It is said that it is easy to invite a god but difficult to send him away, especially a god that comes uninvited.
Peng Zhang has refused to leave since he had a meal made by Tian An on the night of Dragon Boat Festival.
He would ask Tian An to make fresh food for him every day. He would start with braising the quail, then switch to frying, boiling, and stir-frying, then braising, salt-baking, and stewing.
He alone needs at least five quails for each meal, plus the ones for others, so more than a dozen quails are gone every day.
Seeing the quails he had raised for several months becoming fewer and fewer day by day, Tian An's heart was bleeding! He even wanted to strangle him to death.
Finally, it was time to harvest the potatoes and start digging them. The guy finally agreed and said that he would take some away and go back after digging.
Tian An was practically in tears as he said goodbye! When he learned how many potatoes he had taken away, Tian An really wanted to tear him apart with his bare hands.
Tian An didn't plant many potatoes. When the family was divided, she only got more than 100 kilograms. Then she took more than 800 kilograms from her own space and mixed them in, making up 1,000 kilograms.
Daniu knew that Tian An had received a share of potatoes when the family split up, but the quantity was small. He assumed that the extra potato seeds were bought by Tian An.
During that time, both of them were busy and had little time together. Tian An was in charge of the money, so he was not very clear about it. The farmhands thought that the seeds were all bought in advance by the owner.
In this way, Tian An took advantage of the situation and took out hundreds of pounds of things from the space in broad daylight, without anyone noticing.
Potato seeds are planted in blocks, so 200 kilograms of potato seeds can cover one mu of land. Tian An's 1,000 kilograms of potato seeds just covered five mu of land.
When the land was harvested, Tian An personally watched over it. Many people from the village also came.
Potatoes have a low yield and few families in the village grow them. When they heard that Tian An's family actually planted five acres of potatoes, they all came to see what was going on.
There were so many people in the field that if you didn’t know, you would wonder what they were doing!
At Tian An's command, twenty or thirty strong men began digging. At first, everyone was very careful, fearing that they would damage the potatoes. Later, they became more skilled and their speed improved.
Soon, all the potatoes in an acre of land were unearthed. Looking at the golden potatoes all over the ground, everyone's eyes widened. It seemed that the yield was much more than what they had planted before!
Everyone's guess was soon confirmed, and the potato yield per mu reached 15 stone.
When the news came out, everyone was shocked. This yield was too high! When they planted it before, the best time was only about five stone!
Upon seeing this, the supervisory yamen runner hurried to the county town to inform the county magistrate.
"How much did you say? Fifteen stone?" County Magistrate Gu stood up immediately after hearing the report from the yamen runner.
The messenger who reported the news said with certainty, "It is absolutely true, sir! I saw them dig it out with my own eyes."
Magistrate Gu looked outside and said, "Let's go. Prepare the carriage and ox cart. I will go and take a look as well."
After saying that, he raised his foot and walked outside.
When the county magistrate just arrived at the village entrance, he saw two horse-drawn carriages coming out of the village. He looked down at the ruts on the ground, narrowed his eyes, and without saying anything, took his men into the village.
After the county magistrate's men entered the village, Peng Zhang lowered the gently lifted curtain, patted his chest and muttered, "Fortunately, I ran fast!"
He patted the bags of potatoes beside him and said to the carriage, "Let's go straight back to Beijing."
When the county magistrate arrived at the potato field, the farmhands started digging up another acre of potatoes.
The county magistrate looked at the golden potatoes on the ground as if they were gold ingots. He didn't care about the villagers' greetings and said perfunctorily, "No need for formalities, no need for formalities."
Then he shouted anxiously: "How many stone potatoes are there?"
The village chief replied, "The common people haven't had time to calculate yet!"
The county magistrate waved his hand and said, "Then why are you still standing there? Go quickly!"
Seeing the excited look on the county magistrate's face, Tian An pulled Daniu and whispered, "Brother Daniu, you said our potato harvest is good, why is Uncle Gu so happy?"
Da Niu frowned and said solemnly, "An An, you have to be mentally prepared. I'm afraid our potatoes may not be safe."
"Hmm?" Tian An looked at Da Niu with a questioning look.
Before Daniu could explain Tian An's doubts, someone came to report: "Sixteen stone, the potato yield of this acre of land is sixteen stone."
Hearing this, the county magistrate laughed and said, "Good, good, good! Tian An, where is An An girl?"
Hearing the county magistrate calling her, Tian An hurried forward and said, "Uncle, I'm here!"
The county magistrate saw Tian An's happy face and said, "Girl, how many acres of potatoes have you planted?"
Tian An raised his hand and spread out five fingers.
The county magistrate saw this and said, "Five hundred acres? That's fantastic."
Before he could feel happy for a moment, he saw Tian An shook his head and said, "No."
The county magistrate thought that there really weren't many people growing potatoes, so he said, "Fifty acres is not bad."
Unfortunately, Tian An then shook his head and said, "No, it's five acres! Uncle Gu."
The county magistrate was stunned for a moment. The next second, he held up his five fingers and muttered anxiously, "Five mu! How could it be five mu?"
Then he looked up at Tian An and said, "Girl, why are you only planting five acres? Why don't you plant more?"
Tian An shook his head and sighed, "Oh! I want to plant more too! But I need seeds too! It took me a lot of effort to plant seeds for these five acres of land!"
Although he felt a little regretful, the county magistrate knew that this was the fact, so he didn't dwell on it.
He turned around and started urging everyone: "Quick, dig up all these potatoes. This county magistrate wants to know the total output value of five acres of land."
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