Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 69

It is now the end of February, and in a few days, it will be almost Qingming. Water candles are generally planted after Qingming. After three or four months of planting, the first picking can be carried out. The grass buds of water candles grow Hurry up, if the growth is stable and vigorous, you can pick it again in two or three months.

Before the water candles are planted, they have to be fertilized, and it takes more than ten days to do it. Therefore, as soon as the Zhang family made an agreement, they started to take action. Together with Zhang Zhang, Zhang Youqing brought the woven cattail grass baskets and baskets, as well as the fried cattail catkins. Cai, went to Lizheng and told him about the planting of cattail grass.

Next, it depends on what Lizheng means. If he agrees and gives great support, large-scale breeding can be carried out. If he takes a wait-and-see attitude, then the Zhang family will prepare to contract a pond by themselves according to the agreement, and try it out first. If the sales are good, the Zhang family will pay the rent of the one-year contracted pond. If the sales are not good, the Zhang family will take out all the picked lotus roots, lotus seeds, and water chestnuts. , distributed to the village, in this case, for the villagers, there will still be lotus roots, lotus seeds, and water chestnuts, without any loss.

With such a plan in mind, Zhang Youqing and Zhang Cheng went to Lizheng's house early in the morning, while Zhang Liangen took Mrs. Zhou to the field. Zhang Yun was busy cleaning up at home and waiting for news from his father and elder brother.

When the next Wanzhang family came back, they brought good news.As soon as Zhang Zhang entered the yard, he rushed into the kitchen and shouted with a smile: "Yun'er, good news, today my father and I went to find Li Zheng, and he has already nodded his agreement."

Zhang Yun was naturally very happy when he heard it, and while cooking vegetables in his hands, he asked, "What did Li Zheng say?"

Zhang Zhang scooped water into the wooden basin, squatted beside the wooden basin to wash his hands, and said with a smile, "When we first talked, Lizheng was still a little hesitant, but Lizheng tasted the bowl of vegetables you asked Dad to bring, Dad Tell him that even if the baskets and baskets made of water candles cannot be sold, they can be used at home, and they can also be picked and cooked to eat, and they will never be white-grown, Lizheng listened, and immediately agreed."

Zhang Yun stood by the stove and nodded cheerfully. That's what she thought at the beginning. Planting water candles costs nothing, at most it takes a little labor, but there are so many uses. Comparing her heart to heart, she thinks it's a good deal, and Li Zheng will naturally I think it’s a good deal, especially for farmers, as long as there are bowls of vegetables on the table, it’s good. Planting lotus roots, lotus seeds, water chestnuts, etc., including farming, is not all for eating, adding vegetables, and filling your stomach. So she figured out that Lizheng promised to promise to take cattails with her.

Zhang Yun was happy in his heart, and Zhang Zhang, after washing his hands and pouring out the water, turned around and said excitedly: "Lizheng said that all the ponds in the village will be planted with water candles, and he also said that if If these baskets are easy to sell, we will dig some ponds next year and plant them all."

Lizheng of Tuntian Village did not disappoint Zhang Yun once again. This is the best attitude for a village cadre. He is willing to listen, drive, and promote. With such a Lizheng, there is no fear that the village will not find a way to get rich .

In the evening two days later, Li normal Xiangyang invited the senior elders in the village to discuss the matter in the ancestral hall, and got unanimous support, and the matter of water candle breeding was finalized.

After the matter was finalized, the next day, Xiangyang called all the middle-aged men in the village to announce the matter, and it was agreed that each household would assign a laborer to prepare the pond and fertilize the pond. The seedlings of the water candles were dug out and planted, and along the way, lotus root buds were planted and lotus seeds were sown.

Zhang Yun asked Zhang Zhang to inform Guo Lizheng in advance, saying that the water candles should be dug and planted on the same day, and it is best to plant three rows of cattail grass, leaving some gaps, and plant one row of lotus roots. Growth, without interfering with each other, both can grow normally, with no harm at all.

Afterwards, the villagers of Tuntian Village, except for those with very little labor, almost all pulled out their hands. Everyone started to prepare and fertilize the five or six mud ponds in the village, and they worked in full swing.

The men are working hard, and the women are not far behind. Originally, the Shaw Brothers agreed to teach Zhang Liangen and Zhang Youqing. In this way, it became a matter for the whole village. Zhang Yun simply discussed with the Shao Brothers, and asked her to help. To teach women and children in the village how to weave, so that the whole village can have hands-on ability and form industrialization.

Shaw fully agreed, and helped to call on all the daughters-in-law and women in the village to gather at the threshing field with their small stools after dinner the next night. Zhou took all the cattail grass from the family. Come out, let Shao take these rushes and weave them on the spot to teach everyone.

This meeting has already entered March, and the time of darkness is gradually postponed. Next night, after dinner, it will be completely dark. There will always be an hour in between. Get up, learn cattail weaving, and after meals every day, you can see women in twos and threes, carrying benches and going in groups, laughing and joking.

In the twinkling of an eye, the sixth day of March came, and it was the Cold Food Festival. The Cold Food Festival is two days before the Ching Ming Festival. During these two days, there will be no fireworks in the morning and evening. You can only eat cold rice and cold food, so you have to prepare for these two days in advance. of eating.Because the Cold Food Festival and the Ching Ming Festival are consecutive, every family has to do food and prepare fruits, paper money, ingots, incense candles for tomb-sweeping, and teach weaving in the wheat field. Make time for homework.

After Mrs. Zhou had finished eating this day, he started to make the fried cold utensils for the cold food festival. Tomorrow, he had to make the Qingming fruit, which was necessary for sweeping the tomb, and Zhang Yun was there to help.

Mrs. Zhou scooped the flour, mixed it with water, beat in an egg, sprinkled some salt, kneaded the dough evenly with his hands, and then tied the dough into a soft, smooth and strong dough, covered it with a damp cloth for a while, and then put it on the chopping board Apply some oil, put the noodles on the chopping board, spread another layer of oil on the noodles, knead them into long strips as thick as chopsticks, put them into a basin layer by layer, brush each layer with oil, and knead them into one from the beginning to the end.

Mrs. Zhou was rubbing the noodles, and called out: "Yun'er, it's time to turn on the oil pan. I'll finish rubbing it soon, and it will be fried later."

Zhang Yun responded quickly, opened the lid of the pot, and poured oil into the pot. Almost half of the pot of oil was poured, and then added firewood and fire to heat the oil.

"Mother, the oil is hot." Seeing steam coming out of the pot, Zhang Yun saw that the oil was almost ready, so he called Mrs. Zhou.

Mrs. Zhou's side was fine, so she took a basin, put it on the stove, clamped one end of the noodles in the tiger's mouth of her left hand, stroked the noodles with her right hand, and wrapped eight or nine circles around the four fingers of her left hand stretched out side by side. , take a pair of chopsticks, hold them in the wrapped noodle trap, hold both ends with both hands and pull them out, then put them into the oil pan, as soon as they are hot, twist one end for half a dose, then pull out the chopsticks, put them in the oil pan Deep-fry until golden brown and remove.

Seeing pieces of cold utensils taken out of the oil pan and put into a bowl, Zhang Yun couldn't help but took a piece into his mouth, only to find it salty and crispy, very delicious, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Mom, can I have some Order it for Xingzi, he must like it."

"Take less, you can't eat too much of this food after it's hot, and you have to save the cold food for two days." Zhou knows that she loves her younger brother, so she doesn't refuse, but just asks her to take less.

"Hey." Zhang Yun responded quickly, took a small bowl, grabbed two cold utensils in his hands, ran out of the yard, went to the mud pond, and found Zhang Xing who was playing there.

"Xingzi, wash your hands quickly, there is something delicious for you." Zhang Yun ran behind Zhang Xing, grabbed him, dragged him to the pond to wash his hands, and then handed him the bowl.

"Ah, big sister, deep-fried cold utensils." Zhang Xing looked at the pieces of golden-yellow delicious food in the bowl, his eyes immediately turned into crescents, and he reached out to pick up a piece and put it in his mouth. Keep saying it's delicious.

Seeing that Zhang Xing was eating vigorously, other children playing by the pond gathered around one after another. Seeing that there were only a dozen pieces of cold utensils in the bowl, Zhang Yun couldn't tell them apart, so he broke them into two halves. He said in his mouth: "You all go to wash your hands, everyone has their hands after washing, don't worry."

When the children heard this, they all squatted down to the pond to wash their hands. A small figure emerged from the pile of children and rushed to Zhang Yun. She saw that it was a dog.

"Sister Yun'er, I haven't been to your house to play for a long time." Gou Zi raised his face and said to Zhang Yun with a smile. He took two pieces of cold clothes from his pocket, stuffed them into one of his pockets, and whispered: "These two are for you, keep them for home and eat them, don't let other children see them."

Seeing that Zhang Yun was the best to him, Gouzi couldn't help being happy, and nodded vigorously. Zhang Yun patted his butt, and urged: "Don't wash your hands yet, the food will be robbed later, but Don't cry."

"Hey." Gouzi ran to the front of the pond, squeezed into the pile of other children, squatted down and washed his hands, and when the children had finished washing their hands, one by two surrounded them again, and Zhang Yun The cold utensils that had been broken in half were distributed to the children one by one, and the children threw them into their mouths and began to bite, eating deliciously and laughing happily.

"Yo, Yun'er, why don't you let us try something delicious at home." Zhang Yun was smiling and watching the children eating, when a voice came from behind her, she turned around and saw that it was composting in the pond Chang Ming.

These days, the boys in the village will go to the mud pond to help compost after eating. They have retting four or five mud ponds, and today there is only the last one left, which is the mud pond closest to Zhang Yun’s house. .

When Chang Ming called out, the other boys who rolled up their trousers, stood in the mud pond, and were shoveling fertilizer into the pond, all laughed, and shouted like a booing: "Yes, why don't we have any?"

Seeing that they were teasing him, Zhang Yun couldn't help but angrily replied: "You are such grown-ups, and you still grab food from the children, are you ashamed?" Then he leaned over and shouted to the children beside him: " Tell me, are they ashamed or not?"

The boys also knew how to take advantage of short hands and eat soft mouths. When they saw what Zhang Yun said, they all nodded and shouted in unison to the boys working in the pond, sticking out their tongues and shaving their faces: "Shame, shame, shame."

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yun was so amused that he couldn't stop giggling, and the boys in the pond laughed too. At this time, Chang Ming smiled and went to the pond to shovel fertilizer, and Chang Man behind him appeared. Yun immediately met his eyes.

(End of this chapter)