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Chapter 99 They are all living gods

After Xu Xueju's lecture, surrounded by everyone, he picked up a brush and wrote an inscription on the Yangtao Temple in the village.

The big families in the village and a group of gentry represented by Zhao Fan also brought many gifts to Xu Xueju and burned incense to express their gratitude for Xu Xueju's achievements.

Yes, the common people may have a deeper memory of Wang Wenlong, but above the officialdom, all the credit for this disaster relief and the promotion of improved seeds must go to Xu Xueju.

In the past few days, Xu Xueju has written more than 30 plaques for Yangtao Temple. However, he is not qualified to write the name of Guacaixianren Temple, which is the main enshrinement. Fujian Governor Jin Xuezeng has already written it, and every county has one. Send aides to all provinces early.

Xu Xueju and Jin Xuezeng were busy during this disaster relief work. It was time to reap the fruits. Not to mention other things, the Guacai Immortal Temple, Potato Temple, and Immortal Potato Temple all over Fujian all carried their plaques. This is enough to show the good reputation of the two people in the local area.

Wang Wenlong does have his name somewhere. As the area with the largest potato planting area in Fuzhou this year, Pingtan will build a large temple of the Melon and Vegetable Immortal in the near future. The name "Jianyang Wang Wenlong" will be added to the end of the stone tablet. But most of them can only be listed in the second or third row, and even Zhao Fan's name will be placed above him.

Wang Wenlong had only been sitting here for a while when the village Baojia who just reported his merits in front of Xu Xueju came over:

"I dare to ask, sir, is Mr. Wang who promotes melon and vegetable substitutes and is the one who talks about Wenlong?"

Wang Wenlong nodded.

A smile that was even warmer than when he dug out the potatoes instantly broke out on Bao Jia's face.

"My promotion of melon and vegetable substitution has saved the lives of all the people in our village!"

Wang Wenlong said with a smile: "It is Wenlong's blessing to be able to do his best when he is assigned his duty."

That Baojia nodded repeatedly, "My mother-in-law wants to meet the master, don't you know?"

Wang Wenlong has been traveling to the county and countryside with Xu Xueju in the past few days. He has seen such a scene more than once and said with a smile: "Let her do it."

Not long after, Baojia brought his mother-in-law over. The old woman looked at Wang Wenlong and expressed her gratitude.

Baojia came over with a smile and said, "Master, many villagers in our village want to meet you."

Just as Wang Wenlong nodded, he felt his palms getting cold. When he looked down, he saw that his protective wife was shyly stuffing a freshly dug potato into his hand before she left.

"Please accept it, sir."

Wang Wenlong still didn't react when he looked at the potato.

Soon more and more villagers came to him.

"Is that Mr. Wenlong?"

"Wang Xiangong is here!"

"Don't push, don't push, let me meet Wang Xiangong."

"I touched Wang Xiangong's hand. I won't wash it even if it kills me!"

"Mr. Wang, this is the winter melon left by my family!"

"Master, this is my family's dish."

In an instant, a large group of people gathered in front of him. Wang Wenlong had no time to escape. After everyone looked at him, they stuffed some fruits and vegetables into his hands.

Wang Wenlong finally realized that these villagers were worshiping him as a god, or a famine-rescuing vegetable fairy who specialized in harvesting fresh fruits and vegetables.Guacaidai is a life-saving method for the people of Pingtan. Thanks to the abundant rains since the beginning of winter this year, the degree of disaster suffered by the local people has been greatly reduced.

Regardless of what is done on the official side, the promotion of melon and vegetable substitution is mainly attributed to Wang Wenlong among the common people. After all, without the emergence of the belief in the melon and vegetable immortal to save famines, the people would not be willing to try to plant this new crop.

The potatoes introduced by Wang Wenlong are so good. In addition to high yields and can be planted in winter, more importantly, they are underground tuber crops. You must know that in addition to suffering from food shortages, the people of Pingtan are also often plundered by Japanese pirates. .

Those pirates are very wicked. Even if the people are so poor, they still come to ask for gold and silver every time. The people have no choice but to refuse to give them. They can escape, but their fields cannot escape.

If the pirates cannot ask for enough money, they will directly destroy the crops in the fields after entering the village, and the people will suffer.

But after planting potatoes this year, everyone discovered the benefits of this thing. Potatoes grow just like weeds in the mountains. They are scattered in the fields and are difficult for pirates to find.

A local village was plundered by pirates this year. The pirates burned all the crops on the ground. Originally, the people thought that people in that village would starve to death this year, but they did not expect that after a few days, potato tubers grew again on the scorched earth. sprouts.

Potato plants are extremely weather-tolerant and can still sprout again as long as the underground tubers are not burned.

Not only can it be used to resist pirates, but farmers can also use the same method to deal with it when the government collects taxes and observes classes.

The advantages of this crop are more apparent in poorer areas.

Having brought such excellent crops to the people, it is natural that Wang Wenlong gained the respect of the villagers like a god.

When Chen Jinglun came to see Wang Wenlong, he couldn't help laughing when he saw Wang Wenlong's appearance.

The villagers had just dispersed. At this time, Wang Wenlong's arms were filled with vegetables and there was no place to take them. The villagers respectfully placed the vegetables beside Wang Wenlong.

There were piles of vegetables of various sizes, many of which the villagers specially selected and brought from home. Hundreds of villagers came to deliver vegetables, making Wang Wenlong look like a vegetable vendor setting up a stall. Everyone went Hou Wang Pingbao was hunched over in front of him and couldn't stop himself.

Chen Jinglun said: "Just looking at these vegetables, you can see how much benefit Jianyang's promotion of new crops has brought to the people."

Wang Wenlong said with a smile: "I can't bring back so many dishes. If I had asked the chef to cook them for everyone to eat at noon today, the successful promotion of melon and vegetable substitutes would have relied on everyone's efforts, not Wenlong's credit."

Chen Jinglun couldn't help but be proud when he heard what he said.

Today's situation is indeed due to him. Wang Wenlong proposed the method of replacing vegetables with melons, but in actual promotion, he was busy with many things.

Wang Wenlong promotes the planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes. Not only does he teach planting methods, he also has to teach farmers how to store potatoes.

Sweet potatoes and potatoes are difficult to preserve for a long time when they are fresh. The long-term storage method was thought up by the Chinese people themselves. They first sliced ​​the fresh sweet potatoes and potatoes, then cooled them and dried them in the sun to make dried potatoes.

Because people in Fujian eat a lot of sweet potatoes, they even came up with the idea of ​​steaming the sweet potatoes and then drying them to make sweet, soft and chewy dried sweet potatoes.

These methods are unique to China and have greatly solved the problem of long-term storage of potatoes under the production conditions of the agricultural era.

As for the relevant technology, Wang Wenlong only knows how to do it, and Chen Jinglun is busy with the specific practice.

Chen Jinglun worked hard for half a year to promote the planting and storage technology of new crops. He worked hard and without any complaints. He sincerely wanted to save the people from famine.

It is precisely because of this kind of heart that Chen Jinglun was also one of the gods worshiped in the Fairy Potato Temple built by Wang Wenlong in his previous life to commemorate the promotion of sweet potatoes. This shows that the people of Fujian are grateful for Chen Jinglun's contribution.

(End of this chapter)