Chapter Eighty-Nine: Sweet Potatoes

Xia Zhi, who didn't have any ideas, didn't expect Tian Laosi to give such a surprise, Zhilu Dao Tian Laosi may have eaten sweet potatoes at the beginning, and Xia Zhi's body was instantly dissipated because of the fatigue of a long time of traveling.

Shaking along the ox cart, Xia Zhi couldn't wait to climb the mountain in front of the mountain and find the place where Tian Laosi stole sweet potatoes at the beginning, Xia Zhi guessed that if Tian Laosi ate really sweet potatoes at the beginning, maybe there are still sweet potatoes growing now, of course, it is not excluded that there is nothing anywhere.

But even so, Xia Solstice is also content, at least I know that there are still some species in the Dawu Dynasty, but they have not been found by people, Xia Solstice is holding hands, since no one has found out, let her be the first person to eat crabs.

Summer Solstice remembers that sweet potatoes are native to the Americas, and only later were gradually introduced to Europe, Asia, Oceania, and many other places. It was about the Ming Dynasty that came out of the Central Plains, hey, this empty dynasty doesn't know what time it is, and there is no way to verify what sweet potatoes will grow in this mountain.

Here Xia Zhi is thinking about the origin of sweet potatoes, Tian Laosi is driving the ox cart forward quickly, because Xia Zhi said that maybe Tian Laosi is eating a kind of food, Tian Laosi is worried about it, he has eaten sweet potatoes at the beginning, sweet and delicious, and he is hungry.

The most important thing is that he can survive in the mountains, if he knows how to plant, then the people who live in the mountains can not use this to satisfy their hunger, no longer have to run to the mountains at every turn, and there is no money to treat the disease if he is injured, and there are many mountains in this area, so you can't grow rice, but you can grow sweet potatoes. As for how to plant, Tian Laosi believes that Xia Zhi is so smart that he must be able to come up with a way, and I have to say that Tian Laosi now has a kind of blind trust in Xia Zhi.

But Tian Laosi thought it well. This sweet potato is drought tolerant. It can grow in mountains, sandy and dry land. Moreover, the yield is high, and it is a suitable grain for the Northland.

"Where's Daddy?" Xia Zhi saw that he was about to cross half of the mountain, but he still didn't see Tian Laosi pointing out the place where he had dug up the sweet potatoes, so he urged eagerly.

"Wait, Daddy only arrived here at night, and the road was dark, so I can only think about it while walking. But the road ahead is not, I remember when I was arguing with your uncle, there was a bend in front, there were a few stones around the bend, when your uncle they rested on the stone, I was behind them, because I was hungry but I didn't want to sit, look here and there, but I was tripped by the sweet potato vine, angry I got up and pulled out the sweet potato vine. The result is the discovery of sweet potatoes! Tian Laosi has now recognized that he was eating sweet potatoes.

"Turning the corner, but we've been walking for so long. I've turned a few corners, but I haven't seen the bend with a stone as you said, could the stone have been moved? "Xia Zhi seriously suspects that the stone has been moved.

"You stupid girl, who moved that thing, isn't it so good, people climb all the way up the mountain to move stones! It's definitely still there, but we haven't passed it yet, so don't worry! Tian Laosi felt that his daughter was too anxious, and before he said sweet potatoes, he asked him when he would arrive at Tian Juhua's house, and now he is asking where he is. Tian Laosi said that children should be patient.

Xia Zhi had no choice but to look at the distant road, and heard Tian Laosi say that after crossing this mountain, it was Zhaozhuang, the village of Aunt Tian. Zhaozhuang and Tianjia Village are not too far apart, but there is a ten-mile mountain between the two villages, whether it is from Tianjia Village to Zhaozhuang, or from Zhaozhuang to Tianjia Village, it is a difficult thing. Most people choose to take a detour, and it is clear which is closer to the straight line or curve.

But it was this distance that Tian Juhua did not return to her parents' house for ten years, and Li and Lao Luo did not see their daughter for ten years. If it weren't for the fact that life is better now, building a new house, and having to entertain guests, maybe Tian Juhua will never return to Tianjia Village for the rest of her life, and the Li family and Lao Luotou will probably not see this eldest daughter until they die.

Xia Zhi thought, this is not good, her purpose is to live a small life with the family, so that grandma will not see her eldest daughter for the rest of her life, and when the days are getting better and better, it will not become her heart disease.

But although this ten-mile mountain is not tall, it also stretches for dozens of miles, and there is no road in the mountain, unless you go over the mountain, it is impossible to run on both sides of the mountain quickly. But the mountain road is rugged and it is even more impossible for Lao Luotou and Li or Tian Juhua to go over the mountain, unless a road is built in the mountains.

Thinking of this, Xia Zhi's eyes lit up, yes, you can build a road in the mountains, and the two villages can also come and go with each other, it is best to buy Shili Mountain, Xia Zhi has coveted Shili Mountain for a long time, if it weren't for Tian Laosi always stopping her, maybe she would have run to the mountain dozens of times, and when Shili Mountain became her home, it was not what she wanted to do, think about the rich species on the mountain, Xia Zhi felt that it was all money spent in vain in front of her.

"Girl, that's where you and I rested, and that's where I found sweet potatoes!" When a pile of money appeared in front of Xia Zhi, Tian Laosi's excited voice shattered her daydream. It turned out that when Xia Solstice was daydreaming, Tian Laosi found the place where he had dug sweet potatoes.

Xia Zhi had a headache and thought, Dad, you don't call early or late, but shouting at this time, it's deliberate!

Xia Zhi looked in the direction of Hetian Lao, and sure enough, he saw that there was a bend in front of him, and there were a few stones lying there crookedly, and the direction of Tian Laosi's finger at this time was the farthest stone at the bend. On the summer solstice, the fan-shaped trefoil-shaped green leaves next to the stone were not sweet potato leaves. Xia Zhi saw the sweet potato vine, and was even more sure that Tian Laosi was eating sweet potatoes at the beginning, and waved his hand excitedly, and even Tian Liqiu, who was in her arms, was awakened by her big move.

"Has the sixth sister arrived?" Tian Liqiu rubbed his eyes, looked at Xia Zhi in confusion and asked.

It's a pity that Xia Zhi's whole mind is now attracted by the sweet potato vine she saw, so she still cares about her, so she only said casually: "It's not here yet, don't move while you sit in the car, and the sixth sister will go down!" Daddy, stop it, I'm going down! At first, he was talking to Tian Liqiu, but at the end, he shouted at Tian Laosi to stop.

Tian Laosi saw that there were still dozens of steps away, and looked at the summer solstice helplessly, so he had to stop the ox cart and let his daughter get off. Xia Zhi ran forward with his feet on the ground, and when he got closer, he found that this piece was actually sweet potato vines, and Xia Zhi's happy mouth didn't know what to do. I didn't expect that after so many years, the sweet potato was not extinct, but so many new seedlings grew. While passing through the middle of the sweet potato vine, the summer solstice uses his hands to open the sweet potato vine and inspect the growth of the sweet potato.

The summer solstice was slashed with a wooden stick, perhaps because of the relationship between growing in the mountains, sweet potatoes are generally not very large, at most the size of an adult's fist. You must know that sweet potatoes are easy to grow, and now ten years later, this piece of sweet potatoes has only grown this new sweet potato, you can imagine how harsh the growing conditions here are. But fortunately, she found sweet potatoes, and as long as she got some seed potatoes back, she could eat sweet potatoes next year.

Of course, since there is an opportunity, the summer solstice is not only to get some seed potatoes back, but naturally to dig a little more, and the family can also try it, anyway, there is an ox cart, and the dug sweet potatoes have a place to rest.

However, she is small and small, and she can't dig much, so the anxious Xia Zhi waved his hand and shouted Tian Laosi: "Daddy, come quickly, this is a sweet potato, come and help me dig some back, this thing is delicious!" ”

"Hey...... come and come! It's a sweet potato, that's great! I didn't expect your father to stumble into it and discover new food! Tian Laosi heard Xia confirm that it was a sweet potato, and waved his hand happily.

When he got closer, Tian Laosi bolted the rope on the cow's nose to the stone, and stepped forward to take a good look at the sweet potato vines and sweet potatoes, as if he wanted to see clearly what he didn't know what he looked like, but was eaten by him.

"Hey, Daddy, don't look at it, come and dig it for me!" Xia Zhi saw Tian Laosi in a daze at the sweet potato vine, and couldn't help but start urging

"Sixth sister, what is this? Can you eat it? The cow was tied to the stone, and the sober Tian Liqiu also climbed down the ox cart, and saw Xia Zhi digging sweet potatoes, so he couldn't help but squat down beside her and asked curiously.

"This is a sweet potato, it can be eaten, and it is very delicious, when the sixth sister digs it, will it be good to make it for the eighth sister when she goes home!"

"Really, that's great, I'm here to help the sixth sister dig too!" As he spoke, Tian Liqiu poked the ground with a small wooden stick that he didn't know where he came from. The two of them, one is six years old and the other is four years old, so you can imagine what they can dig up.

"Two little ones, come here, let Daddy come, you two dig until dark, I can't see anything" Tian Laosi saw that the two girls were trying to eat, but they didn't dig out a sweet potato and a half, so he asked the two children to go away, and he went to dig.

Tian Laosi stepped forward, pulled the sweet potato vine, and pulled the pull, and soon the sweet potatoes were pulled out by him, saying that the soil on this mountain is thin, otherwise Tian Laosi would be so easy to pull out the sweet potatoes.

"Wow! Daddy is amazing! Tian Liqiu saw that he couldn't dig up the sweet potatoes no matter how he dug them, and was pulled out by Tian Laosi effortlessly, and he was very excited to praise Tian Laosi.

"Daddy is so powerful, hurry up, help Daddy pick up the sweet potatoes to the ox cart, otherwise we won't be able to get to your aunt's house before dark" Tian Laosi looked up at the sunset that had already set halfway up the mountain, and couldn't help but be a little anxious.

"Okay! Let's hurry up, it won't be dark when we get to my aunt's house! Xia Zhi hurriedly chopped off the sweet potato vine thrown by Tian Laosi and moved it to the ox cart, and the father and daughter were busy when the sun was setting. (To be continued......)