Dressed like a loser and went to raise a baby

Chapter 413 Offer potatoes to the emperor

Leng Luoyue asked Concubine Xu and the others to take her and the emperor forward and bring the hoe. Concubine Xu asked Meiren Liu to get the hoe. She took the emperor and Leng Luoyue to the place where potatoes were grown. The other people in Leng Palace Everyone is following behind.

They really wanted to talk to Luoyue and Xiaomao'er, but with the emperor here, they didn't dare to speak and could only endure it.

Feng Chenghan held the kitten and followed Concubine Xu. Everywhere he went, it was clean and tidy, with birds singing and flowers fragrant. There was not even a weed on the stone road.

It was very different from the cold palace in his impression. This place didn't look like a cold palace, but a quiet palace that was secluded from the world.

Although the kitten was small when he left, he was very familiar with this place. After being carried for a while, he kicked up his calves and wanted to get down and walk on his own.

As soon as he was placed on the ground, he started chasing bees and butterflies, which frightened Wang Gonggong and Chengsheng. They bent down and stretched out their hands to protect him, for fear that he would fall.

However, the kitten ran very steadily without even a stagger.

The kitten chasing the butterfly ran to some sweet-scented osmanthus trees, smelled the fragrance, and stopped.

He clenched his little hands into fists and placed them on his chest, leaning his head slightly forward, closing his eyes and smelling the rich and sweet fragrance of the osmanthus.

Wow, so cute.

What a picture of a cat sniffing osmanthus flowers. If there weren't outsiders here, she really wanted to take out her Polaroid and take some pictures of the kitten right away.

Uh, it seems like she didn't bring her Polaroid.

"Xiangxiang..." Xiaomaoer pointed at the golden osmanthus, turned his head and said to his father and mother with a smile.

"Does the cat like the smell?" Leng Luo walked over and asked.

"Yeah." Xiaomao'er nodded vigorously.

"Then let's let Sister Caiwei pick some osmanthus later and make osmanthus cake for the cat, okay?"

"Okay, let's eat the cake." The little cat took his mother's hand.

Concubine Xu looked at the kitten with a loving face, her heart was about to turn into cuteness. This little guy was really getting cuter and cuter!

Half a quarter of an hour later, the group arrived at the place where potatoes were grown. It was not far from the yard where Leng Luoyue and Xiaomao'er used to live. The land used by Mrs. Xu and others to grow vegetables was scattered nearby.

The vegetables in the ground were growing very well. Feng Chenghan, Wang Xin and others were amazed when they saw it. They didn't expect that the late emperor's concubines could grow such good vegetables in Leng Palace.

"It's right here." Xu Taibin pointed at two dry tunnels. The vines in the ground were almost withered.

Feng Chenghan looked at the two thin pieces of land in front of him, less than half an acre, and wondered what kind of surprises the low ground would hide.

Liu Meiren brought a hoe.

"Which one of you will dig?" Leng Luoyue asked as she looked at the palace people and guards who followed Feng Chenghan.

"Weichen, come on! Weichen has dug the ground." A guard stood up. Liu Meiren handed him the hoe and told him, "Be careful, don't dig the potatoes."

The guard took the hoe and nodded, stepped onto the potato field, and hoeed down at the roots of the vines.

He could feel the hoe digging into something. He pulled hard, and the low, moist soil was dug out, and a dozen large mud-colored fruits were brought out.This is because they are the potatoes mentioned by the late emperor and his concubine.

Are there so many potatoes growing under one vine?The guard was a little confused.

"There's more down there! Use a hoe to dig it out." Liu Meiren pointed to the dug dirt path. ,

The guard dug down again with a hoe, and sure enough, he dug out a few more potatoes, as big as a fist.

Feng Chenghan was very excited when he saw it. Although he had never seen potatoes, he had eaten potatoes and knew that they were edible and made him feel full. He dug out so many potatoes under one vine. , he has never seen such a high-yielding crop.

"Wang Xin goes and counts how many there are."

"Yes." Wang Xin stepped forward, squatted on the ground and counted them one by one, and exclaimed, "Twenty emperors, a full twenty more!"

Twenty potatoes. You can eat two or three potatoes of this size to be full. You can dig out twenty potatoes from one plant, which is enough for a family of five to eat.

You must know that one plant of rice is not enough for one person to drink a bowl of porridge!
Leng Luoyue said: "This is what I want to present to the emperor. I named this potato potato. It can be planted two seasons a year. It can be sown in spring and autumn. It matures quickly and can mature in two or three months." , and is drought-resistant, and the yield per mu can reach eighteen or nineteen stones.”

According to the author's setting, one acre of land in this era was larger than one acre in modern times, with one stone weighing 120 kilograms. In modern times, one acre of land can reach two thousand kilograms. The yield here should not be a problem. .

Eighteen or nineteen stones can be planted for two seasons. Wouldn't it be enough to plant one acre of land for a whole family? Feng Chenghan's eyes brightened even more.

"This potato also has a disadvantage, that is, it is not as durable as rice and wheat. It can be stored in the cellar for up to three months. However..." she changed the subject, "it can be stored for a long time by slicing and drying it, and it can also be made into potato starch. When dried and preserved, the starch can thicken the meat, and you can also add some when marinating the meat to make it smoother and more tender. The starch can also be used to make potato flour."

Feng Chenghan looked at Leng Luoyue, his eyes clearly saying, "What kind of shortcoming is this?"

"Where did these potato seeds come from?" How come he had never heard of such a good thing before!
Leng Luoyue rolled her eyes and made up another story, "This is when I asked the guards guarding Leng Palace to bring seeds into the palace. What they brought into the palace said that they were things that foreign merchants could not sell, so they were given to him for free. , and also told her how to plant it. I, my concubine, planted a piece of land according to the method the merchant from that country told me. Unexpectedly, the yield was extremely high and the taste was very good."

"Which guard is it?" Feng Chenghan asked.

Although the potatoes were presented to him by Concubine Leng, since the guards got them from foreign merchants and sent them to the Leng Palace, then the guards naturally had merit.

"Li Cheng." Leng Luoyue thought for a while and said.Wang Ping was guarding outside now, so naturally he couldn't say anything about him, otherwise Feng Chenghan would reveal his secret when he called him in and asked.

Speaking of Li Cheng, he could have someone give him a breather when the emperor sent him to the palace.

Feng Chenghan nodded and asked, "Are the seeds of these potatoes the lumps of earth?"

"Yes." Leng Luoyue nodded, "A potato can be cut into several pieces and planted. Each piece can grow so many potatoes. However, this potato vine can only be dried and used as firewood, and cannot be eaten. .”

Feng Chenghan nodded again and said to the guard holding the hoe: "Dig, dig out all the potatoes in these two plots of land." He wanted to see how many potatoes these two small plots of land could produce.

"Yes." The guard spit some saliva into the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands, clenched his hoe and dug hard.

When the hoe was pulled out, four or five potatoes were dug up.

These are all potato seeds!There were so many potatoes that could be grown, but they were dug up and rotten. Feng Chenghan's temples jumped and he cast a death gaze at the guard.

The guard who was digging potatoes suddenly felt a chill on his back.

(End of this chapter)