Quick mission: We don't make trouble

When the carriage arrived at Yang's freight station, Zhu Qingqing had to explain things to Manager Yang again.

Shopkeeper Yang quickly called his wife Luo and several other women to help.

Men like them shouldn't go in.

Mrs. Luo and Zhu Qingqing carried the woman in labor into the yard and settled her down. Mother Zhu placed the child next to her.

Let everyone else go out, she wants to check the mother.

Upon learning that the woman had passed the gas and was ready to eat, he told Zhu Qingqing to cook some porridge first and then buy a chicken to make soup.

Zhu Qingqing agreed and went to the kitchen.

Mrs. Luo led a few women to help.

Zhu Qingqing asked where she could buy chicken.

Mrs. Luo: "We have enough to feed ourselves. If Master Zhu wants one, we can just go catch one. There's no need to buy one."

Zhu Qingqing: "Of course I have to pay, but I don't have time to settle the bill now. Let's settle it together later."

As he said that, he started to cook porridge.

Mrs. Luo asked a daughter-in-law to help with the fire, while she went to the vegetable garden behind to catch chickens.

Let's not talk about how Zhu Qingqing cooked porridge and stewed soup. Let's just say that Yang Jiu finally had some free time. He grabbed Wang Xiangdong and asked, "Guard Wang, there are two kinds of vegetables you sent that we haven't seen before. We don't know what they are or how to eat them, so they asked me to ask."

Wang Xiangdong asked, "Which two?"

Yang Jiu ran out and took out a cloth bag from the carriage, and poured out a few potatoes and sweet potatoes.

He was afraid that he couldn't explain it clearly, so he just took a few back.

Shopkeeper Yang also looked over curiously.

"What is this? It looks like a melon but isn't a melon, and it looks like a vegetable but isn't a vegetable either."

Wang Xiangdong picked up a potato in his left hand and a sweet potato in his right hand and said, "This is a potato, and this is a sweet potato. They're all grown in the fields. They can be steamed, boiled, and used in cooking... They can also be ground into powder to make potato vermicelli and sweet potato vermicelli. Why, don't you have any here?"

Yang Jiu: "No. I haven't seen it even in the capital."

Wang Xiangdong thought: Is it possible that there are no potatoes or sweet potatoes in this era?

Yes, in that world, potatoes and sweet potatoes were also introduced from overseas. I heard that the sweet potato seedlings were secretly brought back from overseas with great effort. After generations of priority breeding, they developed into the many varieties we have today.

Well, it’s normal that there isn’t one here now.

So he said, "This is very common in our area. It can be eaten as food and can help alleviate hunger. It is also easy to grow and is very suitable for these hilly slopes."

Yang Jiu: "No wonder we've never seen it before. It turns out it's a specialty of yours in the West. How much did you bring? Are you really hungry?"

I want to eat.

Shopkeeper Yang asked excitedly, "Really? How do we plant it? Are there any more?"

Wang Xiangdong: "I'm really hungry. If you don't believe me, take it to the kitchen and cook it."

Upon hearing this, Yang Jiu immediately hugged some potatoes and sweet potatoes and ran to the kitchen to find Zhu Qingqing.

Shopkeeper Yang pulled Wang Xiangdong aside to ask him how to grow these two kinds of food.

Wang Xiangdong: "These potatoes will sprout after a period of time. Once they sprout, they cannot be eaten and will cause poisoning, but they are suitable for planting.

Cut the sprouted potatoes into pieces, mix them with wood ash, and plant them in the ground. Potatoes will then grow from the roots, and these potatoes can be grown all year round."

Shopkeeper Yang: "Oh, it can be planted all year round?"

Wang Xiangdong nodded affirmatively.

When he was a child, he helped his grandfather grow potatoes and sweet potatoes.

He added: "In mountainous areas like Yucheng, two seasons of planting are possible, but in plains like Fucheng, four seasons of planting are no problem."

Shopkeeper Yang's eyes lit up when he heard this. "What about the sweet potatoes?"

"When planting sweet potatoes for a season, you first need to raise seedlings. This means burying the sweet potatoes in the ground and waiting for them to sprout. After the wheat or rapeseed has been harvested and the ground is cleared, you can start planting sweet potatoes. Cut the sweet potato seedlings and plant them in the previously built earthen ridges. This is also where the roots of the sweet potato seedlings grow the sweet potatoes. You just need to dig up the sweet potatoes in autumn and winter. You can dig up a bunch at a time...

The yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes is high, and one acre of land can easily produce 1,000 to 800 kilograms."

"What? 1,000 catties per mu?"

Shopkeeper Yang's voice suddenly became louder.