Chapter 80 Potatoes

Author: That sour sugar

Chapter 80 Potatoes

"I just walked around the mountain twice and walked on the top of the mountain twice, but I didn't see anyone walking outside." Chen Fan said.

"Some refugees will rob things. When there is no work to do, everyone will not go out." said the old lady.

Then you dare to open the door to someone? Chen Fan glanced at the old lady.

"Someone came to visit me a few days ago and said he wanted to buy mountains and land. Yesterday, he was taking someone to the county government office to apply for a land deed. The man said that a girl would come over at that time. I guess you should be that girl."

The old lady said.

Others should have guessed this way, right? Why didn’t they come out to see it? Or did they hide in the yard and watch it?

"Can you help me invite Li Zheng over?" Chen Fan took two big sweet potatoes and asked the old lady to bring them to Li Zheng's house.

Old Mrs. Luo put the sweet potatoes into the basket and walked out of the door.

Chen Fan lifted the lid of the pot, and his eldest daughter-in-law Pan took out a handful of bowls, and each bowl was filled with a sweet potato and distributed it to everyone.

"Blow first, be careful of burning." Chen Fan reminded him, used chopsticks to remove some skin, lifted up a chopstick of sweet potatoes, blew them and put them in your mouth.

Everyone followed suit and started eating bite by bite.

A child was a little anxious, got scalded, and opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue.

The youngest girl was only four years old. After eating most of her body, she put down the bowl and said she was full. A boy brought the bowl over and said he still wanted to eat it.

Pan put down the bowl and said, "The sweet potato is so sweet and soft. I feel full after eating it."

This one is quite large, and it is almost a small bowl of mashed potatoes.

As soon as he came in, Pan served him a bowl of sweet potatoes. He just took a bite and praised it as delicious. He ate a sweet potato in a while.

"This sweet potato seems to be full easily. I feel full after eating one. If I eat a little more, it should be able to eat it. It doesn't matter if I don't eat it." Li Zheng said.

"This sweet potato can make everyone full, and it has strong growth capacity and high yield per mu. It is still time to plant it now, and everyone will have food in winter."

"Can you plant it now?" Li Zheng's eyes flashed with hope.

"We used a carriage to transport several carriages of sweet potato vines, which were in the mountains. It should be still here at this time. You can take someone to see it and transport it over. I will teach you how to plant it."

"Just let's go. If there are too many, let's notify everyone." Pan said.

Li Zheng and Mrs. Luo took three children to the mountain. Pan washed all the bowls and chatted with Chen Fan while cutting the sweet potatoes into pieces.

Not long after, Li Zheng ran back and went to the village to call for people. With the sound of footsteps, many people ran to the mountains.

After more than forty minutes, the crowd came back and Chen Fan walked out of the door.

The sweet potato vines were piled up in the open space outside the yard, surrounded by a group of people.

Pan took out the sweet potatoes, and the villagers pinched a piece of sweet potatoes with their hands and started eating them. Then, everyone said they were delicious, but they didn't eat enough.

Li Zheng cleared his throat: "This is sweet potatoes, the yield per mu is very high, and it is easy to eat full. Now if you plant the sweet potato vines, you will have food in winter."

Everyone began to discuss, it was nothing more than how to plant it, how much it could be harvested.

Chen Fan took a pair of scissors, cut a piece of vine, and raised it up.

The field was quiet, Chen Fan gestured with his hands and said, "Look at this vine, look at the direction of each stem and leaf length, and they are all going upwards. Count eight or nine leaves and cut them apart, eight or nine leaves, leaning against the leaf stalks.

Cut. The vine above is long.”

She cut off some rattans and said, "Each family pulls one rattan to start cutting, each family cuts a hundred rattans first."

Some people went back to get scissors, while others stayed to pull the rattan. The children found it very fun, so they ran away with the rattan, and they were even longer than whose rattan was.

There are only nineteen families in Shangma Village. Everyone stands in the open space, working and having sex. One hundred sweet potato vines are cut without much effort.

"Is the land in your village fat?" Chen Fan asked Li Zheng.

Li Zheng shook his head: "They are relatively barren and the grain harvest is not much. After a few months of drought, many crops have failed to harvest. This batch of rice seedlings is not very good."

Chen Fan asked Pan to take a hoe, quickly scattered it, put the sweet potato vines horizontally in the pit, pointed at the leaves and said, "Everyone is ready, you must put it horizontally like this, just put it five or six pieces."

When you are, just sprinkle a handful of wood ash and cover it with soil. It is cloudy now and the ground is a little wet, so you can plant it. Don’t plant it in low-lying places that are prone to water accumulation. It’s better to have a higher ground.”

"There are still a lot of sweet potato vines left." Someone was thinking about it.

"Call the people from the other three villages, or they will rob the sweet potatoes you grow." Chen Fan said the ugly words ahead.

"Let's cut some more, the three villages won't use so many," said a young man.

"Then each family cut another fifty pieces." Chen Fan agreed. Everyone was busy happily, and they dispersed after they were cut.

The other three villages were not so easy to discuss. They chatted and talked endlessly when they arrived in the open space, completely ignoring the purpose of the gathering.

There were not many sweet potatoes left, so I only gave them a few to try them with the old man. Du Li from Shangma Village introduced the benefits of sweet potatoes to everyone, and pointed to the sweet potato vine and said that it was still too late to plant them.

Those three were still very responsive, after all, they could fill the villagers' stomachs. A few people started to yell: "We have never seen this thing before, who knows what will grow."

Chen Fan dragged the sweet potato bag from the carriage and said to Du Lizheng: "The four villages can be divided into one point. You can go through the scale and see how you divide it. If you can't separate it, you can cut it into pieces."

Du Li asked someone to bring the scale, carried the sack to weigh ninety-two kilograms, and distributed twenty-three kilograms to each village.

Du Lizheng didn't say how to divide the twenty-three pounds. The three villages were already quarrels, and they all had their own reasons.

Chen Fan let them quarrel and asked Du Lizheng softly how to distinguish him.

"Each family has one pound, and the extra four pounds will be distributed to the eight oldest people in the village, each with half a pound."

Chen Fan gave him a thumbs up. This is a great way.

"Are there eight old men? Are there any other people who are about the same age?"

"There are eight people over fifty years old, and those under fifty are not considered elderly people, right?"

"This sweet potato moistens the intestines and relieves bowel movements, protects the cardiovascular system, and is very beneficial to the elderly," said Chen Fan.

"Really?" Li Zheng was very happy. "The elderly can digest it and live better."

The Shuanma Village has already agreed, and the other two villages are still quarreling. Chen Fan can tell that the two villages are not intimidating.

"How many families in your village?" Chen Fan asked Jiang Lizheng from Xiama Village.

"Fifteen families in our village." Jiang Lizheng said.

"Each household is divided into one kilogram, and the remaining eight kilograms are distributed to the elderly over fifty years old, half a kilogram per person." Chen Fan used Du Lizheng's method.

"We don't have an elderly person, isn't that a loss?" a young man shouted.

You are so young and shouting so fiercely?

"How many elderly people over fifty are there in your village?" Chen Fan asked Jiang Lizheng.

Jiang Li was counting one by one with her fingers.

Chen Fan touched his forehead. There were only fifteen families, and he didn’t even have a clear population.
Chapter completed!