At three o'clock, the sun has become hot.The group finished their work, carried sacks filled with grains on poles, and headed down the slope fields back to the village.

Madam of the Su family, she is a very particular person. Not only does she pay fifty cash a day when she hires someone to collect grain, but she also takes care of a lunch!

The people who were doing farm work for Su Qingqing today were all singing folk songs and humming, and happily walking on the path home.

Although the sun is strong and there is a lot of sweat, it does not dampen everyone’s sunny mood.

In this village, only Su Qingqing, the miracle doctor who came from the mountain, eats lunch every day. The other families do not have the luxury of having three meals a day.

But people don’t eat lunch just because they are poor and can’t afford it, not because they don’t like it.

Today is different. I have a free lunch. I am naturally as happy as during the Chinese New Year. I don’t feel tired even when I pick up the pole.

When Su Qingqing and his party returned to the village, a group of fishermen also came back in their fishing boats.

"Pretty boy, we've sold out all the fish, how was the harvest today?" A young peasant woman shouted to the young fisherman from a distance.

"It's okay, just barely."

The fishermen didn't look very excited. Today was just an ordinary fishing day, and there was no such thing as a big net explosion.

Fishermen catch and sell fish mostly in the early morning and mid-morning. If they can't sell it in the morning, no one will want it in the afternoon.

This is the trading time of the fishing boat wharf determined by the storage conditions of the seafood, which is different from the opening time of the market in the town.

In towns, farmers, vegetable sellers, fishmongers, merchants, etc. have to rush into the city from all directions, and the market opening time is in the afternoon.

In an era when carriages and horses were very slow, transportation for the poor basically relied on walking.It makes sense to spend the morning collecting goods and rushing on the road and going to the market to sell goods in the afternoon.

When the two sides merged into a village road from both sides, the fishermen shouted in surprise: "Have you collected all the grains in the fields this morning?"

We had originally agreed to call a few of them to help collect grain in the afternoon, but why did it end?Everyone is already gearing up and waiting. It would be a fool not to make extra money if you have it.

Su Qingqing probably knew what they were thinking, so she explained: "No, there is still a lot of land to harvest. I told you before that we will set off after the hottest hour of noon."

"Ah, Mrs. Su, you only have a few acres of land in total. You have harvested so much food, what else?" The fisherman who had never seen the world was shocked.

In the Tang Dynasty, when the weather was good and there were no disasters or diseases, one acre of land could only yield two shi of grain.

But now looking at what everyone is carrying on the poles, the full and heavy sacks alone are far beyond the normal output of Su Qingqing's field.

Su Qingqing said calmly: "As I told you before, these are high-yield grains that my brother brought back from overseas in the Americas. They are different from what you usually grow."

When Zheng Tian heard Su Qingqing say this, he couldn't help but turn his head and look at her, smiling and saying nothing.

"Ouch! My Lord Dilong! I really have so much food! How much did you harvest from this acre of land? I'm afraid it's about ten stones?"

"I told you before that the yield of corn is four to five dan per mu, and the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes is higher, plus ten dan per mu." Su Qingqing affirmed with a smile.

"Hiss! It's true!"

"The Dragon King has appeared. I have never heard of such a large amount of grain being produced per acre in my life."

While everyone was talking about it, Village Chief Tian, ​​who had already received the news, rushed over and shouted to Su Qingqing from a distance: "Qingqing, is your field really producing fourteen or five stones per mu?" "Yes." Su Qingqing nodded.

Among the peasant women working for Su Qingqing this morning, there were also members of Tiancun Chang's family.

After all, although he is the village chief, he is also the village chief in a poor village. He is really not an official. He cannot lack the fishing and farming that should be done.

Hearing Su Qingqing's affirmative reply and looking at the poles carried by everyone, Chief Tian's eyes suddenly turned red.

What kind of luck is this in their village? There are no plane trees, but a real phoenix can actually come to live there!There is really smoke coming out of the ancestral graves!

Her "medical skills" alone are enough to make everyone look at Su Qingqing with admiration. Now that she can grow high-yielding food, everyone will bow to her and call her mother.

Su Qingqing had tasted the corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes among the villagers before, so everyone knew about these grains, and the taste was no worse than rice (the rice eaten by the poor was harder because they were reluctant to grind it into japonica rice).

Especially sweet potatoes, the skin can be fed to pigs and sheep, and the sweet potato cubes can be cooked with rice to make porridge. The taste is so delicious, it is a treasure of cereals!

Although potatoes are difficult to cook, they are still delicious. Boil them in water and dip them in a little black bean sauce (called soy sauce since the Song Dynasty). They are delicious and filling!

In fact, corn kernels can be dried and ground into powder, which can be used to make corn rice and polenta, which are equally delicious. Moreover, corn cobs can also be used to make wine, but Su Qingqing has not taught you yet.

Nowadays, people don’t pay much attention to corn because the yield of corn is lower than that of potatoes and sweet potatoes. They really don’t know the goods!

The three treasures she got from the Tang Dynasty can be said to be extraordinary and are essential food for time travel.

Without Su Qingqing's butterfly wings, it would have been hundreds of years before the Chinese people wanted to eat these three things.

Without further ado, now that she had met Village Chief Tian, ​​Su Qingqing invited him to have lunch.

The reason is also ready. The husband of Zheng's family is here today and he is invited to accompany him.

Zheng Tian cooperated very well and showed a decent smile when Su Qingqing mentioned him, and exchanged greetings with the village chief who had just noticed him.

Village Chief Tian thought the same thing. Su Qingqing was a girl and she couldn't entertain Zheng Xiaolangjun personally.As the head of a village, he really should accompany the distinguished guest to have two glasses of wine.

Immediately, he ordered his son Tian Youmi to bring the isinglass, dried squid and dried shrimp from home as a gift, so as to take advantage of Su Qingqing as little as possible.

In fact, they came to take advantage. Su Qingqing made a lot of money.

Among these things, Su Qingqing's favorite is dried shrimp, but her favorite is fish maw.Otherwise, isinglass is expensive!

Isinglass, also known as fish maw, is a high-end seafood product just like dried abalone and is worth a lot of money!
Not long after Su Qingqing's own birthday, it was her grandfather's birthday.

She has already thought about giving the old man the natural and pollution-free fish maws from Datang, as well as wild and pollution-free precious Chinese medicinal materials from good vintages as birthday gifts.

Older Chinese herbal medicines, like good fish maws, all depend on luck. You can’t just buy them right away.

After all, this is not the modern era where the Internet extends in all directions, but the late Tang Dynasty where everything is blocked.

Now Chief Tamura brought over a Rolls-Royce in a fish maw - golden anchovy maw, which was also very large and in very good condition. It looked like it was old at first glance. How could Su Qingqing not like it?

In order to show her sincerity, Su Qingqing decided to join Xia Qing and others in personally cooking a table of delicious food to entertain Village Chief Tian!


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