After a while, the sweet potatoes ripened and were ready to be harvested.
Xiao Bao collected all 12 portions of sweet potatoes, along with the sweet potato vines.
Then I planted a patch of pasture grass, a patch of radishes, a banana tree, a patch of amaranth, a patch of perilla, and a patch of Smilax glabra. The remaining six holes were used to plant sweet potatoes.
Xiao Bao exclaimed with delight, "Brother Xiao Tian, one hundred radishes can be exchanged for two energy points, and you can harvest them once every 10 hours!"
Amaranth and perilla can be harvested every 30 minutes, but unfortunately, they can't be exchanged for energy points.
Smilax glabra can be harvested once an hour, but that's not enough to exchange for energy points.
Just then, Chen Nong ran in and asked, "Xiao Bao, where's the banana tree?"
Xiao Bao said happily, "Tanghulu said that harvesting 100 bananas can be exchanged for 10 energy points."
The first harvest takes 31 hours, and the second takes 14 hours.
Five saplings will fall after each harvest.
After reading it all in one breath, Xiao Bao frowned and said, "It's so complicated, I don't really understand."
Xiao Tian laughed and said, "You don't need to understand, you just need to know that there's food to eat."
Xiao Tian said, "Xiao Bao, take out a portion of sweet potato."
Soon, six large sweet potatoes with vines appeared in front of them.
The vines were very lush, so many that they could fill a large manure basket.
Because of the host's needs, the system cleaned the system very thoroughly in a very humane way.
Xiao Bao exclaimed excitedly, "So many dishes!"
Although this was the first time I'd seen sweet potato vines, if sweet potatoes are edible, then the leaves must be vegetables.
Xiao Tian said happily, "Let's take a bamboo basket and put it out to cook."
Chen Kai asked Xiao Bao to bring out two more portions and hand them over to the team so everyone could have an extra meal.
But Xiao Bao sat on the ground, protecting a pile of sweet potatoes and refusing to let go, saying, "I don't want to give them to them, we'll eat the sweet potatoes ourselves."
Chen Kai chuckled and patted his little head. "Don't worry, Xiao Bao, with candied hawthorns, we'll have sweet potatoes to eat every day."
Look, we've had such a great harvest today, and we'll have bananas to eat from now on. Let's share our joy and give everyone an extra treat, okay?
Xiao Bao said reluctantly, "Alright then, we won't give it to you anymore, we'll eat it ourselves."
Chen Nong took Xiao Bao's hand and said, "Come on, Xiao Bao, let's go drink sweet potato soup. The sweet potato soup is ready."
When the team's mess hall took the sweet potatoes out, it attracted a lot of onlookers.
"What kind of food is this? The leaves are so tender, it must taste delicious!"
"That big tuber, could it be something like kudzu root?"
"I heard from the Chen family that it's called sweet potato, and it's sweet too. It can be eaten as a staple food, and it's delicious!"
"Yes, I heard it's a high-yield grain, and it seems like you can grow it using that vine."
"Good heavens, this is a treasure! Once we've settled down, we definitely have to plant sweet potatoes."
"There are so many sweet potato leaves, hopefully we can get a piece tonight. And those sweet potatoes, I wonder if we'll be able to get a piece."
"With over 1,600 people and twelve large sweet potatoes, getting even a small piece of sweet potato really depends on luck."
Xiao Tian asked Da Ya and the others to help him break off the sweet potato leaves so they could stir-fry them.
They wanted to use the tender parts of the sweet potato vines, but the older parts were opposed by everyone.
"Such good food, why feed it to the donkey? Use it to make a porridge, cook it a little longer and it will be soft and tastier than grass roots," Daya scolded.
The village chief's wife, who had come to join in the fun, saw such a good opportunity and quickly grabbed a handful of smooth sweet potato vines. "Xiao Tian, you don't want such good food? Give it to me, I don't mind at all."
Er Ya immediately protected the remaining sweet potato vines, "Who said my family doesn't want them? We want them all!"
The village chief's wife happily took the sweet potato vines back first, then walked over to Zhou and said, "Give me a small bowl of pork cracklings!"
Zhou rolled her eyes. "It's not like we didn't give you any, and you still want to take it back?"
The village chief's wife laughed and said, "Then give me half a sweet potato, just half!"
"Alright, grab it and get out of here!" Zhou took a large sweet potato and cut it in half for her.
The village chief's wife, eating pork cracklings, said, "When we get back, these pork cracklings are really delicious. Only your family would be so generous with the salt."
Xiao Tian smacked his lips on the pork cracklings and said, "Without salt, it has no flavor."
The eldest son's wife and her husband couldn't bear to feed the sweet potato vines to the donkeys. Even the bare, old stalks were cut into sections, tied into bundles, and kept to make a porridge.
After a while, the fragrant stir-fried sweet potato leaves were ready, and the pork soup was also cooked.
"Dinner's ready! Dinner's ready!"
Er Ya quickly filled a bowl with more than half a bowl of pork cracklings, and then picked up a large mouthful of sweet potato leaves. The moment she tasted them, she felt that the sweet potato leaves were even tastier than sunflower leaves!
Sweet potato leaves are so delicious! They smell amazing!
A large pot of pork cracklings, which had been pressed, was quickly reduced by more than half without Zhou's supervision.
When Zhou came out of the cave, he quickly took five wooden bowls, filled them with pork cracklings, and covered them with a wooden board so that no one could take any more from the pot. He told everyone to eat what was in the bowls.
When I was little, I gave most of the pork cracklings in my bowl to my dad.
"Dad, eat more, it smells so good and tastes so good."
Wu Dahai said, "You all eat, Dad will just have the meat soup."
Xiao Shi whispered, "Don't worry, Dad, we filled two big bowls and put them in Chen Nong's buns. That's enough for me and my brother."
Wu Dahai: "..." He suddenly felt that it was very necessary to let his mother-in-law manage the food.
Bai Chuan filled a large bowl and carried it back to the place where they cooked at home, which was actually right next to the Chen family's house, just a few steps away.
"Father, Mother, Brother, come out here! We're having pork cracklings with salt!"
The village chief's family killed a wolf and cooked the wolf meat for lunch.
However, the village chief and his wife, along with Bai Chuan, all went to the Chen family's house for a free meal.
Shirakawa's father said helplessly, "You can eat over there, but why bring it back? Won't it annoy people?"
Shirakawa laughed and said, "What is face? Can it be eaten?"
Bai Yu: "..."
Bai Qi thought that made sense, then ate two pieces of pork cracklings and took the bowl to the Chen family.
When the village chief's wife saw her grandson coming over, she squeezed over to Zhou Daya and gave him a big bowl of pork soup.
He added, "Eat more, eat your fill!"
Zhou Daya said speechlessly, "This isn't your house!"
Bai Qi, carrying a bowl of meat soup, approached the fifth brother and asked, "Do you still have any pork cracklings?"
The fifth brother brought out a wooden bowl. "There's half a bowl left. Help yourself."
Bai Qi and his companions immediately scrambled to grab it.
Bai Qi: "You've packed quite a lot, haven't you?"
The fifth brother chuckled and said, "I asked my little brother to bring out three bowls so we can eat them slowly."
Uncle Chen is the Chen family's Achilles' heel. Let alone a few bowls of pork cracklings, even a whole pot of them would be given to him.
After lunch, Xiao Bao, who had been playing with his friends for a while, was suddenly reminded by Tanghulu that it was time to harvest the perilla and amaranth.
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