AWB Chapter 338 It's delicious
Chapter 338 It's delicious
It took a whole day to dig out all the sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Zhang Deshui was anxious to know the yield per mu.
After calculation, it was found that the per-acre yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes planted in this land was not as good as that grown in the greenhouse vegetable field.
The average yield per mu is more than 4800 kilograms.
However, the people in the village were not upset about the lower yield per mu, but were very happy instead.
As everyone knows, the soil in this field is barren and contains a lot of sand.
But despite this, the size of each individual sweet potato and potato has grown much larger.
"Sister Lanzhen, I have discovered that sweet potatoes really like sandy soil.
Moreover, the sweet potatoes grown in this sandy soil are sweeter and have a sandy texture than those grown in vegetable greenhouses.
If you don't drink water and only eat the boiled sweet potatoes, you will choke on them and stretch your neck."
These words made everyone laugh.
It's really delicious! Whether it's cooked or baked, the sweet potato flesh is crunchy, sweet and sticky.
The same goes for potatoes, they are sweet and sandy after peeling.
Of course, the three officials from the Ministry of Revenue were more anxious than Zhang Deshui to know the per-acre yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes.
They went to the fields to dig sweet potatoes and potatoes, weighed and counted them themselves, and the final summary of the per-acre yield figures shocked, delighted, and relieved them!
Li Lanzhen looked at their expressions, which changed like the weather in spring, and felt secretly amused.
"Minister Du, do you think the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes per mu is pretty good?
When this land was cultivated, you all saw that the soil was poor.
So sweet potatoes and potatoes are not picky about their growing environment.
Every village in our Le Dynasty has relatively poor and desertified land.
These lands are not suitable for growing wheat and rice, but are suitable for growing sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Moreover, their yield per mu is relatively high. As long as everyone can grow barley, there should be no problem in eating 80% full. "
The three people nodded wildly, looking at Li Lanzhen with burning eyes as if they had found a treasure.
Minister Du grabbed Li Lanzhen's hand.
"Aunt Lan Zhen, you are a great contributor to our Li Dynasty!
I will report this to the Emperor immediately and make His Majesty happy too!"
Li Lanzhen quickly pulled her hand out of his.
Then he put his hands behind his back and smiled awkwardly. This is too bold. Is this an ancient person?
"Okay, it's up to you how to deal with it."
Du Yanqing then realized his abruptness and said to Li Lanzhen with a red face.
"I'm sorry, Aunt Lan Zhen, I'm so happy and I offended you!"
Li Lanzhen shook her head.
"Aunt Lan Zhen, I want to discuss with you, can you give all of this batch of sweet potatoes to us?
We plan to bring it back and promote it.”
Li Lanzhen turned around and stared at him with a teasing look.
You are dreaming. I will give you all the money to promote it. Let's see what you say. If you dare not spend a penny, you can take my sweet potatoes away. Just try it!
Du Yanqing also felt that he had not explained himself clearly.
"Oh, that's right. When we came here, the emperor had already told us to buy all the sweet potatoes and potatoes from you at the market price of coarse grains.
Then promote it as a seed. Aunt Lan Zhen, what do you think? "
She doesn't deserve the title of "you".
Purchasing it at the price of coarse grains is not bad, as long as the villagers in Taohuayuan don't suffer any losses.
"Okay, but we need to sort out some of them, including the damaged and small sweet potatoes and potatoes.
I am going to make these into vermicelli.”
Fatty Pang sensitively grasped the word "vermicelli" and immediately thought that this must be something delicious!
He immediately stepped forward and asked, "Auntie, is this vermicelli a delicious delicacy?"
Du Yanqing glared at him.
Fatty Pang ignored her and continued looking at Li Lanzhen, wanting an explanation.
Li Lanzhen smiled with her hands behind her back.
“Yes, it is a very delicious food. It is not only easy to store but also very convenient to eat. It is suitable for long-distance transportation.
Just like noodles, you put them in boiling water, cook them, add vegetables or cook them into soup and you can eat them. The most important thing is that they can fill your stomach!"
Du Yanqing immediately grasped these key words.
Pulling Pangzi aside, he said, "Aunt, when can the food you mentioned be made?"
Li Lanzhen frowned and calculated, "I guess I won't have time in the near future.
We will start harvesting wheat tomorrow. After the wheat is harvested, we will harvest rice and then corn.
Not only do the crops need to be harvested, they also need to be dried, threshed, and stored.
I can only make vermicelli when I have some free time.”
Seeing their somewhat lost expressions, Li Lanzhen chuckled.
"Don't worry, you have to wait until all the crops in Peach Blossom Spring are harvested this autumn before you can take the information back to the court.
So there is always time to eat vermicelli.”
The village organized children to sort sweet potatoes and potatoes.
All the other strong laborers went into the wheat fields to harvest the wheat.
The weather has been very good during this period.
It was originally planned to harvest the wheat in ten days.
But on the evening of the eighth day, people dragged their tired bodies back to the dining room to eat under the moon.
Zhang Deshui told everyone that he noticed the weather had changed.
There should be strong winds or light rain by tomorrow morning at the latest.
When everyone heard this, they were shocked because there was still some wheat that had not been harvested.
If there is a strong wind, the wheat will fall over, not to mention if it rains. The ripe wheat grains will sprout after being rained on and the weather is hot.
Not only does sprouted wheat taste bad, but a reduction in production is inevitable.
Therefore, the village committee decided that after dinner, everyone should work harder, hold torches and build a bonfire in the field, and work all night to harvest the crops.
Li Lanzhen called Xue Bao and Sanwang and asked them to go back to Lishu Village. Except for children and the elderly, all those who could come should come to harvest the wheat.
Su Chen and Han Yinan were called over, and Goudan and the other two went to the training camp.
Tell Xuan Shen to bring over all the people they can, and have them join the harvesting team!
After dinner, everyone took a short rest and then went back to the fields with their sickles.
The village committee arranged for several elderly people to take all the children under the age of eight home to sleep.
But they listened to no one and all went into the wheat fields.
When we first entered the wheat field, the moon in the sky was still very bright.
Next to the unharvested wheat field, the bonfire torches illuminate the wheat field.
Before the wheat harvest, the village committee was divided into several groups.
Each group has a team leader. Each group is not only responsible for harvesting the wheat in the field, but also for bundling the wheat, sending it to the threshing yard, and then spreading it out to dry.
There was a special group of people on the threshing ground, driving horse-drawn stone rollers to crush the wheat ears.
Another group of people used three-pronged or four-pronged wooden forks to push out all the wheat straw and pile them around the threshing floor.
In this way, only wheat grains are left in the threshing floor, of course, mixed with wheat stalks that have been crushed into pieces by stone rollers.
Another group took advantage of the wind to scoop up the wheat grains with wooden shovels and threw them high.
Let the wind blow away all the straw debris from the ears of wheat.
The wheat grains that have been filtered clean by the wind are then packed into large sacks by another group and transported to the barn nearby using horse-drawn carts, ox-drawn carts, and donkey carts.
So for now, just grab the remaining wheat in the wheat fields.
Han Shunde asked the team leaders to organize the personnel well, so that those who were harvesting wheat could harvest the wheat, and those who were bundling could bundle the wheat.
Then the bundled wheat is carried directly to the barn.
When the weather is good, take them out to dry and roll them with a stone roller.
Maybe it was at night, maybe everyone knew that they had to compete for food in windy or rainy weather.
Adults and children alike were silent, they all put their best effort into getting to work!
Those who were harvesting wheat could only hear the sound of the sickles cutting through the wheat stalks.
All I could see was the moonlight and firelight shining on the silver sickle, making the light flutter.
In the moonlight and firelight, people could be seen coming and going, carrying their loads and moving between the wheat fields and the barns.
This night is destined to be uneasy!