Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 50
Qin Rou came out of the kindergarten and went to find out which local Lucheng People’s Broadcasting Station was nearby. She asked a few passers-by and found the address of Lucheng People’s Broadcasting Station by bicycle.
The radio station was also recently split up and newly built, so it was about to recruit announcers, two announcers at a time.
Qin Rou went to sign up.
If she could become an announcer, it would be a good job. An announcer of the era, was the golden job that everyone envied. Compared with other physical work, it was just broadcasting in the room, which was very easy.
Qin Rou also considered going to work in the kindergarten, but she would be too tired after the day, and she wanted to manage the vegetable garden at home.
The first year she moved in, she had to tidy up the house and yard.
Qin Rou rode a bicycle and went to the nearby village to find the villagers to ask for a few kilograms of fresh white radishes in private. She also asked for some rotten fruit. It was just a fraction of a cent, and it was not speculative (unlawful), generally no one cared.
She rode back on the bicycle, put down the radishes first, and started to transplant a few seedlings in the yard.
The reason why Qin Rou went to the villagers to buy radishes was to learn more about the situation there. Of course, because of the local accent and language barrier, they could understand her words, but she was not able to understand them, so she could only barely communicate.
Thanks to her being a kindergarten teacher, she still had a lot of language talent, plus she had a talent of sign language, and she chatted with the aunt in the village.
The aunt heard that she was a new member of the military and was just married. She was very kind and gave her a yellow lantern pepper and a few small orange seedlings. She said that it was very good, but Qin Rou didn’t understand the specifics.
Chili, it seemed to mean more children and more blessings.
Qin Rou scratched her head, but she had never seen yellow peppers before, so it probably wasn’t that spicy. The redder the peppers, the spicier they were.
Although she had never seen this pepper, the aunt pointed to the orange planted by her door. She seemed to have seen it before, like a green kumquat. The aunt said that it could bear fruits within a year, it was very beautiful, and said that it could repel insects…
It sounded amazing anyway.
Qin Rou had only seen the fruit before when she was drinking fruit tea. She also found that the fruit was like a green fruit when eating grilled saury. When eating grilled fish, she cut the fruit in half and squeezed the juice into the grill making it very tasty, a perfect match!
She was still a little suspicious that the little fruit was a little lime.
Anyway, no matter what it was, she would plant it first! ! It would be fine if it looked good even if she could not eat it.
What was more, it could repel insects, and the sweet and sour fruits were refreshing and appetizing when they exuded their scent.
“I have an idea.”
Qin Rou was designing the small yard in front of the house. The yard was neither small nor big, and it was overgrown with grass.
It was a rectangular yard. From the door of the house to the door of the courtyard, it was about seven meters in length, and about 11 or 12 meters horizontally. Qin Rou planned to divide the courtyard into two parts, and the middle to the door of the courtyard of two or three stone-paved roads led directly to the outside of the courtyard.
The left side of the yard was mainly used to raise chickens and grow vegetables, and the outermost layer was to be used as a chicken coop. Chickens had a strong smell. It was better to keep them away from the house. It was made into a small fence of one meter five wide and two meters long, and the chickens were kept in captivity. Next to the chicken coop was a vegetable field. Qin Rou didn’t plan to build a large vegetable field at first, but planned a small vegetable field.
The vegetable field consisted of five ridges, and five rows were planted vertically. Then three bamboos were tied with ropes and inserted into the vegetable ridges like a tripod, which was convenient for plants to climb.
Two or three meters into the vegetable field, it would be close to the house, so Qin Rou planned to plant yellow lantern peppers and kumquats on the outside of the vegetable field. The kumquat had a sweet and sour smell, and it could also prevent insects and deodorize.
The yard on the left was planned like that for the time being. Qin Rou didn’t plan to grow vegetables on the right side of the yard. Qin Rou planned to sow grass seeds. Rice’s small lawn, one could play in the lawn if she had nothing to do, plant some potted flowers and plants around it, build a flower stand or pergola, put a deck chair and table at the bottom, and lie down and watch the childrens play on the lawn.
The imagination in her mind was beautiful, but the reality… was still at the first step.
All she had was a deserted and abandoned yard.
Qin Rou: “…”
Qin Rou decided to do everything slowly, first of all, to improve the soil composting for the vegetable field, and collect more rotten fruits, plant ashes, coconut, chicken manure, etc.
“It’s a big project, but don’t worry.”
“Do it yourself, it’s happiness from scratch!”
Qin Rou comforted herself, and decided to take her time. After she planted the pepper seedlings and two kumquat seedlings, she also planted another one. The green kumquats were put in the large wooden trough on the terrace on the second floor.
After finishing these, Qin Rou went to pack up the white radishes she bought. She washed all the white radishes, cut them into strips, spread them in the yard to dry, and made pickled radish childrenes after drying them.
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