Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

Chapter 86 Why is it so late!

Three days later, it was one day away from the ripening time of the potatoes that the system said.

Around two o'clock in the afternoon, the training ground.

Soldiers are training hard
Li Jin took the shovel and called Xu Qingfeng.

"Old Xu, let's go and see how big the potatoes have grown." Li Jin said.

Although he knew that the potatoes and sweet potatoes would be harvested tomorrow, Xu Qingfeng probably wouldn't believe him if he directly said that these two things would mature in two months.

So, bring Xu Qingfeng over here personally, dig out the potatoes, and let him see it with his own eyes before he believes it.

"How big can it be, at most the size of a duck's egg." Xu Qingfeng followed Li Jin's pace and replied, it's only two months now, it's not bad if the potatoes are the size of a duck's egg.

"That's not necessarily true. The radishes from before can be harvested in a month." Li Jin laughed.

The carrots and white radishes planted had already been harvested almost a month ago, and they grew much larger than ordinary radishes.

As for lettuce, rapeseed, etc., they have planted it twice and harvested it twice. The vegetables that the soldiers ate in the past two months were basically pulled from the ground.

Xu Qingfeng was silent for a while, and then asked, "Who did you get this kind of seeds from? Why do the vegetables that are planted mature so quickly."

"Didn't you say it? I got it from a businessman. At that time, he told me that his seeds were carefully cultivated and matured faster than other vegetables. In fact, I didn't believe it at the time.

But if it is true, then our Eighth Route Army will not have to worry about food, so I took a gamble, and I didn't expect to win the gamble. "Li Jin lied.

"It's a good thing you chose to believe, otherwise we wouldn't be able to eat vegetables so quickly." Xu Qingfeng nodded, feeling that it was lucky that Li Jin believed, otherwise he would have missed a chance.

"Speaking of which, where is that businessman from? Is it possible to let him join the Eighth Route Army? Of course, he is not allowed to fight, or to cultivate those high-quality seeds for our Eighth Route Army." Xu Qingfeng said.

According to what Li Jin said, this businessman is simply a talent, and he can cultivate such a powerful seed.

If that businessman can be allowed to join the Eighth Route Army and cultivate more short-term ripe vegetables and other seeds, it will benefit the Eighth Route Army and the common people.

"Uh... this, I think it's unlikely to be found, the businessman doesn't seem to be from here,
But there should still be a chance to meet in the future. "Li Jin said like this, otherwise, what else can I say, deduct the system and give it to Xu Qingfeng.

"Tsk, it's a pity that such a talent did not join the Eighth Route Army." Xu Qingfeng sighed.

As a true farmer, he knows better than anyone else what it means to a farmer to be able to breed such short-maturity, drought-resistant seeds.

As long as there are these seeds, farmers don't have to worry about starvation at any time. It doesn't matter even if they can't mature for a short time. The most important thing is that they are more resistant to drought, which is extremely important.

Not long after, the two came to the land where potatoes were grown.

The potato seedlings are growing very well, and the green leaves grow very large. At a glance, they are all green.

Li Jin walked into the field and came to a potato seedling. He immediately dug down carefully with a shovel.

Soon, he got out the potatoes with their roots and mud.

"This, this potato, why is it so big?!" Xu Qingfeng's eyes widened when he saw it, and he stammered.

It's so outrageous, under this plant, there are eleven or twelve potatoes, each of which weighs at least six or seven taels, and one is bigger, which seems to weigh at least a catty.

"Depending on the situation, these potatoes should be edible." Li Jin said with a smile.

"It's unbelievable. If there are potatoes like this under every plant, then at least one mu of land would weigh eight thousand catties!" Xu Qingfeng trembled a little when he spoke.

He has never heard of potatoes with a yield of more than [-] jin per mu. In the past, [-] jin of potatoes per mu was considered high yield, and most of them were two to three thousand jin.

Eight thousand catties?Is he probably living in a dream? !

Xu Qingfeng immediately grabbed the shovel in Li Jin's hand and began to dig. He dug one plant at a distance of one or two meters, and he dug five or six plants in a row before he stopped.

Looking back, the weight and quantity of potatoes on each plant are almost the same as the first potato.

"I'm not dreaming!" Xu Qingfeng looked at the big potatoes dug up and became suspicious.

Then he walked towards Li Jin and pinched Li Jin's arm hard.

"Ah, what the hell, old Xu, why are you crazy and pinching me?!" Li Jin screamed.

"It hurts, hahaha, it's not a dream! Great, our Eighth Route Army doesn't have to go hungry anymore, hahaha!" Xu Qingfeng laughed.

Li Jin became speechless: "You pinch yourself!"

However, Xu Qingfeng smiled and suddenly burst into tears.

"Hey, Lao Xu, don't cry." Li Jin froze on the spot for a while, and said quickly, although the output was high, he shouldn't be so excited that he cried.

"Why did this potato with such a high yield appear so late? If it had been available back then, my brother wouldn't have starved to death during the disaster year!!!" Xu Qingfeng cried sadly. I'm starving to death.

If there was such a high-yield thing at that time, there would not be no food during the disaster year, and his brother would not have died!

Li Jin felt sad for a while. He didn't know how to comfort Xu Qingfeng, so he reached out and patted Xu Qingfeng's shoulder.

In this era, there was already chaos, and many people died of starvation in times of disaster. It was no wonder that Xu Qingfeng remembered the past when he saw such a high yield of potatoes.

Indeed, if there were potatoes with such a high yield at that time, many people would not starve to death.

After crying for a while, Xu Qingfeng wiped away his tears, choked up and said, "I'm sorry, platoon leader, I couldn't hold back for a while."

"It's okay, it's all over. After driving out the devils, we can feed the common people." Li Jin said.

Although he had never experienced the time when his relatives were starved to death, he could imagine that Xu Qingfeng must have been desperate at the time.

That's why Xu Qingfeng couldn't hold back when he saw the potatoes with such a high yield per mu.

"Yes." Xu Qingfeng nodded seriously.

"Let's go, let's go to the sweet potato field." Li Jin said as he walked towards the sweet potato field not far away.

Walking into the sweet potato field, Li Jin immediately began to pull out huge sweet potatoes with roots and soil, some were still buried in the soil and could not be pulled out.

Li Jin dug out the sweet potatoes inside with a shovel.

There are five or six sweet potatoes in total, each weighing more than one catty, and the largest one weighs two catties.

"Hiss... Is the yield of this thing so high!" Xu Qingfeng gasped. Compared with potatoes, sweet potatoes are more satisfying.

Li Jin wasn't surprised. These seeds were all high-quality seeds given by the system, so it's no surprise that the yield was low.

ps: The first update, there are two more updates tonight
(End of this chapter)