Chapter 46. Spring

The next day, Su Yan was about to take out the sweet potatoes to raise seedlings, but looking at the piles of sweet potatoes, she felt a dilemma in her heart.

She can still take out a few sweet potatoes like this, but how can she take out thousands of pounds of sweet potatoes at once? Isn't that plain suspicion?

"Pei Jing, how do you say this is taken out?" Su Yan frowned.

"It's okay, let's go to the city to buy some sacks, come back and put all the sweet potatoes at the intersection, and before going out, I told Wu Jin to bring someone to move it in the afternoon.

"That's a good idea, just so I'm going to buy some seeds, so much land, it's not enough to just grow sweet potatoes."

Su Yan and the others did not delay, they didn't take anyone with them, and the two went down the mountain directly to the county seat.

It was cold in the county, and there were only a few people on the streets.

Su Yan and the others came to the grain shop where they bought sweet potatoes and corn again.

Su Yan didn't buy any unusual seeds this time, they were all beans and vegetable seeds. The new land is barren, so there is some harvest from planting beans.

The two returned to the entrance to the mountain and entered the gourd in a hidden corner, and the two picked up all the sweet potatoes for a while before putting them into sacks. After Su Yan came out of the gourd, a thought, bags of sweet potatoes were piled up in the grass pile in the blink of an eye. Su Yan counted, there were a total of twenty-five bags of sweet potatoes.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, Wu Jin brought people over.

"Big brother, how do you buy so many things?"

"I bought some grain seeds and moved back to the village."

"Brothers, hurry up and move back, let's eat our own this year."

"If you handle it gently, you won't be able to sprout if it is broken!" Su Yan hurriedly reminded.

Early the next morning, a large number of people gathered in the field, all of whom had come to plant sweet potatoes.

There were sweet potatoes in the bag, arm length, the size of a baby's head, and when they took it out, everyone let out an exclamation.

"What is this?"

"Can you really eat it?"

Su Yan was in trouble for a while. She had never planted the land, let alone sweet potatoes, only Dao Tu had heard how to plant them.

The sweet potato in front of me is different, it is cultivated with the clear spring water in the gourd, and it is big, in case it is dense, I am afraid that the sweet potato vine will not grow well and be thin... Hey? It doesn't seem to have any effect, anyway, there are many open spaces.

After Su Yan figured it out, she asked everyone to dig a big pit in half a zhang, and then put the sweet potatoes horizontally in and cover them with soil.

These people were originally farmers, and they were also good farmers selected by Wu Qing, although they had been bandits for a while, farming had already become instinct, and they were not unfamiliar with their work.

Wu Qing took dozens of people to plant more than 20 bags of sweet potatoes in most of the day.

Because the sweet potatoes are sparsely planted, six or seven acres of land are planted. So much, it should be able to grow a lot of sweet potato seedlings. Thinking that there was still some corn in the space, Su Yan raised corn seedlings that night.

In one night, the corn had grown into a half-arm-long corn seedling.

Su Yan put away the corn seedlings early in the morning and bundled them, and Pei Jing picked them to the ground.

"What is this?" A group of people were talking about it.

"It's corn. I've got to work hard for everyone today. Su Yan smiled.

"Uncle Wu, this distance is more than one foot and less than two feet." Su Yan thought of an approximate distance.

"Hey!" Wu Qing took the lead in planting two trees side by side on a ridge of land. Then he quickly planted two trees side by side in the back, and the distance between the front and back was what Su Yan said, "Yan'er, do you think this is okay?" ”

"Uncle Wu, that's it." Su Yan felt that the distance was similar to what she saw on TV.

"Everyone come and see, you remember this distance, and you will plant according to this distance later." Wu Qing beckoned everyone to come and take a look.

Although more than a dozen men couldn't understand it, they didn't say anything and planted it according to the requirements.

Ten catties of corn kernels, planted more than two acres of land, even planted with watering, planted in half a morning. A group of people didn't stop, and then planted a few sacks of beans that Su Yan bought. Beans of various colors were planted on more than ten acres of land.

Some people carried water on the river next to them to water the beans, and Su Yan carried a large half bucket of gourd water and scooped a small half scoop of gourd water into the bucket of each waterer. In the water, she put two handfuls of plant ash as a cover. No one wondered what Su Yan did.

After the spring ploughing is over, everyone can finally take a breath.

This time God is also powerful, just after sowing, the continuous spring rain one by one, less than two days, the ground has grown green seedlings.

After the spring rains, not only the crops in the fields pop up, but the weeds also grow like crazy. Wu Qing saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, these lands were originally the cradle of wild grass, and now that crops were planted, he was afraid that the only bit of fertility in the field would be taken away by wild grasses.

As soon as the sky cleared, he immediately led people to pull weeds.

When the sweet potato seedlings first grew, everyone looked quite fresh, and after pulling the grass for a day, everyone's interest was much weaker.

Perhaps because of the gourd water used to raise seedlings, the corn seedlings grow at a height a day and grow exceptionally fast. Su Yan thought that this corn corn might not be harvested in three months.

The sweet potatoes grown with gourd water are also exceptionally strong, and the sweet potato vines are also one length a day.

After pulling out the grass, Wu Qing hurriedly led people to fertilize the crops in the field, which were all fertilizer fermented with some grass and wood ash and rotten leaves and manure.

With more than ten acres of crops, Wu Qing led people to serve as if they were serving their ancestors. In the blink of an eye, the sweet potato field was already green, and the vines were growing extremely densely, and there was no ground in sight, and it did not look like crops growing in barren land at all.

Su Yan looked at the large green land, her eyes full of hope.

At the end of February, Su Yan told Wu Qing that she would prepare the land for planting sweet potatoes. Wu Qing didn't say a word, and hurriedly organized the people of Wolong Village to turn over the other more than 100 acres of vacant land.

Pei Jing also took his brothers on the mountain down the mountain to turn over the ground.

Qingming, everyone burned the paper money for their ancestors. The next day, Su Yan wore a hat and braved the drizzle to take everyone to harvest sweet potato vines.

The ordinary sweet potato that Su Yan has seen grows three or four vines, and this sweet potato vine must have twenty or thirty roots, and the roots follow the shape of the sweet potatoes that were originally planted, growing in clusters, and the roots are three feet long.

She cut a sweet potato vine, carefully taught everyone how to prune the vine, and then planted it like corn.

Pei Jing has always followed Su Yan, whatever Su Yan says, he will do it, and there is no shelf of the master of a village at all.

The brothers in the village were even more convinced of Pei Jing when they saw it, and for a while, everyone was full of energy.

After Wu Qing figured out the planting method of sweet potatoes, he divided everyone into labor, and most of them cut sweet potato vines in the field first.

"Uncle Wu, let's not destroy the roots of sweet potatoes. This one could go any further. Su Yan reminded. Although the sweet potatoes that grow like this will taste worse than those from cuttings, it is not impossible to eat, besides, the leaves that grow on it can be eaten, and they can also be fed to pigs.

"Well, I see, you go teach everyone how to prune!" Wu Qing waved his hand.

Su Yan took twenty people to cut the sweet potato vines, and when she saw that there was something wrong with the cutting, she immediately corrected it. This thing is simple and simple, and after a while, everyone around me will learn it.

In less than an hour, Wu Qing and Su Yan led people to plant the branched sweet potato seedlings in the open field.

Su Yan planted sweet potatoes at home when she was a child, and she also watched it on the sidelines, after she planted the first sweet potato seedling, she probably compared the distance between the front and back, and planted the second sweet potato seedling. Until the third, the fourth. The distance between the two plants is extraordinarily far apart, much farther than planting corn.

In the end, she didn't have to say anything, everyone followed suit.

"Yan'er, go back and change your clothes!" Seeing that the arrangements in the field were in place, Pei Jing didn't want Su Yan to get wet in the rain again.

"Hmm." This pause is indeed a little cold. Su Yan followed Pei Jing back to change clothes.