Xianggong farming

Chapter 117 Digging Sweet Potatoes

This year is considered a bumper harvest year for Shangping, and by the end of October, every household's Akita has entered the warehouse.The rest of the field is sweet potatoes.

As soon as Qi Dalang put down the bowl, Qi Dalang heard his father shouting: "Dalang, everyone go collect the sweet potatoes today, and take back the potato vines for pigs to eat in the snow. You decide what you want to do with the sweet potatoes. We'd better dry some potato shreds."

Qi Dalang responded in the kitchen: "Hey, Dad, I'll be here soon. Daughter-in-law, this year we have planted a lot of sweet potatoes, and half of the three mu of land is sweet potatoes. Dad said that this thing can support the food when there is no food. I’m full, so I always plant a lot every year. Tell me, what does our family do when we dig it up?”

Ji Xinmiao asked him: "How do you usually do it at home?"

Qi Dalang thought for a while and said: "Last year, we dried a lot of shredded sweet potatoes and cooked them together in a rice pot. We also dried some sweet potato slices and fried them with black sand as New Year's fruit. The rest were put In the cellar, keep some as seeds. If there is enough food for the family, the younger ones will be fed to the pigs."

Ji Xinmiao can do many things with modern sweet potatoes, but the only thing she can do is dry some sweet potatoes and eat them as snacks.Another thing is to wash more sweet potato flour, spread out a bowl with some coriander or green vegetables, and put some spicy peppers when dinner is not enough, and eat it as both rice and vegetables.

So she thought for a while and said, "Then we should be the same as Dad and the others. Although the food is not enough now, no one can predict what the harvest will be next year. Sweet potato shreds are easy to keep, so we should dry them more."

Qi Dalang went first after hearing the sound, and after Ji Xinmiao packed up his house and went to the field, the smile on Qi Liu's face was fake: "Oh, why is sister-in-law here to dig sweet potatoes? Brother, one in the morning The big man is making breakfast. I curiously asked him that you are not feeling well. Why are you feeling better now? But it is really good time. Today, I am digging sweet potatoes at home. If you don’t come, I will dig a lot less gone."

Ji Xinmiao frowned slightly, she didn't match Zhang's tone at all, but called "Father, Mother" politely, and then said to Qi Dalang: "Master, our family's food share is not good this year. There are several hundred catties of grain for the two children. I think we should ask for less. Let the brothers and sisters dig more. After all, their children have a lot of grain and have no other source, and the coarse grain is always bad. We If it’s really not enough to eat, don’t I still have ten taels of silver? Then I can buy a few hundred catties of grain and store it in the cellar, so I can eat as much as I want.”

Qi Liushi was so angry that he almost jumped up, oh, you think coarse grains are not tasty, so you eat all rice?We are not pigs.At this moment, Qi Liushi completely forgot about his cynicism.

Qi Sanlang threw a bunch of sweet potatoes at Qi Liushi's feet so hard that she sifted back in fright: "Qi Sanlang, what do you want to do?"

"I've got sweet potatoes to see if I can plug your mouth!"

Ji Xinmiao doesn't particularly like this sweet potato rice, and she doesn't believe that she can starve to death in the countryside with a PhD in agriculture.So after discussing with Qi Dalang, he only dug five loads of sweet potatoes and stopped.

Father Qi said to the two of them seriously: "There are at least thirty loads of sweet potatoes in this field that are easy to dig. Even if you have more food, if you don't have these sweet potatoes as a backing, how will you have enough to eat by then? Don't listen to those ignorant people. The woman is nagging, dig a few more loads."

Qi Dalang shook his head: "Father, give the second brother a few more loads, Huzi and Ling'er sometimes always look for food from the younger brother and sister. The other day I said to give the second brother fifty catties of millet, but he refused to live or die. Let's forget it. These five loads are about the same. It’s really not enough, and the potatoes, taro, pumpkin and winter melon you give in the cellar will be enough to fill your stomach. Besides, don’t you have so many corns hanging in the house? Grind them into powder and burn them to eat.”

Hearing what he said, Father Qi had no choice but to stop talking, but said to Qi Erlang: "Then you can dig a few more loads."

The family dug sweet potatoes for three consecutive days. Although Qi Dalang only had five loads, the couple still tried their best to help the whole family harvest the sweet potatoes.But Qi Dalang didn't make Ji Xinmiao too tired, he just asked her to follow behind him to pick up the sweet potatoes he had dug out, then remove the roots and throw them into the basket.In the early morning of the fourth day, the yard of Qi’s family was full of heat. Those who washed sweet potatoes washed sweet potatoes, those who shredded potatoes shredded potatoes, and those who carried water. Qi’s family was all busy for sweet potatoes.

Because the ancestor was a member of the time traveler, he improved well in farm tools and iron tools.Because Qi Erlang is a craftsman, he rushed to get the sweet potatoes out.After Ji Xinmiao had been busy in the yard for a long time, she suddenly remembered the strains she had cultivated, and was about to get up to have a look.

"Erlang, are you going to pour out the water for washing the shredded potatoes?" Ji Xinmiao asked in surprise when he saw Qi Erlang's actions.

Qi Erlang didn't understand why she asked this question, but he explained seriously: "Sister-in-law, I have washed the shredded potatoes too many times, the water is already very turbid, and the shredded potatoes will not be white after washing. Besides, I won't shred the potatoes today. It’s over, the sun is almost gone, and the rest will be solved tomorrow, of course the water has to be poured out.”

Does no one in this world know that there is a lot of starch in the water for washing sweet potato shreds and sweet potato chips?

Thinking of this Ji Xinmiao asked: "Since you are going to pour it, why don't you give me this water."

Qi Erlang was very surprised: "Sister-in-law wants this dirty water?"

Ji Xinmiao patiently explained: "It's not dirty water, but the sweet potato powder washed from the sweet potatoes. Put it in the bucket and wait for the muddy powder to sink, and there will be a thick layer of sweet potato powder at the bottom of the bucket." Powder. As long as this powder is dried, it can be made into delicious things.”

Qi Erlang didn't seem to believe it, but the sister-in-law wanted it, so he said straightforwardly: "Sister-in-law, then I won't pour the water, you can come and see it tomorrow morning. If there is the sweet potato flour you mentioned, you can take it in." , anyway, we don’t know how to get them to eat.”

With such a big bucket of water and washing so many loads of shredded sweet potatoes, Ji Xinmiao is sure that there will be a thick layer of sweet potato flour at the bottom of the bucket tomorrow morning.Since Qi Erlang said he didn't want it, Ji Xinmiao said unceremoniously: "Second Uncle, help me find something to cover it, so as not to drop the dirty things in the bucket."

Qi Liushi heard the two talking from a distance, so she didn't believe Ji Xinmiao's words, thinking that she must have bought a few loads of sweet potatoes yesterday in order to save her breath, so she wanted to get some cheap money from the bottom of the bucket.So he deliberately smiled and said: "Sister-in-law's idea is really fresh. I haven't heard that the water for washing sweet potato shreds is edible. If you are really afraid that there is not enough food at home, you should take back two loads of sweet potatoes from your second brother." alright."

Ji Xinmiao thinks that Qi Liushi is a stupid woman, is there anyone in this world who eats potato shredded water?
She smiled and said: "Since the third sibling said so, then if you don't want the water for washing potato shreds tomorrow, give it to me."

(End of this chapter)