For three days, Xiao Nianzhi and the others were cleaning various vegetables and beans in the backyard.
After treatment, the soil needs to be plowed and fertilized in preparation for planting winter vegetables.
During these three days, Xiao Nianzhi often prepared various meal packages, afternoon tea and the like for everyone in addition to midnight snacks.
Yan Xingxuan always felt that he seemed to have gained a lot of weight.
Especially the face, I always feel like it has a lot of extra flesh when I touch it.
This gave him an inexplicable sense of crisis.
You know, the emperor's brother is not light, but the king's brother is even heavier.
Come to him...
You can't just become a ball before you reach middle age, right?
In the past, Yan Xingxuan thought that being fat would have no impact.
However, now that he has a sweetheart, he wants to appear in front of Xiao Nianzhi in the best condition and in the best form.
Therefore, being fat is not enough!
Yan Xingxuan, who has a sense of crisis, is already planning to get up early every day, practice Baduanjin or Tai Chi with the students, and then go for a walk in the mountains, trying to exercise more every day, so that he can eat more. Don't be afraid!
After the ground was cleared, they were ready to start planting the next wave of vegetables.
However, because fertilizer was applied to the ground, it still needed to wait for two days. In addition, it had been gloomy these past few days, so Xiao Nianzhi and the others took a comfortable vacation.
The days flew by and it was August 14th. Although Yan Xingxuan didn't want to leave, someone from the palace directly invited him to go back.
Doesn’t the Queen Mother still know her youngest son’s character? ..
When I get more and more excited to play around, I might actually be able to go to Xiao Mansion and spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with Xiao Nianzhi.
So, call people back in advance.
To avoid making a joke, he has nothing to fear as a prince, but this little girl still needs a reputation.
Yan Xingxuan could only bid farewell to Xiao Nianzhi reluctantly: "Think about it, I will be back after the Mid-Autumn Festival."
In fact, he was also planning to go to Xiao Mansion during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Of course, if he goes alone, it will definitely not look good, and it will also make outsiders suspicious.
But what if he goes with a group of people?
Those princes and princesses who have nothing to do in the palace, or Yan Changxia, grab a handful of them.
By then, no matter how hard others try, they won't be able to guess what his plan is.
Thinking about it this way, Yan Xingxuan felt that he was really a clever little guy.
Xiao Nianzhi and Aunt Yu sent people out of the academy. After returning, they also started to pack up and prepare to go back to their respective homes.
The course on August 14th will only be held until the end of the semester.
This matter has been notified to all students two days in advance.
Therefore, carriages from various prefectures began to wait at the foot of the mountain after noon.
Xiao Nianzhi is also packing up at the moment. She has a lot of things, some of which are not commonly used and can be temporarily returned to the Xiao Mansion.
Snacks such as newly made rice wine, strawberry milk biscuits, honey bean bite-sized cakes, and peanut bite-sized cakes are also carefully wrapped.
The wine was made in the past few days, and the biscuits were baked early this morning.
At that time, the fragrance spread all over the cafeteria, and the students who were almost thinking about going home for the festival were completely distracted.
The problem was that by the time they went to the cafeteria for breakfast, Xiao Nianzhi had already finished baking and returned to the backyard with the biscuits.
At that time, there was only a wisp of residual fragrance left in the canteen, and nothing could be seen at all.
Students:? Suddenly, I felt that the honey pork chop rice, minced meat and eggplant rice, braised pork rice and so on from the past few days were no longer fragrant!
Woohoo, so why can they only smell it?
In this regard, Xiao Nianzhi said that there was no way to make a return gift yet, so he could only bring some biscuits back to Yan Xingxuan.
Of course, not only the other party's share, but also Yan Changxia's. Knowing that Yan Xingxuan could meet Zheng Qingran, he also brought a share to the other party, and the eldest princess also had one.
Xiao Nianzhi was busy all morning and baked a lot. Now there is still a lot left. In addition to giving
The rich aunt and the others would share some, and the rest would naturally be taken back to the Xiao Mansion and given to the two brothers of the Xiao family.
She was even considering whether to send some to Xiao Ye, Xiao's elder brother, who was studying far away.
It's just that I don't know the other party's location for the time being, and it doesn't seem convenient to mail it.
Moreover, biscuits are not very durable. If they get broken over time, if the other party sees them, they may be disgusted.
After thinking about it, Xiao Nianzhi gave up temporarily.
Aunt Yu also received a lot of biscuits, wine, strawberry jam, peach jam, pomegranate gummy...
Anyway, Aunt Yu was smiling when she got into the carriage.
Worried about Xiao Nianzhi, he even opened the curtain and talked a lot to the little girl before waving to Xiao Nianzhi and leaving.
Xiao Nianzhi needs to wait for Xiao Siye to be with him, so the time will be later.
This time, Xiao Zhou did not go back home first, but waited for the two of them to come together.
There were three people sitting in the carriage, plus Uncle Zheng who was driving the carriage, and the horse pulling the carriage was quite stressed.
On the way back, Xiao Siye asked about Xiao Nianzhi's daily life, and also asked if the work in the backyard was tiring.
Xiao Nianzhi smiled obediently and replied: "Uncle, I'm just harvesting the land, so I'm not tired. After coming back from the festival, I might be a little tired from planting winter vegetables."
When thinking of growing vegetables, Xiao Nianzhi couldn't help but think of automatic seeders.
Well, although there is no kinetic energy now, but...
We don’t ask for more, we can do it with manpower, three to four ridges at a time, that should be fine, right?
This is easier than digging holes one by one and filling them with seeds, right?
Thinking of this, Xiao Nianzhi pursed his lips.
Xiao Siye was multitasking, thinking about things in the academy and caring about Xiao Nianzhi's daily life, so he didn't notice the little tangle on the little girl's face at this time.
On the other hand, Xiao Zhou, who was sitting on the other side reading a book, raised his eyes from time to time, and then realized that his sister seemed...
Something bothering you?
Xiao Zhou was puzzled. After thinking about it, he asked, "Is my sister worried?"
His question made Xiao Siye notice that Xiao Nianzhi did have a little tangle on his face at this time.
Xiao Siye couldn't help but smile: "We are all one family. Think about it, if you encounter difficulties or anything, you can tell your uncle and brothers."
Xiao Nianzhi pondered for a long time, and then nodded: "I was just thinking about getting some tools to make growing vegetables more labor-saving."
Although growing vegetables today is not too tiring, compared to fully automatic or semi-automatic methods, it is still far behind.
Whether it is a small single-ridge push seeder or a large one that requires kinetic energy, it is more labor-saving and convenient than manual work.
Although there may be some differences in sowing seedlings, if they are just growing vegetables, it will be fine and there won't be much difference.
For vegetables and grains such as garlic, you need to pay attention to the planting direction. If you use a seeder and plant them flatly, the yield may be much lower.
Other vegetables and grains are actually not significantly different.
Moreover, if the output can be increased, this difference will become less obvious.
In addition, if it really saves time and effort, everyone will have more energy to do other things.
For example, going out to do odd jobs, or going to open up wasteland.
