"Okay, let's go out after handing in the mission."
Tan Shaoting is not planning to use Bai Linsheng to come over to help take care of the animals this year. Now that he has the Zhao brothers and sisters, he doesn't have to worry about leaving.
"I actually want to take the train all the way back. I read the letter Blacksmith Yang gave me and I guess it won't be too good there.
I thought it would be better to give some help to those few people who are kind to me."
Tan Shaoting had no objection, "Okay, I will accompany you wherever you want to go. We don't need to buy chemical fertilizer now. There will still be drought next year. There is no use buying chemical fertilizer."
Su Yuanyuan raised her eyebrows, but she didn't ask why he knew about next year.
"You stay here, I can do it myself."
Tan Shaoting shook his head, "I must follow you."
Su Yuanyuan spread her hands and said to her, if you are willing, just follow her. Anyway, he already knew some of the biggest secret, so there was no need to hide it.
The next day the mud in the ground stopped touching their feet, so the two started weeding.
It wasn't until the beginning of September that all the land was cleared.
The two of them decided to start hoeing sweet potatoes at the end of September.
"Let's go to the blacksmith's place and book a special slot."
"What kind of thing? Don't you need a big pickaxe to hoe sweet potatoes?"
Su Yuanyuan nodded and drew the drawing.
When Tan Shaoting took it over and took a look, he understood the principle.
"Okay, but it should hurt some sweet potatoes and potatoes."
Su Yuanyuan shrugged, "Even if you use a big pickaxe to dig, you may not be able to avoid injury."
Tan Shaoting nodded. "Okay, I'll go to the city to order two tomorrow. Anyway, I have nothing to do now. I'll come back when they're ready."
Su Yuanyuan nodded. Now her own blacksmith shop was no longer allowed to work, so she had to find someone privately.
"When you leave tomorrow, remember to take your coal stamps with you and buy some lumps of coal."
"Think about what else you need? I'll bring it back together."
Tan Shaoting came back a week later. But the two gangsters brought back a cart of coal and a lot of daily necessities. In particular, he bought two bags of salt for pickling vegetables. This salt is used a lot.
When he came back, the two of them tried it. Not to mention, the effect was quite good. This year's sweet potatoes didn't have many knots, so it really didn't hurt them.
It's already the middle of the year. In fact, it's time to start harvesting autumn.
"Let's wait until the end of September. The two of us can finish it in a month, so there's no rush."
"Yeah. OK, I'll listen to you."
With this plan, their autumn harvest will be much faster.
The corn cobs have turned yellow now. Don’t worry about this.
Today the two of them were tidying up the vegetables in the yard, pulling out cucumber seedlings and eggplant seedlings. The leeks were waiting to be covered with the ashes of the plants they usually burned, and then covered with straw curtains and corn stalks, so that they could be harvested to a great extent.
Protective leeks.
"Yuanyuan, Yuanyuan."
Zhao Yanli came over in a hurry.
Behind are two sisters, Zhao Yanping and Zhao Xiaojing.
"Come in quickly and sit down."
"Yuanyuan, we are here to give you money. Last time we paid for gas, we also had to bring back salt."
They have also grown cabbages and radishes, so they also need pickles. After all, the five brothers and sisters have to eat.
Su Yuanyuan charged them nine yuan. No matter how much it was.
"When are you going to harvest the autumn harvest?" Zhao Yanli asked.
"At the end of this month."
"It's earlier than us. What date are we in October? My elder brother said that if you harvest autumn earlier than us, the five of us will come over and help for a few days."
Su Yuanyuan thought for a while. "That's okay. You guys can come over on the 27th. We made a new cutter and tried it. It can be used for removing potatoes and sweet potatoes. It's also very fast. We will run out of you by then.
Also used."
"Okay, I'll tell my elder brother to hurry up.
Yuanyuan, if you make money this time, can you help my elder brother buy a watch? We don’t even know the time." Zhao Yanli muttered.
Su Yuanyuan was stunned for a moment, "Okay, I'll take you to the city then, and you can make your own choices."
Zhao Yanli nodded with a smile. Of course that would be good.
Su Yuanyuan brought him some leeks and dried fish.
"Yuanyuan, this small fish is chopped into pieces, minced with leeks and steamed in cornmeal. It's particularly delicious."
"As long as you like to eat."
After sending the two sisters away, Su Yuanyuan and Tan Shaoting began to cut sweet potato seedlings.
The two followed the same method as last year, holding four sickles in their hands and walking backwards.
The two of them used their special powers at night, so one hundred acres of land was completed in three days.
After that, the two of them spent a day breaking the corn into the house. Now that the crops were ripe, they were of no use even if they were left like this.
Three acres of land were harvested with corn stalks in one day. The size of the corn is still smaller than last year, and there are no corn kernels at the tips of the cobs. The drought has still had a great impact.
The two of them were eating in the yard at night, looking at the corn drying outside, and both sighed.
"This is already good. Other people's corn doesn't have many corn kernels."
"Should we at least have corn kernels?"
Tan Shaoting nodded, Su Yuanyuan sighed, and continued to eat. The two of them worked very hard for this year's crops. Even if they always secretly water the crops, the yield would still be reduced.
"Are we going to give in all these corns?"
"Isn't that bad?" Tan Shaoting felt that it would be difficult for them to eat cornmeal.
"Then use all sweet potatoes and potato tops."
"What we originally grew were sweet potatoes and potatoes."
"We will start selling potatoes tomorrow. Do you want to call Team Leader Ma to collect them directly?"
"I'll go and ask tomorrow morning. We'd better hand over most of it and convert the rest into money."
Both of them understood that both sweet potatoes and potatoes must be planted.
The next day Tan Shaoting went to find Ma Changshun, but he couldn't make the decision. Then the two drove to find Feng Baoshan.
"Okay, I'll send a few people over to pick them up and drive them back."
Tan Shaoting nodded, thus saving them a step.
"Director Feng, we will start harvesting potatoes today."
"Okay, I'll send someone over this afternoon."
Tan Shaoting went to the Zhao family and asked them to drive there to help.
Use a splitter to dig out the potatoes, but they still have the seedlings attached and need to be picked off.
"Yuanyuan, your potatoes are really good. I feel the same as before the drought."
"I didn't expect the president to grow up so well."
Three boys drove the donkey in front, and the four girls followed behind and spread the soil on the potatoes, picking up the fallen ones. Then they put them aside neatly, waiting for the people who came to collect the potatoes to pick them.
The good ones, and the rest that are injured or small, can be kept at home to eat.
During this process, Su Yuanyuan and Zhao Yanping were responsible for picking the largest ones, which were to be kept for seed. When they had enough for two baskets, the two of them carried them back.
