The first month of the year is busy selling vegetables.
In addition to selling vegetables, it is also time to transplant the tomato seedlings in the seedling shed into nutrient pots to strengthen their seedlings.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the eldest daughter-in-law left her parents' home (my eldest son-in-law was still roasting red potatoes during the Chinese New Year) was also caught working hard, and the family sat in a greenhouse to fake tomato seedlings.
"Grandpa, these are all bent!" You Yu held up the ten centimeter-high seedling and studied it for a while. Even after planting the nutrition cup, it couldn't straighten up.
"Tomato seedlings are not like other vegetable seedlings. If you bury half of it in the mud, the lower part will be covered with roots. The longer the roots are, the easier it will survive when transplanted!"
"It's still like this! They all fall down, and it doesn't look like they're doing well."
"After planting, water it and come back to see it tomorrow morning."
"..."
The four of them didn't finish planting for a whole day. When they were finishing their work, they checked the red sweet potato shed next to them.
The red potato seedlings grow densely. If you look carefully, you can see four or five seedlings on the head of the red potato. The rhizome is obviously much redder.
You Yu secretly thought that even a concentrated solution diluted five times would still be useful.
"Mom, don't miss this red sweet potato vine! I bought a good variety from SD. If it tastes delicious, I will bake it for your family to sell."
You Fengxian was flattered: "You planted it just for us? This, this is too..."
She hadn't recovered from the eighteen yuan a pound of cabbage sprouts, but her niece even went out of her way to help her family cultivate improved varieties of red sprouts.
Nowadays, if people shopping don’t like eating red sweet potatoes, they won’t be able to say anything.
Since they have used greenhouses to help her family grow seedlings, the worst she can do is buy them all and bake them slowly.
The red potato is not as rare as the moxa, can it still be sold for a sky-high price?
Another relative with a cheating mentality!
You Yu thought that except for the maid, no relatives would come to visit her family during the Chinese New Year.
Early in the morning on the third day of the Lunar New Year, just after selling the cabbage sprouts and sending Jiang Wenmei away, three men and three women found the entrance to the courtyard of their new house.
A couple in their seventies, and two pairs of middle-aged people in their forties.
Grandma You walked to the entrance of the hospital, her eyes were blank, and she confirmed for a long time.
"Sister!"
"Yao brother!"
"Sister!"
"..."
Her claws were numb, and her old lady was so excited that she almost fainted from crying.
It was Grandma You’s brother’s family who came.
In her memory, she had never seen this uncle named Song Yongchang.
why?
At that time, the XJ Corps was recruiting people to farm fields across the country. Grandma You’s natal family was also poor, and her parents were not around.
Thirty-seven-year-old Song Yongchang took his wife and children to Japan.
The picture shows the recruitment promise that year, as long as you work (farm) until retirement age, the Corps will provide pension.
It has been twenty-four years since I went there. XJ is so far away from Sichuan Province that I have to take the train for several days and nights.
The family has a large population and traveling expenses are not cheap.
For more than 20 years, my uncle and grandfather have not come back to visit relatives.
"I retired last year, and I can finally go home!" Song Yongchang's face was full of frost, and it was obvious that he was only seven years younger than Grandma Ye. It would be an exaggeration to say that he was of the same age.
Grandma You’s natal home is not far from Yougoubian Village, 28 kilometers west of Jiang County, in Dongfeng Village on the upper reaches of Qingyi River.
"It's good to be back. Life in my hometown is easy now..." Grandma You nodded happily when she heard that her younger brother would stay at home.
The two siblings had endless things to say.
Of course, when distinguished guests come to your door, you must treat them well. You Yu accepted the task of going to the city to make purchases. Seeing that Grandpa You couldn't get a word in, he took his two nephews to continue to grow the seedlings.
The eldest uncle ordered the work, and Song Bao's family and Song Weiguo's husband and wife hurriedly followed.
They are all people who are used to farm work. They are not used to having their parents set up the dragon gate formation in the fire house.
"Uncle, the houses in your village are so well-renovated!"
Song Bao's family feels that the conditions in Dongfeng Village are pretty good, and every house has a red brick house. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at Yougoubian Village, he was shocked by Uncle Guang's one-story foreign-style building.
Along the way, we looked at buildings with ceramic tiles everywhere. You can imagine how wealthy they are.
The old man said disapprovingly: "It's only happened in the past few years. Last year, my house was still a mud house!"
"Oh? What kind of profitable business did my uncle's family do?" When the two brothers saw that their uncle had a dragon gate array to set up, they quickly set up a ladder for him.
"Well, I did make some small money..." Grandpa You is already very good at showing off his family's wealth-making skills in a low-key manner, and he has been showing off all morning.
The two nephews and his wife were amazed.
sky! Radishes that are eaten as fruits, tomatoes that cost four yuan a pound, and millennium tribute vegetables that sell for eighteen yuan a pound.
Why is it so mysterious?
Are the prices in Jiang County a bit outrageous? !
Seeing that they were doubtful, the old man took them to pick vegetable sprouts at noon.
"Uncle, didn't you just pinch the stalks this morning?" The young man guarding the ground hurriedly came up to say hello. When he saw the old man going to the ground, he asked curiously.
"Look carefully, and you can still pick out a few. Your uncle's brother's family came back from XJ to visit relatives, and I hope to find a few kilograms of cabbage sprouts to entertain the distinguished guests."
"Come on, come on, let me help you find it!" The young men hurriedly helped, so that the distinguished guests could feel the warmth of Yougoubian Village.
The hard work paid off, and from the eight acres of land, three kilograms of food was found.
"Here, this is a hybrid of sugar beets, right?" Ma Jinghua, the daughter-in-law of Song Bao's family, hesitantly nibbled half of the sprouts in her hand.
The corps they belonged to grew beets, and the sprouts were sweeter than the beets when eaten raw.
"Hahaha, this variety is sweet. It has been cultivated for more than a thousand years! Empress Dowager Cixi requires the local government to pay tribute every year. In our Jiang County, it still cannot be sold at a high price. In Jiangcheng, it costs 50 One pound."
"God, the people of Jiangcheng are so rich!" Ma Jinghua's eyes almost popped out.
The prices of fruits and vegetables in xj are still very cheap, and their own farm produces abundant products.
Unexpectedly, there is such a profit from growing vegetables in my hometown. In comparison, their wages are too shabby.
Her daughter was admitted to college last year, and her men have mentioned many times that they want to return to their hometown.
She and her sister-in-law are both from the Daba Mountain area. They originally wanted to wait until retirement age, but now they have to think about it...
At the same time, Grandma You also sang a hymn to her granddaughter in front of her brother and sister-in-law:
"I'm really blessed now! I don't have to worry about food and clothing. Your granddaughter even took us on a trip and stayed in a hotel last year. Depending on what she wants, she will take us to have fun every year..."
Song Yongchang and his wife sat there all morning, following his sister around the You family's new house.
"The inside of the house is better than I thought! The bungalows in the city are just like this, and they are not as spacious as the ones in your courtyard! I will build one like this at the end of this year."
"Repair! If you don't have enough money, tell the elder sister, I'll lend it to you!" After starting to sell vegetable sprouts, the old lady had income every day, and she was full of confidence.
