Chapter 115: The Distress of the Harvest
To say that Fang Xiaoyue used to eat a lot, but it was definitely not as amazing as today.
A wooden bucket of rice was enough for thirty people to eat a full meal, but Fang Xiaoyue ate most of it.
It's not a matter of eating a lot, it's the reincarnation of wild boar essence, right?
Fang Xiaoyue didn't know what some villagers were muttering in their hearts, and slept comfortably.
When I woke up the next morning, I stretched and felt that all the trauma and fatigue I had suffered from during this time had disappeared.
Comfortable! It's still comfortable at home.
Fang Xiaoyue sighed lightly, stood on the open space in front of the wooden house for a while, practiced boxing for a while, and then patrolled the valley.
The replanted potatoes are already growing luxuriantly, and if this trend continues, it won't be long before they bloom and enter the tuber expansion stage, and at most they will be harvested after the arrival of autumn.
"What are you doing?!"
Before Fang Xiaoyue finished turning the farmland, he heard a villager's yell, and his eyes turned to it, only to see more than a dozen naughty children fleeing in embarrassment amid the roar, and they were holding a few potatoes cut out of the ground in their hands.
The leader is his eldest grandson Ding Xiaotie!
Ding Xiaotie is 14 years old this year, and he should talk about his daughter-in-law in two years, but looking at his appearance, he seems to prefer to play.
Fang Xiaoyue couldn't help but shake her head, but she didn't come forward to take care of the matter.
In these 100,000 mountains, children just want to be wild, and if they are all cultivated as scholars, I am afraid that it will be difficult for them to survive when they grow up.
In the following time, Fang Xiaoyue did not go out again.
He knew that after he assassinated the commander of the Beiyue Army, there would definitely be chaos outside for a while.
As for whether Pinggui Kingdom took the opportunity to counterattack or whether Beiyue Kingdom sent reinforcements to completely destroy Pinggui Kingdom, it was impossible for him to guess.
I have to wait for a while, and when the situation is calmer, then go out and have a look.
If it is the Beiyue Army that continues to occupy the land of Pinggui Kingdom, then don't blame him for being unkind.
It's been a while since he came to this plane, and he has a sense of belonging.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles to assassinate the commander of the Northern Moon Army before.
The number of villagers in Taoyuan Valley is still increasing, and these villagers who have fled from outside have also brought a lot of news from the outside world.
For example, the Beiyue army was defeated and was fleeing in embarrassment, and then Pinggui restored its rule over Subei County, and sent a new county magistrate, and the county magistrate was collecting this year's poll tax, etc.
Okay, the Beiyue Army has just collected a few waves in Subei County, and the new official of the Pinggui Kingdom has come to loot again with three fires.
It is no wonder that the number of villagers who fled into the 100,000 mountains during this period has not decreased, but has increased.
However, these are not the focus of Fang Xiaoyue's attention for the time being, because the potatoes planted in Taoyuan Trail and Taoyuan Valley have been harvested!
Taoyuan Valley now has a population of more than 700 people, and they all go into battle when the potatoes are harvested, using hoes, shovels and other agricultural tools to dig potatoes.
On the specially groomed sun-drying dam, fresh potatoes are piled up.
The joy of a bumper harvest rippled in the Taoyuan Valley, and everyone had a smile on their faces.
They don't care about who is better, potatoes or rice, they just know that this year is a good harvest and they can have a good year.
Compared with the joy of the villagers, Fang Xiaoyue was a little sad.
There were so many potatoes that the excavated stone chamber couldn't fit even a tenth of it, let alone the rice inside.
If the potatoes are left out in the wind and rain, they may sprout or become moldy in a short time, which is a big loss.
At this time, he regretted that he didn't learn how to process potatoes in the last plane, making potato vermicelli, vermicelli, starch, etc.
Of course, he's not completely out of the blue.
After pondering and meditating, he decided to dig dozens of large cellars behind the Taoyuan Valley.
Potatoes are a natural product that can only be preserved longer in a cool, ventilated environment at 5 degrees Celsius.
With his orders, the villagers plunged into digging the cellars after the bumper potato harvest.
It has to be said that his decision was correct.
It took more than half a month to dig the cellar one by one, send all the potatoes into the cellar, and build a ventilated wooden house on top of the cellar.
When all this was done, late autumn arrived, and the continuous drizzle fell near Taoyuan Valley for more than ten days.
If the potatoes had not been cellared before this, months of hard work would have been in vain.
On the night of the harvest, a grand harvest festival was held in Taoyuan Valley.
Villagers sang and danced around the campfire, and large quantities of baked potatoes were sprinkled with a pinch of salt and sent out of the canteen like running water.
Without fried shredded potatoes, this baked potato should be considered the best way to eat potatoes.
Fang Xiaoyue, who didn't like potatoes very much in the past, also followed this cheerful atmosphere and ate a few more skewers.
After resting in Taoyuan Valley for a few days, on this day, Fang Xiaoyue had just gotten up, after routine meditation, boxing, and standing on the pile, he came to the cafeteria, asked for a piece of mashed potatoes, with some honey, and when he sat down and was about to have a good meal, a young man ran over out of breath.
This guy, Fang Xiaoyue knows, his name is Niu Xiaowen, and he is one of the young men who are in charge of the guard outside Taoyuan Path.
Due to the last time the Beiyue Army searched the mountains, after this potato harvest, there was a large amount of surplus food, so Fang Xiaoyue sent the sentries out.
Compared with the activated statues, these young and strong sentry words are undoubtedly much more flexible.
"Grandpa Zhang, there's an official from outside who says he wants to see you."
Niu Xiaowen ran to Fang Xiaoyue, took a breath, licked his somewhat chapped lips and said.
"Official?"
Fang Xiaoyue was a little curious, it should be the official of Pinggui Kingdom, and I don't know why these guys came to Taoyuan Valley to do it?
But he probably guessed and suspected that the official was here to collect taxes.
Hearing Fang Xiaoyue's judgment, the young and old people next to him couldn't help but get angry.
It was not easy for these people to settle down, and those dog officials still dared to come to collect taxes?
For a while, the people in the valley were indignant, and even some excited young men wanted to go out and kill the dog official with weapons.
But he was stopped by Fang Xiaoyue.
To say that the officials of Ping Guiguo have two words of evaluation in his eyes: incompetent!
It is said that when the Beiyue army pressed the border, the previous county commander of Subei County not only did not organize people to defend the city, but tried to escape privately in a carriage.
If it weren't for the extremely tight blockade of the Beiyue cavalry, which rushed straight over when they saw the city gate open, this county order might have escaped.
To tell the truth, if this county commander gathers the soldiers, government servants, and young men in the city to resist, he will be able to hold out for a few days, wear down the morale and strength of the Beiyue Army, and when the reinforcements arrive, the Beiyue Cavalry, who are isolated outside the city, may have no choice but to flee.