Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Lin Yiheng came back from the field and went to the office to find Lin Yinan. He saw her holding a piece of paper in her hand and staring blankly.

During the busy farming season, when there was government affairs, he would go to the fields to help.

"Anan, what are you thinking about? Why are you so absorbed in it?"

Lin Yinan handed him the letter, "It's from Yun Si and the others."

The more Lin Yiheng looked, the tighter his brows furrowed.

"The Nanzhou government has confiscated all the people and grain, and the farmland has been divided up by other noble families. As a result, the farmland that can be cultivated has been greatly reduced. I'm afraid that we won't be able to pay the taxes this year."

"With fewer people, the taxes and grain that should be paid to the court will definitely fall on other people. I'm afraid there won't be enough food this year."

"Then we need to make some preparations in advance." Lin Yiheng said.

"It's too late to plant rice this season. Almost all the paddy fields that can be developed have been planted. The remaining wasteland on the mountain should be reclaimed to expand the corn planting area."

Lin Yinan has been farming for two years. Although he is not proficient in farming, he at least knows everything about it.

She knows what to plant in which season, how often to water, fertilize, and weed after planting.

After the brother and sister had two cups of tea, Lin Yiheng put down the cup and said, "Yes, I'll go to the warehouse at the back to count and see how many seeds are left."

Lin Yinan stood up and said, "I'll go with you."

The two men came to the warehouse behind the county government office where the seeds were stored.

The county government office is not very large, so after the summer harvest last year, the granary was moved out and a larger and better-sealed grain storage warehouse was built outside.

Lin Yiheng pointed at the few bags of corn seeds and said, "Anan, do we have to plant all of these?"

"Do we still have that much land in Longtan?" Lin Yinan asked him back.

Lin Yiheng said with great pride, "There is plenty of land, if there is none, we can go up the mountain and open up wasteland."

Lin Yinan thought for a while and said, "I'd better give some to Chi'an. When there's an extra acre of land, I'll have new seeds to plant."

"New seeds? Where did you get the new seeds?" Lin Yiheng asked puzzledly.

Lin Yinan raised his eyebrows and smiled, "With a wave of his hand, several sacks appeared out of thin air like magic."

Lin Yiheng walked forward and opened one of the bags. Inside were oval-shaped stone-like objects. They were cold to the touch, and if you squeezed them hard, your fingernails would scratch your skin.

He put his nose close to it and smelled it, and there was a smell of earth and the unique fresh smell of plants.

"what is this?"

"Potato."

These potatoes were found by Lin Yinan in a seed technology company when he was on a mission in the apocalypse. Three years had passed since the apocalypse, but these potatoes were still well preserved in the seed warehouse of the technology company, weighing a total of one thousand kilograms.

She stored all 1,000 kilograms of potato seeds into the space, and no one knew about it, not even her partner Yu Xiaojia.

She originally thought that one day after all the zombies were wiped out, she would find a place to live in seclusion and learn to farm and grow potatoes, but that day never came.

However, now is the right time to promote potatoes.

"How do you want to eat this?"

"It can be eaten as a meal or a vegetable, and it is as filling as rice and corn."

Potatoes contain a large amount of starch, protein, amino acids, and various vitamins and minerals.

"What a rare thing! We have never heard of it before. An Nan, how are we going to explain it to the people outside?"

Lin Yinan had already thought about this question. She smiled and said, "Just say that it was found on the pirate ship. Now that the Japanese are no longer attacking, no one will pursue the matter if we put the blame on them."

Lin Yiheng walked forward, picked up a few bags and weighed them. "There should be 300 kilograms here. Have they all been planted?"

"Yes, all of them."

Hearing her say this, Lin Yiheng swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth. He was still thinking about cooking a meal to try out what it tasted like.

He knew that seeds were precious, so it would be okay to wait until they were grown before eating them. "How many acres of land can these potatoes plant?"

"We can only plant about one acre."

"An acre of land can be cultivated very quickly, so when do you plan to plant it?" Lin Yiheng thought to himself.

"The first step in planting potatoes is germination, which takes about five to seven days. We need to take out the seeds and cut them into pieces first."

Lin Yiheng's heart trembled slightly, "Can he still survive if he is cut open?"

"Yes, we cut them open to help them germinate. Only after they germinate can we plant them in the ground."

"Okay, I'll call someone in now to help carry it out."

Lin Yiheng was about to go out and call for help, but Lin Yinan stopped him and said, "Go to the kitchen and get two baskets of wood ash."

Lin Yiheng didn't know what he was going to do with the wood ash, but he obediently did as he was told.

When Aunt Li and Yu Niang came over each carrying a basket of wood ash, the clan leader, village chief, and Uncle Lin of Linjia Village all followed.

In the warm but still cold season of March, the three elderly people unfortunately caught a cold. Their steps were unsteady when they walked, but they still insisted on working in the fields.

The younger generation in the village reported the matter directly to Lin Yinan, who strictly forbade them to go to the fields. They had no choice but to recuperate at home for the past few days.

After all, they are old, and an old person in the family is like a treasure. Lin Yinan hopes that they can live longer.

When they heard that Lin Yinan had developed new seeds that could yield several thousand kilograms per mu, they were very curious.

Aunt Li and Yu Niang have always been practical people. They put down the basket, drew the kitchen knife from their waist, and Aunt Li asked Lin Yinan with a smile.

"Anan, what do you want to cut?"

Lin Yinan untied the sack and poured out the plump potatoes, "Here, cut this."

Aunt Li and a few others bent down and picked one up. The clan leader looked left and right to make sure he had never seen this thing before.

"Anan, is this the potato you were talking about?"

"Well, we found it when we confiscated the pirates' ships. The pirates confessed everything about the potatoes after being tortured." Lin Yinan lied without blinking.

“Is the output high?”

"It's more than high, it's extremely high. It's said that if you take good care of it, you can produce 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms per mu."

Lin Yinan spoke conservatively, and everyone gasped and showed an expression of disbelief.

"so tall!"

Just then the guard brought a wooden board, and Lin Yinan took over Aunt Li's knife to demonstrate.

"Pay attention to the buds on the potatoes. Cut them into this size. Each piece should have at least one or two buds. They cannot be too small. The smaller the potato pieces, the less nutrients and water they carry, which will affect the development of the seedlings."

"If there are moldy, black or other diseased ones, pick them out and don't cut them. You two can try it."

I heard that this thing was hard to come by and very valuable, so Aunt Li and Yu Niang cut a few carefully at first. After Lin Yinan checked that there was no problem, they let go.

After all, they were veterans in the kitchen, and they cut the food quickly and well, and soon there was a pile of food on the ground.

The patriarch felt so distressed when he saw them cut the potatoes and put them casually on the ground, so he picked up the cut potatoes and put them in his clothes.

"Anan, it's not okay to put it on the ground like this, right? Should we put it in the ash?"

Lin Yinan looked at the juice still oozing out of the potato cubes and said, "We have to wait until the cut surface is dry before we can wrap it in wood ash."

"You can't put it on the ground like this, the ground will get dirty."

Lin Chunfang, who came to help, had just stepped into the yard when he heard the clan leader's words. He left after saying a few words.

"I'll go get the dustpan from the kitchen to dry it."