After he and his mother-in-law separated, he built a house and stocked a warehouse full of grain and

The more important thing is to prepare the land for planting yams.

The village has a bumper potato harvest. This batch of potatoes can feed everyone in the village for at least two or three years. Of course, fresh potatoes can’t be stored for that long, but can’t they be made into various derivatives and stored in winter? When the time comes, the kudzu roots will continue to grow, so you don’t have to worry about food this year and next.

Later, we only need to plant potatoes in three to five acres piecemeal to ensure food for the whole family. There is no need for large-scale planting like last year.

Now that there is no need to worry about food, the land of each family in the village becomes free, which can be put to good use!

It is used to grow yams and Polygonum multiflorum, and is continuously supplied to the medicine shop, transforming Shanshui Village into a medicine village.

Each household in the village only has one donkey. After harvesting the potatoes, both the man and the donkey are very tired. They have to rest for a few days. I don’t need to harvest potatoes. I can plow all the land while I have free time. Then I can still do what I did last year. Bring oxen, donkeys, and horses to work for them.

It's mutually beneficial.

When Wang Guifen was harvesting potatoes, she picked a large basket of fresh shepherd's purses, cleaned them and brought them to the water.

She remembered that Shui Qing liked to make dumplings with these wild vegetables and meat, saying they had a refreshing fragrance and were particularly delicious.

With so much meat, can it not be delicious? However, Shui Qing's family already had a lot of meat. Chicken, duck, goose, rabbit, mutton, and pork were almost never cut off, and the eggs were eaten open. Shui Qing didn't praise anything else. He just praised the delicious wild vegetable dumplings, so he must like to eat them.

Today I saw that the shepherd's purse in the field was big and fresh, so I thought of sending it to her.

It happened that Li Dani brought a bucket of lively fish, and Wang Guifen was embarrassed to expose the vegetables in the bamboo basket.

Shui Qing saw it from a distance and came up to her, "Sister-in-law Guifen, come in and sit down!"

Li Dani smiled and said: "Madam, these are the fish Feng Da caught while farming. I picked out a few fresh ones and brought them to you."

My wife loves fish and knows how to eat it.

Taught them how to make pickled fish, boiled fish, spicy fish fillets, fish head stewed with tofu... They were so delicious. In the past, the men in the family thought that fish bones had an earthy smell, and she also thought that cooking fish was a waste of oil, so she didn't like it. Not keen on it, but since I learned a few tricks from my wife, I now fish whenever I have free time.

Send the good and fresh ones to Madam first.

Wang Guifen stretched out her head and looked at the big fish popping in the bucket, which were grass carp and silver carp, and praised: "It's really fresh, and it's really fat!"

Then he noticed what Li Dani said about cultivated land, and curiously asked Shang Shuiqing: "Plowed land? What are you doing to cultivate the land so early?"

Shui Qing was not prepared to hide it, so he told all his plans, and finally sighed: "Polygonum multiflorum is expensive, much higher than yam, and it takes at least two years for yam to be harvested;

That is to say, they will be planted this year and harvested next autumn. I wonder if the villagers are willing to plant yams. "

But you can’t plant all Polygonum multiflorum. It’s too risky to use a single type of medicinal material. Polygonum multiflorum is easy to dig and can be planted on the mountain. Yams are laborious to dig and are more suitable for planting in the ground.

But regardless of time or price, the return of Polygonum multiflorum is higher than that of yams. How to make the villagers willing to grow yams is a difficult problem.

To Shui Qing's expectation, Wang Guifen replied confidently: "Yes! The villagers are always willing, so don't worry."

Shui Qing raised her eyebrows in surprise, unable to hide the curiosity in her eyes.

Wang Guifen's face turned red. She glanced around secretly and saw that there were only three women who had been married for many years. She said loudly: "Hey! It wasn't the time when Aunt Bai Ziqian came here years ago. Do you remember?

Didn't she give her a very expensive medicinal snack made from yam? It can cure all sorts of deficiencies and be powerful. Do you think the women in our village can't be moved?

And this yam is not cheap, so I would definitely not be willing to buy it, but if you grow it yourself, it doesn’t hurt to eat some, right? Besides, the ones bought from outside are not as good as those grown at home!

You don’t have to plant more, so you can rest assured that every household in the village will plant more! "

Li Dani's face was red, and she endured the shame and listened carefully. What she was thinking about was that if the effect was really so good, why not give some to her men too?

He has been noticeably weaker than usual lately...

Shui Qing was glad that she was not drinking water, otherwise she would have had to spit out a mouthful of water!

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Li Dani, who had bright eyes, and silently thought of Hua Guo's words: Any species that has anything to do with strong and so on can be eaten to become an endangered species~

Unexpectedly, this sentence is also applicable to Ming Dynasty.

But I have to say that Bai Ling's trip here helped her invisibly, saving her a lot of persuasion.

"Okay, sister-in-law, please go back and talk to the women in the village and decide to come to me to collect the yam seeds."

Wang Guifen patted her chest and promised cheerfully: "It's no trouble, we'll keep it in place!"

Shui Qing happened to see the fresh shepherd's purse in the bamboo basket. Just when he was about to ask where it was, he heard the sound of a gong.

It rang several times in succession, which meant that guests were coming.

"Strange, who will come?" Wang Guifen murmured.

Shui Qing was not surprised and said with a smile: "It's still the first month of the year. Maybe some family member has come to see my daughter. That's normal."

Li Dani thought of herself, and her originally excited expression dimmed.

Wang Guifen sighed silently and held back what she wanted to say.

Her natal family is in this village. Needless to say, Dani, many of her relatives are gone. Shui Qing’s natal family is surprisingly kind and they have never experienced the suffering of a married woman in the village.

Not to mention that the world was in chaos, even when the world was good in the past, few women's natal family members would take the initiative to come.

Most of the girls go back with New Year's gifts, and only a few families come over and interact with each other; more often they send back as much food as they want, and they just feel that their daughters don't bring back enough things or don't bring as much as other daughters, so they let them Parents have no face in the village and cannot hold their heads high.

She handed the basket of shepherd's purse forward and said, "Shui Qing, I'll give it to you as dumpling stuffing. You keep it while I go to see which guest is coming."

Shui Qing didn't expect that this big basket of shepherd's purses was for her, and she was so pleasantly surprised that she took the basket of shepherd's purses and said happily: "I won't be polite to you, so I just accepted it.

You wait for me, I will go in and pour the shepherd's purse down, give you the basket, and you can take it back with you. "

When someone brings something to you, you can't leave the basket empty, but if you want to give someone something, Wang Guifen will definitely run faster than a rabbit! But if she was left waiting to get the basket, she would never leave.

Wang Guifen originally wanted to say that she could return the basket to her at any time, but then she thought that it was not worth the extra effort to go all the way just for the basket, so she smiled and responded: "Okay, don't worry, I just happened to have a chat with Dani. "

Shui Qing quickly entered the house and poured the shepherd's purse into the basin. He originally wanted to put the eggs in, but finally replaced them with sugar.

Wang Guifen and Li Dani were chatting outside the yard when they saw a large group of people in the distance approaching them in a luxury carriage.

The two of them froze in place.