There is Room for Rebirth in the 1950’s

The New Year’s Eve is approaching, and it’s time to prepare the goods for the new year again.Compared with last year, there are a lot more markets in the suburbs of Beijing.

After the winter vacation, the promise was fulfilled on May Day, which arrived home earlier than Ping An and Children's Day, and really accompanied Miao Lishan and Zhou Jiao's mother and daughter on the street for two days.

The bazaars have always been crowded with people and shoulder to shoulder. People of all colors stay in front of all kinds of goods, compare carefully, choose slowly, and care about everything.

Zhou Jiao knew that her son was not used to such a laid-back state, not to mention that their wives could take the guards out, so she let him go free.

As May Day leaves early and returns late, it is said that the wing of the second-entry courtyard is full of red spring festival couplets, not to mention that even the main halls are piled up a lot.

Zhou Jiao didn't care when she heard that Aunt Yuan who used to send lunch on May 1st.She still has confidence in her son's ability to do things.

What's more, her attention has been focused on the old house this time, where there is a small project of off-season vegetables that she is experimenting successfully.

Talking about why she had to make some off-season vegetables on a whim?

This is to mention the southern fruits and vegetables that Geng Dazhi transported back.

In previous years, when Zhou Jiao had space, she set up some shelves in the kitchen, and used these shelves as a cover. There were few kinds of food, and she didn't care much.

But since having these southern fruits and vegetables, not only his parents and Zhang Guoqing's appetites have improved, but even the three Ping An brothers, who have always been a strong eater, are more happy to take a few bites when they come home on the weekend.

Zhou Jiao couldn't forget how hard she used to correct the partial eclipse problems of her sons.Although they have grown up a lot better.

She has the ability to give her children a better life, why didn't she give it a try first.Anyway, oil futures have been bought and left, and the manager has also been found.

Now when she is free, she is not in a hurry to change jobs. It seems that she has nothing to do for a while except for going to get off work.

Therefore, in late autumn and early winter, Zhou Jiao extended her paw to the vegetable patch in the back garden of the old house.

Uncle Yuan and Aunt Yuan were born as old farmers, and they cherish the vegetable garden most. In their eyes, no flowers can compare to the vegetable garden.

With their meticulous service, in the early winter, the vegetable garden covered with a lot of straw they specially found still left a few small green seedlings.

Although it was too cold to grow, it did not prevent Zhou Jiaozhen from moving her mind.

Because of a temporary intention.

The ground was almost freezing. In desperation, Zhou Jiao embraced the idea of ​​a try, and burned the ground with the straw and wheat stalks that had previously been used to transport rough and seed materials.

She knows theories, has connections, and Uncle Yuan, who is too idle, is good at farm work.

The two cooperated perfectly.

For example, although the area of ​​the vegetable garden in the courtyard garden is not very large in the future, low greenhouses supported by bamboo poles and tarpaulins have been erected.

"Han Shu, Zhaoxinchen Biography" contains: "The Taiguan Garden grows winter green onions, leeks, and vegetables, covered with houses, burning fire day and night, waiting for warmth to grow..."

Greenhouse vegetables existed for a long time in ancient times, but they have not been popularized until now, let alone an industry.

why?

Because it costs too much!

From the point of "covering the house, burning the accumulation day and night", it is not difficult to see that in the past, vegetables had to be planted in the house, and they also needed to be heated day and night.

Zhou Jiao is familiar with the theory of vegetable greenhouses for later generations. Of course, she can't grow it in her own house, but she is limited by the lack of certain materials.

She is now playing the whole small experiment. Once she decides to succeed, she will directly hand it over to the Department of Agriculture in the unit to let the comrades make further detailed planning.

——Once an anti-season vegetable project is set up, it would not work without them.

Just this one shed, that is, her, if you change to another person, there is no way, in an era when you can buy by ticket.

Now it was the harvest time, Zhou Jiao's attention was all over here.

At this moment, she bent down and squatted on the ground to check the condition of a mushroom on the ground, then turned and looked up at the leafy vegetables, leeks, etc. in a small ridge.

Uncle Yuan on the side had already opened his eyes and smiled into a chrysanthemum, "I see, the rise is pretty good, and you can really eat fresh vegetables in winter."

"Thanks for Uncle Yuan."

"What hard work. I'll pick the ones that are cooked for you, and I will send them to the compound, or wait for you to come back from get off work and take them back?"

"You should wait until I take it home from get off work, so don't go out on a cold day. Don't bear to eat, remember to let my aunt cook you a few more dishes."

"Hahaha..."

"Don't patronize and laugh, how much can a few people in the family eat? No matter how much it is, it's a gift. Why don't you eat more."

When Uncle Yuan heard her say this, he smiled cheerfully: "Okay, wait for next year, let's make a big one, and we can eat it anyway."

"it is good."

Zhou Jiao agreed.

But understand that he will have no chance next year.It seems to be a success now, and he, the veteran who is mainly responsible for this greenhouse, will not be accidentally called.

However, Zhou Jiao did not say these words in advance.

Anyway, this is a good thing. Maybe Yuan Shu can get a formal job.It’s good to have a job, but it’s good not to guard the old house. There will be a retirement job to get in the future.

"Have you visited the yard over there? Good fellow, I can pull a cart and a cart away every morning, and I see them are busy.

But I watched for several days, and sometimes I get busy. It's noon, and I can't even eat a bite of food on May Day. If you have time, stop by and take a look."

Uncle Yuan had said it several times, but Zhou Jiao didn't even think about it.

Now that the child is so busy that even eating is a problem, she moved her heart, glanced at the time on her watch, and decided to go there first.

——She has no objection to the children using the holidays to make a little money, but if you leave things alone, you shouldn’t.

The hutongs in the winter have regained their early life.

In the corner there are popcorn old people who have disappeared for a long time, and children lined up with cloth bags.

And the children who are making snowmen and playing snowball fights nearby, their laughter and joy, add to the scenes of this scene of life.

There is a street not far away, a nearby grocery store, with thick curtains hanging at the gate, but it can't stop the rich aroma of the chestnuts when fried.

Zhou Jiao glanced at her second yard not far away, raised the curtain and entered and weighed a catty.

Her family’s May Day is the best one, especially in winter.

By the time Zhou Jiao was holding a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts wrapped in oil paper, when he entered the courtyard for the second time, almost an hour had passed.

Seeing that it was only half an hour before work in the afternoon, she was a little annoyed that she was afraid of being cold and too troublesome, so why didn't she ride a bicycle?

She pushed the gate of the yard and made a creaking sound. It turned out that the door bolt was not inserted.There is room for rebirth in the fifties