Datang romantic little landlord

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Li Er and the others to speak, he picked up a pot of potatoes and smashed them down.

His actions also startled Li Wangyou, how could this old hooligan be so rude.With a bang, the flower pot was smashed to the ground by Cheng Yaojin, and it immediately fell apart.

Li Wangyou was speechless, so he could only step forward and dig potatoes.

When the round potatoes were dug out from the soil by Li Wangyou, Li Er, Fang Xuanling and others all stared wide-eyed.

Li Wangyou was even more ecstatic.

To be honest, before seeing these potatoes with his own eyes, his heart was also in a state of panic.Although he was sure that these plants must be potatoes, Li Wangyou still felt a little uneasy before digging them out.

What if I made a mistake, or if the potatoes didn't bear fruit, or if I didn't take good care of them and the roots rotted... these are also possible.If that's the case, it's a joy for nothing.

Li Wangyou didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he dug out these unremarkable and even somewhat ugly potatoes from the soil with his own hands.

The potato he had been longing for was finally held in his palm.

"Ziyou, the round pimples on the roots of this crop are the potatoes you mentioned? This... this is too much!" Li Er couldn't help clicking his tongue.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the potato plant that Li Wangyou dug out has seven or eight potatoes hanging on the root.The big one is about the size of a fist, and the small one is about the size of an egg. It looks very heavy.

Fang Xuanling didn't care about the soil being dirty, so he moved over and took a potato with his hand, and looked at it carefully: "Ziyou, but these round bumps are the potatoes you mentioned? Are they edible?"

"Hey, Fang Xiang is right, these are potatoes!" Li Wangyou was also very happy at this time.

"How to eat?" Fang Xuanling asked again: "How about threshing or how to deal with it?"

Li Wangyou smiled and said: "Fang Gong, these potatoes don't need to be threshed like grain, they can be eaten directly roasted or boiled. Of course, they taste better when used as dishes."

"What? Ziyou, don't lie to the old man. These potatoes are so big that they can all be eaten? How, how is this possible?" Not only Fang Xuanling was stunned, but Li Er and the others were also like this.

In comparison, the harvest of a plant of rice or wheat is not as much as a potato the size of an egg, and it needs to be dried and threshed to become edible grains, and the yield is even lower.

But Li Wangyou actually said that all the lumps dug out from the potato plant in front of him are edible, which shocked Li Er, Fang Xuanling and others.

Du Ruhui, who was at the side, suddenly turned his head and shouted at Si Nong Siqing: "Quickly, go and get it weighed, I want to see how much this product is produced!"

"Yes, yes, take the scale quickly!" Li Er hurriedly ordered.

Since Li Wangyou said that those round pimples are edible, they are all harvests.It is hard for everyone to imagine how much harvest there will be from such a heavy bunch of potatoes.

The scale was brought in quickly, and the potatoes were cleaned out of the soil and carefully placed on the weighing pan.

"Return to Your Majesty, it's a total of two catties and six taels!" Si Nong Siqing personally weighed those potatoes.

Li Wangyou curled his lips secretly, the output is really not high.He remembered that when the later generations planted potatoes with his grandfather, the yield of a potato plant was less than five or six catties, and when it was more, a plant even weighed more than ten catties.

In comparison, the yield of this potato plant is only over two catties, which is really not worth mentioning.

But Si Nong Siqing's words, heard by Li Er and the officials, caused Fang Xuanling who was stroking his beard to tremble, and almost pulled out the beard under his chin.

Regardless of the pain, he grabbed Li Wangyou's arm and asked, "Ziyou, how many potatoes can be planted in one acre of land?"

Li Wangyou looked at Fang Xuanling's muddy palm with distaste, his clothes were really bad.He pondered for a while and replied, "One thousand plants is no problem."

When these words came out, Li Er and the others gasped even more.

Everyone can do simple calculations. A potato plant yields two catties and six taels, so it's good to count as two catties.

A thousand plants are two thousand catties... twenty stones of grain...

This is twice as much as Li Wangyou said at the beginning that the grain yield per mu would be ten shi!

Li Er suddenly looked at the other two pots of potatoes: "Hurry up, smash those two pots for me too, carefully dig out the potatoes and weigh them!"

Soon, the remaining two pots of potatoes were also taken out, and the same heavy pile was harvested.

The weighing results were roughly the same, two catties and three taels and two catties and four taels respectively.

The three potato plants harvested a total of more than 20 potatoes of different sizes, with a total harvest of seven catties and three taels.

Li Wangyou looked at these potatoes and narrowed his eyes happily.

This one potato, after sprouting and cut into pieces, can at least plant three or four more potatoes.In other words, by the next harvest, these 20 or so potatoes will become four to five hundred... In less than a year, you can eat as many potatoes as you want.

Looking at the potatoes all over the place, Li Er still couldn't believe it: "Ziyou, are these things really edible? All of them? This...how is this possible?"

It's no wonder Li Er was so surprised, it's really hard to imagine how spectacular it is to produce twenty shi of grain per mu.Li Er couldn't help but couldn't believe it, Cheng Yaojin, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and the others looked at these potatoes and couldn't believe that these round lumps dug out of the soil were edible.

Li Wangyou smiled, "Uncle, gentlemen, there are still two pots of potatoes in my nephew's mansion, how about asking uncle and gentlemen to move to Hu County? My nephew harvested the two pots of potatoes together, and then took some to share with you." Gentlemen, try it out and see if the potato is edible, what does it taste like, what do you think, uncle?"

"Okay! That's right!" Li Er responded immediately without hesitation.

681 How to reward?

The most important thing for Li Er now is to verify whether the potatoes are really edible.

Compared with this incident, other state affairs are not worth mentioning.Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were naturally the same. Compared with the grain that can produce twenty shi per mu, are other things still a problem?

Li Er immediately ordered the guards in the palace to carefully send all the harvested potatoes back to the palace, and arranged for special guards.

After a little arrangement, Li Er led a group of palace guards and rode with Li Wangyou to Dingzhou Village, Hu County.

They are all horses, from Chang'an City to Dingzhou Village, it took less than half an hour to travel a hundred miles.

Since no one knew in advance that Li Wangyou would bring Li Er and several big brothers to visit, the old housekeeper Li Heng was startled and hurried forward to greet him.

Li Wangyou pulled him aside and whispered some instructions, but Li Heng frowned and shook his head.

"Lang Jun, this... I'm afraid it won't work, right? This is a holy man, how can I eat that thing?" Li Heng waved his hands again and again.

Li Wangyou stared: "Don't talk nonsense, just do it if you are told, tell Niu Wu to go to Hu County, and just go to Yang Zuan, Yang Zuan will always give this face."

Seeing that his husband was so persistent, Li Heng had no choice but to nod and agree, and went to arrange it himself.

The two pots of potatoes in Li's family were the same as those in Sinong Temple, and they produced a total of about five catties of potatoes.Such a stable output made Li Er and the others finally convinced that the potatoes were indeed high-yield. Now the only doubt is whether these potatoes are really edible?

Li Wangyou is actually reluctant to eat potatoes. The five catties of potatoes harvested by the family are less than twenty in total. If they are used to save seeds, they can be turned into more than 100 catties of potatoes when they are harvested next season.

However, Li Wangyou also knew that it would be impossible for Li Er and the others to vigorously promote it without letting Li Er and the others taste the potatoes themselves and be convinced that this food is edible and delicious.

So even though he was reluctant, Li Wangyou still planned to take out half of the potatoes to have a good meal, and let Li Er and the others experience the deliciousness of potatoes.

Of course, he would never admit that it was because he was greedy!

The beautiful boss heard that he wanted to eat potatoes, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to cook.

She was also reluctant to give such precious potatoes to the cooks in the house. It would be a sin to waste them.