Si Jiuyue crouched down and began harvesting. With each swipe, she gathered a large handful, and within a quarter of an hour, her basket was brimming with wild chives—enough to feed the whole family for two days. She carefully bundled the chives with grass ropes before placing them into her basket.
Once she finished, she surveyed the stretch of wasteland before her. It had to be said that this soil was far more fertile than the sandy patches by the river.
Si Jiuyue decided she could use half of it to plant mung beans and the rest for soybeans. With the mung beans from the slope, they could make mung bean paste, congee, cakes, and even refreshing iced bean drinks during the summer. The uses for soybeans were even more numerous: tofu, tofu pudding, soy sauce, fermented bean curd, and black bean sauce.
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