In fact, the growth period of potatoes is nearly half a year. If you want potatoes to grow big and fat, you have to let them grow well in the soil for half a year.

However, I don't know what went wrong, these potatoes grown by the Wu family look very small, and they are also very deformed.

Even after a period of cultivation, they really look like the wild ones. It's small and weird.

Because the appearance of these potatoes is really the same as the potatoes that Niu Sanduo saw in his previous life, so Niu Sanduo did not suspect where these potatoes came from......

Anyone who has read some history books knows that peppers, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, these high-yield crops were all introduced to China from outside.

Moreover, it didn't take long to come in. It was probably introduced during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Of course, pomegranate walnuts, pepper eggplant,...... These are also not native to the Central Plains of China. They were basically brought to the Central Plains during the Sui and Tang dynasties along with the Silk Road.

Niu Sanduo used to like to read history books.

He actually knows all this historical knowledge.

However, after he traveled to this place, he always subconsciously felt that this country was very different from the country he had originally owned.

After all, how big the country is, what administrative districts it has, and what kind of terrain it is, he, a peasant at the bottom, has no idea at all.

He had no idea what was going on with the empire.

So how does he know which crops are grown in this country?

He just didn't know anything about this empire, so there was a voice in his heart that was faintly telling him that it was normal for wild potatoes to appear in this country.

……

Growing potatoes is still worry-free.

All the people waited for the little potatoes to sprout slowly. After digging out the buds, they are planted in the ground.

Soon, the land that had been dried and loosened was full of potatoes.

Seeing the fields full of potatoes, everyone in the Wu family's Niu family and the Duan family looked there in three days.

They water it regularly and check it regularly.

They are particularly worried about what will happen to the potatoes they grow at home......

Seeing those potatoes thriving every day, each of them felt very pleased and satisfied in their hearts.

In a few months, it will be autumn.

When it comes to the autumn harvest season, they can eat these potatoes.

……

All the people are busy.

They don't care about men, women and children, everyone is constantly running for their own lives.

Every morning, the children get up early in the morning, call their friends, and carefully go up the mountain to chop wood.

The adults who had some skills followed the hunting team composed of some men of the Wu family, and ran around the mountains every day to hunt some game and come back.

Pheasants, wild birds, rabbits, snakes, insects, rats and ants in the mountains are all rare meats.

In one day, even if they only caught a few baby sparrows, it was a delicious meal for their family to replenish nutrition.

And the women who stay at home, they do all the housework.

And the women of the Wu family are the same now.

Laundry and cooking, that's nothing.

Some of them have to pick up dung every day.

They were to mix the mud from the river, and the wood ashes that they burned all the winter with the dung.

After mixing all the things, they continued to be placed in the pit. Let it ferment well.

For rural people, this thing is a valuable and good thing.

Because by next spring, they're very good manure.

In this ancient society where the productive forces were very underdeveloped, where did the farmers have chemical fertilizers for farming?

Without chemical fertilizers to replenish the nutrients of the land, the fertility of the land will soon be lost.

Therefore, this manure is an excellent weapon to ensure that the grain is not low.

All farmers know that manure is dirty and smelly. But they're really a big treasure for the land.

Because some of the women of the Wu family have been pregnant for a long time, and their bellies are big, they are about to give birth. I don't have the strength to do the heavy lifting. Therefore, picking up dung, stirring dung every day, and making manure all fell on the shoulders of the younger generation of women in the Wu family.

Pick up the dung, stir the dung, and make manure,...... It really takes strength.

People with little strength are particularly tired of picking up a bucket of dung.

Wu Guifang once did this.

She had to tell the truth.

These messy things are really not something that ordinary people can do.

The dung buckets are all made of wood. These barrels are still made of solid wood.

Bulky, sturdy, and very sturdy.

A half-meter-high wooden barrel is almost four or five catties.

Think about it again, if this big wooden barrel is filled with dung, how can a woman who is almost 100 pounds afford it?

Wu Guifang didn't like sports before. She can't do heavy physical work either.

She used to ask for a 10-kilogram rice, and she felt very tired.

Let her pick up dozens of catties of dung, she can't do it at all.

Wu Guifang still remembers that she was holding her breath back then, and her hands wanted to fill a large dung bucket full of more than half a bucket, but when she lifted it, she couldn't lift it at all!

Suffice it to say, she can't even lift it!

Wu Guifang has to say something of conscience, those things in the countryside are basically heavy physical work.

Especially during the autumn harvest, those men, women and children who have already started a family, they have to pick hundreds of catties of wheat to go home.

Every time I pick a few hundred catties of wheat, at the end of the day, how can this arm and shoulder not be sore?

In this place, Wu Guifang has seen too much of the poverty of those people. Therefore, she sincerely thinks that if science and technology are not developed and the productive forces are not developed, the living conditions of the people at the bottom will always be like this.

Live tired, live miserably.

Three meals a day are not guaranteed.

Every day, I worry about whether I will starve to death? Every day, I wonder when I will be able to eat meat......

Recently, the men of the Wu family really haven't got much prey back.

After all, those novices of the Niu family Duan family have always followed them. He said he wanted to learn to hunt with them. However, in the process of hunting, they often alarmed the prey because of their recklessness.

Therefore, Wu Guifang, who was originally able to eat meat at two ends in three days, has not eaten meat in the recent period.

There was no meat to eat, so Wu Guifang soaked herself in cereal.

As soon as she felt hungry, she would quietly boil water and make herself three or two bites of cereal to eat.