Chapter 90: A Great Harvest
"Brother, Xiao Yi'er also wants to eat, and she has to eat too" Xiao Yi'er, who had been following Li Chengqian, ate a red fruit, and she also shouted to eat it.
"Okay, brother picks it for you, sister, don't stand still, you have to eat and pick it yourself, this tomato is a good thing, not only can it be eaten as a fruit, but it is also very good to use it to cook, so you can pick more in a while, and that eggplant, cucumber too, pick more" Saying that, Li Chengqian wiped a tomato he picked and handed it to Xiao Yi'er.
Xiao Yi'er got it, said thank you sweetly, and then held the tomato and nibbled it, Li Wei and the others also followed Li Chengqian's example, picked a tomato and ate it.
Seeing them like this, Li Chengqian ignored them, he picked an old-fashioned cucumber, which was the kind of short and fat one, took out a knife from his arms, removed the skin, dug out the seeds, and put it in his mouth to eat.
While eating, he also called Xiao Anzi and the others over, walked in the field with him, pointed to a kind of melon, fruit and vegetable, and told them that those were ripe, what to eat, and how to keep the seeds, all of them told them one by one.
"Xiao Anzi, have you seen those rape? This king estimates that it will be harvested in ten days, after harvesting, drying and beating out the seeds, your family will keep some of these rapeseeds as seeds for the next year, and send the rest to the oil pressing room, so that the workers there can find a way to squeeze it into oil, understand no" said Li Chengqian pointed to the small piece of rape and instructed Xiao Anzi.
"The slave understands, but Your Highness, these rapeseeds, are they a little less, or wait for more next year, and they are taking it to extract oil, anyway, now over there in the oil pressing room, I heard from Manager Zhang that it is already possible to fry soybeans out of oil, you see" Xiao Anzi finished and looked at Li Chengqian.
"What, the soybeans are fried in oil, why doesn't this king know, this Zhang Gao is also really, that's okay, this thing will be done as you say, but you must remember not to get damp, now you go and get some tools, go dig sweet potatoes" After speaking, Li Chengqian came to a sweet potato field.
And Xiao Anzi, who was following behind, saw that Li Chengqian was not angry, so he didn't dare to say anything, but just commanded the old farmers to dig out the sweet potatoes one by one according to Li Chengqian's request.
When they first dug it, they didn't think there was anything, but they slowly found that the yield of this sweet potato was too high, and they could dig out a lot of sweet potatoes at will.
"Your Highness, this is really a gift from God, with these sweet potatoes, as long as Your Highness is gracious, let me and others plant these sweet potatoes, then ......"
"These kings know, but you have to wait, whether it's sweet potatoes or potatoes that haven't been dug yet, or those corns, you can't leak them out at all, otherwise," Li Chengqian said and looked at them with an imposing attitude.
"Your Highness, this sweet potato slave and maid is considered to have seen it, and there will be no shortage of potatoes if you want to come, but the corn, the slave and maid still don't know what to eat, and that one will bear one or two fruits" Xiao Anzi saw that those old farmers were still going to say, so he quickly diverted the topic and didn't let them talk about it, for fear of annoying Li Chengqian.
"Corn, that's a good thing, the yield is not lower than sweet potatoes, go to this king to take you to see, and tell you how to collect it" Saying that, Li Chengqian took Xiao Anzi and walked towards the corn field.
"Old Zhangtou, you don't want to die, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has said, let us wait, then just wait, if you really annoy His Royal Highness the Prince, we will all die" After Li Chengqian left, an old farmer said to the old Zhang Tou who knelt down for Li Chengqian just now.
"It's me who was excited for a while, you know, my wife and daughter are starving to death, can you not be excited when you see this kind of high-yield food? But you're right, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has said, then we'll wait, now we'll still work" said the old man, staring at those sweet potatoes with hope in his eyes.
Seeing this, everyone else was the same, looking at the sweet potatoes that were dug up one by one, they were working harder than before, as if they were not digging sweet potatoes, but hope.
And all this was seen by Li Wei, she only knew at this time why her brother would say those words to her sister, because this thing is really too important, but at this time she was also entangled, whether she wanted to tell her father, but in the end, looking at her brother, she gave up, "Gao Ming, my sister really can't understand you more and more"
On the other side, after Li Chengqian and Xiao Anzi finished talking about the picking, drying, and threshing methods of corn, they let Xiao Anzi walk back with a large pile of green corn.
Li Chengqian looked at the melons, fruits and vegetables in this garden, he once felt that his life was really good, so many different places, crops in different seasons were obtained by him, and they were planted, much better than those hard-pressed traversers, who really don't know how much better, that like them, in order to eat a bite, they have to develop their own science and technology, and go to the world to find it, like him, they don't need to look for it, they can get it all, all thanks to Yang Guang's ignorant faint king.
After thanking Yang Guang in his heart, Li Chengqian prepared the materials.
But looking at those green peppers, Li Chengqian, who couldn't bear it, asked Xiao Anzi to go to the farm to catch the castrated piglets that had only been raised for a month, after all, to make green pepper fried meat, with those pork that has not been castrated, no matter how fishy it is, there will be a fishy smell when it is fried, so it is best to use this castrated piglet.
And before he ran out of pork, Li Chengqian directly broke it and roasted it on the fire, anyway, he brought the seasoning.
"Brother, is the roasted sweet potato good, is this corn delicious, and is it really delicious to cook with tomatoes?" Since Li Chengqian began to be busy making food, his foodie sister has been asking questions by his side.
"Lizhi, can you be quiet, go to eat cantaloupe with Xiao Yi'er and them first, and let my brother make the dishes quietly" Li Chengqian, who was annoyed by the question, said helplessly to the little girl on the side.
"I won't go, the cantaloupe is not delicious brought by Hu Shang from the Western Regions, and I don't look at it, I don't worry, what if you secretly eat it again" said the little girl and looked at the roast suckling pig and swallowed her saliva.
Li Chengqian was speechless when he saw this, he wanted to say, didn't my brother give you food, or how did you get it, can you be greedy like this, you are also a princess who grew up with brocade clothes and jade food, do you want to do this, in the end, there is no way, Li Chengqian had to hand her the roasted corn, and then he sent her out.
Looking at the little girl who went out with a corn cob, Li Chengqian could only shake his head helplessly, secretly saying that the family was unlucky.