Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 470 Sweet Potatoes
After eating the sweet potatoes, some meerkats imitated Li Hongbing's movements and helped collect the sweet potatoes scattered in the field. Some meerkats preferred to dig the soil and enjoy the joy of finding sweet potatoes from the soil.

Acres and acres of sweet potato fields were plowed out, and piles of sweet potatoes were placed on the ridges of the fields.

Chichi wooo!

Suddenly, the screams of the meerkats became more intense. A group of meerkats formed a group and dug hard at the soil with their claws. Dust and sand flew all over the sky.

Hongqi shouted "U" and held down the rake.

The scholars couldn't bear it anymore.

The dogs came in and treated us like livestock. They dropped the rope and worked together to press the red flag into the soil and beat us.

Make you happy, make you happy! !

At this point, Hongqi still didn't forget to shout from the gap between the people, "Brother, your mouse is crazy."

"Beat him, beat him hard, I've been itching a lot lately." Li Hongbing encouraged while walking over to the group of meerkats to see what they had dug up.

jiji!

In just a short time, the meerkat group had dug a pit one meter wide and one meter deep.

I go!

What is that?
Red skin, like a sweet potato, so big!
Li Hongbing was startled and hurriedly shouted to the people who were fighting, "Stop fighting, come and see, the meerkat has dug up a big guy!!"

What!
The scholars dropped their red flags and ran over. When the meerkats saw someone coming to snatch their food, they whined in warning.

"No one will snatch it, let's dig it out first." Li Hongbing comforted the meerkat group.

Uncle Muzhu heard the commotion and led people over. When they saw the sweet potatoes buried in the pit, they all exclaimed.

"My dear, such a big sweet potato has become a sperm!"

"I estimate it weighs 4 to 50 pounds."

"Moreover, you see such a big hole, not all of it has popped up."

"It's so deep, no wonder it can't be dug out with a plow."

"What are you waiting for? Dig it out first and you will know how big it is!" Li Hongbing stood up and waved his hand to give up his position.

Just watch the excitement.

Everyone shook their heads and was speechless, but the sweet potatoes buried in the soil really made people's hearts itch. They were all farmers and had a special love for crops.

Everyone lay down beside the pit, not daring to use hoes for fear of digging up the sweet potatoes, so they could only carefully dig up the soil with their hands.

As the soil was dug up bit by bit, the true appearance of the sweet potatoes buried in the ground was gradually revealed, and everyone's mouths slowly opened wide.

Big, not ordinary big!
The main body is almost as big as a small Eight Immortals table, and the corners around it have not all been dug out.

"It's over a hundred catties, it's over a hundred catties." Uncle Muddle-head shook his mouth. He has spent his whole life planting land and harvesting grain. This is the first time he has seen such a big sweet potato.

Other villagers were also born as farmers, and they had never seen such a big sweet potato, which usually only weighs ten to twenty kilograms.

"Good guy, it must be more than a hundred kilograms. There is still more down there. Dig it out quickly." The villagers became more energetic and continued to dig with their hands.

After the whole sweet potato was dug out, Uncle Muzhu and four or five other people covered the bottom with woven bags and carefully lifted it up.

Farmers have been farming for many years and have a very accurate grasp of the weight.

You can get a rough estimate by weighing small items with your hands, lifting medium items twice, and carrying large items on your shoulders.

Uncle Muzhu put the burden on his shoulders and estimated the weight of the sweet potato. He said with a happy face, "It weighs 220 kilograms."

Several other villagers carrying sweet potatoes nodded in agreement.

"Not bad, around 200."

"It's estimated to weigh 240 pounds."

"It's still close to 250 pounds."

The remaining people gathered around the sweet potatoes and marveled at them. You and I guessed the weight with each word.

Li Hongbing sneered and said, "Just guess, Xiao Chen, go get the scale. You won't know how much it weighs once you weigh it."

A few days ago, Oak Technology conducted an audit on the high loss rate of the cold chain transportation department, and after digging deeper, it discovered a gray scalper line.

The driver exchanges civet cats for prince vegetables during transportation, exchanges damaged ordinary vegetables for oak vegetables, and then resells them to scalpers. When the cold chain truck returns to the packaging workshop, he and the inspectors will simply deal with the loss in private, so that he can make a lot of money with nothing. money.

After the Oak Express delivery was reorganized, we began to arrange for village staff. The work content was very simple. Weighed, registered, photographed and uploaded the oak vegetables that were produced every day, and then waited for the oak vegetables to be taken to the packaging workshop to re-weigh and compare, so as to prevent express delivery. Personnel tampered with the situation on the way.

Xiao Chen moved the scale and was worried that the sweet potatoes would be crushed. Uncle Muzhu first placed a layer of sweet potato seedlings on the scale, and then directed several villagers to put the big sweet potatoes on it.

The scale instantly settled at 225 pounds.

Li Hongbing gave Uncle Fu a thumbs up.

Cattle! !

Older gingers are more spicy.

Only 5 pounds wrong.

Uncle Muzhu didn't take the compliment seriously at all, but said with an excited expression.

"Red Soldier, this is the sweet potato king. Our village has never grown such a big sweet potato. The feng shui of our village has returned. We have to hold a big banquet to report to our ancestors."

Another big banquet!

Hearing the word "big banquet", Li Hongbing's brain ached. It had only been a long time since the last big banquet, and he had to hold a big banquet again.

He was about to tactfully comfort the old man in front of him.

Jijijiji! !
The meerkat group let out an urgent cry again, and hula gathered in the other direction of the sweet potato field, claws digging hard into the soil.

What, have you discovered something again?
Li Hongbing was speechless. The sweet potatoes were so long that it was really annoying. He quickly changed the subject, "Uncle, the meerkat has found a big sweet potato again."

Uncle Confused looked confused. It is said that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, and the fertility of the land is only so much. Only one sweet potato king can grow on a piece of land, and it is rare for two such big sweet potatoes to grow at the same time.

Dig it!

The villagers hurriedly dug the soil where the meerkat was found, and soon they dug out another big sweet potato. It wasn't as big as the first one, but it was still about the same.

This, what the hell!
Look at the newly dug sweet potatoes and weigh them on the scale.

200 pounds.

Uncle Confused's brain is a bit exhausted. He feels that everything he cultivated in the past was planted in the dog's belly.

Just as everyone was sighing, the meerkat group ran to another plowed sweet potato field, chirping while digging at the soil.

There are also sweet potatoes buried underneath!

"Brother, how do you grow sweet potatoes in your field? What's the secret recipe? They are different from what I grow at home."

Hong Qi looked puzzled. When the seller of sweet potato seedlings came to the village, everyone in the village bought some and planted them in their own gardens. I had never heard that anyone’s sweet potatoes could grow so big, but the sweet potatoes in Brother Hongbing’s field were like pig feed. Same.

Other villagers nodded in agreement. The same batch of sweet potato seedlings grew with such a big difference.

If I can find a method, I can grow my own sweet potatoes to such a big size in the future, but I'm afraid I won't be able to sell them at a high price.

"There must be a secret recipe, passed down by my grandfather." Li Hongbing directly used his grandfather Li Ba's head as a shield. Anyway, he would not admit that he used the original power on the sweet potato seedlings. It is possible that too much original power was invested at that time, which caused the sweet potatoes to grow. So big.

When everyone heard the secret recipe and then heard that it was Boss Li, they gave up completely.

Who is Boss Li? He is a man with a strong reputation in the forest.

Even after being gone for more than 20 years, the name still works.

"I figured it out. The sweet potatoes on the top are small sweet potatoes that haven't grown up yet. The big ones are all buried underneath. I'll dig out the top layer today, and then dig out the bottom tomorrow."

Uncle Fu looked at the sun and the mountains of sweet potatoes, and decided to divide the work into two days.

"The cold chain truck has arrived at Chaotianyan." Xiao Chen put down his cell phone.

Cold chain trucks delivered by Oak Express drove to the fields one after another, weighed, took photos, loaded the trucks, and took away baskets of fresh sweet potatoes.

Li Hongbing was exhausted and covered in mud. He had finished a bowl of noodles at noon. He had almost digested the noodles from work, and now his stomach was growling with hunger.

"Hongqi, get some mud, let's bake sweet potatoes in the kiln." Hongqi was stunned for a moment, grabbed a sweet potato, rubbed the mud off with his hands, nibbled off the skin and ate it raw without feeling dirty at all.

"It's okay to eat them raw. Baking sweet potatoes in a kiln is troublesome."

"If you find it troublesome, don't eat it later. Xing'er will go collect firewood."

Li Hongbing stood up, picked up a hoe, found rough soil, and started to build the earth kiln.

Tall buildings were built from the ground, and earthen kilns were built just like houses.

A stable foundation will prevent it from collapsing easily.

Therefore, the bottom layer of the earthen kiln is basically made up of large pieces of earth, which are stacked layer by layer from bottom to top. The higher the earthen blocks are, the smaller the pieces are and the movements are gentler. The last piece of earth is the top of the earthen kiln, and the earthen kiln is well built.

The firewood collected by Shan Xing came in handy.

Burn the fire, burn the fire, and wait for the high temperature to burn the earthen kiln until it is black and red.

Li Hongbing threw the sweet potatoes into the red-hot earth kiln, then filled the earth kiln with sand, buried them, and used the scorching heat to roast the sweet potatoes.

Whether the sweet potatoes are ripe or not depends entirely on experience.

This is a childhood game.

I took it out again at the age of 36, and it didn’t look unfamiliar at all.

Next, continue working. It will take several hours for the sweet potatoes to cook.

After the top layer of the 40-acre sweet potato field was completely plowed, tens of thousands of kilograms of sweet potatoes were piled on the ridges of the fields. Everyone was exhausted. The only remaining task was to pull the sweet potatoes away quickly.

The sweet potatoes deep in the ground can only be dug tomorrow. I am too tired today.

Take a break.

Li Hongbing used a hoe to dig open the earthen kiln, pulled out the sweet potatoes from the soil, and scalded the sweet potatoes. Each sweet potato had an attractive charred aroma, and the outer shell was roasted to a charred red color, with sugar and oil coming out.

Li Hongbing carefully grabbed a sweet potato, wrapped it in sweet potato seedlings, and presented it to Shan Xing.

"Myolie, try it quickly. Does it taste the same as when you were a kid?"

The mountain apricot took the sweet potato and peeled it off to reveal the beautiful golden flesh, which emitted a rich sweet aroma, so that everyone on the ground turned to look at the kiln.

What sweet potato.

Why does it smell so good!
Shan Xing held the sweet potato and took a bite. It was so hot that his tongue almost melted. He slowly blew the heat away and took another bite. It was sweet, soft and glutinous, making his mouth and tongue salivate.

Shan Xing narrowed his eyes, "It's so sweet. It's sweeter than what I ate when I was a kid. Brother, please try it."

As he spoke, he brought the roasted sweet potato to Li Hongbing's mouth, and Li Hongbing took a big bite.

It is delicate and silky in the mouth, extremely soft and waxy, has an excellent taste, and has a rich honey sweetness.

"Xing'er, you eat too." Li Hongbing pushed the sweet potato to Shan Xing's mouth, and Shan Xing took a bite. "Brother, you eat too."

You two take a bite and I take a bite, spreading dog food in broad daylight.

shameless.

Too shameless.

A bunch of old bachelors present were so angry that they were itching their teeth and swallowing eagerly. If they couldn't beat him, they would have swarmed up and buried Li Hongbing in the sweet potato field.

"I can't stand it anymore!!" Li Hongqi suddenly yelled, took off his coat, threw it to the ground, and strode towards Li Hongbing.

Correct!
Fuck him, just make him look shameless!
Everyone's encouraging eyes focused on Li Hongqi.

Watch him walk up to Li Hongbing, watch him pass over Li Hongbing, watch him dig out a roasted sweet potato from the kiln, watch him eat it.

dog into.

You usually talk about yourself and say you are the second best man in Caogou Village, but your special mother only has this ability.

"Look at me!" Shengli also threw his clothes on the ground and walked over.

If other people can't see it anymore, they're just like pigs.

Beating up Li Hongbing is fake, but snatching sweet potatoes is real.

The curtain of sunset gradually falls, and the mountains in the distance overlap.

Li Hongbing drove Delica back to his old home. The car was filled with millions of sweet potatoes.

Why did he take so many sweet potatoes? Because Li Hongbing was greedy and wanted to eat dried sweet potatoes.

Most of the dried sweet potatoes sold in the city use high technology and hard work. They look bright in color and taste cloyingly sweet.

Real dried sweet potatoes are steamed and then sun-dried. After drying, there is a layer of white sugar on the surface. They taste tough and become more fragrant the more you chew them.

And now is the best season to make dried sweet potatoes.

The sweet potatoes were moved to the well. Li Hongbing was responsible for cleaning the soil on the surface of the sweet potatoes. Shan Xing cut the washed sweet potatoes into finger-width sweet potato slices.

The meerkat group gathered around Shan Xing, staring pitifully at the sweet potatoes in the basin with wide eyes, drool dripping from the corners of their mouths.

"I can only eat one piece." The kind-hearted Shan Xing smiled and took out the sweet potato slices from the basin and gave one piece to each meerkat.

After washing the sweet potatoes, Li Hongbing went to the kitchen and took a look. The hot water was boiling in a large pot on the stove. He poured the cut sweet potato slices into the steamer and steamed ten pounds of sweet potatoes in one drawer.

Stack the steamers one layer at a time in a stack, take out the bottom layer after steaming, pour it on a dustpan to dry, put the sweet potato slices into the empty steamer again, and steam in a cycle.

"It smells so good!" Anna ran into the rice field with her daughter and a group of children. After smelling the aroma of sweet potatoes and honey, she ran to the kitchen door and asked.

"Steamed sweet potatoes, do you want to eat them?" Li Hongbing smiled and held a steamer basket and placed it in front of the children.

"Eat, eat, eat!"

The children nodded repeatedly.

"Hold Tiedan, don't drop it!" Li Hongbing handed the steamer to Tiedan, and Nannan asked knowingly, "Uncle, I heard that you have a big TV at home, can I watch it for a while?"

Little clever ghost!

Everyone knows how to use tactics.

It didn't take much to think about it to know that it was Anna's idea.

For the sake of Nannan's face, Li Hongbing reluctantly agreed.

The children cheered and rushed into the office. Li Hongbing even played the animation without Li Hongbing's intervention. Anna had already learned it secretly.

When the children started watching the animation, four black figures thought Li Hongbing hadn't seen them and sneaked into the office, followed closely by a group of meerkats.

Li Hongbing shook his head helplessly. The charm of animation is so great that even animals are addicted to it.

Night is slowly coming, and the stars are twinkling in the darkness.

A little smoke rises.

Today, the canteen will prepare a sweet potato feast for free, and Village Chief Li will provide the ingredients.

Sweet potato batter, sweet potato rice, roasted sweet potato, fried sweet potato balls, shredded sweet potato, and all kinds of delicious dishes made with sweet potato.

The tourists walked into the canteen and were about to eat. When they saw that it was all sweet potatoes, some of them were unhappy.

It's okay to make sweet potatoes, but you can't just feed yourself like a pig with all sweet potatoes.

Some people are unhappy, and some people don't care. Sweet potatoes are whole grains, and eating some of them is not harmful to the body. The most important thing is that they are free. If you don't eat them, you won't eat them for nothing, and you will save money on a meal.

I picked up a roasted sweet potato, peeled it off and put it in my mouth.

Suddenly, the whole person froze in place.

With a gentle sip, the dense and soft pulp instantly melted between the lips and teeth. The rich aroma of honey burst out in the mouth, and the natural sweetness reached the heart. It was so delicious that I almost couldn't help but scream.

This is sweet potato?

Why is it different from what I ate before?

(End of this chapter)