Chapter 35 Selling sweet potato leaves

In the next few days, the school captain's mansion returned to its former peace, and the relationship between Wei Ruo and his family became even colder than when he first arrived.

Especially with Yunshi, when Yunshi was enthusiastic about Wei Ruo, Wei Ruo's reaction was not very enthusiastic. Now that Yunshi is cold, Wei Ruo's side is even colder.

Wei Yichen was a little worried about this, but Wei Ruo didn't care.

She doesn't care what other people in the family think of her, she has several things on her hands that need to be busy.

First of all, the sweet potatoes on Xiaoyang Mountain have already grown vine leaves.

Sweet potato vine leaves (sweet potato leaves) are also a good food. They can be picked and eaten as green vegetables, which is an extra benefit before the sweet potatoes mature.

Moreover, sweet potato vine leaves have the advantage of picking as many as they can sell. If they cannot be sold, they will be left in the ground to provide nutrients for the sweet potato tubers underground.

The nanny was a little unsure about picking sweet potato vine leaves for the first time, but Wei Ruo sent Xiumei there because of the inconvenience.

After Xiumei and the nanny met, they directed the long-term workers to select a part of the sweet potato field for picking. The picked sweet potato vine leaves were divided into handfuls, tied with straw, packed in baskets, and placed in a container for easy transportation.

On an oxcart.

Considering that the people did not know enough about sweet potato vines and leaves for the first time, Xiumei and the nanny only picked two baskets of them according to Wei Ruo's instructions.

Then the bullock carts were transported to the market and sold for two cents each.

This price was determined by Wei Ruoding. The selling price is not expensive, and small profits but quick turnover are possible.

Wei Ruo's prices for agricultural products are generally not too high, and he pursues winning by quantity; on the contrary, Wei Ruo will set prices as high as possible for things that only dignitaries and wealthy children can afford.

Moreover, the sale of sweet potato vine leaves is also to better promote the sweet potato crop and to warm up the subsequent launch of larger quantities of sweet potatoes.

On the way to the market, the wet nurse went home and cooked a big plate and took it to the market.

After bringing it to the market, use smaller rice dumpling leaves to roll into a funnel shape, and put the fried sweet potato vine leaves into it, each with only one mouthful.

Then let the long-term worker who helped deliver the food help shout: "Two cents a handful, free trial."

Due to the lack of cultivated land in Xingshan County, vegetables are already more expensive than those from other places. In addition, the bad weather in recent years has reduced the production of vegetables and the disturbances caused by Japanese pirates. As a result, there have been fewer caravans coming and going, and the number of vegetables transported from other places has also been reduced.

, the end result is that the price of vegetables in Xingshan County is several times more expensive than elsewhere.

The fresh green vegetables that cost two cents a handful really attracted a lot of people to watch.

Although I have never seen it, there are finished products that you can try.

The wet nurse enthusiastically handed the rice dumpling leaves filled with fried sweet potato vine leaves to the onlookers.

After learning that this vegetable is edible, tastes refreshing and delicious, and the price is very affordable, some people began to buy it with the mentality of giving it a try.

In a short while, two baskets of sweet potato vine leaves were sold out.

After leaving the market, Xiumei followed the wet nurse to their current residence.

There is a shop in the front and a small house in the back. It is not a big place, but the nanny and her family are very satisfied.

Especially this location, the choice is very good, it is close to Xiaowei Mansion, and the shop in front is in a lively neighborhood. When the shop opens, there should be no worries about the flow of customers.

Xiumei and the three members of the Xu family had lunch in the small house before returning to the captain's mansion.

When I came back, I also brought sweet potato vine leaves and some fungus vegetables to Wei Ruo. They were all prepared by the wet nurse's family for Wei Ruo. They were afraid that Wei Ruo would not be used to eating them in the captain's mansion.

Afterwards, Wei Ruo asked Xiumei to guard her door and not let anyone in.

Then I went into the space and collected all the sweet potatoes grown on the two pieces of land in the space.

The speed at which plants grow on land in space is different from that outside. The sweet potatoes on Xiaoyang Mountain in the north of the city have just grown full of sweet potato leaves, and the ones in her space are ready to be harvested.

After collecting two baskets of sweet potatoes, the experience value of the space increased a lot, and there were only less than 100 experience points left from the 1,000 experience points required for upgrading.

With the upgrade in sight, Wei Ruo is looking forward to the new seeds that will be updated after the upgrade.

If Wei Ruo didn't transport the collected sweet potatoes out of the space, it would be too suspicious to have two baskets of sweet potatoes appear out of thin air.

Wei Ruo stored the sweet potatoes in a space after collecting them. As long as the storage environment was dry, they would not go bad in a short period of time.

It's not convenient to transport it out of the space for sale right now, so let's just keep it in the space and make it her backup food.

If something happens and there is a shortage of food or water, having ready-made backup food and water in the space will at least ensure that you will not starve to death.

The next day Wei Ruo personally went to the south of the city and used the documents Wei Mingting gave her to successfully get the officers and soldiers guarding the south gate to let her go.

Wei Ruo selected a piece of flat land in the south of the city with relatively convenient transportation and close to water sources as her experimental field.

She asked Yun's two long-term workers to do the weeding and plowing of the ground.

Then they were asked to carry water from a nearby river to irrigate the land every day.

It is really puzzling to ask people to water the ground every day when there is nothing planted on it.

Moreover, Wei Ruo asked Chang Gong to turn the land into a rice field that can be planted with rice. It is almost the Dragon Boat Festival, and other people's rice has grown above their knees. Wei Ruo now wants to use the entire rice field to plant rice, which really makes people doubt that she is.

I don’t really know how to plant.

Aunt Zhang and the two long-time workers had some opinions on this, and felt that Wei Ruo's operations were strange.

After working for two days, Grandma Zhang couldn't help but ask Wei Ruo: "Miss, how about you switch to other crops? Although I haven't farmed for many years, I often heard people say when I was in my hometown,

There is a time for everything. There is a time for growing crops and fruits and vegetables. After this time, you will not be able to grow well!"

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I guarantee that it will be too late to sow rice after you have finished preparing the land." Wei Ruo certainly knew the importance of time.

It's almost June, and normal rice will certainly not be grown.

But the rice seeds in her space are of the early rice and late rice varieties.

Early rice will bloom next month, while late rice won't be sown until June or July of the lunar calendar, so she can definitely catch up.

In this way, she can also experiment with saline-alkali land improvement and late rice cultivation at the same time.

If successful, not only can the arable area of ​​Xingshan County be greatly increased, but also two crops of rice can be grown a year, increasing grain production in both the horizontal and vertical dimensions.

"What about the fruits and vegetables that the eldest lady asked us to collect before? What about the straw and rice bran?" Nanny Zhang asked again.

"It will take some time to keep those in storage. When the time comes, I will tell you how to use them." Wei Ruodao.

Grandma Zhang looked at Wei Ruo's confident face and wanted to say something, but she swallowed it back.

Forget it, it's useless to say it. The eldest lady doesn't look like she can listen to others' advice.

Moreover, the eldest lady also said that it was her problem whether this matter could be done, and she would be the one who would be punished at that time, and it had nothing to do with her.
Chapter completed!