Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 61

It was completely irrelevant to Lu Yan, “She can grow them if she wants.”

“I even helped her polw the ground.”

Lu Zongyi: “…When you were at home, why didn’t you help me polw the ground?”

“Are you my wife?”

Lu Zongyi: “I am your father.”

Anyway, the women, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of their Lu family were all the same.

“You will suffer in the future,” Lu Zongyi hung up the phone. His youngest son was the most like himself. Of course, why he thought so was definitely not because this youngest son was the most handsome.

Fortunately, as his father, he left him with the skills.

The steamed buns made by his youngest son were so delicious that he missed them a little.

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Qin Rou had been depressed for two days before, but it wasn’t that she didn’t do anything. She was preparing for the announcer exam. She practiced tongue twisters every day.

Chives, coriander and onion ginger garlic, some tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, loofah, snow peas, radishes, etc. were planted in the vegetable fields in the courtyard.

Growing vegetables was not an easy task. When Qin Rou bought seeds, she paid attention to choose good seeds that were suitable for the climate there. She went to the seed station a few times, and asked about the temperature and light requirements, etc., and made a record.

There were many kinds of agricultural planting and scientific research experimental parks on Qiongzhou Island. Because of the special climate there, crops of two or three seasons could be planted. Therefore, there were particularly many breeding and experimental departments.

There was also an agricultural university. It was most suitable for the place, and there were many species there.

As a child of a flower gardener, Qin Rou had always been curious about planting, and she was also curious about agricultural university. Generally, the most popular searches in agricultural universities were nothing more than tragic incidents such as “graduation thesis” being eaten.

However, she had also heard that there were some advantages to agricultural universities. Like fruits, one could buy strange fruits grown by the friends at the university, and it was very cheap.

“Have you tried planting a cocoa tree? There is a cocoa tree at the Baoning Breeding Station? What kind of tree is that? Is it a tree that makes chocolate?” Qin Rou accidentally heard the staff talking about the cocoa tree while chatting with people at the seed station, so she could not help but curiously inquire about it.

“Yes, do you know about chocolate?”

“I have eaten chocolate produced in the Shanghai market.”

Qin Rou memorized the place. If there was a chance in the future, she could get some cocoa trees to plant.

But, of course, she still had to plant her vegetables first.

What Qin Rou paid most attention to was her lettuce planting career. She wanted to eat lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce… 

Lettuce was difficult to grow. The temperature on Qiongzhou Island was high, and for lettuce seeds, a low temperature should be available.

Qin Rou soaked the seeds with clean water. Fortunately, there was a freezer at home. She filled several bottles of water and froze them into ice, and made a simple box, similar to the one selling popsicles, and covered it with a dilapidated quilt gifted by Li Qinghua. The winter in her hometown was cold, and they had thick quilts. The quilt was torn, but it was her treasure back then.

The once cinnabar mole had become the mosquito blood on the wall. (failed marriage)

“You are covering the ice with a quilt, won’t it melt?” Li Qinghua felt that Xiao Qin always acted bizarrely.

“No, we need to take precautions to keep ice cubes.”

The seeds soaked in water were placed in the low-temperature small refrigerator to promote growth. After the seeds were all white, Qin Rou sowed them in the soil.

During that time, she had planted a lot of seeds, and waited for them to sprout, such as cucumbers and tomatoes.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest, with the only resources, only good seedlings could be selected.

The world of plants was so cruel.