A family with three widows, after severing ties with relatives, she became wealthy and married into

Chapter 148 Jealousy is too ugly

"Now, cut these potatoes according to the location of the sprouts."

"Cut a potato into a maximum of three pieces, and make sure each piece has one or two sprouts."

As Tian Tian finished speaking, someone handed her a knife.

She cut the potato open, revealing the cut surface. "The wood ash is applied to these cut surfaces to prevent it from rotting after being planted in the soil."

Then, she took out a sweet potato seedling, spread it out on the ground, planted it horizontally, and covered it with soil. "That's it."

"The plants are spaced about 30 centimeters apart, and the rows are spaced about 50 centimeters apart."

The farmers knew these data very well and understood them immediately when explained.

"Alright then." The oldest one, who was the first to step forward, began to give instructions.

"You guys, go and plant these sweet potato seedlings right now."

"You guys, go cut that potato."

"You, go and prepare wood ash."

Qian Haiduo introduced Tian Tian, ​​"This is Lao Guo. He's an old hand in the village, and everyone listens to him."

"If you need anything, just tell him directly."

Tian Tian nodded, "Okay, godfather, you and godmother can go to the estate to rest."

She turned to look for Ling Yao, only to find that he had already squeezed into the crowd.

Seeing him squeezed among the farmers, cutting potatoes with a knife, Tian Tian even doubted whether she had guessed wrong.

He doesn't look like a scion of an aristocratic family at all...

After chopping potatoes for a while, he went to learn how to apply wood ash...

After smearing on some wood ash for a while, he ran back to the field to learn how to plant sweet potato seedlings...

Qian Fulai stood next to Tian Tian, ​​glancing at her.

After a while, he slowly moved to Tian Tian's side and said quietly, "Tian Er, you've been watching him the whole time."

"You don't actually have a crush on him, do you?"

Tian Tian withdrew her gaze from Ling Yao and slowly looked at Qian Fulai, "Qian Fulai...aren't you very free?"

Hearing this, Qian Haiduo, who hadn't gone far, turned around abruptly, strode over to Qian Fulai, and pinched his ear, saying, "If you're so free, why don't you learn from Young Master Ling and plant some potato seedlings?"

"Go now!" He kicked Qian Fulai in the butt.

Qian Fulai staggered and ran towards the field...

These farmers worked quickly and efficiently, and in just one morning, they had planted about ten acres of sweet potato seedlings in the fields, all through their cooperation.

As seasoned farmers, they already knew how to divide the work and cooperate even when they were just starting to plant potato seedlings.

One person used a plow to make furrows in the field, another person arranged the potato seedlings behind them, and a third person followed behind to seal the furrows.

In the afternoon, the people who were originally cutting potatoes went to plant potatoes, while the people who were spreading wood ash went to help plant potato seedlings.

By evening, several hundred kilograms of potato seeds, covering nearly three acres, had been planted, and sweet potato seedlings had been planted on more than thirty acres.

At this rate, all the sweet potato seedlings can be planted in three days.

Then everyone gathers together to plant potatoes, and it will be all planted in about seven or eight days.

The whole process took ten days.

For the past ten days, Tian Tian has come to Qianjiazhuangzi every day, as has Ling Yao.

Qian Fulai also came, but... his face grew darker day by day.

"Second Miss, the potato sprouts we planted earlier have grown quite a bit."

"Second Miss, the sweet potato seedlings have really stood up."

"Second Miss, why are sweet potato seedlings planted horizontally?"

"Second Miss, won't these potatoes rot in the field? If they rot..."

"Second Miss..."

"Second Miss..."

Qian Fulai watched coldly as Ling Yao asked Tian Tian all sorts of questions, occasionally snorting under his nose.

This Tian Er...

In the past, when he asked her all sorts of questions, she would roll her eyes so hard they seemed to reach the sky and then roll back down.

Now they're actually being all nice to Ling Yao...

She's definitely all about looks!!!

snort!

Qian Fulai had no idea how awful his face looked right now!

"Second Miss, was it true that you said the yield was 3,500 catties per mu the other day?"

"You also said that they can all be used as staple foods. Does that mean they can all fill their stomachs, just like rice and noodles?"

“Is this all true?”

After asking so many roundabout questions, these two were the ones he really wanted to ask.

Actually, he wanted to ask about it ten days ago, on the very first day he started planting vegetables, but he was afraid that Tian Tian would think he didn't trust her, so he held back until now.

Tian Tian reached out and took the booklet that Ling Yao always carried with him from his hand.

People in this era all wrote with brushes, and all kinds of documents and booklets were very long and thick.

I don't know who taught Ling Yao to take notes with charcoal.

The booklet was very thick, with the first few dozen pages recording the growth of the rice.

A few days ago, the rice turned green very successfully, and after another ten days, it is now in the peak tillering stage.

Ling Yao recorded the rice tillering process in great detail, noting how many lateral branches a single seedling produced on which day...

Turning to the next few dozen pages, I began recording the potato's condition.

In ten days, the potatoes had sprouted quite a few buds, and he even drew a diagram of it.

Scroll down further and you'll see sweet potatoes. In the illustration next to them, the sweet potato seedlings are growing horizontally... getting longer every day, with adventitious roots at the bottom...

Tian Tian simply couldn't bear to ignore or casually brush off someone who took such meticulous notes.

"Both of the vegetables I grow can indeed fill your stomach."

"They can also be made into other types of things through some clever methods, just like soup dumplings."

Tangbingzi is just noodles.

Starch can be made into vermicelli, which is similar to noodles.

"It can also be made into all sorts of dishes and snacks..."

"In short, there are many ways to eat it."

"I can't explain it to you right now. You'll know in a few months when the potatoes and sweet potatoes are planted."

Ling Yao confirmed with her again, "So, what the Second Miss said about 3,500 jin is true, and not just bragging?"

Tian Tian sighed helplessly, "I'm not bragging, it's true."

She shrugged. "What's the point of bragging? In a few months, when the harvest is ready, everything will be clear, won't it?"

Ling Yao thought that made sense.

"Second Miss..." Ling Yao began, but then stopped, seemingly remembering something.

Tian Tian looked at him curiously and asked, "What do you want to ask? Just ask."

Ling Yao bit her lip, but ultimately couldn't bring herself to ask.

According to my cousin, the high-yield rice seeds were given to him by Tian Er's daughter so that he could achieve political success in his career.

In other words, it could be said that... those rice seeds were a gift she presented to the Daqi court.

The Great Qi Dynasty can use it however it wants in the future.

She's been so selfless, how could he possibly ask for the potato seeds and sweet potato seedlings again?

People... can't be too greedy.

but...

Many areas in Daqi are barren and unsuitable for growing rice...