After being exiled, Lucky Zaizai took his whole family to farm.

Chapter 51 Sweet Potatoes
  The three families of Qin, Wen, and Zhao had no idea about the food shortage in their territory.

In early November, they were finally able to dig sweet potatoes. After being excited for a long time, it was time for the dust to settle.

I saw them all carrying bamboo baskets on their backs and heading into the fields with hoes and other things.

The curious person asked, "Are you going to the fields? Are you ready to dig those sweet potatoes?"

Who in the territory is not curious about the crops grown by these three families now.

If the dog hadn't always been guarding the ground, someone would have secretly dug it up to take a look.

However, although everyone does not know what sweet potatoes grown underground taste like, many families have eaten the leaves.

People who are good friends with the three families have basically received gifts.

The leaves are tender and tender after being stir-fried, which is very delicious.

And I heard that eating it is good for the body. At least it has a very intuitive benefit, that is, excretion is much smoother.

It is for this reason that some people secretly pinch other people's leaves.

After all, not everyone's relationship can reach the point where the other party is willing to give away something.

In fact, the three families didn't care much about picking the leaves and taking them home for frying. However, they picked them like dogs gnawing them and wasted a lot. They even dug up the soil to steal the sweet potatoes that hadn't grown yet. They couldn't bear it.

That's why Ye Ting guarded him.

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  As the ground was dug, large sweet potatoes with abundant fruits were exposed.

Sweet potatoes are not picky about the ground, nor the soil, but they are also drought-tolerant, so even though this is a new land opened this year and there is some water shortage, they still grow well.

Plump sweet potatoes were dug up in bunches, making the onlookers' eyes wide open.

"What is this? Why are there so many things growing under a tree that look like peanuts?"

"Looks like fruit?"

"It must be a melon. Don't those families call it sweet potato?"

"Isn't that just a fruit? Although it grows a lot, it can't be eaten as food. You can't be full by eating fruit." The man said disdainfully.

His family had been farming before he was exiled. Counting several years, he had been farming for thirty years.

I have never seen anything with such a high yield.

This food either didn't taste good or wasn't filling enough, so he wasn't as jealous or envious of it as others.

Lin Yuan has long been paying attention to the things grown in these more than ten acres of land.

As the manager of the territory, he not only received sweet potato leaves from the Qin family, but also some sweet potatoes for tasting.

Others think this is fruit, but only they know that it is really a filling thing!
  The pulp inside becomes glutinous and sweet after being cooked.

For a grown man like him, he would be almost full after eating two.

One can imagine how many people this harvest can feed!

Before today, he didn't know that this sweet potato could have such a high yield, so he came to see their harvest out of curiosity.

did not expect……

People around are also talking about it:

"Hey, why are there so many fruits here?"

"They're all big and cultivated. This acre of land, I'm afraid, shouldn't be worth about twenty dan (one stone = 120 kilograms), right?"

"This..." Everyone fell silent when they saw the amount of sweet potatoes dug out by the Qin family and piled on the ground.

It is true that fruit cannot be used as food, but when it is extremely cheap, even fruit is still a life-saving thing.

And if you raise pigs, how many pigs can you feed per acre of land in a year?

Isn’t that better than the income from farming in the Western Shu Kingdom?
  Qin Jia did not expect to produce so many. After all, ancient sweet potatoes were ordinary varieties that had not been improved. Coupled with the barren land and lack of fertilizer, she estimated a harvest of about a thousand kilograms. Unexpectedly, the sweet potato seeds I drew seemed to be much more powerful than I imagined, and the yield per mu was twice as much as expected.

The hands of everyone responsible for digging sweet potatoes were trembling at this moment.

They only heard Jiajia (the third girl) say that this thing can produce a thousand catties per mu, but they didn't expect it to be twenty stones!

This is very different from the yield per mu of 1,000 kilograms.

Especially Wen's father and mother, who grew crops all year round, shed tears while digging.

Mother Wen choked up and said: "If our family had grown this sweet potato before, your grandparents would not have starved to death during the famine seven years ago.

There are also the uncles and uncles from our village. "

Wen Chenru also had an impression of that year. After all, he was only twelve years old at the time.

The locusts crossed the border and all the crops that year were eaten. Even the trees, flowers, fruits, etc. on the mountains were not spared.

The food supply in the town has skyrocketed overnight. How can farmers like them afford it?

All we can do is tighten our belts and get through it.

The old people in the village were starved to death in order to save food, and the roots of the trees on the mountains were dug out.

And the Guanyin soil that eats dead people.

Even his parents almost starved to death because of the food.

Fortunately, their village took people to catch fish in the river and they lasted for a while.

Coupled with the last grain reserves at home, we can survive until the vegetables are harvested again.

In the first half of the year, I ate everything, and in the second half, I only ate vegetables, pickles and other things to survive. It was not until the food matured in the second year that the famine ended.

A year is easy to say, but these hungry people really feel that their days are like a year.

Wen Chenru, a grown man, couldn't help but get red-eyed when he thought of the dead elders of the clan, the grandfather and grandmother who had loved him since he was a child.

Wen Lixiu and Wen Lizhu also choked while digging sweet potatoes.

That year also left a shadow on the two sisters.

Just a little bit, even they would starve to death.

I have also seen refugees who exchanged their children for food. If their village had not been united, they would not have been able to resist those hungry people.

My brother is the only male in the family, and the two of them are girls.

As the elder sister, Wen Lixiu even thought about starving herself to death and saving the rations for her brother and sister.

Therefore, for food, it is the confidence of farmers like them and the confidence to live.

Only if there is enough food at home will they not starve to death and be sold.

"Mom, Dad, little sister, don't cry. Our good days are still ahead of us, and that dog officer will definitely get his retribution in the future!"

"Yes." Wen Lizhu said angrily: "Bad people will definitely be punished. I hope that dog officer will starve to death."

If that man hadn't insisted on robbing Sister, they wouldn't have been forced to leave their hometown.

Wen Lixiu blamed herself, "It's all my fault, otherwise our family wouldn't have been forced to this point."

"What does this have to do with you, sister? You work at home every day. Who would have thought that if you just go to town to sell eggs, you will be taken care of by the beasts."

"Sister, don't think too much. That person's mind is poisonous. Even if it's not you, there will be someone else. It has nothing to do with you."

In fact, Wen Lixiu is not a very good-looking person, but with her round face and shy personality, she looks like a green red apple.

In addition to his immature age, he was naturally attracted by the fifty-year-old old man.

(End of this chapter)