Chapter 111: The People in the Village Know About Sweet Potatoes
No matter how Xu Ming, Ma Shang and Lin Yunlei discussed the Tian family, Xia Zhi's family had been digging sweet potatoes for two more days since Xu Ming and them left. On the afternoon of the first day, because it was noon, there were few pedestrians on the road, and the sweet potato field on the summer solstice was on the edge of a remote ten-mile mountain, the people of Tianjia Village did not know that their family went to dig sweet potatoes.
The second day and the third day were different, the Tian family was full of sweet potatoes at noon, and many people asked along the way, and even some people listened to the Tian family's explanation, and ran to the Tian family in the afternoon to watch. But no matter how they looked at it, they couldn't believe that the palm-sized mass was something to eat. Until the Tian family couldn't look at it, they washed a few sections of sweet potatoes with the water of the Houcun River and handed them to everyone to taste.
However, what the Tian family didn't expect was that the people in the village didn't dare to say anything when they looked at the sweet potatoes in their hands, as if the sweet potatoes in their hands were poison and would poison them. Xia Zhi rolled his eyes, these people didn't want to think about it, if this thing can't be eaten, do they dare to take it out and eat it with others, this is going to be a problem with eating, and they don't have to trouble her family.
But while thinking like this, Xia Zhi took the sweet potato in the hand of one person casually, and took two bites into his mouth, which surprised the person with the sweet potato, grew his mouth, and knew that Xia Zhi would eat a small section of sweet potatoes, and dug sweet potatoes for a while, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief, at this time he believed the words of the Tian family, but he was embarrassed to ask people for this sweet potato.
Seeing that there were still stunned people next to him, he went up and grabbed the sweet potatoes and stuffed them into his mouth, and it was too late for the people next to him to snatch them back. Chew and chew into the stomach. There is no hope for the people standing next to them to snatch it back. Then he turned his head around and opened it. He was going to grab one like the person who grabbed his sweet potato just now, but the person who witnessed this scene saw him turn his head around and hurriedly stuffed the sweet potato in his hand into his mouth, completely breaking his thoughts.
These were just momentary events, and by the time everyone came to their senses, the sweet potatoes had already entered their stomachs, and they were still very frightened at first. I am always worried in my heart, although there is a little summer solstice to eat sweet potatoes in front, but some people eat this outside without worry, and some people will die if they eat it, and they have not seen it. Everyone was panicked, but they didn't blame the Tian family, so they all found excuses to go home, and the person who didn't eat the sweet potatoes watched the Tian family dig sweet potatoes until ten in the evening.
Xia Zhi didn't know how scared those people were when they went back, and their family kept digging sweet potatoes until it was dark. The next day, after breakfast, I continued to dig sweet potatoes. However, on the ridge of his family's sweet potato field, there are a group of people standing in the dark. The Tian family was inexplicable, thinking that something had happened to the sweet potato. Nervous and hurried, he squeezed among the people.
It turned out that the person who had eaten sweet potatoes on the first day went back, but he was afraid but he didn't dare to say it to his family, but he couldn't sleep at night, and he couldn't sleep until he was too sleepy to fall asleep, and he didn't remember yesterday's events until he woke up the next morning, and he remembered yesterday's events when he was full of food and drink, and quickly told his family about it, and his family blamed him for being reckless at first, but then he felt that the Tian family would not do stupid things, and felt that sweet potatoes could increase their income like double-cropping rice.
They know that the sweet potatoes of the summer solstice are planted there, they didn't know what the road was before, and they didn't know what the Tian family planted him for, everyone guessed that the Tian family caught six little piglets today, maybe it was the pigweed specially planted by the Tian family. So not many people care, a farmer family generally has a pig is enough, and more than one can't afford to feed.
Feeding six pigs like the Tian family is naturally very small, and the eating of pigs in winter is a big problem, so they take it for granted that the Tian family is planting pigweed. However, their guess was not wrong, the Tian family did plan to give the sweet potato seedlings to the pigweed, and since October, the Tian family has been cutting the old sweet potato vines home to feed the pigs.
Thinking of the bumper harvest of double-cropping rice, the name of Tianjia Village and the name of the village suddenly seemed to be like chicken blood, and they ran to the field of Tianjia without a swarm of bees, and wanted to ask what this sweet potato was.
However, a few families who knew the situation of the road did not hide it, so they told the Tian family about sweet potatoes one by one, and the people who ran over were also instantly excited, who doesn't want to collect more food at home, as long as they eat the more, the better, and naturally stayed.
These people are also wonderful, you said that you want to know about the sweet potatoes in the road, don't go to the Tian family to ask the Tian family to ask clearly, but what are you doing in other people's fields, if the Tian family doesn't come to dig sweet potatoes today, then they are not in vain. But fortunately, the Tian family still came after reaching the most Lu, and now the people of Tianjia Village are excited when they see the Tian family, and it seems that the Tian family is like the grain stacked in their granary, and their eyes are shining.
However, their behavior frightened the Tian family, and they didn't care about the villagers who greeted them with warm faces, so they hurriedly squeezed through the crowd, walked to the sweet potato field to inspect the sweet potatoes, and found that the sweet potatoes were unharmed, so they breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, the village realized that it seemed that so many of them were standing here and that they had misunderstood, thinking that something was going on in the field, so they would huddle together. It's no wonder that the people in the village misunderstood, usually there is a little thing in the village, everyone has to go around, or to see the excitement, or to help, anyway, when they are idle in the farm, it is a strange sight.
"Hehe, I said big brother, we just heard about your sweet potatoes, come and see a surprise!" Xu Lao Er thought that he and the Tian family were familiar with each other, and said cheekily.
For this timid and afraid of his wife, the Tian family has no good impression of them, of course, the Tian family didn't hear his words, anyway, with this Tian Xiaohua and that mother-in-law, his family will not get along well with the Tian family.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Xu Lao Er pursed his lips and muttered: "Isn't it just a thing to feed pigs, who wants to know Lu Dao!" "At the end, he was quite disdainful and said 'bah' twice, and left with a scolding.
Everyone saw that Xu Lao Er was gone, and an old man trembling slightly walked out of the crowd. The person who came was an old man in Tianjia Village, about the same age as the village chief, but his body bones were not as good as the village chief.
Xia Zhi looked at the condition of the old man, and really doubted how she got to the foot of this mountain. You must know that although Tianjia Village is grown at the foot of Shili Mountain, the people in the village build houses and houses, and they are getting farther and farther away from Shili Mountain.
When Lao Luotou saw him like this, he immediately stepped forward in a few steps, and he didn't need to move.
"Uncle, why did you come here!" The old people who are still alive in Tianjia Village today are either the same generation as Lao Luo Tou but older, or they are a generation higher than Lao Luo Tou, and most of the old man's age is Lao Luotou's elders, so Lao Luo Tou calls him uncle.
"Xiao Luozi, tell me quickly, what is your family? I heard the grandson of the family say, "You can still eat this thing?" The old man was purely curious about the sweet potatoes that the Tian family grows now. In his life, he only knew how to grow rice, but he had never seen sweet potatoes. Even when the double-cropping rice was first planted on the summer solstice, he didn't believe that there would be a harvest, but the result made him have to believe it.
"Uncle, this is a sweet potato, I heard it in Niangniang Town, the person who ran the caravan said, it happened that the fourth child of my family ate it on the mountain of the chrysanthemum's house, and the last time he went to pick up the chrysanthemum, he dug it out, and planted a little this year!" Lao Luo Tou understated the matter of sweet potatoes.
"I heard that this can be eaten as food, is it true?" With the support of Lao Luotou, the old man trembled and picked up the crutches, and went up to the ridge of the Tian family.
"This sweet potato can indeed be eaten as food, the sweet potato root can be cooked into porridge, or steamed to eat, the sweet potato seedlings can be fried when they are tender, and they can be fed to pigs when they are old!" Lao Luotou didn't hide it, and told the sweet potato field in 1510, their family didn't plan to hide it from the people in the village, and after saying this, Ma Shang already knew about it, and it was going to spread in the future.
"And how are these sweet potatoes grown?" The old man asked impatiently. The words of the old man and the old Luo Tou before, have not attracted much attention from everyone, sweet potatoes they know the way, they can eat them also know the way, they are not like the old man who can't walk all day and can only sit at home all day, since yesterday they have been planting this Tian family, but they don't know that the thing planted by the Tian family can still be eaten as food. At this time, when they heard the old man say how to plant, everyone lost their casual attitude, and they all stretched their necks and pricked up their ears to listen to Lao Luotou.
"Uncle, this sweet potato is particularly good to plant, in May the sweet potato will be planted, fertilized and watered, Deng and so on in June after the seedlings grow, in the seedlings cut, inserted into the soil, as long as watered, you can survive, of course, if you want to have a good harvest, the most fertile is still a little fertilizer, this sweet potato is especially drought-resistant, and does not choose the land, thinking that he can live well in the sand! Wait until October to harvest! Lao Luotou told the whole process of planting sweet potatoes.
"You say yes, this sweet potato needs to insert the seedlings into the soil to water and fertilize, and it can survive without roots!" The old man was astonished that he could survive without it.
"Yes, uncle, this sweet potato is very easy to survive, as long as it is not treated too badly, it can grow up well!" For crops, Lao Luotou is like a person.
Everyone was surprised to hear Lao Luotou's words, they didn't expect this sweet potato to be planted like this, as long as the seedlings were cut and inserted into the soil, it was so easy to survive, not to mention, the yield was so high, although they didn't know the specific value of the sweet potato yield of the Tian family, but the sweet potatoes that the Tian family pulled home were in their eyes. (To be continued......)