Farmhouse Golden Phoenix

Chapter 51

Su Qinghe would go to Su Jinglin's house when she was fine, and sometimes she saw Grandma Su reprimanding Su Sansao: "You also gave birth to a child, don't you know that lying down all the time is bad for your health? It's just that you don't do it three times a day If you want to eat, you have to get up and walk, besides, in our farmer's family, if the daughter-in-law is pregnant with a child, she doesn't have to do anything?"

Su Qinglan pursed her lips and smiled: "Grandma, my mother is not feeling well, so let her rest, but cooking two meals is not a big deal."

Grandma Su touched Su Qinglan's head: "You are filial, diligent and capable, but because your mother is not in good health, she is asked to do more things, so that you can have children in the future, cough, you are still a girl , Why am I telling you this?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pushed Su Qinglan twice: "Isn't Xiao He waiting for you? Hurry up, take your needlework and Xiao He to your second aunt's house to play, it's going to be August now, when the time comes Your third sister is married, but no one teaches you how to do needlework, so take advantage of this time to learn more, so that you can embroider a handkerchief purse or something in the future."

Su Qinglan had no choice but to get up and go to the house to take her own small basket, greeted Su Qinghe, and the two went to Su Jingmu's house together.

"Fourth Sister, has grandma always asked Sanniang to do the work?" Su Qinghe asked curiously, Su Qinglan curled her lips: "Where, I made the breakfast, I cleaned the pots and bowls, and I fed the chickens and ducks at home." , I did the laundry, but I asked her to make lunch and dinner. It was as if I bullied her. Grandma couldn't see it, so she just said a few words, don't look at her as a pity now, she will definitely have to do it tonight. Report to my father."

"The third uncle doesn't blame you?" Su Qinghe was startled immediately, and Su Qinglan shook her head: "Grandma will talk about daddy, and besides, daddy doesn't always listen to that woman. Well, let's not talk about her when we come out. No bad mood."

Su Qinglan pulled Su Qinghe and jumped forward a few steps: "Look, this is just the beginning, this month is just watering the ground, pulling weeds, and there is not much work in the field, next month , it's time to collect peanuts and sorghum, and there will be troubles at that time."

Su Qinghe thought of Su Jingsen's laziness, and the corners of his mouth twitched. This must be troublesome. Su Jingsen can't do these tasks by himself, or ask Grandpa Su and Grandma Su to help, and by the way, both Su Qinglan and Su Dongshi go.Or just pay people.

The former is not easy to deal with, because Grandpa Su has Grandma Su as an elder, and instead of helping his parents with work as a junior, he let his parents help him.It was fine in the past, Su Jinglin was not married, a widow with a daughter, and lived with Grandpa Su, the father and son were not separated from the old man, so Grandpa and Grandma Su helped, but it could still be done for herself.

But it's different now, Su Jinglin got married and moved out, which is equivalent to an independent family.Although Su Jinglin never cared much about fame, otherwise she wouldn't be so lazy.

Laziness and unfilial piety are not on the same level.

The latter is also difficult to deal with. Su Dongshi has always been very strict about his dowry, and Su Jinglin has always had little money in his hands. Hiring someone with money is not something that can be done with a dozen copper coins.Their family now has [-] mu of land, and Su Dong's family has been married for some time, so the land is also divided in the village.

Fifteen acres, at least ten people must be invited, one person will get ten copper coins a day, and this day will be a hundred. Harvesting peanuts is just the beginning. After harvesting peanuts, you need to pick peanuts. Well, it will take at least half a month for this series of things to happen.

Even if Su Jinglin only counted the first two, it would still take five or six days.

Where did this money come from?Will Su Dongshi be willing to take it out?
"Then what should we do?" Su Qinghe was a little worried, and when the time comes, Su Qinglan will buy it again, right?Su Qinglan shook her head, and pinched Su Qinghe's cheek with a smile: "Grandma said, she is in charge of my mother's dowry, and my father will definitely not ask me for it."

In the past, Su Qinglan never knew about asking her own mother's dowry, let alone who would go to work in the fields during the harvest season.At this moment, everything must be understood, so that life will not be muddled.This is really, forced to grow up.

"Don't worry about that, anyway, I just need to be nice to my little brother in the future." Su Qinglan curled her lips, not wanting to say too much, and shouted from a long distance: "Second aunt, are you at home? Is third sister at home?" ?”

Su Qingfen was embroidering the dowry at home, the wedding dress had already been embroidered, only the pillowcase and quilt cover remained.Right now Zhengxiu was tired, and he was feeding the chickens in the yard. When he heard the shout, he straightened up and looked around, and replied, "You two are at home, why are you two here?"

"Come and be with the third sister." Su Qinglan said with a smile, dragging Su Qinghe into the door, Su Qingfen put down the food bowl in her hand, clapped her hands, and walked to the well to wash her hands: "You two are free, since you are here, help me Do some work and unravel this embroidery thread for me."

Su Qinghe and Su Qinglan would not refuse, they were busy until noon, Second Aunt Su enthusiastically kept them for dinner, but neither of them stayed.

When she got home, Su Qinghe went to look at her cotton again, and then found a problem—the cotton actually had aphids!Su Qinghe was instantly depressed. She used to grow cotton with her father, but at that time the cotton was full of aphids, and it was all pesticides. Where would she get the pesticides now?

Moreover, she only knows one of the local methods - using tobacco leaf water, but the big smoke hasn't come here yet, where does she get the tobacco leaves?
And this ancient method, if it is not right, what should I do if I kill my cotton seedlings?
"What's the matter, Xiao He? You're so unhappy after coming back from the backyard. Is something wrong with your precious cotton?" Su Jingsen found that her precious daughter was unhappy when she got home, so she hurriedly asked, "Come on, Tell Dad what happened."

"Cotton has worms." Su Qinghe flattened her mouth: "There are so many black aphids."

Mrs. Su Zhang was busy in the kitchen, and when she heard Su Qinghe's words, she smiled and said, "Is it growing too much? If not, just pinch off the leaves with bugs. It doesn't matter if there are a few aphids, my beans will grow aphids every day. Is it? Don't worry, it's fine."

"Not many at the moment, only a little." Su Qinghe stretched out her hand and gestured, very frustrated. There will be few such things as aphids at first, but there will be more and more of them. Even if the leaves are pinched off now, they can't Get rid of the roots, and there will definitely be many more in the future.

Su Jingsen patted her on the head: "Don't worry, Dad will go with you to take a look later, if there are not many, let's pinch off the leaves first, if not, we will find another way."

This is the only way to do it now, Su Qinghe could only nod her head, finished her lunch absent-mindedly, and immediately pulled Su Jingsen to the backyard, lifted two leaves for Su Jingsen to see: "Father, this is right here, there are many leaves with .”

Su Jingsen knelt down and looked at it for a long time, then shook his head and said, "Don't worry, the aphids are still young, let's pinch the leaves earlier, maybe there will be no more in the future." He then instructed Su Qinghe to find two brushes and an aphid in the front yard. bucket.

Not only are there aphids on the leaves, but there are also a lot of aphids on the branch axils, which need to be brushed off.

"Well, is dad still going to the field this afternoon?" Su Qinghe asked listlessly, while Su Jingsen flipped through the leaves on the cotton and said, "No, our field has already been watered, and it just happens to rest for the past two days. "

"Father, when we planted sorghum before, were there aphids on it?" Su Qinghe also picked the leaves, so he had to ask some methods to kill the insects beforehand. If pinching the leaves didn't work, he could only try those methods. .

"Well, it grows, it's on the wheat, and it's also on the peas. It's not easy to get rid of this thing, there are always a lot." Su Jingsen shook his head and said, and gestured to the leaves in his hand: "These will be all in a while." It has to be burned, otherwise, it can’t be killed at all.”

"How do you get rid of the bugs on the wheat?" Su Qinghe asked sideways, and Su Jingsen frowned: "That thing is not easy to get rid of. In the past, I sprayed it with garlic water, but it wasn't very effective, and I had to brush it every day. Just come down. Once there are more bugs, there is nothing to be done, and a large piece of wheat might be destroyed."

Su Qinghe began to think hard about the methods she remembered to get rid of aphids, tobacco leaf water, detergent water, orange peel water plus washing powder, things that were so easy to get before, but now they can't even see a shadow.

Wait, detergent and washing powder, Su Qinghe's eyes lit up instantly, the commonality of these two is decontamination, if the decontamination ingredients are similar, can I start from this aspect?

"Xiaohe, change a bucket of water." Just as she was thinking about it, she heard Su Jingsen's order next to her. Su Qinghe hurriedly responded, carrying the bucket to the front yard, first poured out half of the bucket of water, and then changed half of it. Bucket of clean water.

The father and son were busy in the backyard until the evening, and only half of it was done, and they continued to struggle the next day.Su Qinghe carefully checked the cotton that had been processed yesterday, and saw that there were indeed no large aphids on it, only three or two, and he was slightly relieved.

Since then, she has been going around the backyard twice a day, not letting a single aphid go.By mid-August, the batch of corn that had been planted early finally had ears.Su Jingsen was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear, she went to the field and broke off more than ten ears, and came back to cook and eat.

Su Qinghe gnawed on the fresh and tender corn, and asked with a smile: "Father, shall we send some for Shopkeeper Yang to taste?"

Su Jingsen nodded again and again: "Of course, I will give you a dozen or so first. If he eats delicious food, he will come to our house to buy them. If it is not delicious, we will not send the tender corn. The rest will be ripe , let's make it into cornmeal."

Su Zhiping frowned, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "Didn't Mr. Shen write a letter before and say that when the corn is ripe, he will come and have a look?"

Su Qinghe's eyes widened: "Really? Why didn't I know he said that? I just remember that he said that he would write down the output and so on, and then send someone over to inspect it? If he came, he would be here right now. Do you have to send a letter?"

"I don't remember too clearly. It wasn't written in the letter. It was Brother Song who said it." Su Zhiping took another bite, then raised his head and said, "I'll ask Brother Song later. If you need to send a letter, it's just right Ask Big Brother Song to bring a message, if you don’t need it, we can still say hello.”

Su Qinghe nodded, and Su Jingsen was puzzled again: "Then Mr. Shen wants to know the production volume. If we break off the tender corn and cook it for sale, will it affect the production volume?" This is definitely not included in the production volume, tender and cooked , the difference is big, and the weight is also different.

"Father, don't worry about this. We planted ten acres. At worst, we will leave five or six acres untouched and calculate the yield after it is ripe." Su Zhiping said with a smile, Su Jingsen thought about it, and nodded in agreement, anyway There is not much difference between ten mu and five or six mu, so Mr. Shen must be looking for the yield per mu, not the total yield.

Leaving Mr. Shen aside, when Su Jingsen sent Su Zhiping and Su Zhian to the school the next day, he brought about a dozen pieces of boiled corn with him.Originally, they planned to send all of them to shopkeeper Yang, but halfway through the walk, Su Jingsen hesitated and thought for a while when passing by the medical hall, took out four and rewrapped them, and then entered the medical hall.

Su Qinghe quite agrees with Su Jingsen's approach, no matter what time it is, it is always right to make good friends with doctors, especially this doctor Song, who is quite capable.

(End of this chapter)