Chapter 60:

Chapter 60:

In the next few days, Lin Ling has been busy in the field, collecting the seeds first, drying them and saving them, and then planting them after a while. Then I went to collect potatoes. The yield of 20 mu of potatoes was very high, and all of them were collected enough for them to eat for the first half of the year with their dogs and chickens.

In order to hold these potatoes, Lin Ling also specially asked Xia Mo to dig a cave outside the back door of the kitchen, which was specially used for storing potatoes.

Lin Ling pointed to the mountains of potatoes, "I declare! From now on we can have three meals!"

At the end of Xia's eyes suddenly lit up, "Eat three meals?"

Lin Ling hummed, "From now on, you don't have to hold back when you're hungry at noon. We have so many potatoes, enough to last for a long time."

Xia Mo nodded happily, and then asked: "Aren't you going to plant?"

"I want to plant it." Lin Ling thought that after the chickens and pigs were raised, they would need a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes to feed them, so she would still plant dozens of acres, but the focus of planting would be on rice and wheat. After all, eating potatoes every day is also very tiring.

"Tomorrow you turn over the potato field, and then dig out ditches on the ten acres of land next to it. I will cut up all the potatoes tomorrow, and plant 30 acres of potatoes by then."

Before the end of summer, more than a hundred acres of land were turned over intermittently, and now all of them are vacant: "What about the remaining land?"

"See the rice in the rice field?" Lin Ling asked Xia Mo.

Xia Mo nodded, and he looked towards the direction of the five-acre rice field. The pale golden ears of rice were hanging down heavily, ready to be harvested soon.

Lin Ling went on to say: "After the potatoes are planted, we can harvest the rice. Then we will irrigate a dozen or twenty acres of paddy fields to plant rice. We will have enough rice for the next crop."

The little green wrapped around Lin Ling's wrist stood up with two leaves: Don't you want to eat the rice after harvesting it?

"Eat, of course I have to eat." Lin Ling has been looking forward to the early ripening of the rice to satisfy her desire as a southerner: "But I can only cook a little to eat, and save the rest for planting."

Xiaolu shook the leaves, pointed at the end of Xia and Brother Chou: eat less.

Brother Chou barked: You should eat less too.

Little green akimbo: I don't eat it.

Xiaolu was a picky eater and only ate meat, nothing else, which saved Lin Ling a lot of food.

"When the rice is planted, then plant the wheat, and then you can rest for a while when you're done with work." Lin Ling thought of the flour she got from helping that woman grow potatoes before, "I have half a catty of flour there, but I can make a meal of leeks Let’s eat dumplings stuffed with eggs.”

"Then I'll dig the ground now." Xia Mo turned and ran towards the place where the potatoes had been planted. He had to plant the potatoes earlier so that he could eat the flour and rice he hadn't eaten earlier.

In the next few days, Lin Ling and Xia Mo planted all the 30 acres of land with potatoes one after another.

After the potatoes were planted, the rice was harvested. The golden rice fields were full of heavy ears of rice. The few empty ears of rice bent the stems of the rice, and they almost fell into the water.

Although five mu of rice had been planted, it was sparsely planted. It took Lin Ling a day to cut all the rice back home.

Because there is no threshing machine at home, Lin Ling can only dry the rice and then thresh the rice manually.

It took another day to thresh the rice. The square threshing bucket was filled with almost half a bucket of rice, and it might be less than 200 catties after drying.

Xiaolu lay on the edge of the threshing bucket, looking at the rice inside with disgust: so little.

"It's pretty good that a catty of rice seeds can grow so much." Lin Ling asked Xiaolu to move the threshed straw outside the yard to dry in the sun. After drying, it can be used as firewood.

After Xiaolu dragged the straw out of the yard, Lin Ling swept the yard clean, poured all the rice on the ground, and spread it out to dry in the sun.

In fact, it is possible to continue planting the second batch of rice seedlings without drying them in the sun, but Lin Ling hasn't finished the rice field yet, so he first let the water dry to facilitate loading.

Both birds and chickens love to peck rice. When Lin Ling was drying the rice, she was wary of starlings and ancestor chickens. She was afraid that they would come to steal her rice, so she told Xia Mo and Brother Chou thousands of times: "Please don't eat rice." Don't let them steal the rice."

Brother Chou complied, expressing that he would not let mynah and chicken ancestor take advantage of the loopholes and steal the rice.

Fortunately, myna and ancestor Ji also knew that Lin Ling valued the rice, so although they wanted to eat it, they didn't come to steal it.

After the rice was dried, Lin Ling took the water pump, Brother Chou and Xia Mo went to the reservoir a few miles away.

Because there is no **** in the reservoir, the water inside has evaporated a lot, the water has become darker, and there are bursts of foul smell.

Xiaolu covered her non-existent nose and looked at the dark reservoir with disgust: it stinks.

"You have to pump water even if it smells bad." The water in the pond is only enough to irrigate the land, and there is no extra water to stir up the dry land, so Lin Ling can only come here to pump water.

Xia Mo looked at the black dust floating on the surface of the reservoir, "When will the water here be clean?"

Lin Ling said, "Just wait until it rains."

Xia Mo asked again: "How can it rain."

Lin Ling pointed to the sky that was always covered with a layer of dust, and explained to Xia Mo: "Do you know that rain comes from clouds in the sky?"

Xia Mo shook his head.

"It doesn't matter if you don't know, as long as you know that the clouds in the sky are the condensation of water, and the water comes from the evaporation of water vapor on the ground, because our place is so desolate that there is no grass and there is no water on the ground, so it has been unable to rain." Lin Ling He told Xia Mo his shallow natural science knowledge.

Xia Mo nodded half-understanding: "So we need to plant more grass and trees to accumulate water?"

"Yes." Lin Ling hummed, "You can go home and read the book for this knowledge. It should be explained in detail in the book."

"Okay, I'll read it when I get back." Xia Mo likes to flip through those books. Even if they are very profound and he can't understand them, he still works hard to learn the characters and understand those stories.

Lin Ling installed the water pump and put it in the reservoir, and then started pumping water. It took about half a day to barely fill the 20 mu of land with water.

Looking at the dark and dirty water, Lin Ling put on the rain boots he had prepared earlier and went to the field to prepare the land. It took nearly six or seven days, and finally all the 20 mu of land had been turned into a muddy field suitable for planting rice.

Once the land is ready, it is time to plant rice. It is still the same as the previous process, raising seedlings, transplanting seedlings, and pouring Dahei nutrient water.

After planting the 25-acre paddy field, Lin Ling looked at the lush rice seedlings with a smile in her eyes. There are several rice seedlings in each plant. When this crop is harvested, she should be able to eat rice every now and then. up! I'm a little excited just thinking about it!

"Go home!" Lin Ling dragged his tired body and walked home.

Xiaolu dragged the basket to keep up: Do you want to eat rice today?

Xia Mo and Chou who followed behind looked at Lin Ling one after another, want to eat rice?

"Eat." Lin Ling harvested a total of more than 190 catties of rice this time, and used six to seven catties of rice seeds per mu of land. After planting, there are still more than 20 catties of rice left, which can all be kept for eating.

Several people ran home excitedly, and Lin Ling took out a catty of rice. There was no hulling and thrashing machine at home, so she called out mynah: "I know how to eat all day long, and it's useless. Peel off these rice husks, and you are not allowed to eat until you finish peeling off!"

Indeed, the starling who hadn’t done anything could only resign himself to the job, peeling the shells with his pointed beak while spitting: “Little cabbage, the ground is yellow, I lost my mother-in-law at the age of three…”

"..." Lin Ling covered her heart. Fortunately, she was not the mother-in-law, or she would be **** to death by the cheap-talking starling sooner or later.

After mynah husked the rice, Lin Ling started to make rice. After washing the rice, put it into the rice cooker he picked up earlier, add some water, and pour in some potato diced into small pieces, just in case it would be a catty The rice was not enough for them to eat, and after closing the lid, the plug was handed over to Brother Chou to generate electricity.

Rice is not enough, there must be vegetables!

Lin Ling also borrowed three eggs from the chicken ancestors to make a leek omelet. The fried leek omelette was golden on both sides, soft and crispy, and smelled very delicious.

The chicken ancestor who hadn't eaten an egg for a long time smelled the aroma of leek omelette, and his temper was instantly cured: I want to eat it! I want to eat!

"Don't worry, I'll eat it after I finish the dishes." Lin Ling swiftly grabbed some pickles from the sauerkraut jar, chopped them up, fried them with the little oil left in the pot, and served them one at a time. Then it was out of the pot.

When Lin Ling was ready, the rice cooked by Brother Chou was ready. In order to eat the rice formally, she put the food on the dining table in the living room. Everyone sat around the dining table and waited for her to share the food.

Lin Ling first divided the crystal clear, sweet and delicious rice into their own bowls. Brother Chou ate a lot, so he used a small scoop for it, followed by her and Xia Mo, and the others only Divide a little and taste it.

Holding the rice in his hands, Xia Mo took a deep breath, "It smells so sweet, it smells sweet."

"It's sweeter when you eat it." Lin Ling stood up and took the chopped leek omelette to share. "The leek omelet is more delicious than meat, but the quantity is very small, so we divide it according to the ranking in the last exam."

Xiaolu, who was about to push the bowl out to pick up the egg pancakes, shook a bit, so angry! If I knew it earlier, I would have studied it more seriously.

Dahei also froze: I am the least? No, starlings are the least.

The starling who was waiting to share the omelette was stunned: "What ranking? Why am I the least?"

Xia Mo explained to the starling with a sympathetic face.

Starling quit: "I didn't take the test, why am I the last one? Why am I eating the least?"

The angry starling still didn't forget to pull the chicken ancestor into the water: "It doesn't have a test, why can it get more points?"

"Because you're in my class, it doesn't have one." Lin Ling distributed egg pancakes to Xia Mo according to their rankings, and when she got the starlings, she deliberately said, "You think you don't have to take the exam if you avoid it? Unexpectedly Bar?"

Xiaolu shook the leaf at mynah meanly: You didn't think of it, did you?

Dahei looked at mynah gratefully: Thank you mynah, if you didn't come to the exam, I would be the last one.

Starling felt another arrow shot in his heart: God! Why is it not tested? With its smart head, it will definitely do better than the ugly dog ​​and the dwarf!

Lin Ling smiled and said, "Work harder next time."

The starling looked at Lin Ling aggrievedly, "Boss, is it okay this time?"

"This is the rule." Lin Ling rejected myna sternly: "There is no rule without rules. Since you are here, you have to follow the rules. You can't always do what you want like before."

"If you want me to treat you as a family member like them at the end of Xia, you should settle down and be honest, you know?"

Starling has been here for more than a month, and he has also figured out Lin Ling's temper, and also knows that she is very kind to Xia Mo and the others. It is different from the place where it stayed before. Those people treated it as a beast, and used it as a thing to pass the time , but Lin Ling didn't, which is why she still wanted to stay here despite the fact that she disliked it very much.

The ugly brother next to him stuck out his tongue and licked mynah's head: next time you do better in the exam, you can eat more.

Although the feathers were wet from being licked, the starling was comforted and looked at Lin Ling pitifully: "When is the exam?"

Lin Ling counted the time: "We will take the exam again in half a month. There will be more questions then. All of you should work harder and try to do well in the exam."

The starling nodded quickly: "Boss, don't worry, I will definitely take the exam well, and I will definitely do better than Brother Chou when the time comes."

The ugly brother barked at the starling dissatisfied: silly bird, you cross the river and tear down the bridge?