Chapter 57 As a fine female matchmaker chooses to farm (6)

  After the meal, have a cup of lychee sweet soup. There is no rock sugar, but the natural sweetness of lychee is cooked out.

   There are more than a dozen lychees in a clay pot, and the sweetness is just right.

   "Nurse, when you leave tomorrow, you leave a bag of food for the master's family, and give them some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. Just say, I like today's dinner very much."

   Nanny Feng responded.

   Sleepless all night.

   This seems to be the most peaceful sleep Xu Yin has slept since she read this book.

  In the eyes of the servants, the fourth girl must be unhappy to enter King Jinnan's fief and not leave the fief without an imperial edict.

  Only she knows what this means—a big turning point in the fate of cannon fodder.

   Therefore, she drank an extra bowl of porridge for breakfast than usual, the stewed soft red bean and millet porridge, Chunlan added a spoonful of honey for her, it tasted sweet.

  The people below loaded the luggage and items onto the carriage one after another while she was eating breakfast.

  Nurse Feng took the time to meet with the master's house, and left behind the rice, flour, grain and oil that the girl gave her last night.

  The host is indescribably grateful.

   It was the first time they saw nobles of the princely level, and they felt uneasy, so they used the only types of ingredients in the clan to send some food to the nobles.

  Even so, this night, except for the youngest son, everyone else slept very restlessly, for fear of accidentally offending the nobleman and bringing disaster to the family.

   Unexpectedly, the noble not only did not offend them, but also rewarded them with food and seasoning.

  The patriarch excitedly led the clansmen, and knelt and kowtowed in the direction of the nobleman's residence from a distance across the wall of people blocked by the guards.

  The representative of the women's family was brought over by Nanny Feng to thank her face to face.

  Xu Yin didn't dare to accept such a big gift from them, so she hurriedly asked them to get up, and asked the maids to bring in a few stools.

   It is not appropriate to take the car immediately after eating, so I took them to chat for a while.

   "Is the harvest here not good?"

  The patriarch's wife, who was the leader, was both nervous and excited, she stood up and said cautiously:

"The nobleman does not know that there are few flat and regular fields here, and the harvest of the crops is not very good. In the early years, some people went to the mountains to hunt some game and went to the city to exchange food, but the miasma in the mountains became more poisonous every year, let alone years. It's long, the young people can't bear it, and every family has a hard time..."

   I didn’t dare to say that taxes are gradually increasing, and the burden is getting heavier and heavier. I risked my life to go into the mountains. The game I harvested, where I was willing to eat it myself, was transported to Fucheng to exchange for food. Even so, I haven't had enough to eat for several years.

  The patriarch's wife raised her sleeves and wiped her eyes: "I made you laugh."

  Xu Yin shook her head: "It's okay."

After thinking about it, he said to the patriarch's wife: "The rice harvest is low, and the terrain conditions here are actually more suitable for planting sweet potatoes. You don't need regular land, and you don't need to be meticulously served. You can plant it anywhere at the foot of the mountain, even on the mountain. Otherwise, I will provide you with some sweet potato seeds brought from the north, and it is just spring plowing right now, with good weather and good luck, you may be able to plant two seasons a year."

  The patriarch's wife was so excited that she wanted to kneel and kowtow again, but was stopped by Xu Yin.

  She asked Mother Feng to take someone to move the sweet potatoes in the second mule cart.

   That was the high-yield sweet potato that she asked the system to exchange.

  The production of sweet potatoes in the Central Plains in this dynasty is low, but the sweet and glutinous taste is very good. Compared with food, it is more suitable for drying into candied dried potatoes as snacks.

  She found a chance to change a batch and stocked it in the system warehouse.

   "Do you grow fodder beans here?" Xu Yin asked again.

  Moshidou and Maliudou are the names of this dynasty. They are actually soybeans. Before tofu was invented, they were eaten by horses, mules and other livestock.

  People also eat it, but because eating too much beans can cause flatulence, they are usually eaten as condiments or snacks.

   "There are seeds, but not many are planted. All the land that can be planted is planted with crops."

   "Food bean does not pick the ground, and it can be interplanted with corn. Corn is planted in the middle, and bean is planted on both sides. The mature and rotten bean leaves and branches can also provide nutrients for the corn field."

  The patriarch's wife exchanged glances with the other female relatives in surprise.

Someone in the    clan once suggested that planting corn was too wasteful. The stalks were high, the leaves were wide, and the number of corn sticks produced was pitifully small. It's better to work harder and plant rice. No matter how little the harvest is, you can still produce two crops a year if you work hard.

  Today, some noble people gave advice and asked them to interplant corn and beans.

  This is equivalent to two types of crops in one field, so that two types of crops can be harvested at one time.

  Besides, the nobleman also said that no matter how many fodder beans are grown, don’t worry, she will buy them, and take as much as they have.

  The patriarch's wife and others once again thanked Xu Yin.

  Xu Yin waved her hand.

   "This, have you seen it?"

  She drew a picture of sugar cane with charcoal.

  The charcoal pen was made by someone when I was staying at the post station. The brush calligraphy is good for practicing calligraphy, but she is not used to it as an ordinary writing pen.

  The patriarch's wife shook her head after reading it.

  Xu Yinxin guessed that sugar cane sugar production might not be popularized yet.

  Going south, she has tasted all kinds of sugar, including honey, caramel, and rock sugar made from beets, but she has never seen brown sugar or white sugar made from sugarcane.

"This is called sugarcane. Please pay attention to it in the future. It is very easy to grow. When it is ripe, it can be cut into sections and eaten as a fruit. It tastes extremely sweet. It can survive when the head is inserted into the soil. If it grows out one day, it can be eaten as a fruit." Haystack and beans are delivered together…

  Xu Yin paused, then turned to look at Nanny Feng: "Mommy, what is the name of the place we live in?"

  Nurse Feng was speechless: "Prince Jinnan's Mansion, the prefecture of Baigui County."

  Xu Yin told the patriarch's wife: If sugar cane is grown, she is willing to exchange grain and cloth with them.

  Actually, she has sugar cane in her system warehouse, the excellent variety cultivated in the days of peasant girls. Unfortunately, she did not see the shadow of sugar cane all the way south, so it is inconvenient to take it out.

  She has a faint idea in her heart: she wants the people in Lingnan to plant sugar cane and soybeans on a large scale.

  Sugar cane sugar, brown sugar she has a secret recipe, which is ancient recipe brown sugar.

  Ancient brown sugar is highly respected even in later generations.

  She has never made white sugar, but it is said that the caramel-colored sugar water can be whitened by pouring yellow mud water. I haven’t operated it before, so I looked back to see if there is such a skill book in the system mall. There is really no one, so I can try it out based on my impression.

   For soybeans, she wants to try stuffed soy sauce.

   The cost of soy sauce made from fresh meat is high, and the sales price is higher. If you can brew a low-cost soy sauce, you will definitely get rich.

   Seeing Xu Yin not coming out, Yan Kejin glanced in the direction of the patriarch's house and asked his subordinates what was going on.

  Yan Qi replied after inquiring: "The princess tasted the food sent by the master's family last night, and she was very satisfied. She rewarded them with some food. The patriarch was grateful and asked the female relatives to come and thank them."

  Yan Kejin chuckled lightly: "She has changed a lot."

  Ms. Xu Si in the past, how did she ever have such a kind heart?

   It would be nice to kick over the vulgar food in her eyes without being in front of the host.

  (end of this chapter)