Reborn Farmhouse: Planting Fields, Flirting with People

Chapter 170 Planting Sweet Potatoes

The two said they had their own reasons, and they couldn't stop arguing. In the end, the couple handed over the decision-making power to the housekeeper Li Mingyue.

In fact, Li Mingyue doesn't know much about farming, but she has seen a lot in her previous life, and she knows that selling crops directly can't fetch a good price, and most of them can be multiplied several times after production and reprocessing.

As far as Li Mingyue knows, peanuts can be squeezed into peanut oil and made into peanut candy, corn can be made into corn oil and popcorn, and sweet potatoes... can be made into sweet potato vermicelli.

Li Mingyue has never studied the production process of peanut oil before, so she doesn't understand it.Popcorn is too ordinary. As for sweet potato vermicelli...Hot and sour vermicelli used to be Li Mingyue's favorite, but most of the vermicelli on the market are fake vermicelli made of cassava flour and gelatin. I've done it myself a few times...

I recalled the production process of sweet potato vermicelli in my mind, and it is not a big problem to make it.As for the sales, you can contact the shopkeeper Chen of Liuchen Merchant Store at that time, and you should not worry about selling... Li Mingyue finally made a decision.

"Let's grow sweet potatoes."

In this way, the Li family's five acres of land were all planted with sweet potatoes.There is a folk proverb: Sweet potatoes are cheap and should not be eaten more.If you eat too much of this food, you will burn your heart, so poor people will eat it as a meal, and those who live a little better will disdain to eat sweet potatoes.

Knowing that Li Shou's family planted five acres of sweet potatoes, many people laughed at them behind their backs.Some people also advised Li Shou to dig up the sweet potatoes and plant some decent food, but Li Shou just laughed silly and said, "I've planted them all, so I can't waste them."

Mrs. Li sneered bluntly in front of people: "I'm afraid his family has no food to cook, so they can only live by eating those cheap things. What kind of people really eat what kind of things."

Li Kang had passed the county examination a few days ago, and he only had to go to Fucheng to take the college examination in two months. If he passed, he would be a proper scholar.

In the past few days, the old lady has been acting like a bully in the village, her back has straightened up, and she brags to people everywhere that she has given birth to a good son.

Although he didn't openly have any conflicts with Li Shou's family, he said a lot of bad things behind his back.Fortunately, the villagers all know what kind of person Mrs. Li is. Everyone just listens to what she said for fun, but no one really believes what she said.

At the end of March, Luo Fuzi set off for Beijing with his family.

Before leaving, the two families got together once.Aunt Luo gave all the things that she couldn’t move or didn’t want at home to Li Shou’s house, including cabinets, desks, bookshelves, rattan chairs, pots and pans... three bullock carts had finished pulling all the things, and Mrs. Zhang sat at the entrance of the village. Watching, the eyes were red with jealousy.

Mrs. Liu refused in every possible way, but she was embarrassed to accept it.Aunt Luo only said: "If you don't like it, just throw it away. These things are not worth any money. Maybe I have to take them all the way to the capital."

Only then did Mrs. Liu accept it, and set up a large table of delicious dishes to entertain them in the evening.

Putting all these furniture into the house, the wardrobe, wooden boxes, tables, chairs and benches are all complete, and the simple thatched hut feels more at home.

The desk and bookshelf were placed in Li Mingyue's room, and a box of books sent by Fang Yuan was placed neatly on the bookshelf.

On the desk, pens, inks, papers and inkstones are also complete, which is convenient for Li Mingyue to keep accounts. There is a small white porcelain vase on the corner of the desk, and a few unknown plain wildflowers are inserted.

Such an arrangement adds a bit of elegance and a strong bookish atmosphere to the room.

Li Minglan couldn't help teasing Li Mingyue and said: "Oh, our family is going to have a female scholar."

(End of this chapter)