Dressed as a farmer's widow, she brought her daughter to stock up on food and reached the top
Chapter 76: Dividing the Sweet Potato Seedlings
The mother potatoes cultivated a few days ago have already sprouted seedlings. The sweet potatoes were said to be accidentally found by Pomegranate in the mountains. Everyone in the village knew about it, so Xiuying could not just take as many as she wanted like she did with drought-resistant rice, so she took out the seedlings and distributed them to everyone to plant.
Mrs. Sun and Aunt Li both ate the sweet potatoes sent by Xiuying.
"Sweet potatoes taste very similar to pumpkins, and like pumpkins, they can grow vines. Pumpkins can be planted by cuttings, so I figured sweet potatoes could be planted by cuttings, too."
"I think this thing looks similar to a pumpkin, except it's a little bigger and a little smaller, and one is yellow and the other is red. Maybe they're from the same family."
Xiuying looked at the sweet potato seedlings grown in the fields behind the mountain and smiled at the two aunts: "My two aunts and I had similar thoughts. These are the sweet potato seedlings I cultivated by accident.
Why don't you take some sweet potato seedlings home and try planting some? However, I'm not sure these seedlings will produce sweet potatoes. It's up to you two to decide whether to plant or not."
Xiuying was sure that whether Aunt Li planted the rice or not, Sister-in-law Sun would plant it. Firstly, it was Sister-in-law Sun's unconditional trust in her, and secondly, she had already revealed the news to Sister-in-law Sun when she came to discuss planting drought-resistant rice a few days ago.
As expected, Mrs. Sun said excitedly, "We have a lot of wasteland at home. I think these sweet potatoes can be planted by cuttings. Aren't many of our fruits and vegetables also planted by cuttings? This sweet potato should also be able to be planted."
My family only cultivates ten acres of crops.”
Xiuying looked at the sweet potato seedlings cultivated in the field. Because they were the first batch of sweet potato seedlings, the quantity was limited. The sweet potato seedlings in the field could only be used to plant a maximum of five acres. After these sweet potato seedlings were distributed, when they were needed to be planted again in the second year, these families would have sweet potatoes for seeds. If the villagers wanted to plant sweet potatoes, they could also get the sweet potato seedlings from those who were in the first batch of planting sweet potatoes.
Therefore, the first batch of sweet potato seedlings had to be distributed to more people, not just Mrs. Sun and Aunt Li. As for Mrs. Sun's remaining wasteland, Xiuying decided to give her some easy-to-grow vegetable seeds.
"This...I'm afraid...I can't."
Hearing that it was not possible, Mrs. Sun immediately panicked
"What's wrong, Xiuying?"
Xiuying explained to Mrs. Sun tactfully
"Sister-in-law, this is the first time we're planting. No one can be sure of the harvest or how much it will be. So, families who want to plant can each receive one acre of sweet potato seedlings."
This means that only five households in the village can receive sweet potato seedlings.
"Sister, you are very thoughtful. I will listen to you."
Xiuying is worried that she won't have any harvest.
The sweet potatoes Xiuying bought from the mall are high-yield sweet potatoes, with a yield of approximately 4000 to 6000 kilograms per acre.
Those who were allocated seedlings could harvest at least 4000 kilograms per acre, which is something the people of Futian Village would never dare to dream of.
Aunt Li also received an acre of seedlings. After the two of them spread the word, three more families came to get the sweet potato seedlings.
Some families are still considering it, and when they come back after thinking it over, they regret it too late because all the sweet potato seedlings are gone. In the future, if Xiuying's family has anything to share with everyone, you must run quickly and never hesitate. Slow action makes waste.
The sweet potatoes were discovered by Shi Liu on the mountain, so Xiuying did not ask the five families who received the sweet potato seedlings to do the work in her place. However, everyone remembered Xiuying's kindness, and when they learned that Xiuying's family was going to reclaim wasteland, everyone decided to go to the mountain to help voluntarily.
After finishing her meal, Zhao's mother was sitting in the yard when she saw several families coming down the hillside, carrying baskets full of green things. When she went up to ask, she found out that these families wanted to use the grown vines to grow sweet potatoes. She burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha...After the second brother's family separated, his brain became worse and worse. How can you grow fruit without seeds?"
Tian Guilan came out after hearing the noise. She would step on Xiuying wherever she was.
"My sister-in-law is using such despicable methods to deceive everyone in order to get them to work for her. I heard that she wants to open up wasteland in the mountains."
Tian Guilan said to the families carrying baskets on their backs, "If my guess is correct, she's doing some kind of work-for-purchase scheme. She gave you some vines and asked you to clear the land for her."
The few families who received the sweet potato vines thought that they were Xiuying's mother-in-law and sister-in-law after all, and did not want to argue with them. They just made a few remarks in defense of Xiuying.
"Sister-in-law Zhao, Xiuying didn't lie to us. Using vine cuttings for grafting was our own idea. It has nothing to do with Xiuying."
"Yes, sister-in-law, Xiuying is a good girl. She didn't ask us to help with the work, but we have discussed it with several families. After we plant the sweet potatoes, we will go to the mountain to help Xiuying open up the wasteland."
Upon hearing this, Zhao's mother stood up excitedly and said to the others, "I see you're all in your forties and have been farming for decades. How come you still don't know if these vines can bear fruit? If these vines could really bear fruit, would Xiuying have given them to you to plant?"
Let me tell you, before she split up the family, she would kill a chicken in this house but she wouldn't give it to me, her mother-in-law, to eat. She's used to eating all by herself, so how could she share it with you?"
Mother Zhao started to howl as she spoke: "Second brother, if you are still alive in heaven, please take care of your wife...ah...ah..."
As soon as Zhao's mother finished praying to her second child in heaven, she covered her stomach and started crying.
Tian Guilan looked at her mother-in-law squatting on the ground and howling, with a helpless look on her face. As she got older, she had a lot of things to do. She either had a toothache, a headache, and now she had a stomachache.
Mother Zhao gritted her teeth and looked at her stunned daughter-in-law and yelled, "You don't have eyes! I have a stomachache, and you don't even come to help me!"
She began to blame her eldest daughter-in-law in her heart, thinking that the food she cooked was not clean and caused her to have a stomachache.
"Don't you feel sick to your stomach?"
Hearing her mother-in-law's stomachache, Tian Guilan put her hands on her stomach. She felt something, but she said, "Mom, you're the only one who has pain all day long. I don't let you work...ah...my stomach...hurts..."
Tian Guilan leaned against the courtyard, clutching her stomach. Mother Zhao could no longer hold on and fell to the ground, curled up in a heap.
The villagers outside the yard, carrying bamboo baskets on their backs, ran towards the two of them and shouted loudly into the house.
"Boss Zhao, come out quickly!"
"Boss Zhao, come out quickly!"
Zhao Cunliang and his four older sons, who were lying in the house, heard the shouting outside and felt something was wrong.
"Dad, what should we do? Second Aunt must be here."
"Auntie, aren't you here to ask us to return the sweet potatoes?"
Zhao Cunliang spat and wiped his mouth.
"What the hell? Didn't I see her in the fields just now? She didn't even dare to fart, and now she dares to come to my house!"
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