After Jiang Mingzhao left, song Xintong stood up and watered the flowers and plants beside him with a kettle. He was very comfortable while watering and humming the catchy tune of his previous life.
"Girl, the second lady of he family, they have gone to the back mountain with sweet potato vines on their back. Now they are resting outside the yard." Wang came in and said.
"Then I'll see." Song Xintong put the watering can aside and stepped out of the yard. Standing under the green trees outside the yard, he saw aunt he resting on the stone slope not far in front of him: "aunt, why don't you use a cart to carry it up?"
"No, it's not heavy to carry." Aunt he wiped the sweat on her head. "Xintong, our sweet potatoes are almost dug. It's estimated that we can carry the sweet potato vines back two or three times."
"Hard work, auntie." Song Xintong originally wanted Cui Er to deliver it, but they didn't let it. They said they would deliver it directly.
And song Xintong wanted to give money, but they refused. They said sweet potato vines were worthless. They only left a part of sweet potato vines enough to feed pigs, and all the rest came.
Song Xintong was very grateful, thinking that in the coming year, they would choose some fertilizer from here.
"Auntie, when do you start planting wheat seedlings?" Song Xintong asked.
"When you're done digging sweet potatoes, plant them." Aunt he said, "Xintong, you also grow wheat and rape this year, right?"
"No Song Xintong said.
"No?" Aunt he was very surprised. At first, they all knew that the 30 mu dry land of song Xintong's family was empty after collecting pepper, "why don't you plant it? It's a waste of being empty. If it's empty for a long time, it's easy to grow grass. If it's long, it's not fat. The land raised in summer will soon be wasted. "
"Don't worry, aunt. I have other plans." At the beginning of September, Liu Fugui and his family sold a lot of good land in order to collect money. Song Xintong took the opportunity to buy another two or three hundred mu. It was in a village not far from the county seat. The land was connected in pieces, which was very good.
Poplars have asked people to deal with the land. When the time comes, wheat or rape will be planted there, and sweet potato and rice will be planted after harvest next spring. There will be no vacancy all year round.
In the 30 mu dry land near the village, all the peppers are planted. Now the land is being sorted out. After a few days, when the pepper seedlings come out, they will all be planted. At that time, it will be the same as last year, and will be planted in greenhouses.
I can't help it. In summer, I don't get many chili seeds. If the whole village wants to plant them in a large scale, it will be difficult, so we have to find a way to get more seeds out and dry more chili peppers by the way.
"You have a plan." Aunt he said with a smile.
Song Xintong followed aunt he and walked back up the mountain together, "aunt, why hasn't Baiyun come back all the time? I haven't seen her for a long time
"When you get married, you can't go back to your mother's house at will." Aunt he was also very helpless. Although she married back to her mother's home, she was not so comfortable before she got married.
Aunt he's mother's home is just a few miles away from Taohua village. She can go back and forth in a day, but she is not so free after all.
"At the end of October, her grandfather will celebrate his 60th birthday and should come back." He Er Auntie said: "then you can talk well."
"Yes, I haven't seen her for a long time." Song Xintong calculated the days, and it took him more than a month. Time passed quickly, and soon arrived.
"Auntie, were you still raising a house at that time?" Song Xintong walked slowly behind aunt he, not far or near, and could just hear her.
He Er Auntie said: "we should get up well. We don't have much land. Two mu of wheat and two mu of rape are enough to eat."
Before the separation of the he family, there was a small amount of land of nearly 10 mu in the family. After the separation, it was divided equally. The big house and the second house were almost five mu in each family. The two old he families followed the big house, so they asked for some vegetable land behind the house, which is also a disguised understanding of the big house.
In a word, the two old men in he's family are really fair and just. The family is very harmonious. They don't say they are partial to the elder or the younger. They share everything equally. It is estimated that there are few such harmonious families in Taohua village.
Of course, the Xie family is also very harmonious, and so are song Xintong and Lu Mu.
"Aunt doesn't buy land?" Song Xintong thought that ordinary families would buy their own small businesses after they separated.
"After the house is repaired, if there is any money left, we will see if there is any land. Now no one in the village is willing to sell the land. If we want to buy it, we have to go to other villages. It's too far away. If we can't do it, we will open a few acres of dry land by ourselves." Aunt he said.
Farmers always regard land as their lifeblood. If they don't have money to buy it, they open up wasteland. If they don't have good land, they have to put several acres of dry land under their accounts to feel secure.
According to the money that Aunt he has earned in the past half year, it is estimated that the money will not be too little. It should be enough. Song Xintong is not worried, and does not say anything. If she can't borrow it from her, she can borrow it from her.
"What kind of house is my aunt going to build?"
"It's enough for a family to build seven or eight rooms." Aunt he wiped her sweat and said, "I'd like to learn from Aunt Xie, but it's still a little too big. Just add a wing room to the main room."
Aunt Xie, they built a row of main rooms in front of them, including the courtyard and main room. Behind them is a small courtyard, which is square. The whole family lives in the back.
Song Xintong said: "that's OK. Now Dongzi's child is still young, and He Xi hasn't been married. It will be done in a few years."
"Yes, we think so too." Aunt he put the basket on the edge of the fence in the forest and hung the sweet potato vines on the bamboo strips tied to the tree to dry.
A lot of sweet potato vines were dried in the trees. The sweet potato vines sent by Aunt Xie were almost dried, so they were put in the warehouse next to the rabbit house. On weekdays, they were mixed with sweet potato and other fodder to feed the rabbits. They ate them with relish.
Now there are more and more rabbits in the rabbit. They need hundreds of Jin of forage every day, and they are only half full.
After all, a month at least a ton and a half of materials, these sweet potato leaves also need more sun drying, otherwise it's not easy in winter.
Aunt he finished all the sweet potato vines and sat down to have a rest.
Song Xintong looked up at the sunlight leaking from the crack of the tree branch: "aunt, do you want to go down and have a tea break for a while?"
"No more." Aunt he wiped her sweat: "Baiyun, she's a nurse. They're still digging sweet potatoes in the field. I have to go back earlier and dig them out as soon as possible." Then he got up and went down the mountain with the basket on his back.
"Then I'll ask Cui ER and them to put some water here. You can drink some water to moisten your throat when you come back with sweet potato vines later." Song Xintong said.
"That's good." Aunt he didn't say anything more. She turned around and went down the mountain.
Song Xintong walked slowly to the chicken house and said to Xiaocui, "these days people in the village have to send sweet potato vines. You can boil some water and put them on it."
Most people in the village are willing to give her sweet potato vines for free, while some people want to sell them for money, but it's not too much. It's not expensive. No matter how high it is, she doesn't want to spend money to buy them. If it's too expensive, she might as well buy grass directly, which is more elaborate and better.
"Good master, now there is boiling water in the pot, and I'll take it up now." Xiaocui said.