One after another, parents called their children to go back to eat, but most of them did not move. The aroma started to float from the pot, and the children’s eyes were fixed on the pot.
When Qiuhua let them try it, they were immediately bribed and planted themselves beside the stove as if they had taken root, twittering and asking for more.
The bucket of bean sprouts that were originally suspected were all in their stomachs in the blink of an eye, and the children were still lingering over it.
Qiuhua remembered the Princess’s instructions and distributed a few seeds to each of them, asking them to go back to find some soil, bury the seeds, and see what would grow in a few days.
The children had just eaten the bean sprouts grown from green beans, so they were in high spirits, and one by one they went home to dig in the soil happily.
In the evening of the next day, Jiang Rui stared at the setting sun in the distance outside the big tent. A few little heads were poking around not far away.
She noticed and nodded gently to them: “Hassen, Gergen, and Uligi.”
Yanshi actually remembered their names, so the three children were so happy that they walked out of the corner with blushing faces, pushing and shouting at each other.
Hassen held a large pottery bowl with a chip in his hand. The bowl was filled with soil. He asked: “Is Sister Qiuhua here? I planted yesterday’s seeds, but I don’t know what else needs to be done?”
“Qiuhua is doing something else. How about I help you take a look?”
“Can Yanshi do it?” Hassen’s eyes widened. Then, he obediently handed the bowl out.
Jiang Rui took the bowl and asked him as she looked at it, “How are the seeds planted? How deep are they planted?”
Hassen scratched his head and said truthfully: “I’ll just put them at the bottom of the bowl and cover them with soil.”
Jiang Rui shook her head slightly, pointed at the grass on the ground, and said: “We all know that when grass seeds fall on the ground, when they sprout, the roots grow downward and penetrate into the soil, while the buds shoot upward and burrow out of the ground. You put the seed at the bottom of the bowl, and when its roots grow out, where should it go?”
Hassen suppressed his blush, “I, I didn’t know about it.”
“It doesn’t matter if you didn’t know about it.” Jiang Rui said.
Her voice was not rushed and calm, which calmed Hassen’s uneasy heart.
“On the first day after the seeds were planted, they hadn’t started to germinate. We just need to dig them out and plant them again.”
She randomly found a dead branch from the ground, dug up the soil in the bowl, found the seeds at the bottom, and then instructed Hassen to bury the seeds in a place that was not deep or shallow.
“Do you know what you are planting?” She asked while the child was digging the soil seriously.
Hassen shook his head, “Sister Qiuhua didn’t say. Does Yanshi know what it is? I hope it can grow delicious bean sprouts like yesterday.”
Jiang Rui smiled softly, “It can’t grow bean sprouts, but it will taste better than bean sprouts. It’s called pumpkin. It comes from overseas. A pumpkin vine can keep producing fruits from summer to autumn. Each pumpkin is bigger than a human head. It’s round, beautiful, and sweet.”
Hassen looked yearning, while the other two children were envious.
Jiang Rui added: “But the pumpkin hasn’t grown yet. You need to take good care of it. Water it every morning and evening. When the seedlings grow, burn the hay into ashes and sprinkle it on. This is called fertilizing. We also need to move it to a larger site…”
Hassen listened carefully and kept nodding.
Gergen and Uligi held back for a long time, and finally, when Jiang Rui stopped talking, they boldly said: “Can Yanshi teach us too?”
“Yes, go and show me your seeds first.”
The two children jumped up and ran while cheering: “Yanshi is going to teach us how to grow delicious food! Yanshi wants to teach us how to grow delicious food!”
Not long after, the dozen or so children from yesterday were all surrounding Jiang Rui, holding various containers.
Some held small wooden boxes in their hands, some had old bowls like Hassen’s, and some had sheepskin bags. One child even planted seeds in a cow’s skull.
There were all kinds of strange things and many tricks. Even the children who did not participate yesterday came around with envy.
So, Jiang Rui and others gave out a bunch of seeds after instructing the dozen or so children on the correct planting methods.
The seeds she gave were different for each child. Even if some plants were not adapted to the climate on the grassland, with such a large base, she conservatively estimated that at least half of them would survive. Before long, they would harvest a variety of crops that Beidi had never seen before.
She believed that after seeing these groups of children playing and being able to grow so much food, even the people in the tribe who most dislike Jokhang would have to take this matter seriously.
From that day on, the children of the Di tribe stopped running around wildly after class every day. They held all kinds of strange containers like treasures and followed Jiang Rui step by step every day.
Originally, only the children like Hassen and Aruna dared to get close to Jiang Rui, but now, all the children in the tribe had become her little tails.
The children had their own things to do, and the adults were also busy. The transition was about to take place, so they needed to make a lot of preparations.
The busy pace was interrupted by a sudden accident.
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Sam Williams On TYMIMA Chapter 152