Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Zhou Xing smiled and said, "Yes, I have eaten it too. My uncle and my elder brother would climb high up and pick a few branches and bring them back. Each of them could eat several. They were sweet and fragrant, but definitely not as many as they have now."

Zhou Guo didn't remember, and said, "Next time I go to Yunzhou, I'll ask Shopkeeper Yang if he can transplant a few seedlings for me."

He spat out the seed in his mouth and was about to throw it away when he was startled. He looked at the seed and said to the crowd after a while, "What do you think? If I bury this seed, will it grow into a seedling next year? Then the seedling will grow bigger and bigger and become a fruit tree."

Li said with a smile: "It's not that easy. Your uncle has buried countless cherry seeds in front of and behind our house, but they are useless and they won't grow. I guess it won't work here either."

Zhou Xing and Zhou Gu both nodded, "We have buried them before, and a few seedlings did grow, but then they all died inexplicably."

Zhou Guo said: "It doesn't cost any money, so let's give it a try. If it grows, it will be a pleasant surprise. We will have an endless supply of fruits to eat in the future."

She took a handkerchief and spread it on the table, found a small branch, lowered her head and stared, picking off the seeds attached to the strawberries one by one. She didn't know if the cherries could survive, but could she not plant the strawberry seeds?

The other people at the table stared at her actions with wide eyes, and were stunned when they saw what was on the handkerchief. "What, what is this?"

Zhou Guo said without even looking up, "Seeds, I'll pick these, wash them, dry them, and then germinate them. I don't believe they won't grow. If they do, we'll have an endless supply of ground berries to eat."

Several people each took a strawberry and looked at it carefully. They were surprised to see that it really looked like a seed.

Zhou Xing said: "I ate one, and they said this thing has no seeds. How is it grown? I didn't expect the seeds to grow outside. I have never seen any fruit with seeds that grow like this."

Li said, "The wild fruits in the field look similar to this, just a little smaller. I guess they are about the same. Didn't you dig up a lot of them and plant them yourself? In the end, none of them survived."

Zhou Xing nodded and took another one. She picked out the seeds one by one like Zhou Guo did, and then ate it slowly. It was so delicious that she couldn't bear to finish it in one bite. She just ate it slowly, bit by bit, feeling very satisfied.

The old man also took one. He is now addicted to growing vegetables. "I will dig out these seeds and plant them in the vegetable garden. When they grow up, I will move them out and plant them in front of and behind the house."

Zhou Gu said hurriedly, "Sir, I will help you. When they grow up, you can have a lot of fruits to eat. They are so red, and they must look very beautiful hanging on the branches."

Zhou Guo said: "...No, brother, this is not a tree. It looks like the ground berries in the mountains. It grows in the grass, not on the tree."

Zhou Gu suddenly realized, "So it's a fruit grown on grass. How big must the grass be to produce such a big fruit? I can't imagine what the grass looks like."

The old man had never seen it before, "We'll know when it grows out."

Li said, "We need to open up another piece of land next to it."

She was reluctant to touch the vegetable garden. There were many people in her family, and the food was consumed quickly, and the vegetables also grew quickly.

Zhou Xing said: "I'll help. Now plant some in the corners of the vegetable garden. It will be the same if you move them when they grow bigger."

Zhou Guo picked out all the seeds on the plate, put them aside, and drank tea and ate fruits and cakes.

Stopped eating halfway through.

They found a broken clay pot, filled it with soil and buried it with fertilizer. Zhou Gu also came to help and picked up a broken bowl from somewhere.

She scattered a dozen seeds on it, watered it, covered it with a thin layer of soil, and placed it on a shelf under the porch to prevent it from being eaten by chickens.

The remaining seeds are washed, spread on a towel and placed in a mushroom sieve to dry together. After drying, they can be used for breeding and germination, and can be planted next year.

Li said, "Will this work? Can it really be grown this way?"

Zhou Xing smiled and said, "Second Aunt, don't worry. Our Guoguo can even grow flower mushrooms and goat mushrooms, not to mention this fruit with seeds. Isn't it easier than flower mushrooms and goat mushrooms?"

Zhou Gu said: "You are right, I think it will grow well! Oh, next year our vegetable garden will be full of fruits like this."

I am looking forward to it.

The old man was also looking forward to it. Thinking of his young apprentice's abilities, he felt that nothing was impossible. As long as he worked hard, stones could be turned into gold.

Zhou Guo said: "Don't flatter me like that, what if it doesn't work?"

When Zhou Mai and the others came back, half of the fruit was still left on the table.

Seeing so many fresh fruits, everyone was so happy that they just picked them up and ate them without even washing their hands.

Zhou Su picked a strawberry and took a bite. It was fragrant and sweet. His eyes lit up. "Sir, what kind of fruit is this? It's delicious. I've never seen it before. Where did it come from?"

When Zhou Mai and the others heard this, they each picked one, and Zhou Guo picked out all the seeds on it one by one.

Nodding, he said, "It's really delicious."

The old man carefully collected all the cherry pits on the table and said, "Yunzhou's shopkeeper Yang has sent a festival gift. These fruits were sent by him."

Zhou Mi ate strawberries and sighed, "Our business is really profitable. Not only do we make a lot of money, but we also get a lot of food every year that we can't buy even if we have money. We have to thank Shopkeeper Yang for that."

Think about their family, they have sea cucumbers and abalone, shark fins and prawns, all kinds of precious fabrics, and rare fresh fruits. Before this, they had only heard of them but had never seen them, but now they can eat and wear them every year.

When a few people saw him collecting the cores, they said, "Why are you collecting them? They won't grow any more."

Zhou Su said, "Why can't it grow? Sister can even grow fungi, so why can't this fruit with core and seeds grow? At least this thing can be grown, but fungi can't even be grown."

"That's right. Guoguo is the best at growing things. We can't grow them, but she can definitely do it." Zhou Mai nodded without any doubt.

Zhou Mi smiled and said, "In this way, in a few years, we will have endless loquat cherries at home?"

Just thinking about the scene of fruit trees in front of and behind the house makes me salivate.

Zhou Guo collected all the cores, washed them, and dried them. He also buried a few in front of and behind the house and put some fertilizer in them. He planned to water them from time to time. Whether they could survive depended on their luck.

A few days later, the festival gifts from several other prefectures also arrived one after another. Just like in previous years, apart from stationery, most of them were food.

However, perhaps because they knew that their family was no longer short of money, there were fewer things in the study, and most of them were paper.