The road to wealth of a peasant widow

After leveling the ground, Chen Cui rested for a while, drank some water, and then started digging the planting holes.

She had watched a lot of short videos about growing vegetables and remembered the general methods of growing corn and peppers.

Generally, the row spacing for corn is 50 cm and the plant spacing is 30 cm, but she wants to interplant peppers between two rows of corn, so she loosens the row spacing a little to about cm. This way, the distance between them will not hinder their growth.

She measured the distance with a clothing ruler, marked it, and started digging the hole accordingly.

At this moment, she began to be thankful that the land was not big, only one mu. Otherwise, if she had to rely on digging the land by hand, her waist would be broken.

After spending a lot of time digging the hole, she began to select seeds.

Although we don't know the final germination rate, we can at least ensure that the seeds planted are plump and good in appearance.

As for corn, she placed all the holes according to the principle of throwing two kernels into one hole, then covered the holes with soil with her feet to fill them up.

You need to put more pepper seeds. In order to ensure the germination rate, you should put three or four seeds in one pit. If there are too many seedlings in the later stage, you can just thin them out.

In fact, what she was afraid of was not that there would be too many seedlings, but that there would be too few or even no seedlings at all.

This is also the reason why she must try planting in space.

The vegetables she had planted before only needed a little water, and they successfully sprouted and grew well, which was almost impossible in the outside world.

Therefore, she believes that the land and climate in space should have a special effect on the growth and development of crops.

Next comes the watering phase.

Chen Cui had previously thought about buying a device similar to a water pump and placing it on the well so that water could be pumped out by pressing.

But she went to several places and asked many people, but no one had ever heard of or seen it.

Either this thing has not appeared in this era, or it has not yet spread to such a small place as Wudu Prefecture.

In short, she still has to rely on manual water drawing, and can only draw up one bucket of water each time, and then draw another bucket after watering.

After finishing all these in one go, Chen Cui was so tired that she couldn't even straighten her back. When she came out of the space, she saw that it was almost dark outside.

She went to the next door and knocked on the door, calling Chen Dahe to come out for dinner.

This brother seemed to have slept for the whole afternoon and was still rubbing his eyes when he went out.

The two of them didn't go out again, but ordered two bowls of hot noodle soup in the inn. They added meat sauce to Daha's bowl, while she had plain noodles.

Chen Dahe felt a little embarrassed that his sister always took extra care of him: "Sister, no need, I'll just eat the same as you."

"You've worked hard these days. You have to accompany me out in such a cold day. You should have something oily to eat. Otherwise, you won't have the energy to work."

Chen Cui said with a smile.

The Chen family has a large population, and most of them are children who cannot work. But these boys are big eaters, so they have to budget carefully, and therefore they are inevitably frugal with food.

There was enough simple food and drink to fill everyone's stomach, but the number of times meat could be prepared was extremely limited.

Since Chen Dahe started working at his sister's house and going out with his sister this year, he has eaten meat more times than he did in the past year. This is one of the reasons why he works so hard for Chen Cui's family without any complaints.

So, after Chen Cui said this, Chen Dahe no longer refused, because he actually wanted to eat meat too.

In his opinion, no one would dislike eating meat, and he thinks lamb and fish are the most delicious things in the world!

Although Chen Dahe could not read, he accidentally cracked the true meaning of the word "fresh"!

After dinner, Chen Dahe originally wanted to go to the night market to experience the bustling scene of the city at night.

He slept for an afternoon and now he is in good spirits.

But when he saw that Chen Cui looked exhausted and didn't seem to have rested, he swallowed his words about going out and went back to his room to rest.

Although he is a grown man, he still feels a little scared if he goes shopping alone without his sister.

He always remembered that he was going out to do things with his sister, and he always put his sister first.

Without his sister, he didn't dare to wander around in a place like the capital city, for fear of offending people and causing trouble for his sister.

Somehow, he felt that his sister looked no different now than in the past, but he just felt safe and secure when he was with her and could go shopping without any worries.

I feel that my sister knows a lot now and is very confident. It seems that nothing is difficult in front of her.

I have to say, the truth about Chen Dahe is revealed.

As a modern person, Chen Cui lived to be seventy or eighty years old in her previous life. She has experienced a lot, and her perspective and knowledge on things are naturally incomparable to those of people here.

No matter how restrained and disguised she was, she always had a calm and independent temperament, and she could not be as humble and respectful as the ancient women.

Moreover, perhaps because she has lived a new life and has let go of many things, Chen Cui sometimes cannot help but act casually when doing things.

That kind of comfortable and casual feeling is something that a native ancient woman could never have.

But at this time Chen Cui just wanted to lie down on the bed and rest. She asked the waiter of the inn to come and wake them up at three o'clock in the morning, and then she went to bed with peace of mind.

At four o'clock in the morning, the brother and sister rushed to the carriage company to meet up with the coachmen.

This time, because Chen Cui booked the carriage early, the carriage company promptly released the news and arranged the loading, so the return carriage was also fully loaded.

However, no matter how full the goods were, Master Chen never forgot to leave two good spots for the brother and sister.

"Mrs. Liu, Brother Chen, come here. This car is filled with cotton. It's warm and windproof to sit in the back. It won't be so painful!"

Chen Cui saw that although there was a lot of cotton on the cart, it was piled up as high as possible, leaving a spacious space at the back, and the two siblings could even lean on the cotton bags and take a nap.

"Thank you, Master Chen, for your care!" Chen Cui thanked Master Chen and climbed onto the carriage and sat down.

"No way, you paid for the fare, so it's only right that you sit comfortably." Master Chen said with a smile.

Having said that, Chen Cui knew that this must be a place they deliberately left when loading the goods. It was definitely different from just finding an empty space to sit on after loading the goods.

Sure enough, as soon as she sat on it, she noticed something different under her butt. It seemed like there was a thick layer of cotton, and sitting on it felt like sitting on a sofa.

Chen Cui didn't say anything else, but just smiled and bowed to Master Chen, indicating that she felt his kindness and thanked him for his efforts.

The carriage rumbled towards Yinping County in the night. Chen Cui and Chen Dahe were covered with thick mattresses and fell into a deep sleep.

When the convoy arrived at Hengtong Horse Racing Station in Yinping County, night had already fallen.