Happy peasant girl

Chapter 52
Although the matter was resolved, making tofu was no longer the only job of the Lin family. The people of Caojia Village, who had no sense of shame, soon built their own tofu houses and kept competing with Linjia Village for business.

Linqingxi didn't care about these things for a while, and it was already two days late to collect sweet potatoes.That night, Lu Zhiming and Zhang Xian, who came back from solving the case, quietly came to the foot of Damei Mountain, and dug sweet potatoes with Lin Qingxi, Wei Xuan, Shen Han and others who had been waiting for them.

The bright moon illuminates the whole field, the slight night wind blows people's hair, and the singing of insects is playing a moving serenade everywhere.

One mu of sweet potato field is divided into three groups, one group digs sweet potatoes, another group digs purple potatoes, and another group transports sweet potatoes out.

In the yard where Daan and the others lived, there were two groups of people. One group, Wei Xuan and Shen Han, were in charge of weighing sweet potatoes and purple potatoes, and the other group, under the leadership of Linqingxi, selected good sweet potatoes as the next year's seed potatoes. .

With more people and more strength, one mu of sweet potatoes was quickly harvested.Although they worked at night, the people who dug the sweet potatoes were very careful, and none of the sweet potatoes were damaged.

After carefully inspecting the piles of purple potatoes and sweet potatoes, Linqingxi was very happy. The harvest and quality of sweet potatoes this season are much better than she imagined, and if she continues to improve the fertilization and irrigation, she believes in the quality. will be better.

Several men from the old Lin's family were here today, except for Lin Qingfei, no one knew why Lin Qingxi called them here tonight, they were dumbfounded until they saw the baskets of sweet potatoes.

"Xi'er, how much is the total weight?" It was the first time Lu Zhiming and Zhang Xian saw the fruits under the potato seedlings. With excitement, they wanted to know the yield of one mu of land.

"Master, uncle, don't worry, the two senior brothers are leading people to carefully weigh them! These sweet potatoes are of good quality, and most of them can be used as seed potatoes for next year. It seems that we need to build more seedling houses! "Originally for greenhouse planting, Linqingxi asked people to set up two seedling houses in the last row of the yard, with seedbeds built inside, but now it seems that there are still too few seedling houses.

"Girl, tomorrow I will build a seedling house with my brothers!" Lin Shifu, the youngest among these servants, was shaking with excitement.

In his family of eight, he was the only one who survived the severe drought and war. Many people in his village also died of hunger and thirst.Now, his master can grow so many things per acre of land, and the girl told him just now that these things are all edible.

In his opinion, what can be eaten is food. In the past, if there were sweet potatoes with such a yield of one acre of land, his family and people in his village would not die.

Linqingxi has not really experienced three years of severe drought and war, but she has been a volunteer in earthquake-stricken areas. Even if she can't empathize with the pain of the destruction of her home and the death of her relatives, she understands somewhat.

She knows that there is not much she can do, and she cannot reduce the pain of those people, but she can comfort them and try to help them rebuild their homes.

Now, facing people in similar pain, she also understands that there is still not much she can do, only to give them more respect and understanding, and then lead them to live a better life together, and this kind of life There is no glamorous coat, only down-to-earth, simple and simple happiness.

"Xiao Fuzi, I'll leave it to you to build the seedling house!" Facing Lin Shifu, who was a bit honest and cute, and Lin Qingxi, who was younger than him, spoke like a grown-up.

"Girl, don't worry, Xiao Fuzi promises to do it!" In front of Lin Qingxi, Lin Shifu didn't have any barriers to her because of the difference in age and status, on the contrary, he felt more close to her.

"Two uncles, the total amount has come out!" Wei Xuan suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and said solemnly in front of Lu Zhiming and Zhang Xian.

The people in the courtyard stopped, all looked at Wei Xuan, and the thin layer of paper used to count the weight in his hand, and waited with bated breath for the result they all wanted to know.

"How much?" Several voices of inquiry sounded at the same time.

"The output of half an acre of purple potatoes is 580 jin, the output of half acre of sweet potatoes is 970 jin, and the total output is 560 jin." Wei Xuan said clearly.

"So much?" Many people present expressed disbelief.

Lin Qingfei was also taken aback, and then he suddenly remembered something, and quickly added: "The total production should be more than this. When the sweet potatoes were just ripe, my sister and I stole them twice, which should have weighed several catties!"

When Lin Qingxi heard what Lin Qingfei said, her face was a little red, and she quickly pouted and said, "Third Brother, what are you stealing? Let's taste the taste of the sweet potato and see how big the sweet potato is. How can it be considered stealing when you eat your own food!"

"Sister, you are biased! Why is it not stealing? You two greedy cats have more eyes than foxes in the mountains. You have been secretly planting sweet potatoes for so long without telling your family, and you even eat them yourself in hiding. It is nothing if you are not stealing! "Lin Qinghai, who has never known the taste of sweet potatoes, said with gusto.

The old men from Lin's family on the side were all sympathetic to Lin Qinghai's words, even Lu Zhiming, Zhang Xian and others looked at Lin Qingxi and Lin Qingfei with some "jealousy" and "blame" them for hiding it from themselves. Started with the sweet potato.

Lin Qingfei sneered, and hurriedly pretended to be helping, and went to Lin Daan and the others to pack the seed potatoes to be used in the coming year, and prepared to put them in the cellar.

And Lin Qingxi hurriedly "remedied" and said flatteringly: "I will cook and roast sweet potatoes for everyone later, you see, this small pile of purple potatoes and sweet potatoes can't be used as seed potatoes, just eat them directly." You can eat as much as you want!"

"No way!" Linyuan Shan and Zhang Xian all objected, even if this sweet potato is not used as a seed potato, it is still very precious, how can it be eaten casually!
"Why...why not?" Lin Qingxi was already hungry.

"Xi girl, can you think of a way to turn these purple potatoes and sweet potatoes into seed potatoes? As long as they can bear fruit, it's better than eating them in people's stomachs!" After all, Linyuan Mountain is a farmer, especially in the state of Chu. In such a difficult time for the people, how can a momentary appetite be compared with filling the stomachs of more people.

Lu Zhiming and Zhang Xian also had the same idea as Linyuan Mountain. Since the yield of one mu of sweet potatoes can be so high, then the 560 pounds of sweet potatoes will be a very large yield in the coming year, and nothing can be wasted.

Lin Qingxi was dumbfounded, she grew sweet potatoes for food!Fortunately, everyone treats the purple and sweet potatoes as treasures, even when the servants in Lin Da'an saw that she wanted to eat them, they were extremely reluctant in their eyes.

(End of this chapter)