"Huh!"

Li Hongyi immediately responded, and then ordered Li Tai to go home and get the scales, and he personally instructed the villagers to start digging sweet potatoes.

With Li Hongyi's shot, the speed was very fast, dozens of villagers dug at the same time, just like plowing the field, one by one sweet potatoes quickly turned out of the ground, and after a while, the sweet potatoes were spread all over the ground.

Then, some villagers took bamboo baskets, packed sweet potatoes, and carried them to the edge of the ridge.

On the broad ground of the mound, boxes of sweet potatoes are placed here.

The two villagers were responsible for carrying, Xue Hu personally held the scale, Li Hongyi counted, Zhao Yu was responsible for checking, and a group of villagers watched around.

"One hundred and twenty pounds!"

"One hundred and five pounds!"

“......”

Boxes of sweet potatoes are weighed and placed on the other side.

In the ground, they are still digging, and there are still boxes of sweet potatoes to be delivered.

However, so many people dug together, the speed was very fast, and in half a day, the sweet potatoes on four acres of land were dug up.

The wide land of the mound, which has long been filled with bamboo baskets filled with sweet potatoes, has even been stacked on top of each other, and has been placed along the mound for a long distance.

"Lao Li, how's it, have you figured it out?"

After weighing the last basket of sweet potatoes, Xue Hu turned his head to look at Li Hongyi.

And a large number of villagers gathered around were also staring at Li Hongyi with blazing eyes.

Li Hongyi held a notebook in one hand and a calculation chip in the other hand and calculated on the ground without making a sound.

Next to Li Hongyi, Zhao Yu also squatted on the ground, holding a branch and drawing various numbers on the ground.

However, Zhao Yu's speed was very fast, and before Li Hongyi finished calculating, he pulled it twice, then got up and looked at Xue Hu:

"Master Tiger, a total of nine thousand six hundred and thirty-four pounds of sweet potatoes!"

"What? More than 9,600 pounds? ”

There was silence all around, and everyone's eyes widened.

Xue Hu looked at Zhao Yu's eyelids jumping, and then looked at Li Hongyi.

Li Hongyi happened to stand up at this moment and nodded:

"The little young master is right, it is indeed a total of nine thousand six hundred and thirty-four catties!"

"Really! It turned out to be true! ”

As soon as Li Hongyi spoke, the surroundings were suddenly boiling:

"How is this done? Four acres of land is more than 9,000 catties, and the average yield per mu is more than 2,000 catties, which is several times that of rice, I'm not dreaming, right? ”

"Is it a dream that things are placed here? This sweet potato can't even be washed away by floods, and the yield is so high, and it is said to be drought tolerant, but it is really a treasure! ”

"Yes, if we plant this thing, why don't we go hungry in the future? When this little young master planted sweet potatoes, we were not optimistic about him, but now it seems that we have no eyes! ”

"Worthy of a reader......"

There was a lot of noise and heated discussions all around, and this group of villagers, who were not optimistic about Zhao Yu at the beginning, were ashamed at this time.

Of course, the villagers looked at the many sweet potatoes here at this time, and their eyes were even hotter.

Now that Taohua Village has been hit by floods, the harvest has been reduced by 70%, and there is a famine on the horizon, if they have these sweet potatoes, at least life will be a little better.

After Xue Hu got Li Hongyi's confirmation, he patted Zhao Yu's shoulder heavily and laughed:

"Hahaha! I thought I would give you a few acres of land to play with, but I didn't expect you to give me such a big surprise! Yu boy, Xue is here to ask you for a favor on behalf of the villagers of Taohua Village, and give some sweet potato seeds for the villagers to plant next year, how about it? ”

Hearing this, the originally boiling surroundings suddenly fell silent, and many villagers looked at Zhao Yu expectantly.

Zhao Yu glanced at the surrounding villagers and smiled indifferently at Xue Hu:

"I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint Master Tiger!"

"Huh?"

The smile on Xue Hu's face froze.

Li Hongyi next to him didn't believe his ears, and looked at Zhao Yu with astonishment.

The surrounding villagers were suddenly deflated, and the expectation in their eyes dissipated.

However, when everyone was disappointed, Zhao Yu apologized to Xue Hu again:

"Master Tiger, I originally planned to make these sweet potatoes into wine or make them into a delicacy for you to taste, but now it seems that they are not possible! I plan to leave 500 catties of sweet potatoes as seeds, and the rest will be used by the villagers to survive this year's famine! This sweet potato seedling has been cut one stubble after another, and five hundred catties are enough for the whole village to plant! ”

"You stinky boy!"

Seeing that Zhao Yu was talking about winemaking, Xue Hu glared at Zhao Yu angrily, and then laughed again:

"I'll talk about it later! It's a great help that you're willing to do this, originally after the grain in my warehouse was distributed to the villagers, there was still a gap, but now with your thousands of catties of sweet potatoes, Peach Blossom Village can barely pass this level this year! ”

"Not bad! Little master, these sweet potatoes are really timely rain! ”

Li Hongyi immediately agreed, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Around.

After many twists and turns, the villagers were stunned at this time.

After reacting, a group of people suddenly knelt on the ground excitedly:

"Thank you, Master Tiger! Thank you, little master! Great kindness, I will not be unforgettable! ”

"Hey, the elders in the village can't help it, please hurry up!"

Zhao Yu was startled, and hurriedly hid behind Xue Hu, not daring to accept this salute.

Xue Hu was very calm and waved his hand:

"You don't have to be like this, you are all from Peach Blossom Village, and you should work together to tide over the difficulties!"

"Yes, we will work together with the tiger master!"

Everyone was grateful and got up.

It was only then that Zhao Yu came out and asked the villagers to help clean up the mud in the cornfield and rummage for corn.

The villagers had just received Zhao Yu's great kindness, so they didn't say a word, and they started working in full swing.

It's just that there are some disappointments in the cornfields.

Most of the corn was swept away by the flood, and only about 100 catties of corn were dug up in the end.

As for the chili field, Zhao Yu didn't let people dig it, and it was useless to dig it, it was either washed away by the flood or rotten.

Take stock of your harvest this year.

Zhao Yu didn't stay in Peach Blossom Village anymore, took a basket of sweet potatoes, and went back to the city in a carriage with Xue Hu.

......

Changning County, county government.

The burst of the Wangjiangkou Dam affects not only ordinary people, but also the old men in the county.

In a public room in the lobby.

At that time, Fang Zipo, the county magistrate of Changning County, a lean old man in a cyan official uniform, was sitting behind the bookcase at this time, glaring angrily at Wang Yang, the main bookkeeper sitting at the table.

Wang Yang did not have the awe of his boss, and faced Fang Zipoke's angry gaze with a calm smile on his face.

"Master Wang, the Wangjiangkou Dam was built by you, and the dam was built with tens of thousands of taels of silver, so it was easy to burst the embankment, shouldn't you give an explanation to the official?"

Fang Zi poked his chest and slapped the table hatefully.

Wang Yang chuckled and shook his head:

"The county is wrong, the Wangjiangkou Dam was built under your auspices, although the lower official is in charge of water conservancy, but all the decisions are made by you, the documents are approved by you, and the signature is also yours, the lower official is just running errands, you can't take all the responsibility on the lower official if something happens, and the lower official can't bear it!"

"Presumptuous! Is this an abscurant officer? Everything is in your hands, if the dam built for tens of thousands of taels of silver will become like this? Do you dare to say that all this silver was spent on the dam? Aren't you afraid that this official will join you? ”

Fang Zi poked angrily and slapped the table up.

Wang Yang also stood up and sneered:

"The lower official has a clear conscience, if the county has evidence, just go and sue the lower official! But before that, the county lord should think about his situation first! Hum! ”

With a soft snort at the last time, Wang Yang turned around and left directly.

"You, you, you......"

Fang Zi poked his finger at Wang Yang's departing back, and he was angry.

At the side door, a middle-aged scribe who opened the curtain and looked at it hurriedly walked out and held Fang Zipoke:

"Dong Weng dissipates his anger, don't be angry!"

"This Wang Yang should be damned! Zong Yu, you write a transcript immediately, and the official wants to participate in him! ”

Fang Zi gritted his teeth and glared at the middle-aged scribe.

The middle-aged scribe sighed softly:

"Don't be annoyed, this Wang Yang was appointed by the inspector who inspected Changning County back then, and there was someone above to protect him, otherwise he wouldn't dare to be so arrogant, and now he is deeply rooted in Changning County, we can't get evidence of the dam burst this time, and we can't move him! In this way, we have the most to do, and we have to find a way to get through this first! ”

"Alas......"

As if resigned to his fate, Fang Zipo sat back in his chair decadently and muttered:

"Zongyu, what do you think?"