Classmate Le went to Province X on the 2nd and returned to the paradise in the middle of the afternoon on the 5th.
Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, and three handsome boys dug out all the medicinal plants in the fields, tamped the yellow soil to build field ridges, mixed the soil with fertilizer, and covered the rice fields with grass and film cloth.
After finishing that little work, there was no other farm work in the paradise. Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, had nothing to do. He was particularly thinking about the pigs, cows, chickens and ducks at home, and he also wanted to go back to his hometown.
When the helicopter of their little cotton-padded jacket came back, the couple rushed over eagerly. Even though they had no luggage to carry, they all calmed down when they saw their girl.
Le's father snatched his son's backpack and helped him carry it. As he walked towards the east courtyard, he repeatedly asked if he had had lunch and if he had found the needed medicinal materials.
Zhou Qiufeng heard that Yazai had not eaten, so she entered the east courtyard. She and Yueqing went directly to the kitchen. Yue's father used yak dung as firewood to light a fire. Zhou Qiufeng washed the pot and made soup and dumplings.
Leshan and Luke practiced martial arts in the morning and studied at the "Dian Mo Studio" in the afternoon. Li Zhao was responsible for supervising the two little guys. Anyone who had questions they didn't understand could ask him.
Leyun did not go to the study, but put her luggage back in the "Jiudetang" and went to the kitchen to have a belated lunch. Then she wandered to the alchemy furnace room and opened the basement door for ventilation.
I went to find all the ropes and machetes, put a bag of plant ashes, and then gathered three good helpers: Dad, Aunt Feng, Brother Fu, Brother Qian, Brother Jie, and then called Mr. Li and two children to carry the knife belt.
Use a thick rope to cut sugar cane in the backyard.
The sugarcane planted in the backyard is a cold-resistant variety from the north of Dongchen Continent. After three springs, three plants grew, and some weak plants fell out. There are a total of thirty-five living plants.
The tallest sugar cane among the more than 30 sugar canes is more than ten meters tall, with a waist diameter of sixteen centimeters. Because it is too high, two layers of triangular supports were built, one at five meters high and the other at eight meters.
At such a high position, with two layers of support, the sugar cane tree will not be blown down by the wind.
Except for the largest one, the waist diameter of the other two-year-old sugar canes is within eight to twelve centimeters. The new seedlings in the spring of that year are as big as a wine glass with a diameter of 4 or 5 centimeters. The new sugar cane legs have long legs and tender skin, and are particularly energetic.
The sugar cane has grown into a forest, and the roots stand upright like a forest of bamboo. When the Chao family and their relatives and friends visited the east courtyard, no one wanted to believe that it was sugar cane.
Leshan Luke had long been curious about the piece of sugar cane that looked like bamboo. When he heard that the sugar cane was going to be cut, he was so excited that he ran ahead.
The two little ones who ran to the sugar cane forest first were holding the largest sugar cane and playing with it. Shaking the sugar cane with their strength was like "flying ants shaking a big tree", and the sugar cane did not move at all.
The children's happiness was very simple, and Brother Fu and others were delighted to see it.
Sugarcane originally grew in ridges, and the old roots were not dug. Within a certain period of time, new shoots would grow on their own every spring, with irregular spacing, so the sugarcane was not in a line.
Originally, there was a space of about three feet wide between the ridges, but with more sugar cane, the distance between the rows was only about one and a half feet wide. The leaves of the sugar cane were staggered to form a tree-lined avenue.
Dad Le and others looked at the bamboo-like sugar cane and felt at a loss what to do.
Classmate Le picked out the sugar cane that was ready to be harvested, climbed up the tree, peeled off some leaves at the top, and then cut sections from the top down one by one, and threw the cut sugar cane sections on the grass.
She is so delicate and light that she can climb sugar canes like trees, but others cannot. Even with a support frame, she can hardly bear the weight of an adult man or woman.
Classmate Le weighs less than 100 kilograms, and he even erected a bamboo pole to share his weight. Half of his center of gravity is on the bamboo pole. Even if he climbs to the top of the sugar cane, it will not crush the sugar cane.
A sugar cane needs to be cut into about three sections, and then the support supporting the sugar cane can be removed and chopped directly from the root.
Le Xiaololi started with a sugar cane with a smaller diameter. She threw the cut sugar cane into the grass. Le's father Zhou Qiufeng and Brother Fu, Brother Qian and Brother Jie first helped collect the leaves. After the sugar cane was cut into sections, they carried it
Go to one side and stack the tail section and the middle section separately.
The sugarcane is divided into sections with a shiny green skin, like sections of bamboo. Only when you look at the fractures can you find that it is solid and exudes a sweet smell.
Li Zhao stood aside with the children and did not allow the children to get close. Only when the little girl chopped down the sugar cane did he help carry it out and put it on the grass for Le's father and others to cut it.
After cutting down more than a dozen large sugar cane trees, the cane forest became much more empty, and the tallest sugar cane tree stood out alone.
The largest sugarcane grows in the ridge. No matter which way it is poured, other seedlings will be damaged. So we had to use a helicopter. A rope was hung from the helicopter and tied to the middle of the sugarcane. Then it was cut off. The helicopter lifted up the top section of the sugarcane and lowered it down.
On the grass.
After removing the support frame, the rope hanging from the bottom of the helicopter was tied to another section of sugar cane, and then the roots were cut. The helicopter then hoisted the sugar cane up, moved it to the top of the grass, and lowered it down.
After cutting down all the sugar cane that could be harvested, Mr. Le Xiao carried a big knife and divided the sugar cane into sections.
The length of about one meter to two meters at the root end of sugarcane is very hard and cannot be chewed by humans. The sugar cane can only be pressed with a machine or left as seedlings. The length of about one meter at the end is in the growth stage, very tender and has a lot of water.
Either squeeze the sugar or keep it for seedlings.
Classmate Le cut off the root and tail sections of the sugar cane and kept them as seedlings. After cutting off, he wrapped the cut ends in plant ash and moved them to the cellar for storage, so that they can be planted in spring next February.
The middle part that can be eaten directly is cleaned first, then cut into sections, put in a fresh-keeping box, and transported back to the Baibao Pavilion of Langhuan Palace for storage. One box is placed in Jiudetang.
After cleaning up the place, a group of people washed their hands and sat in Jiudetang to share sugar cane.
Student Le Xiao picked a section of the largest sugar cane, divided it into three sections, and then cut it into four sections, one for each person.
It is a large sugar cane with a diameter of more than ten centimeters. The shortest node at the root end is more than a foot long, and a node in the middle is more than two feet high. One sugar cane is divided into three sections and then split into four pieces. One piece is three times as long as ordinary sugar cane.
Four sections long.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Sugarcane looks like bamboo, with the thick skin removed, the meat is very soft and has enough water, so it won’t hurt your teeth when you bite it, and it tastes particularly good.
A group of people gnawed sugar cane more vigorously than giant pandas chewing bamboo, and everyone ate with gusto.
"Hmm, this is delicious, even better than the one grown from Jiudao." Dad Le was chewing on the sugar cane stick, his eyes bright, and he was praising it as he ate.
The climate of Jiudao can also grow sugar cane, because growing sugar cane can easily make the land poor, and there is no scale in the area. Generally, families plant some in the corners of the land and eat it themselves.
The sugar cane grown by oneself tastes better than the sugar cane sold in the market. After all, the self-grown land uses natural agricultural fertilizers, while the sugar cane grown in the sugar cane production area uses chemical fertilizers.
Both the Zhou family and the Liu family and the Zhang family in Jiudao grow sugarcane, which is basically not sold on the street and is consumed within the village.
"Dad will bring a box back when he comes home, and I will give a share to Grandpa Chao's family and my wife's family. As for my family, don't even think about planting this. The tree is too tall and it is not safe to plant privately."
"Okay, I'll just take the ready-made ones back and just plant them. Not to mention the fertilizer cost, you still have to build a frame for it, and you have to use a helicopter to cut the cane. It's too expensive. If you make money by planting it, you'll lose money."
Dad Le was complaining about the time and money spent on sugar cane, and Brother Fu chuckled: "Mr. Le, you haven't seen the whole process yet. When the little girl planted this, it took her a long time to dig the hole and fill the ridge, and fill it with fertilizer to a depth of three feet.
Later, when the little girl was not at home, I kept an eye on it and recorded the budding time. Some of the thinner buds fell out. Then I had to water according to the weather and observe whether there were insect bites. When it grew to more than one and a half meters, I had to peel off the leaves regularly.
It’s really troublesome to grow this.”
"Sure enough, growing this is easier than raising cows." Dad Le was immediately frightened after hearing this. Raising cows requires taking them out for a walk every day, mowing the grass frequently, and worrying about it all year round.
You don't have to eat or drink, but you have to worry about nothing less than raising cattle.
Le Yun smiled so hard that her eyes turned into crescents and she said nothing.
The sugar cane was very good. The handsome guys gnawed off one piece and happily gnawed on the second piece.
The little loli only ate one piece, so she went to Baibao Pavilion to find some plastic crisper boxes, picked out more than a dozen pieces of sugar cane, and put them in the crisper boxes. She gave one box to Brother Fu and others, and asked them to help with the other boxes.
I'll send it to the same city tomorrow and deliver it to the Chao family's three grandmother's houses and Mrs. Wang's house.
Luke also had a share, and he got two canes alone.
We all had dinner in the east courtyard in the evening, Le's father Zhou Qiufeng cooked, and Brother Fu, Brother Qian, and Brother Jie helped.
Classmate Le did not go to the kitchen to help. After eating the sugar cane, she went to the alchemy furnace, gathered all the tools needed to make medicine, and opened ten furnaces, nine medicine cauldrons to boil medicine, and a small medicine furnace to stew sugar cane.
After dinner, we officially went into the alchemy furnace room and made pills behind closed doors.
When Little Loli was in seclusion, Ms. Wei socialized for several days and attended a luncheon at noon that day. Finally, there was no banquet in the evening and she returned to her parents' home when she had time.
Ms. Wei's brother, Mr. Wei, had a social event in the evening. Her brother and sister-in-law were not at home late at night, but Mr. Wei was at home.
Ms. Wei returned to the compound where her husband lived, just as she usually did when returning to her parents' home. After dinner, her parents went to the study.
The study was relatively private. After Mr. Wei sat down, he asked: "Qiu Meng, is there something hidden in your heart? Did you have a quarrel with Xu Hongzhan?"
"There was no quarrel." Ms. Wei shook her head, not knowing what to say.
"What's going on?"
"Dad, I want to ask you, did you ask Mr. Zhou to order a baby for Leshan and my Nuannuan to kiss when we were in the paradise that day?" Ms. Wei hesitated for a while, but told her the purpose of returning to her parents' home.
"Yeah, I mentioned it, what's wrong?" Mr. Wei didn't understand why the girl suddenly brought up the old matter again after a few days.
"Dad, why did you suddenly have that idea? Was it your own idea, or did someone say something?" Ms. Wei's neatly trimmed eyebrows were wrinkled.
"..." Mr. Wei opened his mouth, then remained silent for a moment: "Qiu Meng, did the little girl or the Chao family talk to you in private?"
