When she reached the mountain, she found that the soldiers and their families were already waiting for her there.
Each person brought tools and wicker baskets for the beets.
When they saw Shen Ningsi, a smile appeared on everyone's face.
"Madam, you are finally here. We are all waiting for you!"
Tong Youcai's daughter-in-law Hui Niang walked over with a warm look on her face.
"I'm a little late and have kept you waiting for a long time." Shen Ningsi looked at everyone looking at her with a smile, and a smile appeared on her face.
"Madam, we haven't even started yet. We're all waiting for you. Without you, we wouldn't be where we are today!"
Tang Haiyang also came over with his wife Afang, with a smile on his face. He only injured one arm, so it was very convenient for him to move.
He will not be absent today, the day of the beet harvest.
The others also looked at her happily, and everyone's face was filled with the joy of a good harvest.
"good!"
Shen Ningsi also knew that these people were waiting for her, so she didn't act pretentiously. She walked to the side of a field and took the hoe from someone's hand.
"I don't know who owns this field, but since it's closest to the foot of the mountain, let's start digging here first!"
After Shen Ningsi finished speaking, he cleaned the leaves on the beets, and then dug out a beet with his nimble hands and feet.
The purple beets look particularly beautiful under the sunlight.
"These beets are growing really well. This one weighs almost several kilograms!"
Shen Ningsi held the beet in his hand, weighing it gently with a look of admiration on his face.
She knew that the reason why the beets grew so well was because of the daily care of these people.
"Madam, can beets really be made into sugar? Even though Ermao and the others have said so, I haven't seen it with my own eyes, so I really don't believe it!"
Hui Niang took the hoe from Shen Ningsi's hand and asked with a smile on her face.
"Of course I can. You wouldn't believe me even if I told you. But after I harvest all the beets, I'm going to hire some people to go to my yard and turn them into sugar. Then you'll believe me!"
Shen Ningsi said with a smile, she knew that if these people didn't see some things with their own eyes, they would never believe them.
After hearing what Shen Ningsi said, many women said they were willing to go to her yard to make sugar, and they would not charge a penny.
"If I don't charge you a penny, I might as well hire someone else somewhere else! But now's not the time to talk about that. Everyone, please work hard these next two days and harvest all the beets. Then I'll call a few ox carts over and bring the beets back to you and weigh them!"
Shen Ningsi said with a smile that these beets were not only their harvest, but also her own harvest.
If she could make sugar from these beets, she could make a killing! She could even save some to make wine next year.
It really kills two birds with one stone.
When everyone heard Shen Ningsi say this, they did not continue to object.
Then, everyone started digging beets enthusiastically. Soldiers with poor legs and feet brought a small stool and sat there.
The action of digging beets is also very convenient and fast, not much worse than those of men with healthy hands and feet.
Shen Ningsi stood quietly by and watched this scene, and felt happy for these people.
Then he went to a family's beet field to help them work.
The whole family looked flattered and wanted Shen Ningsi to go and rest aside, but she disagreed.
These people lived together and were very familiar with each other and cared for each other, so before noon, several women had already been organized to go back and cook.
It was not until noon that Shen Ningsi returned.
When she passed by fertile fields, she went up to check on the winter wheat and confirmed that it was growing very well, then she went back with peace of mind.
After dinner, she knew that those people had gone to the mountain to dig beets again, so she played with An An and Kang Kang for a while and then left in a hurry.
Fang Xiwan looked at her back as she hurried away and couldn't help but sigh.
She knew that the reason why Shen Ningsi helped those people so much was because most of the people in their family were disabled, and they would definitely be much more tired than normal people when doing the work.
So when Gu Hong came in the afternoon, he did not see Shen Ningsi, but was driven to the mountain by Fang Xiwan, who asked him and Shen Ningsi to help the soldiers dig beets.
After several days of hard work, all the beets were finally dug up.
Shen Ningsi had been running up the mountain for the past few days and soon attracted the attention of the people of Wan Ningsi!
Especially when they saw her pulling clods of earth back from the mountain with several ox carts, they all showed a mocking smile on their faces, thinking that she was possessed by a demon.
"I thought she was planting something mysteriously on the mountain, but it turns out it's just these lumps of earth."
When the villagers of Wanning Village saw this scene, they all smiled mockingly.
Duds, that's what they call beets.
Almost every household in the village grows a small piece of beets to eat as vegetables.
So when they saw that Shen Ningsi had planted a mountain of beets, they were all very puzzled.
Of course, Shen Ningsi would not be so kind as to tell these villagers the function of beets.
It took another half day to weigh all the beets they had grown.
When it came time to distribute the money, the soldiers all refused.
"Madam, we are able to cultivate a piece of land and have enough food every day because of you. If it weren't for you and the general, most of us would have grass growing on our graves!"
Seeing the money handed over by Shen Ningsi, these people shook their heads.
"Yes, Madam, you let our children go to private school for free. If we were to take your winnings, wouldn't we be like that ungrateful wolves?"
Hui Niang also nodded continuously.
"I originally agreed to rent these fields to you. Except for the first year, you have to pay me rent every year thereafter."
Shen Ningsi would not pay attention to what these people said, and she would not take the fruits of other people's labor for several months for no reason.
"If you guys still don't accept my money, I won't plant any beets this year. The worst that can happen is that I'll just leave that mountain barren!"
Ana Shen said seriously.
Everyone could see that she was not just talking, and everyone had a look of hesitation on their face.
"Weigh it by kilogram. That's what we agreed on from the beginning. And I won't lose out. When these beets are made into sugar, I'll make much more than you."
After hearing her say this, these talented people reluctantly accepted the money from selling beets.
Shen Ningsi didn't say anything after seeing them take the money. As long as these beets were made into white sugar, they would see it and would not refuse it.
The beets have been harvested and are piled high in the yard, and even the yard next door is full.
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