Shen Jiahao: "Second brother, let's come together tomorrow, so that your second uncle can go home and focus on his carpentry."
"Yes, that's right!"
After the two brothers finished discussing it, Lili raised her hand and said, "Then Lili wants to come too!"
Shen Jiahao and Shen Jialu both vetoed the idea: "No, you stay home. It's so sunny here, do you want to turn into a black dumpling?"
Pear pouts: "Pear isn't afraid. Even if Pear turns into a black dumpling, she'll still be a cute dumpling."
Shen Lili was as dark as charcoal when she was doing research on the African savanna, but she didn't think anything of it. Besides, her body is so dark that even if you shine the sun on her for seven days and seven nights, she won't get darker.
Hehe, who told her to have a "cheat code"?
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The news that the Shen family provided lunch for the workers when they built their new house had already spread throughout the village. Now, with the addition of refreshing mung bean soup and meat, the villagers were all amazed.
The Shen family is paying wages and providing meat, which is much better than working in the city.
No wonder the Shen family prospered and encountered so many benefactors; their fortune is truly remarkable!
This level of vision is something that ordinary people can't match.
In this day and age, who wouldn't hoard grain to prepare for future troubles?
Only the Shen family could be so generous.
The Shen family's treatment of the women made those who hadn't come to work tempted. Even some of the women whose husbands worked in the city wanted them to quit their jobs in the city and come back to the village to help the Shen family with their work.
Although the Shen family also wanted to finish building the new house before the New Year, there was no need to rush. After all, the place wasn't very big, and they really didn't need so many people, so they had to politely decline.
However, Lili has a new job.
"You mean, let everyone grow crops together?"
In the Shen family's backyard, Lili squatted in the field that Old Man Shen had specially plowed for her, holding a small pink shovel, digging at the soil under a clump of green leaves.
Village Chief Ma was also squatting down next to her, intently watching her movements.
As Lili dug, she said, "Hmm, Uncle Village Chief, let me tell you, if you plant them the way I do, I guarantee the potatoes will grow quickly and produce a lot!"
Village Chief Ma was pulled over by her early in the morning, thinking it would be a good opportunity to talk to her about planting rice next year. Unexpectedly, Lili started talking to him about planting grain first.
"Potatoes aren't anything special; almost every household grows them. This..."
Lili kept working with her hands: "Didn't Lili say that if you follow my lead, potatoes can be grown in just one month? And they'll be big, plentiful, and delicious!"
Village Chief Ma doubted he had misheard. Potatoes don't have a long growth cycle, but they still take at least two or three months. How could they be planted in just one month?
"What? A month? And big, plentiful, and delicious?"
"Uh-huh."
Actually, Lili was quite surprised too.
This happened more than a month ago, on the day the Xia family brought gifts. Lili casually grabbed a potato, then casually cut it into pieces, sprouted it, and planted it in the soil.
Lili swears that she really just did it on a whim, and didn't even put any thought into selecting seeds or germinating them.
The potatoes were just grabbed from the box, the sprouting process was half-hearted, and even the final planting was done by simply digging a hole, throwing them in, and then covering them with soil.
Moreover, after it was planted, Lili came to the backyard very rarely. Watering was done by Old Mrs. Shen when she was feeding the chickens, and there was no fertilizer or pest control.
Because Lili didn't take it to heart from the beginning, she completely forgot that there were still some potatoes planted there.
The potato leaves were sprouting higher and higher, but she didn't look closely and thought for a moment that they were some kind of wild vegetables that Old Lady Shen had planted.
Because Lili was so engrossed in the task, she didn't tell anyone in the Shen family that she had planted some potatoes.
This small patch of land in the corner was specially marked out by Old Man Shen for Lili. When the Shen family saw the green leaves, they assumed that Lili had secretly done something on her own, and for a while they didn't dare to look to see what it was.
The whole family was completely unaware that so many potatoes had quietly sprouted in the field!
If she hadn't come here last night to turn over the soil and see if the soil conditions were suitable for planting the grains she had chosen, and hadn't seen that the yellowing leaves were actually potato leaves, she wouldn't have remembered that there were potatoes that she had casually planted underground. She would have had no idea that these things existed here.
Nevertheless, the potato grew out silently.
And so it grew wildly and beautifully.
Moreover, it grew quite well, with one plant bearing more than a dozen fruits. Although it didn't produce as many fruits as modern potatoes, its large size made it quite good for this plant.
Most importantly, the potatoes grew in just over a month.
It's too short!
Besides, this is something that Lili hasn't taken care of much. If she puts in the effort to take care of it, wouldn't it be even better?
I wonder where these potatoes are from; the variety is surprisingly high quality.
However, it could also be due to Lili's good luck.
Therefore, Lili wants to lead the whole village to prosperity!
Potatoes have a short growing season, yield a large harvest, and don't require much effort. Furthermore, the climate in Nanlin County is mild, so potatoes can be grown in spring, summer, autumn, and winter. There will be some differences in harvest, but not much.
This is undoubtedly the best planting choice.
Pear waved her little shovel, and the potatoes underground finally revealed themselves.
Those dozen or so potatoes, packed tightly together, were each as big as a fist.
The largest one was even as big as Village Chief Ma's fist.
"Whoa!"
Village Chief Ma was dumbfounded.
This is...this is way too big.
Although homegrown potatoes can grow this big, not every single one is this big.
And there are more than a dozen on one plant.
Lili wanted to use her small shovel to dig up the soil next to her, but Village Chief Ma couldn't wait and started digging with his hands. He picked up the large potato plant by its leaves and exclaimed, "One, two, three, four... fourteen? Really? Lili, did you use some special method to make this? Can the villagers grow this much?"
"Of course not, Uncle Village Chief. To be honest, these potatoes have been planted for over a month, and we haven't really taken care of the planting site at all. We've relied entirely on the power of nature."
"Really? If that's true, and you say we plant four times a year, if we can consistently achieve that standard, then wouldn't that mean..."
Half a potato produces fourteen potatoes, fourteen potatoes produce three hundred and ninety-two potatoes, and three hundred and ninety-two potatoes produce... more than ten thousand potatoes?!
Lili propped her head up with her hand and smiled, "So, Uncle Village Chief, are you in or not?"
Village Chief Ma swallowed hard, forcing himself to pull himself out of that beautiful fantasy.
The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is harsh. What if it doesn't work out?
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