Chapter 418 Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
Forget about meat and eggs, why is there also milk?
This is a remote mountain area with difficult roads. I haven't heard Mengzi and the others say they raise cows at home, so how come they are drinking milk?
Feng Meng asked in surprise: "Didn't I tell you?"
Yingyi and the other six shook their heads at the same time.
Feng Meng laughed and said, "Oh, I forgot! Didn't I tell you that Auntie has a soap workshop?
There is a kind of milk soap, which requires goat's milk and cow's milk. The production of goat's milk is low, so of course it is used to make soap. But the production of cow's milk is really high and it can never be used up. So why don't we just buy some and drink it?
It's only two cents a pound. My aunt said it's good for your health, and it tastes pretty good!
Yingyi and the others understood.
In short, the main source of oil and water is Shen Qing, followed by the diligence of his family, and then the rich resources in the mountains - the Lei family can hunt and have a lot of harvests.
Feng Meng continued, “You only know that we follow Auntie to make money, but you don’t know that Auntie has discovered several medicinal herbs;
Now, a strong man who loves to go out can go out with his aunt and earn a hundred coins a day. Although it is impossible to be outside every day, the money he can earn for ten days or half a month is also considerable! The rest of the time, he can help with housework at home.
Women who don't like to go out and work in brush workshops can earn six or seven hundred coins a month.
Every girl works in an embroidery workshop, and they get a share of the profits! The better the embroidery, the more money you earn. Anyway, it's never less than one or two taels of silver a month!
The rest, old and young, planted and collected medicinal herbs, and earned quite a bit of money in a year, at least not less than the men.
I've calculated that building a house, betrothal gifts, and wedding banquets won't be a problem when I get married. My mother said my sisters have saved up quite a bit for their dowries!"
Ying Yiliuren: ...They earn three taels of silver a month, which sounds like a lot, but after Mengzi's calculation, it seems not enough at all.
Is this the benefit of having parents, brothers and sisters helping each other?
Moreover, they have land, so they can build their own houses, raise chickens, ducks and other livestock, and grow vegetables and crops, all without spending money. Even if they don't earn as much as I do, the total amount is more, and everything is self-sufficient. Even if they earn less, their lives are obviously much better than theirs!
Besides, there are not many people...
Ling Yi thought that his aunt was unexpectedly powerful.
Everyone in the village, young and old, can find corresponding work, and these jobs can be converted into silver. If everyone in the family earns money, how can life be difficult?
If he could find jobs for the people of Blackwater City that could earn them money, their lives would definitely get better!
Of course, they can't compare to the people in Hulu Village, but they can eat, drink, wear warm clothes and live in warm houses without any problems...
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After lunch, every household took out the prepared farm tools and started digging the first hoe under the guidance of the village elders.
The sweet potatoes were discovered by Shen Qing, and everyone unanimously decided that she should dig them, as it was a good omen for a good harvest.
Shen Qing: ...It's useless for her to dig. They have already grown. How can she influence the yield?
But whether it is good or not, only she can dig it out.
He immediately followed Mr. Jiang's instructions, pointed at a sweet potato vine, raised the hoe high, and with one hoe he dug up a large piece of fertile soil, revealing a nest of sweet potatoes crowded together inside.
"Wow! Auntie dug so many nests!"
"Auntie is so lucky."
"I said Shen Qing should dig it? She looks like she dug more than anyone else!"
Shen Qing: ...wasn't this the one chosen by Mr. Jiang and his men? They've been dealing with the land all their lives, so of course they know which nests have the most.
Well, that's a good sign indeed.
It is very important for crops that depend on the weather to have a good omen.
Seeing that the heated discussion had died down, Master Jiang shouted in a loud voice, "Start digging!"
"Hey! Time to harvest food~"
Everyone ran to their own fields, picked up hoes, cut off the sweet potato vines, and pulled them all into the ditch in the middle of the sweet potato field.
This is a good thing. Every household raises donkeys and other large livestock, and they love to eat sweet potato vines!
With sweet potato vines, there is almost no need to worry about fodder in winter.
The tender leaves and stems can also be used to feed chickens, ducks and geese.
This sweet potato is full of treasures.
Yingyi and a few others were also busy helping to dig sweet potatoes.
Ling Yi and the elders in the village were waiting together.
The first acre of harvest came out quickly.
The sweet potatoes were put into baskets and carried to the edge of the field one basket after another.
There was a scale prepared long ago on the ridge of the field. The basket was tied with a hemp rope, and the big iron hook on the scale was hooked on the rope. Two men set it up to weigh the weight!
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the position where the weight moved.
The further he moved, the more joy appeared on his face.
"One hundred and seventy-seven pounds!"
"Two hundred and ten pounds!"
"One hundred and ninety-eight pounds!"
"Two hundred and five pounds!"
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When the count reached the fifth time, the people who were busy digging sweet potatoes in the surrounding fields straightened up and looked over here.
Silently counting how many times it has happened.
By the tenth time, they were boiling with excitement, and had no intention of digging, so they all moved forward.
By the fifteenth time, even people far away noticed the sound waves gathering here, one louder than the other.
After weighing the last basket, the scene became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
There was only the rustling sound of the wind.
Ling Yi's usual calm expression could no longer be maintained at this moment!
He always thought that he had fought on the battlefield, endured wind, rain and snow, and experienced mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and had long since developed a heart of stone and remained calm.
But when it came to the sweet potato production, I realized that there was no such thing as calmness. It was just because the shock was not big enough!
The current sweet potato production is so impressive that even his father, the emperor who remained calm even when faced with a mountain collapsing in front of him, would be shocked if he heard about it!
If he wasn't here and watched the whole thing from beginning to end, he wouldn't believe what others said to him and might even think that the person had bad intentions.
How could there be a crop that tastes delicate, sweet, and has an extremely high yield?
Ying Liu asked hesitantly, "Did I hear correctly? Is this the yield per acre of land?"
“Why does it feel unreal to me?”
"I've never been good at math. Could it be that I made a mistake?"
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Mr. Jiang and the others were also shocked.
They knew that sweet potatoes had a high yield - they had dug them up several times to observe their growth and tasted them, so they could roughly estimate it.
But even if we estimate it, we wouldn't dare to estimate it to this weight.
Knowing it is one thing, but seeing it in front of you is another kind of shock!
Shen Qing also pretended to be surprised.
Oh, that’s so difficult.
It’s not easy to be a good actor.
But I have to say that the land in Jincheng is really fertile!
This is the first year of land reclamation, and with the application of a little organic fertilizer, the yield is as high as 4,000 kilograms!
The yield of sweet potatoes in China is not high, but for the land with insufficient fertilizer in the first year of reclamation, it is a super bumper harvest.
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