Chapter 61 Digging the Sweet Potato Well
Although he didn't want to say it, the villagers would also guess how much money he could make in his mind.
Although Liu Junhao has been busy with the less than one acre of land in the yard in the past six months, he can't hold on to the skill of others. Planting watermelons on the locust trees is sweet. Those jujube trees are also bigger and more cravings than others. I'm afraid they will cost thousands of dollars just by selling dates, let alone eels, which is a big money-making head.
However, the villagers are jealous, but they have no thoughts they shouldn't have. This is mainly because Liu Junhao is really good and doesn't care about things. Take the fruits and vegetables in the yard for example. Whoever comes in the village can pick them at will. In summer, no one has picked vegetables from his yard?
There are also those sweet dates. Fortunately, the adults said they knew they were going to sell for money, so they only tasted a few fresh ones. However, the naughty kids from each family soaked there almost every day to make dates. Liu Junhao didn't say anything, and there was also a computer...
As we talked about the wild boars raised by Ermazi, we asked each other when the wild boars would be out of the crowd? Because the wild boars were afraid of strangers, the two of them built a pigpen in the backyard, which generally did not allow strangers to get close to them. Everyone didn't know what the wild boars looked like.
"What cage is released? I will be grateful if I get it out in May next year." Ermazi said with a sad face. He now regretted that he was too impulsive and did not listen to others' advice.
The two wild boars struggled the couple very hard. I won’t mention the hundred dollars of medical expenses I spent at the beginning. Now when I am half old, I am very picky in food. I eat bran every meal. I add some bran to it and start humming, "I don’t eat it when I’m half old."
The beast couldn't beat it, and the scolding was not understood. Unfortunately, the couple had to go to the town every few days to buy a large bag of bran.
After a few months, the benefits have not been seen yet. However, he bought several large bags of bran, which cost 60 yuan per pack, and he spent four or five hundred yuan just by buying bran.
It can eat bran and grow meat, but wild boars are different from domestic pigs. They don’t gain weight by eating only. They are thin and thin, not as they were told to eat one pound and two taels long as they were told to him. But now, the wild boar has been fed for only sixty or seventy pounds for several months, and it is still half a pile, and it is not enough to eat during the Chinese New Year.
Liu Junhao chatted for a while and was about to go back, but he was stopped by Ermazi. He said that he wanted him to go over in the afternoon to help dig the sweet potato well.
When Professor Zhao built a house, Ermazi also went over to help, remembering Liu Junhao's abnormal digging ability, like a small excavator. This time he dug a sweet potato well, the first thing he thought of was Liu Junhao, and he was preparing to have lunch to talk to him, but he didn't expect to meet him here.
Anyway, there was nothing to do in the afternoon, so Liu Junhao agreed readily. After lunch, he went to Ermazi's house and saw a pile of sweet potatoes piled up in his convertible hood, including white and foreign ones.
Liu Junhao took a sweet potato and washed the soil in a bucket, then stuffed it into his mouth to chew it.
There are two types of sweet potatoes here. One is white sweet potato, which is very large, and the other weighs more than one pound, but it tastes a bit stupid and not very sweet. The other is the sweet potato he eats now. This sweet potato has been in stock for a while, so it tastes crispy and sweet. When you eat it, you feel a chill in your mouth and your throat and you will go all the way into your stomach, which is very comfortable.
Perhaps the reason why Liu Junhao has been eating sweet potatoes a few years ago is that he is quite disgusted with this kind of thing and has never grown it at home.
But a few days ago, when the hairy child came to play with the computer, he took half a piece of sweet potato bun in his hand. He looked at it and couldn't help but break it a little and taste it. It was sweet and sour, and it felt delicious. So he broke the steamed bun in the hairy child's hand and sat by the computer to satisfy his cravings.
Now that he had the opportunity, he naturally ate very much. After eating two in a row, he stopped and asked where to choose the Sweet Potato Well?
In order to save trouble, Ermazi did not choose the Sweet Potato Well, and planned to dig it directly in the corner of his own yard.
The sweet potato wells in Liujiagou are usually very shallow because they dare not dig deep at all. If they are a little deeper, they may seep water. If the well is too turbulent, the sweet potatoes will easily rot.
However, people have some methods. If they can't dig it downwards, they will pile it upwards. After digging the sweet potato well, pile up the soil on the well, and turn the sweet potato well into a large platform like a small bunker, so that more sweet potatoes can be stored.
Ermazi's family grew a lot of sweet potatoes this year, and they harvested one or two thousand kilograms, so the sweet potato well was dug very large.
After choosing the address, the two of them dug up their heads with their small heads. In a short while, they dug up to more than two meters deep. Seeing that Ermazi was digging too slowly, Liu Junhao asked him to pull the soil on it. He put on a straw hat and squatted in the well with his small head "huffed" and digged it open.
The well was small and airtight, so his body became hot soon. In order not to let the wet mud stain his clothes, he simply took off his shirt and dug it down with his bare arms. Liu Junhao was indeed much faster than Ermazi's hands and feet. In a short while, two piles of soil were piled up in the yard. It was not until Ermazi said it was almost done that Liu Junhao climbed up like a monkey, grabbing the rope.
After a long time of work, he stopped sweating profusely. He ate another cold sweet potato before he could thoroughly thoroughly.
The freshly dug sweet potato well does not put sweet potatoes inside immediately. It needs to be hanged for a few days to make the well dry.
Ermazi saw that Liu Junhao seemed to like eating sweet potatoes very much. When he left, he specially asked his wife to get a snakeskin bag for him to take it back for food.
Liu Junhao did not refuse, and remembered this favor in the future. He didn't even thorn the snakeskin bag, so he grabbed the snakeskin bag and threw it on his shoulders, and walked towards the house with one hand. The bag of sweet potatoes was only seventy or eighty kilograms, so it was very easy to carry.
In the evening, he gave Professor Zhao half a basket of sweet potatoes, and asked them to cut them into pieces and put them in a pot to cook when cooking.
Then I went back to the house to start cooking my own meals. I missed this thing for a few years now. I will eat cold sweet potato shreds tonight, and throw two of them into the rice porridge later.
After Liu Junhao finished thinking, he took a white sweet potato and cut it into strips as thick as a little finger, and then threw it into cold water to rinse it. Generally, the cold sweet potato shreds are used for white sweet potatoes. The main reason is that the sweet potato tendons contained more sweet potato tendons than other sweet potatoes. Although they taste a little toothy when raw, they cooked them in boiling water and removed the sweet potato tendons, and then used the crumbs of tender ginger, vinegar and salt, and then mixed with sesame oil to eat it.
After mixing chopsticks a few times, Liu Junhao added a piece and put it in his mouth. It tasted crispy and had no sweet potato tendons at all. It tasted a bit like potatoes, but it was more refreshing than potatoes. It also had a hint of sweetness in saltyness, and the taste was quite unique. It was a good meal.
Although sweet potatoes are very sweet when eaten raw, they have no muscles and bones. After cutting them into strips, they are completely cooked in boiling water and cannot be picked up at all.
At this time, the big pot was "gurgling" sound, and the sweet potato rice porridge was almost cooked. So, I put a steamed bun, picked up a chopstick of vinegar, tender ginger and sweet potato shreds, and then drank a few sweet sweet potato rice porridge... He let go of his stomach and ate it hard, but accidentally ate food. His stomach kept rumbling in the middle of the night, and he had no choice but to wear thick clothes to get up to find the mountain red appetizer.
If we say that the weather this year is obviously much colder than usual, just a few days after the November of the lunar calendar, people are wearing thick winter clothes.
It’s fine if the weather is cold. This week it’s been foggy. When the two of them get up in the morning, they can’t see clearly when they meet face to face five or six meters apart.
Zhang Qian was afraid that something might happen to the children to go to school in such a big fog, so she discussed with Teacher Wang and asked them to review their homework at home in the morning and wait until the fog completely dissipated before going to class.
Naturally, there is no question of sunbathing in such heavy fog weather. Although you can't go out, Liu Junhao will still have fun for himself.
In the past few days, he was at home playing computers, playing games, teasing rabbits and dogs, and roasting sweet potatoes under the stove to eat, and life was as leisurely as ever.
Just after dinner in the morning, he took out the big sweet potato roasted under the stove, knocked off the scorched ash on it and ate it. The yellow, hot and fragrant sweet potato meat looks mouth-watering.
He was eating delicious food, but he heard Zhang Qian calling him outside the yard in a hurry, asking him if he had seen Qiuqiu at home, and Qiuqiu seemed to have lost it.
Since he had this water duck, Zhang Qian has treated it as a treasure. As long as he could bring it, he usually took Qiuqiu to class. Even every time he went to school, Zhang Qian walked in front, and the water duck followed behind him.
Chapter completed!