Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 1276

Chapter 1276: Chapter 1148: Off-Season Vegetables

The end of the year is approaching, and it’s the time of year again to prepare for New Year goods. Compared to last year, there are even more markets in Jingjiao.

After winter break started, May 1st, who arrived home earlier than Ping’an and Liu Yi, fulfilled his promise and accompanied Miao Lishan and Zhou Jiao on the streets for two days.

The market has always been crowded, shoulder to shoulder, with people pausing in front of various items, comparing carefully, choosing slowly, and haggling over every penny.

Zhou Jiao knew her son wasn’t used to this leisurely state, especially since the two of them could bring a guard out, so she set him free.

As May 1st came and went early and late each day, it was said that the side rooms of the second courtyard were filled with red spring couplets, not to mention that quite a few were piled in the main hall as well.

When Aunt Yuan, who often brought lunch to May 1st, mentioned this, Zhou Jiao didn’t pay much attention. She had confidence in her son’s ability to handle things.

Furthermore, her attention during this period had to be focused on the old house, where she was successfully experimenting with off-season vegetables.

Why did she suddenly get the urge to experiment with off-season vegetables?

This had to do with the southern vegetables and fruits Geng Dazhi brought back.

In past years, Zhou Jiao had space, so she would set up some racks in the kitchen. Using these racks as cover, she didn’t pay much attention since the types of edible items were few.

But ever since these southern vegetables and fruits arrived, not only did her parents and Zhang Guoqing have a better appetite, but even the notoriously picky Ping’an brothers were delighted to eat more when they returned home for the weekend.

Zhou Jiao hadn’t forgotten how much effort she spent correcting her sons’ picky eating habits. Although they improved a lot as they grew older.

With the ability to provide her children a better life, why wouldn’t she give it a try? Anyway, she had already secured the oil futures, and the manager had been found.

Now, with her free time not in a hurry to change jobs, it seemed that apart from going to and from work, she had nothing else to do for the time being.

So, this plan came about. In late autumn and early winter, Zhou Jiao set her sights on the vegetable plot in the garden behind the old house.

Uncle Yuan and Aunt Yuan, being old farmers, cherished that vegetable plot dearly; to them, no flowers or grass compared to it.

With their careful tending, by early winter, the garden, covered with a lot of specially found straw, still had a few little green seedlings left.

Though frozen and unlikely to grow much, it didn’t stop Zhou Jiao from being truly inspired.

It was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

The ground was nearly frozen, so Zhou Jiao, holding an experimental thought, used straw and wheat stalks that had previously transported raw stones and seeds to burn open the ground.

She knew the theoretical knowledge and had connections, paired with Uncle Yuan’s excellent farming skills while idly at home.

The two of them cooperated perfectly.

Now, the vegetable plot in the back garden, though not large, already had low greenhouses set up with bamboo poles and oil cloth.

The "Han Book, Zhao Xinchen Biography" records: "In the Tai Guan Garden, winter scallions, leeks, and vegetables were grown, covered with roofs, and fires were burned day and night, waiting for warm air to grow..."

Greenhouse vegetables existed early in ancient times, but they have never been popularized, let alone form an industry till now.

Why?

Because it’s too costly!

From the phrase "covered with roofs, fires burned day and night," it’s not hard to see that vegetables had to be grown indoors and required fire burning to keep warm.

Zhou Jiao, familiar with modern greenhouse vegetable theories, of course, wouldn’t plant them inside her house, but limited by the lack of certain supplies.

She was just playing with a small experiment, deciding that if successful, she would directly hand it over to the agricultural department in her unit, letting the comrades make a more detailed plan.

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