At Gu Shun's insistent request.

Grandma rinsed the two lumps in Gu Shun's hand in water and put them in the pot to boil.

After a while, the smell of potatoes wafted through the room.

"It smells so good."

Grandma smelled this fragrance that she had never smelled before, and her cloudy eyes also flashed with a hint of eagerness.

Soon, the potatoes were cooked.

Under Gu Shun's demonstration, the mother-in-law and grandson each held a potato and gently peeled off the skin, revealing the yellow and delicious potato kernel inside.

Gu Shun took a bite first, the potatoes were very soft and full of starch, and they tasted fragrant and glutinous.

Grandma Li also took a bite, then narrowed her eyes with satisfaction, and kept praising her:

"It's delicious, it's so delicious, I've never eaten anything like this before. Shunshun, how do you know this thing can be eaten? ”

Gu Shun stuffed a potato into his mouth after dividing it by two, and while chewing, he said inarticulately:

"It's called a potato, and I heard it from Madman Joe, who said that almost everyone in the Upper Town eats it."

"And in addition to boiling and eating, steaming, stir-frying, roasting, frying, stewing, stewing, it has countless ways to eat, it can be used as a staple food, and it can be used as a vegetable, and it is delicious no matter how you eat it."

Gu Shun naturally can't say that potatoes are something he has known since birth.

So he blamed the madman Joe for discovering the potatoes, and no one knew what the people in the upper city were eating, and there was no way to confirm it and debunk his lies.

In order to prevent this secret from being discovered too early, Gu Shun specially reminded:

"Crazy Joe also said that potatoes are a precious thing in Uptown, and they don't allow anyone else to have them, so we must not let anyone know that we have them."

Grandma Li nodded with concern, "I understand, I will never talk nonsense." ”

"It's just that you've been growing this potato for so long to get this point." Grandma Li said regretfully.

Gu Shun ran outside and dragged in a large bag full of potatoes.

It's full of potatoes, big and small.

Grandma Li was surprised: "Where did you get so many potatoes?" ”

"I planted it, it has a high yield, and as long as the temperature is up, it can be harvested in three to four months at most."

"There are so many, you only planted one, this thing is much more productive than wheat." Grandma looked at the bag full of potatoes and was overjoyed.

Soon, two years passed before the first potatoes ripened.

Gu Shun is also three and a half years old.

In the past two years, Gu Shun has not been idle, he has reclaimed all the land in the yard.

Spread fresh soil from outside the city, cover it with plastic film, and in order to add daylight to the potatoes, Gu Shun also went to the garbage dump to get a fluorescent lamp and installed it in the ground shed.

Under Gu Shun's meticulous care, the potatoes soon reached the level of three crops a year.

The empty cellar of the house was also full of potatoes.

Because the potato yield is too high, two people can't eat it all.

Layers of potatoes were piled on top of each other, and the bottom potatoes had even sprouted.

And a large amount of potato straw is also used as firewood, and Gu Shun's family no longer has to worry about fuel and food.

Because of adequate nutrition, Gu Shun has grown taller than a six-year-old child in Xiacheng at the age of three.

Grandma also looked much better than before because she was able to eat a full meal, and her shriveled face also had meat.

Potatoes completely changed the lives of the two of them, allowing them to live a well-fed and worry-free life in the lower city.

It was not enough to eat enough, Gu Shun calculated the way to make money.

Looking at a large number of unburned potato straws, Gu Shun had an idea.

He crushed the seedlings, packed them into plastic bags, and placed them in a dark, damp warehouse in the backyard.

Then Gu Shun went to the wild for a long time, and finally got a few mushrooms back.

He dried and crushed the mushrooms and stirred them together with the crushed and fermented potato straw, put them back into the plastic bag, poked a few small holes in the plastic bag, and sprinkled water on it regularly every day to keep the temperature and humidity constant.

A week later, mushrooms began to emerge from the holes.

When grandma looked at the big basket of mushrooms Gu Shun was holding, she couldn't say anything shocked.

Mushrooms are a rare spice and delicacy in the lower city, where there is little food and clothing, and often after the rain, there are more people looking for mushrooms than mushrooms.

His good grandson actually got back such a big bag at one time, and now he can make a fortune.

Grandma picked up Gu Shun and kissed her fiercely.

"Shunshun, you are so amazing, you have found so many mushrooms, I will cook you mushroom soup tonight."

Gu Shun shook his head and said, "I didn't go outside to find it, I planted it myself." ”

Grandma was stunned and said incredulously: "You planted it yourself?" ”

Gu Shun led his grandmother to the backyard and tinkered with the small house by himself for several months.

As soon as I entered the door, I smelled a strong and pungent smell of fungal fermentation.

Gu Shun asked her grandmother to wear a face towel, so as not to inhale this air full of spores and cause anything wrong with her grandmother's lungs.

Grandma looked at the bags of culture medium on the shelves in the room, all of which were full of mushrooms of various sizes, and they were growing happily.

She had never seen such a scene, there were so many mushrooms, and everyone was stunned.

On the sign at the door, Gu Shun's crooked words were written: I wish you a good harvest of mushrooms and a full warehouse of potatoes.

Grandma walked up to a culture medium, stroked the smooth skin of the mushroom with her hand, and cried with joy:

"It's really mushrooms, it's great, it's great."

Gu Shun said: "Grandma, from tomorrow onwards, you don't need origami flowers." We sell mushrooms, and we have money. ”

"Uh-huh, uh-huh, my Shunshun." Grandma stroked Gu Shun's head, unable to suppress her tears of joy.

The next day, Gu Shun came to the market with his grandmother, set up a stall and began to sell mushrooms.

Because the mushrooms grown by Gu Shun are even better than the wild ones, the mushrooms are not sold at all, and they are sold out after a while.

Looking at the money in her hand, grandma happily hugged Gu Shun, "Let's go, grandma will buy you something delicious." ”

At Gu Shun's special request, the two of them only sold a little mushroom every day, and they didn't sell too much.

After all, if there are too many of them, it is easy to be remembered.

They don't have enough self-protection ability and hole cards now, and once they are targeted, they are vulnerable to danger.

So it's better to make less money than to keep yourself safe.

Gu Shun used the money he earned from selling mushrooms to buy two piglets, one male and one female.

A pigsty was built in the only remaining open space in the backyard, and the piglets were kept in it.

Feeding pigs with endless sprouted potatoes and mushrooms is a meal that surpasses even the vast majority of people in the lower cities.

As the pigs grew up day by day, the pigsty became smaller and smaller.

The scale of cultivation of potatoes and the storehouses for cultivating mushrooms are also insufficient.

The increasingly cramped space gave Gu Shun the idea of changing to a bigger place.

In this way, he can also expand his scale and change from a seller to a supplier and a channel.

Grandma Gu Shun's proposal for her precious grandson is 10,000 supports.

Gu Shun has potatoes, mushrooms, and even pigs one after another, each of which surprised grandma very much.

Seeing that life is getting better and better, it's time to change to a bigger place.

Grandma took out the coffin book that she had secretly saved for many years, and with the money Gu Shun had earned these days, there were tens of thousands of copper ges in total.

Gu Shun took a look at the environment and location of the lower city, and deliberately bought a large piece of land in a deserted but decent place outside the city.

Everything in the lower city is expensive, that is, the land is cheap.

Then, Gu Shun bought eight more containers and placed them in the shape of a fortress according to his own requirements.

Four plastic sheds and a large pigsty with sheds were built outside.

In addition, Gu Shun did not forget to build a warehouse dedicated to growing mushrooms and a cellar to store various items.

In order to make it easier to get in and out of the city, Gu Shun also bought a tricycle for transportation to facilitate his grandmother's travel.

After all this is done, the money is also emptied.

However, compared with the cramped and cramped small family before, his living conditions have made a qualitative leap.

Gu Shun will also start his new life in Xiacheng.