continuation [farming]

Li Mu counted the time and thought in his heart, if it is really not possible, he will avoid the next test and go after the old emperor is dead. Anyway, he is still young. Even if you study hard for three years before taking the exam, you will be able to understand.

I just don't know if Xia He is in a hurry, how is his corn recipe prepared?

When asked about this, Xia He thought for a while, and said, "I'll try again next year, and see if the method I found works." Having said that, Xia He is still very confident in himself in his heart , all we have to do is wait until next May.

The free time flies by quickly, and in the blink of an eye it is another year of Lantern Festival.This year Li Mu made a plan, and finally persuaded several elders in the family, and the two families went to see the lantern together.It's a pity that this year's weather will be colder, and the river has not yet melted, so we can't put the wishing lanterns on, otherwise Xia He would like to take his family to see the wishing lanterns by the river floating into a sea of ​​stars.

Mrs. Li was sitting in a specially borrowed car.She hadn't gone out for many years, but now looking at the night scene of the town, with dim lights and starlight, she felt for a moment that she had the inexhaustible interest of her [-]-year-old youth, and wanted to go to the ground and use her The legs that couldn't move walked up and down.

On the mouth, he said: "This is what you young people love to play, what do you take an old lady out of me."

Li Mu and Xia He led the donkeys and walked slowly ahead.Xia He was bored for a while before asking: "Brother Mu, are you going back to Qingyang?"

"It's 'going' to Qingyang." Li Mu insisted, "Only when we go back to our Anle Village can we use the word 'back'. This is my home."

Xia He muttered: "Maybe after two years, you won't think so."

"No." Li Mukong reached out and patted Xia He on the head.

Originally Xia He didn't like Li Mu doing this, but when he thought that he was leaving soon, Xia He thought for a while and didn't say anything.

In the early morning of the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Li Mu finally left.

It was the burden that Xia He packed for him.When Li Mu came back, he didn't take much of his own things except the gifts he brought to others, but this time when he went back, Xia He packed a lot of things for him.

Knowing that most of the things here are useless, but it was Xia He's kindness after all, Li Mu checked and found that there was still room in the car, so he didn't push them away, and took them away.

Before leaving, Xia He couldn't hold back, found a remote place, and hugged Li Mu tightly.

Smelling the warm scent on Li Mu's body, Xia He was very reluctant to let go. After holding back for a while, she finally let go, but she also threatened: "Remember to come back, or Jin Bao will really forget you."

"No, Xia He will definitely help me and talk about me in front of Jin Bao." Li Mu smiled.

Xia He wanted to say that if he was not sure, he would not want to bother him, and he wanted to insult another person in front of Jinbao, but in the end he didn't say such angry words, he just brought Jinbao and held the baby up to the level of his father. Gao, asked Jin Bao to gnaw on Li Mu's face, leaving a tooth mark with saliva, and refused to let Li Mu wipe it off.

So when Li Mu left, there was this wet little bite mark on his cheek.

Originally, Mrs. Li wanted Xia He to stay in Li's house, but the matter between him and Li Mu was settled anyway. The Zhang family lived in Anle Village these days, and was seen by many people in the village.But Xia He thought about it, but still didn't agree.

The courtyard where the Zhang family lived had been deserted for more than half a month, and the family of three tidied it up so that the courtyard could accommodate people.

Lan Niang also sighed with emotion: "This courtyard is too big, and it's strangely deserted. Like the Li family, each courtyard is smaller, and only a few courtyards live, but it's more lively."

With his hands behind his back, Zhang Shiyi went to see Xia He who was cleaning the empty study room, and asked, "Do you have any plans for these few months?"

"Going to take a part-time job?" Xia He thought of this again.

Zhang Shiyi rolled his eyes: "Look at your promise!"

"Then what else? If you want to plant more wheat, it's too late!" Xia He pouted.

"Remember to read books when you have time. When you go to Liang Jing, you are still as vulgar as you are now. How can you make friends with powerful people?" Zhang Shiyi brought up this idea again.

"But I'm Brother Mu's daughter-in-law, do I still need to read books!" What Xia He said, in Zhang Shiyi's ears, could be called shameless.

Zhang Shishihu put on a face: "Do you know who this year's Xinketan Hualang is?"

"I don't know." How could Xia He care about this.

"Hmph, she is the concubine of the virtuous king, and she has also become a husband and wife, so why is she more promising than you!" Ever since Zhang Shiyi heard the news from Li Mu, he has been mixed with joy and sorrow.The joy is that it seems that Xia He will not delay his future even if he becomes a member of the Li family. The worry is that he has finally let go of the idea of ​​letting Xia He earn fame. Another spark ignited.

It's a pity that Zhang Shiyi also understands that he can't persuade his son who is full of ghost ideas, how can Xia He really follow his wishes to earn this "future".

In May of the next year, Xia He will sow corn in the field again.

This time the seeds were divided into three parts, one part was left from the corn planted in Anle Village, one part was the sticky corn seeds that Li Mu brought back from Qingyang this time, and the other part was The seeds he harvested last year.

Faintly, Xia He felt that the corn he harvested seemed to be different.

Sure enough, what he summed up last year could not be fully confirmed by the seeds he left—in fact, many of the seeds he left behind were larger than others and grew faster.Xia He squatted in front of the cornfield with a serious face, and Lan Niang didn't know what Xia He was worrying about, so she came to ask: "What's wrong? But what did you make a mistake last year?"

"Not really." Xia He thought for a while, then shook his head, "I think I will find something very important."

But right now, it's just a hunch.

Xia He's premonition came true, this kind of seedlings that grow stronger, the taste of the corn that will eventually be produced is different from the other two kinds of corn, it is exactly the kind that Xia He imagined in his heart, sticky and sweet corn.

Bite down the whole bite, mixed two kinds of textures, Xia He tasted sweet and delicious, very fond of it.

Lan Niang also praised it endlessly: "This is delicious."

Xia He said: "Tomorrow I'll go and send some to Eldest Sister's house and Brother Mu's house."

Zhang Shixi thought about it for a moment, but asked him: "Can you figure out how this kind of corn is grown?" This is the real big discovery. Sooner or later, it will be concluded that the amount of water and fertilizer used, Zhang Shixi thinks that this kind of corn will be the best stepping stone.

Xia He thought hard.

Lan Niang didn't have time to think about it and said: "Probably like two baby babies, the baby will look like a father and a mother at the same time. Two kinds of corn give birth to small corn, and the small corn will become like this."

Xia He thought about it, but felt that what Lan Niang said made sense: "Exactly!"

"It's useless. This person can know who will have a baby with whom, according to the order of his parents and the words of the matchmaker. How can you guarantee that two kinds of corn will come together for this crop?" Zhang Shixi But he shook his head and said yes.

The family fell into deep thought.

Xia He couldn't hold back, and finally entrusted a businessman who has been in Qingyang all the year round to send a letter to Li Mu. The letter was full of things like giving birth to a baby. After receiving it, he was depressed for a long time. —— Xia He doesn't want a doll, does he?

This was Li Mu's first reply to Xia He's letter, and it was difficult to write a letter, and he felt against his will when he said anything.In the end, he still wrote down his thoughts truthfully: "With Jin Bao here, he is our doll."

Xia He thought to himself, what did Brother Mu say about these indecent things, but unfortunately this is not the answer he wanted.But thinking about it again, Xia He laughed at himself, why did he want to ask Li Mu for the answer to the matter of farming?

He sat in the yard in a daze, the corn stalks had been cut off and lay down on the ground.The whole yard is bare, except for the area marked out for Lan Niang to grow vegetables, which still has fresh green.

Lan Niang was catching insects, and accidentally, her cuffs hung on the melon stand.

She let out an "ah" and attracted Xia He's attention.Xia He took a look, and suddenly, he remembered something.

He hurriedly went to the melon rack, the cucumbers hanging on the rack had already bore fruit, a long and thin one with a small yellow flower on top.

"What do you see here?" Lan Niang asked strangely when she got up and saw Xia He crouching indecently beside the melon stand.

Xia He thought for a while, and asked his mother: "Mom, I suddenly remembered that cucumbers are for flowering!"

"That's natural." Lan Niang nodded, not knowing why Xia He would suddenly ask such a question.

There are two types of cucumber flowers, but only one can produce small cucumbers, and the other is called a lie flower.The pistils in the middle of the two kinds of flowers are different. The so-called pointing flowers refers to picking the pistils of the lying flowers and using the pistils of the lying flowers to touch the pistils of the flowers that can bear cucumbers. ——Isn't this just like two men and women giving birth to a baby?

The three siblings of Xia He's family have been led by Lan Niang to do this job since they were young. It doesn't take much effort, but it needs to be careful.Xia He was the worst at it, and when he could carry a small hoe, Lan Niang would no longer need him.

Therefore, Xia He, who hadn't ordered flowers for a long time, almost forgot about it for a while.

Lan Niang didn't understand what Xia He was excited about. Xia He thought about it for a while, and felt that it was unclear, so she simply picked a flower from a melon stand, pretended to be a flower, and put it on another melon. She clicked on the shelf: "Look, in this way, can't I know who the parents of this little cucumber are?"

When Lan Niang thought about it, it was indeed so: "Could it be that you want to learn some cucumber flowers and also order popcorn flowers?"

Xia He nodded happily.

The next moment, Lan Niang dismissed his interest: "But look at that corn, where did the flowers come from?"

It was only then that Xia He felt that he had forgotten a huge matter, so he squatted down next to the corn stalk again and began to study it carefully.He didn't believe it, because the same fruit came out, and the corn would have no flowers!