Chapter 73 Stepson's Thoughts
Peach Blossom Dessert has become the new top pastry in Yanguan Town.
Together with Tong Huaqiong and Gu Taohua, they have become the new generation of Internet celebrities in Yanguan Town.
Everyone who goes to the market in Yanguan Town can’t wait to check in at the Taohua dessert stall.
Tong Huaqiong thought happily that Taohua Desserts couldn't always be an open-air stall, it was time to find a shop.
But to her surprise, Sushiyuan never caused her any trouble.
But she vaguely felt that the danger would come sooner or later. In the past few days, she had imagined many scenarios in her mind about how Sushiyuan would deal with Taohua Desserts, and she had a way to deal with each scenario.
Since that troublesome boot hasn't fallen yet, she won't think about it anymore and will just make money steadily first.
Gu Dahan has already resigned from the Lu family and returned home. The Lu family has placed an order for pastries from Taohua Dessert, and agreed to deliver them every seven days. This job now falls on Gu Dahan.
Tong Huaqiong knew clearly that this was the Lu family's way of repaying her for saving her life. Which family eats so much cakes every day?
When Gu Dahan returned home, he brought two boxes of books and pens, ink, paper and inkstone, specifically for Gu Jingzhe.
In this era, books are rare and many books are not circulated. This is why even if children from poor families have great talents, if they cannot study in places like Wanliu Academy where children from wealthy families gather, they can rarely succeed by studying on their own.
Tong Huaqiong knew that Lu Zhaoyang was indirectly persuading her not to bury Gu Jingzhe.
Gu Jingzhe couldn't put the books down and made up his mind again to go to the provincial capital to work as an accountant and study after the wheat harvest.
In addition, Gu Dahan also pulled a cart of piglets home when he returned, including both boars and sows, a total of eight.
This pig was also made by Lu Zhaoyang, who said it was a thank-you gift to the Gu family.
The eight squealing little pigs made Tong Huaqiong and others breathe a sigh of relief, and also made Tong Huaqiong happy.
She originally wanted to raise pigs to develop the pork economy, and Lu Zhaoyang's gift of pigs was just right, which saved her a lot of money.
The castrated boar at home has become a sow, gaining weight rapidly. Every day, Tong Huaqiong wants to sharpen her knife. She is too greedy for the braised pork, braised spareribs, and braised pig's trotters without any spiciness...
As soon as the eight pigs were in the pen, Tong Huaqiong arranged for the three brothers Gu Dahan, Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe to take the pigs to Pingchuan for castration.
Because there were too many pigs and he was afraid that something might happen to them on the way, Gu Jingzhe went to Pingchuan County personally to invite Master Tan to his home to castrate them.
Tong Huaqiong selected a strong-looking boar and a pretty sow for breeding. On the third day after the remaining six pigs arrived home, all of them, whether male or female, lost their rights as fathers and mothers due to Master Tan's superb skills.
There was no other choice; for Tong Huaqiong's pork business, these pigs had to be slaughtered and sacrificed.
As soon as Gu Dahan returns home, he takes the lead in doing the work in the fields.
It’s not that Tong Huaqiong is partial. If she relies on Gu Dashu to take the lead, all the land of the Gu family will be lost.
Tong Huaqiong still remembers that Gu Jingzhe discovered that the wheat fields on her own had different growth conditions on the left and right sides, so she sneaked into the space on a non-busy night.
She turned on the computer to search for information, and after a night of searching, she roughly understood why the leaves of her wheat turned yellow while green and the tips of the leaves were withering.
It is most likely caused by nitrogen deficiency.
Nitrogen deficiency is a common problem in wheat field soil, even in modern times where Tong Huaqiong is located.
Because it is a common problem, it is not difficult to solve. Just apply nitrogen fertilizer.
In an era when people depend on the weather for their livelihood, nitrogen fertilizer would probably be difficult to obtain, but Tong Huaqiong has a golden finger.
She immediately placed an order for several bags of nitrogen fertilizer.
Instantly, nitrogen fertilizer appeared in the open space in the house.
Soon Maner walked in.
Tong Huaqiong hasn’t figured out the rules of the space yet, but there is one thing that makes her feel that God is kind to her, that is, if she wants to enter the space, she can do so with her eyes closed.
After she came in, if she wanted Man'er to come in, Man'er could come in; if she wanted Gu Taohua to come in, Gu Taohua could come in too.
"Grandma, what do you want me to take this time?" Maner raised her little face and asked Tong Huaqiong.
At first, the children were curious about the computers, speakers and other things in the space, but after being there for a while, they were no longer curious and started working directly.
"Take these."
Tong Huaqiong pointed at the fertilizer on the ground and felt worried. How could Maner carry such a heavy bag of fertilizer?
Isn't this child labor abuse?
Gu Taohua is very strong and can carry two bags by herself without any problem. The key is that Gu Taohua only has the ability to replenish goods, not the ability to take goods.
Tong Huaqiong thought about it, and started to take the basins and shovels, intending to scoop out the fertilizer and put it in the basins, and then carry it out one by one.
Before she could put this idea into practice, she turned around and saw Maner rushing out of the space carrying a bag of fertilizer.
She was petrified immediately with the shovel in her hand. What kind of golden finger was this that could transform Maner into Popeye?
She understood that this was space, there were no rules at all.
In the Gu family, Maner's small body can only carry a plate of water and a basket of pig grass at most, but in the space, she can lift 20 kilograms of fertilizer.
After all the fertilizers in the space were moved to the Gu family, daybreak came.
After Tong Huaqiong got up, Gu Dahan, an expert in farming, had already cleaned the yard and was preparing to go to the fields with a hoe.
The brothers Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe also left the house one after another.
In the kitchen, sisters-in-law Chen Sufen and Liu Yue'e were cooking breakfast around the stove.
In the pigsty, nine pigs grunted in unison, the chickens in the chicken coop fluttered their wings, and a few hens made clucking sounds after laying eggs.
Both people and livestock are thriving!
Very good, the Gu family's farmyard finally showed signs of vitality under the leadership of Tong Huaqiong.
Tong Huaqiong felt a little proud. If it weren't for her, this bunch of bad guys would have had a miserable life following Tong Da Jiao.
"Dahan, let me ask you, has the harvest from the two wheat fields at the entrance of our village always been poor?" Tong Huaqiong asked her stepson Gu Dahan.
A trace of uneasiness appeared on Gu Dahan's face. Although he had witnessed the transformation of his stepmother in the past few days, he always felt it was unreal. He was afraid that his stepmother would become the same as before one day.
As he expected, it came!
This is an accusation that he did not farm well.
I swear to God, he worked diligently on the farm. Even when he was doing hard labor outside, he would take time to go home and tend to the fields.
"Mom...the harvests from those two plots of land have always been poor. But you know, I have never been lazy. I have taken care of these two plots of land in the same way as the ones at the foot of the mountain. I don't know why the harvests are not very good." Gu Dahan began to defend himself.
"Don't talk about anything else. I just want to ask you whether our family's harvest is not good, or it is the same for other families." Tong Huaqiong asked.
Gu Dahan's scalp tingled. The wheat harvest from Qin Qingyou's field next door was good, and he was always envious every year when the wheat was harvested.
He asked Qin Qingyou how he farmed the land, but there was no difference between Qin Qingyou's farming and his.
It seems that the stepmother has discovered this problem and can no longer blame him for farming.
"Qingyou's family has a good wheat harvest. I farm like him, but I don't know why our family's wheat harvest is not very good." Gu Dahan said cautiously.
"Apart from the Qin family, what have you found about the wheat in other fields next to ours?" Tong Huaqiong continued to ask.
Gu Dahan thought about it and shook his head.
Tong Huaqiong sighed inwardly, it was true that Gu Dahan was a good farmer, but he only knew how to work hard.
But Gu Jingzhe is different. He can find problems after just a few days of farming.
Therefore, high IQ can be applied to any field and it is a powerful presence.