sbdcsierra Chapter 114 Growing Vegetables
Chapter 114 Growing Vegetables
114. Growing vegetables
Qi Zhengyang felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing this.
He recalled what Su Jinru had said when she divorced him.
"Why should I bother to serve your whole family? In the end, you'll all turn out to be ungrateful wretches, including those ungrateful wolf cubs in your eldest brother's family."
Midwife: "Qi Zhengyang, hurry up and take it there! Don't delay any longer."
Qi Zhengyang: "Auntie, could you please look after An Yu for me? I'll take Du Mei to the county hospital by myself."
"Don't worry! I'll keep an eye on An Yu for you. Quickly take Du Mei to the hospital."
"This little girl is not even two years old yet. What would we do if something happened to her mother?"
Qi Zhengyang pulled the cart alone and took Du Mei to the hospital.
Ultimately, thanks to the doctor's timely intervention, Du Mei gave birth to a boy.
However, due to severe damage to her uterus, she will never be able to have children again.
However, for Du Mei, who already has a son and a daughter, there is no regret that she cannot have any more children.
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After the state disbanded the collective canteens, Su Jinru requested to be transferred back to work in the county town, citing her experimental farm as the reason.
By this time, she had already experimented with potatoes that yielded 9,000 jin per mu.
These potatoes will first be planted in the third production team of Daben Township, and then promoted to other areas.
Su Jinru has already taught the planting techniques for the new varieties to the third production team.
The head of the county agricultural technology station naturally hoped that Su Jinru could focus on her experiments and develop new varieties with higher yields.
So she is allowed to work wherever she wants.
Su Jinru transferred her two children to Chengguan Primary School in the county town.
At this time, Anran was already in fifth grade. Anxin was in third grade.
Children attending Chengguan Elementary School are generally better dressed, as they live in the county town and most of their families are better off.
The two children don't need to dress in shabby clothes every day here; they can dress nicely.
The same goes for food. Unlike in the village, where you might not dare to share your good food, here, your neighbors won't pay much attention to what you eat or wear.
At first, Su Jinru was worried that her two children would not be able to adapt to school life and learning.
Su Jinru specially brought some fruit to visit the principal and the teachers of her two children.
At this time of year, fruit is a rare commodity, something that money can't buy.
Sending these teachers some fruit was just a trivial matter for Su Jinru.
Her space contains fruit twice a year, with two trees for each variety, and each tree bearing more than 200 kilograms of fruit.
Su Jinru's space has a large storage capacity for fruit, so she can eat fresh fruit at any time.
But for teachers, this kind of gift is extremely precious.
They immediately began to pay special attention to the two children.
Unexpectedly, this attention led to the discovery that the two children were exceptionally bright and excelled in every subject.
With such understanding parents and such an outstanding student, it's no wonder that teachers favor such a student.
The two children are also very adaptable. When they go to school, they bring some snacks with them. Their classmates who are good friends with them will give them some food, such as a boiled sweet potato or a potato.
Back then, every household didn't have enough food stored up, and adults and children were constantly in a state of semi-hunger. Having even a little food was the most precious thing.
The two children were good at their studies, kind and generous, and quickly won the affection of many classmates.
Children are loved by their teachers and liked by their classmates at school, so they are naturally happy to go to school every day.
They feel a sense of accomplishment and belonging at school, so how could they not love going to school?
Su Jinru still sells potatoes twice every twenty days, 100,000 jin each time.
Every time they came to pick up goods, Su Jinru would choose to do so during the day when her two children were at school.
Because she couldn't let her children know that so much food had suddenly appeared in the house, and because the children were growing up and she couldn't fool them anymore, Su Jinru was quite cautious about many things.
Yuan Wenjie installed a telephone at home, so it was quite convenient for Su Jinru to contact him.
Su Jinshen also wanted to install a landline phone, but he was renting the house, so he couldn't install one. Besides, installing a phone privately wasn't about the money; it was just too conspicuous.
Finally, Su Jinru reported to her supervisor that the unit had applied to install a landline telephone.
This made it much easier for Su Jinru to make phone calls.
Now that she could cook for herself, Su Jinru set aside a small plot of land in the space to grow various vegetables so that there would be a variety of fresh vegetables to eat every day.
To avoid suspicion from others, or even from her two children, she planted some vegetables in the yard to cover her tracks.
At this time, with the dissolution of the collective canteens, the government, in order to ensure that people had some vegetables to eat, would allocate a small plot of land for each household to grow vegetables.
Therefore, planting vegetables in one's own yard is a reasonable and legal thing to do.
However, at that time, the variety of vegetables was limited and the cultivation techniques were not advanced, so most families could barely afford enough vegetables for their own consumption.
The seeds in Su Jinru's space are high-quality new products with high yields.
The vegetables Su Jinru grows in her space have a shorter cycle, taking about ten days to harvest.
Su Jinru took the vegetable seeds from her space and planted them in the yard. Naturally, the variety of vegetables was greater than that in a typical family's private plot, the yield was higher, and the vegetables tasted better.
Su Jinru entrusted the management of the vegetables in the yard to her two children, hoping to give them a chance to grow and develop.
The two children had previously grown sweet potatoes and potatoes at their home in Daben Village, so they were experienced in growing crops.
Under Su Jinru's guidance, the child quickly learned how to grow various vegetables.
Occasionally, when there are leftover vegetables, Su Jinru would have her two children set up a vegetable stall in front of their house to sell on weekends.
Their house is located in the center of the county town, a place with many people coming and going. They can just put something in front of the door and many people will see it.
The vegetables grown by Su Jinru's family are of many varieties and are very fresh. They taste better and are more diverse than those grown by vegetable companies.
Every time they put their vegetables out to sell, they're sold out in no time.
Vegetables usually cost five cents a pound.
They can earn between one and two yuan per week.
Su Jinru gave all the money her two children earned from selling vegetables to them to divide and manage themselves.
The two children split the money equally and saved it themselves.
Now that they can earn their own money, the two children are even more proactive in growing vegetables.
Therefore, Su Jinru hardly needed to worry about the vegetables in the yard.
The neighbors were quite curious about how well Su Jinru grew vegetables in her yard, and they also started growing vegetables in their own yards, just like Su Jinru.