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Chapter 178 Potato Harvest

The two were quiet for a long time, and Lin Yiwan suddenly asked: "Brother Qingfeng, do you mind?"

"Ah? What do I mind?"

Xie Qingfeng was confused by the question.

It took him a few breaths to react, and Yiwan asked him if he minded about his great-grandmother.

"I don't mind, I have nothing to mind.

Even if you are included in my family tree, the examiner will not check your family's identity during my scientific examination. This will not delay my examination as an examiner, nor will it affect your ability to be an examiner's wife, don't worry."

Xie Qingfeng's half-explanation and half-ridicule words made Lin Yiwan breathe a sigh of relief.

Just don't mind.

She didn't want any complications in the marriage between the two of them.

After opening two topics in a row, one almost angered people and the other touched people's sadness, Xie Qingfeng decided to change to a completely safe topic.

"Yiwan, if you take the time to go to space recently, please move out all the food, especially the food produced in space.

It's almost time for spring plowing, and I don't know when the space will be emptied of the food.

Nowadays, food is precious, but we can’t stand it being so hot.

In addition to grain, you have to take out any durable food. But remember, if it is something that is not available here, either don't take it out, or make it look so that others can't recognize it before taking it out.

And dig out some of the exquisite ones in the yard and plant them in a hidden place first.

I will definitely go to Fucheng this spring and summer, and I may bring some orchids with me. Whether it is to exchange money or return a favor, it is always a good thing.

I was afraid of drafts in the space, so I changed the entire landscape, which would be a waste."

Lin Yiwan nodded immediately after hearing this: "Brother Qingfeng, don't worry, I will handle this matter after the New Year."

After saying that, she felt something was wrong. After the Lantern Festival, the year was not over. There were still eight days left until today.

She asked anxiously: "Brother Qingfeng, your space is also celebrating the New Year, right?"

This made Xie Qingfeng ask. He thought for a while and said firmly: "The Chinese New Year will definitely come. Even if I am idle and bored, I will not set the system refresh time in the first month."

The two chatted for a while about the arrangement of the space. The sun began to go west, and the two went home...

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Wufu Village started to get busy again after seven days of rest.

Today, two vegetable shops in the city will be open for business.

When it gets dark, many people get up.

After nearly an hour of busy work of collecting vegetables, sorting, bundling, counting, accounting, and loading, ten oxcarts and mule carts filled with fresh vegetables set off for the county seat.

With the opening of the vegetable shop, Wufu Village ended the year earlier than elsewhere, and everyone began to get busy.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the business of the vegetable shop was much lower than before. Ten carts of vegetables were sold out only in the evening.

Fortunately, after listening to Xie Xiucai's words, what was shipped to the city today were cabbages, lettuce leaves, leeks and other vegetables that were not put away. Everyone had almost eaten what they bought years ago, so they could be sold out.

If you transport radish, cabbage, celery, etc., you will probably lose them.

Tomorrow, they will not transport so many vegetables into the city until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there is another important event in the village, which is to harvest potatoes.

The county school started on the 16th day of the first lunar month, and there was a festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, so Xie Qingfeng decided that the fourteenth day of the first lunar month would be the day for the whole village to harvest potatoes together.

In the past, potatoes were planted to prevent them from being cut off when there was no harvest.

They didn't want to have the government lend them food to eat, and later make money from doing business, so they didn't need to rely on potatoes to survive the famine.

But the potatoes grown with so much effort cannot be wasted, and they also want to see how high the yield Xie Xiucai said is.

Early in the morning on the 14th, except for the vegetable sellers and those who had to leave the village for something, everyone, old and young, went to the potato greenhouse in the west of the village.

Ten thousand kilograms of potatoes were planted in the space, barely covering fifty acres of land.

Because it was the first time to grow potatoes, in order to prevent possible accidents during the process, when setting up the shed, Xie Qingfeng asked for one acre of land to build a shed.

All things to be done must be tested in shed No. 1 to make sure there is no problem, and then implemented in other sheds.

Looking at the small simple greenhouses, Xie Qingfeng's heart beat.

Whether these potatoes have been planted well or not, we will soon know the answer.

Today he also participated in the potato digging team, and all the work that required scheduling and coordination was arranged by the ten team leaders themselves.

The ten team leaders quickly agreed that each team would have five greenhouses and start digging now.

Since potatoes grow in the ground, the team leaders also warned them to be careful when digging. It would be better to dig more soil than damage the food in the ground.

Following the orders from the team leaders, more than 300 men entered the greenhouses they were responsible for on behalf of their families.

Digging potatoes was a big deal today. Women and children could not get involved and could only watch from outside the shed.

Soon someone shouted: "I dug it out, and there are four potatoes growing under this seedling, and the big ones are bigger than my fist."

"I dug them out here too. I counted six."

"I also dug them out here, only two, but the big one weighs eight taels even if it doesn't weigh a pound!"

When it was first dug out, everyone still had the energy to shout, but soon, no one had the energy to shout anymore.

What grows in this land is simply a treasure. They can't wait to know how many kilograms of potatoes can be produced from one acre of land.

There are only fifty acres of land in total, so many people can almost harvest it in just two or three quarters of an hour.

But to be cautious, they dug up the ground again with hoes to make sure not a single potato was left, and then hurried to the drying field.

At this time, the drying field was filled with potatoes, and fifty piles were made according to the number of the greenhouse.

When the last potatoes cleaned out of the greenhouse were returned to their places, all the scales in the village were put to use.

Piles of potatoes were weighed one by one.

"Shed No. 1 produces 1,650 kilograms of potatoes."

"Shed No. 2, yields 1,819 jins of potatoes."

"Shed No. 3, yields 1,652 kilograms of potatoes."



"Shed No. 49, potato yield is 2,638 jins."

"Shed No. 50, potato yield is 2,589 jins."

The abacus beads were pulled through, and finally Lin Dashan reported the total: "This year's fifty acres of land, the potato output totaled one hundred and five thousand eight hundred and fifty six kilograms.

The average yield per mu is about 2,100 catties!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of applause and cheers from the crowd.

It only takes three months for these potatoes to grow, and one acre of land can produce more than two thousand kilograms. This is really a bumper harvest!

They really don't worry about going hungry.

Seeing everyone happy and even moved to tears, Xie Qingfeng was not satisfied.

You must know that in a previous life, the yield of potatoes per mu was about 4,000 kilograms. If planted properly, it could even reach about 10,000 kilograms.

Although the planting methods and fertilizers of the two generations are different, he consulted a lot of planting experience on the Internet. Even in terms of fertilizer, the whole village devoted their efforts. Logically speaking, potatoes should not lack nutrients.
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