By the time Su Zhan got home, the two children had already prepared the meal and were waiting for her to come back to eat.
It was still sweet potato porridge with pickles. After the family of three finished eating, they went to bed early.
At this time, there were no electronic products such as mobile phones in rural areas, so unless there was something important, almost every household would go to bed at night.
Go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning.
At dawn, Su Zhan got up, put a fire on the earthen stove to boil water, and put a few sweet potatoes into the earth to stew until cooked.
Then, while the sweet potatoes were simmering, she went to wake up the big cub.
The primary school here is not just for students in Xiaoliu Village, but several villages unite to have this primary school.
The school is a bit far away, and you have to walk on a mountain road for more than half an hour to get there, so yesterday Liu Xinxuan came back so much later than her sister.
The brother and sister slept on the same bed. When Su Zhan went to call his brother, the younger sister also got up rubbing her eyes.
"Mom, Gouzi and I have made an appointment to go fishing for shrimps together. I want to get up early to dig for earth dragons." Liu Xintong rubbed her eyes and rolled up from the bed.
Farmers don’t pay much attention to fishing for lobsters. They just need to cut a bamboo pole, a piece of white thread, and earthworms that the children dig out from the soil.
As for any kind of bait, there is no such thing. People don’t have enough to eat these days, so how can there be anything for crayfish to eat?
After preparing the ingredients, Liu Xintong carried a cooked sweet potato, picked up a small bucket, and started to wash it outside.
Su Zhan hurriedly shouted from behind, telling her not to go near the lake.
"I know, let's just go to the small pond in the back mountain and not reach the reservoir and the big lake in front." Liu Xintong said crisply without looking back.
Xiaoliu Village is surrounded by mountains, and the main sources of water are the reservoir and the large lake in front of it. In the past, several cubs who went swimming because of the hot weather drowned.
From then on, whenever there were children at home, their parents would tell them not to play in the water there.
But the small pond in the back mountain is different. The water there is not deep. Even for eight-year-old children, the deepest water there only reaches their waist.
Children in rural areas are basically free-range. As long as they don't go to dangerous places, parents will let them roam around.
This is not the first time Liu Xintong has gone there to catch crayfish, so Su Zhan is relieved.
The younger one left, and the older one also carried a hot sweet potato bigger than his hand in his schoolbag and ate it while walking.
The sweet potato peels thrown along the way attracted the attention of the dog in the village, and the dog ate all the sweet potato peels he threw away.
As for Su Zhan, she continued to go to the wasteland with a hoe and shovel and worked hard.
After a day and a night, her soul has been completely integrated with this body, so her inhuman strength can be fully exerted.
By the time the sun had completely risen, the golden light fell on the woods and fields. Su Zhan had almost tidied up the fields.
This alone was not enough, so Su Zhan found an empty place, piled a pile of hay and dead leaves, mixed it with the dried chicken excrement that the original owner had obtained from the villagers, and lit it on fire.
In this era, almost every household does this if they want to make their land fertile.
Su Zhan sat aside, and after the burning was completed, he put aside the last of the vegetation and chicken dung ash, and went to the old man in the village to get some pepper seedlings, tomato seedlings and other vegetable seedlings.
In rural areas, if you see extra vegetables in other people's homes, you can just tell the owner and they will be removed directly without paying.
Of course, on the other hand, if you have any extra vegetables in your field, others can take them away.
Generally speaking, what others take away will only be enough for one or two meals. Unless they want to completely offend others, no one will go to other people's fields to get vegetables to eat.
If there is such a person who goes to other people's fields every day to pick vegetables to eat, then this person will be scolded by everyone in the village. The more aggressive ones will point at that person's nose and scold him, and the softer ones will gossip and scold that person behind his back.
Not particular.
In addition, every household has its own farmland and grows various vegetables, so Xiaoliu Village has never had any disputes in this regard over the years.
Su Zhan first dug small pits with a hoe, then put the seedlings into the pits and buried them, and then put in the freshly burned ashes.
After planting all the seedlings in the same way, Su Zhan looked around and saw that there was no one around, then controlled the law of rain she had understood to make a light rain fall in the field.
Not many people come to this place all year round, so Su Zhan is not worried that anyone will find anything unusual here.
Especially now that every household is busy with farm work in their own fields. They are so busy that they are sweating every day. They go back to bed and fall asleep. There is no time to observe other people's fields.
Su Zhan waited for a while, until the rainwater seeped into the soil, and then she stopped the rain, and the seedlings straightened their backs in high spirits.
Even if the farm work here is finished, you only need to pay attention to weeding, pest control, fertilization and rainfall, and you can wait for the harvest.
Su Zhan ate three meals of sweet potatoes in a row. It didn't matter to Su Zhan, but children in the growing period could not bear it.
All of them were so skinny that Su Zhan had no nerve to say that these were the children he raised.
Basically every household in Xiaoliu Village raises chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs. Pigs are New Year pigs and will only be slaughtered when the New Year is approaching.
The same goes for chickens, ducks and geese. They pick up some eggs to eat on weekdays, and only have a good meal during the Chinese New Year. Therefore, what children look forward to most at that time is the Chinese New Year.
Because only during the Chinese New Year can they eat meat freely.
The original owner's family was the poorest in the entire Xiaoliu Village. They couldn't even afford to raise a chicken, let alone eat meat. It's no wonder that the two children were smaller than their peers.
The essence of this mission lies in the two children. Only by raising the two children well can Su Zhan complete the mission.
He didn't raise any edible chickens, ducks, geese, or pigs at home. People in the village raised them. As long as Su Zhan wasn't crazy, he wouldn't take advantage of them.
So she set her sights on Xiaoliu Mountain. A mountain and a river support one person. In recent years, most of the strong laborers in the village have gone out to work, leaving only some old people and children.
The old man is so old that he still has the energy to go hunting in the mountains. In the past few months, there were old men who saw hares scurrying in the mountains, and there were also experienced old men who tried to trap them in the mountains. Unfortunately, these hares were all thieves.
None have been caught.
Su Zhan didn't care how smart these hares were. Anyway, no matter how smart they were, they were not as good as hers. No matter how fast they ran, could they be as fast as her, a non-human being?
Su Zhan rushed directly into the woods to find prey.
She has made a lot of gains in the woods in several worlds, so the mountains and forests are like a fish in water to her.
