Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

The second day of the Chinese New Year is the day when my aunt returns to her parents' home. The Han family is very quiet today and no one comes to visit.

In the morning, I wash, sweep the floor, and wipe the table. Then it’s time to eat and cook!

In the afternoon, after the old lady's sisters entertained my aunt, they came to sit with her for a while, wishing each other a happy new year and saying auspicious words.

On the third day of the Chinese New Year, the old lady started working.

"It's Chinese New Year and there are no customers at the scrap collection station. Why don't you give us a few more days off?"

Han Zhaozhao was full of resentment.

“No customers doesn’t mean no work. There are so many things brought in before the New Year, and they are so messy that I haven’t had time to sort them out yet!

Haven’t you seen that some other factories didn’t even have annual leave, and some people still insisted on working overtime at their posts on the first day of the new year?

In the new society, people value selfless dedication and putting hardship first and pleasure later!

Okay, pack the frozen dumplings for me. The scrap collection station has pots and stoves, so you don’t have to deliver the food.

Eating dumplings every day is such a wonderful life! What's there to be dissatisfied about? "

Well, if she doesn't need to deliver food, she can just stay at home. The old lady went to work, and Han Zhaozhao was free again!

I followed Xiao Sanzi and Xiao Yun and others to wander around the alleys for a whole day. We either picked out the duds from the firecracker debris, or set off firecrackers everywhere with small firecrackers in our pockets.

Broken wine bottles, cans, broken bowls, cracks in brick walls, and even children's feces were not spared. They were stuffed with a small fire stick, and they would find some incense at home, light them, and run away.

After running about five or six meters, he turned back to listen for any noises. "Bang, bang, bang!"

Why is it that the sense of accomplishment from destroying something is so addictive?

Is it the inherent bad nature of boys to make the complete into incomplete and the perfect into imperfect?

Oh! In an instant, Han Zhaozhao suddenly realized!

No wonder there was a period of time in later generations when a pyramid scheme company with the same name mostly deceived women. It was because they were afraid of attracting men to sabotage them!

However, this kind of game is uncontrollable, and it would collapse from time to time and leave you covered in shit. Han Zhaozhao followed them for a whole day, and the next day he refused to go no matter what.

She really doesn't get their excitement!

I played shuttlecock with Xiaoyun and other girls for a long time. We got sweaty and it didn't seem very interesting.

Others go out to visit relatives or entertain relatives every now and then. Han Zhaozhao has no relatives, so she went to pay New Year's greetings to Mr. Bai on the sixth day of the New Year, and then she started to go into the space to farm.

She bought several new seeds at the New Year market before the New Year, but she didn't have time to plant them yet.

The fruits include tangerines, oranges and bananas, which are southern fruits rarely seen in the north. If it weren’t for the Chinese New Year, even in Beijing, ordinary people would not be able to see them on the market in the middle of winter.

Han Zhaozhao also collected some buckwheat and glutinous rice. She planned to breed them, and there would be two more types of grain in the space in the future.

Also, during the New Year period, she spent less time in the space and had to do a lot of farm work.

The cotton has not been picked for more than ten days, and many cotton bolls have opened their cotton wool, which is hanging very long on the cotton trees. From a distance, it looks like sheep's tails.

Fortunately, there was no wind or rain in the space, otherwise it would have rotted or been covered with broken leaves, making it difficult to clean up.

The lotus roots should have been dug up long ago, and the sugar cane should have been cut down and replanted...

If I didn't count, I wouldn't realize it. How come she has piled up so much work after just a few days of relaxation?

After entering the space, Han Zhaozhao changed his clothes and took off his cotton coat, then took out a large box.

Hahaha! What a surprise!

A few days ago, she was rummaging through the warehouse and found several large cardboard boxes filled with clothes for her grandchildren, from big to small, quite complete.

Han Zhaozhao remembered that these were the spare clothes left by the children when they came to stay with her.

As time went by, the clothes were not worn and accumulated. She couldn't bear to throw them away, fearing that the children would remember to wear them again one day, so she packed them up and put them in boxes.

Later, the children grew up and could no longer wear them. She wanted to store them in the space and find a way to donate them to children in remote mountainous areas. However, when things became too much, she forgot about it!

Now that she has become a child in a remote mountainous area, these clothes can only be cheap for herself. Maybe this is the way to keep the wealth within the family!

After changing her body, she got help from the children. How interesting!

Han Zhaozhao flipped through the items and found that they were all good things, but compared with the fabric styles of this era, they were still too eye-catching. They could only be worn in the space and absolutely could not be worn outside!

Han Zhaozhao found a gray sportswear, measured the size to see if it fit him well, and put it on.

This color is good and stain-resistant! It's perfect for farm work!

Han Zhaozhao first broke open the two tangerines that he had specially left behind, took out the seeds inside, found the breeding pots, filled them with soil, planted the seeds, and watered them.

These two fruits have not been bred or improved and are old varieties that have been grown for many generations.

The flavor is strong, but the skin is a bit thick and the seeds are large and numerous.

Two oranges yielded twenty-six seeds, and one tangerine yielded eighteen seeds.

Not knowing how many seedlings would grow, Han Zhaozhao simply planted them all.

If there are many seedlings, she will try using different rootstock fruit branches for cuttings to see if she can cultivate a few more new varieties.

The next step was to plant bananas. In fact, she planted bananas every year in her previous life, and she could plant them four or five times a year.

She knows the banana plant so well!

Although banana trees grow tall and big, most people in the North don’t know that although they are called “trees”, they are not woody plants, but herbaceous plants!

And it is an annual herb! It grows and bears fruit in the same year, and when the fruit is harvested, it also dies.

Fruit farmers will cut down the plants and replant new seedlings.

Modern banana cultivation uses plant tissue culture to cultivate seedlings.

Some people don't understand what plant tissue culture is. In fact, to put it bluntly, this method is equivalent to asexual slice cloning technology.

This seedling cultivation technology is relatively scientific, and the seedlings cultivated are neat, strong and disease-resistant, but it requires strictly sterilized laboratory equipment to achieve this.

There is another way, which is to use the sucker bud or bulb cutting method, just like planting potatoes, cut the bulbous root of the banana tree according to the growth buds, be rough, sprinkle some wood ash and plant it directly into the ground.

This seedling raising method is simple, direct and easy to operate. Han Zhaozhao used to grow bananas in this way.

It is also possible to plant with seeds, but it is more troublesome and is usually only used in laboratory hybrid breeding.

The seedlings emerge slowly and grow slowly, the plants are relatively weak and not easy to manage.

But now there is no choice but to use seeds to grow seedlings.

Han Zhaozhao used a knife to split the flesh in the middle, found a toothpick and carefully picked out the extremely tiny seeds, washed them with space water, filtered them through cotton paper, and then covered them with another layer of cotton paper to germinate.

She planted the other three bananas directly in the breeding pots, watering them with space soil and space water. She was sure that this would also produce strong seedlings.

After planting fruits, the next step is to plant Xinjiang Hotan dates and wolfberries.

Both of these were given by Grandpa Guan.

His eldest son was serving in the army in the northwest, and he sent a lot of local specialties to his grandfather a few years ago.

Grandpa Guan sent a small basket to the Han family. Han Zhaozhao collected all the date pits that had been eaten and prepared to plant them in the space.

In the past, Xinjiang’s jujubes and wolfberries were very famous, mainly due to the local temperature and climate.

Everything can be planted in space. Han Zhaozhao also wants to try what Hotan dates and Ningxia wolfberries will look like in space.

Finally, it’s time to grow glutinous rice and buckwheat.