jdhmnovel Chapter 303 Go to the Field and Take a Look
Chapter 303 Go to the Field and Take a Look
Although Gu Qingqing felt that she had explained to them clearly how to raise seedlings, she still felt that it was not safe to leave it all to them. She thought it would be more appropriate for her to help raise some of them. In case they failed to raise them, she could use the ones she had first.
When Lu Xiaocao heard that her elder sister was helping to raise seedlings, she said happily, "Will that cause trouble for my elder sister?"
"What's the trouble?"
Since they were not going to invite the other party to dinner, Gu Qingqing took the bamboo basket they brought and went down to her own cellar to dig out the sweet potatoes from the sand.
When she bought them that day, she picked sizes that were similar, so she didn't have to make any extra choices this time. She could just feel which one it was.
Then he explained to Xiaocao again how to do it and then sent them away.
Although they were not invited to stay for dinner, Gu Qingqing gave Xiaocao a bag of jujube paste cakes that Wen Wuyan brought from the town and asked them to take it back.
She was in a hurry to go to Chunhua's house to dig saplings and did not dare to waste any more time. She called Wen Wuyan, picked up a small handful of prickly ash, and went towards Geng Chunhua's house.
Without anything, she would feel embarrassed to go digging saplings with her shoulders full of stuff.
"Qingqing is here. I said I would send it to you after I finished the work at hand. Wuyan is here too." Geng Chunhua, who was washing clothes in the yard, saw them coming, rubbed her wet hands on her clothes, and stood up to greet them.
"I dare not trouble Sister Geng to send it to me. Now that there are people helping out at home today, I naturally cannot let him go." Gu Qingqing said, pointing at Wen Wuyan who came with Sanhua, and then gave the Thorny Dragon Bag in her hand to him.
"My brother from my mother's family just sent it to you. I'll give you some to try."
Geng Chunhua said, "Is a sapling worth bringing so many things?" but she had already taken it.
"Why are you the only one at home? Where are Brother Li and the children?" Gu Qingqing asked curiously when she saw no one else around.
"Brother Li, go to the field to check on the germination of the sorghum you planted first. Rongrong and Yangdan went to the mountain to dig wild vegetables."
"Brother Li is really a hardworking man. I haven't even gone to check on the seedlings of the trees my family has planted. Do you have a shovel? After we dig up the seedlings, we'll go to the field and take a look." Gu Qingqing said.
"Yes, look, that's it." Geng Chunhua pointed at the shovel and was about to dig by herself, but was stopped by Gu Qingqing.
In her words, Wen Wuyan was brought here to do the work.
Wen Wuyan dug out the persimmon sapling and shoveled some soil from the side to fill the hole.
Gu Qingqing let Sanhua pull her earlobe, but she said to Geng Chunhua happily, "I planted the orange seeds we ate during the Chinese New Year. As long as three seedlings grow, I will give you one. Whether the fruit tastes good or not is not the point. If there are bright red fruits hanging on the tree, it will be nice to just look at them."
Geng Chunhua was of straightforward nature and would not refuse something she liked. Besides, she still remembered how greedy the children were when she shared the oranges in her hand with them after returning from Gu Qingqing's house on New Year's Day.
"Okay, then it's a deal. If it sprouts, leave one for me."
"Of course. Okay, let's go, you should go wash your clothes." Seeing Wen Wuyan stepping on the hole that had just been filled, Gu Qingqing also said goodbye to Geng Chunhua.
After returning home, they planted the persimmon saplings together.
"Qingqing, there's still some time before noon. Should we go and check on the situation on our fields?" Wen Wuyan asked.
"Sure, it's a good opportunity to see how the wheat is growing recently."
The "see" they were talking about was naturally the land outside Shangyang Village.
The wheat seedlings of other families along the road were already as tall as an adult's knees. The two of them talked as they staggered towards their own fields.
"Hey, Wuyan, do you think that man is the old man who sold the land to us? Is he looking at our crops?" Gu Qingqing had seen someone standing over there a long time ago, but the distance was too far and she couldn't see clearly.
By now they had already turned into the small path leading to their own land, so they would not make the mistake again.
Wen Wuyan moved Sanhua's hand away from covering his eye, looked for a moment and nodded, "It was him."
As they spoke, the two quickened their pace.
The old man naturally saw them coming, but he didn't. He just waited at the edge of the field. When they came closer, he said with a smile, "From a distance it looked like you. It really is you!"
Wen Wuyan stepped forward and greeted him, "Well, we came to check on the crops. You are here too."
"I just went to another field to check out the sorghum, and I turned around to take a look when I passed by here." The old man said, and suddenly gave him a thumbs up, and said sincerely, "Before I sold the land to you, I was a little worried that you were young and couldn't take good care of it. Now looking at the strong crops in the field, you are better than me."
Seeing Wen Wuyan talking to the old man again, Gu Qingqing didn't say anything. She looked at the crops in her own field, and then at those of another family not far away. In comparison, her own crops were growing very well.
“I dare not compare myself with you. You have been taking care of crops for a lifetime and you must understand them better than us. What we are doing is nothing more than applying enough manure in the winter. Now we just need to watch how they grow.” Wen Wuyan squatted down and stroked his hand across the wheat seedlings. The rustling sound of wheat leaves rubbing against each other could be heard by everyone.
The old man smiled and waved his hands at him, as if he didn't think he was that great. "The second half of the month will be the critical heading period, so you should keep up with the manure application. I don't know when it will rain, but once it rains, your five acres of wheat will yield at least an extra bushel of grain."
After listening to the old man's words, Gu Qingqing looked forward to the golden wheat fields that were about to turn into golden wheat fields.
Wen Wuyan was chewing on "a stone of grain". If they could really harvest one more stone of grain, it would be enough for their family to eat for more than twenty days.
This is really good news for their family.
"Thank you for your good wishes." Wen Wuyan said sincerely.
"Hey, I'm afraid I didn't say enough. I just saw that you guys have also planted over there, but I didn't recognize what you planted. The three or five new sprouts look a bit like sweet potatoes, but if you look closely, they are not quite the same."
The old man didn't feel that it was inappropriate for him to see what they were planting, so he asked out of curiosity.
Although Wen Wuyan knew that his family had planted some native eggs here, he was not clear about the specific arrangements, so he looked at Gu Qingqing with an inquiring look.
Gu Qingqing smiled and pointed to the ground not far away and asked, "Are you talking about that place?"
Seeing the old man nod, she smiled and said, "These are the local eggs I found when I went to the county before. They said they tasted similar to sweet potatoes. I was curious about them, so I bought some seeds and planted them to give it a try."
As Gu Qingqing was speaking, the three adults and one child were already walking over there.