Spring comes to the desperate place

At another table, Gu Fengyun also frequently reached for the stir-fried bean sprouts. He usually ate light food, so stir-fried bean sprouts suited his taste very well.

"I've only eaten this sprout at palace banquets in the past. It is said that this vegetable is quite difficult to grow. I didn't expect that there are so many hidden talents in your family, old man." Gu Fengyun praised repeatedly, and Grandpa Song just smiled.

"I don't deserve that. These bean sprouts were just an accident. The child's mother bought the beans and put them in the basket and forgot about them. She didn't see them when she was watering. She didn't realize it until two days later when the sprouts popped out. I almost thought they were inedible and had to be thrown away."

The Gu Fengyun brothers didn't believe this, but they also echoed Grandpa Song: "Fortunately, they didn't throw it away, otherwise there would be two less delicious dishes on the table today."

"No, brother, look here." Gu Fengyue said as he picked up the pickled fish with a serving chopstick, and underneath was a full pot of bean sprouts.

Gu Fengyun didn't like fish, so he didn't pick up his chopsticks. But Gu Fengyue ate happily. Soon, he had finished half of the bowl of pickled fish, and then he discovered the bean sprouts at the bottom.

The bean sprouts were full of the broth from the pickled fish. Gu Fengyue smiled and picked up a piece with chopsticks and gave it to her brother. Gu Fengyun loved his younger brother very much, so seeing this, he also picked up the bean sprouts in the bowl and started eating.

As soon as he took a bite, Gu Fengyun noticed something different. The bean sprouts didn't have any fishy smell at all. Instead, they were sour and spicy, and very appetizing. Gu Fengyue took the opportunity to give him another piece of snow-white fish meat, and Gu Fengyun ate it happily.

Song Qin's knife skills are very good. The fish slices are cut very thinly, with almost no bones. She also uses the special fish marinade package in the space. The taste is tender and not fishy. After Gu Fengyun ate one piece, he couldn't help but pick up another one.

It was rare for Gu Fengyue to see his brother having a good appetite, so he smiled too.

After the meal, the relationship between the Gu brothers and the Song family became closer. After all, who can resist delicious food?

On the other side, Song Dazhuang and several villagers were also drunk, causing Song Qinshi to glare at him frequently.

After lunch, several villagers who came to congratulate left one after another. The Gu brothers sat in the living room, drinking the simple sour plum soup cooked by Song Qinshi to help digestion.

Although the simple version tasted lighter, the brothers still each drank a large glass.

Gu Fengyun put down his teacup and started talking about business.

"My brother told me that you dug up a few lumps of earth in the mountains. Do you still have them? Can you show them to me?"

The Song family had already made preparations. Upon hearing this, Song Qin immediately went to the kitchen and brought out the potatoes and sweet potatoes that had been prepared long ago. The bamboo basket contained not only raw potatoes and sweet potatoes, but also cooked and baked potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Gu Fengyun first picked up a raw potato. He looked at the potato in his hand over and over again, then asked Gu Fengyue to cut it open with a dagger and observe the inside. Then he picked up a raw sweet potato and went through the same process again. After he had carefully looked at both things, he reached out and picked up a cooked sweet potato.

The potatoes and sweet potatoes cooked by Song Qin were relatively large. They did not get cold even after being placed on the stove, and were still warm in the hands. Gu Fengyun broke open the sweet potato and smelled it, then carefully tasted it. He did not say anything, but just chewed the food in his mouth carefully.

After eating the boiled sweet potatoes, I took a bite of the roasted sweet potatoes. The difference from the boiled sweet potatoes is that the roasted sweet potatoes taste more fragrant, while the boiled sweet potatoes are softer, more glutinous and moist, but both are equally delicious.

After tasting the sweet potatoes, the potatoes were cooked in a similar way. Gu Fengyun ate them very carefully. The taste of the two was very different, but the common point was that they were both soft and glutinous after being cooked.

At first he didn't care much when he heard his brother mention these two things, but now after trying them, he changed his mind.

The hall was silent, and everyone was looking at Gu Fengyun eagerly, expecting him to speak.

After a long time, Gu Fengyun slightly curled his lips and said, "Everyone, I have tasted these things, and they taste really good, but the yield is..."

"My Lord, don't worry. We had planned to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes on one acre of land each in the spring. When we found these two things, the land was barren and dry. If such poor land can grow such food, wouldn't the yield be higher if we change to fertile land?"

Although Gu Fengyun knew nothing about farming, he thought that what Song Dazhuang said made sense. Poor land could grow edible crops even without anyone managing it. If it was fertile land that was managed diligently, it would definitely produce more food.

However, everything is unknown at the moment. The Song family thinks that these two products have high yields and good taste, and want to use the Gu family to promote them. However, it is not enough to just talk about it, so Gu Fengyun pondered for a long time before making up his mind.

"How about this, Uncle Song? You can plant them in the spring. I will send someone to record everything, including how many seeds are needed for one acre of land, how to fertilize, how long it will take for the crops to grow, and how much the crops will yield. If the yields of these two crops are as high as you say, it will be a great thing for the country and the people. If this is successful, I will personally report it to the emperor and ask him to reward you."

Hearing that it could reach the emperor, the Song family members were a little bit unbelievable, and Grandpa Song was even more trembling: "No, this is just a banker. This has to be reported to His Majesty. His Majesty will be very busy."

Gu Fengyue couldn't help but burst out laughing, and was glared at by Gu Fengyun.

"You are wrong, old man. You know that the harvest has been bad in the past two years. Take your hometown in the northwest for example. There is no grain harvest. In the north, nine out of ten houses are empty. Countless people have died of starvation and thirst. Your Majesty has thought of countless ways to ensure that the people have enough food in the past two years, but none of them worked. In the face of natural disasters, even if Your Majesty tries his best, without food, people will starve."

Gu Fengyun said sternly: "Old man, this is about food, so this is no small matter."

Seeing that he spoke so seriously, the Song family members also frowned. They had all experienced the feeling of hunger. Before Song Chunlin mentioned the space, the Song family members could not even get half full. At the beginning, they sold their houses and fields and used silver notes to buy food. The grain price had already increased tenfold, and they were also restricted from buying more than one bushel of rice. Even if the whole family, young and old, went out, the grain they bought was only a few dozen kilograms. Together with the remaining grain at home, it was barely over a hundred kilograms.

The Song family of seven only exchanged for ten kilograms of fine grains, which was given to Song Xiaobao. The rest of the people did not even dare to eat their fill of coarse grain cakes, for fear that after this meal they would have nothing to eat the next.

Thinking of those days of hunger, the Song family members all fell silent. They had to admit that Gu Fengyun was right. Since food was involved, it was no trivial matter.