After fleeing famine, I have thousands of acres of fertile land

"Hey Qingya, you guys should run this profitable business by yourselves. Since we are too busy at home, your uncle and I will come to help."

"Aunt, I'm too tired to be busy on both sides. If you want to make it, I'll give it to you for four cents a pound. It can be sold for five cents a pound at the market."

Hearing that his niece really wanted to help his family, Ye Qing didn't hesitate and ordered 200 kilograms first. Ye Dalang took them to sell it first so that the old customers could get familiar with them.

It took my aunt two or three days to become skilled at selling snails. In order to make more money, they did not come back at noon like Ye Qing and the others. They would only come back when there was no one at the market. They could sell three to four hundred kilograms of snails a day.

Ye Qing is now used to going to bed early and getting up early. The whole family gets up at three or four o'clock in the morning. They fry the snails first, then Old Man Ye goes to deliver the snails, and the other family members go to work in the fields.

The sweet potatoes at home can be harvested, so Ye Qing and others go to help.

Boss Ye first cut off the sweet potato vines with a sickle, then pulled all the vines away and placed them on the edge of the field.

There are some skills to digging sweet potatoes. You cannot dig directly on the ridge. You have to use the hoe at the edge of the ridge to dig out whole sweet potatoes.

Ye Qing took his small hoe and walked to the rows of sweet potatoes. He swung the hoe, dug hard, and then lifted the sweet potato vines.

There were six sweet potatoes on this sweet potato vine, each of them was plump. Boss Ye also looked over and weighed one with his hand. It weighed about seven or eight kilograms.

Ye Dalang also chose a ridge and started digging. Soon he had dug a lot.

After digging for a while, Ye Qing could no longer lift her hands. She was young and the hoe was too heavy.

Zhou felt a little distressed when she saw her daughter's sweaty face. "Qingya, stop digging. Go pick sweet potatoes and follow your father."

Ye Qing didn't force himself anymore and followed behind Boss Ye, picking out the sweet potatoes that Boss Ye had dug out from the soil, then scraping off the soil on the sweet potatoes and putting them in a pile.

It took the group two hours to dig up more than a hundred sweet potatoes, and Ye Qing also cleaned the soil off the sweet potatoes.

Ye Dalang put the sweet potatoes into a bag, carried it out of the field, loaded it onto the ox cart, and pulled it back home.

After delivering the sweet potatoes, Boss Ye came again and pulled away all the sweet potato vines, dried them and fed them to pigs in the winter.

Boss Ye took out the scale at home and weighed the sweet potatoes with Dalang in several batches. They harvested more than a hundred sweet potatoes, weighing about six or seven hundred kilograms.

"Boss, the yield of sweet potatoes is so high. Plant more next year and plant all the wasteland. Then we will have enough food for the whole year."

Boss Ye was also very excited. With two acres of land planted at home, they no longer had to worry about drought. "Dad, I'll listen to you. After the pumpkins are harvested, we'll turn the land over and plant more next year."

Ye Qing had an idea of ​​the sweet potato yield. He harvested 600 to 700 kilograms, which was still a little less. The wasteland was not fertile enough. There were many poultry and rabbits at home, and they had stored a lot of manure. If they were put into the wasteland to nourish the land, they could harvest more next year.

We can talk about increasing production next year. Now Ye Qing is only thinking about eating roasted sweet potatoes, sweet and soft roasted sweet potatoes.

"Mom, let's roast some sweet potatoes and make some sweet potato porridge."

Zhou still remembered the sweet potatoes she had eaten on the way to escape famine. They were sweet, delicious, and filling. "One for each of us. Let's all try them today."

Zhou picked out a few large sweet potatoes and put them under the stove. She also washed a few and put them in the pot to cook with the brown rice.

Boss Ye and his sons stored sweet potatoes. They put the packed sweet potatoes in a dug cellar, and they would not go bad until the next year.

"It's time to eat. Wash your hands and eat." Zhou greeted the family.

As soon as the lid of the pot was lifted, the aroma of sweet potatoes came out. The thick porridge made of sweet potato cubes and rice grains looked very appetizing.

Zhou then dug out the sweet potatoes from the stove. The skins were burnt black. The others didn't care about the burn and ate the skins as they went.

The red flesh of the potato tastes sweet and sticky. The sweet potato is still hot after being peeled out. I toss it back and forth with both hands and can't bear to put it down.

After eating a sweet potato and drinking some sweet potato porridge, I couldn’t eat anything else.

The boss was reluctant to take out the remaining sweet potato leaves, so he saved them for seeds so that he could eat them freely next year.

After harvesting the sweet potatoes, the cotton bloomed, so the family went to pick cotton together.

Ye Qing first asked his grandmother to help him sew a bag, which he put in front of his waist, then carefully picked the cotton and put it in the bag.

The cotton surface must be kept clean. If there are leaves broken on it, it will be troublesome to remove it.

The first batch of cotton was harvested, weighing five or six pounds. After being dried, it can be made into a thick quilt.

The soybeans at home are ripe. They should be harvested in the morning when there is dew, so the soybean pods are not easy to burst.

It was time to harvest the rice, and Ye Qing didn't dare go into the water because there were so many leeches in the water that they wouldn't let go once they bit his skin.

Ye Qing helped with cooking at home and brought the finished meal to the field for everyone to eat together.

The family members were tired and thin, so Ye Qing found different ways to nourish their bodies every day. Fish and pork were always available for the past few days.

After the rice was harvested, threshing was a hassle. It had to be threshed in a large bucket, all manually. It took Ye Lao Da and Ye Da Lang three days to harvest all the rice.

Ye Qing's ten acres of land has been rented out. Now the crops have been harvested, and the tenant Ye Jiang's family has also come to pay the rent.

Ye Jiang's family has many children and the family has no money to buy land, so they can only rent land for farming.

Boss Ye was willing to rent the house to him because he saw that his family was in financial difficulty and that he was an honest man.

"Brother, thank you for renting me the land this year. The children at home can have enough to eat. Here is the grain, weigh it."

Ye Jiang and Ye Lao Da are of the same generation, and their families have a good relationship. "Jiang Zi, how can I not trust you? How is your family? Is everything okay?"

"Brother, let's settle accounts clearly. We should weigh them. Everything is fine at home. The harvest is good this year, so we won't starve in the winter."

Boss Ye weighed the grain and found it was more than enough. Boss Ye patted Ye Jiang on the shoulder and said, "Next year, we will plant more sweet potatoes. The yield of sweet potatoes is high, and we can feed the pigs if we can't finish them."

Ye Jiang also understood that Boss Ye was helping him, so he quickly agreed.

After the villagers finish working with the rice, they can't sit still and have to tidy up the vegetable gardens as the vegetables in the gardens are ripe.

The Ye family couldn't bear to sell their vegetables, so they dried them and stored them. In winter, they would soak the dried vegetables in hot water and stir-fry them.

The other three riverside plots at home and Dr. Lin’s homestead are all planted with peanuts.

It is easier to harvest peanuts. You just need to pull the whole plant off, load it into a truck and take it home. Then, dry it in the sun and slowly pick the peanuts.

After the peanuts were pulled out, they had to go over the ground again with a hoe. Ye Lao Da was hoeing the ground in front, and Ye Qing followed behind to pick up the peanuts that were missed. In one afternoon, they picked up about 40 to 50 kilograms.

After harvesting the peanuts, Boss Ye packed 100 kilograms of grain and brought it to Doctor Lin when he went to the city to deliver eggs the next day.