Chapter Forty-Seven: To Be a Man Is to Fight for Breath
There are not many sweet potatoes, there are only seven in total, and Guoguo unceremoniously asked for them all. ~Sui~dream~small~ said~ัww~mะตng~lฤ Shi Lei also directed: "I bought it back and planted it for you." The two tacitly agreed that they never mentioned money from beginning to end. Liang wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.
That night, Guoguo carefully cut the sweet potatoes into pieces, she didn't dare to cut them too small, because she had to ensure that the skin was intact, so there were not many pieces. She carefully stained the cut surface of each sweet potato without skin, and then asked Fang Yuqian to temporarily nail a flat wooden frame and spread it with five centimeters of moist fine sand, before placing the dust-stained sweet potato pieces on it and placing it in a warmer place next to the stove. Just waiting for them to sprout.
"Is that okay?" Liang was skeptical.
Guoguo just wanted to say that this was it, but when the words came to his lips, it became: "That's what the book says." She looked at the red and white sweet potato chunks, which had turned gray because they were stained with plant ash, and suddenly thought of those days in the countryside in her previous life, and the experience of traveling everywhere, as if it were a dream. She was suddenly unsure if she was in a dream now.
The spring rain has not stopped, and everyone has begun spring ploughing. The spring is cold, but many families have no seeds, so they can only plant the Liang family's fields, because the Liang family provides seeds, but there is really nothing to plant in their own land. If the grass on the mountain doesn't grow faster, and there is no firewood to burn, this world is not easy.
Now for the Guoguo family, it is not so much of a trouble. When he was stung, Da Zhuang came to the door with his father to propose marriage, and it seemed that it was already a good gift to take the seeds that Da Zhuang had bought and an old hen that he had bought in the town.
Da Zhuang secretly looked through the crack in the door, but he didn't see the grass. Guoguo stood aside and smiled openly, and Da Zhuang was blushed by Guoguo's smile. Liang smiled and stretched out his hand to flick Guoguo's forehead: "You, wait and let people be ashamed to leave, see if your eldest sister can spare you." โ
Guoguo smiled and deliberately went into the house and said, "Oh, I'm ashamed to leave like this, then such a brother-in-law, the eldest sister can not do it." โ
Liang nodded her forehead in disgust, and the grass in the room turned even redder.
The engagement ceremony was settled simply and seriously. Da Zhuang's restless heart finally stabilized a little, and he kept giggling with joy.
After a few days, the sweet potatoes sprouted, and the slender shoots were a little delicate, but Guoguo still resolutely transplanted them to the yard, and deliberately went to the pond with the green trees to dig up a lot of silt to use as silt fertility.
The spring rain has been pouring down, and a layer of tender green grows on the gray-black mountain col, and from time to time you can see men, women and children going out to dig wild vegetables. Doctor Wang asked someone to send a bag of grain to the Fang family, and Guoguo accepted it unceremoniously.
Cao'er has already promised to be strong, and the Liang family doesn't let her go out to work, except for the work in the yard, the fields are basically busy with fruits and green trees. However, it should be said that Guoguo commanded Qingshu, Shi Lei, Da Zhuang and Quan Sheng to be busy. According to the ideas of the previous life, Guoguo is ready to adopt the method of mulberry fish pond planting, but only one pond of Guoguo's family is suitable, and the others are not suitable. Moreover, there are not many seeds of rice.
After ten days, the vines of the sweet potato have already spread a small piece of the ground, and it is charming green. Guoguo decided to break the seedlings and plant them. Everyone has never planted this thing, and after listening to Guoguo's description, everyone's psychology is still bottomless, Fang Yuqian hesitated and said, "Otherwise, let's plant a piece and try it." โ
"This seedling can be planted on an acre of land. When the seedlings grow again, you can continue to plant, you can plant them before the autumn, and when the autumn falls, the frost falls, and the seedlings will be killed. Guoguo said seriously, and everyone listened carefully.
"But can you really grow the original kind of melon when you plant it like this?" Liang wasn't convinced either.
"Mother, it's okay. If you plant well, the yield per mu can reach 1,000 catties! Guoguo remembers that there was once an agricultural news report that the yield of sweet potatoes in some places reached several thousand catties per mu.
"So tall?" Everyone listened and was dumbfounded.
"Really, that's what the Agricultural Classics say." Guoguo lies and does not change color. The Agricultural Classics was a book she forged during this time, and everyone believed that she had seen it by accident.
So in this way, the Fang family's land planted an acre of sweet potatoes in the anxiety of everyone who would be suspicious.
At this time, the housekeeper of the Liang family came, and the rent of the Liang family was increased to seventy percent this year. In previous years, it was five floors, but this time it has increased by two percent, and in this disaster year, the people in the village are panicking. Many people who had finally survived to this moment collapsed, kneeling in front of the gate of the Liang family, begging the Liang family to give them a way to live.
The three young men of the Liang family looked at the refugees in one place, and they were very arrogant: "You love to plant or not, you don't plant, some are human races." "At the moment, the rent has risen to 80%." At this time, the big guy had to knock out his teeth and swallow blood, and came back with a sigh.
The Quansheng family also rented three acres of land from the Liang family, and when they heard that the rent was so high, the seven-foot man cried.
Although the Guoguo family does not need to rent land, they are also deeply sad when they see this situation. After thinking about it, Guo Guo went to find Dr. Wang, and then went to find Quansheng and Da Zhuang.
"If you trust me, listen to me." Guoguo looked at the two young people with high morale, "I know that you all need the land of the Liang family to plant, but the Liang family now lightly says that it wants eighty percent, so is it eighty percent of the harvest of previous years or eighty percent of this year's harvest?" Besides, after paying eighty percent, do you still have food in your hands? โ
Da Zhuang and Quansheng looked at each other.
"Guoguo, what do you mean?" Da Zhuang asked hesitantly.
"I know that you went to the tenant land to plant because you didn't have any seeds, and second, because you didn't have land." Guoguo paused, "But now that the fire has just passed, it just happens to be a good time to open up the wasteland." I asked my master that for the first three years of this wasteland, the imperial court did not collect rent. โ
"But when it comes out, we don't have anything to plant." Quansheng sighed.
"That's the main reason I'm looking for you today. Do you still remember the sweet potatoes that Brother Shi brought back to our family? Our family has already planted one acre of land, and after half a month, we can branch and transplant again, and we can plant at least three acres of land. This sweet potato is durable and high-yielding, even if you don't serve it well, a yield of 800 catties per mu is indispensable. Guoguo looked at the two of them and said seriously.
Da Zhuang swallowed his saliva: "I heard Cao'er say this, but it's ใปใปใปใปใปใป"
"I can provide you with sweet potato seedlings, but you have to give my family a harvest, you know the situation of our family, no one will take care of the fields." Guoguo chuckled, "How's that?" I'm more merciful than that Liang Peel, right? โ
Da Zhuang and Quan Sheng still looked at each other: "But, is it okay to only plant this?" โ
How can you survive for such a long time?
"Don't forget what my master does." Guoguo became angry, "The drought a few years ago, the medicine farmers of the Yuan family of the medicine merchant were also damaged, so I asked my master to ask, and they were willing to buy the medicine we grown, but only if our finished medicine was good enough." โ
"Herbs?" The two of them widened their eyes. If Guoguo said that he was willing to give sweet potato seedlings just now, the two were not so surprised, the people of the Fang family have always been kind, but this kind of medicine is a job that can earn money from generation to generation, and the imperial court is also very preferential to medicine farmers. It's just that everyone doesn't know how to plant, and they don't know how to harvest and sell, so they can only look at others.
"This mountainous area, burned, is just right for growing medicine!" Guoguo raised his hand and said proudly, "At the beginning, the Liang family came to force grain, and now the people in the village still need to go to his house to beg for food, to be honest, can you swallow this breath?" โ
Speaking of this, especially Quan Sheng, his eyes were red: "How can I be so cheap!" It's not like there's no land or food! โ
"As long as a person lives, he must fight for his breath." Guoguo said quietly about the plan in his heart, and the two of them were enthusiastic.