Chapter 26 Planting Potatoes
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Lin Bai saw the smile in his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you kidding me? I was so scared, I thought you were jealous."
"Who are you jealous of? Didn't you say you loved me?" Fu Jiangyu smiled and took him into his arms: "You can only be mine."
When Lin Baige saw him smiling, he felt that he had a strong male ghost smell. Fu Jiangyu was too afraid of losing him, and he was also worried about losing Fu Jiangyu's love.
Lin Baige felt that their current relationship was somewhat unhealthy...
Lin Baige's snow-white neck was suddenly bitten by him, "Hiss, even more unhealthy."
"What's unhealthy?" Fu Jiangyu asked him.
"It's nothing. I'm just too tired. Let me have some sleep." Lin Baige lay straight down on the bed again.
"Not eating anymore?" Fu Jiangyu couldn't help laughing when he saw him like this. He sat on the edge of the bed and played with his hair with his fingers.
"Didn't we just eat?" Lin Baige was so busy that he didn't pay attention to the time. As soon as he said the word "eat", his stomach started to growl. He then remembered that it had been two hours since his last meal. "Just grab a bite to eat. I'm so tired."
"Being an official is so tiring. Do you still want to be an official after you go back?" Fu Jiangyu asked him.
"Of course I will," Lin Baige was refreshed after hearing him say that. "I want to be an official because I want to share the burden with you. It's not easy for you to manage such a big country. I treat you as my husband, and I love you. Besides, I also want to be an official."
Lin Baige pulled him and acted coquettishly again: "Didn't you say you would give me whatever I want? Doesn't that count?"
"Count it, do you want me to steal the test paper from Lord Zhang for you?" Fu Jiangyu asked him.
"Okay!" Lin Baige knew that acting coquettishly was useful!
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After the money was calculated, Lin Baige distributed a portion of money and food to each person, and also bought some livestock and poultry to distribute, so that the victims could return to their family conditions before the disaster.
With the remaining money, he wants to divide an area to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes.
These potatoes and sweet potatoes were taken from his small clinic. He lived in the clinic, and his parents were worried about him, so they often bought some vegetables for him.
Especially when winter is approaching, there will be trucks selling vegetables on the streets there, and everyone will buy them home in big sacks. His parents just bought him two big sacks of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and 500 kilograms of cabbage.
In addition to this, there are peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables and fruits in his refrigerator. He plans to try to grow these vegetables and fruits himself after returning to the palace. Now this land can be used to plant the two sacks of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
He was about to select people to plant potatoes when he heard Jiang Erwa come to him and say, "A group of women's families have died. How are they going to be settled?"
"It just so happens that I want to use people to plant potatoes. I'll gather them all together, divide a piece of land, and build houses for them." Lin Baige thought that there were only two large bags of potatoes, so he would keep a few for himself and give the rest to them to plant.
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When the disaster victims in several villages heard that Lord Lin had taken the women in, they thought he would take them into his backyard. But they didn't expect him to allocate a large piece of land to the women. "How can women have the strength to farm? They can't survive without men."
Lin Baige said to them, "Today you plow the land first, and tomorrow I will teach you how to plant potatoes."
Lin Baige thought they were quite a few, more than thirty people, and should be able to turn over almost a field in a day. However, their progress was extremely slow. He went over to take a look and found that they were still turning the soil manually with a straight plow. "What era is this? They still don't know how to use oxen to plow the fields? No, a straight plow is too inefficient. Jiang Erwa, find some craftsmen and have them make a curved plow according to the drawings I drew."
The craftsmen worked overtime and made more than a dozen curved plows. Lin Baige asked Jiang Erwa to help distribute them so that everyone could use curved plows and plow the fields with oxen.
Even after the curved plows were distributed, some men in the village were reluctant to use them. "He's a young master from a wealthy family in the capital, how could he know how to farm? It has to be harnessed to an ox, and controlling the ox is even more troublesome. It's better for us to do it ourselves; it will be done in a few days."
"I heard that Lord Lin distributed potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, and melons to those women. I guess they are vegetables, not grain. If they only grow vegetables and not grain, do they have to rely on buying vegetables to survive?"
"That's right, they can only make a living by selling vegetables, and they still have to rely on us to do the farming."
But most people were still very grateful to Lin Baige and believed in him: "How could Lord Lin cheat us? If he said it would be useful, it must be useful. He is kind-hearted and helped those homeless women build houses and distributed land to them. You can't help them and you are still here making sarcastic remarks. Are you still human? Lord Lin saved you in vain."
"We are very grateful to Mr. Lin, but matters like farming still depend on us."
"You don't need to, we do." An old man followed Lin Baige's teachings and called his little grandson to plow the fields together.
They were a little nervous at first, but since the curved plow was harnessed to an ox, they only had to control the ox to move forward, and the soil behind them would be turned over. It was quick and not tiring.
The little grandson clapped his hands in delight, "Master Lin is so amazing! He must be a deity sent down from heaven to save us! Otherwise, how could he make something like this?"
Grandpa looked up at the sky, his eyes moist. "Maybe God heard our prayers and sent down such a deity."
Those stubborn guys saw that others had already plowed large tracts of land with the curved plows that they looked down upon, while they were still struggling, not knowing when they would be able to finish plowing the land. They regretted it so much that they threw away their straight plows and used the curved plows given by Lin Baige. They looked at the land plowed by the oxen, and then looked at the blisters in the palms of their hands, and felt like fools for their stubbornness in the past few days.
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On the other side, Lin Baige was cutting potatoes with the women. "Cut a potato into small pieces like this and plant them in the soil. Potatoes grow underground. I'll tell you when to harvest them. When the time comes, just dig them up. From this piece of potato, you can harvest a whole bunch of potatoes. The yield is high, it's enough to fill you up, and you can cook them, eat them as food, make vermicelli noodles, and make starch. Potatoes are delicious."
When Lin Baige said this, he thought of the crispy French fries and couldn't help swallowing. He was reluctant to eat them now, but when the potatoes were harvested in a few months, he would be able to enjoy his French fries freely.
"Where did you get such delicious food? And you need so much of it." Fu Jiangyu, who was sitting behind him, was playing with a potato in his hand. "Why have I never seen it before?"
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