The sun was scorching, but Li Xiu took Li Chengdao and a few people wearing straw hats, bending down to be busy in the fields by the river, only to see each of them holding a small shovel, digging a small pit in the soft ground, and then taking out a few seeds from a small cloth pocket around his waist and throwing them in, and then covering the soil. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's a pity to plant such delicious peanuts in their entirety!" Li Chengqian muttered quietly while planting, before coming to the field this morning, Li Xiu fried a small bowl of peanuts for them, and after sprinkling it with salt, it was called a crispy, and now he drooled when he thought about it.

"Okay, don't mumble, although peanuts are delicious, but the number is too small, now let's plant them, and when the autumn harvest comes, it's no problem to eat as much as you want!" When Li Chengdao heard his cousin's voice, he immediately smiled and said, although peanuts are delicious, he is much more sensible than Li Chengqian when he is older.

"I know, but I still want to eat peanuts and corn!" Li Chengqian said pitifully at this time, when he talked about corn, he also turned his head to look at the corn field next to him, since the last time Li Xiu took them to steal corn once, he has never forgotten the corn, but unfortunately Li Xiu refused to eat it again, after all, this thing only needs to be tasted, and the rest is still to be kept as seeds.

"It's really useless, you ate half of the peanuts yourself this morning, Xiaoya's share was given to you, you haven't eaten enough!" At this moment, Qi Niang also heard Li Chengqian's words, and immediately gave him a blank look and said, she was fighting for her little sister.

"Sister Qi Niang, I don't like to eat peanuts very much, but Cheng Qian just likes it, so I asked him to help me eat it." At this time, the little girl whispered, this little girl has lived in Li Xiu's house for a year, usually eats well and sleeps well, and studies with Li Xiu, and now she is also white and tender and very cute, and it may be because of the close age, which makes her have the best relationship with Li Chengqian, and sometimes even helps Li Chengqian with his homework.

"Hehe, see no, Xiaoya didn't like to eat and gave it to me, so I'm also helping her." Li Chengqian laughed heartlessly at this time, compared to Xiaoya, he was more afraid of Qi Niang, not only because Qi Niang was older than him, but also because Qi Niang was better than him in learning, which made him very unconfident in front of Qi Niang.

"You guys, don't just talk, hurry up and finish your work, and you have to go to class in the afternoon!" At this moment, Li Xiu, who had already left a few children far behind, suddenly turned his head and shouted, most of the peanuts he had handed over to Boss Liu and they planted, these were the points he deliberately left, in order to let these children experience the hard work of farming.

Hearing Li Xiu's urging, several children immediately didn't dare to talk anymore, and began to speed up as soon as they agreed, but today's weather was too hot, and seeing that the peanuts were only a little more than half planted, everyone was already sweating profusely. At this moment, I suddenly saw a few women walking with baskets, and when they approached, Li Xiu found that it was Princess Pingyang and Yiniang who came with Yuechan and others.

"Okay, let's take a break, we brought sour plum soup to relieve the heat for you!" At this time, I saw Princess Pingyang put the basket on the grass by the river, and then shouted to Li Xiu and them.

"Great!" Several children immediately cheered when they heard this, threw down the shovel and ran over, Li Xiu also smiled at Princess Pingyang at this time, and then stuck the shovel in the ground, and then walked over to drink the cold sour plum soup to relieve the heat.

"Husband, I heard Qu Yi say, uncle, he's leaving?" At this time, Yi Niang suddenly came to Li Xiu and asked in a low voice.

"Yes, I guess it will be a few more days, so let's go to the uncle as little as possible during this time, so that the family can spend more time together." Li Xiu also said with some emotion at this time, God knows when the bearded guest will come back, not to mention that he doesn't know what dangers he will encounter on the way to the Americas, when he thinks of this, Li Xiu is a little suspicious that he was right or wrong to tell the bearded guest about the Americas?

"Well, since the uncle is leaving, do we have to see him off, and prepare some gifts?" Yi Niang asked again at this time, as a housewife, she had to worry about these trivial things.

"The send-off is for sure, as for the gifts, you should also prepare some, it is best to have some food, such as canned food and the like, the uncle is going to the Americas again, he is going to stay on the ship for a long time, the canned food should be very suitable for him, you let the uncle prepare a few more cars, and let the uncle take it away at that time!" At this time, Li Xiu suddenly thought of the effect of canned food on navigation, and immediately commanded.

The cooperation between Ma Ye and Cheng Yanjin has begun, and in order to promote canned food, Ma Ye has established several small canned food workshops near Chang'an, mainly to produce some canned food to sell to those who need to travel long distances, such as those Hu merchants who walked on the Silk Road, and they are extremely welcome to canned food, which also makes canned food have been recognized in a small area, and now the canned food workshop on the northern grassland is also under construction, and it is estimated that canned food can be produced and shipped back to the Central Plains for sale this autumn.

"Well, I know, I'll have someone prepare in the afternoon!" Yi Niang nodded when she heard this.

At this moment, Li Xiu suddenly found that Princess Pingyang was gone, which made him stunned, and he turned his head to look at it at the moment, only to find that Princess Pingyang had gone to the cornfield and was carefully observing the corn, which made him smile helplessly, and walked over and said with a smile: "Princess, these corns still need to mature for a while, and you don't need to come to see them every day." ”

Compared with those sweet potatoes that grow in the ground and can't be seen, these corns in front of them are real and visible, and a corn cob can top more than ten wheat, so Princess Pingyang also pays special attention to these corns, although these corns are not yet mature, but she has already roughly estimated that the yield of these corns is likely to reach four or five hundred catties, which is several times higher than wheat.

I saw that Princess Pingyang heard Li Xiu's words, but she glanced at him and said, "I came to see the corn not to see if it was ripe, but to see if anyone came to steal it?" ”

"Huh? How could it be, Uncle Liu, he has already arranged people, there are people watching here for twelve hours a day, you see that in the small shack over there, it is where Uncle Liu and them rest, and now those guards are also working not far away, it is impossible for anyone to come and steal corn! Li Xiu immediately explained when he heard this, but the more he explained, the more weak he became.

"Hehe, yes, but how did I hear Uncle Liu say that the corn on a few corns was missing some time ago, was it taken away by birds?" Princess Pingyang stared at Li Xiu with a scrutinizing gaze at this time, except for Li Xiu, he really couldn't think that anyone would do anything to steal corn.

"Chances are, I've seen an eagle flying in the sky lately, maybe it stole our corn!" Li Xiu is serious nonsense, with Princess Pingyang's importance to these corns, if she knows that she not only stole the corn, but also took Li Chengdao and the two of them to steal it together, the consequences would be very serious.

"I've never seen a vegetarian eagle before, why don't you say that a phoenix stole the corn?" Princess Pingyang couldn't help crying and laughing when she heard Li Xiu's nonsense, in the face of Li Xiu's cheekiness, she was sometimes really helpless.

"Hehe, maybe it's because the eagle meat has eaten too much and wants to change the taste, not to mention that our eagles in the Central Plains must have never seen corn, maybe they will be treated as mice!" Li Xiu handed over the power of nonsense to the limit, anyway, he would never admit to stealing corn.

Seeing Li Xiu's scoundrel appearance, Princess Pingyang couldn't help but laugh angrily at him, and then reached out and slapped Li Xiu's arm fiercely and said, "Call you nonsense, if I find out that there is less corn in the future, then I'm not welcome!" ”

Hearing that Princess Pingyang no longer cared about this matter, Li Xiu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then smiled again: "Princess, the corn is almost ripe, and it is estimated that the sweet potatoes are about the same, shall we dig out some and see how the yield is?" ”

When mentioning sweet potatoes, Li Xiu couldn't help but think of the delicacy of roasted sweet potatoes again, remembering that when he was a child, whenever the sweet potatoes were ripe, he and a group of friends would run to the fields, dig a few sweet potatoes when they were hungry, and then light the fire, and when the fire was halfway through, he threw the sweet potatoes into the fire, and then covered the fire with soil, and let the sweet potatoes simmer in it for a period of time. But I can no longer eat the taste and feeling I had when I was a child.

"Now? But I see that those sweet potato vines are still green, isn't it a little early? Princess Pingyang said with some hesitation when she heard this, in her opinion, the sign of crop maturity is that the plant turns yellow, such as wheat and rice, even corn is the same, only when the plant turns yellow, it means that the crop can be harvested, but the sweet potato has not yet turned yellow and wilted.

"It's not early, our sweet potatoes were planted early, and now it's more than five months, and the sweet potatoes planted in the spring are harvested at this time, of course, sweet potatoes are different from wheat and rice, sweet potatoes can also be planted for a year and then harvested, when the rhizomes of sweet potatoes will be larger, and the yield will be higher, but that's not necessary at all, because it has grown big enough in the first half of the year, and it will grow very slowly in the second half of the year, so it will not be harvested early, so that there are other things that can be planted in the field."

Li Xiu patiently explained at this time that when it comes to sweet potatoes, this crop is generally ripe once a year in the north, but it can reach two crops a year in the south, and it is said that later generations can also achieve two crops a year in the north, but Li Xiu estimated that he used new varieties, at least in his previous life, the old farmers generally harvested once a year.

Hearing Li Xiu's explanation, Princess Pingyang finally nodded in agreement: "Okay, then let's find a time to dig up some sweet potatoes and see how it yields!" (To be continued.) )