Chapter 44: Sweet Potato
After almost two days of busy work, the one acre of rice ripened by Li Xin's family was considered to have been harvested. It's hard work, but the harvest is worth rejoicing.
An acre of rice has been harvested with more than eight stones, Li Xin thinks that it is really a relatively good yield, although the field is relatively fertile, she also serves with all her heart, in the end there is no fertilizer. If you can put some fertilizer, you should have a higher output! This kind of output was not a high number in the previous life, but it was enough to surprise Uncle and Aunt Zhang.
Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang were very happy, like their own family with a bumper harvest. However, Li Xin was also very happy to have such a harvest, so he picked up a sumptuous dinner and asked Uncle Zhang's family to come over to eat.
After dinner, talking and laughing for a long time, Uncle Zhang's family went back. Li Xin got a torch for Uncle Zhang, and she stood at the door and watched the torch fade away before turning around and entering the door. She still explained to Uncle Zhang's family not to tell the matter of high grain yield. If this matter spreads, there will definitely be many people who will come to her to ask for seeds to plant. Although she can also say what she said to Uncle Zhang, others may not believe it, if she doesn't give it, some people will definitely think that she is hiding her secrets. So it's best not to let the news go! Try for another year, as long as there is a harvest, it will be able to spread.
By the time we enter September, the rice in the village has turned yellow, and it is full of gold. The sound of "bangbang" came and went, and the villagers were busy. The crops in the remaining seven acres of Li Xin's family can already be harvested, three acres of rice have been golden, two acres of corn have been harvested, and sweet potatoes can also be dug up.
She had to be busy with everything, and Li Xin was really busy for a while, so she took Yuexiang to break the corn first. Among the few jobs, only breaking corn is a little lighter. Yuexiang broke it, and Li Xin moved it home one by one. She doesn't have much strength, and she can only carry half of the basket on her back every time. Corn grows well, after all, corn is not very selective about the environment, it can grow well in the mountains, and it is naturally better to plant it in the field.
The corn cobs are very large, one big stick and one big stick, and the corn kernels are also big and big, which makes people like it when they look at it. There can be two corns on no corn, and there can be three more corns. Because he wanted to keep the seeds, Li Xin was not willing to break the corn when it was tender, but he didn't know what the taste of these corns was, and when he would eat them and try them. Li Xin remembers that in his previous life, it was difficult to grow rice in some high mountains, so corn became the staple food, and those people ate cornmeal all year round. She had tasted it before, and it really didn't taste good, and it was really hard for her to swallow for her, who had always eaten white rice.
But there's no way around it, even if it's not very tasty, it's always food! It doesn't matter if it's delicious or not, it's better to have something to eat than to go hungry.
Li Xin and Yuexiang were busy for a few days before they could be considered to have broken all the corn, but the corn stalks had not been dealt with for the time being. Don't worry about it first, wait until you've finished packing up the food, and then go get it! After breaking the corn, the two sisters began to dig up the sweet potatoes slowly. A few days later, Uncle Zhang's and Aunt Zhang's rice harvest was also late, so they came over to help Li Xin's family harvest. After another two days, the village chief's family was also busy, and the village chief called out to several village men to come and help.
Li Xin began to deeply feel that the family should indeed hire people, and now that the fields in the family are only so little, she is already too busy to work. These days, she has been taking care of the crops, and she is also very hard. Fortunately, there are people to help when planting and harvesting, otherwise when she is busy herself, I am afraid that the grain will rot in the ground. Although the villagers are now back to help, it is not a long-term solution.
Life is your own, you can't always count on the help of others! Others can help once, twice, for a year or two, but they need help all the time, and others will be annoyed. We should still see if we can hire a few long-term workers next year. Within a few days, Li Xin's rice and sweet potatoes were all cleaned up, and even the corn stalks were helped. Li Xin's family didn't have pigs and cows or anything like that, so he asked those who needed it to take them back.
They are all people in the village, and Li Xin wants to pay him, but everyone doesn't want it. Li Xin picked up a sumptuous meal to greet everyone. The yield of the three acres of rice at home is no different from that of other people's families, and the three acres of land have only harvested nine stones of rice, which is almost the yield of the previous one acre. However, the yield of sweet potatoes is very high, although it is not as high as the yield of the Spring Department, but the two acres of land have also harvested more than 7,000 catties, and a hill has been piled up in the yard.
Not to mention that each plant bears several trees, the size is not small, and the yield is naturally high. The people who came to help also liked it very much, and they didn't expect this inconspicuous thing to have such a high yield! Naturally, everyone wants to see all kinds of things, but they can't sell it, but they can keep it for their own food! Li Xin also hopes that the people in the village will try to plant sweet potatoes, which can be eaten as grain and can be made into vermicelli. Dried vermicelli can be kept for a long time, and it is also very convenient to transport, if you sell it, you can also sell it far away, even if you don't sell it, you can keep it for yourself to eat! It can be regarded as a lot of food! If you encounter a bad harvest, you will not have to go hungry.
Li Xin gave the cut seedlings to each family, and let them take them back to raise, and they could plant them next year. Planting is also very simple, everyone is a farmer, Li Xin said it, and naturally everyone understands. Li Xin thought that if the planting area in the village was wide in the coming year, she would take everyone to make sweet potato vermicelli.
After eating, Li Xin packed up some sweet potatoes and asked each family to take some back to taste.
After sending everyone away, Li Xin breathed a sigh of relief. This year's grain has finally been recovered, although the family is not waiting for this grain to be cooked, but it is finally a bumper harvest.
I haven't been busy going to the town to see Wenbo and Wenhao these days, although I know that they are all good, but I haven't seen them with my own eyes, I am still a little worried in the end, and I should go to see them. These days, the guys in Pinxiangge always come to pull peppers and tomatoes, but they say that Wenbo and Wenhao are fine.
Pinxiangge has chili peppers and tomatoes, but it has set off a new **, and the business is very good. Shopkeeper Sun also sent a lot of chili peppers to other local Pinxiangge stores, chili peppers are seasonings, but they are not as fast as tomatoes, so they can save some and send them to other stores. It also drove the business of those shops, and Shopkeeper Sun was very happy when he said it