Chapter 174: Sowing Seeds
At the end of the second month of spring, Su Ran’s vegetable garden had completed all sowing.
The shrub-like plants transplanted back last year, like vinegar fruit, finger onion, chili fruit and the like, had already begun to sprout again and grow leaves.
Most of last year’s shrubs were successfully transplanted, so this year, Su Ran began preparing to transplant a large number of trees back.
Among the plants sown with seeds in the vegetable garden, housheng vegetable and wild cabbage were the most numerous.
Followed by chili fruit, finger onion, and vinegar fruit.
Although there were still shrub-like plants like chili fruit and finger onion transplanted back last year.
But the transplanted ones were not enough to eat for a whole year, so more needed to be planted.
Besides green vegetable-type food, shrub-like fruits like red fruit and youyou fruit were only planted in small amounts along the edge of the vegetable garden.
In addition, Su Ran tried burying a small patch of green soap fruit seeds and cotton tree seeds in an open space behind the small animal room.
She planned to use her own planting and transplanting methods to grow a grove of green soap fruit trees and cotton trees in this area behind her house.
Green soap fruit begins to bear fruit from the end of spring until the final maturation in autumn, and the fruits can all be eaten.
Cotton is essential for keeping warm in winter, so Su Ran wanted to plant more of these two trees near her home, to avoid having to search and collect throughout the forest in autumn.
These days, the weather had rapidly warmed up.
The clothes on Su Ran had already been changed to a single piece of autumn clothing plus a sweater, and she only needed to add a coat in the mornings and evenings.
Hui’s clothes had already been changed to a single piece of animal hide clothing.
This day required no going out, so Su Ran spent the morning tidying up the several rooms in the house.
After the food stored for the winter in the storage room and small wooden house was eaten, the two rooms were almost completely emptied.
Su Ran took out some tools that had been stored in the west bedroom and put them back in the storage room, then had Hui carry her to the bird’s nest behind, and tidied up inside the bird’s nest.
After finishing everything, Su Ran took a small wooden basin, picked some purple berry fruit planted along the edge of the rain shelter, and comfortably sat in the rain shelter covered with an animal hide blanket, eating and resting.
On the timing sundial Su Ran made herself, the shadow had already coincided with the vertical pointer, and the time was exactly noon.
At this moment, the temperature outside was the most comfortable time of the day.
The multi-functional watch brought from the original world had a dead battery and no longer worked, and even the flint scraper on the watch chain was not as effective for striking fire as before.
While Su Ran was lying in the rain shelter eating purple berry fruit, Hui also walked back from behind the house.
It had just been watering the vegetable garden behind the house.
The area of the vegetable garden behind the house was not small, and last year because there were not many transplanted plants, watering was not troublesome.
But this year, after the entire vegetable garden had been sown with seeds, watering the whole garden became much more troublesome.
Without electric power, Su Ran and Hui could only use the most primitive method, carrying water one bucket at a time to irrigate the ground.
This finally made Su Ran determined to dig two wells in the vegetable garden.
Otherwise, even for Hui, watering this entire vegetable patch would be very tiring with all the back and forth.
Thinking this way, Su Ran leaned against Hui who had lain down beside her, rested her head on its extended arm, then took two purple berry fruits from the small basin beside her and stuffed them into Hui’s mouth together.
“Hui, tomorrow we’ll dig two wells in the vegetable garden.”
“What is a well?”
“A well is a deep pit, and when dug deep enough, water will come out. With water, Hui won’t have to keep running to the riverside to fetch water for irrigating the ground later.”
Su Ran ate a purple berry fruit herself, and after speaking, turned her head to look at Hui beside her.
Hui had probably just finished watering and was a bit tired, closing its eyes and chewing the purple berry fruit Su Ran had just stuffed into its mouth.
After hearing Su Ran’s words, it was silent for a long while, and finally it was unclear if it had understood the meaning of Su Ran’s long string of words, but it nodded: “Okay ao wu~ Dig well tomorrow ao wu~”
Su Ran looked at its appearance, chuckled lightly, said nothing more, and also closed her eyes.
The next day early in the morning, after breakfast, Su Ran and Hui prepared to dig the wells.
The two wells were dug on the east and west sides in front of the vegetable garden.
After Su Ran determined the positions, she and Hui each took a bone shovel and began digging the soil.
The soil in the vegetable garden here was soft because it was close to the forest, so one shovel down was not laborious.
Plus with Hui there, the two only took one hour to dig a pit nearly six meters deep.
By the time it was dug this deep, only Hui was at the bottom of the pit, while Su Ran was above, responsible for pulling up the dirt Hui dug out and loaded into the large wooden basket with a rope to dump it.
For this, Su Ran had specially made a not-so-refined pulley, supported on wood over the well mouth.
At this time, the dirt Hui dug from the well bottom was getting wetter and heavier, indicating that water was about to come out in the well.
Su Ran pulled above while constantly paying attention to the activity below the well.
After she sent down another emptied wooden basket, she suddenly heard Hui below the well exclaim in surprise “ao wu”, and before Su Ran could look down, it had already kicked off the well wall from the bottom and jumped up in two bounds. Then it looked at Su Ran in astonishment and said: “Ran Ran, water has come out!”
Su Ran hurriedly looked down into the well, and sure enough, a layer of muddy water had accumulated at the bottom.
But this was not the end; it was not until evening, when Hui embedded the last stone into the well wall and stacked it with the stones at the bottom, that this well was finally completely finished.
It jumped up from the well, and the dirt dug out at the well mouth outside had already been carried bit by bit by Su Ran into the forest and discarded while Hui was building the well wall.
Now the area around the well mouth was encircled by Su Ran with thick wooden stakes, to prevent accidentally falling in.
Because of no experience, digging this first well wasted a bit of time for Hui.
The second well was much faster.
On the second day, Hui took only five or six hours to complete the entire well.
After finishing, it followed Su Ran’s teaching, tried throwing the bucket tied with rope into the well, and when it felt the rope in its hand become heavy, quickly pulled it up.
Then it looked at the bucket full of water that was pulled to the ground in just a few seconds, its eyes filled with surprise, and couldn’t help wagging its tail.
“Ran Ran, the water in the well is faster ao wu~”
It pointed at the well mouth and said loudly.
According to the months of this continent for the whole year, nearly a year had passed since Su Ran met Hui until now.
Now when Hui spoke, its pronunciation was already very clear.
“Yes, Hui won’t have to go to the riverside to water the vegetable garden anymore.”
Su Ran looked up at Hui and also smiled.
