fruity fragrance

Chapter 142 Raising Seedlings ([-])

Seeing that it was mid-April, Lin Guoxiang was teaching Lin Fanghou cooking skills, while lowering her head and turning around from time to time, thinking about how to grow watermelons.In the past, in modern times, every year, grandpa and Meizi’s family would make a small piece of land and then just sprinkle the watermelon seeds on the ground and leave it alone. I remember that those watermelon seeds seemed to sprout in May and June, and then in August and September Start harvesting melons.

Because no one intends to make money from these watermelons, they don't manage much. At most, they just apply some fertilizer when they are sowing and fruiting, and then let them grow. When they want to eat melons, they will go to the field a few times.

But now that she wants to grow watermelons to make money, she can't just scatter the watermelon seeds on the ground like before and leave them to fend for themselves. In that case, she might lose everything in one summer.

Since if you want to grow watermelon well, you must first cultivate watermelon seedlings. Lin Guoxiang remembered the videos and materials she had seen on the Internet before, and they all talked about grafting. Grafting is a bit troublesome, but it has many benefits after handling it. The first one is that it can effectively prevent diseases and increase yield and survival rate.

Watermelon seeds are not easy to germinate, so it may take some time. When the seedlings are successfully raised, it may be May. At this time, the weather has begun to heat up. By then, watermelon seedlings will not be frozen to death even if there is no modern greenhouse. At most, set up a stand in the melon field and cover the melon seedlings with a straw curtain to keep warm at night.

Thinking about this in her heart, Lin Guoxiang began to search for watermelon seeds all over the world. However, although the Lin family grows fruit, they are all fruit trees. Watermelon has never been planted before, so it is a watermelon There are no seeds, but there are a lot of pumpkin seeds used to cultivate rootstocks.

Why no watermelon seeds?Because the Lin family doesn't know how to grow watermelons, and they didn't have any experience in growing watermelons before, they didn't dare to grow watermelons.And watermelon is generally not bought by poor people, and rich people have their own manors and want to eat melons directly from their own manors, so there is no need to buy them at all.

Lin Guoxiang has been looking for watermelon seeds all over the world, and everyone in the Lin family knew that she was going to plant watermelons, so they all came out to persuade her.

After dinner in the evening, Father Lin was the first to speak: "Girl, you said that the open space is going to be planted with weeds... Ah, by the way, I have no objection to strawberries and other things, but this watermelon is a must-have." You can’t grow it, everyone knows that it’s a money-losing business. Dad can’t just watch you be stupid.”

Seeing that Lin Guoxiang was about to speak, Father Lin waved his hand and interrupted: "I know what you want to say, but we don't know what new technology you're talking about, and we don't know what kind of melon it is. What, if the melons can’t be sold by then, the melons will just rot in the ground, and the whole season will be for nothing.”

Although Father Lin's words were a little conservative, and he didn't dare to let go of bold innovations, but he had a good intention. He was concerned about Lin Guoxiang.In Father Lin's own words, I only said that because you are my daughter, and I wouldn't bother to talk to him if it was someone else.

But as soon as Father Lin's words fell, Zhao's waist was twisted clockwise, and the old man's face twitched in pain.But the children were all there, and in order to hug the face of the head of the family, they gritted their teeth and said nothing.Little did they know that in the hearts of the juniors in the room, he could at most be regarded as the number two head of family, and the number one head of family was undoubtedly the Zhao family.

"What are you talking about, old man? You say such unlucky words before this thing is planted. Hurry up."

"Bah, bah, bah, I just said something wrong." Father Lin followed the good advice and quickly corrected his mistakes, "I said something wrong just now, I'm bah bah bah!"

Looking at Papa Lin's wrinkled face due to pain and the typical appearance of a good-looking baby who knows his mistakes and corrects them, Lin Guoxiang almost gloats in his heart, for she is still a mighty mother.But this trick of "lobster claw" seems to be quite effective, otherwise why Qing He and the old lady are so happy with it.

Thinking of this, Lin Guoxiang glanced at Xiucai out of the corner of her eye, and Xiucai, who was serving as a humanoid backdrop beside Lin Guoxiang, shivered tremblingly when she received Lin Guoxiang's gaze.His originally slightly bent back straightened in an instant, and he sat there with an extremely stiff and straight back, looking like a kid in kindergarten.

The scholar was deceiving himself and others in his heart: You can't see me, you can't see me, you can't see me, you can't see me...

Lin Guoxiang didn't pay too much attention to the scholar who was still deceiving herself, but said sincerely to Father Lin: "Father, it's just a quarter anyway, so I don't care if it succeeds or not. I want to try it." After a pause, she continued, "If it succeeds, I will teach the watermelon technique to my family, so that the family can also recover a certain amount of expenses and have more spare money in their hands. If it fails...then I'll change to another species, anyway, the land is there and I can't run away."

Father Lin really loves his daughter. Hearing what Lin Guoxiang said, he sighed and didn't insist on anything. In the end, he waved his hands helplessly and said, "Forget it, if you don't let me grow up, I think you won't be able to survive for a year. Since If you want to grow watermelon, you can do it, but this is the first time we have planted it, so it is safer to plant less." After thinking for a while, he stretched out two fingers, "Just plant [-] acres, less will not make more climate The risk is too great, and twenty mu is just right.” If the melons produced in the future cannot be sold, they can be eaten by the family, and then the neighbors and relatives in the village will send some to them. it is good.

Of course, Father Lin said the latter sentence only in his heart, as for the public, he absolutely dare not say it, not only is his wife watching him from the side, but he is also afraid that his precious daughter will have opinions on him.If it were the five brothers of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth who insisted on planting watermelons and refused to listen to him today, they would probably have been pumped by the soles of their shoes by now. How could they compromise so helplessly?
"Well, I don't have much work now anyway. If you need help with any work, just ask your brother and a few nephews. If they don't agree to help, you can come and tell me." Father Lin said again He glanced at his sons and grandsons one by one, and the threatening gaze made all the male compatriots of the Lin family shed tears of grievance in their hearts at the same time.They were threatened like this without saying anything. This was a great injustice, even more injustice than that of June Feixue's Dou E.

As the elder brother, Lin Sijin finally bit the bullet and promised on behalf of all the male compatriots in the Lin family under the cold gaze of his father: "Father, don't worry, we will not let the little girl move a finger, As for the rest of the work, we have covered it."

The elder brother spoke, and the others nodded in unison.Everyone is not a fool. Just now, Lin Guoxiang said that this is a new technology, and if the trial planting is successful, it will teach them this craft to get rich together. Now this little favor is naturally to be helped.Isn't it just work, can a rural elder be exhausted to death?

Seeing his sons and grandsons all nodding in unison, a satisfied smile finally appeared on Father Lin's face, and his cold gaze was finally taken away from them, and everyone heaved a sigh of relief.

Lin Guoxiang was very helpless for her father's behavior, but when she looked at the fifth brother who was sitting in a row, at this time, she shrank her neck slightly and looked like five quails, which made Lin Guoxiang quack again. After laughing for a while, he said in his heart: It seems that my father is still very powerful, and he frightened the five strong brothers like this with such a stare, ha ha.

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After returning from the husband and mother, Xiucai got into a small room next to the pot house, which is a small warehouse for storing sundries.Not long after, the scholar jumped out again, this time still holding a small cloth bag in his hand, and handed it to Lin Guoxiang.

Suspiciously, Lin Guoxiang took it over and opened it, her eyes widened immediately. There were more than half of the bag of watermelon seeds in the small cloth bag, and the seeds were plump. It was obvious that they were picked out on purpose.

"Are you...prepared for a long time?" Lin Guoxiang asked in disbelief. To be honest, she was quite moved. She was still worrying about the watermelon seeds. Get ready.

"Didn't you say you wanted to grow watermelons a while ago, so I went to those villages where watermelons are grown to buy some good varieties of watermelon seeds." Xiucai said slowly, "At first I thought you were a big thorn in your work. It’s very confusing, so I prepared these in advance, thinking that they might be used, but I don’t know if they will come in handy.”

The implication is that Lin Guoxiang is very incomprehensible in doing things, and he expressed doubts about whether he can grow watermelons well.

At first, Lin Guoxiang was quite moved, but when he heard what Xiucai said later, his teeth were itchy, and he stretched out a crab claw to light the soft flesh on his waist, and made a 36-degree rotation. The pain was painful for Xiucai. With a straight face, he inhaled straightly, even begging Rao for admitting his mistake.

"Daughter-in-law, I was wrong. You adults should spare the little one regardless of the fault of the villain. The little one will never dare to talk like this again."

Hearing that the scholar was begging for mercy, Lin Guoxiang let go of her hand triumphantly, put the small cloth bag with watermelon seeds in her hand, and hummed: "Next time, if you dare to speak ill of me like this again, be careful, I will treat you badly." You're welcome, hum."

The scholar quickly smiled all over his face, flattering no matter how he looked at it.

So Lin Guoxiang put out a reserved look and stretched out a paw to pat the scholar's shoulder lightly, then said: "Xiao Haozi, you did a good job this time, I'll keep it in mind, I'll give you a good meal some other day Eat. Cough cough, that's it, I'll dodge first." After speaking, he seemed a bit reserved, and jumped up like a rabbit.

The elegant face of the scholar behind him was half darkened, while the other half was directly livid with anger.Little mouse?Damn girl, how dare you call him a little mouse?See how I deal with you in the future!
The scholar ground his teeth for a long time on his own, and finally went into the study to read a book with his head drooping and his heart depressed after struggling for a long time.There's no way, I can't beat Lin Guoxiang, so I have to endure this anger.

　It seems to be getting colder again recently, and the hands of Tuanzi are frozen like a carrot again. Everyone must pay more attention to keeping warm.Tomorrow Sunday, add more, huh, huh.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)