At this time, it was the middle of September, and the farmland outside the city was full of people who were busy harvesting the autumn harvest, the golden ears of rice were heavy, and the people who harvested the harvest were busy with hard work, but their faces were smiling as bright as flowers. The heart is filled with joy and joy.

Yang Dewen sat in the carriage, opened the curtains on the window, and looked at the busy people in the fields, and was very happy and proud in his heart.

Although this year's weather is more favorable than in recent years, the waterwheel irrigation method he brought has also played an immeasurable role.

Minghe Village is only a dozen miles away from the gate of Mingzhou, Yang Dewen quickly arrived at Minghe Village in a carriage, and the people who came with Yang Dewen also included Du Qiniang, the executor of the Youranju Charity Fund, and Li Sanniang, the heroine of the rivers and lakes.

Most of the girls in this era are named with a mother's character, and the number of people in the ranking is called Ji Niang, but the name Li Sanniang did not take this meaning, because Li Sanniang's mother only gave birth to her, and she died on the way to her husband with Li Sanniang, and Li Sanniang's father only has a daughter like Li Sanniang, so the name Li Sanniang is just a simple name, without much other meaning.

When he went out after breakfast early this morning, Li Yuanliang suddenly said to Yang Dewen: "Gongzi is now related to the livelihood of many people, so the safety issue must be strengthened, and when you go out in the future, let Sanniang follow you to protect your safety." ”

"Uncle Li, I don't think it's so troublesome, right? Isn't the security in Mingzhou City very good now? Why bother Sanniang to follow the hard work. Yang Dewen said with a wry smile.

"Childe, Sanniang is not afraid of hard work." Li Sanniang said decisively.

"Okay, it's decided, you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the women around you!" After Li Yuanliang finished speaking, he went out and went to the street.

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Yang Dewen looked at Li Sanniang standing beside him, and he couldn't say anything when the words came to his mouth, so he could only be speechless.

Yang Dewen had not been to Minghe Village for more than three months, and Yang Dewen originally planned to come over to see how the children taught by Erya were learning, but when he walked into the courtyard, he found that there was no one, only the room that was used as a classroom, and the desks used by the students were neatly arranged.

The yard and the house are still very neat and clean, in the yard, the corn stalks have begun to wither, the full corn bales have also matured, and the sweet potato vines have begun to turn yellow and become dry, or it will not be long before they can be dug up.

The leaves on the pepper trees are sparse and dotted with small white flowers, but Yang Dewen knows that these small flowers have not had time to grow, because after the weather turns cooler, frost will soon fall, and once the frost begins to fall, these peppers will freeze to death and wither.

Yang Dewen walked to the cornfield excitedly, picked off a corn cob, peeled off the outer coating and took a look, and found that the corn was very full. Huang Cancan is very eye-catching.

"Haha! You two are blessed today, and we will eat it at noon today. Yang Dewen raised the corn cob in his hand and said happily to Du Qiniang and Li Sanniang.

"Is this the corn you said about with a yield of 1,000 catties per mu?" Du Qiniang walked up to Yang Dewen, looked at the corn in Yang Dewen's hand, and said.

"That's right! That's it. Yang Dewen handed the corn cob in his hand to Du Qi Niang and said.

"And these are sweet potatoes here, and it is not a problem to yield thousands of catties per mu." Yang Dewen pointed to another sweet potato field next to him and said.

After finishing speaking, Yang Dewen walked excitedly into the sweet potato field and pulled out a sweet potato seedling, but the sweet potato below did not pull out.

However, Yang Dewen knew that it was normal to tear it off, and he didn't care about going into the house, looking for a hoe to dig out the sweet potatoes, so he couldn't wait to squat down and directly cut the soil with his hands.

Fortunately, the soil is not very hard, and in a few minutes, Yang Dewen has already dug out a big sweet potato, which weighs at least one and a half catties.

However, under a sweet potato vine, there is more than one sweet potato, so Yang Dewen dug one out and continued to dig, and finally dug out three large sweet potatoes.

"Yes, yes, it just so happens that the three of us have a sweet potato each." Yang Dewen patted the dirt on his hands with great satisfaction, and said with a smile.

"How are these things eaten? Is it tasty? Du Qiniang said curiously about these things that she had never seen before.

"When this corn is not ripe, it can be eaten raw, it is very sweet, it can also be boiled and eaten, and it can also be used to make soup, but now this corn is ripe, it is too old, and it is too hard to eat raw, so it is better not to eat it raw, we can cook it and eat it again."

If you want to preserve these corns, you have to dry them in the sun, and then you can grind it and eat it as corn flour, or you can cook corn porridge to eat, as for the taste, it is average, anyway, you can be hungry, how is it better than a hungry stomach! Yang Dewen gave a general introduction to the role of corn.

Although corn is also ranked among the main grains, in the era of the 21st century, basically no one regarded it as the main ration, and at that time, people basically used rice in the south and flour in the north.

The main role of corn is not on the table, but is made into feed for pigs, or processed into other industrial products, such as corn oil squeezed, corn tortillas opened, and some are stored by the state for food reserves.

"These sweet potatoes, we can eat them after we wash them, and eat them like fruits, but they have to be peeled, they taste crisp and refreshing, they can also be cooked with water, they can be roasted and eaten with fire, they can be steamed, and corn can also be roasted and eaten.

Sweet potatoes can also be sliced or shredded, and after being cooked in water, they can be dried into dried sweet potatoes outside, which can be preserved for a long time, and when you need to use it, you can use it to cook sweet potato porridge and eat, and dried sweet potatoes are also very good to eat raw. Yang Dewen patiently explained how to eat corn and sweet potatoes, what they are used for, and how to store them.

"Childe, you've come back from the capital." At this moment, Erya walked in from outside.

"Hmmm! Mingzhou, who just arrived in the past two days, why didn't he have classes today? Yang Dewen looked at Erya, who seemed to have grown a little taller, and said with a smile.

"Childe, every family has been busy harvesting these past two days, didn't Childe say before that when the farm is busy, let these students go back to their homes to help? You said that you want them to experience the hard work of their parents' farming, so Erya has asked them to be at home these days to help their parents do what they can. Er Ya hurriedly explained.

"I see, you are doing a good job, this is Du Qiniang of the Leisurely Charity Foundation, you should know each other, right?" Yang Dewen nodded, then pointed at Du Qi Niang and said.

"Er Ya has seen the second lady." Er Ya was only talking to Yang Dewen just now, and then she remembered that she hadn't greeted Du Qiniang yet.

For Du Qiniang, of course, Erya is no stranger, Leisurely House Academy is built in Minghe Village, the two have met each other many times, and have had lunch a few times at home in this courtyard, of course, this lunch is also made by Erya, the two not only met, but also chatted with each other, of course, the topic of conversation is also inseparable, talk about some of what Yang Dewen did in Minghe Village, and the teaching problems after Leisurely House Academy was set up in the future.

At the beginning, when she knew that the Youranju Charity Foundation planned to build a new Youranju Academy in Minghe Village, Erya was actually very worried that after the Youranju Academy was built, she would no longer be able to teach.

However, when Du Qiniang arrived in Minghe Village as the second lady of Yang Dewen and entered this small courtyard, Erya knew that she didn't have to worry about it, and she believed that Yang Gongzi would not fire him.

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