Chapter 550: Chapter 551: Sweet Potatoes and Sugarcane Ripen
He pointed to the bean field next to them, "Look, the beans in our field are growing very well too."
"My dad is great at growing crops!"
"It’s not about being great. These are basics that all of us farmers know!" Yang Dachuan said as he went to peel corns. Yang Chuxia and Ye Zi’an also followed him and got off the ground.
Yang Chuxia’s family also had several acres of corn, plus three or four acres of beans, as well as sweet potatoes, peanuts, ground beans, and other things. In addition to those wastelands, and more than a dozen acres from Ye Zi’an’s family, it took them more than twenty days to bring all the things home.
Of course, this was just bringing them home, as the corn kernels and peanuts have yet to be stripped.
As the crops were brought back, they began to do these follow-up tasks.
The white sweet potatoes were also harvested.
Neither Yang Chuxia nor Ye Zi’an expected that the yield would be so high. Most importantly, one sweet potato was so big and heavy that it weighed several thousand jin per acre.
The most important thing was that this stuff was delicious when fried, crispy and sweet. It goes well with stir-fried shredded meat, or even cold mixed.
"Brother An, let’s go to town!"
"To town?"
"Of course, with the sweet potatoes ripe, we need to send some to Shopkeeper Li for him to taste, right?" Yang Chuxia said while continuing, "By the way, there’s also sugarcane; we need to send one too. There is not much of it, so we can only send one."
"One? Isn’t that too few?"
"One is not too few. We have only a few. We still have to save some seeds and send them to other houses." Yang Chuxia snorted and sneered, "If they want to eat more after eating one, they have to think about giving us more sugarcane seeds before next spring."
"Well, okay!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Zi’an had to follow her words and take a knife to cut the sugarcane. After a while, he drove the horse cart out, put the white sweet potatoes and sugarcane in it, and then the two headed to town together.
Once they got to town, they went straight to the Ju De Lou instead of the Artistry Pavilion.
Shopkeeper Li was standing at the door of Ju De Lou, looking like he had just sent away some important person. When he saw Yang Chuxia and Ye Zi’an getting off the cart, he immediately put on a smile, "Xiaxia, Brother An, it’s been quite a while since we saw each other. No wonder this morning, the magpies were chirping at Uncle Li’s house."
"Uncle Li, it has indeed been a while!"
Ye Zi’an also greeted Uncle Li before turning around to get something from the cart. When Shopkeeper Li saw the thick, purple-skinned thing he took out, his eyes lit up, thinking that it was another great item.
Hurriedly, he said, "Come, come, let’s talk inside!"
He led the two to the second floor, with his enthusiastic attitude making the boss of the tavern across the street spit, "What a show-off. What’s so great about him, anyway?"
"What are you holding, Brother An?" When they got to the second floor, Shopkeeper Li couldn’t wait to ask.
"Hey, Uncle Li, this is sugarcane. This is the seed you gave us before, and now it has grown, so we brought it for you to taste!"
"Wow, you guys really made it work, amazing!" Shopkeeper Li happily took the sugarcane, holding it with a smiling face. However, he frowned immediately after, "I say, Xiaxia, you only have one?"
"Yes, this is the only one I managed to distribute!"
"That’s it?" Shopkeeper Li said with slight disappointment, "Then I’ll have someone send it to the boss later!" He thought it was a pity that he couldn’t taste it himself.