The beautiful pastoral field of Jiangmen girl

Chapter 264 Eating corn (2)
And on their farm, according to Qingshu's request, the seeds are planted according to two seeds (to ensure that there is no shortage of seedlings), and the distance between the plants is also much larger than others.Then wait until the seedlings emerge and grow to a length above the ground, leaving only one seedling and shoveling off the excess.In this way, their corn cobs are big and the seeds are thick, and the rice produced by one cob can equal the rice of two to three cobs planted by others.

Wu Tongtou and Wu Guanshi followed Qingshu, "Miss, everyone gathered together and made an estimate. The yield of our corn is between one and a half to two stones per mu."

The yield per mu is between 450 jin and [-] jin, which is still not high.She thought that the yield per mu could reach about [-] catties.It seems that work is still needed.She vaguely remembered that the old people once said that in the era without chemical fertilizers and mechanization, with plenty of fertilizer and water, and good cultivation, the yield of corn per mu could reach seven to eight hundred catties.She thought, pressing her fingernails on the seeds of the broken bracts was a bit laborious and there was no juice flowing. They were already ripening and hard, so they could not be cooked or cooked.

When he walked to the ten-acre cornfield planted with stubble of winter wheat, Qing Shu also lifted a stick to look at it.

Manager Wu said regretfully, "Miss, I'm afraid that the corn in the ten mu of land will not mature in time for the autumn harvest. The sticks have not been grown for a long time, and the seeds have not yet formed. When the autumn harvest comes, they will be shriveled when they dry up. It can only be fed to livestock, and there is no money to buy it.”

Normal bracts have already withered and yellowed one or two leaves from the bottom leaves at this season, and the sticks have basically grown, and the rest is slowly maturing.And the corn in the ten mu of land here is just when it is growing green, and it must not be mature in time before the autumn harvest.

Qing Shu had his own plans in mind, but he didn't want to tell the truth in advance, "Guard Wu, don't worry, the ten mu of land should also be taken care of well, and it will be useful in autumn harvest time."

Then I went to the cabbage field.The cabbage grown under the spring wheat is also very gratifying.This year's cabbage will not sell a single one, pick all the pickled sauerkraut, and earn a fortune when no one learns it.Qingshu originally planned to buy a large area of ​​land to plant, but he hadn't come across any for sale, so he had to look again.If it doesn't work, we have to find a suitable place to open up wasteland and plant it.

Walking past the head of Baogu again, Qing Shu couldn't hold back after all, and whispered to Guanshi Wu, "Go in and break off a dozen or twenty sticks of tender Baogu, which should be of average size, with good kernels and squeezed out juice. Don't let people see it, I want to take it away." She was so greedy for boiled corn and grilled corn, she couldn't bear it, so she couldn't bear it anymore, so she took it and cooked it secretly, and it happened that she had her own small kitchen.

Manager Wu felt sorry for those tender bud valleys, but he didn't say much, and he agreed, and got into the bud valleys.

People depend on food, and food is fundamental.In ancient times, no one would break the tender corn, because it was a waste, and no one cared about food.In the final analysis, it is still the result of food shortage and low food production.

While Qingshu secretly spurned her greed, she couldn't help jumping for joy, and ordered Xiaojuan to go over and call the carriage.Soon, Li Dalang drove the carriage over and stopped at the place Qingshu designated.After waiting for a while, Steward Wu got out of the ground and signaled Xiaojuan to open the door curtain of the carriage, and then put the seven or eight corn sticks in her arms into the carriage.He turned around and entered the ground again, and after a while, when he came back, he held a dozen corn sticks in his arms, and put them into the car as well.

Qing Shu nodded, "It's ok."

After going to Zhuangzi, Manager Wu gave Xiaojuan a smaller pannier, and told Xiaojuan to put the things in the car into it quietly, so that no one could see it.

When it was time for lunch, Qing Shu ate a corn pancake with pickles, and then brought three baskets of eggs and two baskets of vegetables back to town.After entering the mansion, the eggs and vegetables were moved to the kitchen.And Xiaojuan didn't give anyone the bag filled with corn, and carried it back to Qingshu's small kitchen.

Qing Shu rested for a while, drank some water, changed into a cotton dress, and began to assign tasks. "Xiaojuan, you go ahead and tell the young master, young master Rong and young master Chen to eat here at night. By the way, tell Mr. Lu that Sheng Ge will come here to eat with the young master and the others." "Ling Lan, go talk to Xu Sanniang." Xu Wuniang said hello, let Xiaoya and Maizi come to my side for dinner." Then he greeted Xiaoyu, "Come with me."

Qingshu brought Xiaoyu into the kitchen and assigned Xiaoyu to do the work, "Clean the pot, put half a pot of water in it, turn on the fire, and then go to the kitchen to ask Xu Sanniang to bring a smaller pumpkin. By the way, take another pumpkin A few taels of lean meat, and a few of each vegetable.” After explaining, she took a low stool and sat down in front of the basket, took out a stick of corn from the basket, peeled the skin, and carefully plucked the beard .After picking one, she put it into the earthen pot prepared next to it.

After Xiaoyu cleaned up the pot, filled it with water, lit the stove and went out, Qingshu had already cooked eight corns.She counted the number of people, and then peeled off four more bract husks. The rest, including the husks, were put in the basket and placed under the wall, and covered with a blue coarse cloth.

Qing Shu took the pot to the chopping board, took a kitchen knife, put a piece of corn on the chopping board, compared it, chopped it down with a kitchen knife, cut a short section, and cut two more knives. Put Duan Baogu into the pot of boiling water.There is a disadvantage in this way. The juice of some of the seeds cut off by the knife will come out, and if it is boiled in water, this part will lose its flavor.After she thought about it, she didn't cut it, and put the remaining eleven corns into the pot.Then I picked some tender skins from the inner layer of the peeled corn husks and covered them with water, covered the pot, and sat in front of the stove to fill the fire.When she was a child, her grandmother cooked it like this, saying that it is more delicious when it is covered with tender skin.

Xiao Yu hugged a small pumpkin and came back together with Xiao Juan who brought a small basket of vegetables.

Qingshu gave Xiaoyu the task of lighting the fire, and Xiaojuan packed up the corn husks and sent them to the stables to feed the horses.

Qing Shu washed the pumpkin, put it on the chopping board, cut a hole from the base, took out the seeds and other things inside, and set it aside.Then turn to washing dishes.

Xiaojuan came back and snatched the job of washing vegetables from Qingshu.

So Qing Shu moved to the chopping board, cut thin slices of lean meat, took the washed vegetables and cut them into small pieces, or cut them into small pieces, and stuffed them into the pumpkin belly.Then cut the onion, ginger and garlic and fill it in, add a few seasonings and salt at hand, add oil, and add a small amount of water.Finally, cover the root part of the pumpkin that has been cut off.

Xiaojuan felt strange, "Miss, what are you doing?"

Qing Shu thought for a while, "I don't know what I'm doing, anyway, I suddenly thought of it, and I wanted to do it, so I did it. Don't ask, quickly open the lid of the pot, put a steamer in it, I want to put this pumpkin vegetable Put it in and steam it." The pumpkin was stuffed with meat and vegetables, and she decided to simply call it a pumpkin dish.

Xiaojuan was dumbfounded, "Ah, steam it?"

Qing Shu urged her, "Stop it, hurry up. The pot is about to boil. By the way, remember to put a bigger plate with a deep bottom for me. I want to sit the pumpkin on the plate so that it doesn't get cooked. There is no way to take it."

(End of this chapter)