Chapter 6

Chives are actually leeks. In an environment without photosynthesis, the stems and leaves of leeks cannot produce chlorophyll and will turn yellow, becoming leek greens.

As long as you keep warm, leeks can be grown successfully!

I already have leeks planted at home. It is best to use the strong roots of leeks to grow chives. There are leeks in the small piece of land covered with plastic film. I will transplant them into the house after I go back, and then make sure there is no light in the house, and then find a way to raise the temperature in the house.

Zhou Ping hasn’t done farm work for many years. She visited a special ecological planting base as part of a company team building, but she still needs to learn it by herself. Fortunately, her least valuable thing now is time. As long as she can grow the crops before the Spring Festival, she can sell them at a good price.

The most urgent thing is to buy a thermometer. Temperature is very important. I also need to buy a notebook, slowly explore and take notes.

In this way, only five dollars are left out of the ten dollars.

Zhou Pingguo licked her cracked lips. She had to find some work to supplement the family income. Otherwise, wouldn’t it be a shame if she couldn’t fulfill her lofty ambitions?

Zhou Ping is a very strong-willed and face-conscious person. She knows that this is one of her small shortcomings. Sometimes she tends to brag. She has tried her best to change this habit all her life but has not been able to do so. It is not so easy for her to change it immediately, so she can only make up for it.

Passing by the only factory in the town, it is actually a small workshop that specializes in taking sweater knitting orders from garment factories in the provincial capital, and then sending them to various villages, allowing the women in the village to knit sweaters during the slack season to earn some income for the family.

Zhou Pingguo had knitted sweaters for their factory before, so she went in with ease and paid the remaining 5 yuan as a deposit. She planned to work hard in the next two days and earn 1.2 yuan for each sweater she knitted.

It’s because Zhou Pingguo is still young that she can still do this. If it were Zhou Ping in her previous life, she really wouldn’t be able to do this with such a high intensity.

As soon as she got home, Zhou Pingguo first moved out all the firewood from the firewood room next to the kitchen. After cleaning it, she moved in all the cabinets and shelves that she had built when she got married.

They’re all made of solid wood and are really heavy!

After Zhou Pingguo finished moving, she was so tired that she sat on the doorstep and gasped for a long time before she felt recovered.

After I recovered, I immediately took out all the pots and jars in the house, arranged them layer by layer of soil and sand, then I lifted the plastic film and started transplanting.

Then I placed braziers around the room, made a door curtain with the quilt behind them, and started testing what temperature was most suitable.

She was sweating profusely from working so hard, and she didn’t know if it would work. Zhou Pingguo changed her clothes and hurried to cook.

When cooking, she no longer dared to close the doors and windows tightly. Even when she went to water the chives and fertilize them in the house, she would open the doors and windows for ventilation before going in.

Making money is important, but her life is more important, okay?

Because we took some time to warm the house today, the meal was not ready when the children came back.

“Wait another ten minutes, it will be ready soon.” Zhou Pingguo said loudly towards the yard.

“Why is the kitchen so crowded?” Zhou Sen put down his schoolbag and planned to go to the kitchen to help, but found that there seemed to be no place for him to stand.

“I cleaned up the firewood room and plan to plant some leeks. I’ll put these things in the kitchen first and put them in order in a few days,” Zhou Pingguo explained.

“Chives? What is that?” Zhou Sen thought he had read a lot of books, but he had never seen this thing.

“Chives are actually leeks, yellow leeks. I also heard from others that as long as they are kept away from light, they will turn out yellow leeks. People in the city are just looking for something new. If they can grow them, they can bring some income to their families, and you don’t have to be stingy all day like Zhou Paopi.”

“I know that photosynthesis is impossible without the sun.” When Zhou Xin was still alive, he liked to buy books for Zhou Sen. There was a complete set of children’s encyclopedias at home, which Zhou Xin brought back for Zhou Sen after traveling all over the country.

“I’ll go take a look.” Zhou Sen became interested when he heard what Zhou Pingguo said. The money at home was getting less and less every day. Even though there was still more than 20,000 yuan in the passbook, Zhou Sen was still very anxious. If he could really grow crops and earn more money, instead of living off his savings, it would be a good thing.

“Look, do Jingjing and Leilei want to go and see it? If they want to, go in together. Otherwise, if they each go at once, the heat will escape.” Zhou Pingguo had already started cooking. She had to pay attention to the heat, so she didn’t look up as she gave the instructions.

“OK.”

“Also, I’m afraid you’ll get poisoned by the burning coal like I did last time. Go in and out quickly. Just take a look. If it’s really grown, I’ll make fried eggs with chives for you to eat.”

After taking a look inside, it was dark and there was nothing to see. Zhou Sen immediately left with his brother and sister, and asked them to set up the tables, chairs, and dishes in the restaurant. Then he ran to the kitchen and asked Zhou Pingguo questions, “Can you grow chives like that?”

“Is this true? It feels wrong.”

“I’ve never grown it before, so I don’t know either. Let’s just take it one step at a time and learn by trial and error. As long as I can grow it, I can slowly summarize my experience later.” Zhou Pingguo asked him to serve the soup, and she served the food herself. Then they walked two steps to the restaurant.

“It didn’t cost much anyway. I just spent 1.5 yuan on the thermometer. You don’t feel bad about it, do you?”

It would be a lie to say that he didn’t feel bad, but if the crops really succeeded and the family had some income, Zhou Sen didn’t feel so bad when he thought about it. He shook his head and said, “I have to spend it. I have to spend it.”

“Okay, if you have an extra ruler, lend me one. I’ll measure it and record how long it is.”

“Okay.” Zhou Sen was very careful with things, and they were not likely to break easily in his hands. In the past, his parents and brother spoiled him, taking him to the town and the county to play, and every time they bought him some stationery and books. He had several small things like rulers, so lending one to Zhou Pingguo was a small matter.

“I can actually help you measure and keep records.” Zhou Sen felt that Zhou Pingguo had not read many books, and it was his brother who could not bear to see her literacy campaign, so he gave the elementary school principal five dollars a semester and sent her to study with the first-grade students for a semester before she could barely recognize a few words.

Can she do experiments?