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Chapter 189 Being kicked out
It is June now, and it has rained for a long time. It is the season for planting sweet potatoes. Its growth cycle is short. If we plant them now, they will be mature by the end of September or October. When the weather gets cold, we will not be hungry or cold.
Sweet potatoes can be eaten in many ways. They are delicious whether steamed, boiled, or roasted. Even their leaves and stems can be fried or made into steamed cornbread. Even their vines can be used to feed livestock.
The most important thing is that it has a high yield. If it is planted well, the yield per acre can reach about 5,000 kilograms. If everyone can plant this sweet potato, I think there will be no need to worry about going hungry.
When Yun Xiao heard Han Yiyi say this, he looked at the sweet potato seedlings all over the yard. Instead of feeling happy, he frowned slightly.
He knew that something was a good thing, and he also knew what sweet potato it was. If the yield was really as high as Han Yiyi said, it could save countless people. However, how to explain the sudden appearance of sweet potato seedlings all over the yard?
Yun Xiao knew better than Han Yiyi that human nature is treacherous and that an innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. He was worried that Han Yiyi's secret would be exposed and that she would be in danger of death. He could help her cover up the rice incident, but how could he help her cover up this sweet potato that was not even found in the entire Beichen?
Looking at Yun Xiao's slightly furrowed brows, she knew that he was worried about her, and a warm feeling spread in her heart. However, she really couldn't just watch everyone starve and do nothing, so she smiled and spoke.
"Don't worry, I'll tell you that this is a reward given to everyone by the gods in heaven who couldn't bear to see people starving. As for how to grow it, just say that the gods told me in a dream..."
Looking at the smile in Han Yiyi's eyes, Yun Xiao's eyes flashed with determination. He secretly swore in his heart that he must protect the person in front of him well, and then he pulled the corner of his mouth.
"Well, okay, I can testify for you that these things suddenly appeared in our yard..."
Hearing Yun Xiao's words, Han Yiyi couldn't help but smile, and exchanged some more from the system. Until there was almost no place to stand in the whole yard, the two of them went to find the village chief.
Hearing Han Yiyi's words, the village chief couldn't help but twist his thigh. At this moment, he didn't think that Han Yiyi had dreamed of some miracle doctor, he felt that he was dreaming at this moment.
It was not until he felt a piercing pain in his legs that the village chief came to his senses and realized that he was not dreaming.
"Han girl, you, what you said is true. What are sweet potatoes? One acre of land can really yield 5,000 kilograms, and it will mature in just over three months. You can eat it directly as food..."
Hearing the village chief ask this, Han Yiyi's eyes flashed, and then he answered.
"I don't know the details, but in my dream, the old immortal with white beard told me this..."
"Okay, okay, okay, since it was said by the gods, it must be true..."
"The immortal also said that this stuff is limited, so only the villagers of Zhushan Village can plant it first. If there is any surplus, we can give some to the surrounding villages. However, the seeds for next year must be reserved by our Zhushan Village..."
Han Yiyi roughly calculated that based on the assumption that there were 3,000 sweet potato seedlings per acre of land, the sweet potato seedlings in her family could probably be used to plant 60 to 70 acres of land. After everyone moved some of them away, she would exchange some for them from the system. In this way, the sweet potato seedlings in the surrounding villages could probably be planted. As for places farther away, they could only expand freely.
Hearing Han Yiyi's words, the village chief nodded repeatedly.
"This is nature, this is nature..."
As soon as I followed Han Yiyi to the door, I saw a pile of green things in the yard. When I saw the tall pile of sweet potato seedlings, the village chief was so excited that his eyes turned red.
Although he did not doubt that Han Yiyi was lying, he still found it a little unbelievable. Now that he saw it with his own eyes, he was so excited that he was a little incoherent. If it was true, everyone would no longer have to worry about going hungry.
"I, I, I will call the villagers over to receive, receive, receive..."
"Sweet potato seedlings..." Yun Xiao saw that the village chief had been trying to figure out what was going on for a long time, so he couldn't help but add something.
"Yes, yes, sweet potato seedlings, sweet potato seedlings..." After saying that, he turned around and left, shouting as he walked, and he didn't even have time to go back to get the gong.
Soon, everyone gathered at Han Yiyi's door. There was no way, the house was full of sweet potato seedlings, and people couldn't squeeze in.
When everyone heard what the village chief said, they were surprised and unbelievable.
In fact, the reason why everyone fought over a mushroom was that they were worried that when the weather got cold, there would be no mushrooms or wild vegetables on the mountain, and they would have no way to survive. That’s why they thought that if they could stock up an extra pound of rice now, maybe they could live one more day.
Now, when I heard that the "god" had actually sent such good things to everyone, I was so excited that I cried out loud.
"Okay, okay, stop crying and line up quickly to get the sweet potato seedlings. Han girl, the gods have said that you only need to plant 3,000 sweet potato seedlings per acre of land. I remember exactly how many acres of land each of your families has. If I find out that someone has received more than allowed, I will drive them out of the village directly..."
Now it is June, which is the time to plant late rice. Some families have already been preparing to plant late rice. Now that they have sweet potatoes, they have decided to use all their land to plant sweet potatoes.
In the past, everyone might choose to plant half rice and half sweet potatoes, but after the previous incident with peppers, everyone felt that following Han Yi would definitely not be wrong.
Besides, planting rice on one acre of land can only yield more than 200 kilograms at most, but planting sweet potatoes on one acre of land can yield 5,000 kilograms. Only a fool would think of planting rice. However, there really are fools.
Seeing that everyone had almost received theirs and there was only half a yard of sweet potato seedlings left, the village chief borrowed Han Yi's family's mule cart, took a few more sweet potato seedlings, and went to the town to find the town supervisor. After all, this was a major event that would benefit the people, so how and where to divide the remaining ones would have to be decided by the town supervisor.
Because of the flood, the early rice that should have been harvested in July is now completely gone. Therefore, these days, the town supervisor Liu De has been worrying about the future tax collection and is almost going bald.
Now I heard from the servants that there was a village chief who was holding some "grass", which he said was called sweet potato, and it was also a kind of food.
It is said that if that thing is planted, three months later, one acre of land can yield 5,000 kilograms of "sweet potatoes", so I asked the adults if they wanted to plant it.
After hearing the servant's words, Liu De, who was already very annoyed, thought that the visitor was suffering from hysteria, so he ordered people to drive him away without even seeing the village chief.