Jia Lu through the Red Chamber

"Really, does grandma really have a high output?" Jia Lu's voice was so excited that Daiyu gave her a suspicious look.

Grandma Liu nodded confidently,

"Yeah, I don't dare to say anything else. The sweet potatoes will be harvested in about a month. Even if they are pulled out at this time, they can be harvested. Otherwise, I wouldn't dare to talk to the girl!"

Jia Lu walked a few steps excitedly. The gardener who was looking after the sweet potatoes was originally from the greenhouse in Ningfu. What he took care of were all precious things. In addition, he was not sure about the output of the sweet potatoes. Feeling anxious, Grandma Liu's words seemed to give her a reassurance.

"Girl, is it worth it?" Grandma Liu asked.

"Of course." Jia Lu immediately shouted, "Mo Ran, go and call Tian San!"

Mo Ran was waiting outside, and went out after answering.

Jia Lu said to Grandma Liu,

"Tian San is the one who takes care of the sweet potatoes. He has taken care of them for so long, so he has some experience. Discuss with the two of you. If there is anything he said that is inaccurate, please point it out. After all, he has only seen flowers and plants. Yes, I have never grown crops, and in some respects I am inferior to your farmers!"

Grandma Liu hurriedly replied, "Don't worry, girl, I saw that the sweet potato is growing very well, and he is taking care of it with all his heart."

Mo Ran turned back outside, "Girl, Tian San is here!"

Grandma Liu ran out after hearing this, and Jia Lu wanted to follow, but was stopped by Daiyu, Daiyu said,

"Tell me clearly, what exactly is that sweet potato? Don't say it's a nonsense about respecting the old lady. As the saying goes, rare things are the most precious, but those who honor the elders choose among the most expensive, like what? Ginseng and bird’s nests, the most expensive ones, are always in small quantities, and the large ones are available to everyone, but such things are relatively cheap, so why would you honor the old lady with this thing?”

Jia Lu rolled her eyes and said,

"Who said that the ones with large quantities are inferior, like the rice and wheat yields are also large, and I don't see those nobles who eat less rice and pasta because of this. As long as the taste is good, what difference does it make?"

Daiyu tugged at her, and said, "You're fooling me again, look at how you take care of the food, find a gardener to serve the food, is it possible that you have really eaten this food?"

Jia Lu nodded, and said, "I've eaten it, it's soft and sweet." It's true, but it was in a previous life.

Daiyu looked at her determined face, half-believing.

Just at this time, Grandma Liu came back, so Daiyu couldn't ask more questions, so she sent Grandma Liu out.

The next day, Grandma Liu proposed to leave, and everyone in the house packed up some things for her.

I heard that Grandma Liu's family had a little granddaughter called Qing'er. Jia Lu and Daiyu also packed up some old clothes. Daiyu also packed up some of Lin Rui's childhood clothes considering Ban'er's age and figure, and sent them to He went over and sealed a small bag of silver anklets, worried that grandma would not accept them, so he quietly stuffed them into his clothes, and ordered Ban'er to study hard, etc., and asked Zijuan to send them over.

Zijuan came back and said that it was Wang Xifeng who asked Grandma Liu to name the elder sister as Qiao Jie. Everyone was surprised when they heard it, even Li Nanny said it strangely.

"How could someone like Second Grandma Lian think of asking Grandma Liu to name her?"

Jia Lu said indifferently, "There's nothing impossible about it, it's all due to a loving mother's heart!"

At this time, Jia Lu's mind is not on other things, and she is all on the sweet potatoes that she is about to harvest. After Tian San and Grandma Liu's judgment, they decided to put the harvest time in a month, and Jia Lu broke the sweet potatoes every day. Counting the days with my fingers, I finally waited for the time.

On this day, thanks to the blessing of God, the sun was just right and the autumn air was crisp. The precious sweet potatoes planted by the fourth girl were about to be harvested, and the news spread in the Grand View Garden.

There is nothing to do in the garden, but any trivial matter can be spread all over the yard, not to mention the so-called sweet potatoes planted by noble girls. They are neither famous flowers nor special in appearance. In the mud, such a thing, even in the name of respecting the old lady, is enough to make people talk about it, and they all say that these four girls are getting more and more weird.

The servants didn't care about him for the time being, but Jia Baoyu and the other sisters found it strange, so they came to Nuanxiangwu to have a look at Jia Lu's harvest.

"Let's dig!" Jia Lu ordered.

Two or three men who looked like servants dug up the sweet potatoes in front of a group of girls and masters. They used hoes at first, but the masters were watched nervously, fearing that they would damage things, so they dug with their hands.

"Hey! Something really came out, it's a star!"

"Two!"

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"There are three baskets here! There are so many of these things. I didn't expect there to be so many!"

"It must weigh seventy or eighty catties, right?"

"I'm afraid it's more than that, this thing is no better than other hand drop hands!"

A few young servants digging the ground were sweating profusely, and the servants on the side were talking about this peculiar sweet potato. Baoyu looked curious, took out a sweet potato from the basket, put it in one hand, and looked at it. It is about the same weight as an inkstone, but after a while, my hand hurts, so I can only put it down, and my hands are covered with mud.

Looking at the dirty ball-like thing covered in dirt, Tanchun leaned over to Jia Lu and asked worriedly,

"Fourth sister, you are so dirty, but can you really eat it? You can't make a mistake, right?"

Jia Lu affirmed, "If you can eat it, you can eat it by peeling off the outer skin!"

Baochai is used to being a family member at home, and she has more vision and ideas than her sisters who have been living in the garden. She calculated carefully, and the biggest ability of this sweet potato is the production rather than the taste. I know how many people are hungry, as long as they can eat, they can make a lot of money. If they want to get involved in this business, they help Dao,

"Third sister doesn't know that there is a famous dish in Changshu in the south called Huaji. The chicken is wrapped in mud and roasted in the ground. After the mud is pulled out, it becomes a delicacy that everyone flocks to. I think it's the same with sweet potatoes. , the taste is comfortable inside after roasting."

"Okay, okay!" The boy rummaged in the field several times, but he couldn't find any sweet potatoes.

Jia Lu didn't care about talking to others, and hurriedly organized people to weigh out the three baskets. Seeing them weighing each basket, Jia Lu was excited and nervous, seeing that the output was quite a lot , but I don't know the result or worry about it.

"Girl, the sweet potatoes are about a stone in total."

"Great!" Jia Lu jumped up happily.

"One stone is too much!"

"It's not much. Usually, an acre of wheat costs two stones. This sweet potato has been taken care of for so long, and it's not too much for one stone!"

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Jia Baoyu didn't know much about farming, so he was a little confused when he heard the servant's discussion, so he grabbed Jia Lu who was jumping happily, and asked,

"Fourth sister, do you have a lot of stones?"

Jia Lu blushed and was so excited, she said,

"Of course it's a lot. When I got it back, there were three half-dead vine seedlings in total. It didn't take long before there was a yield of one stone. If you add the ones from Zhuangzi, there should be two stones. This is comparable to Generally intensively cultivated wheat!"