
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"We'll know after we weigh it when we harvest it tomorrow. I've dried sweet potatoes before, but it's not cost-effective anyway. But if you don't dry the sweet potatoes, it would be wasteful to let them spoil."
Zhou Yi stretched out his long arm to hold Song Xi and walked to the stove house. The dried potatoes were taken home and it was time to go to the stove house for dinner.
When Song Xi heard Zhou Yi's words, her eyes lit up as if with a glimmer of hope, "Our sweet potato yield is relatively high this year, why don't we also dry half of the sweet potatoes? And we rarely eat them now.
Isn't it sweet potato? Just put it in the granary, what should I do if it gets damaged?"
The most important thing is that now that she is here, there are all kinds of food.
I rarely use sweet potatoes, so it would be a pity to have them piled up at home.
This thing can't be sold at a high price. It only costs a few cents per pound at the market, and not much more even at the night market, so it's not cost-effective to sell it.
"Okay, since my wife has spoken, I will naturally make arrangements so that she doesn't have to worry about this matter." Zhou Yi pushed Song Xi to the dining table and pushed her to sit down.
After that, he served her half a bowl of rice. He knew Song Xi's appetite, so he didn't serve too much.
Now in the off-season, Song Xi is working outside every day to open up wasteland and develop land that can grow food, so Song Xi does a lot of things at home alone.
Zhou Yi didn't have much time to help her, but once he got home, he would share the tasks. He was not willing to make Song Xi work too hard.
Song Xi glanced at Zhou Yi speechlessly, and then ate.
The next day, Monday morning, Song Xi yawned and came out of the room. When she saw the scene in the yard, her eyes widened in surprise.
The potato slices that were dried yesterday have been dried in the yard, and there are four more dustpans next to them, with thinly sliced sweet potato chips on them.
Song Xi went over and pinched it, and found that the sweet potatoes were still hot. It seemed that Zhou Yi cooked the sweet potatoes and cut them.
The sun-dried sweet potato chips can be eaten directly as snacks, and they will have a sweet and soft texture.
If it is raw sweet potato, it needs to be processed before eating.
Thinking that Zhou Yi should have cooked the sweet potatoes directly after processing the crabs in the early morning without taking a break, Song Xi felt bloated in her heart.
For a man in this era to be so kind to his wife, his ideological consciousness is really higher than that of most people in modern times.
Zhou Yi is so kind, but she can only repay him in terms of food.
Song Xi locked the door and set off. She first placed fifty kilograms of snails at Xu Yunying's house, and then went to school with the three children of Xu Yunying's family.
Under the nourishment of the spiritual spring water, Xu Bing suddenly grew taller. The fifteen-year-old boy had a tall and straight figure and exquisite facial features. He was like a handsome young man in this troubled world.
Just with this face, if I go to junior high school in the city in the next few years, I don’t know how many female classmates I will charm.
Just with this face, getting a wife will not be a problem in the future.
Arriving in front of the school, Song Xi took out the key and opened the door. The three Xu Bing brothers went straight to the stove to boil water for everyone.
Because Song Xi wouldn't let them drink raw water directly, she boiled water for everyone to drink.
Every time Xu Bing boils water, he warms it directly in the pot, so that no matter who he is, he can drink hot water anytime and anywhere.
Before nine o'clock, all the students came.
Looking at the energetic little faces, Song Xi also felt particularly gratified.
She originally thought it would be difficult to take care of children, but she didn't expect that a pack of candies at the beginning of school had conquered the naughty hearts of most children.
Later, we distributed dishes to them every now and then and brought them back. Now they have a particularly correct attitude towards learning.
At least in school, no one is causing trouble yet.
Song Xi walked into the classroom and placed the seeds she had taken out before on the podium, "Students, we are not going to class this morning and are going to plant vegetables on the two barren hills behind. Is anyone willing to come with me?"