Chapter 207 Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes
Especially Chief Zhou, after looking at the prey, he had already roughly calculated the price.
Just taking the wild goat as an example, sending it to a restaurant in the city would cost at least one or two taels of silver.
This much harvest for one day is enough for these people to eat and drink, and there is even some left over.
Xie Tianhai and Fang Chuanzhuo also listened with envy.
Now they have completely accepted the fact of becoming ordinary people. There are more and more male members in the Mohist family, and each of them has strong abilities.
In the future, it will be no problem to support the family by hunting.
Thinking about my own family situation, we are all from a scholarly family. Even though there are many men, none of them can go up the mountain to hunt.
It seems that after they go back, they will have to get together as a family to discuss their future livelihood.
He Zhiran listened to what those grown men said without refutation. She would do whatever she was supposed to do in the future.
Seeing that everyone had almost finished eating the meat, she put the sliced potatoes and sweet potatoes into the pot.
These two things were the first time seen by everyone present.
They just wanted to ask what this was, but faced with so many delicious foods, they were reluctant to stop talking.
Now, seeing He Zhiran putting these two kinds of food into the copper basin, he became curious again.
When it comes to asking this kind of question, Basao, a foodie, is the best.
"Ninth sister-in-law, we just spent a long time cutting this in the kitchen, but we still don't know what it is."
He Zhiran explained with a smile: "I bought these from foreigners. One is called potato and the other is called sweet potato.
I also heard that this thing not only tastes good, but also has a very high yield. I saved some seeds, and we will try planting some next year."
When He Zhiran said that the yield of these two ingredients was high, the two clan leaders were the first to get restless.
They spend their whole lives digging for food in the fields, and no news is more exciting than high yields.
Patriarch Zhou smiled and asked, "Old Nine, you said this thing has a high yield, how high can it be?"
He Zhiran thought about the sweet potatoes and yams planted in her space. She didn't know if it was a cheat, but the yield of sweet potatoes per mu could reach about 2,000 kilograms, and the yield of sweet potatoes per mu was even higher, almost 5,000 kilograms.
To be conservative, she did not report that much production.
"Chief Zhou, according to that foreigner, the potato yield per mu can reach about 1,000 kilograms, and the sweet potato yield is even higher, at least 2,000 kilograms per mu."
As soon as she finished speaking, the two clan leaders stood up in a panic.
"Old Nine, do you really mean what you said?"
Patriarch Zhao's old face turned red with excitement. You know, he has been growing crops all his life, but he has never heard of any crop with such a high yield. Could it be that the ninth family was deceived by those foreigners?
He Zhiran shouldn't brag too much about this kind of thing.
"Hehe... Chief Zhao, whether we can really achieve such a high yield, we'll have to wait and see after we grow the crops."
Patriarch Zhao nodded and sat back in his seat.
Looking at the nonchalant look on Lao Jiu's wife's face, it was obvious that she didn't care whether she was cheated or not. Why was he so anxious?
At the same time, the two clan leaders gave up the idea of asking for some seeds.
They really didn't dare to try this unknown thing. What if the yield was not that high? Wouldn't that mean they would have lost a year in vain?
Their attitude did not affect He Zhiran at all.
Seeing that the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the copper basin were cooked, she invited everyone to taste them.
This caused another round of exclamations.
"Ninth sister-in-law, this sweet potato is soft and sweet, so delicious." Eighth sister-in-law praised with a smile while eating.
Even the usually calm Sixth Sister-in-law couldn't help but praise: "Indeed, these two fresh foods seem to be very filling."
The men at the table were the same, all praising the unique flavor of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Everyone present was eating the delicious food with relish. They felt like they had never eaten such delicious food in their lives.
Mo Jiuye saw that everyone had almost finished eating, then he started asking the two clan leaders, Zhao and Zhou.
"Two clan leaders, do you have any idle land to sell?"
Patriarch Zhou raised his eyebrows and said, "Old Nine, are you planning to buy land?"
Patriarch Zhao also echoed: "Indeed, as a countryman, farming is the foundation."
Mo Jiuye nodded: "We will live in the village in the future, so growing crops is inevitable."
Patriarch Zhou pondered for a moment.
"In our Xiling Village, if we talk about good land, it's all in the hands of the Cui family. Fortunately, after a few years of tending to it, although our land is not as fertile as the Cui family's, it has also improved a lot."
Mo Jiuye knew that the seeds produced in his wife's space were not picky about the land and climate, so he didn't care whether the land was fertile or not.
"The condition of the land doesn't matter. Good land is cultivated. We can take our time."
At the same time, Xie Tianhai and Fang Chuanzhou were also staring at the two clan leaders.
They shared the same idea as Mo Jiuye, that if they lived in the countryside, they should do what country people should do.
After Clan Leader Zhao and Clan Leader Zhou exchanged glances, Clan Leader Zhao spoke:
"We don't have a lot of arable land. The only land near the foot of the mountain is idle, and it has been abandoned for many years. It will take you at least three to five years to cultivate such land."
The villagers who were born and raised in Xiling Village all know that even if such land is planted, the harvest will not be great, and if things go wrong, all the hard work will be in vain.
Patriarch Zhao suddenly thought of the Cui family.
"Old Nine, the Cui family has the most land, so much that their clansmen can't even farm it all.
In the past, they relied on Cui Wen's power to force people from our two families to work for them for free.
Now, the new county magistrate is wise and has punished the Cui family. I believe we won’t have to work for them for free anymore, and their land will definitely be left to waste.
By that time, the Cui family will definitely want to sell their farmland, and you can go and buy fertile land from them."
This is indeed a good idea, but Mo Jiuye and He Zhiran want to own more land, no matter what kind of soil it is, it would be best if it can be connected into a piece.
They want both fertile farmland and land that has been abandoned for years.
"Two clan leaders, we want to buy any kind of land."
In fact, the two clan leaders persuaded Mo Jiuye to buy the Cui family's farmland without any selfish motives. They were thinking about living in a village in the future and didn't want to do anything that would be criticized.
What the two of them didn't expect was that even after they had said so much, the other party's attitude was still so firm.
In this case, you can't blame us for not reminding you. No one should force the money out of your hands.
The Zhou clan leader said, "Our Zhou family has about twenty acres of abandoned farmland at the foot of the mountain. It was reclaimed by our family members after they bought the wasteland and it has been registered with the government.
The land deeds are in our hands now. If you want to buy it, we will sell it to you at the same price as when we first bought the wasteland: one tael of silver per mu."
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