Wherever the autumn wind passes, the fragrance of the grains floats.
The patches of crops look like rolling waves from a distance; but up close, the rice bends with laughter, the sorghum blushes, and everything is filled with the joy of harvest.
However, this year is something special, and the atmosphere is obviously different from the past.
There is no other reason than that the new crops from South America have entered their first harvest season in Qiongzhou.
What the common people are concerned about is not the strange appearance of these new grains, but their yield.
Mr. Qi once said personally that among these new exotic food species, several are high-yielding crops, especially the one called sweet potatoes, which are said to be able to yield tens of thousands of kilograms.
Now, it is time to prove whether this statement is right or wrong.
Perhaps due to this reason, the curiosity of the people has always been hanging there.
In the fields, while they were busy harvesting fruits, they asked their literate husband to help weigh the crops in order to count their own grain output.
As a result, it turned out that the harvest was indeed huge and fruitful.
Surprisingly, there is actually one family whose harvest exceeds 10,000 kilograms due to proper cultivation and timely irrigation. Regardless of whether the statistics are rigorous or not, the large number alone is absolutely shocking.
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Sure enough, as soon as this news came out, it immediately exploded.
The rumored high yield does exist in reality. This is not something Mr. Qi just made up.
The emergence of ten thousand catties of yield per mu can basically mark people's farewell to the terrible famine. As long as there are no harvest losses due to stupidity in the future, it will be impossible for people to starve to death again.
This matter is of great significance and can be regarded as a milestone.
After everyone reacted, wonderful words of praise came one after another, one after another like a wave.
An anonymous person in the "Qiongzhou Xunbao" was the first to speak out, using a flattering verse to praise virtue: A sweet potato weighs a thousand kilograms, and two donkeys cannot pull it.
The common people were relatively sincere and recited the old saying in unison: As the saying goes, the ground is like scraping gold and people are diligent and never lazy; looking at it now, it is indeed true.
It’s what everyone else says, so I won’t go into details here.
Just when people began to discuss how to cook and eat the new crops, the head of Qiongzhou Prefecture, Mr. Qi Yuqi, came out openly to speak to the outside world.
"Dear fellow villagers, the seeds of new grains are not yet abundant at the moment and are far from being widely used. Therefore, I suggest that most of the fruits of this season should be used for planting grains in the next season, and no artificial waste should be allowed.
After broad-spectrum planting is realized, you can eat whatever you like. However, this is an initiative. As for whether to comply with it or not, it is purely voluntary and will not be forced. However, I still hope to get everyone's support."
This proposal is reasonable and easy to understand, and everyone can understand it clearly.
Yes, if there are not even enough seeds, how can we popularize planting?
You must know that these crops are food that Lord Qi has brought back from foreign lands with great effort to benefit the people. He definitely has the right to say how to distribute them.
Take today's Qiongzhou as an example. There is neither food nor drink. With such a comfortable living condition, there is really no need to waste food.
Therefore, Master Qi's initiative quickly received unanimous response from people, who expressed their willingness to cooperate.
At this time, some people stood up and said that such a voluntary thing is too unreliable to implement. If someone violates it unconsciously and deliberately, no one can do anything to him...
How can this work? You have to think of a way to do it.
So, they came to the City God Temple and prayed devoutly to the great god Su Shi: "Master City God, if anyone deliberately wastes the scarce grain, you should give him a slight punishment. Well, let him get prickly heat on his butt..."
"Yes, it tickles him to death..."
…
Ah sneeze!
Who is cursing me?
After Qi Dalang sneezed, he scratched his itchy butt again and thought to himself angrily.
I don’t know if it’s because he has been sitting for a long time and writing a lot of papers recently, but Mr. Qi actually developed a small patch of prickly heat on his buttocks.
well……
It seems that it is better not to sit on the thick cotton cushion that the lady sewed in the future, so that the moldy buttocks can breathe.
Itching buttocks is an embarrassing thing. It's broad daylight and it's inconvenient to take off your clothes to scratch it. It's also uncomfortable without scratching it. It's really uncomfortable.
Fortunately, there was Yin Tao. After she heard about this, she hurriedly went to the hospital to get some ointment for Qiu. Not to mention, the sticky stuff really worked. Just a light dab of it relieved the itching like a cat's scratch.
It weakened immediately.
comfortable!
Qi Dalang was wandering around with his eyes narrowed when he suddenly heard Mrs. Zhou's call from the living room: Ah Ma, dinner is ready.
All things are small, but eating is the biggest.
You have to be proactive.
Today's meals are different from usual ones. They are all vegetarian dishes. Moreover, these are all brand-new dishes made according to Qi Yu's instructions. Such as: vinegar-filled shredded potatoes, marinated peanuts, tomato scrambled eggs, tiger skin green peppers, etc.
wait.
The staple food eaten was also different from the past. Rice and white-flour steamed buns were temporarily removed from the table, but boiled corn and charcoal-grilled sweet potatoes were served.
These new dishes taste great and are even more fragrant when you eat them, leaving endless aftertaste between your lips and teeth.
What's more important is that all these ingredients are produced on the Qi family's own plot of land, giving them a pastoral feeling of self-reliance and self-sufficiency.
Look at the sacks and sacks, I would probably eat them all in three to five years.
This year is a rare harvest year.
The joy of the harvest was so pleasant that Zhou was so happy that he took out some fruits and distributed them to the government servants who had used them as cattle and horses, and used this to encourage them to keep up their efforts and cultivate the next crop.
season.
The winter in Qiongzhou is not too cold. In theory, it is completely possible to produce two or even three seasons a year.
The basis is that the talented people from the Polytechnic Institute have developed a so-called greenhouse cultivation technology. Although it is still in the experimental stage, it is said that it has made a breakthrough. They have said that they will be able to do it in the near future.
Plant out of season.
Let’s talk about the present first.
The dishes on the table are all unique and have different tastes.
Qi Xiao likes scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Zhou likes braised peanuts, Liu Quan likes shredded potatoes in vinegar, and Qi Yu's favorite is naturally the plate of tiger skin green peppers.
Since he came to this world, this was the first time he had tasted the spicy taste. This stimulation made his appetite whet his appetite, and he ate two more big corn cobs just because of the long-lost spicy taste.
Seeing that Qi Yu was eating with gusto, Liu Quan couldn't resist the temptation and took a small piece.
"Ahem, it's really spicy..."
"Ah! Madam, drink water quickly, oh no, take a bite of roasted sweet potato and squeeze it..."
"Um……"
However, what Liu Quan didn't expect was that when the spiciness wore off and he took a second bite, the wonderful taste would show up. The more he ate, the more he wanted to eat.
However, Ms. Zhou, who is sensitive to spicy food, is not included in this list. She is getting older now, and it will probably take a long time for her to adapt.
"Haha, this chili pepper is really overbearing, half of my mouth is numb from the spicy heat." Old Mrs. Zhou rubbed her cheeks and said jokingly.
Qi Yu chuckled and said: "There are different types of peppers, some are spicy and some are not. In addition, you can also use cooking techniques to reduce its spiciness."
"Can it still be like this?" Zhou asked curiously.
"That's right, if you want it to be less spicy and more fragrant, you only need to fry it, pickle it, season it, and a few simple processes." Qi Yu explained.
Mrs. Zhou has always boasted that her cooking skills are the best in the family, and even Liu Quan cannot shake them. Therefore, as soon as she heard this, she immediately became interested: "I said Da Lang, hurry up."
Tell me, how did you do it?"
Qi Yu opened his memory and filtered all the recipes for chili sauce in his mind.
Suddenly!
An iconic product from my school days suddenly came to mind.