Crossing the old lady of the farm gate

Chapter 176 The new county magistrate

"Mrs. Chen, I heard shopkeeper Liu said that your family has built a school and it officially opened today. I brought some books over here to celebrate."

"Mr. Wei, what are you talking about? The school in my house was built for the people in the village. It is just for the convenience of the children in the village to go to school. There is no need to give such a big gift."

"It's okay. Gifts that can be bought with silver are not considered expensive. You have helped me so much in Weiweilou. It is right to send some books over."

"Mr. Wei, since I have brought the present, I will not return it. You probably haven't had breakfast yet, so let's go in and have some."

Bai Lan looked at the handsome young man next to Wei Tong and said, "Master, if you don't dislike it, you can go in and have some food together."

Wei Tong suddenly remembered that there was another person standing beside him.

"Mrs. Chen, let me introduce you. This is my friend Gao Ze, who is also the new county magistrate of your Qingyuan County. I happened to meet him when I came here this morning. I thought you would need his help in the future, so I just Bring him here so you can meet."

Bai Lan didn't expect that this was the new county magistrate, and he was also good friends with Wei Tong. It seems that he should be able to talk a little more easily in the future.

"Magistrate Gao, if you don't mind, let's come in and have a meal together. Please take care of me in the future."

"Mrs. Chen, Wei Tong and I have been good friends for many years. I heard that your family is also in business and plans to open several shops in the county. If I can take care of you, I will naturally take care of one or two."

"Thank you, Magistrate Gao."

Wei Tong looked at the bowl of sweet potato porridge in front of him and said: "Mrs. Chen, every time I come to your house, you always give me a lot of surprises. I don't know what kind of porridge is made of this bowl in front of me. I’ve eaten it, and the purple bowl is pretty good, after I finish eating the bowl in front of me, I’ll try the porridge again.”

"Mr. Wei, the bowl in front of you is sweet potato porridge, and the bowl on the table is purple potato porridge. Both are similar."

Gao Ze felt that he had eaten a lot of breakfast in the capital, but he had never seen the two servings of porridge in front of him. He looked at Bai Lan curiously and asked, "Mrs. Chen, what are sweet potatoes and purple potatoes?"

"Sweet potatoes and purple potatoes are both a kind of satiety crops, with high yields, and they don't pick the ground."

Gao Ze is like a curious baby, "The yield is high, Mrs. Chen, I don't know if this thing can be planted well, how many seeds do you have in hand? Can you share some with me."

"Seeds, I'm going to grow seedlings now, but today I suddenly want to drink sweet potato porridge, so we just cooked a little bit, and we usually keep them as seeds and don't eat them."

"I plan to let all the people in the village who want to plant sweet potatoes grow them. There shouldn't be many who can distribute them to the county magistrate Gao."

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, you have a lot of land in your village, and you should be able to plant a lot. I just hope that Mrs. Chen can save more seeds for me next year. I want to spread them in several surrounding counties."

Bai Lan heard Gao Ze said that it would be promoted in several nearby counties, and wondered if she could get more points if the surrounding counties were planted with sweet potatoes.

"Magistrate Gao, now I can't assure you how many sweet potato seedlings I can give you. You will have to wait for a while. I still have a batch of crops in my hand. Its yield is quite high. And it's full The stomach taste is not much worse than that of sweet potatoes."

"Really?"

"Mrs. Chen, take a look. Do you want to leave me more sweet potato seedlings or more potato seeds? I can keep as much as you can. There are still a few people in the surrounding area who can't afford to go to the villages and towns to eat. I'm just the county magistrate of Qingyuan County, but I also want to do more for the people. Not to mention how good their lives are, as long as they don't go hungry, that's already my biggest wish."

"The people have such a good official as County Magistrate Gao. Everyone will thank you. I will do my best to help you."

After listening to the conversation between the two, Wei Tong looked at Bai Lan curiously, "Mrs. Chen, can the two crops you mentioned be sold as vegetables?"

"Of course it's possible. Sweet potatoes can be made into sweet potato powder, or shredded sweet potatoes, like this sweet potato porridge, and then dried sweet potatoes can be eaten as snacks."

"Potatoes can be made into potato starch, or into potato flour. Hot and sour potato shreds, cold potato shreds, are all acceptable, and they are more appetizing."

Wei Tong listened to what Bai Lan said, and the more he listened, the more addicted he became, "Mrs. Chen, I don't know what you said, can we have a taste first?"

"Potato flour is more expensive than sweet potato flour, so I won't make sweet potatoes for you. I can make you a cold potato shreds, hot and sour potato shreds and a shredded sweet potato. Sweet potato is a beet. How about letting you taste it? "

The men nodded tacitly.

Gao Ze: "It's still early, I want to go out for a stroll in the village, and take a look at how the school built in your village is doing."

"Okay! I'll ask my old man to go with you."

Gao Ze glanced at Chen Yu, who was not talking much now, "Otherwise, there's no need, Wei Tong has visited your village a lot, and I'll just go out with him for a walk."

"it is good!"

As soon as Gao Ze and Wei Tong walked out of Chen's house, Gao Ze saw a familiar person walking towards him.

"Auntie Butterfly!"

(End of this chapter)