Chapter 63 Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes
Lin Si gave Wugengtian a day off during the Chinese New Year, but this was only for those who had no tasks to do.
As for the rest, they were all in Lingzhou gathering intelligence for her.
Every few days, a secret letter would come in.
Lin Si designed several secret codes for Wugengtian to meet each other. Even if there are more people in the future and the seniors don’t know the juniors, they will never be impersonated.
After all, I'm not a time traveler, so it's hard for a normal person to figure out the connection codes such as the price of the shirt is nine pounds and fifteen pence, the odd-even symbol changes but the even symbol remains unchanged depending on the quadrant, and hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, and neon.
If you doubt the other person's identity, you can also ask them to write down the chemical elements. If they write them incorrectly, they must be pretending.
Chunyi is also a fourteen-year-old girl this year. She handed the secret letter to Lin Si and tactfully retreated.
Lin Si unfolded the small piece of paper, on which was written a very brief sentence.
"The Taoist priest is going to flee in three days."
Lin Si sent Wu Gengtian to investigate why the number of refugees in Lingzhou increased, and he found something wrong.
The Lingzhou prefect and the Lingzhou Tongpan were obsessed with elixirs, wanting to prolong their lives and even dream of immortality.
An old man who came from nowhere and claimed to be a Taoist priest performed a chemical magic trick and fooled the two middle-level masters. They paid him a huge amount of silver and had to take heavy metal pills every day.
In addition, Lao Deng claimed that he was eighty years old, which made the two of them believe it even more.
In ancient times, it was rare for people to live to 80 years old.
No wonder Liang Nian went to Lingzhou for court meetings several times and came back saying that the Lingzhou prefect was not in a good mood.
The reason for the gathering of refugees was that the Lingzhou prefect deliberately led them. The old Taoist said that they should look for people with pure yin in their destiny. If they couldn't find them in the city, they could look for them among the refugees.
As a result, the pure yin person was found, and he also found many girls to serve him.
Lin Si put the note away, lowered his eyelashes, and said in a cold tone: "You old fool, you still want to run away."
"Spring, go and call people at dawn."
After the old Taoist was dealt with, all the things that were offered as tribute by the Lingzhou prefect fell into Lin Si's hands.
Lin Si sealed the money and when she occupied Lingzhou in the future, she would use all the money for the construction of the entire Xihe Road.
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Perhaps the lively atmosphere of the New Year infected those who had just arrived in Li County, or perhaps after working there for a period of time, they discovered that Li County was indeed a good place.
In short, after the Chinese New Year, before going to bed one day, Lin Si followed his custom to check people's minds.
It had been stuck at 108.85 for several days without moving, so Lin Si simply ignored it and happily celebrated the New Year.
I originally thought it would be good if it could reach 109 today, but when I opened it, the glittering 111.45 was right in front of me.
Lin Si was hit by this sudden surprise. She was stunned for several seconds and didn't move.
She watched nervously as the potato and sweet potato exchange button lit up, then clicked it.
In just a second, a basket filled with potatoes and sweet potatoes appeared in front of her.
Lin Si covered his chest with his hands, his heart pounding.
No one wanted to scream more than she did at this moment!
It's really potatoes and sweet potatoes, it really is.
That’s great! People won’t starve to death during cold waves. Even if some of the winter wheat is frozen to death, they can still survive by eating potatoes and sweet potatoes.
Lin Si reached out and touched the potatoes, then the sweet potatoes. No one understood her excitement at the moment.
After touching for about half an hour, Lin Si finally calmed down.
She was sure she wouldn't be able to sleep tonight, so she simply got up, exchanged the planting methods of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and then started copying by candlelight.
Lin Si did not feel the fatigue of staying up late or the sleepiness of copying at all, all he felt was excitement and joy!
By the time she finished copying two books on planting methods, it was just dawn.
Liang Nian had just woken up when he heard Lin Si calling him to go to the County Lord's Mansion.
Lin Si follows a modern lifestyle and doesn't get up as early as Liang Nian usually does. Liang Nian was a little anxious when he heard the news.
After all, Lin Sike has never gotten up at this time.
When Liang Nian hurried to the county lady's mansion, she saw her beloved county lady holding her chin with one hand, staring at a basket in a trance, with a faint smile on her face.
Liang Nian asked, "County Lady, is there something urgent at this hour?"
Lin Si carefully picked up the basket and showed it to Liang Nian, "It's indeed urgent. Take a look at this."
Liang Nian took the basket and saw two things in it that he had never seen before. They must be the fruits of some plant?
One is yellow and the other is red.
Lin Si: "Didn't I tell you before that the weather will only get colder in the days ahead?"
Liang Nian nodded, "That's why we built greenhouses this year to keep the winter wheat warm."
Lin Si pointed at potatoes and sweet potatoes, "And these two things are the saviors that can save the cold wave famine!"
Liang Nian was stunned, "Really?"
Lin Si began to talk slowly, "If I say that this plant is not picky about the soil quality and can produce 13 dan per mu, what do you think, County Magistrate Liang?"
Liang Nian felt like his head was almost dizzy, "Thirteen stones?"
You should know that in the south, one acre of rice only produces four stones.
Liang Nian knew that Lin Si would not lie. Although he didn't know how this thing appeared out of thin air, Liang Nian would not ask.
Lin Si handed the planting booklet to Liang Nian, "This is the planting method."
Liang Nian opened the book and found the familiar notes, which were crooked and messy, but it didn't matter as it didn't affect the reading.
Liang Nian finished reading the booklet at a rapid speed and then decided to plant it immediately.
Lin Si also decided to go and see.
It’s not that I’m worried about Liang Nian. It’s clearly written in the planting manual.
She just wanted to see how hope in the face of famine was planted.
Liang Nian used his own idle land for planting. The planting method was not difficult. Potatoes were cut into pieces, while sweet potatoes were planted whole.
Liang Nian planted the things and then remembered that he didn't know the names of these two things.
"May I ask, County Master, what are the names of these two things?"
"The yellow ones are called potatoes, and the red ones are called sweet potatoes."
"Potatoes, sweet potatoes." Liang Nian murmured twice.
"I see."
Lin Si looked at the planted seeds of hope and said, "Liang County Magistrate, you know, I went through a lot of hardships to get these two things. With potatoes and sweet potatoes, no one will starve to death in Li County, the entire Xihe Road, and the entire Central Plains."
After listening to Lin Si's words, Liang Nian would go to take a look at the field every day after returning from the county government office, even though the planting manual clearly stated what kind of leaves would grow at what stage.
But when he saw the first leaves breaking through the soil, Liang Nian couldn't help but get excited.
Lin Si also came to see her every day. When the two met, they would squat together by the field and carefully observe the leaves of potatoes and sweet potatoes.
After observing for three full months, I finally waited for the sweet potatoes to mature.
The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the ridges of the fields. Liang Nian squatted down and could smell the scent of soil mixed with sweet potato leaves.
Lin Si wanted to dig with a hoe himself, but Chun Yi would never let Lin Si do such rough work. She quickly took the hoe away and said, "County Lady, how can you do such rough work? Let me do it."
Chun Yi dug the soil with a hoe, and the dark brown soil was turned up, revealing the dark red skin of the sweet potato. Liang Nian's eyes lit up, and he didn't care that his pants were dirty. He squatted down and dug out a sweet potato as big as a fist, and held it in his palm as if it were a treasure.
Chunyi dug out another one and wanted to wipe it clean before handing it to Lin Si, but Lin Si just reached out and took it, just like Liang Nian, looking at it like a treasure.
Chun Yi was puzzled. "My Lady, what is this? I have never seen it before."
"This is sweet potato, it's food." Lin Si replied.
"Sweet potatoes? Food? I've never heard of them." Chunyi looked confused.
Lin Si smiled: "You will know later, this thing yields 14 stone per mu, it is a life-saving food."
Now Chunyi finally understood that the county lady and the county magistrate were staring at the sweet potato as if it were a treasure. It was more than just a treasure.
So she dug one out and held it in her palm to look at it. "I wonder what this sweet potato tastes like."
"Sweet." Lin Si replied.
Chunyi continued digging sweet potatoes and unexpectedly dug out a piece as big as two fists. "Look, County Master, there's another one this big."
In the end, 40 were dug out.
Even someone like Chunyi who is not good at math can understand how strong the reproductive capacity of sweet potatoes is. Planting one can produce 40. If all 40 are planted, they can be planted again after harvesting.
Oh my god.
Lin Si kept three to make roasted sweet potatoes. "County Magistrate Liang, let's go to the County Lord's Mansion. I'll treat you to some roasted sweet potatoes."
Liang Nian was curious about the taste of roasted sweet potatoes, and was even more looking forward to what the potatoes would look like when they were harvested.
It was the first time that Wang Ying saw such a strange food as sweet potato. Not only was it strange, but the county lady and the county magistrate also stared at her while she was roasting the sweet potatoes.
In fact, there is no special skill in roasting sweet potatoes. The county lady just asked her to throw them into the firewood pile.
After the sweet potatoes were baked, Wang Ying used a branch to stir the firewood. The rough surface of the sweet potatoes had been roasted to a black and cracked state, and the honey-colored insides oozed out from the cracks.
Wang Ying: "County Lady, you'd better not eat it since it's been roasted like this."
In Wang Ying's eyes, how could her noble county lady eat such rough food?
Lin Si signaled Chunyi to break the sweet potato open, and the golden-red potato flesh emitted sweet hot steam.
Chunyi handed half of it to Wang Ying, "Doctor Wang, try it too."
Liang Nian broke the sweet potato open and took a bite. The sweet and sticky taste exploded on his tongue. This thing is not only highly produced and filling, but also tastes so delicious.
Liang Nian simply couldn't find any flaws in sweet potatoes.
Wang Ying was also surprised by the taste of the sweet potato and said, "This thing looks rough, but it tastes quite good."
Chunyi ate without even looking up. "The county lady said that this sweet potato can yield 14 stone per mu. I didn't expect it to taste so good."
Wang Ying had been poor before and had also farmed, so he naturally knew how exaggerated the number of fourteen stones was.
"This! Is this true?"
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