The Pretty Military Wife

Chapter 174: Living off the Mountain

During the harvest, Political Commissar Xu and Zhou Guoliang personally brought soldiers to help with the harvest.

In this way, the first batch of potatoes took three full days to harvest. The harvested potatoes filled up a small warehouse of the army.

In order to preserve this thing, they even dug a cellar to store it.

Min Honglian was so excited that she sent the report back by telegram the next day.

A few days later, several people came directly from the research institute. They took some soil samples again, read Min Honglian's records in detail, and listened to Liang Xinyue's report.

After they returned, they planted the crops again in their laboratory and recorded and analyzed them again.

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The most important thing is that after the potatoes were harvested, the land was not left empty. There was still a field of soybeans planted with pods hanging on the branches.

Originally, soybeans were intercropped among the potatoes. Now that the potatoes have a good harvest, I believe the soybeans will also have a good harvest next.

In the place where the potatoes were harvested, Liang Xinyue also planted her second batch of corn seedlings.

After the soybeans are harvested, potatoes will be planted.

This year we plan to plant two crops of potatoes, one batch in spring and one batch in autumn.

In the furrows where the first batch of corn seedlings were planted, sweet potatoes were planted after a light rain while the soil was soft.

When breeding sweet potatoes, Liang Xinyue planted a piece of sweet potato seeds shortly after the spring came. She used rice to exchange for some not-so-good sweet potato seeds from villagers outside the mountain.

Fortunately, after breeding, she applied more organic fertilizer and the land became fertile, so the potato vines grew very well.

(Here is a little science for those who have never farmed before. Sweet potato breeding is to plant sweet potatoes in the ground and wait for them to take root, sprout and grow long sweet potato vines. Each leaf on each sweet potato vine is a small node. Then the long vine is cut off, and then the two nodes are cut off one by one. In this way, a section can be planted in a hole in the ground. It can grow roots from each node, sprout and pull up the vine. After surviving, it can produce sweet potatoes.)

It took them three days to plant sweet potatoes in all the first batch of corn fields.

The weather has really gotten hot in June.

Everyone found that it was even hotter in the staff quarters, and cooler in the valley.

This valley has a special feature: there is always wind blowing through it. You will only feel hot if you stand in a place where the sun shines, while other places are very cool.

I want to take the kids to play in the fields, but there are too many mosquitoes here.

Liang Xinyue's belly was getting bigger and bigger, especially after five months, it suddenly grew bigger like a balloon.

Bending over was indeed tiring, so sometimes she would take the children for a walk in the slightly flatter part of the mountains, and Dongdong would help carry Xiao Kangjia on her back.

"Mushrooms, there are so many mushrooms here!"

There are not many weeds in this forest, but there are pine trees on the hilltops. They are not tall, but they are there.

There are some green loquat trees growing halfway up the mountain.

These two kinds of trees are not supposed to grow in the same area, but they grow on this side of the mountain. There is not much sunlight here, but it is a good place to grow mushrooms.

It's ventilated but damp, cold but full of dead trees.

Seeing a lot of mushrooms, Liang Xinyue stopped the children from picking them. Instead, she asked Yaya to call the adults, and Xiao Shun to check the area first to rule out any snakes or unsafe places, and then everyone started picking.

Xiao Shun is familiar with this thing.

Xiao Shun's hometown is in the south of the south, where there are the most varieties of mushrooms. He can tell which ones are poisonous and which are not.

"Hehe, I really didn't expect mushrooms to grow here. I thought they only grew in our area."

Liang Xinyue looked around again and said:

"So, this valley is very strange. It is very suitable for being an experimental base. The climate here seems to be a little different from the outside."

Although she studied farming, she also needs to understand the climate. It is said that farmers depend on the weather for their livelihood, which means that they have to rely on climate changes.

I originally thought that there were only mushrooms in this cluster, but I didn't expect that as I walked further and further away, I found that there were mushrooms halfway up the mountain, and there were quite a few of them.

Finally, Dongdong was asked to call Xiao Wei, and asked him to call two people from the cafeteria, and then everyone picked together.

Xiao Shun had weak legs and feet, so he couldn't go up and down, so he stayed there to sort out the mushrooms that everyone had picked and sent down, and to determine which ones were edible and which ones were not.

I didn't expect to pick three big baskets of mushrooms after a busy morning. And there are still some small ones that I haven't picked yet. I should be able to pick another batch in two days.

When Xiao Shun was sorting, he divided it into several small piles, one for each family in the family compound, which could be fried or cooked into soup.

When Xiao Shun divided the food, there was a special pile that was a little bigger. It was for Gu Sanding. Recently, the children had their meals at his house, and he would cook at home as long as Gu Sanding was not on duty.

A 1.9-meter-tall man was bending over and cooking in the kitchen. He would be very satisfied as long as he got a compliment from Zou Wenqing.

That night, the troops also killed two pigs and fried mushrooms and Chinese cabbage soup, which was a rich meal.

There is no shortage of vegetables in the army now, so potatoes have become a backup dish.

Cowpeas are so cute that you can’t finish eating them. We also planted cowpeas around the edge of the cornfield.

There is no need to erect poles every time, their vines will just entangle themselves around the corn stalks.

After harvesting the dead vines of the first batch of green beans, another batch of cowpeas was planted.

Now the vines are also being tied.

The small green vegetables in the fields (this kind of vegetable is called Shanghai green in some places, small green vegetables in some places, and spoon vegetables in some places) are now so abundant that they can’t be eaten up.

You can pick three to five baskets every morning. Not to mention cooking too much, but it’s still enough to cook a dish or stir-fry a small portion.

In order to have enough food, we picked two days' worth of vegetables and ate them every day, interspersed with cowpeas, potatoes, and the second batch of green beans.

Political Commissar Xu smiles every day.

This way they spend less money and eat fresher food.

With the money saved, you can occasionally buy some meat and add some non-vegetarian dishes.

Then they picked vegetables and cleared the land, and scattered some vegetable seeds on the land. Now the celery and radish seeds have sprouted.

Some cabbage seeds were also sown.

Every time they opened a piece of land, they would sow some vegetable seeds.

Min Honglian had never seen vegetables grown in this way. Vegetables from the south and the north were planted together, and vegetables for winter and summer were also planted.

But after daily observation, I found that these vegetables were growing well.

What made Liang Xinyue happiest was that they sent a batch of vegetables to Director Liao every few days, because their vegetables were fresh and well-grown, and they were also planted ahead of the vegetables that others had just planted, which gave them an advantage.

Therefore, Director Liao’s business suddenly improved.