Chapter 73: Following the trend of growing potatoes will lead to loss of grandchildren!
Ye Ying took the wallet, opened it and took a look. In addition to the money, there was also a 2-inch black-and-white portrait and a letter of introduction.
This wallet obviously doesn't belong to the thief. He must have stolen it.
Ye Ying was just about to ask the thief where he stole the wallet, but she found that he had already limped away, holding his crotch while she was checking the contents of the wallet.
Ye Ying did not chase after him. Instead, she took the wallet to the police station again and handed the wallet to Officer Gao.
When Officer Gao learned that she had just taught a thief a lesson, he gave her a thumbs-up without hesitation: "You are a heroine, you beat him well."
Ye Ying immediately denied it: "I didn't beat him up, I just almost made him childless."
The two of them laughed, and then Ye Ying went home.
On the way back to the village, she deeply felt that the public security at that time was really extremely bad.
When she came to town, she met all kinds of people.
Thieves, traffickers, butchers, it's really... much more chaotic than the 21st century.
It was another 30 kilometers back to the village, and it was around two in the afternoon when I got home.
No one was at home, but they left her some millet porridge, salted vegetables, and a big steamed bun.
Ye Ying had been hungry for most of the day and ate all of them in a few bites, even the steamed buns that she disliked the most.
After dinner, she was not idle either.
I'm going to go around the fields. Even though I don't know how to do many farm chores yet, I have to learn how to act properly to make the old couple happy and avoid gossip from the villagers.
Ye Ying's home is a little way away, and she didn't want to walk, so she rode a bicycle there.
Passing by a field of potatoes, I saw a man picking potatoes under a big shed.
When I got closer, I saw several large sacks of potatoes piled under the shed. The old man was picking out the sprouted potatoes from the sacks one by one and throwing them into a basket.
Ye Ying stopped her bike in front of the shed and asked curiously, "Master, what are you doing?"
"Don't you see? These potatoes have sprouted. Sprouting potatoes are useless and can only be thrown away!"
"Ah?" Ye Ying quickly got off the bicycle, stepped on the bicycle footrest, and walked into the shed.
She walked closer and saw several baskets of sprouted potatoes piled in the shed.
What a pity.
Ye Ying couldn't help but frown: "Why didn't you sell it before? It would be such a pity to just leave it to sprout!"
Hearing this, the grandfather paused while picking potatoes, and took the time to look up at her: "Fatty, remember, your grandfather is always your grandfather."
"Do you think I don't know that I should sell it? The key is to find someone to buy it!"
Ye Ying was startled, and she sensed the helplessness in the master's words.
"Why is there no one to harvest? How did they deal with the potatoes before that?"
"Ah..." The old man threw the potatoes in his hand into the basket, looked at the endless land, and sighed: "In the past, there was a boss who drove a big truck to our village every few days to collect potatoes! Then I planted some too."
"But later on, they only come once every ten days or so. That's okay, as long as we can sell it."
"But for the past two months, for some reason, the boss has not been here at all, causing our potatoes to sprout or go rotten!"
"I guess the boss went to the next village to buy potatoes! The price of potatoes there should be cheaper than ours. If I follow suit, I will suffer a great loss."
So that's what it is!
"How much did the boss charge you for the potatoes?"
"Twenty-five cents a kilogram."
So cheap? Isn't that a bargain?
Ye Ying thought for a moment and asked, "If it's so cheap, why don't you take it to the town and sell it yourself?"
When the master heard her question, he couldn't help laughing.
"Fatty, are you kidding me? How many potatoes can we carry to town at once with our old bicycle and cart?"
"The main thing is that potatoes can't be sold at a high price! It would take a lot of time to go there!"
"Then you can send a representative to the town to see if there is any boss in the market to collect the vegetables! It's better than letting them rot on the ground!"
The master snorted, rolled his eyes at Ye Ying, and said jokingly in a teasing tone: "You go? How about I send you to be the representative?"
Ye Ying: “…”
She immediately felt that she was meddling in other people's business, turned around angrily, and went to her field.
Their family also grows potatoes, but not many, and they don't plan to sell them. At most, they just dig them up and eat them at home.
Unlike this old man, he at least planted three or four acres of potatoes.
The potato harvest period is very fast, usually 60-70 days. She felt that the master must be gambling on something by planting so many potatoes at once.
But she discovered along the way that the eldest master was not the only farmer who threw potatoes at her. She saw at least four or five other farmers.
It seems that the boss who came to the village to collect potatoes at the beginning had a greater demand, and then "encouraged" everyone to plant more potatoes.
The villagers may have seen that the boss had a great demand for potatoes and should have no trouble selling them, so many of them followed suit and started growing potatoes.
Now, the potato harvester didn’t come, just like the scumbag who deceived the little girl.
So those people who followed the trend and bet on growing potatoes ended up in trouble.
Ye Ying followed yesterday's route and groped her way to the field where she found herself yesterday. Only Li Yanmei and An Xiaotong were digging sweet potatoes in the field.
Upon asking, I learned that Ye Shuncheng had taken people to drain the rice fields in the afternoon.
Generally speaking, rice starts to drain about half a month after harvest, so this means that it is almost time to harvest the rice.
Ye Ying also helped to dig some sweet potatoes. It was almost dark before the three of them went home.
Looking at the village not far away, with smoke rising from the kitchen, Ye Ying suddenly felt at ease for a moment.
When they were almost at the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, Ye Ying felt a little reluctant subconsciously, but when she walked over, she found that the group of old friends were not there. They seemed to have gone home for dinner. There were only a few stray dogs barking on the road.
When they passed by Widow Li's house, Widow Li once again splashed out a basin of water at the right time.
Li Yanmei was used to this and said nothing.
Although the water didn't fall on them, it seemed a bit deliberate to splash water on them again and again when they passed by.
Ye Ying is not used to it.
"Widow Li, every time you come back from our house you splash water outside, what does that mean?"
Widow Li smiled and said something sinister: "We are neighbors after all, so we can't say anything nonsense. I didn't mean to offend your family! What's wrong with me pouring a basin of water at the door?"
What this means is that they are unlucky!
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