The sweet potato had a bite taken out of it by a bison, and its skin was also quite damaged. Since bison saliva is corrosive, judging from the bison's wounds, it had been dead for about two hours, which means that the sweet potato had been in the corrosive saliva for two hours.
Sweet potatoes can be propagated by cutting them into pieces, but whether propagation from this particular sweet potato after it has been corroded is a matter of uncertainty.
All she can do now is try to wash off the saliva on it and then put it in the main house to air dry.
If that doesn't work, perhaps we can only go to Fuhu Mountain to find Da Bai and ask it where it caught the wild buffalo. Maybe we can find information about the sweet potato field there. Sweet potatoes never grow alone; once there is one plant, it can quickly spread into a large area.
She was excited to see the sweet potato coming out of the cow's mouth, not only because it would benefit her business, but more importantly because sweet potatoes, like rice and wheat, are a type of grain crop.
Under the same conditions, sweet potatoes yield six times more than rice and seven times more than wheat, while their growth cycle is only half that of rice and wheat.
In Shanghe Village, there are more than 50 households, each with about ten people. From toddlers who can just walk to elderly men and women, everyone works hard in the fields. In a year with good weather, a mu of land can only yield a maximum of two shi of grain.
For the Su family, who were previously cursed by God, the yield per mu was less than one shi of grain.
Therefore, after the villagers harvested the new rice each year, after paying the taxes to the government, they would take the rest to the grain shop in Cangwu Town to exchange for some old rice or coarse flour from previous years. New rice cost five coins per pound, while old rice and coarse flour only cost three coins per pound.
Eating two meals a day, mixed with wild vegetables from different seasons, was enough to keep them going until the next rice harvest season.
Silkworm farmers can't afford fine silks and satins, and rice farmers can't eat freshly harvested rice. This is roughly the meaning of the saying.
The people of Shanghe Village have lived this way for generations.
But these are all in years with good weather. If they encounter natural disasters or man-made calamities such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, or mutinies, villagers who have no food stored at home will find it a luxury to just get by.
Of the 1,480 counties established by Yu the Great, there were quite a few villages like Shanghe Village.
Su Hua didn't consider herself a good person, but as she held the sweet potato in her hand, she couldn't help but want to try growing sweet potatoes. If she could successfully get sweet potatoes to take root and sprout in Shanghe Village and promote their cultivation, it would be an extraordinary change for the millions of farmers who worked hard every day but still couldn't fill their stomachs.
However, this matter is of great importance. If it is not handled properly, it may be used against us by those with ulterior motives. The Su family is not an impenetrable fortress now, so she only talked about the food that can be made and did not mention anything about grain crops.
Qian looked at the sweet potato in the wooden basin and curled her lip in disdain. It was just a small thing the size of a fist. Steaming, roasting, boiling, cutting, drying, and all that nonsense about candied sweet potatoes, sweet potato cakes, sweet potato jelly, and sweet potato starch—who knows if it's even real?
Anyone can talk big, but if you asked her to, she could do it even better than Su Hua!
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