It’s a pity that more than a hundred years have passed, and she has no way to verify it.

"This should be called sweet potato," Song Wan thought for a moment and said, "Its yield per mu is about the same as that of potatoes."

Jiang Zhen stared, "Sweet potato? How did Miss Song know that? Could it be that the foreigner also said it?" He remembered the origin of the potato.

"Uh, yes, that's him." Song Wan nearly bit her tongue, revealing the truth. "Sweet potatoes are better as a staple food. Potatoes are mostly used in cooking over there."

Jiang Zhen recovered and said, "Perhaps that young master from the aristocratic family also met a foreigner and learned about this food called 'sweet potato' through him. He then happened to find it and started growing it."

"The bearded man is right!" Song Wan agreed loudly, "That must be the case!" She thought she was almost exposed again.

Jiang Zhen didn't notice her guilty conscience or abnormality. He simply despised Daye's behavior. "They have such a good thing, but they're only growing it in secret. It's fine if they're just guarding against us, but they're even guarding against their own people. They're not human beings at all."

Gu Yan was anxious, "If the emperor of Daye wasn't so selfish and allowed the people of Daye to grow so-called sweet potatoes, then breaking through the southwestern border defense line would be just around the corner."

Jiang Zhen snorted coldly, "Yes, the Emperor of Daye is greedy for pleasure and extremely selfish. How can an emperor who doesn't even care about his own people successfully expand his territory?"

Song Wan also felt that the Emperor of Daye was despicable. He could have fed the people of his country, but for his own selfish desires, he "hid" the sweet potatoes for more than a hundred years.

When Song Wan thought about the many people who might have starved to death over the years, she felt terrible. What she hated most was deliberately starving people and depriving them of their food supply, which was like killing their parents.

Gu Yan hurriedly comforted her, "Don't be angry, wait until the potatoes are grown, and we will use them to hit them too."

Song Wan was angry, but since she was throwing potatoes at people, and the target was still the enemy, she didn't agree. "Gu Yanji, you can't just become arrogant when you have food. Besides, if you use potatoes to throw at the enemy, you're just giving them an advantage. We can't learn from their stupidity."

Gu Yanji naturally wouldn't really let the Dai Yue soldiers use potatoes to hit the enemy. The reason she said this was to make her less angry.

"We can eat braised pork and potatoes in front of them, and then throw stones at them!" Song Wan clenched his fists. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible.

Gu Yan couldn't help but laugh and immediately responded, "Okay."

Jiang Zhen on the side swallowed his saliva. It would have been bad enough to eat meat in front of the enemy, but he actually had to throw stones at them.

He could imagine that if such a day really came, the soldiers of Daye would be so angry that they would die.

"Gu Yan is anxious." Song Wan loosened his clenched fists.

"Hmm?" Gu Yan lowered her eyes anxiously, "What's wrong?"

"It's really uncomfortable to be hungry." She has experienced this feeling since she was born. Until her death, the only thing she wanted was whether she could have a full meal.

Gu Yanji wondered if she was thinking about her past life. He felt distressed when he saw her, so he immediately said, "Awan, with the potatoes you discovered, I believe it won't be long before the people of the Dai Viet Dynasty will no longer be hungry."

A few years might not be enough, but he believed that this day would come.

Song Wan didn't quite understand this. "What if we plant sweet potatoes as well?"

Gu Yan's eyebrows suddenly jumped in anxiety. "Sweet potatoes have always been controlled by the Emperor of Daye. If we want to obtain a large number of seeds, it will be difficult."

Song Wan didn't find it difficult. She waved her fist and said violently, "Once I beat them until they cry, it won't be difficult anymore."

Gu Yan was anxious...she almost forgot her special ability.

Yes, as long as they are strong enough to defeat the enemy, they will have as many sweet potato seeds as they want. How can such a good thing be controlled by the royal family? Without the people, there would be no royal family.

Jiang Zhen, who didn't know the inside story, just felt that Song Wan had the demeanor of a great general, which reminded him of Weiyuan Hou in the past. It was indeed a tiger daughter born in a general's family.

"Okay, but before that, we need to raise enough money first." In order to prevent her from suddenly running to Daye alone one day, Gu Yan had to say this anxiously.

Song Wan nodded in agreement. In fact, she didn't know how much money it would cost to go to Daye. She simply felt that she hadn't robbed enough, and there were several walls waiting for her to cover.

Song Wan had decided to capture Yao Xu and use him as fertilizer. She did not even load the carriage this time. She planned to take both the man and the carriage back to Guizhou.

According to the information brought by Zhang Sheng, there are at least seventeen or eighteen carriages, which means they need to bring at least eighteen people, otherwise they will have to make two trips back and forth.

Including a few new apprentices, she barely made up ten people. Adding Gu Yanji and the brothers Gu Wen and Gu Wu, there were thirteen people in total.

There are five left, the bearded man is one of them. Zhang Sheng then brought another twenty people over, three of whom will participate in this operation, and the remaining seventeen will stay in the village to secretly protect the safety of the two families.

Song Wan was very satisfied with this. Although the skills of the seventeen people left behind were not as good as Song Qi and his friends now, they were more than enough to deal with ordinary masters.

Mrs. Qi was already used to the fact that her daughter was going out to "earn money" again. After she knew it, she began to prepare dry food and snacks needed for the journey.

In mid-April, the weather is neither too hot nor too cold, so snacks and dry food can be kept for half a month without going bad.

This time she made several big bags, all of which were Song Wan's favorites.

"Don't treat yourself badly when you're out. Don't just rush through your three meals a day," Qi instructed word by word. "Your second sister-in-law is about to give birth. Don't stay out too long."

"I know." Song Wan gathered several bags of snacks and dry food in her arms, "I will bring a gift for my niece!"

Qi was surprised, "Why is Wan so sure it's my niece?"

"I just know it." Song Wan blinked.

Qi stared at her daughter for a while, and finally remembered one thing: her daughter knew medicine. "Girls are good. This way, Anan will have a playmate."

Song Wan was sure that she did not see any disappointed expression on Qi's face, which was somewhat surprising. She thought Qi would be disappointed because she didn't give birth to a boy.

In this world, most people seem to care about the issue of offspring.

"We can make more pink clothes." Fortunately, Mrs. Qi already had experience in raising granddaughters, so she was not too panicked after knowing it was a granddaughter.

"Then I'll bring her a silk flower?" Song Wan tilted her head and said, "It seems that little girls like this."

Qi couldn't help but laugh. She was still a girl, "Your niece can't wear it even if she goes out now. Ah Wan can just buy what she likes."

Song Wan said honestly, "I don't like silk flower and pearl hairpins, but gold and silver hairpins are fine. They can be melted and exchanged for gold and silver."

Qi: "..." She was wondering if her husband and father-in-law were so busy fighting in the war when her daughter was in the northwest that they forgot to give her pocket money.

"Then you should bring gold ingots." This is the best gift Song Wan could think of.

Gold ingots are great, they can be exchanged for a lot of food.

Since hiding the silver in the secret room of Chunfeng Tower, Yao Xu felt much more at ease, but he still went to Chunfeng Tower to check every other day.

The emperor asked him to spend more time with Jiang Zhen who was stationed in Guizhou. Yao Xu agreed on the surface, but he had other plans in his mind.

His illegitimate son was still in the hands of the enemy, and he didn't believe that Jiang Zhen was not involved.

Yao Xu planned to find a random excuse to lure the garrison commander to Xinzhou and take him under control. Then he could deal with the two families in Qiandi at will.

Song Wan and others have been in Xinzhou for two days and have been staying in an inn in the city.

There was a wonton shop opposite the inn. Song Wan would go there every day to eat a few bowls of wonton and listen to what interesting things had happened during the time she was away.

As the weather gradually got warmer, the wonton shop's business slowed down a lot. There hadn't been any new customers for a long time, so Mrs. Zhang was very attentive to Song Wan, a new customer with a big appetite. She, who was always stingy, even took the initiative to send a stack of side dishes.

Song Wan did not come to eat alone. Gu Yanji and Qi Fu also came this time, but they did not receive the same treatment.

"Eat slowly, little girl. If you're not satisfied, there's more in the pot. I won't charge you for the next bowl." Old Lady Zhang didn't know what was wrong with her. She felt inexplicably good when she saw the little girl in front of her. She didn't know if it was because she ate bowl after bowl.

When Song Wan heard that the next bowl was free, her eyes lit up. She had originally thought she was almost full, but suddenly she felt like she could eat another bowl.

"Mother-in-law, what about us?" Qi Fu ate a bowl of soup and felt full before he finished it.

She's thinking about getting a bargain after just eating one bowl. Don't think you can get close to people just because you're pretty. The wonton shop is not a prostitute's place, and she's not the prefect who leaves his beautiful wife and concubines at home and insists on going to Chunfeng Tower.

No, the magistrate's wife has already divorced the magistrate. Old Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but sigh, "Divorce is good. As long as Magistrate Yao is alive, Xinzhou is not a place for anyone to stay."

Thanks to the magistrate Yao, old lady Zhang now dislikes these handsome young men.

"You guys?" Old Lady Zhang's expression changed immediately. "Wontons are eight cents a bowl, two bowls for sixteen cents. The eldest daughter-in-law, come here and collect the money."

The eldest daughter-in-law responded and came out to collect the money, "Here I am, mother."

How could Qi Fu have any money? He didn't have a single copper coin on him, and he even owed the money for becoming his apprentice. He looked away awkwardly and looked at Gu Yanji for help.

Zhang Lao Da's wife, who had come out to collect the money, noticed that the two grown men seemed to be eating for free, so she went back to the shop and whispered in Zhang Lao Da's ear, "Mom, those two men don't seem to have any money."

"What do you mean by no money?" Old Lady Zhang glanced outside, frowning. "Looking at the clothes they're wearing, they don't look like people who can't afford a dozen coins."

"What if we really can't get it out?" Zhang Lao Da's wife was very worried. Zhang Lao Da and Zhang Lao Er were not at home today, and there was only her and her mother-in-law in the shop. If someone wanted to cause trouble, the two women would not be able to do anything to each other.

"Can't you take it out?" Old Lady Zhang had been shrewd all her life, so how could she be willing to suffer a loss? "That young master's coat is nice, worth two bowls of wontons."

The coat that Qi Fu was wearing was made by Gu Yanji's mother, Liu. It was not made of any fine material, but just ordinary fine cotton cloth, but it had fine stitches.

Gu Yanji did have a few taels of silver on him, but he had other plans for that little silver, so he said, "Your master's wife, I don't have any silver."

Qi Wu had a look on his face as if he had seen a ghost. "I've never seen anyone as shameless as you. I didn't admit that you were my master's wife."

Gu Yan was anxious but didn't care, "Well, I'm not, so don't come to borrow money from me." After saying that, he took out exactly eight cents and put them on the wooden table.

Qi Fu: "..."

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