Chapter 228 228. Doing big things!
A cold wave took away most of the crops, and Lin'an Mansion suddenly became filled with complaints.
Although the people in the city did not have any farmland, they seemed to have no losses. However, after learning a profound lesson from the snow disaster, they immediately responded and went to stockpile grain. The shops on both sides of the main street ushered in a shopping frenzy.
As a result, the price of food, which had finally dropped due to disaster relief, suddenly rose again.
Mr. Jiang and Fu Chenglan were extremely busy trying to stabilize the situation, and Shenjia Village, twenty miles away from Fucheng, was also extremely busy.
Rows of potato seedlings packed in wooden troughs were carried out from the farmyard and headed towards the east of the village. More than a dozen people lined the road in a mighty manner. From a distance, it looked like they were doing something big.
“Of course we are doing something big!”
“If we can grow new food as Xing Luo said, we won’t have to go hungry in a few months.”
"Who says it's not? Thanks to the treasure mountain of Shennong Mountain!"
"Go quickly, Uncle Mantun is still waiting in the field, be careful not to hurt such a good seedling. ”
The people responsible for transporting potato seedlings from Shen's house were ordinary villagers. In a field to the east of the village, there were dozens of men wielding hoes to prepare the land. They were members of the patrol team.
A shed was built at the end of the field for a temporary rest. Uncle Six sat under the shed with a happy expression.
"These potatoes taste good, you guys have a try."
A dozen potatoes as big as eggs were boiled and cut into pieces and placed on the plate. There was still a bit of heat wafting around. Attracting the attention of the villagers.
Everyone had long been curious about the so-called new food. Upon seeing this, they put down the wooden troughs they were holding and took a piece from the plate tentatively and put it into their mouths. The next moment they were attracted by the soft and waxy taste of potatoes. Immediately captured.
"Huh? This thing is really filling!"
"I ate it in my mouth one after another. It tastes really good. I'm afraid these two pieces can be enough for a meal."
"Tingxing Luo said that these potatoes are still small ones, and if the ground is good, they should be able to grow. Bigger!”
“Did Xing Luo say how many seedlings like this can grow?”
Everyone looked at Uncle Liu who was sitting firmly on the ground, who was careless. uttered a sentence that shocked the world:
"At best, there are seven or eight of them, and at worst, you can get two or three."
"!"
Hiss——
The villagers said in unison Taking a breath of air, he mechanically turned his gaze to the neatly arranged wooden troughs on the ground, where a small green seedling was fluttering in the wind.
“Fortunately, I didn’t exert any force when I put it down just now.”
If he accidentally smashes or crushes a tree to death, he will be heartbroken without the need for Uncle Six to curse.
What kind of little seedling is this? It seems like it is everyone’s life!
"Then what, Xing Luo said that these lumps of soil were dug out from the depths of Shennong Mountain?"
"That's what they said!"
"By the way, let's They all entered the mountain together, and the treasure was right under their noses. How could he be the only one to discover it?”
"Students are better at digging food in the fields than us."
The sixth uncle was stunned when he heard this and almost choked on the potatoes in his mouth. Can you find out what the relationship between potatoes and reading is? You who are foraging in the fields have not found any grain. Now is it reasonable to expect a scholar?
"Since you know that you are incompetent, why don't you go to the mountain and look for it now? What are you doing here? There is nothing with brute force!"
The old man hates it. Iron does not make steel, they are all descendants of my Shen family, why is there such a big difference?
Everyone was sprayed and took a few steps back. That's not what you always said during the snowstorm. At that time, you praised them for their strength and ability to cut down the bandits
But the sixth uncle was right. Since there are such good treasures in the mountains, it would be a shame not to dig them out. So a dozen people picked up their weapons and headed towards the mountains.
“Let’s go look for potatoes too!”
“As many as we can dig out, let’s plant them when we get back.”
Uncle Six was very dissatisfied with the backs of a group of young people, "Look at the fuss they made just now. They really embarrass the Shen family!"
Shen Manyun, who was also squatting on the ground and remained silent, twitched the corner of his mouth. Have you forgotten that you fell off the kang when you first heard the news?
A group of people here went up the mountain in great force, and Shen Xingluo in the field was teaching everyone how to plant.
Growing potatoes does not require much technical content. The villagers in Shenjia Village are also good at farming. One person can teach others and others can learn quickly.
Due to the large number of people in the field, it only took one day to plant all the potato seedlings in the ten acres of land. When the sun went down that day, not a single green seedling was left in the wooden trough.
Shen Xingluo said a few words, stood up, patted the dirt on his body and walked home.
The fiery red sunset hangs in the west, and the afterglow falls on the quiet farmyard, like a layer of golden-red gauze.
Pushing open the creaking wooden door, an old man and a young child bickering in the courtyard came into view. At this time, Cheng Xi was smiling and describing 108 ways to eat Poria cocos. Xu Laoqi was neither smiling nor looking weird. , Shen Xingqi was sitting not far away, embroidering a screen, and waves of aroma wafted from the kitchen.
Shen Xingluo paused slightly, and there was a hint of tenderness in his deep black eyes.
"My husband is back?"
Cheng Xi glanced at him, then turned to look at the kitchen, "Wang Shu, prepare the bowls and chopsticks, it's time to eat."
"How was your study today, madam?"
"Remember everything, and the master still praised me."
"Huh."
Mr. Xu was too lazy to pay attention to this bad guy. The disciple picked up the mat from under his buttocks and went to the living room to prepare for dinner.
Shen Xingluo stepped forward and took the notebook she used to record from Cheng Xi's hand, "Are you bullying Mr. Xu again?"
"Don't accuse me unfairly. I studied seriously. Everyone praised me as a good student from childhood to adulthood."
It was this master who was not only dull and boring when teaching his apprentices, but also liked to drag the class, which made him Cheng Xi, whose longest course was only one and a half hours, was a little overwhelmed, so she simply said something else to be happy about.
She raised her head and looked to her side, "Are you done with the work in the fields?"
"Yes, it's all planted."
"It's the sixth uncle's clan. A good field selected from among them?”
"Yes, the output in two months will also be reported in the name of the Shen family."
Cheng Xi clicked his tongue and secretly thought that the Shen family would not be able to prosper if they had Shen Xingluo. In a few years, the Shen family will definitely become the top family in Dayan.
"Why did I see someone entering the mountain from a distance?"
"Lian Hu brought people there to try his luck to see if he could dig out potatoes."
>"." How can we dig potatoes when there are no potatoes on this mountain?
A group of heroes from Shenjia Village stayed in Shennong Mountain for the entire afternoon but failed to dig potatoes.
But today's villagers are no longer what they used to be. Although the heroes were disappointed, they quickly focused on game, so much so that they brought back two black wild boars when they went down the mountain in the evening.
When Cheng Xi learned about this, it was already noon the next day. Aunt Cuihua disliked her for being too homely, so she specially took her to the ancestral hall to watch the pig being slaughtered.
(End of this chapter)