Chapter 1043 The Lazy and Bad Sister-in-Law of the Blessed Nongmen (38)

  Xu Yin smiled at him: "Okay! Then don't read, let's know a few more words and don't be blind!"

   The two went to the lotus pond together to inspect the work progress of the cousins.

  Lin Xiyun: "..."

   I don’t know why, but I only drank a bowl of porridge in the morning. Although Cui’s family prepared snacks for him between classes, he didn’t use them yet, but at this moment, he felt full.

  Xu Sanqiu shook his head: "Second sister is worthy of being the second sister, she was so free in her last school!"

  He also really wants to slip away. It is more comfortable to go up the mountain to cut firewood and go down to the fields to farm than to sit upright and listen to the teacher's class.

  But Lin Xiyun asked: "Brother Xu, have you memorized the words taught in class?"

  Xu Sanqiu replied weakly: "No..."

   "Then please sit down! It's time for recess."

   "..."

   Goudan covered his mouth and laughed.

  Xu Sanqiu was annoyed: "Why are you laughing! Do you all remember those words?"

   "..."

  Uh, I didn't remember all of them.

  Boys, sit up quickly.

  Lin Xiyun glanced at the girl who was quietly sitting in the corner trying to read characters, her brows and eyes softened, and she cleared her throat: "Let's continue the class..."

  On the other side, Xu Yin followed Comrade Xiao Jin to the wetland outside the lotus pond.

  While walking, the two guess the words learned in the previous class for each other to deepen the impression.

   Arriving in the wetland, I heard a few cousins ​​envious of Dawa Village while working:

"I heard that Dawa Village is going to build a collective lotus pond. Every household contributes to planting lotus root and raising ducks. After selling it at the end of the year, we will share the money. Our village will also build one at some time. The province will go to the town to find live."

   "There is no lake in our village, what can we do without a lake?"

   "Okay..."

   "Look, isn't this land quite fertile? In our village, how can this kind of land be left unused and no one wants it?"

   "This is called a wetland. Dawa Village is full of wetlands, as is Xiaowa Village next door. Our village is all dry land."

   "Our village still has sandy land, and the weeds at the foot of Qianqian Mountain don't grow."

   Mentioning the barren sandy land, everyone couldn't help sighing.

  It’s only ten miles away, why is the gap so big.

  Xu Yinxin said: That’s because Meihua Village, especially the frontier mountain area, is high-lying, and when it rains, it flows to the small and small depression villages, and there is not much groundwater, which leads to dry and desertified soil, and nothing can be grown over time.

  However, you can grow watermelons.

  Watermelon does not pick the ground, even sand is more suitable for its growth.

   "I have a few melon seeds here. I bought them in Chunzhou Prefecture last year. I heard from the stall owner that they were brought in from the Western Regions. They are suitable for sandy land, but paddy fields are not viable. Do you want them?"

  Last summer, Xu Yin missed the sweet, juicy, refreshing watermelon after Jingshui Township.

   Later, I bought watermelon seeds in Chunzhou Prefecture and planned to plant them in spring, but the land in Dawa Village is not very suitable for growing watermelons.

  The only acre of dry land in the family was reluctant to vacate it. After hesitating, I put it aside and decided after spring.

   As a result, since the spring plowing, the busy people have never been idle, and they even forgot about the watermelon.

  If Meihua Village could grow watermelons, she would not hesitate to give them the melon seeds, so that they would have ready-made watermelons to eat in the future, that would be great!

  Her group of cousins ​​all exclaimed:

   "What? There are also seeds suitable for planting in the sand?"

   Then what are you waiting for! Of course I want it!

  Xu Yin gave them the watermelon seeds.

  The melon seeds she gave were not the ones sold to her by street vendors in Chunzhou Prefecture, but the selected seeds that had been cultivated for several generations in the system warehouse. They not only tasted good, but also had a high germination rate.

  Although the cousins ​​don’t know what kind of melon it is, since it is a melon seed, they still know how to grow it.

  So, when they went back, one of them took a few watermelon seeds back. Xu Yinrang, led by Xu Lidong, also brought a few pills for her third brother.

   With the mentality of trying, after the melon seeds germinated, they were planted in the sandy soil at the foot of the front mountain of Meihua Village where the birds are too lazy to stay there.

  Each person opened a ridge and transplanted the melon seedlings.

  Other people in Meihua Village saw it and laughed at them: "How do you want to grow vegetables and melons in a place where no weeds grow? You are so busy. Just wait and see, you will die in the sun within two days."

  However, after half a month, someone passed by there by accident and found that the sandy ground was covered with green melon seedlings, and Meihua Village was boiling!

  The villagers flocked to the homes of Xu Lidong, Xu Sanqiu, etc., and asked them what kind of melon they planted in the sand, and it actually grew out. The vines had thick heads and looked very strong.

"I don't know what kind of melon, Erya gave it to us. Didn't she accompany my second brother-in-law to Chunzhou Mansion last year? That's where she bought it. The vendor who sold her melon seeds said it was from the Western Regions. brought."

   "Good boy! Can the melon seeds from the Western Regions survive here?"

   "Sanqiu, when the melon is ripe, I will leave a few seeds for my uncle later!"

   "Lidong, can you leave a few for us?"

  Xu Sanqiu and the others still don't know how the melons in the Western Regions are reserved for seeds, so how dare they promise, they only say that they will wait until the melons are ripe, and if it is convenient to save seeds, they must leave a few seeds for them.

   As a result, the other villagers in Meihua Village look forward to the watermelon ripening more than Xu Sanqiu and others. They all want to see what the melons in the Western Regions are like, and are there many seeds? Is there enough for them?

However, this year they don't want to get melon seeds, because the magistrate Chen heard that a green melon seedling was planted in the sandy land of Meihua Village. When I went to see a doctor in Chunzhou Mansion, I bought melon seeds from the Western Regions, and immediately asked the government servants to take care of the melon field.

  As for Xu Sanqiu and the melon seedling owners, they became melon growers hired by the county government officials. When the fruit is ripe, you can receive a reward.

When Xu Sanqiu came to Xu Yin's house for a literacy class, he was very happy to mention this matter: "It's the first time I'm so close to the magistrate, and he even drank a bowl of water at my house! My grandma even drank the magistrate The water bowl was hidden as a treasure, saying that it will be a family heirloom in the future."

  Xu Yin: "..."

  Even if the county magistrate has never drank water, it can become a family heirloom if it is passed down for hundreds or thousands of years.

   "By the way, second sister, I am now a melon grower hired by the government, and I have to guard the melon field every day. Can I not come to class?" Xu Sanqiu asked Xu Yin tentatively.

   This guy is really racking his brains all the time to skip class.

  Xu Yin glanced at him: "Brother Lidong and the others are also government-employed melon growers, why don't they come to work with me?"

   "..."

Xu Yin ignored him, and discussed with Lin Xiyun: "The summer harvest will be imminent. After the next class, the literacy class will have a half-month holiday for the busy farming, and it will resume after the summer harvest. Three days later, which is the last class before the busy farming, we will not There is a new class, and we are holding a literacy contest, which should be a summary and commendation of the learning of the previous days."

  (end of this chapter)