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Chapter 49 Digging Sweet Potatoes

Entering August, the weather suddenly changed.

In August this year, the weather in Guanzhong suddenly became more rainy, and Yang Zheng felt a little strange.After asking the villagers, I also know that this is normal. Every year, there is a lot of rain in July and August in the Guanzhong area. The rain this year is considered to be late!

Seeing the water level of the small river in front of the fish pond getting higher and higher, Yang Zheng couldn't help but feel a little worried about Guo County.Yang Zheng organized all the servants in the family, and raised the dam of the fish pond a lot, but he couldn't let the river flood in and sweep away the things in the fish pond!
Yang Zheng put up a canopy for the farm to shelter the livestock from the rain. After all, they are physical bodies. If these livestock are gonorrhea, they are likely to get infectious diseases.

The livestock in the col have places to shelter from the rain. The hillsides around the col are densely forested and there are many rock walls, which are ideal places for shelter from the rain.

Long San and other dragons also wisely chose a few places with better locations to shelter from the rain, while continuing to carry out the security guard's accusation!Since that fight, no animal dared to harass the mountain anymore, and the pack of wild wolves didn't know where they went!

At the same time, Yang Zheng also mobilized the people of Guo Village from door to door to start digging sweet potatoes.Guocun planted it early, coupled with the irrigation of the spring water in the space, the sweet potatoes had already matured.In this weather, the soil is soft, so we dig when it is sunny, and when it rains, let the rain wash the sweet potatoes clean. Although people are a little tired, seeing the big and bright sweet potatoes, the people are full of energy and continue to work. !

"Hahahaha, that's right, this sweet potato is really good, and the yield is first-class! If nothing else, Guo County's output must be more than 20 shi!" Yang Zheng stood on the ridge wearing a 21st-century raincoat and water shoes, looking Seeing the people digging sweet potatoes in full swing, they couldn't help laughing!
"Oh, Lord Marquis, you can't come out in the rain! Don't worry, we can do all these jobs, just dig a few sweet potatoes occasionally!" Liu Da couldn't help seeing Yang Zheng watching his family digging sweet potatoes under the light rain. Come up to persuade.

"Old Liu, it's okay. I have a raincoat here, so I can't get wet! Your family's sweet potatoes are growing well. Next year, we must plant more varieties and plant them earlier, and try to plant them for two or three seasons!" Yang Zheng waved his hand and said.

"Don't worry, Lord Hou, we will work hard. By the way, the third child dug up a sweet potato just now. It was very big. I took it back and weighed it. It weighed 16 catties. Lord Hou, is this the king of sweet potatoes?" Liu Da Tell me the news that I dug up a big sweet potato!

"Haha, really? Old Liu, you guys keep this sweet potato. I'm going to hold a selection of sweet potato kings after the sweet potatoes are dug up to see which one can win the championship. I will reward you a lot, Lord Hou!" Yang said. Zheng suddenly had a flash of inspiration and came up with a way to motivate the farmers.That's right, it's just a simple competition, and the top three winners will be rewarded, which will definitely motivate the farmers to work better in the coming year!

The sweet potato digging work in Guocun also attracted the attention of several neighboring villages. Many villagers came to watch, and all of them showed envious expressions, and at the same time they were full of expectations for their own fields!
Yang Zheng also took the opportunity to ask about everyone's flood control work. This rainy season lasts for a long time, and there is no room for sloppyness.The sweet potato planting in other villages will be affected by some weather. After all, it is a rainy day, and you still ask the villagers to water it. It is no wonder that the villagers do not doubt it.

Yang Zheng was most concerned about the fishponds and those livestock. Fortunately, several villages organized manpower and material resources to reinforce and raise the small dams along the river. Especially in Shuanglu Village, every day Dozens of people took turns on duty to dredge the silted places, so no one in the entire Guo County was affected by the disaster!
After finishing all this work, Yang Zheng also mobilized the whole family and started digging sweet potatoes.

"Brother, I'm going to dig sweet potatoes too!" Hua Gu walked ahead bouncing forward with a small hoe and a small basket on her back.

"Yonggui, wait for me, I'm going too!" Chang Le changed into farm clothes and followed!
"Haha, both the princess and the queen came to dig sweet potatoes. This is an unprecedented spectacle!" Yang Zheng was overjoyed.

Except for the pregnant Liu Ying, everyone in the Yang family was mobilized, and the old lady Yang was not to be outdone. During the time she lived in Guocun, the old lady's health was getting better and better. Work very vigorously!
The servants also came to dig sweet potatoes together.

Yang Zheng led people to cut off all the sweet potato vines first. It was strange to say that it was time to dig the sweet potatoes, but these sweet potato vines didn't seem to be getting old at all!Could these sweet potato vines still regrow?
With doubts, Yang Zheng put the sweet potato vines aside neatly, and prepared to take the time to do an experiment. If it can regenerate, then this sweet potato vine will be a treasure, and there will be no need to raise seedlings from now on!
When Yang Zheng's first hoe was dug, everyone was stunned!When the hoe was turned over, there were at least a dozen sweet potatoes, all of which looked like pumpkins, big and round!
"Hehe, brother, these sweet potatoes are so big! This one will give Hua Gu at least three meals!" Hua Gu smiled and picked up a sweet potato and said, then wiped off the dirt on the sweet potato and put it in her small basket!
"Yonggui, this sweet potato is really big. If every household in the Tang Dynasty could grow it, no one would go hungry!" Changle's starting point is obviously different from that of Hua Gu. She is looking forward to the people of the Tang Dynasty The scene where everyone eats sweet potatoes!
The others were also delighted, and the servants were even more excited. There is a wise and powerful master, and this servant also feels that Bel has face!
Since the sweet potatoes in these ridges are all big, everyone is careful not to dig up the sweet potatoes. Indeed, the sweet potatoes grow all over the place, even in the furrows. It is impossible to ensure that the sweet potatoes do not dig up!

The first one to be dug up was the little girl Hua Gu!The little girl just went down with the hoe and just dug a five-jin sweet potato in half!
"Brother, I'm sorry!" Hua Gu said playfully, sticking out her tongue.

"Don't be afraid, everyone. There are too many sweet potatoes. I will inevitably dig up some of them. I will eat the ones tonight, and feed the uneatable ones to the livestock!" Yang Zheng pampered Aunt Hua's little head. , and then said.

Sure enough, although everyone was very careful, it was still difficult to avoid digging up rotten sweet potatoes, and suddenly there was a voice: "Oh, no, I dug up a sweet potato weighing more than six catties!"

There was another sound: "Oh, what a pity, I actually dug a sweet potato weighing more than seven catties in half!"

After a while, I said here: "Hey, this is the second sweet potato I dug up, what a pity!"

Anyway, everyone feels that it is a pity that such a good thing has been dug up, and it does feel that it is detrimental to the image.

Yang Zheng is very happy now, just how common sweet potatoes are in the 21st century, but they are regarded as treasures by everyone in the Tang Dynasty. It must be said that the gap between the times is a bit big.And I was lucky enough to come here and bring the gospel to this backward era, how satisfied I am in my heart!
At the end of the day, the sweet potato field was thoroughly cleaned up, and the yield of these few mu of land was astonishing. Visually, the yield per mu must have exceeded 120 shi, that is, more than 30 catties!In fact, after weighing, the yield per mu reached [-] shi!And the biggest sweet potato was selected, Yang Zheng weighed it, no more, no less, exactly [-] catties!This is the real sweet potato king!

"Leave a small pile of these sweet potatoes, and leave the rest to your majesty. The army is fighting, and the matter of food and grass is the most important thing. Let's act tomorrow!" Yang Zheng didn't care much about the sweet potatoes. You can grow as much as you want, but Li Shimin is different. Now there is not much food in the treasury, and the army has taken away a lot. At this time, Yang Zheng's sending sweet potatoes is like falling asleep and meeting a pillow. It is just right!

Sweet potatoes are naturally indispensable for dinner at night. Although Yang Zheng repeatedly warned everyone to eat less, everyone who was happy to eat took Yang Zheng's words on deaf ears.The two little girls, Changle and Huagu, ate sweet potatoes wantonly, and the servants gnawed on them like starving ghosts, which left those chickens, ducks and fishes in the cold.

After dinner, Liu Dacheng came to visit.As soon as he entered the house, he said, "Son-in-law, my family has dug a hundred shi of sweet potatoes today, and there are still two acres of land that have not been dug. This stuff is really powerful, and we don't have to worry about running out of food in the future!"

"Uncle, do you need to talk about it? By the way, have you informed about the selection of the Sweet Potato King?" Yang Zheng was naturally not surprised.

"I've been notified, I've been notified. My family dug up a 22-jin sweet potato today. I thought my family had to get it for this selection of sweet potato king!" Liu Dacheng said proudly.

"Haha, really? By the way, you will inform the villagers later that each family will produce some of the first batch of sweet potatoes. I will lead the team tomorrow and bring them to Chang'an to present to His Majesty!"

"Okay, good son-in-law, don't worry, now that everyone is settled, we can't forget His Majesty!" Liu Dacheng patted his chest, picked up a sweet potato on the table that he hadn't cleaned up in time, and ate it!
(End of this chapter)