Chapter 46 Planting Potatoes Lin Yongxin Although...
Although Lin Yongxin was also furious, he calmed down considerably. Seeing Lin Jing like this, he understood that this person was deliberately making things difficult for the couple.
But if Lin Jing really doesn't accept them, then what they picked will turn into a pile of mud.
Because they've already tried today, and no one except Jinyun Hotel will accept this damn thing.
Seeing that Lin Jing had taken two steps back and seemed about to return to the courtyard, Lin Yongxin disregarded everything else and hurriedly called out, "One coin it is."
Lin Jing stopped in her tracks. Lin Yongxin continued, "Even one coin will do. Weigh it!"
Just as Zhou Caixia was about to speak, Lin Yongxin slapped her on the shoulder as a warning, forcing her to swallow the words she was about to utter.
Lin Jing glanced back at the two of them, sighed deeply, and said with a reluctant expression, "Alright, since we're from the same village, I'll take it as a good thing. I won't accept any more gifts in the future."
Lin Yongxin and Zhou Caixia were furious. They kept muttering to themselves, "We'd rather be poor than do this again!" They'd worked so hard for two days, their hands covered in countless red scratches, thinking they could make a small fortune from what they'd overheard that day, but alas...
It wasn't until this point that Lin Yongxin, who had finally realized the situation, understood that they had been set up by Lin Qing'an.
Zhou Caixia, however, had not yet reacted.
After some picking and choosing, Lin Jing finally took away Zhou Caixia's thirty catties of toon leaves for thirty coins.
Zhou Caixia and Lin Yongxin slunk away, while Lin Jing looked at the pile of toon leaves in the yard and was overjoyed.
They made a fortune!
Looking at the wilted toon leaves, Liu Yiyi asked with some concern, "These all look wilted. Are you sure they'll still buy them?"
Lin Jing snapped her fingers loudly and said, "Aqing has a way."
After saying that, he smiled mysteriously, then arranged all the Chinese toon leaves on the rice stalks as Lin Qing'an had instructed, and then took out a bucket from the house and carried it to Chen Gengnian's house.
When she arrived in front of Lin Qing'an and the others, she leaned back and forth as she recounted what had just happened, feeling incredibly pleased with herself.
Lin Qingan and Chen Yuetao were both beaming with joy.
Chen Gengnian patted Lin Jing's smugly trembling shoulder and said in a serious tone, "You know what, you really do look a bit like a merchant."
It wasn't funny at all, but Chen Gengnian's words and his expression made everyone burst into laughter again.
After a long while, Lin Jing carried a bucket of water home. Once home, she sprinkled water on the toon leaves three times as Lin Qing'an had instructed. She wondered if it was just her imagination, but the toon leaves seemed much fresher after the last sprinkle.
After Lin Jing returned, Lin Qing'an and Chen Gengnian lifted the straw covering the potatoes. As soon as a corner of the straw was lifted, they saw new sprouts emerging.
Chen Gengnian quickly lifted more of the pith and saw that the potato pieces had not only sprouted but also grown leaves.
It's truly amazing that it happened in just two days.
After covering the straw back up, Lin Qing'an clapped his hands and said, "We can plant it tomorrow."
Chen Gengnian nodded, "Okay, then I'll go and call the villagers who helped plow the land these past two days tomorrow morning, and we'll try to finish planting in one day."
Chen Gengnian then voiced his concerns: "Once we plant them, we'll have to figure out how to sell the three bears in the bag. If we wait too long, the blood will coagulate and we won't be able to hide it anymore."
Lin Qingan also remembered this matter. Although food can be preserved in a bag for a long time, wounds will change over time, which will inevitably make careful people notice something.
The land for planting potatoes has been turned over in the past two days, and the sweet potato field has also been turned over. Chen Yuetao has already planted the sweet potato vines, so we can plant them together tomorrow when there are more people around.
Ameng went to town today and checked. The shop will be renovated in a while, so they can focus on their own affairs during this time.
The next day, Lin Qing'an got up very early, and after breakfast, the whole family went to the fields.
He needs to teach everyone how to grow potatoes.
The soil at the foot of the mountain is black soil, which is very loose and suitable for growing fruit-bearing crops.
Lin Qingan took a hoe and dug the soil into a long mound, and then everyone did the same.
Then, the wood ash was sprinkled into the prepared trench, and the sprouted potatoes were placed side by side with the sprouts facing down. Finally, a thin layer of soil was covered on top.
"Is it upside down?" someone couldn't help but question Lin Qing'an's method of placing the potatoes.
Lin Qingan smiled and explained, "No, this way of planting potatoes will result in a higher yield."
This was a method his grandmother taught him; his family used to produce more potatoes than anyone else in the village.
Although everyone was still a little confused, they couldn't argue with them. They were the employers, and as long as the work was done well and the wages were received, they didn't care about anything else!
Everyone took on their assigned tasks and began working, replicating everything Lin Qing'an had done.
When it came time to plant the sweet potatoes, Lin Qing'an also got involved.
He walked over and took the sweet potato vine from Chen Yuetao's hand. "Mother, this year we'll plant them using a different method."
Before Chen Yuetao could ask, she saw Lin Qingan take a long sweet potato vine and put it into the soil along the ditch.
"Actually, sweet potato vines don't need to be cut. Just leave them as they grow long and spread out. This will make them much easier to dig up later, and the yield will be higher."
As he spoke, he covered the soil with soil. A vine took up a long section of the soil, and leaves were sprouting from the surface.
"Ah Qing, is it really possible to survive this?"
Although Chen Yuetao knew Lin Qingan wouldn't lie, she was still somewhat worried. After all, she had never used this method before, and this was grain; what if...
Whenever she thought about these things, she couldn't help but recall the days when she was hungry, and she worried that the sweet potatoes would not bear fruit.
"Don't worry, Mother, trust me, the harvest will exceed your expectations."
Seeing that Chen Yuetao still seemed somewhat skeptical, Chen Gengnian's voice came from afar.
"Mother, you can trust Qing with confidence. My husband is amazing!"
Chen Gengnian looked at Lin Qing'an with eyes full of admiration. As soon as he finished speaking, the aunties in the field started to laugh and tease him.
Lin Qingan was a little embarrassed, but seeing Chen Gengnian's sweaty appearance, he didn't pretend. Instead, he boldly called out to Chen Gengnian from afar.
"My son Nian is amazing too!"
"Hahaha..."
In an instant, laughter erupted from the field.
One of her playful older sisters-in-law even jokingly asked Lin Qing'an, "Qing'an, tell me, just how amazing is your brother Nian... hahaha—"
Lin Qing'an didn't realize something was wrong at first. Just as he was about to reply to his sister-in-law, Chen Yuetao tugged at him and interrupted, "Alright, I'll listen to you. Just leave the work in the fields to them. You go back with me to cook."
The sun was quite strong today, and everyone was sweating profusely.
Lin Qing'an shook his head. "Mom, I'm not going back. I'll stay here and keep an eye on things so nothing goes wrong."
Chen Yuetao thought so too. With so much effort put in, it was necessary to keep an eye on things. She got up and instructed, "Then remember not to overwork yourself. Just keep an eye on things and let Brother Nian and the others do the rest."
"Yes, I understand, Mother."
Chen Yuetao then carried the pig feed she had just cut back home.
Not long after Chen Yuetao arrived home, Liu Yiyi came up to help. Chen Yuetao quickly became familiar with Liu Yiyi and didn't treat her like an outsider. Together they started preparing the meal.
When it was time to eat, the group smelled the rich aroma of meat as soon as they entered the courtyard.
When they saw the large bowl of meat on the table, they were all stunned. They never expected that the young man's family would not only provide rice, but also meat.
Chen Yuetao warmly invited everyone, "Don't be shy, everyone please help yourselves to the food."
The group looked at each other, but no one touched their chopsticks.
Lin Qing'an didn't care about anything else. His stomach was growling with hunger. Before he could even reach for the food with his chopsticks, Chen Gengnian had already piled a lot of food on his plate. Without saying a word, he started eating.
Seeing how much he enjoyed his food, the others swallowed hard and started eating as well.
At first I was quite reserved, but I soon couldn't keep up the act anymore.
Because Liu Yiyi's braised rabbit was just so delicious!
Ah Meng is the most qualified to speak on this point, no, Bai Fu is too.
These past two days, the two of them have been going down to other people's houses to freeload meals whenever they have the chance, and the stomachs of the eagle and the dog have long been conquered by Liu Yiyi.
Even simple vegetables taste incredibly delicious when Liu Yiyi cooks them.
After lunch, Chen Gengnian led his men to the fields again, but this time Lin Qingan did not go.
He had already told Chen Gengnian everything he needed to, so he didn't need to worry about it.
It's not that he's lazy, it's that he's really afraid of farming. He used to be exhausted from working with his grandma, and now all he wants to do is lie down.
After the three of them finished cleaning up the dishes, they had nothing to do. Chen Yuetao couldn't sit still and went off to do something else. Only Lin Qing'an and Liu Yiyi, as well as A Meng and Bai Fu, were left in the yard, lazily lying on the doghouse taking a nap.
Liu Yiyi started talking about Chinese toon.
"Yesterday, after A-Jing watered the toon leaves, they looked as fresh as if they had just been picked from the tree today."
"Hehe, that's good, that's good." Lin Qing'an didn't know what to say, so he just laughed it off.
Liu Yiyi stared at Lin Qing'an subtly for a few seconds before steer the conversation back to Baifu.
She exclaimed, "This Baifu is amazing! His leg has recovered as if he had never been injured in just two or three days."
In fact, Liu Yiyi noticed not only Baifu, but also Aunt Chen. The scratches on her face and hands were almost gone, leaving only faint red marks, more like the marks left after the scabs had fallen off.
But only two or three days have passed.
She asked Lin Qing'an with a curious look, "Qing, do you have some kind of magical medicine?"
Lin Qingan and Liu Yiyi exchanged a glance. Looking into her innocent big eyes, they didn't think too much about it and just made up a pretext.
"Oh, doesn't Brother Nian often go hunting in the mountains? Because he's prone to injury, the manager of Jinyun Hotel kindly gave him a bottle of medicine once when he saw him. It must have been that medicine."
Liu Yiyi paused for a moment before nodding and saying, "The manager of Jinyun Hotel is really a good person."
Lin Qingan followed up by saying, "Yeah, otherwise Brother Nian wouldn't have been doing business with them for so many years."
The two chatted back and forth, and as they talked, Lin Qing'an began to doze off on the bamboo chair. Seeing this, Liu Yiyi didn't want to linger, so she got up, took a thin blanket, covered him with it, said goodbye to Chen Yuetao, and went home.
Lin Jing left very early, and it's unknown whether she has returned yet.
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Author's note: I'm about to start doing business! May wealth come my way!
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