Deserted Wife's Extraordinary Life

"If you want to plant them, you can plant them, and sweet potatoes, which are easy to live, you can cut and stick into the soil, and you can only water them twice sooner or later, and they will grow well, and once they have roots, they can be watered once a day.    

    

If you don't have time, I'll water you in the vegetable patch every day, and I can help you with that as well. "    

    

Kang Ying's interest was piqued. "Alright, I'll go and rummage through the soil in a while. No, I still have to buy some seeds."    

    

"There's no need to plant the cabbages or sweet potatoes, you don't need to buy them. I have both kinds of vegetables on the market and they're all cuttings. You just need to stick your branch into the ground.    

    

"If you turn your garden upside down, you can go to my garden and cut potato vines and hollow vegetable vines and plant them in the evening." Sister-in-law Zhang said.    

    

"Alright, I understand." Kang Ying recalled that there were hoes, shovels and other tools in the old warehouse. It turned out that when Shi Jiangyuan's second aunt lived here, she also grew vegetables.    

    

It was a pity that he didn't know why his family moved to live in the city. It was good to be able to breathe fresh air and grow vegetables, but the environment was very quiet.    

    

Everyone was afraid of living in the countryside or the suburbs, so they couldn't help but want to run to the center of the city.    

    

Kang Ying returned home with Sister-in-law Zhang's green beans. She put them in the kitchen basket and changed into a fresh set of clothes, ready to go through the garden.    

    

In order to prevent the mosquitoes from biting her, she even wore a pair of trousers, which she tied tightly around her legs and sprayed with mosquito repellent.    

    

After Kang Ying made her preparations, she found a handheld hoe in the warehouse, tied a straw hat on her head, and headed towards the empty vegetable patch.    

    

However, when they got closer, Kang Ying realized that the digging of the vegetable patch was still very difficult. The weeds on the vegetable patch were already half a man's height, and just digging up these weeds would take a lot of effort, not to mention digging up the weeds and overturning the ground.    

    

She had to give up her original plan and prepare to split the project into nights. It was a hot summer day, so it was not suitable to be exposed to the sun at noon. They could only come back after six to hoe the land. Kang Ying estimated that they would need at least three or four afternoons to finish doing so.    

    

After making up her mind, Kang Ying picked up the hoe and began to mop the grass. As soon as the hoe went in, Kang Ying heard a "bang" sound. The hoe and the handle separated and fell off.    

    

Looking at the handle of the hoe, Kang Ying was stupefied. What was going on?    

    

Sister-in-law Zhang's husband, Second Brother Zhang, who was watering the vegetable garden, walked over to take a look after hearing the commotion. He couldn't help but laugh and say:    

    

"This hoe has been used for a long time, right? The wedge between the handle of the hoe and the blade of the hoe is dry, too loose, so you drop it with a little force. I'll help you, Xiuxiu.    

    

Kang Ying was stunned. So a hoe could actually be this particular? She quickly said, "Thank you so much, Second Brother Zhang."    

    

"It's nothing. We often have to fix hoes, you haven't cooked, right? Haven't you used a hoe? So you don't know about these things, do you? " Second Brother Zhang said in a tolerant manner.    

    

"I've never used a hoe." Kang Ying said in embarrassment.    

    

She thought that digging was just physical work, but she didn't expect it to involve hoe usage. It had even become technical work.    

    

Second Brother Zhang picked up a thick piece of wood and used the blade of his hoe to cut it into two pieces. One piece was thicker and the other was thinner.    

    

After cutting the wedge, Second Brother Zhang put the hoe handle into the round hole on the hoe. At this moment, Kang Ying understood that there were still some gaps between the hoe handle and the hoe.    

    

Second Brother Zhang skillfully picked up the thick wedge and stuffed it into the gap. He tried it out and found that it was still loose, so he stuffed the thin wedge in again. He swung the hoe a few times.    

    

"Okay, but the best thing is to put it in that puddle and soak it for a while. This way, after the wedge absorbs the water and expands, the space between the hoe and the handle will become denser and it will not fall off." In the future you should always soak the hoe in the water, or the wedge will fall off when it is dry. "    

    

Second Brother Zhang introduced the experience.    

    

Anyone who had used farm tools for a long time would understand this, but it was a valuable experience for Kang Ying.    

    

She quickly thanked him.    

    

Second Brother Zhang waved his hand and said that there was no need to thank him, so he went back to his own vegetable garden to busy himself.    

    

The hoe was now of good use. The plants with strong vitality such as Ghost Needle Grass, Barnyard Grass and Canine Tail Grass grew in the vegetable field. Kang Ying picked up the hoe and mercilessly removed these weeds one by one. In the end, she was still young and could learn farming too quickly. Soon, Kang Ying would be able to skillfully hoe grass.    

    

After hoeing down a large patch of weeds, Kang Ying gathered them in a corner of the clearing with her hoe.    

    

Seeing that Kang Ying was hoeing the weeds pretty quickly, Second Brother Zhang told her, "Don't waste these weeds. They can be stewed until they're fat."    

    

Then he taught Kang Ying to pick up a pile of hay from nearby and press it on the mud. He pressed the hay onto a layer of earth, covering it with freshly dug weeds. The grass continued to be covered with soil, layer by layer, forming a pyramid of earth.    

    

He lit a match and lit a circle around the mound. He lit the hay at the bottom of the pile, and the hay below quickly caught fire, but soon the fire began to subside because of the mud and weeds covering it. The fire continued to simmer.    

    

Second Brother Zhang said that when this pile of grasses is completely stuffy and burnt to black ash, these grasses will become the best fertilizer for the new garden.    

    

Under Second Brother Zhang's guidance, Kang Ying did not feel tired at all. Although she had sweated all over during the summer, she felt completely refreshed.    

    

She worked hard to mop up the grass, and the first signs of the original vegetable patch began to appear on the overgrown field.    

    

The vegetable patch was less than half a plot of land, but the vegetables themselves had eaten their fill. After the weeds were removed, one would be able to see the traces of the previous vegetable patch.    

    

After digging up the weeds, what Kang Ying needed to do now was to flip through the three vegetable beds, put down the grasses and ashes, and put in the sweet potatoes and the hollow cauliflower vine, as Sister-in-law Zhang had said.    

    

Kang Ying wasn't tired when it came to hoeing. When she was about to turn the ground over, she already felt that it was physical labor. After half a field, Kang Ying started to pant a little.    

    

Kang Ying saw that it was already late and she was in no hurry to leave. In any case, she wanted to realize her dream of growing vegetables in her previous life, not sell them. Therefore, she didn't have a strict schedule for the production, so she stopped whenever she wanted to.    

    

She was covered in sweat as she carried the hoe on her shoulder. On her way home, she met Sister-in-law Zhang and asked in surprise,    

    

"Kang, did you really go and grow vegetables?"    

    

"That's right, you should grow some dishes yourself so that you don't have to go to the market to buy them. It's not convenient."    

    

Upon hearing this, Sister-in-law Zhang thought Kang Ying wanted to save money to buy the dishes. She felt that Kang Ying actually knew how to lead a good life, even though she looked down on her tender skin and tender flesh.    

    

"That's true. I have my own garden, and I grow whatever I want to eat. It's fresh, delicious, and cheap."    

    

Kang Ying and Sister-in-law Zhang exchanged a few words before returning home. She had been working for two hours and was starving to death.