When Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan suggested that everyone plant sweet potatoes, they considered that this crop had a high yield and was not easily eaten by locusts.
However, its drawback of not being easy to preserve is also obvious.
Those that were cut in half during digging, and those that were already damaged, are the most prone to rotting. Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan plan to slice and dry them first, and then grind them into sweet potato flour, or find a factory to make them into sweet potato powder.
It's a good idea, but given the current external environment, they can hardly even go out, let alone look for factories or anything like that.
Moreover, there aren't many factories that can still operate normally these days.
However, let's dry the sweet potato chips at home first, since the temperature and sunshine are still quite good. They can go to the factory after the locust plague and virus outbreak are over.
So, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan washed the rotten sweet potatoes early in the morning and then cut off the bad parts.
After processing the half-eaten, pitted, or worm-eaten sweet potatoes, Bi Qiaoan took a knife and cut them into slices.
Shen Yanming went to the balcony to collect the corn that had been drying, then spread a large clean plastic sheet on the ground and placed the sliced sweet potatoes on it one by one.
This is a meticulous task, because the sweet potato slices need to be arranged neatly to save space, while also preventing them from being stacked together.
Therefore, Shen Yanming's speed in arranging sweet potato slices was not as fast as Bi Qiaoan's speed in slicing them.
Once the balcony is full, we'll put them in the bedroom. Anyway, those corn cobs have been drying for quite a while now, so we can just put them in one room and turn them over occasionally.
In addition to the floor, sweet potato chips can also be placed on cabinets and tables. Basically, they can be placed wherever there is space. If there is really no room, there is also Zhang Heping's room next door.
After slicing and drying all the less desirable sweet potatoes from his own field, Shen Yanming stored all the good ones in his space so they wouldn't spoil.
As for Zhang Heping and Ji Kangyong, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan originally planned to leave it to them to handle themselves, but considering that the two were never home, they could only sigh and decide to do it themselves.
So the two of them carried the boxes of sweet potatoes to the next room and started processing them in Zhang Heping's room.
This time, it wasn't just the ones that weren't good-looking; the two of them took it upon themselves to slice and dry all their sweet potatoes.
Because the two of them only planted half an acre of sweet potatoes. Although it wasn't much, they didn't have enough space, and they couldn't eat all the fresh sweet potatoes they had.
Rather than letting it spoil, it's better to make it into sweet potato noodles, which can be stored for several years without spoiling.
If they want to eat boiled or roasted sweet potatoes in the future, they can just ask me for them.
Anyway, everything at home is legally owned, and one acre of land is enough for the two of them to eat.
And so, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan spent another one or two hours drying the sweet potato slices.
When the two left, they looked back and saw that there was almost no room to stand in Zhang Heping's house; as far as the eye could see, there were only white sweet potato chips.
However, a few passageways were still left because they still need to be turned over every day.
As for the potatoes on that half-acre plot, Shen Yanming harvested half of them and put them in his spatial storage, waiting to give them to Zhang Heping when he returned.
The remaining half was delivered directly to Ji Kangyong's home.
After returning home, Bi Qiaoan slumped onto the sofa and asked Shen Yanming, "You dried so many sweet potato chips today, did you take any videos?"
"Yes, how could I not know what you're thinking?" Shen Yanming smiled, took out his phone, and opened a video for Bi Qiaoan to watch.
Bi Qiaoan nodded as she watched, "It's well-made, but it's too long and needs to be edited."
A few minutes later, Chacha Li posted another video on Weibo.
It was at this moment that Bi Qiaoan realized that many netizens had left messages for her.
They said they were very grateful for her reminder; otherwise, they might have just left the corn pile there and forgotten about it.
After all, these are people who have never done farm work before, so it's quite normal for them to have such knowledge gaps. Bi Qiaoan hopes that this short video can also help them.
After turning off their phones, Bi Qiaoan's stomach suddenly rumbled, and the two realized that they hadn't eaten or drunk anything while working for several hours.
Shen Yanming didn't dare let Bi Qiaoan cook anymore. He quickly took out a few steamed buns and a bowl of pork rib soup from his spatial storage and pushed them in front of Bi Qiaoan, saying, "Eat something to fill your stomach."
Bi Qiaoan looked at Shen Yanming with a puzzled expression: "Aren't you hungry?"
He was actually quite hungry, but after lying on the ground bent over for several hours, he felt a bit uncomfortable, so he decided to eat slowly.
Seeing that Shen Yanming shook his head, Bi Qiaoan didn't care anymore. She got up, went to the bathroom to wash her hands, and then started eating.
Seeing that Bi Qiaoan was enjoying her meal, Shen Yanming smiled and turned on the TV. They hadn't watched the news for the past two or three days, so they didn't want to miss any important information.
But this news is truly astounding; you won't believe it until you see it.
It turns out that the locust swarm has already approached the central part of Qinghua Kingdom. At this rate, it will only take five or six hours.
Logically speaking, it shouldn't be this fast. Could it be that the southern crops were harvested early, leaving them with little food, which is why they flew north at full speed?
This is terrifying! It's only been two or three days, and they've already flown over.
Moreover, according to statistics, only 80% of the farmland in central cities has been harvested so far, with 20% of the grain still sitting in the fields.
It's definitely not feasible to rely entirely on mechanical harvesting now. All regions have to mobilize, regardless of age or gender, to do everything possible to harvest as much grain as possible.
To motivate everyone, some places have even introduced policies that offer half of the harvested grain to anyone who participates in the harvest.
In today's food-scarce world, this is an enormous lure, and many people have left their homes to join the harvesting efforts just for a bite to eat.
Although Bi Qiaoan was eating, she still noticed the commotion on the television.
She swallowed the bun in her mouth and asked, "Haven't you tried to kill these locusts? Wouldn't aerial spraying work?"
Shen Yanming picked up his phone and checked before saying, "I tried it, but it didn't work. It's like mosquitoes; the previous medications were too weak to kill them and had almost no effect."
"I guess the energy rain has increased their drug resistance. I wonder when this will end."
Shen Yanming smiled and said, "Don't worry, once everyone has planted Silverheart Hundred-Leaf Grass, this disaster will be over."
Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan were discussing how to exterminate the locusts here, and the same thing was happening in the capital.
"It really keeps coming one after another, there's never a moment of peace."
One bigwig, watching the satellite feed, exclaimed, "It's only the second year and it's already this fierce! I really don't know what to do next!"
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