After breakfast.

So the four of them went to the sand.

When Ye Qing got up and opened the door and came out, the dog was busy urging Ye Qing to open the fence gate for him, and asked Ye Qing to open the courtyard door and let him out without even eating breakfast, he really didn't want to stay with Ye Chang and Zheng.

In the sand.

Cheng Huaijin held the hoe handle in his hand, looked at the potato field excitedly, and asked loudly without looking back: "Big Tiger, are the scales ready?" ”

Dahu also replied in a high spirited voice: "My lord, my subordinates have already prepared. ”

Cheng Huaijin waved his hand: "Okay, dig." ”

As soon as the words fell.

The four tigers, Cheng Huaijin and Ye Hongxuan, raised their hoes one by one with great enthusiasm and started digging.

Gu Nanshan and Ye Qing, who were robbed of their hoes, could only stand aside with their back baskets and watch.

"Yo~~~ Lao Tzu has made a good start today, these two hoes go down, and the potatoes dug out of this plant are not only not dug rotten, but there are as many as seven large and small! This slice of potatoes must have grown very well. Cheng Huaijin looked at the oval or round yellow-skinned potatoes, and he was overjoyed.

looked at the potatoes with hot eyes, squatted down and touched a few potatoes again and again, just like a stunning beauty touching the ice muscles and jade bones.

"I'm lucky, even though there are only five, they're not small." Ye Hongxuan also said with a smile not to be outdone.

Ye Qing and Gu Nanshan could understand the excited reaction of Brother Yi and Ye Hongxuan at this time.

After all.

The grain production in this era is too low and too low, if the wind and rain are good, the common people pay taxes, leave to grow grain, and the rest of the grain is mixed with a little vegetables, wild vegetables or something, and the family can barely mix water.

But if it is a year of natural disasters.

Often, it is not enough to pay taxes, or even not to collect anything.

As soon as this happens, you can only drink wild vegetable soup, eat tree bark, eat Guanyin soil, sell your children and daughters, and countless people will starve to death every time you encounter such a bad year.

Although Ye Qing had not experienced such a miserable famine years, he had heard a lot from his grandmother who survived the famine years and the mouths of that generation.

Gu Nanshan looked at his wife and said with a smile: "Let's go, they dig, let's go pick up the potatoes in the basket, and we will have to weigh them later." ”

Ye Qing nodded: "Hmm." ”

In the sand.

From time to time, the men's childlike joys can be heard.

Since the potato seeds are only about twenty-five catties, it is only barely enough to plant one point of land, six men dig together, and this is still a relatively loose sandy land, it took a quarter of an hour, and all the potatoes in this land were dug out.

After passing the scales.

Except for Ye Qing.

The other seven men were all surprised and delighted by this production, and they were all so excited that their bodies trembled.

"My God, the potatoes in this land have been harvested one hundred and forty catties, and one acre of land has to be harvested one by one......" Cheng Huaijin was so excited that he "one" for a while, but he failed to successfully burst out the yield per mu.

"One acre of land can harvest 1,400 catties, even if the soil quality is not good, the fertilizer effect is not good, conservative estimates should be able to yield about six or seven hundred catties per mu." Ye Hongxuan's face flushed with excitement, and he added all the unfavorable factors to estimate the output.

This morning.

Everyone was immersed in the joy of sharing the harvest.

This one at noon.

The feast of potatoes was served, but it was all made of small potatoes that had been accidentally dug up.

The rest of the good potatoes were reluctant to be eaten by several men, Ye Qing wanted to get them, and the eyes of several men looked at her as if she was cutting meat from several people.

The last of the last.

After eating this meal at noon, Ye Qing left a total of six catties of dug potatoes and the smallest potatoes, and Cheng Huaijin also took away four catties of small potatoes when he left, and the rest had to be kept as seeds.

When Ye Qing went to the kitchen to wash dishes.

Cheng Huaijin looked at Gu Nanshan with a solemn expression: "Second brother, about your life experience, the eldest brother has already checked it out for you." ”

Gu Nanshan's body stiffened, his eyes stagnated, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, he looked very nervous, and said after a moment of silence: "Big brother, you wait a while, I'll help my daughter-in-law wash the dishes, and when I come over with my daughter-in-law, trouble big brother...... No matter what kind of background I have, I don't want to hide it from her. ”

"Okay."