Chapter 399 Another visitor comes, who is it?

Chapter 399 Another visitor comes, who is it?

The more important thing is to prepare the land for planting yams.

The village has a bumper potato harvest. This batch of potatoes can feed everyone in the village for at least two or three years. Of course, fresh potatoes can’t be stored for that long, but can’t they be made into various derivatives and stored in winter? When the time comes, the kudzu roots will continue to grow, so you don’t have to worry about food this year and next.

Later, we only need to plant potatoes in three to five acres piecemeal to ensure food for the whole family. There is no need for large-scale planting like last year.

Now that there is no need to worry about food, the land of each family in the village becomes free, which can be put to good use!

It is used to grow yams and Polygonum multiflorum, and is continuously supplied to the medicine shop, transforming the Shanshui Village into a medicine village.

Each household in the village only has one donkey. After harvesting the potatoes, both the man and the donkey are very tired. They have to rest for a few days. I don’t need to harvest potatoes. I can plow all the land while I have free time. Then I can still do what I did last year. Bring oxen, donkeys, and horses to work for them.

It's mutually beneficial.

When Wang Guifen was harvesting potatoes, she picked a large basket of fresh shepherd's purses, cleaned them and brought them to the water.

She remembered that Shui Qing liked to make dumplings with these wild vegetables and meat, saying they had a fresh fragrance and were particularly delicious.

With so much meat, can it not be delicious? However, Shui Qing's family already had a lot of meat. Chicken, duck, goose, rabbit, mutton, and pork were almost never cut off, and the eggs were eaten open. Shui Qing didn't praise anything else. He just praised the delicious wild vegetable dumplings, so he must like to eat them.

Today I saw that the shepherd's purse in the field was big and fresh, so I thought of sending it to her.

It happened that Li Dani brought a bucket of lively fish, and Wang Guifen was embarrassed to expose the vegetables in the bamboo basket.

Shui Qing saw it from a distance and came up to her, "Sister-in-law Guifen, come in and sit down!"

Li Dani smiled and said: "Madam, these are the fish Feng Da caught while farming. I picked out a few fresh ones and brought them to you."

My wife loves fish and knows how to eat it.

Taught them how to make pickled fish, boiled fish, spicy fish fillets, fish head stewed with tofu... They were so delicious. In the past, the men in the family thought that fish bones had an earthy smell, and she also thought that cooking fish was a waste of oil, so she didn't like it. Not keen on it, but since I learned a few tricks from my wife, I now fish whenever I have free time.

Send the good and fresh ones to Madam first.

Wang Guifen stretched out her head and looked at the big fish popping in the bucket, which were grass carp and silver carp, and praised: "It's really fresh, and it's really fat!"

Then he noticed what Li Dani said about cultivated land, and asked Shang Shuiqing curiously: "Plowed land? What are you doing to cultivate the land so early?"

Shui Qing was not prepared to hide it, so he told all his plans, and finally sighed: "The price of Polygonum multiflorum is high, much higher than that of yam, and it takes at least two years for yam to be harvested;

That is to say, they will be planted this year and harvested next autumn. I wonder if the villagers are willing to plant yams. "

But you can’t plant all Polygonum multiflorum. It’s too risky to use a single variety of medicinal materials. Polygonum multiflorum is easy to dig and can be planted on the mountain. Yams are laborious to dig and are more suitable for planting in the ground.

But regardless of time or price, the return of Polygonum multiflorum is higher than that of yams. How to make the villagers willing to grow yams is a difficult problem.

To Shui Qing's expectation, Wang Guifen replied confidently: "Yes! The people in the village are always willing, so don't worry."

Shui Qing raised her eyebrows in surprise, unable to conceal the curiosity in her eyes.

Wang Guifen's face was red. She glanced around secretly and saw that there were only three women who had been married for many years. She said loudly: "Hey! It wasn't the time when Aunt Bai Ziqian came here years ago. Do you remember?

Didn't she give her a very expensive medicinal snack made from yam? It can cure all sorts of deficiencies and be powerful. Do you think the women in our village can't be moved?

And this yam is not cheap, so I would definitely not be willing to buy it, but if you grow it yourself, it doesn’t hurt to eat some, right? Besides, the ones bought from outside are not as good as those grown at home!

You don’t have to plant more, so you can rest assured that every household in the village will plant more! "

Li Dani's face was red, and she endured the shame and listened carefully. What she was thinking about was that if the effect was really so good, why not give some to her men too?

He has been noticeably weaker than usual lately...

Shui Qing was glad that she was not drinking water, otherwise she would have had to spit out a mouthful of water!

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Li Dani, who had bright eyes, and silently thought of Hua Guo's words: Any species that has anything to do with strong and so-and-so can be eaten and become an endangered species

Unexpectedly, this sentence is also applicable to Ming Dynasty.

But I have to say that Bai Ling's trip here helped her invisibly, saving her a lot of persuasion.

"Okay, sister-in-law, please go back and talk to the women in the village and decide to come to me to collect the yam seeds."

Wang Guifen patted her chest and promised cheerfully: "It's no trouble, we'll keep it in place!"

Shui Qing happened to see the fresh shepherd's purse in the bamboo basket. Just when he was about to ask where it was, he heard the sound of a gong.

It rang several times in succession, which meant that guests were coming.

"Strange, who will come?" Wang Guifen murmured.

Shui Qing was not surprised and said with a smile: "It's still the first month of the year. Maybe some family member has come to see my daughter. That's normal."

Li Dani thought of herself, and her originally excited expression dimmed.

Wang Guifen sighed silently and held back what she wanted to say.

Her natal family is in this village. Needless to say, Dani, many of her relatives are gone. Shui Qing’s natal family is surprisingly kind and they have never experienced the suffering of a married woman in the village.

Not to mention that the world was in chaos, even when the world was good in the past, few women's natal family members would take the initiative to come.

Mostly it was the women who brought back the New Year gifts, so only a few families would come and visit each other; most of them would eat as much as they brought back, and only complained that their daughters did not bring back enough or not as much as other daughters, which made their parents lose face in the village.

She handed over the shepherd's purse basket and said, "Shuiqing, I'll give it to you as dumpling filling. You keep it, and I'll go see which guest has come."

Shuiqing didn't expect that this big basket of shepherd's purse was for her. She was very surprised and took the shepherd's purse basket and said happily, "I won't be polite with you and just accept it.

Wait for me, I'll go in and pour the shepherd's purse, and give you the basket, and you can take it back."

When others send things, of course they can't let the basket go back empty, but if it's about giving things, Wang Guifen will definitely run faster than a rabbit! But if she is asked to wait for the basket, she will never leave.

Wang Guifen wanted to return the basket to her at any time, but then she thought it was not worth it to go all the way for a basket, so she smiled and said, "Okay, no hurry, I just want to talk to Dani."

Shuiqing quickly went into the house and poured the shepherd's purse into the basin. She wanted to put eggs in it, but she ended up changing it to sugar.

Wang Guifen and Li Dani were chatting outside the yard when they saw a large group of people in the distance, surrounding a luxurious carriage and walking towards them.

The two of them were stunned.