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Did you plant Chapter 48? Yes, I planted it!

After receiving the sweet potatoes and potatoes, everyone started preparing the land and planting them. The whole village was talking about it, and everyone was overjoyed.

After all, everyone who has tasted sweet potatoes loves them. Since Xu Zhichun and the others say potatoes are good, they must be good too. They are said to have a very high yield, so how can people not be happy?
Qi Tian had already prepared all the furniture Xu Zhichun wanted and had people help carry it to Xu Zhichun's house, where it was neatly arranged for her.

Xu Zhichun thanked him and looked at the brand-new wardrobe, chest of drawers, and the dozen or so newly added pieces of furniture and utensils, feeling quite satisfied.

This is much more convenient now.

When Liang Mingxuan returned, he was both surprised and delighted to see the new wardrobe and the desk with bookshelves in his room. He was extremely happy with it.

His sister-in-law is so good to him!

Xu Zhichun's custom-made large iron pot is also coming back, making it much more convenient to cook konjac tofu and make konjac noodles every day. There are also more basins and buckets, making them easier to place.

Everyone was busy planting sweet potatoes and potatoes, and the whole village was bustling with activity. The more careful ones would even use bamboo strips and branches to specially fence off the small plot of land where they planted sweet potatoes, just in case the chickens wandered into the vegetable garden and ruined it.

Even the way people greet each other these days has changed from "Have you eaten?" to "Have you planted?"

"Did you plant them?"

"I've planted them all, what about you?"

"Haha, we planted some too! We specially picked the best spot in the vegetable garden in front of our house to plant them."

"Hey, who isn't? Just waiting to sprout!"

"Absolutely! It's good stuff!"

"Yes, haha!"

Of course, only the esteemed sweet potatoes deserve this treatment. As for potatoes, although Zhichun said they are also good, they are much more casual to grow; they can be planted wherever there is open space.

The thought of sweet potatoes sprouting, growing vines, and then being able to cut off the vines and plant more, leading to a bountiful harvest of sweet potatoes in the fall, fills everyone with immense joy.

The children were especially eager, running to their own fields several times a day to check if the sweet potatoes had sprouted.

When the first child discovered that their sweet potato had sprouted, he ran home from the vegetable garden shouting, "It's sprouting! It's sprouting! The sweet potato has sprouted!" The whole family beamed with joy and rushed to the vegetable garden to see the rare sweet potato sprout.

Those who hadn't yet gone to their own vegetable gardens rushed over, and when they found any sprouting plants, they cheered and gathered around to watch.

Even those whose plants haven't sprouted yet rush to other people's houses to be the first to see the rare sight, while also nervously anticipating the growth of their own.

Those few days the village was as lively as if it were Chinese New Year.

Some people, still worried, went to ask Xu Zhichun for advice: What should I do if the sweet potato sprouts? Should I water it? How much? When is the best time to water it? How should I fertilize it? When will the sweet potato sprouts be fully grown? When can I pinch them off? How should I pinch them off? How do I plant them after pinching them off? What if I don't pinch them off properly and they stop growing new vines?
Xu Zhichun was drenched in sweat.

If she weren't absolutely certain that it was a sweet potato—the kind she'd given everyone, incredibly hardy, the kind that could be grown with minimal effort—she would have thought it was some delicate, precious treasure that needed to be carefully protected. But she couldn't be too certain, after all, her persona was that she didn't know anything about sweet potatoes, and everything she'd heard was from the merchants.

So she had to use the "merchant's" words to explain to everyone: This is a normal crop, just plant it as usual. You shouldn't need to fertilize it yet, right? Watering it every four or five days should be enough, right?
She said something, yet it was as if she said nothing at all.

But all they wanted was some psychological comfort, and they left satisfied.

Xu Zhichun silently wiped her sweat. "Family, please forgive her! She's unconsciously trembling with fear."
These days, Xu Zhichun is also growing potatoes and sweet potatoes at home, while the task of setting up a stall in the city has been handed over to Zeng Xiaoyan and her husband, as well as Aunt Zhu'er.

Uncle Qitian finished growing all the crops that Aunt Zhu'er's family had in a single day by himself.

They originally offered to help Xu Zhichun with the planting, but she declined. She worried that tending to over ten acres by herself would take too much time, so she hired Liang Chunfen to help.

On the day the land reclamation was completed, Liang Chunfen brought three steamed sweet potatoes home to her mother. Chunfen's mother was both surprised and delighted after tasting them, and quickly asked her for details. Chunfen couldn't explain it clearly. So Chunfen's mother hurriedly went to Xu Zhichun's house.

She had originally planned to visit Zhichun's house, but it would seem too sudden to do so without a reason. Now, it's just the right time.

Xu Zhichun knew about the Spring Equinox. When Chunfen's mother came to ask, she smiled and explained it to her.

Spring Equinox Mother longed more than anyone to grow things to fill their stomachs, and immediately expressed her delight that she wanted to buy some too.

Xu Zhichun said that potatoes and sweet potatoes were both good, so she wanted both.

Xu Zhichun smiled and said, "I know that people eat a lot during the Spring Equinox. There are four catties of sweet potatoes to use as seed. Just cut the vines and plant them. If you want them, I can sell you two more catties of potatoes. Auntie, don't tell anyone. The merchant said that potatoes have a higher yield than sweet potatoes."

Chunfen's mother was overjoyed and nodded and thanked her with a smile: "Yes, yes, our family is in dire need of such things. Thank you, Zhichun, for being so generous."

Xu Zhichun smiled and said, "I can give you an extra two pounds, Auntie, don't be shy."

After weighing the sweet potatoes and potatoes, Chunfen's mother was still there. She hesitated for a moment, then finally forced a smile and said, "Zhichun, Auntie has a question for you. You've bought so much land, and you're busy digging konjac, making things to sell in town, and there's so much farm work to do. You must be overwhelmed, right? My Chunfen is a master at farm work. If you ever need to hire someone for any kind of work, could you consider Chunfen first? She's more reliable than a man, she's worth two men! We don't need wages, just... just give her one meal a day—no, no, not even a full meal, just give her as much as a normal person would eat. Is that alright?"

Liang Chunfen didn't quite understand what her mother meant by all that, but she understood that she was being asked to do chores for Sister-in-law Zhichun. She immediately smiled brightly and said happily, "Sister-in-law Zhichun, I love doing chores for you! Just tell me what chores you need me to do. I'm strong, I can do anything!"

Spring Equinox's mother tugged at her and scolded, "Alright, stop talking so much."

Liang Chunfen listened to her mother and kept quiet, but looked at Xu Zhichun with pleading eyes.

Xu Zhichun's heart skipped a beat; her aunt's words had reminded her.

To be honest, it's not just about planting, weeding, and harvesting a dozen acres of land; there are also six acres of paddy fields and a dozen acres of konjac fields that need weeding and management. And I also plan to buy more land in the future. It's all pure physical labor.

Please continue to support me, my darlings! The PK results will be out in the next couple of days. Remember, please don't let the story wait for you these next two days! Thank you!

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