Transformed into a mother of four children: Eating meat every meal during a famine

"Mother, we got it."

The eldest and the second oldest accepted the teachings with an open mind.

Naturally, Su Yunluo would not keep attacking them.

Seeing that they were listening to him, he added: "You are so smart. As long as you work hard, you will definitely achieve your dream and get the top score in the exam!"

The Chinese New Year is just over a month away.

Yikeshuxia Village, Sankeshuxia Village and Heshang Village, the three villages harvested a batch of herbs as soon as possible after the frost.

Dry, pack, and sell to Su Yunluo.

On average, each village earned about two thousand taels of silver.

On average, each villager received about ten taels of silver.

These three villages can all have a good New Year.

At the same time, the mushrooms in Xinle Village and Dazhuang Village finally had their first harvest.

Xinle Village produced a total of 1,000 kilograms of dried mushrooms, which were sold for 100 taels of silver.

The people of Dazhuang Village dried 800 kilograms of wheat and earned 80 taels of silver.

Although this amount of silver cannot compare with the income of the villagers in Yikeshuxia Village, it is just the beginning.

Mushrooms have not yet been grown on a large scale!

The time investment is also less.

When we expand the planting area next year, we will be able to harvest multiple times a year. All calculated together, the annual income will still be quite considerable.

Anyway, whether it is the three villages selling medicinal herbs or the two villages selling mushrooms, the villagers are all very happy.

The happiest person is Zhang Xiaocui.

My husband's family is rich, and my wife's family is rich too. Life is getting better and better.

……

As soon as he finished his work here, Su Yunluo ran to Zhu Village in the neighboring Taoli Town.

The sweet potatoes that Zhucun had planted before have finally reached the harvest season.

Su Yunluo personally carried a hoe and led all the villagers of Zhu Village to the fields.

She first squatted down, pulled apart the sweet potato leaves, and looked at the land that was arched high and cracked into large cracks. She knew that this year's harvest would definitely be good!

He took a step back, raised the hoe high, and brought it down heavily.

The sandy soil was soft and was dug up in an instant.

Several sweet potatoes as big as human heads rolled out of the soil.

When the villagers surrounding the place saw such big sweet potatoes, they all exclaimed in joy.

"Wow, what a big sweet potato!"

"It's so big, you can't finish it in one meal, right?"

"If you can't finish it in one meal, eat two meals. One sweet potato a day is enough."

Su Yunluo picked up the dug sweet potatoes with a smile and put them one by one into the basket that had been prepared beside him.

One!

two!

Three!

Four!

Five!

There were five big sweet potatoes under one sweet potato plant.

And each one is so big and very even!

This is a good sign.

Someone took a scale and weighed five large sweet potatoes.

"A total of 18 catties."

Five sweet potatoes weigh 18 kilograms.

The sweet potato yield from this acre of land is indeed several thousand kilograms!

Those who had doubted Su Yunluo's words at the beginning now all admire her with all their hearts.

"Eighteen eighteen, good luck. Very good. Now, everyone start digging sweet potatoes!"

At Su Yunluo's command, hundreds of hoes began to be wielded in the fields.

Basket after basket of sweet potatoes were dug out from the ground!

Half a day later.

The villagers who were responsible for transporting the sweet potatoes back to the village hurried back to report to the village chief: "Village chief, the place we arranged to transport the sweet potatoes is no longer full. Please find another place."

Zhu Jiu was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth: "The entrance of the canteen is full? Then let's pile it in front of the ancestral hall. Let our ancestors be happy too."

These are all food.

With these sweet potatoes, the villagers will never have to go hungry again.

What's the problem if there's not enough space? The more the better!

Soon, the entrance of the ancestral hall was also filled with people.

But by this time, the sun had also set.

The villagers dug for the entire day without feeling tired at all, and they even wished they could continue digging sweet potatoes with torches at night.

He was stopped by Su Yunluo.

"Rest when it's time to rest. You can dig sweet potatoes tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Why rush?"

No one dared to disobey Mrs. Su.

Carry the hoe and go back to the village to eat.

However, they were also afraid that someone would steal sweet potatoes from the fields while they were away, so they sent a few people to guard the fields.

In the evening, there was a sweet potato feast in the cafeteria.

Slice raw sweet potatoes.

Candied sweet potato.

Baked sweet potatoes.

Sweet potato soup.

Sweet potato rice.

Stir-fried sweet potato leaves.

Even the air is filled with the fragrance of sweet potatoes.

Some people had long been coveting the sweet potatoes in the fields, but since Mrs. Su hadn't given the go-ahead to dig them up, no villager in Zhu Village dared to secretly dig one to taste.

Now that we can finally eat to our heart's content, everyone will naturally want to let their stomachs fill and feast on the delicious food.

The sweet and fragrant sweet potatoes taste better the more you eat them.

Everyone ate several pounds of sweet potatoes.

Until you can't even walk anymore.

The next day, everyone was more enthusiastic about digging sweet potatoes.

At noon, the cafeteria prepared sweet potato rice, with the ratio of sweet potato to rice being one to one, plus a dish of braised pork.

The sweet potato rice is fragrant and sweet, topped with a spoonful of braised pork and the gravy mixed with the rice makes your mouth drool.

In the evening, we had sweet potato stewed with pork and vermicelli, served with white flour buns.

There are sweet potatoes at every meal, but the cooking methods are different every time.

This is also the reason why the villagers dug and ate sweet potatoes for seven days without getting tired of them.

All the sweet potatoes in the field were dug up.

On the eighth day, separate all the sweet potatoes according to good and bad.

The good ones are divided into large and small ones.

Su Yunluo took half and left the remaining half to the villagers of Zhu Village.

Tell them to pick out a few baskets of large, smooth sweet potatoes without any scars on the surface to plant next year, and they can deal with the rest themselves.

Whether you give it to others or eat it yourself, she won’t care.

At the same time, I taught everyone how to make sweet potato chips.

How to make dried sweet potatoes.

How to make sweet potato candy.

Sweet potatoes are not easy to store, but dried sweet potatoes, sweet potato chips and sweet potato candies can be stored for a long time or even several years!

Su Yunluo's half of the sweet potatoes were transported back and forth several times using more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages.

After all the potatoes were transported away, there were still several hills of sweet potatoes left in Zhu Village.

Zhu Jiu called the entire village together that night and held a general meeting of all villagers.

"Now that everyone's food and drink are provided by Madam Su, even without these sweet potatoes, we can still have enough to eat every meal. But the villagers in several villages next to us are still starving. So, I would like to discuss with everyone whether we can give some of our sweet potatoes to the people in the neighboring villages."

"Before, they often came to our village to steal sweet potatoes, but now we have to give them sweet potatoes? Village chief, what's the logic behind this?"

"That's right, we would rather throw the sweet potatoes into the river to feed the fish than give them to those who steal them."

Zhu Jiu calmly asked, "Who would be willing to be a thief if their family was not really starving? Which of the people you caught stealing sweet potatoes didn't have to steal because their families were starving to death?"

Everyone was stumped by the question.

Zhu Jiu continued patiently, "We give sweet potatoes to the surrounding villages for our own good. If the people in the surrounding villages can have enough food, naturally no one will come to steal things, don't you think?"