Chapter 85 Xie Yan Learns to Plant Potatoes
Mrs. Ma immediately let go of the man, thinking that Zhang Mei came to her house yesterday afternoon just for this matter.
She hurried back home, and when she got to the yard she shouted, "Second brother's family, come out quickly."
Li Shuangshuang walked out of the kitchen and saw Mrs. Ma staring at her with a serious look. She couldn't help but shudder, and her two daughters also shrank their necks.
She asked carefully: "Mom, what's wrong?"
"Let me ask you, what does your mother do with all those duck eggs and mung beans?"
"I don't know about that either. My mother just said that she helped someone collect it."
Ma Pozi narrowed her eyes and said, "Are you trying to fool me? Even if you help me harvest, there are already hundreds of kilograms of mung beans and hundreds of duck eggs in our village. Who can use so many?"
Li Shuangshuang shook her head: "How dare I lie to you? I am really collecting money for others. My family has no money, so why would I collect these?"
"You'd better, or I'll show you how I'm going to deal with you." Mrs. Ma rolled her eyes and decided to ask someone about this.
Then he asked again: "By the way, is Ercai back?"
Li Shuangshuang shook her head. Liu Zhaocai said that he went to the town to work and often lived outside. He never gave her a penny, and she didn't even know what kind of work he did.
Ma Pozi's eyes widened again immediately: "It's fine if you can't lay an egg, but you can't even take care of your own man. What's the point of marrying you?"
Li Shuangshuang's body swayed, and she lowered her head and tried hard to suppress the bitterness in her eyes.
Mrs. Ma was annoyed to see her depressed look. Just as she was about to scold her, she saw her second son Liu Zhaocai coming back from outside the yard.
She immediately smiled and said, "Ercai is back. Oh, you've been working for three consecutive days and you've lost weight. Hurry up and eat something good to replenish yourself."
After Ma Pozi finished speaking, she turned to look at Li Shuangshuang and said with glaring eyes: "You are dead, didn't you see Zhaocai coming back? Why don't you quickly make him a bowl of noodles and an egg?"
Liu Zhaocai smiled and said, "Mother is still good to me. Mother, I will go into the house and rest for a while first."
"Go now."
Li Shuang skillfully made a bowl of noodles and brought it into the house.
Liu Zhaocai glanced at her sideways, with a flash of disdain in his eyes. She was a blockhead and becoming more and more disgusting.
He sat up and walked to the table. Li Shuangshuang smelled a pungent aroma again.
"Dad, where did you go to work?"
"Don't mind your own business, just take good care of your parents, don't stand around in front of me, and go out to work."
Li Shuangshuang's eyes dimmed and he turned and walked out of the room.
She has become numb to days like this.
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The people in Daohua Village didn’t know about the Gao family’s excitement until the next day.
People in the village nicknamed Aunt Big Mouth, Wang Po, who loved to travel between the two villages. She was the first to know any news in the village.
Early in the morning, she talked about the prosperity of the Gao family under the locust tree, which made the villagers sigh that for a farmer to marry a daughter-in-law like this was no different from marrying an ancestor.
Others were talking about the excitement, but Li Youshan's family didn't care.
We are going to plant sweet potatoes today. The ground has been plowed, and we also need to plow out some land for the sweet potatoes to sprout.
With cows, plowing the land is much easier, and the soil here is loose and sandy, so it can be plowed quickly.
Use a rake to level the ground.
At the beginning of the Si hour (a little after nine o'clock), Xie Yan and Shen Yu took a donkey cart, and the servant Qingfeng drove into Daohua Village. Li Sandong knew they were coming, so he met them on the way to the village in advance.
The aunties and ladies under the big locust tree all had sharp eyes and could see the two handsome men inside the carriage through the curtains blown by the wind.
They couldn't help but be curious and asked the third building about it.
"Sandong, who is this?"
"This is the former steward who worked in the town. He came to see me for something."
"How old are you? Are you married?"
"Aunt, we have something else to do, so we'll leave first." Li Sandong hurriedly led his people over.
Not far from the big tree, several girls blushed with shame. It was the first time for them to see such a handsome man.
When they arrived at the door, Shen Yu jumped out of the car first. Even though he was sitting on a thick cushion, he still felt a little pain in his butt. He had never been on such a bumpy road before.
Fortunately, the official road from the county to the town is flat. If he had to sit in such a bumpy ride from the county, he wouldn't dare to think about it.
Oh, this is the first time I realized the hard work of farmers.
He stomped his feet twice, looked at Xie Yan, and seeing that he looked normal, he rolled his eyes secretly: Just pretend.
Li Wanyue and Zhao Suying were cutting potatoes. When they heard footsteps, they looked up and nodded with satisfaction.
Shen Yu was wearing a long flannel gown and looked like a manager.
Xie Yan, on the other hand, changed into a neat long-sleeved gown with the cuffs tied with a ribbon. Without the outer shirt blocking his view, he looked broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, full of hormones.
Xie Yan naturally saw her expression and the surprise in her eyes, and unconsciously raised the corners of his lips.
Li Wanyue came back to her senses, coughed lightly, stood up and greeted: "Thank you, Mr. Shen, for coming. Please sit down and feel free. You are welcome."
Then he introduced his family again.
"Hello, uncle and aunt." The two of them greeted each other immediately, and then handed a few boxes of snacks and tea in their hands to Zhao Suying: "It's just a little gift from me, I hope uncle and aunt don't mind."
Zhao Suying wiped her hands on her apron, quickly took it, and responded with a smile: "You two are too polite to bring gifts. Come and sit down. I will go and pour you some tea."
My daughter only said that the owner of Baiweilou and his friends were coming, but she didn't say it was such a young and handsome guy.
These two are really promising. They have become the boss at such a young age.
She was glad that her daughter bought new tea sets and tableware, otherwise she would be embarrassed to give the old earthenware bowls to such a handsome boy, and the earthenware bowls would only be used by her own rough son.
Sun Xiuqin looked at the two of them with shining eyes. She didn't expect that her sister-in-law could meet such a noble-looking person.
Her temperament is also different from those of the peasants. Thinking that her niece from her mother's family is already fourteen years old, it would be a good marriage if she could get her sister-in-law to help her.
Xie Yan walked to two steps away from Li Wanyue and asked, "Is it okay for me to dress like this?"
"Yes, very good."
Xie Yan saw the potato pieces on the ground and asked directly: "Cut them into pieces and plant them?"
"Yes." Li Wanyue picked up a potato and showed it to him: "When the potatoes sprout like this, they can be planted. Cut them into pieces according to each sprout point. One hundred kilograms of potatoes can be planted in about three or four mu of land. One mu of land requires about three hundred kilograms of potatoes.
But there is one thing you need to pay attention to: you need to prevent pests when planting potatoes, otherwise the potatoes will become smaller year by year."
Xie Yan looked at her and listened to her talk. It didn't look like she was planting crops for the first time. Instead, it looked like she had planted crops many times.
He asked doubtfully, "Potatoes?"
Li Wanyue paused and smiled awkwardly: "This name of sweet potato is a bit awkward, so I thought of a name that is easy to remember."
Shen Yu smiled and nodded: "It is indeed much easier to remember than sweet potato."
Xie Yan reminded him: "Stop laughing, didn't you come here to help?"
Shen Yu's smile froze, and he stared at him. Can you not mention it? He came here specially for dinner, and he didn't know how to do these things. If he got them, it would be more trouble than help. It's better not to make trouble.
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