Make a fortune by farming: The sweetheart of the first assistant family

Magistrate Chen saw sweet potatoes of different sizes with his own eyes and learned that sweet potatoes could be eaten raw. He immediately ordered his servants to clean them before getting a kitchen knife.

The master wanted to do it for him, but Magistrate Chen insisted on doing it himself. After peeling it, he asked Huo Yunchao: "Yunchao, how do these sweet potatoes taste when eaten raw?"

Huo Yunchao thought for a while: "Sir, Yunchao is not very talented and has little knowledge. He is not good at describing things."

County Magistrate Chen pointed at Huo Yunchao, laughed and cursed: "You slippery man! You dare to fool even me!"

Huo Yunchao apologized and said nothing.

When Magistrate Chen wasn't paying attention, the master quietly picked up a round roasted sweet potato, tore open the skin and ate it.

The roasted sweet potatoes that Master Niao Jing'er got were cooked in the sweet potato kiln built by Huo Yunrong and others. They were sweet, soft and glutinous and had a great taste.

With one bite, the unique sweet taste of roasted sweet potatoes escapes in Master's mouth. The fragrant and soft texture is more suitable for Master who has several broken teeth.

"Master, these roasted sweet potatoes are very delicious! They are softer and more delicious than the sugar cane we got a few days ago!"

At this moment, County Magistrate Chen took a bite of the raw sweet potato. The taste was good or bad, with a hint of bitterness and a taste of grass.

County Magistrate Chen grew up in a wealthy family and did not appreciate sweet potatoes eaten raw. However, after tasting them himself, he believed that sweet potatoes could indeed be used as grain.

Especially in years of famine when there is no grain harvest, sweet potatoes, which can withstand droughts and floods better than rice and wheat, are most likely an important ration for the people at the bottom to survive.

It happened that at this time, the master excitedly shared the benefits of roasted sweet potatoes. Magistrate Chen suddenly felt ashamed of being stupid in front of his subordinates and juniors. He glared at the master with an angry look: "What's the point of yelling?"

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After glancing around, Huo Yunchao and others looked down at the ground knowingly. He quickly apologized to County Magistrate Chen: "Sir, this roasted sweet potato is extremely delicious, soft and sweet, just like your favorite pumpkin porridge."

"Is this true?"

County Magistrate Chen has a sweet tooth. His favorite food is pumpkin porridge with a lot of sugar added. After hearing what the master said, he immediately took the roasted sweet potato that the master had peeled and took a bite. His eyes were as bright as the sun: "Okay. The next best time!”

One bite after another, he finished the fist-sized roasted sweet potato in three mouthfuls. County Magistrate Chen took the second roasted sweet potato handed over by his master and choked after eating it halfway.

Huo Yunchao took the opportunity to bring a cup of tea, and County Magistrate Chen took a big sip. He loved the taste of roasted sweet potatoes, and gave Huo Yunchao a thumbs up and praised: "Yunchao, roasted sweet potatoes are ten times more delicious than raw food." ! If I could eat such delicious sweet potatoes every day, wouldn’t my life be happier than that of a god?!”

Huo Yunchao hurriedly explained: "Sir, the way to roast sweet potatoes is different. It is different from ordinary roasting on the stove. This is the sweet potato kiln method."

Magistrate Chen was obviously more interested in how to eat sweet potatoes, and said enthusiastically: "Sweet potato kiln? Yun Chao, please tell me in detail!"

Seeing this, the master did not bother to eat the roasted sweet potatoes. He wiped his hands and wrote and ink, preparing to record down every word what Huo Yunchao said about the "sweet potato kiln". There were two copies, one was kept and the other was sent to the prefect immediately.

Under Magistrate Chen's repeated questioning, Huo Yunchao told him all the ways to eat sweet potatoes that he could think of.

The master couldn't help smiling while taking notes. He and Magistrate Chen were eating from the same pot.

County Magistrate Chen also likes to eat the food he likes.

After explaining how to eat sweet potatoes and recording them, County Magistrate Chen asked about serious matters: "Yun Chao, how much is the yield of sweet potatoes per mu? How to grow wild sweet potatoes? What are the requirements for watering, fertilizing and weeding sweet potatoes? ?”

Huo Yunchao first answered the question about how to grow sweet potatoes: "Sir, there are two ways to grow sweet potatoes. One is to use sweet potato vines for cutting planting, and the other is to use sweet potato stems to grow. After the sweet potato stems grow into vine seedlings, By pruning the sweet potato vines and planting them with cuttings, you can get more sweet potato seeds. More importantly, sweet potatoes can be planted twice a year and harvested twice."

County Magistrate Chen knew nothing about farming. He was more concerned about the yield of sweet potatoes per mu: "Yun Chao, I don't understand what you are talking about. I just want to know how many kilos the yield of sweet potatoes per mu is?"

No one has grown sweet potatoes in the Dasheng Dynasty, but Huo Yunchao can give County Magistrate Chen an example based on the yield per mu of the wasteland beside the creek at the foot of the mountain: "Sir, my estimate is that the sweet potatoes in the wasteland will The yield per mu can reach an astonishing ten shi. With careful attention from farmers and timely supply of water and fertilizer, the sweet potato yield per mu may reach 20 shi."

County Magistrate Chen, who had great trust in Huo Yunchao, was shocked when he heard about such a high yield: "The yield of sweet potato is twenty dan per mu? Yun Chao, are you kidding me?"

The rice yield of four dan per mu was enough for Magistrate Chen to personally go to his clan uncle who was the prefect for help!

Who would have thought that Huo Yunchao said that the yield of sweet potatoes per mu could reach an astonishing twenty stones. He, he wished he could spread his wings and fly back to the imperial city to find his grandfather and ask for an audience with the Holy One.

Send someone to bear witness!

The master's performance was not much better than that of County Magistrate Chen. He believed in his own judgment of people. Huo Yunchao behaved openly and without any possibility of deception.

What's more, Huo Yunchao is such a smart person, it's impossible for him not to know how deadly a lie that can be exposed so easily is.

Huo Yunchao knew that County Magistrate Chen and his master did not distrust him, but were shocked by the super high yield of sweet potatoes.

The gap between the yield of four shi per mu and the yield of 20 shi per mu is too big. The sweet potatoes traveled across the ocean to the Dasheng Dynasty, and there was an ocean in between.

The origin of sweet potatoes is on the other side of the earth that County Magistrate Chen and Master Chen have never been to, far beyond their imagination.

In the Great Victory Chaoli, any normal person who has the ability to think about right and wrong would be like County Magistrate Chen and Master Chen who couldn't believe their ears when they heard that sweet potatoes could produce twenty dan per mu.

Huo Yunchao did not argue too much. Facts speak louder than words. No matter how much he said, it would be better to let County Magistrate Chen witness it with his own eyes: "Returning to your lord, I am not just talking nonsense. Please move to the sweet potato field in the wasteland. Li Zheng of Pingle Village has already made arrangements. Good hands, waiting for your visit."

Magistrate Chen thought of the sweet potato vines that Huo Yunchao had asked for from him, and asked Huo Yunchao: "Yunchao, the person who presented the sweet potatoes was a blond and blue-eyed fan. Are the sweet potatoes an extraneous thing?"

Huo Yunchao responded with three points true and seven points false: "Sir, sweet potatoes should be something outside the story. To be honest, sir, I also accidentally learned from the book that sweet potatoes were brought by the people across the ocean."

County Magistrate Chen really wanted to ask where the book was now, but he thought about it again and again, and finally did not ask: "Master, order the horseman to prepare the carriage, and then arrange for the government servants to

Go borrow three oxcarts and go with me to dig sweet potatoes. The harvested sweet potatoes must be sent to the prefect for tasting as soon as possible! "