Chapter 110 It’s a potato, not a bellyband
For the villagers of Heihe Village, the fate of the Huo family made them truly experience what retribution in this life is.
In the past, good deeds will be rewarded and evil deeds will be punished only appeared in storytellers' stories, but now, real-life examples are right in front of us. Nothing can be more educational and shocking than this.
After witnessing the incident with their own eyes, the villagers of Heihe Village developed a sense of awe for everything and everyone.
Once people believe in cause and effect, they will become more kind.
Heihe Village is very harmonious today.
This is a relatively leisurely time of the year. The work in the fields has been almost done. Rapeseed and wheat have been planted, and winter vegetables have also been sown.
There are not many varieties of crops in Dayuchao. Take vegetables for example. Villagers only grow two kinds of vegetables in autumn - cabbage and white radish.
Xiaojiu didn't want the whole village to eat only radishes and cabbages for the entire winter, so he searched through the space and found that there were not many vegetables that could be planted in autumn.
The little dumpling chose and chose, and finally chose two kinds - potatoes and carrots.
Potatoes are delicious and filling, much better than the sweet potatoes in Heihe Village; carrots are rich in vitamins, can be eaten raw or cooked, and taste sweet, so everyone will definitely like them.
Thinking of the delicious stewed pork ribs with potatoes and braised beef brisket with carrots, the little girl couldn't help drooling.
Early in the morning, the village head discovered that there were many unfamiliar seeds and round things in the ancestral hall, and he immediately came to the Ye family to find Xiaojiu happily.
"Xiao Jiu'er, what are these fun things you gave me? What are they used for?"
"It's so cool!"
The little dumpling raised his little head and gestured seriously with his two little hands, "Planting the land, growing big, Qiqi, ah-woo!"
The little mouth opened and saliva accidentally dripped to the corner of the mouth. The little dumpling quickly wiped it off without making a sound.
"From what Xiaojiu said, it should be a new crop that can be planted immediately!" The village head's eyes lit up when he heard this. What Xiaojiu took out must be a good thing.
Heihe Village is blessed again.
"But how do you grow this round thing?"
The village head turned the potato over and over in his hand.
The seeds are easy to plant, probably the same way as white radish, but I don’t know how to plant this round lump.
"Well..."
The little boy tilted his head, placed his chubby fingers on the corner of his mouth, and frowned.
Poor thing? I don’t even know how to grow vegetables!
The Ye family was amused by her distressed look.
"Xiao Jiuer, is this round lump buried in the soil?" Ye Yanping asked.
Little Dumpling had a flash of inspiration and remembered that in his previous life, the school organized an autumn outing to the farm for the students, which included planting potatoes.
"Oh my god!" Little Dumpling dragged his short legs to the kitchen, holding a big kitchen knife in his two little hands with difficulty, and walked over staggeringly.
"Xiao Jiuer! It's dangerous!" The Ye family panicked and carefully snatched the kitchen knife away.
“Tsk tsk!”
"Bury it!"
Everyone was a little confused. “If we cut the pieces and bury them in the soil, won’t they rot?”
"Sprout!" Little Dumpling pointed at the potato's eye.
"I see." Li Zheng was an expert in growing crops. "Should we cut the seeds into pieces and bury them in the ground after they sprout?"
"Yes!" Little Dumpling was very happy. He stretched out his little hand and pointed at the potato. "It's - belly, pocket!"
"What?" The old headman's face flushed, and he threw the potato away in a hurry as if his hand was burned by a branding iron. "Why is this thing called Dudududu..."
After talking for a long time, I just felt embarrassed to say the word "兜".
The Ye family members also had different expressions. Yunniang blushed immediately, and Luo Qiuyue lowered her head and pretended not to hear.
Little Dumpling: "Uh..."
Little Dumpling wants to cry.
It’s so difficult for the baby. The baby has tried his best to pronounce the words correctly, why is it still like this?
If potatoes were called "bellyband" which makes them feel ashamed, I'm afraid no one in Heihe Village would be willing to grow them.
"Dede!" The little dumpling pouted and looked at Xiaowen and Xiaowu aggrievedly.
The two little ones understood instantly, "Wrong, wrong, this thing is not called a bellyband!"
The three little ones chatted with each other.
“It’s potatoes!”
“So it’s called potato!”
Everyone felt relieved.
Well, potatoes have finally been vindicated.
The gong in the village sounded "clang, clang, clang".
"Everyone gather at the entrance of the ancestral hall!"
"Every household should bring a basket!"
When the villagers heard this, they immediately understood. Is this another good thing coming?
Everyone ran to the ancestral hall happily with baskets in their hands.
The village head stood in front of everyone with a smile on his face. "Fellow villagers, we are distributing two good things today. You must hurry and sow the seeds. Do you understand?"
"Understood!" everyone answered in unison.
"Hurry up and line up to get yours!" The village head greeted everyone while instructing, "These round potatoes are called potatoes. After you get them home, first steam them until they sprout, then cut them into pieces with the sprouts still attached, cover them with wood ash, and bury them in the soil. Take good care of them, they're good things to come."
"Start sowing the seeds today, and be diligent. As the old saying goes, you can eat well and wear well, but you can't be poor by calculating."
"I understand, Village Head." Everyone answered.
In the next few days, the fields in Heihe Village became bustling again.
Planting a seed is planting a hope. They are not afraid of being busy, but they are afraid of having no direction in life.
Everyone thought that after sowing, they could enjoy their free time.
Little did they know that Heihe Village had been targeted by bandits.
Heihe Village had two encounters with the bandits from Black Eagle Village.
The first time, in front of the town’s granary, the people of Heihe Village did not join the melee, but left directly. The Black Eagle Village just thought they were cowardly refugees who were afraid of death.
The second time happened near the county government office, and the bandits felt something was wrong.
At that time, everyone on the street was scrambling to grab and store food, and the situation was chaotic.
But the people in Heihe Village just stood under the eaves with their hands in their pockets and did nothing.
Although these people were dressed in rags, their faces were rosy and their bellies were round, and it was obvious that they were not hungry.
Later, after some inquiries, we learned that this group of people were from Heihe Village, and Heihe Village was the village that was levied heavy taxes by the county magistrate because of the bumper harvest. The grain that disappeared from the granary that day was handed over by Heihe Village.
The Black Eagle Village could no longer hold back.
In fact, as a well-known bandit organization, the Black Eagle Village would not bother to rob the village.
Hawkeye, the leader of the Black Hawk Village, believes in the life creed of "big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimps, and shrimps eat mud."
In his eyes, Black Eagle Village is a big fish and the benchmark of the bandit industry in Xianchuan County. He looks down on the small shrimps and mud.
Not only would it be degrading to rob a village, but you wouldn't get much out of it.
His target was the wealthy people in the town. Every year he would kidnap a few hostages and take them to the stronghold, extorting a sum of money from them so that he would have enough food and drink for the whole year.
But this year is different. Even if we have silver, we can’t get food.
This year we kidnapped several hostages, who were the lifeblood of their families. We asked people to bring food to redeem them, but in the end we only managed to gather a few thousand kilograms of food. It's obvious that we really tried our best.
Seeing that the Black Eagle Village was about to run out of food, Eagle Eye no longer cared about his face and had to go to Heihe Village.
So, on a clear and cloudless autumn afternoon.
The Black Eagle Village gathered bandits and marched towards Heihe Village in a mighty force.
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