However, this was not the time to ask questions. Lu Yanzheng pulled himself out of his thoughts and buried himself in digging.
An acre of land isn't very big to begin with, and with more than a dozen people working together, it only took less than half a day to dig up Jiang Qinyu's acre of sweet potatoes.
"My God, Village Chief, how... how can there be so many?"
"Yes, village chief, how much have we actually dug up?"
"Is this what they call sweet potatoes? How can so many be dug up from just one acre of land?"
"Make way, make way! The scale is here! Quickly weigh it and see how much there is!"
"..."
Apart from Jiang Qinyu, everyone else at the scene was so excited they could barely speak.
Especially Grandpa Jiang, who knelt on the ground with a few sweet potatoes in his hands, tears streaming down his face. Regardless of which direction he was bowing to, he kowtowed and choked out, "Heavens above! You have finally given us a way to survive!"
Village Chief Li was both crying and laughing. While directing the people to call him "Sweet Potato," he said, "Grandpa Jiang, you've made a mistake. You should be worshipping my eldest niece!"
"Yes, yes, it's all thanks to Ah Zheng's wife. If it weren't for her bringing back sweet potatoes, we would never have known that there was such a high-yield grain in the world..." Grandpa Jiang got up and walked shakily toward Jiang Qinyu.
Jiang Qinyu quickly waved her hands and stepped back, "Grandpa Jiang, Uncle Village Chief, please don't, you're making me feel uncomfortable. Besides, we haven't finished weighing yet, so we don't know how much the yield per mu will be."
"We don't need to see the exact weight; just looking at these, they're already much better than what we grew before!" Meng Tianze, a grown man, had tears in his eyes as he spoke, picking up a sweet potato that had been washed in the irrigation ditch and taking a big bite. "Delicious! Sweet!"
"Is it sweet? Quick, quick, I'll wash one and try it too..."
"Hey, you should wash the ones that have already been weighed, otherwise it will affect our record!"
Jiang Qinyu breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that their attention had been diverted to eating sweet potatoes.
Honestly, how could she dare to let a man in his sixties or seventies kneel before her?
Lu Yanzheng appeared beside Jiang Qinyu at some point, looking at her with deep eyes, "These are the seeds you bought from the Hu merchant?"
He didn't know how sweet potatoes were grown, assuming they were similar to ordinary seeds, hence his question.
Jiang Qinyu shook her head, "No, this is a kind of grain crop that the Hu merchant said he brought over as his staple food. I heard him say that it had a high yield, so I specifically asked how to grow it and bought all of what he brought."
"You also planted other high-yield grain varieties?" Lu Yanzheng asked, his eyes widening in surprise.
Jiang Qinyu gave an embarrassed smile, "I can't guarantee whether it will be high-yielding or not. Anyway, I bought it from that foreign merchant and distributed it to the villagers to plant. I kept some for my family."
She dared not make any definitive statements, what if the winter wheat and other crops didn't yield high yields?
"I've figured it out!" Chen Shao suddenly shouted.
Everyone immediately gathered around.
"How many?"
"Hey Chen Shao, hurry up and tell us!"
"Uncle, if you hadn't interrupted me, I would have already said it!"
Village Chief Li held a piece of paper in his hand, his whole body trembling, his lips quivering, "So many, there are so many!"
"Village chief, how many are there exactly?" the crowd asked anxiously.
Before Village Chief Li could speak, Chen Shao excitedly shouted, "Four thousand three hundred and thirty-eight jin!"
"Huh? How much did you say?"
Everyone was stunned when they heard the number, exchanging incredulous glances.
“Four thousand three hundred and thirty-eight jin!” Chen Shao grinned and repeated.
After everyone confirmed it, they went absolutely crazy with excitement.
Liu Erleng, Jiang Dacheng, and Li Dachui hugged each other, shouting, jumping, crying, and laughing.
"Great! Great! We'll never have to worry about going hungry again!"
"Waaaaah... If my mother had lived another six months, she definitely wouldn't have died from starvation..."
"Dacheng, we finally have a way out!"
When Jiang Qinyu heard the number, her brow furrowed almost imperceptibly. She remembered that the yield of sweet potatoes per mu was more than that, right?
The sweet potatoes sold in supermarkets are ordinary sweet potatoes, but the yield of ordinary sweet potatoes is more than 2,000 kilograms per mu, and the highest yield can reach tens of thousands of kilograms.
Sweet potatoes still require more irrigation to grow. Although Dingshui Village now has water, it is the first time they have planted sweet potatoes, and the conditions for growth have not been fully met. This yield seems acceptable.
Jiang Qinyu stopped worrying. Once the drought was over, the sweet potato yield would naturally increase, and then the villagers would know what true high yield really meant.
When Lu Yanzheng heard about the yield, he froze, his eyes fixed intently on the piles of sweet potatoes in the field.
A mu of land can yield more than 4,000 jin? Based on the minimum standard of one jin of grain consumption per person per day, one mu of land can feed eleven people for a year!
Does such a grain really exist in the world?
Thinking of this, Lu Yanzheng silently picked up a sweet potato, washed it in the ditch, and took a bite.
The outer skin is slightly hard, but it doesn't taste bitter; it has the same sweet taste as the sweet potato flesh inside.
“Hey, Zheng-ge, although sweet potatoes can be eaten raw, there are actually many other ways to eat them. You can cook them in porridge, roast them, or make them into sweet potato noodles… Hu Shang told me all of this.” Jiang Qinyu chimed in when she saw this.
Lu Yanzheng turned to look at her, pursed his lips, and said, "Qinqin, do you know what a big thing you've done?"
"Huh?" Jiang Qinyu shook her head, puzzled. "What's the big deal?"
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