German supermarkets sell vegetables that are too limited, in addition to potatoes tomatoes, or zucchini, eat every day to eat, Qin Li is almost tired of eating.
There are four foodies in the family and the last time we went to Munich, we ate almost all the food we bought at the Asian supermarket, and after rummaging around, we were left with a pack of green beans. Looking at the rounded beans, Qin Li had an idea to make bean sprouts.
Put the mung beans in the water soaked for a night, and the next morning to see, hey, actually really a little seedling.
Qin Li found a large Coke bottle, cleaned it, threw the mung beans into it, and then wrapped it in layers of black tape to ensure that it could not see the light before stopping.
She was just testing the water, who knows, after three days, she was successful in sending out bean sprouts.
Looking at a large bottle full of mung beans with the fragrance, Qin Li has a sense of accomplishment.
That night she made a full meal of bean sprouts, dry-fried bean sprouts, white burnt bean sprouts, bean sprouts fried meat, and cold spicy bean sprouts.
Thomas looked at a table of bean sprouts, wow, "Today is the day of bean sprouts?"
Qu Dani asked, "Did you guys go to the Asian Super again?"
Yan Sen shook his head, also looking puzzled.
Qin Lite proudly said, "I sent it myself!"
Saying this, she took out the cola bottle full of bean sprouts from the corner under the window sill and showed it to everyone as if offering a treasure.
Thomas exclaimed, "My Coke!"
Qu Dani looked skeptical, "What did you sprout with?"
Qin Li, "Green beans."
Qu Dani was like Columbus discovering a new continent, shouting, "Ah, so bean sprouts are made from mung beans!"
Qin Li nodded, "I should have known that when I was in China, I could have sprouted them myself, so I wouldn't have to worry about eating poisonous bean sprouts."
Qu Dani casually said, "Then why don't you just grow your vegetables, pick some cow dung and horse dung, natural and pure organic."
Qin Li nodded, "That's exactly what I want."
The matter of bean sprouts gave her inspiration, Qin Li immediately associated with the land in front of the farmhouse, anyway, empty is empty, or reclaimed to plant something.
She put the idea and Yan Sen said, and Yan Sen said, "Reclamation can be, but you have to be responsible."
Qin Li patted his chest and promised.
Thomas asked curiously, "What do you want to plant?"
Qin Li wrenches both hands to count, "Fava beans, Dutch beans, loofahs, voyager eggplants, winter squash, chili peppers, and chickweed ..."
Thomas was curious, "I've never even heard of some of these vegetables, where are you going to buy the seeds?"
Being told by him, Qin Li was instantly hard-pressed, yes, where to buy seeds?
Qu Dani suddenly snapped her fingers and said, "How could I forget the God of online shopping."
Qin Li's eyes were bright, and Qu Dani shouted in unison, "Taobao!"
Qin Li said, "But Taobao can send Germany?"
Qu Dani said, "Taobao has an international site - Alibaba!"
Qin Li, "What about the postage?"
Qu Dani said, "Thank you, Papa Ma! Ordering gadgets on Alibaba is free postage, it just takes a little time to send them over."
Qin Li asked, "How long?"
Qu Dani, "It's only ten days and half a month. If you can't wait, just add money to expedite it, and it will arrive in three days if nothing happens."
Qin Li, "You've bought them?"
Qu Dani nodded, "I bought a pair of Meizu headphones and waited for ten days, the price is not much different from Taobao."
Qin Li immediately said, "Then I'll try it too."
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Ever since she was amped up on Alibaba, the international version of Taobao, Qin Li fell deep into it and couldn't get out of hand. On a whim, she ordered ten or so packets of rapeseed, and ten or so packets of flower seeds, and also bought a Xiaomi Flower Detector.
Seeing Yan Sen come in, Qin Li threw down his cell phone, striding over to pull him a hand, and said, "Lend me a plowing tool."
Yan Sen asked, "Can you use it?"
Qin Li shook his head, "You teach me."
Yan Sen was helpless.
Qu Dani painted her nails and made fun of the two of them, "You planted the field and I plowed the land, you raised chickens and I herded the cows, husband, and wife returned home."
Qin Li heard a red face, angrily, "You again nonsense, in the future planted out of the vegetables do not give you to eat."
Qu Dani said, "I bet a cucumber, you can't grow half a fart."
Qin Li grunted and ignored her.
Seeing her drop her expectant gaze on herself, Yan Sen asked, "You're going now?"
Qin Li nodded her head vigorously.
Yan Sen turns around and walks a few steps, and when he sees that she doesn't follow, he says, "Come on then."
Qin Li's heart was so happy at the thought of having a piece of farmland of her own where she could grow all sorts of vegetables, that she immediately followed closely behind with her ass in the air.
There is a wooden house on the lawn, usually locked for a while, Qin Li is still curious about what to do, and now Yan Sen goes in to realize that the original is a pile of tools.
Inside what kind of tools are there, called out the name of the name, but also called out the name, really a wide range.
Yan Sen picked out two farming tools to hand her, a hoe with hoeing, another is a nail rake, are plowing special, and also quite heavy.
In this way, Qin Li one shoulder carrying a hoe and one hand carrying a nail rake went out, Qu Dani lying on the balcony blowing the wind, saw her out, and called, "Eight rings are here!"
Qin Li glares at her and turns his head to ask Yan Sen, "Where is this land the most fertile?"
Qu Dani yells at Yan Sen, "I bet she's just three minutes hot."
Qin Li, "Shut up."
Yan Sen smiles at her and reaches out to point to a random place.
Qin Li carries her tools and walks over, stomping hard on the ground with her feet, the land is loose and soft and feels good on her feet.
She asked Yan Sen, "Here?"
Yan Sen cocked his thumb and nodded.
So, she picked up the hoe and majestically hoe downward, saying, "This is where I'll be."
Qu Dani covered her mouth and yawned, said good luck, and went back inside.
Yan Sen found a pair of tool gloves out for her and went to work as well, leaving only Qin Li.
This is still Qin Li's first time hoeing, but have not eaten pork and has not seen a pig walk.
Qin Li put on the gloves, one after another, digging a hole in the ground, and turning the weeds to the ground.
Thinking of a big harvest, Qin Li black-heartedly dug a large pit, has been from eight o'clock in the morning to noon. A drum, actually do not feel tired.
At noon, Yan Sen wrapped up work and came back for lunch, but found the table empty and nothing. He went to the balcony to take a look, only to see a figure sweating profusely still there hoeing and digging.
Yan Sen smiled inadvertently, took out two bottles of water from the refrigerator, and walked out.
Qin Li now really appreciates the hoeing day when the afternoon, sweat drops under the soil, who knows the plate food, grain all bitter meaning ah! Farmers are not good, in the future, she will not waste food even if she is beaten to death.
Yan Sen said, "Rest for a while."
Qin Li waved her hand, "No, I want to drum up some energy."
Yan Sen then didn't say anything else, sat down under the shade of a tree on one side, and watched her sweat.
With great difficulty, she reclaimed a piece of land measuring 8 x 2 meters, Qin Li felt a sense of accomplishment, and with a sigh of relief, she threw the hoe aside, walked over to the side of Yan Sen, and sat down cross-legged.
Qin Li took the bottle of water in his hand, unscrewed the cap, and filled half the bottle in one gulp.
Yan Sen, "Is this what you accomplished all morning?"
Qin Li pursues like a child, "How was it?"
Yan Sen shook his head, "Not good."
Qin Li's face immediately collapsed, unwillingly asking, "Why? Where is it not good?"
Yan Sen said, "You just turned out the weeds but didn't remove them, and when it rains, they will take root again."
Qin Li, "What should I do then?"
Yan Sen, "Uproot them one by one, not a bit of root left."
Qin Li shouts, "No way!"
Yan Sen shrugged his shoulders.
Qin Li laughed, "You're fooling me, aren't you?"
Yan Sen didn't even bother to look at her.
Qin Li puts away her smile and asks undeterred, "You want to pull them out one by one?"
Yan Sen hmms.
The grass on this ground, thousands, when she finished pulling out the estimated hair also fell out, Qin Li thought the end of the world was just like that.
Qin Li drank the water, and ran back to work, since there was no other way, then we had to squat on the ground, one by one, pulling grass to the root. You see people Cinderella, ah, there is a group of animals to help, then she?
Well, to be able to eat the dishes of home, endure.
Qin Li repeated singing labor is the most glorious in his heart, when singing for the third time, Thomas came. He was seen poking his head out of the house with a chicken nest head and shouting at Qin Li, "Lai, what's for lunch today?"
Qin Li kicked the weeds on the ground and replied in a good mood, "Eat my ass. How would I have time to cook."
Thomas asks, "What are you doing?"
Qin Li, "I'm digging a coffin pit for you ..."
Thomas shrinks back breathlessly, a confused look on his face, what's going on, it's like eating gunpowder in the middle of the day.
Yan Sen said, "Rest for a while come and eat!"
Qin Li gambled, "No, I won't eat until I finish pulling grass today."
Yan Sen thought to himself, fortunately only 8 x 2 meters big, if it was a little bigger, I guess it would be a coffin pit, starving to death alive!
Usually, it's Qin Li who cooks, but today there's no one to fire, so he can only eat bread.
When Yan Sen came in, Thomas was also getting himself some food, he bumped Yan Sen with his arm and asked, "What's wrong with her? Irritated by what?"
Jensen shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.
Thomas, "I hope it's just a three-minute fever for her, or we'll just have to gnaw on bread every day."
Jensen wondered, "Didn't she eat bread every day before she came here?"
Thomas, "I never ate good food before, I didn't know how delicious it was, so I wouldn't yearn for it. Now that I've eaten her cooking, if you ask me to eat bread and potatoes again, I'll want to vomit."
Jensen, "Are you still not German?"
In other words, what German didn't grow up eating breaded potatoes?
Thomas unashamedly says, "If I had Chinese food every day, I'd rather be Chinese."
Jensen, "If it was during the war years, you'd be a traitor."
Thomas grunted, "You're noble, so you can eat bread every day."
And with that, he walked away.
Yan Sen made himself a sandwich, hesitated for a second, and made one for Qin Li as well.
It's not good, but at least it fills the stomach. He thought.
Taking the two sandwiches, he walked to the garden, pulled Qin Li under the shade of a tree, and shoved the sandwiches at her, saying in short, "Eat."
After laboring all morning, Qin Li's stomach was indeed hungry, and she took the bread and took several bites in a row.
"Who made the sandwich?"
Seeing her frown, Jensen lied without batting an eye, "Thomas."
Qin Li, "No wonder it tastes so bad."
Yan Sen gave a dry cough.
Qin Li said, "When the ground is dug, can you scatter the seeds?"
Yan Sen, "You need to irrigate before you sow the seeds, and water the ground thoroughly before you can lay the seeds."
Qin Li asked, "How do I irrigate?"
Yan Sen, "By waiting for rain."
Qin Li, "What if it doesn't rain?"
Yan Sen shrugged his shoulders, "Then there's nothing we can do."
How could there be no way? Qin Li always felt that Yan Sen was playing with himself, but he had a serious expression on his face, so he couldn't tell what was wrong with him for a while.
Yan Sen finished the bread in a few bites, got up patted her shoulder, and said seriously, "You can ask for rain."
Ask for rain? How?
Yan Sen walked away just as she couldn't figure out what to do.
Qin Li sat on the ground, thinking about how to pull grass and irrigate a little more effectively when a green cricket jumped past her eyes.
I remember when I was a child, my father liked to tease crickets the most, and often took her to the field to catch crickets, and went home to fry and stir fry. That flavor ah ... first class.
Unfortunately, later, the farmland was built by the government to build buildings, in the high-rise buildings, not to mention the crickets, even the small strong are not seen too much.
Qin Li looked around, probably spring come, the weather warmed up, and grasshoppers also more.
On the spur of the moment, Qin Li pounced on a few, probably because the ecological environment here is good, usually no one to catch them, so these little guys' movement is particularly slow, almost like a pounce on an accurate.
Qin Li poured out the water in the bottle and threw the grasshoppers into it, preparing a fried cricket dish for the evening.