Isn’t that sweet potato?

Yang Youxue was excited. Sweet potatoes have a higher yield than potatoes, are tastier, and are easier to preserve.

"Bai Chen, don't move. Let me go over and take a look. This is good stuff, better than potatoes." Yang Youxue said to Bai Chen excitedly.

"Miss Fifth, you said this is better than potatoes. What is it?" Bai Chen asked Yang Youxue while looking at the green leaves.

"This is sweet potato. Its yield per mu is more than one thousand kilograms. If the land is fertile, it may be two to three thousand kilograms. It depends on our land." Yang Youxue told Bai Chen what she heard local farmers say in the countryside in her previous life.

It’s great! With sweet potatoes, the people here can have enough food and warm clothing.

"Fifth Miss, are you telling the truth?" Bai Chen asked Yang Youxue in disbelief. He thought he had misheard and needed to make another decision.

"Of course it's true! When have I ever lied to you?" Yang Youxue said unhappily.

"I'm sorry! Miss Fifth, that's not what I meant." Bai Chen felt that he was wrong and quickly apologized to Yang Youxue.

"Forget it. I don't want to bother with you. Bailong, you and Baichen, mark the place. When the wasteland is cleared, we'll come up and dig it up to plant." Sweet potato vines are the best for planting. She planned to plant sweet potato vines directly. If that was not enough, she would plant sweet potatoes.

"Yes, Miss Fifth!" Bai Chen and Bai Long began to mark the area nearby, while Yang Youxue picked some tender sweet potato leaves and went back to fry them for her family.

After picking the sweet potato leaves, she continued her journey to find saltpeter with Bai Chen and Bai Long.

"Fifth Miss, are you taking these leaves back to plant?" Bai Chen asked Yang Youxue as she looked at her holding some sweet potato leaves.

"Take this, and take these back to fry and eat." Yang Youxue handed the sweet potato leaves to Bai Chen and said to him.

"Fried? So the sweet potato is just sweet potato leaves?" Bai Chen said.

"No, the whole sweet potato is a treasure. The sweet potato vine can be used to grow sweet potatoes, the sweet potato leaves can be fried and eaten as vegetables, and can also be used as feed for cows, horses and pigs. Sweet potatoes are underground, and they are bigger than potatoes." Yang Youxue told all the benefits of sweet potatoes she knew.

"Really? Miss Fifth, you are so amazing. You understand all this." Bai Chen looked at Miss Fifth with admiration.

"I saw all this in weird magazines. I didn't expect we have it here." Yang Youxue also attributed everything to weird magazines, so that Bai Chen would not ask too many questions or be suspicious.

Sure enough, when Bai Chen heard that she saw it in a weird magazine, he stopped asking Yang Youxue.

The three of them hiked through the mountains, discovering wild peppers and yams, which Yang Youxue didn't pick or dig up. The wasteland hadn't been fully cleared, so digging or picking them would be a waste. On their way back to Bai Hai and the others, they discovered a large patch of herbs. Yang Youxue planned to plant these on the wasteland in Taohua Village. If possible, she wanted to open a clinic in Qingyan Country and sell pills.

Pulling Potato on a three-horse carriage, Yang Youxue led everyone back to Taohua Village.

Old man Yang was pacing back and forth at the door of his house, very anxious. He wanted to see how many potatoes there were. When he saw Yang Youxue coming back with three carriages, he hurried forward.

"Youxue, how many potatoes are there?" Old Man Yang asked Yang Youxue.

"Grandpa, there are enough crops from three horse-drawn carriages to cultivate more than ten acres." Yang Youxue saw her grandfather's anxious look and gave him a general idea.

"More than ten acres? That's great. This way we can have more than ten thousand kilograms of grain." Old man Yang said excitedly.

"Grandpa, I found sweet potatoes on the mountain today. They taste better than potatoes and have a higher yield. If the land is fertile, the yield can be around 1,500 kilograms." Yang Youxue only gave a conservative estimate of the yield. The land conditions here were not very clear, so the yield was still 1,500 kilograms per acre. This number was definitely there.

"What? One thousand five hundred kilograms, such a high yield. What kind of grain is it? Let grandpa see it quickly." Old man Yang asked Yang Youxue excitedly.

"Grandpa, I didn't dig it up. Once I dug it up, I didn't plant it, so it rotted. I will take people to dig it up after the wasteland is reclaimed." Yang Youxue said to Old Man Yang.

"Is that so! Then we can wait until the wasteland is reclaimed and then dig them up. We can't waste such good food." Knowing that the sweet potatoes had to be planted after they were dug up, Old Man Yang had to wait for a while before digging them up.

"Grandpa, tomorrow you go to Huangjia Village and Wujia Village to hire people to open up the wasteland. Now is the perfect time to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes. We also need to find people to clean up Taohualing. Grandpa will look for villages in the surrounding area. Any villagers who meet the requirements can come to open up the wasteland. The wages are the same, but lunch will not be provided." Yang Youxue said to Old Man Yang.

"Youxue, grandpa will go to Wujia Village and Huangjia Village now to find their village chiefs and try to open up the wasteland tomorrow." When Old Man Yang heard that it was suitable to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes now, he went to find the village chiefs of Wujia Village and Huangjia Village.

"Grandpa, it's already noon. Why don't we go there tomorrow?" Yang Youxue saw the scorching sun and wanted to persuade old man Yang to go tomorrow.

"Potatoes and sweet potatoes are important. It's better to clear the land as soon as possible and plant potatoes and sweet potatoes, then grandpa will feel at ease." Old man Yang didn't want to stay at home for a moment. He wanted to ask people to clear the land as soon as possible.

"Okay! Bailong, protect the old man!" Yang Youxue had no choice but to agree and let Bailong protect his grandfather.

"Yes, Miss Fifth!" After saying that, Bai Long took Old Man Yang on a carriage to Wujia Village.