Chapter 147 Drought Again

Liu Yinyin really thinks this girl is good.

It's not just because Huang Xiaoyue often gives her things, this girl is simple, generous and hardworking.

Jiang Cuihua uttered a sound of "Huh?" and her attention was instantly diverted. She asked in surprise, "Why did you change to sweet potatoes?"

There is no private plot of land at home to grow sweet potatoes.

There's only a small vegetable patch in the yard, you can't not grow vegetables or sweet potatoes, right?

Liu Yinyin's family is small, so she can indeed set aside some land in the yard to grow sweet potatoes. However, this is not her purpose, and she cannot tell the truth to Jiang Cuihua.

Liu Yinyin said vaguely: "There is also vacant land in the house over in the county compound, we can grow some sweet potatoes."

The vacant space is only the size of a palm, so there is no need to bother.

But Jiang Cuihua didn't know that. She thought it was the same as the yard at home and agreed: "It can't be wasted."

Now, nothing is more important than food.

Jiang Cuihua no longer cared about Huang Xiaoyue's affairs as she had been busy recently.

Not only does he have to go to work, but he also has to take care of his second daughter-in-law, Mrs. Liu, who is about to give birth.

Liu Yinyin asked her, "Do you need me to go to the county town to buy some food for my second sister-in-law?"

Mrs. Liu gave birth to her baby at home, and during the confinement period, she must eat something good to nourish her body, otherwise she won’t even have enough milk.

This is a big deal!

Jiang Cuihua was not polite to the lady. She nodded and said, "If possible, you can help me change it for a pig's trotter or a crucian carp."

Hongtang had some at home, and she even exchanged them with a villager for an old hen that didn't lay eggs.

If you can replace it with pig's trotters or crucian carp to increase milk production, it will be enough.

As a mother-in-law, she has done her best. Other daughters-in-law in the village do not receive such treatment.

It’s not a difficult thing, Liu Yinyin agreed.

After lunch, Huang Xiaoyue came to find Liu Yinyin carrying a large backpack.

"Yin Yin, I asked my father to grow the seedlings of the sweet potatoes you wanted. But where are you going to plant these sweet potatoes?" Huang Xiaoyue asked with a puzzled look on her face.

The sweet potato seedlings that Liu Yinyin wanted were enough to plant three or four acres of land, but all the land now belonged to collective owners.

They simply don't have any extra land to grow sweet potatoes.

Liu Yinyin glanced at her and said frankly, "Actually, I...plan to plant these sweet potatoes in the mountains."

"What?" Huang Xiaoyue widened her eyes slightly, "But, this is not..."

After a moment of silence, she didn't say anything more. Planting sweet potatoes in the mountains is completely digging into the collective's corner. If people knew...

But when she thought about the fact that her family had done the same thing, Huang Xiaoyue was speechless again.

Not long after the New Year, Huang Laizi reclaimed all the land near the hot springs and planted sweet potatoes as Liu Yinyin had suggested.

Now, the sweet potato leaves are coming out.

Huang Xiaoyue is not an inflexible person, otherwise she would not have the courage to grow vegetables and sweet potatoes in the mountains.

Liu Yinyin was even braver: "Don't worry, find a secluded place where it won't be easily discovered by others. Even if they do find it, it's nothing, and no one will know that I planted it."

At worst, she doesn’t want the sweet potatoes anymore.

Just like she scattered wild vegetable seeds in the mountains, if sweet potatoes were not scattered and difficult to take care of, Liu Yinyin would have just planted some randomly in the mountains.

Anyway...she doesn't grow sweet potatoes for herself.

Huang Xiaoyue said hurriedly: "Let me help you plant a piece."

Otherwise, with so many sweet potato seedlings, Liu Yinyin wouldn’t know how long she would have to work on them all by herself.

Besides, it is safer for two people to go up the mountain.

If she wanted to help, Liu Yinyin would not refuse. The sweet potato seedlings would not last long, so they had to hurry up and plant them in these two days.

During this period, the farming season was busy and the school was on vacation, so Liu Yinyin happened to be at home with nothing to do.

There is no time to waste.

The weather is not too hot now, so Liu Yinyin leaves Gu Yanyan at the Liu family.

Carrying the backpack, he went up the mountain with Huang Xiaoyue.

Liujia Village also has a mountain with a pine forest on it. Generally, no one comes here except to chop firewood.

There are not many wild vegetables growing on the mountain.

Moreover, the road on this hill is not easy to walk on.

The spring ploughing has begun in the village, and not many people come to the mountains to pick wild vegetables.

The two were lucky and didn't meet anyone else on the road.

After climbing over one mountain, we reached the top of another.

The two finally found a river. The water was very deep and clear, and they could see the bottom and small fish swimming around.

Liu Yinyin put down the backpack and paused for a moment before saying, "Let's do it here."

This place is far enough away. There are no wild vegetables or wild fruit trees along the way.

It is highly likely that no one will find this place.

Huang Xiaoyue looked around and was quite satisfied. The sweet potatoes were planted here and there was a river next to it, so they had convenient access to water.

Moreover, this place is similar to the sweet potato field behind her house.

After all, it is not arable land, and there are a lot of weeds and stones next to the river.

Before planting sweet potatoes, the two of them have to prepare the land first, otherwise it will affect the yield of the sweet potatoes.

They both brought hoes, and they were busy weeding and planting sweet potatoes.

Huang Xiaoyue was busy for a while and couldn't help asking, "Yinyin, why do you grow so many sweet potatoes?"

Although she was happy to help, she still didn't quite understand...

Logically speaking, Liu Yinyin's family is well-off, so even if this year is a bad year, her family should not lack food.

There is no need to grow sweet potatoes secretly in the mountains.

Liu Yinyin did this not for herself, which is quite hypocritical.

In fact, she grew sweet potatoes for the villagers.

Sweet potatoes have a high yield. If you plant a few acres of sweet potato fields, you can harvest at least several thousand kilograms.

These sweet potatoes...may become the life-saving food for the villagers in the future.

No matter what, we are all from the same village. If there is another natural disaster this year, the village will have no harvest.

By then, the villagers will be so hungry that they might do anything.

Liu Yinyin's family couldn't remain immune either.

Even if she could move to the county town, what about the other members of the Liu family?

As a child, Liu Yinyin couldn't just sit there and watch her mother's family suffer in the village.

However, Liu Yinyin did not tell Huang Xiaoyue this directly.

After a pause, she said lightly, "I think... the weather is so dry, the harvest this year will not be very good.

By then, the price of food will surely increase. We should plant more sweet potatoes and bring them to the county town. We will definitely get more supplies in exchange.”

Huang Xiaoyue: “…”

She saw that her sister-in-law's family didn't seem to be short of supplies.

However, if the harvest of crops is still poor this year, the price of food will inevitably rise.

The Liu family has a large population, and she doesn't know how much food the Liu family has stored.

But the more food the better. After all, no one wants to be hungry.

Huang Xiaoyue's parents also planted an acre of sweet potatoes.