Chapter 1042 The lazy and evil sister-in-law of a blessed girl from a rural family (38)
Xu Yin smiled brightly at him: "Okay! Then we won't read. Let's learn a few more words and don't become blind!"
The two of them went to the lotus pond to inspect the work progress of their cousins.
Lin Xiyun: "..."
For some reason, he only drank a bowl of porridge in the morning. Although the Cui family prepared snacks for him during class, he hadn't used them yet, but he felt full at this moment.
Xu Sanqiu shook his head: "Second sister is indeed the second sister, she goes to school so freely!"
He really wanted to run away. It was more comfortable to go up the mountain to chop firewood or go to the fields to farm than to sit upright and listen to his teacher's lecture.
But Lin Xiyun asked: "Brother Xu, do you also remember the words taught in the last class?"
Xu Sanqiu replied weakly: "No..."
"Then please take a seat! It's time for recess."
"..."
Goudan and others covered their mouths and snickered.
Xu Sanqiu was annoyed: "Why are you laughing? Do you all remember those words?"
"..."
Uh, I didn't remember everything.
The boys quickly sat upright.
Lin Xiyun glanced at the girl sitting quietly in the corner trying to read, her eyebrows softened, and she cleared her throat: "Let's continue the class..."
Over there, Xu Yin followed Comrade Xiaojin to the wetland outside the lotus pond.
As they walked, the two of them guessed the words they learned in the previous class for each other to deepen their impression.
When we arrived at the wetland, we heard from a distance that several cousins were envious of Dawa Village while working:
"I heard that Dawa Village is going to build a collective lotus pond. Each household will contribute their own efforts to grow lotus roots and raise ducks. The money will be divided after selling them at the end of the year. It would be great if our village could build one anytime, so we don't have to go to town to find it.
live."
"There is no lake in our village. What will happen if there is no lake?"
"That's right..."
"Look, isn't this land quite fertile? In our village, how could this kind of land be left vacant and no one would want it?"
"This is called a wetland. There are wetlands everywhere in Dawa Village, and also in Xiaowa Village next door. Only our village is full of dry land."
"There is still sandy land in our village, and the weeds at the foot of the front mountain don't even grow."
Mentioning the barren sandy land, everyone couldn't help but sigh.
They are only ten miles apart, so why is the gap so huge?
Xu Yinxin said: That’s because the terrain of Meihua Village, especially the area in Qianqian Mountain, is high. Even the slightest rain will flow to Xiaowa Village, and there is not much groundwater, causing the soil to dry out and become sandy. Over time, nothing can be grown.
However, you can grow watermelons.
Watermelon doesn't care about the soil, and even sandy soil is more suitable for its growth.
"I have some melon seeds here. I bought them in Chunzhou Prefecture last year. I heard from the stall owner that they were introduced from the Western Regions and are suitable for planting in sandy land. However, they will not survive in paddy fields. Do you want them?"
Last summer, Xu Yin missed the sweet, juicy and refreshing watermelon after Jingshui Town.
Later, I bought watermelon seeds in Chunzhou Prefecture. I planned to plant them in the spring, but the land in Dawa Village was not very suitable for growing watermelons. I was reluctant to free up the only acre of dry land at home, so after hesitation, I put it aside and thought about planting it in the spring.
Decide again.
As a result, I have been busy with this and that since the spring plowing, and I even forgot about the watermelon.
If Meihua Village could grow watermelons, she would not hesitate to give them the seeds so that they could have ready-made watermelons to eat in the future. How great!
All her cousins exclaimed:
"What? Are there any seeds suitable for planting in sand?"
So what are you waiting for! Of course!
Xu Yin gave them the watermelon seeds.
The melon seeds she gave were not those sold to her by Chunzhou Prefecture stalls, but the best seeds stocked in the system warehouse that had been cultivated for several generations. They not only tasted good, but also had a high germination rate.
Although the cousins don't know what kind of melon this is, since it is a melon seed, they still know how to grow it.
So, when going back, one person brought a few watermelon seeds back. Xu Yin asked the leader, Xu Lidong, to bring a few seeds to her third brother as well.
With the mentality of giving it a try, after the melon seeds sprouted, they were planted in the sandy soil at the foot of the mountain in front of Meihua Village where the birds were too lazy to stay.
Each person opened a ridge and transplanted the melon seedlings there.
When other people in Plum Blossom Village saw it, they laughed at them: "You still want to grow vegetables and melons in a place where no weeds grow? You really have too much time to do. Just look at it, or you will die in the sun in two days."
However, half a month later, someone passed by there accidentally and found that the sand was covered with green melon vines. Plum Blossom Village was boiling!
The villagers flocked to the homes of Xu Lidong, Xu Sanqiu and others and asked them what kind of melon they planted in the sand, and it actually grew. The vines had thick heads and looked very strong.
"I don't know what kind of melon it is. It was Erya who gave it to us. Didn't she accompany my second brother-in-law to Chunzhou Prefecture last year? She bought it there. The vendor who sold her melon seeds said they came from the Western Regions.
Brought.”
"Good boy! Can the melon seeds from the Western Regions survive here?"
"Sanqiu, when the melons are ripe, leave some seeds for me later!"
"Lidong, can you leave a few for us?"
Xu Sanqiu and others still don't know how to save seeds for melons in the Western Regions, so how can they dare to agree? They just said that they will wait until the melons are ripe. If it is convenient to save seeds, they will definitely leave a few seeds for them.
As a result, other villagers in Meihua Village are more looking forward to the ripening of watermelons than Xu Sanqiu and others. They all want to see what the melons from the Western Regions are like. Are there many seeds? Are there enough for them to share?
However, they could not get any melon seeds this year because County Magistrate Chen heard that a patch of green melon vines had been planted in the sandy land of Meihua Village. After asking for details, he learned that the seeds of the melon vines belonged to Cui Mengjin and his wife.
I bought melon seeds from the Western Regions when I went to see a doctor in Chunzhou Prefecture, and immediately asked the government officials to take care of the melon field.
As for Xu Sanqiu and several melon growers, they became melon growers hired by county government officials. When the melons mature and fall off their stems, they will receive a reward.
When Xu Sanqiu came to Xu Yin's house for literacy class, she was very happy when she mentioned this: "This is the first time I have been so close to the county magistrate. He even drank a bowl of water at my house! My milk even drank the county magistrate.
I hid the water bowl as a treasure and said that it would be our family’s heirloom from now on.”
Xu Yin: "..."
Even if the county magistrate has not drank the water, it can still become a family heirloom if it is passed down for hundreds or thousands of years.
"By the way, second sister, I am now a melon grower hired by the government. I have to guard the melon fields every day. Can I not come to class?" Xu Sanqiu asked Xu Yin tentatively.
This guy is really racking his brains to skip class all the time.
Xu Yin glanced at him: "Brother Lidong and the others are also government-employed melon growers, why don't they still come to work for me?"
"..."
Xu Yin ignored him and discussed with Lin Xiyun: "The summer harvest is about to begin. After the next class, the literacy class will have a half-month holiday for busy farming, and then resume after the summer harvest. Three days later, which is the last class before busy farming, we will not
There is a new class, and we are holding a literacy competition to summarize and commend the learning in the past few days."