The Cannon Fodder of Fast Time Travel, She Chooses To Farm

  Chapter 69 As a fine female matchmaker chooses to farm (18)

  The acre of land next to the mulberry field is full of fruits and vegetables, with various types and colors.

  Some people Uncle Wang knew, and some he hadn’t met. Crowded and suffered, the growth is excellent. Some aren't even grown this season.

  Uncle Wang has planted the land for decades, and this is the first time he saw such a scene, and he was deeply shocked.

  He couldn't help but suspect that he had been a white race for the past few decades, what kind of old-fashioned way, and he was not as good as a noble woman who couldn't lift his hands or shoulders.

  If Xu Yin heard Uncle Wang's heartfelt voice, she would probably laugh out loud.

   This is the charm of scientific farming!

"Uncle Wang, many of these vegetables are already cooked. I'll let someone tie the red cotton ropes to save the seeds. Let someone pick the rest in the near future. Send some to the palace every day, and share the rest. The melons will have to wait." After a period of time, pick some seeds after they are ripe, and the rest are the same as vegetables, and send batches of melons to the palace, and share the rest with you."

  Wang Bo thanked the tenant farmers in Zhuangzi.

  After Xu Yin visited the vegetable field, she went next door to look at the rice field.

  It will take another month or so for the rice to mature, and it will be harvested just before the trip. When the time comes, I will go out with the joy of a good harvest, and I will be able to fly when I am in a good mood.

   "Princess, there are still three points of fodder beans, what do you plan to do with them?"

  Uncle Wang saw that in the melon, fruit and vegetable fields, there were several ridges of fodder beans, which were still green at the moment.

These beans are generally used to feed livestock. It is not impossible for people to eat them, but if they eat too much, they will swell their stomachs. They only fry a little during the Chinese New Year and give them as snacks for the children at home. Therefore, they are rarely grown. Who is willing to use fertile land to grow livestock feed? .

   But the concubine just asked him to send some of each vegetable to the palace, so she wasn't sure if the bag didn't include the hay beans.

Thinking of this, Xu Yin patted her forehead: "I almost forgot! Don't pick too many green bean pods, just send one or two to try something fresh, and harvest the rest when they are ripe and golden. I'm of great use."

  Soybeans are about to mature, so tofu and soy sauce can be considered.

   She took the time to glance at the energy point balance, fortunately! During this period of time, apart from spending a little on exchanging solar panels, I have saved the rest. I am not blind, and I can arrange to exchange 3000 energy points for the soy sauce formula.

  After properly arranging the farming work in the experimental field, Xu Yin returned to the palace with a cart of vegetables grown by herself and a few relatively ripe watermelons and melons.

  Yan Kejin hasn't returned from the mine yet.

  Xu Yin took a bath, changed into a light gauze skirt, and asked Qiu Shuang to open a watermelon.

   There are one or two cents, but they are edible. I cut a bowl of melon meat and ate it with a fruit stick.

  There is a lot of water, and the sweetness is a bit lacking, but Xu Yin is very satisfied. After all, it is not yet fully mature. After another ten days and a half months, the taste will improve.

   But no matter how delicious it was, one person couldn’t eat the whole melon, so the mother took half of it and shared it with the maids.

   "Cut melons should not be stored for a long time, otherwise bacteria will easily grow."

  Grandma doesn’t know what bacteria are, but she knows that fruits and melons that have been stored for a long time are easy to get sick, so she took them and divided them.

  When Yan Kejin came back, it was already night.

  The watermelon was too big to finish, so Xu Yin asked someone to cut a melon over.

   "Can you eat it?"

  Yan Kejin knew that she had planted a lot of fruits and vegetables on the Zhuangzi since she came here, but she didn't expect that it was the harvest season.

   "The melons are almost ready, pick a few and try something new."

  Melons were first brought into the Central Plains by Hu merchants. The nobles in Beijing would grow some on the hot spring village. Whether they are eaten at home or given away, they are excellent seasonal fruits. It is rare here in Nanban.

   I think it's still a problem of inconvenient transportation.

  Of course, the main reason is that it is still too much to think about eating a full stomach. The fields are limited, who would think of growing melons? Every cent of melon planted means less food, and it hurts to think about it.

  Xu Yin planted some melons and fruits for a change of taste because she had high-yield rice seeds in her hands. What's more, vitamins are also necessary for the human body.

   "I read a travelogue, saying that the small island country in the South Seas is rich in tropical fruits. If you have the opportunity, you must bring some back. The climate here is actually quite suitable for growing fruits."

   "It's from a miscellaneous book again?" Yan Kejin looked at her with a half-smile.

  Xu Yin just smiled and said nothing, anyway, it’s right to push everything to “the book”!

  …

  The next day, she cooked a table of home-cooked dishes by herself using the fresh seasonal vegetables sent by Zhuangzi.

  After wearing it, this is the first time I touch pots and pans, and I feel a little raw.

   It can be seen that it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but it will be uncomfortable to go from extravagant to frugal.

   Maybe next time she will dress up as a fleeing peasant girl and rely on herself for everything, so Xu Yin decides to cook more in the future.

   "Try it, I made it!"

  She raised her chin shyly towards Yan Kejin who entered the door.

  Early in the morning, King Jinnan heard that the princess was busy in the small kitchen. He deliberately didn't go out of the mansion today. He came to the main courtyard on time for dinner, glanced at her with a smile, and sat down.

   "The princess personally grows, harvests, and cooks the dishes herself. This king must taste them carefully."

  A table of dishes, only fish in sour soup and eight-treasure duck are the ones he has ever eaten.

  The rest like garlic cucumber, shrimp skin winter melon, tomato scrambled eggs, fried cabbage, pine nut spinach, minced carrot shredded pumpkin pie are all made of ingredients that have never been seen before.

   "Is this all grown from the seeds you bought from Hu Shang?"

  Xu Yin knew he would ask such a question.

  Actually, for the seeds bought from Hu merchants, the only ones that have not been planted in Yanhua are pumpkins and carrots, and the rest are transferred from the system warehouse by her under the pretext of "Hu merchants".

   Some of them should have been introduced into the country around the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but they are all imported products anyway. Wouldn’t it be good to bring them out in advance to enrich the dining tables of ordinary people?

  Yes, Xu Yin nodded without guilt:

"Well, I was still worried that the seeds in the north would not be able to be planted here. I didn't expect them to grow very well. It seems that the water and soil in the south are very suitable for planting. I asked Uncle Wang to save the seeds. When the production increases in the future, it can be supplied to the Wangfu. You can also open a shop to sell the seeds of these vegetables at a lower price, so that people can buy them and plant them in front of or behind their houses, and add a few dishes to the dining table. .”

  Yan Kejin took a deep look at her, and then smiled: "It's a pity that the princess is not a man with such a heart."

  Xu Yin: "..."

  If I were a man, would you and I still be destined?

  …

   It will be the Dragon Boat Festival in two days.

  Xu Yin asked the kitchen to make a lot of zongzi in advance, with rich flavors, including eight-treasure dumplings, sweet-scented osmanthus honey bean paste and red dates dumplings, salted egg yolk fresh meat dumplings, chestnut meat dumplings... There are several kinds of salty and sweet.

  One of the benefits of the Dragon Boat Festival for servants in the mansion is a bunch of assorted rice dumplings.

   At the beginning, Yuchu heard Xu Yin say that he wanted to make a batch of salted egg yolk meat dumplings and chestnut meat dumplings, and he was dumbfounded.

  He has been an imperial cook in the palace for so many years, and the zongzi he made by himself is tens of thousands, if not tens of thousands. He has never made salty zongzi.

   Aren’t all zongzi sweet? Can you eat salty ones?

  (end of this chapter)