nycdaug Chapter 207 Busy Days
Chapter 207 Busy Days
So that’s how it is. Xu Congyi understood.
"Yi Yi, if you want to eat peaches and apricots, we can plant some in the yard. Now that we have money at home, we can renovate the yard. Our backyard is a mess, so it's a good time to tidy it up." Old man Xu hurriedly told his granddaughter, for he was afraid that she would be unhappy.
"Okay!" Xu Congyi nodded vigorously. In fact, she also had the idea of helping her family renovate the yard. The front yard was okay, but the backyard was really not good. The chickens, ducks, geese, and cows were all in the backyard, and there was also a pigpen, sundries, and firewood. It was really too messy.
Xu Congyi suddenly remembered a question he had mentioned before: "Oh, Grandpa, and Dad, I'm not quite sure what you guys were talking about just now about hanging straw mats on the rabbit house?"
Hearing this, Old Man Xu sighed softly, with a bit of helplessness on his face: "This matter is really a headache. At first, it was because the weather was too cold, and we were worried that the rabbits couldn't stand the cold, so we thought of hanging straw mats on the rabbit house to keep them warm. But unexpectedly, the straw mats saved their lives. Once after it snowed, we found weasel footprints around the rabbit house, which was really scary. Fortunately, there was this straw mat to block it, otherwise these rabbits would have been taken away by the weasels long ago."
At this point, Old Man Xu showed a trace of worry on his face: "But now that the weather is getting warmer, it's not appropriate to hang up this thick straw mat. If you hang a thin, hollow straw mat, the rabbits will rot if they get caught by the animals. Without this layer of protection, the rabbits will be in danger."
Xu Congyi fell into deep thought when she heard this. She understood that her grandfather's worry was not unnecessary. The safety of the rabbits was related to the family's financial resources.
.
"It's okay, grandpa. Leave this problem to me. After we're done with this, we'll go and change the door of the rabbit house!" Xu Congyi thought of the iron nets used in many places in modern breeding, so they could just surround the rabbits with the iron gate.
After the whole family discussed, they planned to set aside one acre of land to build a chicken coop to raise white-feathered chickens in the future, and the remaining half to grow white and red beets, and the other half to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes. Because this place used to be a wasteland, even if it was fertilized, the land was in poor condition. The conditions for growing beets, potatoes and sweet potatoes are not harsh, and beets are indispensable for making sugar and toner. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are durable in storage and can be eaten for a long time, and can also be used to make vermicelli. Moreover, Xu Congyi never thought about what to plant on the wasteland, but just thought that there would be many things to do in the future. With this piece of land, it would be convenient to keep it for factories and the like.
......
Because the family had only two acres of fertile land, even if they planted rice, it would only take a few days to finish the planting. When Xu Congwen and Xu Cong'an took vacation, the whole family would go to the wasteland that was even more difficult to cultivate.
Although compost had been prepared beforehand, and although Old Man Xu and Hunter Xu had done some preliminary composting work during their work breaks, the transformation of the wasteland was far from easy. The surface was covered not only with thick weeds, but also with countless rough stones of varying sizes. Cleaning the stones and loosening the soil became the primary and arduous tasks. In this era, there was no roar of modern machinery, only the dull sound of iron colliding with the land. Although the cows were strong, they seemed powerless on this wasteland.
That afternoon, not long after the Xu family arrived at the field, heavy clouds suddenly gathered in the sky and a sudden rain came unexpectedly. The rain was so heavy that Old Man Xu saw it and quickly asked everyone to take shelter in the rabbit house. The raindrops hit the tiles with a crackling sound. The rabbit house was built very solidly, so everyone simply cleaned the rabbit house directly. When the rabbit house was cleaned, the rain stopped.
Day after day, as the sun moved from east to west, the Xu family left deep footprints on the wasteland. Sweat soaked their clothes, and the brothers' palms were rubbed with blisters. As time went by, the wasteland gradually revealed its true appearance. The stones were cleared one by one, and the soil was loosened carefully, and it was finally ready for sowing.
The beets were made from seeds, and the potatoes and sweet potatoes were cut into small pieces with buds. Xu Congyi bought all these things from Taobao. It must be said that Taobao is really a place where you can buy anything you want. The Xu family almost forgot about the second field at home, which was the land where they planted beets before. They still planted beets there.
Xu Congyi has been very busy these days. She is in charge of all the big and small things at home. She also has to think about what delicious food to cook for everyone every day. With Xu Congyi around, other families can only make do with a bite because of the busy farming season, but the Xu family can eat delicious and nutritious meals every day. She is also responsible for taking care of the family's clothes. She only said that she has a washing machine and she doesn't need to wash them herself, just put them in. Only then did the family agree to let her wash them. But because the Xu family is in the fields every day, Xu Congyi has to wash the clothes she has worn several times with clean water in advance to wash off the dirt on them, otherwise the washing machine will easily break down. However, Xu Congyi will not tell his family about these things. If they knew, they would definitely not let Xu Congyi wash them.