Chapter 57: A female partner chooses farming (6)

 Have another cup of sweet lychee soup after the meal. There is no rock sugar, but the natural sweetness of the lychee is cooked out.

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

“Mommy, when you leave tomorrow, leave a bag of grain for the host’s family, and give them some oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. Just say, I like today’s dinner very much.”

 Mother Feng is in good condition to come down.

 A dreamless night.

This seems to be the most peaceful sleep Xu Yin has had since she came across this book.

In the eyes of the servants, entering the fiefdom of King Jinnan and being unable to leave the fiefdom without an imperial edict, the fourth girl must be unhappy.

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

Therefore, she drank a bowl of porridge more than usual for breakfast. Chunlan added a spoonful of honey to her stewed soft and glutinous red bean and millet porridge, which tasted very sweet.

 The people below were loading their luggage onto the carriage one after another while she was having breakfast.

 Mother Feng took the time to visit the host and left behind the rice, flour, grain and oil that the girl had given her last night.

 The host is indescribably grateful.

This was the first time for them to see nobles of the prince level, and they felt uneasy, so they used the only ingredients in the family to give some food to the nobles.

Even so, except for the young and carefree young son, everyone else slept extremely uneasily that night, for fear of accidentally offending the nobleman and bringing disaster to the family.

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

The clan leader excitedly led his clan members and knelt down to kowtow from a distance towards the direction where the nobleman lived through the wall of people blocked by the guards.

 The female family representative was brought over by Aunt Feng to thank her in person.

Xu Yin did not dare to accept such a big courtesy from them, so she hurriedly asked them to get up and asked the maids to bring in some stools.

　　It was not appropriate to get in the car right after eating, so I took them to chat for a while.

 “Is your harvest not good here?”

The leader’s wife was nervous and excited. She stood up and said solemnly:

"Your Excellency, you don't know. There are few flat and regular fields here, and the crops grown there are not very good. In the early years, there were people who went into the mountains to hunt some game to exchange for food in the city, but the miasma in the mountains became more and more poisonous year by year, let alone every year. It’s so long that even young people can’t handle it, and every household is having a hard time…”

I dare not say that taxes are gradually increasing, and the burden is getting heavier and heavier. Risking your life to go into the mountains, the game you harvest, even if you are not willing to eat it yourself, is transported to the capital to be exchanged for food. Even so, I haven't had enough to eat in several years.

 The patriarch’s wife raised her sleeves and wiped the corners of her eyes: “It made the nobles 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 growing sweet potatoes. You don't need regular land, and you don't need to take care of it. You can plant it anywhere at the foot of the mountain, even on the mountain. You need it. Otherwise, I will provide you with some sweet potato seeds brought from the north. It is spring plowing right now, and with good weather and good luck, you may be able to plant two seasons a year."

The patriarch’s wife was once again so excited that she wanted to kneel down and kowtow, but Xu Yin stopped her.

 She asked Grandma Feng to take people to move the sweet potatoes in the second mule cart.

Those are the high-yielding sweet potatoes she asked the system to redeem.

The yield of sweet potatoes in the Central Plains of this dynasty is low, but the sweet and glutinous taste is very good. Rather than being used as food, it is more suitable to be dried into candied dried potatoes and used as snacks.

 She found an opportunity to exchange a batch and stored it in the system warehouse.

“Do you grow beans here?” Xu Yin asked again.

The crickets and stables are the name of the dynasty. In fact, they are soy beans. Before the tofu was invented, it was eaten by the horse, mules and other livestock. People also eat them, but because eating too many beans can cause gastric bloating, they are usually eaten as condiments or snacks.

“There is seed, but not much. All the land that can be planted is planted with crops.”

“Beans do not need to be picked up on the ground, and they can be interplanted with corn. Corn is planted in the middle and beans are planted on both sides. When mature, the rotten bean leaves and branches can also provide nutrients for the corn field.”

 The patriarch’s wife exchanged looks with the other female relatives in surprise.

Someone in the tribe originally pointed out that planting corn was a waste of land. The poles were high, the leaves were wide, and the number of corn cobs was pitiful. Each plant only produced one corn cob, and it had to be judged whether it was full or not, so they simply stopped planting it. It’s better to work harder and plant rice. No matter how small the harvest is, if you work hard, you can produce two crops a year.

 Now there are noble people who have given them some advice and asked them to interplant beans with corn.

 This is equivalent to two crops in one land, planted so that two crops can be harvested at one time.

Besides, the noble man also said that no matter how many beans you plant, don’t worry, she will buy them and harvest them as much as you can.

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

 Xu Yin waved her hand.

 “Have you seen this?”

 She drew a picture of sugar cane with charcoal.

Charcoal pens were made by someone when she was staying at the inn. She was good at practicing calligraphy with calligraphy, but she was not used to using ordinary writing pens.

 The patriarch’s wife shook her head after looking at it.

Xu Yinxin guessed that sugar cane production might not have become popular yet.

 Along the way south, she tasted all kinds of sugar, including honey, caramel, and rock sugar made from beets, but she had never seen brown sugar or white sugar made from sugar cane.

"This is called sugar cane. Please pay attention in the future. It is easy to grow. When mature, it can be cut into sections and eaten as fruit. The taste is extremely sweet. It can survive by inserting the head into the soil. If it is planted one day, it can be grown with The food beans are delivered together…

Xu Yin paused and turned to look at Aunt Feng: "Auntie, what is the name of the place where we live?"

 Mother Feng was speechless and said: "The palace of Jinnan, the capital of Baigui County."

Xu Yin told the patriarch’s wife that if sugar cane was grown, she would be willing to exchange grain and cloth for them.

 In fact, there is plenty of sugar cane in her system's warehouse, an excellent variety cultivated in the days of peasant women. Unfortunately, she didn't see any sugar cane on her way south, so it was inconvenient to take it out.

She had a vague idea in her mind: she wanted the people in Lingnan to plant sugar cane and soybeans on a large scale.

 She makes sugar from sugar cane, and she has a secret recipe for brown sugar, which is ancient brown sugar.

  Ancient brown sugar is still highly respected even in later generations.

She has never made white sugar, but it is said that just pouring it with yellow mud water can turn the caramel-colored sugar water white. I haven't done it specifically, so I went back and looked in the system mall to see if there is such a skill book. It turns out there isn't. You can try it out based on your impressions.

As for soybeans, she wants to try making soy sauce.

Soy sauce stuffed with fresh meat has a high cost and a higher sales price. If you can brew a low-cost soy sauce, you will definitely make a fortune.

Yan Kejin saw that Xu Yin was still not coming out, so he glanced in the direction of the patriarch's house and asked his men what was going on.

After inquiring, Yan Qi replied: "The princess tasted the food sent by the master last night and felt very satisfied. She rewarded them with some food. The patriarch was grateful and asked the female family members to go over and thank them."

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

 How could Ms. Xu Si in the past have such a kind heart?

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

 (End of this chapter)