Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

The cold winter passed, the weather gradually warmed up, the spring breeze was mild, and the drizzle was silent.

Due to the husband's labor, Qinghe Village has lost more than a dozen strong men, and the faces of those who have lost their strength are full of sadness. The leisure laborers are digging the soil and plowing the fields, but the fields are still cooler than before.

Although it has already entered spring, you can still feel the coldness, and you can accidentally get a cold when the cold north wind blows.Most of the families were still farming in winter clothes. Guo Si was wearing thin short brown clothes, but he was sweating from the heat.

Guo Si is the only single household in Qinghe Village. He is only [-] years old and has not yet married.There are no old people above, no young people below, and no other labor to help, so I can only work hard to take care of these acres of land by myself, so as not to let myself become a customer.Naturally, he can't get enough food and clothing by relying on these few acres of barren land, so he still makes a living by helping others to do some short-term labor.

Because there was no one to help him, he did not plant winter crops throughout the winter, and only started digging the soil when the weather became warmer.It was just a field that hadn't been taken care of for a long time, but he actually dug up a few unknown tubers.The skin of the tuber is red and black, it looks like kudzu root and is as big as a palm.Some of them were cut in half when he was plowing the field. The black part inside looked moldy, while the white part looked like snow lotus root.

"What is this?" Guo Si picked it up and weighed it in his hands, and found that it was quite heavy, but there were obvious insect bite marks on it, and it was a little shriveled and turned yellow.

"Guo Si, what are you doing?" someone asked curiously.

Guo Si threw the tuber in his hand and said, "What else can we do? Digging the soil, I don't know if we can finish digging the land before the cold food."

"Didn't you earn a lot of money for Mr. Zhang's family by burning fire dung? Why don't you hire someone to help?" The man laughed.

"I still have to save to marry a wife!"

"Then you continue to dig the soil, I'll go back and have a rest."

After the man left, Guo Si threw away the few tubers dug out from the ground.These ugly and bad-looking crops are clearly inedible, so he doesn't need to pay attention to them.

At noon, Guo Si, who had not eaten breakfast, was very hungry, so he planned to go to the grass market next to the official road to buy some steamed buns.

Since the beginning of spring, there have been some small stalls selling tea and steamed buns on the official road. This is because more and more people pass by here in the name of "Treading Spring".Most of them came from the city or even farther away. It was inevitable that they would be thirsty on the road. These hawkers discovered the business opportunities and occupied the seats early to make a living by setting up tea and food.

The best location is the section from the front of Zhang He's house to the field, where the place is spacious and shaded by trees and bamboo groves.They have figured out that the people who rest here always like to see the green mountains and green waters.

Guo Si bought two steamed buns and squatted on the ground to eat them. When she saw Zhang He passing by, she still held some sprouted tubers in her hand.He suddenly remembered that when he was helping Zhang He burn fire dung, he had seen Zhang He seemed to be thinking about some unknown taro seeds, and she had specially set aside an acre of land to cultivate them.

He also thought of the unknown tuber he found today, so he rushed over: "Mr. Zhang Family, Mr. Zhang Family!"

Zhang He looked familiar at the dark-looking man in front of him, and before he remembered who he was, he reported his family name: "It's me, I'm Guo Si, and I helped Mr. Zhang's family burn fire dung." It looks ugly, but Zhang He's field cannot be fertilized without anyone helping to burn the dung.

"It's you, what's the matter, but something happened?" Zhang He asked.

"Mr. Zhang Family, what is this?" He looked into the bamboo basket curiously.

"This is—" Zhang He paused, "This is a taro found on the west slope, do you think it looks like an egg?" Zhang He picked up a piece and showed him.

The tuber has already been cut into several parts by Zhang He. He couldn't tell it looked like an egg at all, but he also echoed: "Yes, it looks like an egg, so what is it? I've never seen it when I grow up."

"Because it looks like an egg, I'll call it...a potato for now."

"..." Guo Si pondered for a while, it looked like an egg but was called a potato, what's the point?But he didn't entangle Zhang He about this issue. He naturally knew that Zhang He was very interested in these rare crops, and the purpose of calling Zhang He to stop him was naturally the strange tuber he found this morning.

"Mr. Zhang, why do these strange taro...potatoes always appear recently? I also found some strange taro in my field today." Guo Si described the things in his field, Zhang He then understood, but she pretended not to care and asked, "And then?"

Guo Siman thought that Zhang He would be interested, so Zhang He might buy it from him and take it back to ponder and cultivate, but Zhang He didn't seem very interested, and he couldn't help but nervously said: "I thought Mr. Zhang would want to know that what is..."

"I want to know, but according to your description, I don't know what it is, why don't you come to me with it after you figure it out?" Zhang He said.

Guo Si was taken aback for a moment, and when Zhang He walked away, he came back to his senses and ran back to the field to find the tubers he had thrown somewhere.After searching for a long time, he finally found some, but he was illiterate, how could he know what it was?

After thinking hard, he decided to take them around and ask others, and he asked many people in Qinghe Village.Although they didn't know much about it, they also paid attention to it when Guo Si asked.

"What is this? Why are there so many unknown and strange taro suddenly in Qinghe Village?" Someone was puzzled.

"That's right, last time Li Jiada Lang dug up yellow taro on the west slope, this time Guo Si dug up red taro in the field, let's go back and dig to see if there is any such taro Son!" Some people vaguely looked forward to their own land.

"I remember Zhang Erlang took the taro dug out by Dalang Li last time?"

Guo Si heard the words and said straightly: "I know this well. Mr. Zhang Jialang said that he tried the taro, it is not poisonous, and it is edible. And it will sprout, so Mr. Zhang Jialang cut them into pieces and planted them in the ground to see What did it produce. He also tentatively named the taro...potato."

Someone sneered and said, "It's only Zhang Erlang who has the leisurely mind. If he wants to plant it, he won't say it, but he will name it. Let's think about how to fill our stomachs!"

Someone also asked curiously: "Potatoes, why are they called potatoes?"

"Why is it called a potato, first let's see what it is?" Guo Si asked while holding the tuber in his hand.

"Why don't you go to Zhang Erlang, maybe he has the time to give you a name, and plant it in the ground by the way?"

"Go aside, don't interrupt if you don't know what it is!" Guo Si was annoyed, and he was still waiting to find out about it so that he could find Zhang He!

"The taro that grows in the ground may be called ground taro?"

"Hell? Bah, who cares about such a name? Let's call it Shanyu!"

Guo Sidao: "Who told you to name it? I'm asking what it is?"

The man said confidently: "This is a sweet potato!"

"..." Guo Si was speechless, he thought for a while, and left with the tuber named "Sweet Potato".

A few days later, he found Zhang He and said, "Mr. Zhang, I asked before. This is 'Sweet Potato'."

Zhang He was surprised: Sweet potatoes are also called "sweet potatoes". Could it be that sweet potatoes have been recorded at this time, and these people really know what they are?

"And then?" There was a wave of trouble in her heart, but her face was still quite calm.

"Didn't Mr. Zhang Jialang say that as long as I know what this thing is, I can come to find you?" Guo Si said.

"I'm asking, this is a sweet potato. Do you know where it comes from and how it is grown?"

Guo Si resentfully said, "No, I don't know." Afraid of Zhang He's misunderstanding, he added, "No one in Qinghe Village knows what it is. Some people say that since it is a taro that grows in the field, it is called a 'sweet potato'. .”

After finishing his speech, he looked at Zhang He nervously.

The corners of Zhang He's lips curled up suddenly, her goal had been achieved, she wanted to let Qinghe Village know about this new crop, but she used Guo Si to disturb everyone's sight.Even though everyone wondered why new crops appeared one after another, none of these two crops were discovered by her, and she showed curiosity about new things, even if she mixed some potato seeds from the system warehouse into cultivation, no one found them. would doubt.

She smiled slightly: "In that case, are you going to give me these yams?"

Guo Sidao: "This is planted in my field, if Mr. Zhang Jialang is interested..."

But Zhang He understood what he meant, and said, "I'll buy as much as you have."

Guo Sixin said happily: "There are thirteen in total!" Originally there were only twelve, one of them was cut into two sections by him, so he shamelessly treated it as two!

"I don't know what it is worth, so I can only give one penny." Zhang He said.

Guo Si negotiated the price with her unwillingly, and finally sold them all to Zhang He for [-] Wen.Although he went all over Qinghe Village to ask people what it was, he earned thirty coins just for this. He was very happy, thinking that if he found something else, he could still sell it to Zhang He.

"Use money to buy back what belongs to me, that's what I will do!" Zhang He looked at the somewhat unsightly-looking sweet potato and said to himself.

The sweet potato, which was supposed to grow after December, had never been noticed by anyone, and Zhang He didn't take the initiative to find it, so that it grew in the field for more than a month.Some of these sweet potatoes have been bitten by insects, and have black spots, and some have even lost moisture and become shriveled and moldy.

Fortunately, she only needs an excuse to cultivate it openly, and does not need these as potato seeds. Otherwise, she will not be able to cultivate it successfully even if she is given a few years.

The same goes for those potatoes. There were only five of them at the beginning, and she cut them into several parts. But when they were planted in the field, she used the healthy potato seeds in the system warehouse, and there were more than 20 crops of them.

Others know that she is cultivating potatoes, but most people just think that she is in a hurry and doesn't take the new crops to heart. They have to be busy digging the soil, and when the weather is warmer, they will start planting and transplanting rice seedlings. Only rice is theirs. The most important food.

Zhang He felt a slight headache when he carried the sweet potatoes home.

It's easy for others to be fooled, but Xia Jiniang is so smart, how can she explain it so that she won't be suspicious?

But before she opened her mouth to explain, Xia Jiniang said: "I heard that Erlang had too much money to spend, so he spent thirty Wen to buy some unknown taro seeds dug out from the ground."

"..." Zhang He nodded guiltily.

"Are you so curious about these rare taro seeds?" Xia Jiniang asked.

"Curious." Zhang He nodded.

Xia Jiniang stared at her, although she wanted to ask her why she was curious, but it didn't seem necessary.

Suddenly, she remembered that when she first met Zhang He, she asked Zhang He why he would rather leave those lands idle than rent them out.Zhang He replied: "I have other uses for these fields."

Even now, Zhang He would rather spend more money to hire workers to take care of the farmland, but he never thought of renting out the land. Is this one of the reasons?

No matter what Zhang He wants to do, as long as it is not too outrageous, she will support it.If you trust her, you don't need to get to the bottom of it and let her keep a little secret.

"These thirty coins don't come from the household."

Zhang He breathed a sigh of relief, Xia Jiniang didn't seem to have any doubts, she nodded and said, "I'm going to use my money for my private opinion."

Xia Jiniang smiled and asked, "So what did Erlang name this taro?" She was used to Zhang He not only naming livestock, but also naming crops.

"I didn't name it this time, it was someone else's name. It's called 'Sweet Potato' because it grows in the ground. What does Niang think?"

"Well, it sounds better than 'Ground Taro'."

The author has something to say: Because it looks like an egg, it is called a potato.

Zhang He: Well, there's nothing wrong...