Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 254 Shoveling the Earth

Lan Qiuhua said: "Marrying a daughter-in-law is not free. I can't give away a girl I raised with great difficulty to your family for nothing."

Ji Wenhe looked at Wu Caifeng with a question mark on her head. Why was she looking at her?

"Why haven't my family met a girl who doesn't want a dowry?"

...It seems that she is thinking about this.

"The one who doesn't want a betrothal gift is an old maid, a widow. Are you willing to marry her?" Wang Erfeng continued, "Even if Fei Ling from your family is willing, you two won't be willing."

"That's true." She waved her hand, "You guys keep busy, I'll go home and clean up the house."

Several people nodded.

Then, Ji Wenhe also greeted them and returned home. Seeing Shen Rongshan holding a machete, he hurriedly asked, "Are you going to the mountain to chop firewood?"

He nodded: "Yeah, what's wrong."

I won’t go out to sell goods this afternoon, so I’ll just tidy up everything at home.

"Go find the carpenter and get the cutting board back."

Shen Wenshan came out of the house and said, "Brother, go ahead. Yuanshan and I will go chop wood later."

He put down the machete and said, "Go to the eastern hilltop, and I'll come back to find you later."

"it is good."

Normally, we pick up small branches in the mountains, which burn quickly.

Ji Wenhe came into the house and gave him fifty coins: "Is it enough?"

"It won't take that much." Shen Rongshan took out twenty coins and asked, "Is there anything else you need to fight for at home?"

"Not at the moment." She picked up the shovel. "You go first."

"What are you doing with that shovel?"

"I'm going to turn the soil in the vegetable garden." Ji Wenhe looked at him and said, "I want to carry the soil from the vegetable garden to the wasteland. The soil in the wasteland has chicken fat, and then I can carry it to the vegetable garden."

"Aunt Wang said that we should plant broad beans at the end of the month, so we should plant all the seven mu of land we have."

Shen Rongshan took the shovel from her hand and said, "Why not plant the broad beans on the wasteland to save the trouble of picking them back and forth?"

"No, I looked at the wasteland soil. Only the top layer has chicken manure. If you dig it with a shovel, the soil below is not as good as the vegetable field."

"If we carry the top layer of soil with chicken manure over, vegetables won't grow well on this wasteland. We'll have to wait until next year."

She had also thought about it. After all, picking and choosing is time-consuming and laborious. The wasteland has been left idle for many years and it will take at least a year to grow crops.

He nodded in understanding: "You don't need to plow the vegetable field. Just dig up the soil and carry it over. Carry the soil from the wasteland over, and plow the field again in two days."

Ji Wenhe picked up the carrying pole and said, "Okay, go ahead. Come back to cook at noon."

The two walked towards the vegetable field.

"Pile the dirt together and I'll pick it up when I come back." Shen Rongshan handed her the shovel. "Why don't you take your straw hat down? I'll get it for you when I get back."

She took a step forward, grabbed his sleeve, and said, "It's okay. It's not too hot today. It's good to get some sun. It can supplement your vitamin D. Otherwise, you'll get osteoporosis. Go ahead. The sooner you go, the sooner you can come back."

Although I don't understand what she means, there must be a reason for her to do so.

"Okay, I'll be back soon." He drove the donkey cart out of the village.

Ji Wenhe stood in the vegetable garden, looked around, started digging from the edge of the field, and piled the soil together like he was turning the soil.

After working for a while, I saw Li Chunhong coming from the east: "Aunt Li."

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Digging." I explained to her.

"That's a lot of trouble. It's tiring to carry it. Where's your donkey cart? Use it to pull it."

"Brother Shen is out and will be back soon. He plans to use the donkey cart to pull it."

She was not good at carrying it; it was too heavy for her to carry, and it would take her several days to carry it if it was too little. After having a donkey cart at home, it really made things much easier.

Li Chunhong nodded and smiled: "Okay, then you go ahead and do your work, I'll go back and help them."

She just went for a walk in the fields.

"Okay." Ji Wenhe responded and continued digging.

The vegetables in the vegetable garden can only grow well if they are continuously irrigated with manure and water.

When their land was in the hands of Shen Zhong's family, it had never been irrigated with manure.

Because they have a lot of land, they can only take the best ones.

When Shen Rongshan came back, she had already dug more than half of it.

"Wen He, take a rest. I'll come after dinner."

Ji Wenhe turned around and saw him leading the donkey cart: "I'm not tired, go back and cook, and leave the donkey cart here."

She put the shovel on the ground, walked over, and looked at the pile of dirt: "I'll go to Aunt Lan's house to borrow the dung bucket."

Then he realized, "Forget it, just pull the donkey cart back. A cart for selling goods, carrying dung buckets and chicken manure, is disgusting. People will feel sick when they see it."

Shen Rongshan thought so too and pulled the donkey forward: "I will go back to cook, you take a rest, after dinner, Wenshan and I will be busy."

"I know." She waved her hand.

The soil in the mountains is not good, and when the wind blows, it raises a lot of dust.

Lan Qiuhua told her that the soil here is sandy, and no matter what is planted, it will not grow well without fertilizer.

Some people from other villages would travel a long way to dig soil from other places, and some would go to the mountains to dig soil.

Although the soil on the mountain is not good, it is better than that at the foot of the mountain. However, there are a lot of fine gravel, and it takes a lot of effort to dig it back.

After Ji Wenhe went to Lan Qiuhua's house, he borrowed a dung bucket, went to the pond in the wasteland to fetch water, and watered the vegetable field that had just been dug.

After carrying the food back and forth twice, Shen Rongshan prepared the meal at home and walked quickly to the edge of the field: "Wen He, go home and eat."

"Okay, I'll finish pouring this half bucket."

He stepped forward and took the dung scoop: "Come and get the chopping board in three days. Wen He, there is only one wooden box at home, how about making a wardrobe?"

He went to the carpenter's house today and saw a finished wooden cabinet and a dressing mirror placed in their yard.

There was not enough space in the house to store too many things, so he went home and looked around, and found that a small wardrobe could be put in there.

Ji Wenhe stood in the ravine and shook his head: "I want to buy new furniture and furnishings after the house is built, and we don't have room for a wardrobe in our house."

"My house is already small, and putting a wardrobe in it will make it even smaller and look too crowded."

She likes a smaller bedroom because it makes her feel safer, but if it is too crowded, she will feel depressed and suffocated.

Shen Rongshan followed her advice: "Okay, after the house is built, we will hire a carpenter."

Then he added, "Go to town and have a look. There are many styles in town. Buy whichever one you like."

"Okay, then our whole family will go and see it." Ji Wenhe smiled as he walked by, "Brother Shen, I'm still struggling over whether to buy the land first or the homestead."

"Didn't you say before that we should buy the land first and then the homestead?"

She nodded: "Yes, but I want to buy a homestead first, and then buy the land."

I'm confused and don't know which one to buy first.

Shen Rongshan said: "I want to buy land first. For us farmers, land is still important."

"I know. If we have money, we can buy it together."

The problem is that I don’t have any money, so I can only buy one first.

She wanted to build a house on the residential plot and also wanted to buy land.