Spoilers for The Red Mansion, Daiyu’s mentality is broken

Chapter 379 Grandma Liu Enters Grand View Garden
But Grandma Liu said she was thirsty, so she picked up the tea cup from the table, drank the tea in two gulps, and chewed the tea leaves together.

The whole room burst into laughter.

Grandma Liu didn't feel dissatisfied. She looked at Jia Huanyin and asked, "Old lady, is this young master your grandson? Ouch, with this magnificence, I'm afraid he's not the number one scholar, right?"

Everyone laughed as he spoke.

Jia's mother said: "Isn't he the number one scholar? My grandson is still the number one scholar who has won six prizes in a row! Counting back 1000 years, since the imperial examination began, this is still the only one!"

Hearing this, Grandma Liu stood up quickly, knelt down on the ground towards Jia Huan, and kowtowed several times.

Jia Huan didn't expect Grandma Liu to be so aggressive, so she couldn't help being frightened, and hurriedly got up and hid aside.

Jia Mu hurriedly ordered people to help Grandma Liu up, and couldn't help but said: "My dear, what are you doing? He is a junior, and if you kowtow to him, his life will be shortened."

Grandma Liu said quickly: "Old lady, you don't know, this Master Jia is the Qingtian Master of Ping'an County!"

"Since he left, he not only took down all the Cao family, Bai family, and Song family who oppressed us, but also exempted me from the agricultural tax in the autumn. Now those evil people don't dare to do bad things! Just because of this , isn’t it worthy of my old lady to kowtow to him?”

"Besides, Mr. Jia saved my son-in-law's life when he arrived in Ping'an County. If it weren't for Mr. Jia, my son-in-law would have died a long time ago. How would my ladies have lived?"

"And now, my son-in-law has not only been rescued by Mr. Jia, but he has also gone to work in the carriage workshop. Not only taking care of three meals a day, but also earning ten grand a day. After one month, he has made three hundred bucks!" "

"Now in the entire Pingan County, who among the eight villages in ten li doesn't remember Mr. Jia? My family even built an longevity memorial arch for Mr. Jia!"

"The old lady said, isn't it appropriate for me to kowtow a few times when I meet the benefactor who saved my life?"

Everyone was surprised when they heard this.

Jia's mother hurriedly asked Jia Huan, "Brother Huan, why haven't I heard you talk about this before?"

Jia Huan smiled and said: "It's just a small thing, not as exaggerated as Grandma Liu said."

"It turned out that Grandma Liu's son-in-law Gou'er was working in the city, and the shopkeeper was treating him. After the dog finished eating, he wrapped the leftovers in lotus leaves and prepared to take them home. Unexpectedly, he bumped into a young man from the Bai family on the road."

"Then Master Bai took the dog to the county government and forced the dog to pay for his clothes. He had to pay five taels of silver in compensation."

"I saw that the dog was a poor man and he must not be able to afford the compensation. So I wrote two words on his palms. I told him to go to the pawn shop to pawn five taels of silver and come back to compensate Mr. Bai."

"Actually, I wrote the word "Run" on the palm of his hand. When the dog heard the pawnshop owner say these two words, he naturally ran away, and the matter was settled."

After Jia Huan finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter again.

But when everyone looked at Jia Huan again, their eyes were slightly different.

Nowadays, Brother Huan is also a person who does big things.

And Jia Huan never expected that Grandma Liu's family was actually in Ping'an County.The farmer I met during the trial that day turned out to be Grandma Liu's son-in-law Gou'er.

It's no coincidence that a book cannot be made.

Now that he met Grandma Liu, Jia Huan had some questions to ask her.

Jia Huan couldn't help but ask: "Grandma Liu, I wonder if anyone in your village grows corn, sweet potatoes and peanuts?"

Corn, sweet potatoes and peanuts were already cultivated in the Great Xia Dynasty and were no longer a rarity.However, during these several trips back and forth, Jia Huan saw no signs of large-scale planting in Ping'an County.

Hearing Jia Huan's inquiry, Grandma Liu couldn't help but said: "Someone actually grows that thing. They plant some in front and behind the house. It tastes pretty good. This time, because I really couldn't get it, I didn't have it." Bring it. Next year, I will definitely bring some to Mr. Jia to eat."

After hearing this, Jia's mother hurriedly said: "My dear, he is a little man, but he cannot afford to be called Master. Just call him Brother Huan."

Jia Huan smiled and said: "Grandma Liu, I'm not asking you for these things because of greed. The yields of corn, sweet potatoes, and peanuts are extremely high. Like corn and sweet potatoes, they don't choose the land. Even sandy soil. It can grow to a very large size, why don’t you plant it in a large area?”

Grandma Liu couldn't help but laugh and said: "My lord, you don't know something. These kinds of crops are quite high-yielding, especially sweet potatoes. You can harvest a lot from just a small piece. But these three things can't be used as food. So many of them are grown." , If you can’t eat it and you can’t sell it for a price, won’t your family be deprived of food?”

Hearing this, Jia Huan couldn't help but suddenly realized.

No wonder there are sweet potatoes, peanuts and corn in Daxia, but they are not cultivated on a large scale.

It turns out that most people these days don’t know that sweet potatoes and corn can be eaten as staple foods, and peanuts can be used to extract oil. They are both good things.

Thinking of this, Jia Huan couldn't help but said: "Grandma Liu, those corns and sweet potatoes can be eaten as staple foods. After the sweet potatoes are harvested, cut them into slices, dry them in the sun, and then grind them into powder."

"Then mix these powders with water into a paste, then put them on a griddle to let them dry, and you can make pancakes. They can be kept for several months or even half a year without going bad. Corn can also be ground into flour using the same method. Pancakes.”

"As for peanuts, you can squeeze oil, which is more fragrant than soybean oil. And after the winter wheat is harvested, you can plant these three crops immediately. After harvesting these three crops, you can continue to plant winter wheat. This can be done After two years and three crops, you will no longer be afraid of not having enough food."

Jia Huan thought that Grandma Liu would be happy after hearing this.

After all, this is three crops in two years, and one season of crops can be planted in two years.Even if we don’t talk about the extremely high yields of sweet potatoes and corn, this season’s crops alone will yield more and better crops. Aren’t you still happy?

Unexpectedly, Grandma Liu didn't show any joy after hearing this. She said perfunctorily: "Is this true? That's great. I'll try it when I get back."

Jia Huan clearly saw the perfunctory look on her face, and couldn't help crying or laughing.

It seemed that she didn't believe what she said.

Come to think of it, she is an old farmer, and she is just a young man from a rich family.

It would be strange if she believed what she said so easily.

It seems that if you want to promote the planting of sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts in Ping'an County, it will take a little more effort.

Just saying it so empty-handedly, I'm afraid even those people won't believe me.

In this case, we can only go back to the Aristocratic Family for cooperation.

When the time comes, the common people will see that the pancakes are really cooked three times every two years, and they will make pancakes for them to eat.

When they saw it with their own eyes, they naturally believed it.

And as long as a large area is planted in one area, other areas will naturally follow suit.

With the promotion of these three crops, Daxia may be able to live for another few decades.

(End of this chapter)