farming female castellan

Chapter 80 Dividing Sweet Potatoes

"I walked around the mountain twice just now, and walked twice on the top of the mountain, but I didn't see anyone walking outside." Chen Fan said.

"Some refugees will rob things. When there is nothing to do, everyone will not go out." The old lady said.

Then you still dare to open the door?Chen Fan glanced at the old lady.

"A few days ago, someone came around and said they wanted to buy mountains and land. Yesterday, I was taking someone to the county government to apply for the land deed. The man said that a girl would come over then. I guess you should be that girl." said the old lady.

Others should guess the same, right?Why didn't you come out and take a look?Or did you hide in the yard and watch?

"Can you invite Li Zheng over for me?" Chen Fan took two big sweet potatoes and asked the old lady to bring them to Li Zheng's house.

Mrs. Luo put the sweet potatoes into a basket and walked out the door.

Chen Fan lifted the lid of the pot, and the eldest daughter-in-law Pan took out a handful of bowls, took out a sweet potato in each bowl, and distributed them to everyone.

"Blow it first, be careful not to burn it." Chen Fan reminded, peeled off a little skin with chopsticks, picked up a sweet potato with chopsticks, blew on it and put it in his mouth.

Everyone followed suit and ate bite by bite.

A child got a little impatient, got burned, and opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue.

The youngest girl was only four years old, and she put down the bowl after eating more than half of the root, saying she was full.A boy brought the bowl over and said he still wanted to eat.

Putting down the bowl, Pan said, "This sweet potato is so sweet and soft, I feel full after eating one."

This one is not small, it is almost a small bowl of mashed potatoes.

Li Zheng came in, and Pan served him sweet potatoes in a bowl.As soon as he took a bite, he praised how delicious it was.After a while, I finished eating a sweet potato.

"This sweet potato seems to be easy to fill up. I feel full after eating one. If I eat a little more, I should be able to eat it. It doesn't matter if I don't eat it." Li Zheng said.

"This sweet potato can feed everyone, and it has strong growth ability and a high yield per mu. It is still too late to plant, and everyone will have food in winter."

"Can we plant it now?" Lizheng's eyes sparkled with hope.

"We transported a few carts of sweet potato vines in a carriage, and they are in the mountains. They should still be there at this time. You can take someone to see them and bring them here. I will teach you how to grow them."

"Just a few of us, if there are too many, I'll let everyone know." Pan said.

Lizheng and Mrs. Luo took their three children to the mountains. Mrs. Pan washed the dishes and cut sweet potatoes into slices while chatting with Chen Fan.

Not long after, Li Zheng ran back and went to Murakami to call for someone.With the sound of footsteps, many people ran into the mountains.

After about 40 minutes, the crowd came back and Chen Fan walked out the door.

The sweet potato vines were all piled up in the open space outside the courtyard, surrounded by a group of strange people.

Pan brought out the sweet potato, and the villagers all picked up a section of sweet potato with their hands and started to eat it.Then, everyone said it was delicious, but they didn't eat enough.

Lizheng cleared his throat: "This is sweet potato, the yield per mu is very high, and it is easy to eat. Everyone is planting sweet potato vines now, and there will be food in winter."

Everyone began to discuss, nothing more than how to plant, how much can be harvested and so on.

Chen Fan took a pair of scissors, cut off a section of vine, and held it up.

The field was quiet, and Chen Fan gestured with his hands and said, "Watch out for this vine, and watch out for the direction in which each stem and leaf grows. They are all upwards. Count eight or nine leaves and cut a section. Eight or nine leaves are placed against the petiole. Cut. The upper part of the vine is long."

She clicked and cut some vines, and said: "Every family starts to cut one vine, and each family cuts a hundred first."

Some people went back to get the scissors, while others stayed to pull the rattan.The child thought it was very fun, and ran out far away pulling the cane, competing with whose cane was longer.

There are only [-] households in Shangma Village, and everyone stands in the open space, doing daily chores while working.One hundred sweet potato vines were cut without much effort.

"Is the land in your village fertile?" Chen Fan asked Li Zheng.

Lizheng shook his head: "They are relatively barren, and the grain harvest is not much. There was a drought for several months before, and many crops failed. This batch of rice seedlings is not very good."

Chen Fan told Mrs. Pan to take a hoe, plan it quickly, and put the sweet potato vines sideways in the pit, pointing to the leaves and said: "Everyone, look after it, you must put it like this, five or six pieces will do. It is good to sprinkle a handful of plant ash and cover it with soil. It is cloudy now, and the ground is a little wet, so it is suitable for planting. Don’t plant in low-lying places that are prone to water accumulation, and higher ground is better.”

"There are still a lot of sweet potato vines left." Someone was thinking.

"Call the people from the other three villages, or they will rob you of the sweet potatoes you planted." Chen Fan put the ugly words in front of him.

"Let's cut some more, the three villages don't need so many." A young man said.

"Then cut another fifty per family." Chen Fan agreed.Everyone happily got busy, and after cutting, they scattered.

The other three villages were not so easy to discuss. When they came to the open space, they chatted endlessly, regardless of the purpose of the gathering.

There were not many sweet potatoes left, so I only distributed them to Lizheng and the old man to taste.Du Li from Shangma Village introduced the benefits of sweet potatoes to everyone, and pointed to the sweet potato vines and said that there is still time to plant them.

Those three lizhengs were very responsive, after all, they could fill the villagers' stomachs.A few people started yelling: "We've never seen this thing, who knows what will grow."

Chen Fan dragged the bag of sweet potatoes from the carriage and said to Du Lizheng, "The four villages should be divided into one share. You can go through the scales and see how they are divided. Those who cannot be separated can be chopped up and divided."

Du Lizheng asked someone to bring the scale, carried the sack and weighed 92 catties, and distributed 23 catties to each village.

Du Li didn't say how to divide the 23 catties. The three villages had already quarreled, and each had their own reasons.

Chen Fan let them quarrel, and asked Du Lizheng softly how to divide.

"One catty per family, and the extra four catties will be distributed to the eight oldest elderly people in the village, half a catty each."

Chen Fan gave him a thumbs up, this is a good idea.

"Exactly eight old people? Are there any others of similar age?"

"There are eight people over the age of 50, and those under the age of 50 are not considered old people, right?"

"The sweet potato laxative and protects the cardiovascular system is very beneficial to the elderly." Chen Fan said.

"Really?" Li Zheng was delighted, "Then the elderly will be able to digest better and live better."

Shuanma Village has already discussed, but the other two villages are still arguing, Chen Fan can see that those two villages have no deterrent effect.

"How many families are there in your village?" Chen Fan asked Jiang Lizheng of Xiama Village.

"There are fifteen families in our village." Jiang Lizheng said.

"One catty is distributed to each household, and the remaining eight catties are distributed to the elderly over 50 years old, half a catty per person." Chen Fan used Du Lizheng's method.

"We don't have any old people in our family, isn't that a disadvantage?" a young man yelled.

Young, shouting so fiercely?

"How many people over 50 years old are there in your village?" Chen Fan asked Jiang Lizheng.

Jiang Li was counting each family with his fingers.

Chen Fan rubbed his forehead, there were only fifteen households, Lizheng didn't even count the population?

(End of this chapter)