Chapter Ninety-Five: Arrived
Although I thought about how to say it, but the summer solstice was not in a hurry, but did not hurry up and talked to Ma Shang about the precautions for pregnant and dry seedlings, what is not the seedlings to be watered every day, what is the temperature after the emergence of the seedlings to be lowered, the temperature is too high The seedlings will stop growing, the summer solstice said that the head is the way, but Ma Shang is miserable, he really uses the summer solstice as an excuse, and wants to avoid the old Luo Tou who wants to kowtow to him, these things have been made clear to him by Xia Solstice before, and he has also recorded it, just wait for the next year to send someone to come over and study with the summer solstice. But he couldn't say this, so he could only bow his head bitterly and write what Xia Solstice said.
"Okay, you ghost girl, it's almost time to punish your grandpa Ma, but you can't go too far!" Xu Ming stood by and watched the excitement, and finally had enough, and spoke out to rescue Ma Shang who bowed his head to record.
"How can I punish Grandpa Ma, it was Grandpa Ma who said that it was not clear last time, then I will make it clearer, so that Grandpa Ma can remember more clearly!" Xia Zhi blinked, hum, let you make excuses casually, this time you can touch the iron plate.
"Ahh Feelings, you little girl, I used the matter of pregnant seedlings as an excuse, so I deliberately tossed your grandpa Ma! After Xu Ming finished speaking, Ma Shang didn't react, and after Xia Zhi's meaningful words were finished, he realized that the little girl was deliberately tossing him. Thinking of this, Ma Shang sweated all over his head, saying that this little girl was too smart.
"Don't underestimate the little girl, the goblin, let's talk about it, is there something wrong with your grandpa Ma coming in, you little girl, I know the way, I can't afford to be early, what is it for this time!" Xu Ming stepped forward and patted the little head of Xia Zhi, and said a little better.
"Hey....... Godgrandpa, you're really a roundworm in my stomach. Ahh was knocked on the head by Xu Ming,
"You little girl, how can you talk, dare to ridicule your godfather! It's not too big or too small! As he spoke, Xu Ming stared at the summer solstice with wide eyes.
Xia Zhi immediately raised his hands, palms facing forward and said, "Okay, I surrender, it's all my fault, I'm not big or small!" Grandpa Ma, I have something important to tell you! Xia Zhi had no backbone to admit his mistake and immediately changed the topic.
Xu Ming watched it amusementously from the side. I don't know how the Tian family came out with such a ghost-like girl, although the other children of the Tian family are not bad, but he just feels that it is not as good as the summer solstice. If Xia Zhi knew what Xu Ming thought in his heart, he would definitely complain that his sister was thirty years old, and she couldn't even compare to a few hairy children, so it would be better to die head-on.
"Tell me if there is anything important to tell me, if Grandpa Ma can help you, he will definitely help you!" Ma Shang thought that the summer solstice was asking for something, no matter how the Tian family was willing to promote the double cropping rice thing, he owed the Tian family a favor to the boss, and besides, with Xu Ming here, he couldn't agree to it.
"Hey, hey. Only Grandpa Ma can help me with this! Grandpa Ma, what do you think this is? Xia Zhi took out a small piece of sweet potato from his arms and handed it to Marchand, who was standing next to him, on tiptoe. It is said that this year, the Tian family's life has improved. Xia Zhi's height has also grown suddenly, but no matter how long she grows, she is still a six-year-old baby, and in addition to Marchand's own tall growth, Xia Zhi can only tiptoe to hand things helplessly.
"I said how did you bulge in your arms, it turned out that you hid this thing, I thought you had something good to prepare to honor your godfather!" Xu Ming couldn't help but be a little disappointed when he saw Xia Zhi take out something with an adult's hand length and a red skin thickness on his wrist from his arms. From the beginning, he found that there was something bulging in Xia Zhi's arms, and he thought that Xia Zhi had gotten good medicinal materials such as bezoar, but he didn't expect it to be something he hadn't seen before.
Xia Zhi rolled his eyes, lowered his head and muttered: "You think good things are so easy to get, that bezoar is purely a coincidence, it's okay, it's just that it took my boss's strength to come!" However, because her muttering voice was not small enough, Xu Ming only heard something like a 'bezoar', so he asked, "What did you say?" ”
"No, I didn't say anything" Xia Zhi hurriedly waved his hand and said doggedly, "I just said that if I get the bezoar in the future, I will definitely return it to my godfather!" ”
Xu Ming nodded, very satisfied with Xia Zhi's well-behavedness, "Okay, don't sell me well-behaved, what are you doing with this thing to your Grandpa Ma!" ”
"Grandpa God, Grandpa Ma, don't underestimate it, this thing is called sweet potato, but it is one of the foods that can be eaten, and it is drought-tolerant, it is easy to grow in the general mountainous area, and the yield is very high, the yield per mu is not a thousand but also hundreds, I think if this thing is planted, the people don't have to be hungry!" Xia Zhi looked at the sweet potato in Marchand's hand and said very seriously.
"What!" "The yield per mu is hundreds of catties!" Xu Ming and Ma Shang exclaimed at the same time, Ma Shang was even more excited to hold the sweet potato in his palm of his hand, his two eyes stared at the sweet potato, as if he didn't understand how the things in the palm of his hand could yield hundreds of catties per mu, his two hands trembled non-stop, and the yield per mu was hundreds of catties, which was something he never dreamed of.
However, compared to Ma Shang's excitement, Xu Ming seemed much calmer, although he was also surprised at first, "How do you little girl know that Lu Dao has a high yield, this thing has never even seen your Grandpa Ma, how do you know Lu Dao!" Xu Ming felt that this thing was probably not recognized by the entire Wu Dynasty, how did this little girl know the Tao of the Summer, and looking at her confident appearance, she seemed to know very well about this thing called sweet potato.
"I haven't seen it, but I've heard of it! Once my father and I went to Niangniang Town to catch the market, I heard a passing caravan say, saying that there is a thing called sweet potato overseas, the skin is red, it tastes sweet, it is very delicious, the shape is like the hand of Grandpa Ma, I heard that the yield per mu is particularly high, and overseas countries use it as food! ”
Xia Zhi heard that there was a ship in the Wu Dynasty that went to sea, but it was less than one time in ten years, so it was very risky to go to sea, and most people did not dare to take risks, but there were also people who sought wealth and nobility to take risks to go to sea. Xia Zhi took the caravan as an example, and it was precisely because of the caravans that she usually went to sea that she thought of such a method.
Xu Ming nodded, always feeling that what the caravan said was not necessarily reliable, and it could be seen that Xia Zhi looked like he was swearing, and he didn't speak.
"Since it's overseas. And where did you get this thing from? "Marchand is, after all, a parent official. Although because of the problem of food. I have been troubled for many years, and I can't help but feel a little dispossessed when I hear that the yield per mu is so high, but he is not a straw bale, he doesn't care about how to know the sweet potatoes of the summer solstice, what he really cares about is whether the thing in his hand is a sweet potato, and whether he can produce a few hundred catties per mu.
"This is what my father and I dug on the way to my aunt's house!" Xia Zhi told the origin of the sweet potato very honestly, anyway, as long as she inquired about this thing in the Tian family, she didn't need to lie.
"Ahh Little summer solstice. Aren't you fooling your grandfather Ma again, you said that the sweet potato grows overseas, but you said that your sweet potato was dug on the road! How do you know that this is the sweet potato you've heard of! Listening to Xia Zhi's words, Ma Shang was like a frosted eggplant, and suddenly lost his spirit, in his opinion, Xia Solstice was deliberately torturing his nerves, and he had just given him hope, but at this time there was little hope.
"Because my father has eaten, my father was young, although the family was not hungry. But you can't eat it with your belly open. At that time, my aunt married far away and just gave birth to a son. My grandma asked my father and their four brothers to see the newborn little cousin, only to bring a fist-sized rice ball on the road, I didn't eat enough in the morning, and walked for another day, only ate some rice balls, not hungry at all, my dad was really hungry, just when the uncle and they sat on the stone to rest, my dad found the sweet potato, and three times five divided by two to eat, so many years have passed, my dad has nothing to do, it is conceivable that this thing can be eaten! "Xia Zhi told Tian Laosi about the sweet potato when he first encountered it and ate it.
"This time, Daddy and I went to pick up my aunt's house, and when I heard him tell me interesting things about the past, I felt that what Daddy ate might be sweet potatoes, so I went to the place where he dug sweet potatoes with Daddy to try my luck.
"So, this is really a sweet potato?" Marchand still couldn't believe it.
"Really, look at this thing, it's long, it's red, Grandpa Ma, you can taste it, it tastes sweet! And I've heard that there are white-skinned and yellow-skinned sweet potatoes overseas. The color is different, and the taste is different! It's a pity that I only found this red-skinned sweet potato. "Xia Zhi thinks of all kinds of sweet potatoes in modern times, especially when walking on the road, the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes wafts for miles, and greedy people want to drool.
"But it's useless to know that Lu Dao is a sweet potato, you don't know how to plant it, she is planted in spring, summer, autumn, or winter! I don't know if the road is also in vain, "Ma Shang felt that this was an empty treasure mountain, but he couldn't find the entrance anyway, which made people very anxious."
"I only heard that this sweet potato must be planted when the temperature is high, so that it can sprout and grow quickly.
"That's good!" Marchand is still like a frosted eggplant, and he can't get up.
"What's so good about this, no one planted that double-cropping rice before, and now it doesn't come out as well, isn't everything made by predecessors, can't we be predecessors!" Xia Zhi's words were sonorous and powerful, and Ma Shang was ashamed of himself, but Xu Ming secretly applauded, what a 'can't we be our predecessors'!
"The courage of the little girl is commendable! Yes, yes, you've planned everything, so why are you looking for your grandpa Ma? Xu Ming repeatedly bearded, and he was more satisfied with the summer solstice.
"Hehe......" Xia Zhi scratched his head, a little embarrassed, he was arrogant just now, and now let her slander people, I always feel a little inauthentic, "I just want to ask Grandpa Ma if he can allocate me a few acres of dry land or sandy land that others don't plant, I want to try to grow sweet potatoes next year!" You also know that our family only has good land, and it is a bit of a waste to plant sweet potatoes, and I am afraid that Grandpa will not let them! Xia Zhi's face was still a little red after speaking, this honest kid planned well, but he always felt embarrassed to do it.
"Do you just want dry land or sandy land?" Ma Shang felt that with Xiao Xia Zhi's courage, he couldn't vent people's anger.
"Well, well, as long as it's dry land or sandy land, it's fine" Xia Zhi nodded busily, it seemed that there was hope.
"And how many acres do you want?" Marchand touched his chin, his expression a little intriguing.
"One-five acres!" Xia Zhi didn't think that it would be enough to ask for an acre of land, but they dug up a lot of sweet potatoes, and they were ruthless, closed their eyes and opened their mouths to shout out five acres, and while shouting, they stretched out their right hand and signaled five acres.
"Hey! I thought how much, so I will give you ten acres, anyway, there are not many other mountains and sandy lands in our county, and there is no one to plant, and it is also shelved, but you have to plant well, you must plant some fruits, tomorrow I will let people do it for you, and you can choose the specific place yourself! Ma Shang saw that Xia Zhi looked like he was out of his mind, and couldn't help but laugh, how did this Tian family raise children, not only other children were well-behaved and sensible, but also Xiao Xia Zhi was such a wonder.
Everything was negotiated, Xia Zhi's heart was relaxed, here Ma Shang and Xu Ming looked at the sky and didn't look for it, so they proposed to go home, the Tian family heard that they were going back, and the family sent the two of them to the carriage, watching the carriage disappear without a trace, and then turned around. (To be continued......)