In addition to braised pork and twice-cooked pork, water spinach soup is also delicious. The water spinach is very tender and as crisp and refreshing as lettuce, with a little sweetness.
After tasting it, Sang Jiu gave a spoonful to Ah Hua, Ah Shu and Bao Fu, "Eat it, this vegetable is also delicious."
Ah Hua took the water spinach soup carefully and drank it carefully. There was a unique fragrance in the soup, exactly the same as what she smelled in the vegetable field. "It's delicious, and a little sweet."
It was the first time for Ah Shu, who had lived for eighteen years, to eat green leafy vegetables. It turned out to be so delicious. No wonder Li Long and the others had to snatch them away after seeing them.
Thinking of what happened yesterday, resentment and self-blame filled Ashu's eyes. He resented Li Long's robbery and blamed himself for being too weak and failing to protect the water spinach, and possibly causing trouble for Sang Jiu. He thought about it, apologized to Sang Jiu, and expressed his concerns.
"At any time, people are more important. If seeds are lost, they can be replaced, but if people are gone, everything is gone." Sang Jiu doesn't think Ashu is weak, he is a very good brother.
If you don't have the strength to hit the opponent with one strike, there is no need to fight head-on. Just protect yourself and get it back later. It's not shameful, so Sang Jiu told Ashu not to blame himself: "Don't worry about them. It doesn't matter if they come."
This place is already in the wilderness and will be found sooner or later. Moreover, the system asked her to learn the inheritance to transform the environment, which was definitely not changed for her.
Seeing that Sang Jiu didn't take it seriously, Ashu hurriedly reminded him, "But they will seize this place."
"They can't take it away, and they can't come in with bad intentions." Sang Jiu told Ah Shu to relax, "You should take good care of your injuries, don't worry about this or that, and don't act like a nagging old man at such a young age."
Ashu froze for a moment, then shyly said "OK".
At the same time, Li Long blocked Ah Shu and Ah Hua's residence with great momentum. It was smashed yesterday afternoon and was still in a mess. There was not a single useful thing. He stared at the dark mud scattered on the ground with sinister eyes, "Where are the people? Where did they go?"
Li Long's follower: "The guy next door said he went to see a doctor and never came back."
"But we looked everywhere and didn't see any trace of them."
One of the henchmen said to Li Long, "Captain, did they hear the news and run away? Yesterday you said you would not let him have an easy time, so they might be scared and ran away."
Yesterday, Ah Shu fought back and accidentally injured Li Long's face, so he was furious and threatened. Unexpectedly, he couldn't find the person today. "You must find him for me, even if you dig three feet into the ground!"
He brought back the green sprouts that fell yesterday, intending to give them as a gift to the managers above me. However, he didn't expect that the green sprouts were so disappointing that they died overnight when he didn't pay attention.
He had said that he would send a unique gift, but now that it was gone, he felt embarrassed: "We must find them, and the plant."
"Brother Li, the safe zone is so big, where can we find it?" Another follower looked angry and embarrassed. The safe zone is very large, equivalent to a small town. The tunnels underneath are intricate and divided into ten districts. Each district has about 10,000 people. It is really difficult to find.
"Yes, Brother Li, we have never seen that kind of plant before. Where can we find it?"
"Hey, do you remember when that girl came back alive, she said there was a wooden house in the wilderness and the people inside were very powerful. Could she have gotten this information from there?"
"When we met them a few days ago, they were coming back from the direction of the wasteland with their bags on their backs, and I heard the sound of sloshing water."
"It can't be true. If it really existed, we would have met it in the wilderness every day."
Li Long thought about what happened before, and his anger and jealousy became even stronger. How could these two beggars have the right to have him? "Go find them tonight!"
If it really exists, it should belong to them.
They all left in a swarm. People from other caves next door carefully poked their heads out and asked the middle-aged man coming from the other side: "Brother Zhao, you have a good relationship with the brother and sister. Do you know where they went?"
Brother Zhao recalled the scent of meat emanating from the two men when they came back a few days ago, and rubbed his chin which was accidentally hit when they were trying to stop the fight yesterday: "I don't know."
"Then you know what they say about there being a very safe place in the wilderness, is that true?"
"I don't know." Brother Zhao stretched his shoulders and neck, turned around and walked out, "Let's go, it will be too late if we don't pick sand mushrooms now."
Safe house here.
The three people and the cat finished the two dishes and the soup. After they finished, Ah Hua took the initiative to wash the dishes.
"Use this to wash." Sang Jiu handed a piece of soap to Ah Hua, "It will be enough to make some bubbles."
"Okay." After Ah Hua washed the dishes and Ah Shu wiped the table, Sang Jiu, who had nothing to do for a while, sat under the eaves to rest. Suddenly, the system voice rang in his ears: [Congratulations on learning two kinds of intangible cultural heritage cuisine. Please choose the reward you want: A. Recipes of the eight major cuisines B. A portion of spices C. Seeds. ]
The recipe can be viewed in the system, and spices are optional for the time being, so Sang Jiu still chose seeds. She still has ten acres of black soil that needs to be reclaimed and planted.
There are ten kinds of seeds in this gift pack, namely rice, soybeans, corn, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, radish, onions, garlic and ginger.
rice!!
The rice that Sang Jiu had been longing for!!
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Bao Fu, who was lying beside her and savoring the moment, was startled by her. He stared at Sang Jiu, who suddenly burst into laughter, with vigilance🧐: Is she ill?
Ashu and Ah Hua also stared at her worriedly.
"It's okay, I just encountered something happy." Sang Jiu stood up and patted Bao Fu's head, "Come on and work for me. Stay up late tonight and turn over all the land."
Baofu suddenly is like losing one's parents, it's time to turn the land over again.
"Come on, we'll have so much meat tonight, but it will be wasted if we don't plow the ten acres of land." Sang Jiu pulled the hair on Bao Fu's neck and walked towards the black land. Ashu also limped after him, "I'll help you."
"Take good care of yourself and don't move around." Sang Jiu is not hulk, so she would not let the injured Ashu work.
"I'm much better now and can move around." Ashu felt that he was already taking advantage of living here, and wanted to do more to repay Sang Jiu before leaving.
Sang Jiu looked at the limping Ah Shu unhappily and said, "If you want to be lame for the rest of your life, just say so."
Ashu looked down at his legs and felt even more guilty.
"Brother, take a rest. I'll do it." Ah Hua ran to Sang Jiu and said that she must do something for Sang Jiu. "I'll plow. I know how to plow." Ah Hua had seen it last time and thought it was quite simple.
"Then you try it." Sang Jiu asked Ahua to step on the pedal added at the back of the curved plow. Baofu would pull the front, and their people would just be responsible for the support and turning.
Baofu was very smart and knew how to plow the land. Ah Hua also tried hard to do it well, so the man and the cat worked together well and plowed a row in the blink of an eye. After that, they ran back and forth several times and plowed all ten acres of land before midnight.
The next step was to harrow the land, but it was very late, so Sang Jiu asked Ahua to go to the wooden house to rest first.
While Ah Hua was plowing the fields, she made two new small wooden beds and put them in an empty room. However, this time, there were no mattresses as rewards for building the wooden house, so the two of them could only make do with what they had.
But for Ah Hua, it was already good. She lay on the newly made wooden bed, looking at the bright moonlight outside the window, and whispered to her brother in the other bed: "Brother, it's great here. I can see outside."
They had always lived underground where the sun could not penetrate, the air was turbid, and there were all kinds of complicated smells. But here it was clean and bright, and even the air seemed sweet. "Brother, I don't feel stuffy here."
Ashu also felt that his body was not in so much pain, and the headache that felt like needles pricking him after he turned sixteen was also relieved a lot. "Yeah, it's nice here."
"Brother, it would be great if we could stay here forever." Ah Hua really likes this place.
Ah Shu wanted to, but this was Sang Jiu's place, and they couldn't stay here. He hesitated for a long time and said softly, "Let's help her finish planting that piece of land before we leave."
His legs should have been fully healed by then, and Captain Li should have forgotten about him.
Ah Hua nodded and counted on her fingers, "Tomorrow I have to harrow the land and dig holes for planting. It will take about five or six days to plant everything. The sixth day is my birthday. I hope I can celebrate my birthday before leaving."
The last sentence was spoken in a very low voice, like a whisper, or also like a wish.
Ashu didn't hear what his sister said next. He was thinking about what work he could help with tomorrow.
So by the next day, Ashu's broken leg had healed a lot and he could walk slowly without crutches. So he took the initiative to sweep the yard and then went to plow the fields.
Seeing that the intermittent ointment was very effective and that Ashu was indeed not forcing himself, Sang Jiu stopped trying to stop him.
After that, everyone divided the work. Ashu did the easier work. He just had to stand on the harrow to supervise Baofu to harrow the land. Harrowing is faster than plowing. In less than an hour, they had finished harrowing ten acres of land.
Sang Jiu and Ahua were not idle either. This time she got rice seeds, just enough to plant two acres, so she needed to cultivate two acres of paddy fields.
She chose two acres of land near the water storage pit, which would be more convenient for water diversion in the future. Then she followed the system's instructions to dig ditches and make ridges. The ridges are usually 20 to 30 cm higher than the soil in the middle, and it is quite laborious to dig. So after Baofu finished raking the land, she came to help dig the ditches. After digging the ditches, she pressed down the ridges that were much higher.
After compaction, the well water is directly led into the fields. Two acres of land can hold a lot of water. Fortunately, the water in this well is inexhaustible, otherwise she would be heartbroken.
After bringing in water, you need to stir the soil to try to allow the water to penetrate into every corner. Then soak it for a few days. After the soil is completely softened into silt, paste the ridges again to prevent water leakage.
After the paddy fields were finished, it was already dark and everyone was exhausted. Sang Jiu leaned against the wall tiredly and sighed weakly: "I'm so tired."
Ah Hua also sighed: "Alas."
After pedaling the keel waterwheel for most of the day, Baofu collapsed on the ground and sighed like a human: "Ah~~~~"
Sang Jiu was amused: "Why are you, a cat, sighing?"
The suddenly rich actor(i.e .Baofu) sighed and collapsed on the ground, he was really about to die of exhaustion!
"Since everyone is tired, let's just have some dried meat and go to bed early." Sang Jiu really didn't have the energy to cook anymore, so she took out a few pieces of dried rabbit meat to make do.
When the spoiled rich cat heard this, he let out a shrill and resentful cat's cry and stared at Sang Jiu with resentful eyes as if he was looking at a scumbag: You black-hearted woman, you made me do so much work and don't even let me have a good meal, are you going to let the cat live?
Sang Jiu was speechless: ...How can a cat like you be so dramatic?