After being exiled, Lucky Zaizai took his whole family to farm.

Chapter 53 Growing Potatoes

With the help of everyone in the territory, the digging of sweet potatoes, which was originally expected to take several days, was finished in less than two days.

The sun was strong. After drying for a few days, they quickly moved it to the cellar for planting and storage.

After plowing the ground, we are planting potatoes today.

I once witnessed that Lin Yuan came over very shamelessly and asked: "Uncle Qin, what are you planting?"

"Good morning, Master Yuan. These are potatoes, which are also a high-yielding grain."

Good morning? The Qin family is quite interesting, Lin Yuan thought.

In fact, Qin Jia often said hello to his family in this way. After everyone got used to it, they followed it subconsciously.

However, Lin Yuan was more concerned about the meaning of this high-yield grain than this special greeting.

"What? This is also highly productive??"

Qin Huaiyi smiled and introduced to him: "Yes, it is actually similar to sweet potatoes, but this one is more suitable for staple food.

If you eat too much sweet potatoes, well, some of you will be more gassy.

This one is much better, and the texture is also powdery and glutinous. It can be fried and eaten as a dish, steamed, or boiled as a staple food.

The yield per mu should be about the same as that of sweet potatoes. "

Qin Huaiyi didn't say that he expected a higher yield than sweet potatoes, because if there were as many as sweet potatoes, that would be great.

There is no need to emphasize the fact that it is more productive than sweet potatoes.

Looking at the little buds on the lumps in their hands, Lin Yuan's eyes were completely different.

What kind of clod is this? Is this a fucking treasure given by God?

"Oh my god, Uncle Qin, where did you find so much high-yielding food?"

It's not that I'm questioning, although I do want to pry a little bit, but it's mainly because I'm really curious.

After all, something like this has not appeared for hundreds or thousands of years. How come there are so many two kinds of them when they appear?

Qin Huaiyi has already said something about this. Although it is a bit outrageous, the reason is acceptable.

Do you want to tell people that this is a painted crop?
  That will probably offend people, because they will think that you don’t want to say it, so you lie to them with a completely made-up reason!

“We have seen people growing this sweet potato before, but this thing was found in the mountains.

Unexpectedly, our family went to the mountains at night and came back with a piece of fruit in their mouths. After I recognized it as a sweet potato, I hurriedly took my family to dig up the small piece. "

Ye Ting saw that it was the big black dog, and everyone in the territory knew it.

Words like envy, jealousy, and jealousy are all tired of being used by everyone.

Whose dog drags a prey from the mountains every day and runs home in a hurry, turning back to dig dirt to cover the blood stains on the way?

Sometimes people may not think of covering up blood stains, but a dog understands.

Just very...

Sometimes, people even saw the dog resting and helping out at home when not in the mountains.

For example, go to the ground, dig grass with your claws, or pull out insects.

When you are free, you can also bite off wild flowers with your mouth and place them on the ground. After gathering a bunch, you can give it to the hostess of the house.

I heard from Aunt Fang that most of the wild flowers displayed at their home were picked at night.

In his eyes, such a humane dog can't compare to the golden lions or white tigers that small countries use as tribute!
  Because of Ye Ting, it’s not like no one in the territory wants to imitate raising a dog, but unfortunately no one in the entire territory wants to raise a dog.

One by one, they can only often inquire whether they are looking for a wife in the mountains.

If there are no dogs in the mountains, it would be a good idea to find a wolf wife and have a few cubs to continue this powerful bloodline.

Lin Yuan only felt regretful, because others had forgotten, but he had not.

Dog pups follow their mothers. Even if Ye Ting had pups, he probably wouldn't bring them back.

He really wanted to have a dog that was so in tune with his owner. The kind that the more I look at it, the more I like it.

"Hey, Uncle Qin, do you want a wife at night? How about I ask the caravan from our territory to bring a beautiful pup back next time to be his wife?"

Qin Huaiyi: ...This is not good, the babies will be born like ink, right?

"Haha, he probably doesn't want it. Our family has no idea of ​​breeding it at the moment."

"Okay." Lin Yuan regretted.

"If Ye Ting has cubs in the future, and Uncle Qin wants to sell them, he must keep one for me."

"Row!"

While chatting, the topic changed, and Lin Yuan slapped himself hard on the forehead.

"Oh, I forgot about it. I originally wanted to ask, Uncle Qin, do you have a lot of potato seeds at your house? I want to buy some."

Qin Jia also had to anticipate this, so he had reserved a lot for the Ya'er he raised this time.

So Qin Huaiyi said with a smile: "Yes, but not much. It may be enough to spread the crops on your ten acres of land."

After all, it doesn’t make sense to have too many, so we can only take out these first, so that they can save their own seeds next year.

When he learned that it was true, Lin Yuan immediately became excited, "Uncle Qin, please sell some to the territory. The price is up to you, whether it's money or things. As long as you can sell some to us, the territory is really short of food." "

Considering that the price of coarse grains is basically about five cents per catty, Qin Jiading paid five cents per catty.

They don't expect to make money from this, but they just hope that more people can be self-sufficient and not starve to death.

For Qin Jia, these two plants are not her own merit, and she is just one of the beneficiaries.

Therefore, there is no idea of ​​using them to make profits, and of course, no effort is made to promote the idea of ​​​​salvation.

I grow them at home, and those who have ideas come to buy seeds, and they sell them if they have them.

It's no different from treating seeds like rice.

Don't hide anything privately, and don't rush to give it away.

"Young Master Yuan will give you five cents per catty, but we don't want any money, just exchange it for some sundries."

After all, there are few potatoes now. When they become more abundant in the future, I am afraid they may not be worth two or three cents per pound.

But it’s not that cheap yet, and this is food that can fill your stomach.

So Lin Yuan not only didn't think the price was expensive, he even thought Qin Huai had a righteous heart!

Lin Yuan was moved and said: "Uncle Qin, there is no need for you to sell it at a low price to give the territory a cheaper price. Although we are indeed not very wealthy now, we are not to the point of taking advantage."

"But I wonder how many stone seeds are needed to grow potatoes in one acre of land?"

"About two and a half stones."

Lin Yuan calculated in his mind that ten acres of land was worth twenty-five shi. If it was five cents, it would be about fifteen taels of silver.

"Uncle Qin, let's do this. I'll give you a hundred taels of silver in various sundries in exchange for these twenty-five dan of grain. What do you think?"

Buyers and sellers, what should buyers do if they strongly demand a price increase?
  Of course I promise him!

So Qin Huaiyi nodded in agreement.

"Well, you go back and make a list first, and I will move things from the warehouse for you. If there is not enough, I will make up for the rest when the caravan comes back.

As for this kind of potato, I let the people below do the work, just in time to teach them how to grow it, so as not to have to teach them again. "

"Okay." Qin Huaiyi agreed generously.

None of the Qin family members who eavesdropped on the whole process had any objections. This was all something they had discussed in advance.

With the precedent of sweet potatoes, it is no longer a matter of guessing whether someone will buy potatoes and plant them.

(End of this chapter)