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Volume One: Settling Down the Tang Dynasty Chapter 232: Planting Sweet Potatoes

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    In the afternoon, after Li Feng entered the mountain, he came back not long after.  However, when you go, you are empty-handed, and when you come back, you are fully loaded.  However, looking at the things Li Feng carried back, Gao Yang and Yaya were stunned again, because they didn't recognize the things in front of them at all.

    "Fourth uncle, is this what you call a good thing? Just carry some leaves back."

    When Li Feng entered the mountain, he had already said that he would go to the mountain and bring out some good things.  However, Gao Yang took a look and realized what a good thing it was.  It's clearly a tree vine.

    "Haha, doesn't it look like it? This is a real good treasure. There is only one branch in the whole Tang Dynasty. It is unique. Do you think this is a good thing? Well, I will make some for you when the work is over.  Something fresh to eat.¡±

    Looking at Gao Yang and Yaya, who looked curious and disappointed, Li Feng immediately said with a smile.  Then, he started to slowly untie the rope.

    After Li Feng untied the rope, Gao Yang and the others saw that there were two strange things wrapped in these vines.  One is in the shape of a short stick. Although it is wrapped by a petal-like skin on the outside, some clues can still be seen through the exposed parts.  On the surface of the stick, there are rows of neat particles, like the fruits inside the pomegranate, all over the stick body.  There is another one, which looks a bit like a radish, but it doesn't look like it, and the color is wrong.

    "Brother, are these the things you are talking about? These things are so strange. I have never seen them before. What kind of wild fruits are these?"

    "Yes, Uncle Fourth, can these be eaten now? Are they delicious?"

    Yaya and Sizi don¡¯t care about anything.  As soon as I heard about the food, I immediately became more interested.  It was brought out of the mountains, so it must be wild fruit.

    "Yes. This sweet potato can be eaten raw, but this corn cannot be eaten. It must be cooked. Okay, one sweet potato per person, wash it with water, and see if it tastes good. Try it yourself and see."

    Seeing Yaya and the others staring at the sweet potatoes and corn in front of them, Li Feng immediately pointed at the sweet potatoes and said to them.  These were all brought back from the valley today.

    "If it hadn't been for the sudden flood, he would have almost forgotten that he was still in the valley.  I have planted sweet potatoes and corn.  These things, speaking of which, are all food.  Even when Li Feng was a child, he often ate these things.  Especially this sweet potato. In the winter, every morning when I go to school, I always take two cooked sweet potatoes.  Eat while walking and treat it as breakfast.

    Although.  In that era, whether it was sweet potatoes or corn, most of them were used as feed for livestock. At most, people only tasted fresh food before eating a little bit of it.  That's because there is no shortage of food at all, and there is not enough rice and noodles to eat.  Although I miss the sweet potatoes and corn.

    However, in the Tang Dynasty where food was extremely scarce, these two things were absolutely treasures.  In these days, what matters is eating enough, not eating well, but quantity.  Rather than asking for quality.

    Therefore, this flood reminded Li Feng of the corn and sweet potatoes in the valley.

    Compared with rice, there is wheat, whether it is corn or sweet potato.  All are high-yielding crops.  These two crops are not only high-yielding, but also very convenient to manage, and have very low growth requirements.  Compared with crops such as rice and wheat, the requirements for irrigation and land fertility are much lower.

    Li Feng has seen corn growing in many mountainous areas. They just open a piece of land and then plant and sow the corn.  From now on, just ignore it and just collect it when the time comes, and that's it.  Of course, if you do this, the yield will be extremely low.  However, this is nothing more than a few corn seeds.

    Today¡¯s grain production is not only low, but also very single.  Once a natural disaster strikes, people will immediately fall into trouble.  This time, Li Feng wanted to slowly plant these two crops in the village.  If there is enough food, it can be used to feed livestock; if there is not enough food, it can be used as rations.

    "Oh, I tell you, when you eat, don't eat the skin too. Forget it, bring it here, I'll peel it off for you first."

    Not long after, Gao Yang and the others washed the sweet potatoes in their hands with water, and then started to bite them directly.  Seeing Li Feng secretly complaining about a mistake, he then went into the kitchen, took out a kitchen knife, and helped them peel it. It was not Li Feng's fault. He used to eat raw sweet potatoes, but he never peeled them. He just chewed the skin off.

    "It turns out that this thing still has skin. Well, it tastes much better now than before. It's crispy, has a refreshing fragrance, and is a little sweet."

    After Li Feng helped peel off the skin, Gao Yang, Yaya, and Si Zi began to nibble.  Actually, this sweet potato is not particularly delicious when eaten raw.  However, because of the freshness and novelty, the three of them ate it with gusto.  Not long after, even the little Sizi finished eating a Xu potato.

    "Fourth uncle, I'll have another one, it tastes really good."

    ? ?After finishing one, Gao Yang immediately reached out to take it again. It seemed that he was still addicted.  However, he was stopped by Li Feng.

    "Okay, don't eat it yet. Let's go to work first and plant these sweet potato vines. Then, I will show you something fun. Well, it is not only fun, but also delicious."

    Sweet potatoes are relatively hard. If eaten too much raw, it can easily cause indigestion and upset stomach.  Moreover, Li Feng is still in a hurry to plant the sweet potato vines he brought back into the ground.

    "Okay, sweet potato vine? Fourth uncle, you are not talking about these things, are you? Could it be that this sweet potato is the fruit grown from these things?"

    Hearing what Li Feng said, Gao Yang had no choice but to give up.  What's more, judging from Li Feng's tone, there will be more fun and delicious food waiting for them later.  However, when Li Feng mentioned the words sweet potato vine, she immediately looked at what she thought was a tree vine in great surprise.

    "Otherwise? You think these are all leaves. However, this sweet potato is not what you think, but grows from the roots of the sweet potato vine. Well, it is almost like a radish. It's just that this  A radish seedling only has one radish, but a sweet potato vine can grow a large bunch of sweet potatoes.¡±

    What Li Feng brought back was, of course, not tree vines, but sweet potato vines. He would plant them in the ground later.

    "Brother, it turns out that these sweet potatoes grow in the soil. I mean, why is there so much mud on this fruit? But, brother, can you survive if you plant it this way?"

    "Don't worry, these sweet potatoes are different from other things. Not only do I have to plant them like this, I also have to cut them into small pieces and plant them."

    As Li Feng spoke, he picked up the scissors and began to cut the sweet potato vine into sections.  Moreover, in order to ensure that more seedlings can be grown, he cut them shorter.

    "You can still grow it this way. Fourth uncle, you can't be a liar. This person has been cut into thousands of pieces. There are no roots or whiskers. Fourth uncle, are you sure this sweet potato can still be grown?"  ?¡±

    Holding a small section of sweet potato vine cut out by Li Feng, Gao Yang turned it over and over, looking left and right, completely disbelieving that he could still grow it like this.

    "Well, by the way, Yaya, go and get a small basket. You can pick some slightly tender sweet potato leaves and we'll fry them in the evening. We're tired of eating Chinese cabbage every day. In the evening, let's change the taste.  ¡±

    Facts speak louder than words, Li Feng doesn't want to talk nonsense with Gao Yang about whether he can make a living.  Does Li Feng still know?  This sweet potato is simply the strongest among the strongest, with vitality and tenacity.  As long as you water it a few times after planting, this thing will grow luxuriantly without any need for care in the future.  Even if it doesn't rain for ten days and a half and the ground is dry and white, they will be fine.

    However, suddenly, Li Feng thought that these fresh sweet potato leaves still taste good when fried.  So, Yaya and the others were assigned a task to pick some fresh sweet potato leaves.

    When everything was sorted, Li Feng picked up the cut sweet potato vines, took Gao Yang, Yaya and the three of them, and set off towards the orchard.  There, Li Feng had opened a piece of land a long time ago, just to facilitate the planting of vegetables, fruits and the like in the future. Now, it can be used just right.

    In order to secure this land, Li Feng spent a lot of effort.  In order to make the land more fertile, he deliberately picked up a lot of silt from below.

    Growing sweet potatoes is very simple. It is nothing more than making a ridge, then planting the sweet potato seedlings on the ridge, and then watering the sweet potato seedlings immediately.  In order to make these sweet potato seedlings grow better and faster, Li Feng also deliberately added some pig manure when making the ridges.

    "Fourth uncle, are you really sure that these wilted and dying sweet potato seedlings can survive? Don't let us work for so long in vain."

    Looking at the sweet potato seedlings that had been planted in front of him, Gao Yang felt that there was no clue at all, so he asked Li Feng again with great suspicion.

    After arriving in Jianghu Village, Gao Yang could be regarded as half a farmer, and he understood more or less these things.  However, no matter what you plant, you don¡¯t plant it like this.

    "Whether you can survive or not, you will naturally know in two or three days. Now, it's time to reward you. Let's do something very interesting now."

    When Li Feng heard about this girl Gao Yang, he still doubted the survival of this sweet potato and was speechless for a while.  This thing cannot be explained at all.  However, although he did not explain, Li Feng did not forget his previous promise and would take them to do something fun after finishing his work.

    "Yeah"

    "Fourth uncle, what is going on and how should we do it?"

    Sure enough, when they heard Li Feng's words, whether it was Yaya, Sizi or Gao Yang, they immediately became very interested.
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