Gu Shouxin: "Brother Ye, as you can see, this house of mine is newly built. We only moved here last year around the Laba Festival. Before that, my eldest daughter experimented with these two kinds of seeds, and they grew. However, the conditions for them to grow were too demanding, so we haven't told Zhou Yuan yet. We only plan to plant them in the spring."
The Emperor: "Continue."
Gu Shouxin said, "You see these yellow granules? We only planted ten in a pot and put them in the pigsty. We didn't raise pigs, so we planted them in the pigsty. We made sure the temperature in the pigsty was high and kept burning firewood all day. Only two survived. Do you know what they looked like?"
The emperor asked curiously, "What kind?"
Gu Shouxin walked to the corner of the warehouse and took out three dried corn cobs.
Emperor: "This, this really grew from two seeds?"
Gu Shouxin nodded firmly: "That's right. One plant only has one seed, another has two, and the other eight haven't sprouted at all. So, it's not suitable to plant this in winter. But look, Brother Ye, if you peel off the seeds from this one, how many nests can you plant?"
The emperor was envious; this was a treasure!
Xue Qianyu was calmer than the emperor and asked, "What makes Uncle Gu so sure this is edible?"
Gu Shouxin smiled and said, "We've already used a small handful, crushed it with a millstone, mixed it with wild vegetables, and fed it to the chickens. We also crushed another small handful and ate it with rice. Our family of four is doing well. To be honest, it's very filling, no worse than rice."
Distracted by Xue Qianyu, the emperor calmed down and looked at the pile of sweet potatoes on the ground, asking, "Can those be eaten too?"
Gu Shouxin nodded: "To be honest, Brother Ye, my daughter Niannian used to love embroidery, but last year, for some reason, she didn't want to embroider anymore, saying it was bad for her eyes. So she started researching food instead. Before the New Year, we secretly dug up a few potatoes to eat, and she secretly took Xinxin to get these red potatoes to cook and eat. It was perfectly fine, and they even filled her stomach."
The Emperor asked, "Has she figured out how to grow this? Is it the same as potatoes?"
Gu Shouxin shook his head: "No, according to Niannian's experiment, this requires seedling cultivation. I'm not sure, but according to her calculations, the yield per mu will not be lower than that of potatoes."
The emperor gasped, then narrowed his eyes and scrutinized Gu Shouxin: "Brother Gu, why are you telling me such an important matter?"
Gu Shouxin smiled and said, "Brother Ye, didn't you realize I was showing off? I'm showing off my two daughters! Besides, didn't you say we hit it off immediately? I'm telling you this because you're of high status. When Zhou Yuan and his great-uncle go to the capital to present crops, you can find a way to get them for yourself!"
The emperor looked at Gu Shouxin with suspicion.
Gu Shouxin put his arm around the emperor's shoulder, acting like a close buddy: "Brother Ye, I'm doing this all for your own good! And I also want to apologize to you, Brother Ye. Didn't I get you so drunk the other night that my third sister had to punch you a couple of times to make you throw up all the wine?"
emperor:……
I feel like you're laughing at me.
You mocked my daughter for ignoring me, mocked me for not being able to outdrink you, and mocked me for getting punched twice by your third sister.
"Ahem." Xue Qianyu coughed twice. "Master, Uncle Gu, the weather outside is quite nice. Why don't we go for a walk in the village?"
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