I am old in the Han Dynasty

Xiao Qi hurriedly hugged Xie Lang's thigh.

As soon as Xie Lang saw Liu Che, he guessed that he would get angry.Picking up Xiaoqi in a leisurely manner, he stuffed it into Wei Qing's arms, "Your Majesty, take a look at that bag first."

Liu Che could hear his hidden intentions, and when he saw that package, he would wish he could chop Xie Lang up.

"This bag?" Liu Che pointed to the biggest cloth bag.

Xie Lang pointed to the smallest bag, "That." It was filled with spun cotton.

Liu Che unpacked the cloth bag, touched something soft, puzzled, "What is it?"

Xie Lang walked over and opened another cloth bag.

Wei Qing: "Clothes?"

"Caomin made it for Zhongqing." Xie Lang looked at Wei Qing, "I can't do needlework, Zhongqing puts another one on when she wears it." After speaking, he presented his hands to Liu Che.

Liu Che took it and spread it out, and immediately realized that the soft thing inside the clothes was the white thing, "Isn't this silk?"

"It grew out of the ground. It was planted like wheat." After Xie Lang finished speaking, he took a step back.

Liu Che was stunned, then came to his senses, pointed at Xie Lang, gritted his teeth, and choked out a sentence, "I'll kill you!"

"Wow..." Xiao Qi burst into tears, "Third Master, oh...Third Master..." He stretched out his hand to hug Xie Lang.

Both Wei Qing and Liu Che were frightened.

Xie Lang sighed, took the child, and patted him on the back, "Your Grandpa Liu is joking with me."

Liu Che wanted to say, but I wasn't joking.Seeing the child crying with snot and tears, he gritted his teeth and pointed at Xie Lang, "You, you are very good! There are so many good things, you actually made tofu public first."

"Your Majesty, please allow the grassroots to report." Seeing that he was about to question him again, Xie Lang interrupted him quickly.

Liu Che put down his hands, "Say!"

"The country is based on the people, and the people depend on food." Xie Lang blurted out.

Liu Che was speechless for a long time.

When he found his voice, he couldn't help asking, "Is this something you should care about?"

"No. These are not things grass people should worry about." Xie Lang glanced at the smooth paper and white cotton.

Liu Che choked again.

Wei Qing, who had always admired Liu Che, wanted to laugh at him at this moment, "Your Majesty, Sanlang's mouth, I am afraid that only Zhu Fuyan and Dongfang Shuojia can argue against him."

"Both of them can't do it either." Liu Che pointed at the cotton and paper, mocking slightly, "The two of them have never seen this thing before. Knowing that he made it, I'm afraid they will bow down to him."

Xie Lang quickly said: "The grassroots dare not!"

"You dare to bully the king, why not?" Liu Che looked at him.

Xie Lang lowered his head, looking very respectful, "The grass people planted this kind of flower last year and failed to grow it. I was worried that it would be the same this year, so I didn't dare to let His Majesty know. This thing looks like kapok, with white flowers, and the villagers don't know it. Grassmen call this stuff cotton. The cotton here is stubble cotton."

"What do you mean?" Wei Qing asked for Liu Che.

Xie Lang: "This thing is like a fruit on a tree. There are first ripening and later ripening. This is the wave of first ripening. When you pick it off, remove the cottonseed inside, and make it like this without daring to delay for a moment." Said Then, take a look at Liu Che.

Liu Che nodded slightly and continued to make up.

"The cottonseeds were distributed, and the grassroots gave the cottonseeds to the villagers to raise seedlings. When the spring wheat was harvested, cotton was planted. If all goes well, in September, when His Majesty goes to the silkworm breeding area, you can see white flowers everywhere. At this time, there are only four acres in the silkworm breeding area. , it belongs to the grass people's house." Xie Lang said.

Seeing that Xie Lang dared to invite him to the Silkworm Farm, Liu Che no longer doubted him, "Only four acres?"

"Yes. I found it in the mountains. The grass people carefully put away the seeds, and last year they only dared to plant a few plants behind the house." Xie Lang said, "The grass people are confident, so they dared to plant all the seeds this year. "

Liu Che: "Are there any in the mountains?"

"Very little. People need to pollinate this thing." Seeing that he didn't understand, Xie Lang explained, "bees collect pollen before the flowers bloom and bear fruit. This kind of flower doesn't have the kind of pollen that bees need. So the bees don't go, Only people can figure out their own way.”

Liu Che asked again, "You didn't know last year, so you didn't grow it?"

Xie Lang nodded.

Liu Che originally wanted to tell the world.Now it seems that we can only wait slowly.

"Any more?" Liu Che stared at him.

Xie Lang couldn't help coughing.

Liu Che instantly understood that there was more.

"Thank you Saburo!"

Xie Lang quickly said: "The grass people said, the grass people said. There is bamboo in the silkworm farm, so the people in the silkworm farm can use bamboo to make paper. As far as the grass people know, there are no bamboos in many places, so the grass people asked the people in the silkworm farm to use bamboo to make paper. People’s methods, plus what Cao Min thought about, made paper with linen, bark, etc. Cao Min discovered that by adding a kind of bark, the paper made is not as smooth as bamboo, and absorbs water far better than before.”

After speaking, Xie Lang picked up the purse at his waist, took out a piece of paper and handed it to Liu Che.

Liu Che took it and saw that it was made of bamboo paper and miscellaneous paper, so he nodded, "Come prepared."

"Caomin implore Your Majesty not to announce the making of bamboo paper to the world for the time being." Xie Lang said, "Caomin deceives the villagers, the paper they make can be sold for a lot of money. If Your Majesty announces to the world now, they will hate Caomin to death. "

Compared with paper, Liu Che cares more about cotton, so he has not thought about telling the world about paper, "I promise you. Only these?"

"There is another one in the field that hasn't grown up yet. The grassroots don't know what it will look like." Xie Lang half-truthfully said.

Liu Che opened his mouth, and couldn't help pointing at him, "I don't ask you, is it like this time again?"

"Caomin is now saying that there is no use without seeds. It will only increase your majesty's troubles. Your majesty is busy with everything, and the caomin dare not bother your majesty with such trivial matters."

Liu Che laughed angrily, "Is there any reason for you to bully the emperor?"

Xie Lang thought to himself, it's more reasonable than you anyway.

"The grassroots dare not." Xie Lang bowed his head and said respectfully.

Liu Che nodded him, "Stop pretending in front of me. I have seen your true face. You are just a slippery loach that can't be caught, caught, and slippery. Someday I'll catch you straight—" noticed The child in his arms changed the subject, "I will definitely reward you well." Thirty big boards, skin and flesh bruised.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. The cotton harvested in the village, in addition to keeping enough for their own cultivation, the grassroots let them donate to the imperial court for free." Xie Lang said.

Liu Che sneered and stared at him, "Am I a person short of money?"

You are not short of money.Your father and your grandfather saved you thousands of dollars in wealth.The ropes that tied the copper coins were all rotten.The rice in the rice barn has grown small.But if I dare to sell it to you, you dare to push me to the entrance of the vegetable market and let the executioner scare me.

Xie Lang: "Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Oh! Thank you with your mouth, with your courage, you may not know how to slander me in your heart." Liu Che put down the cotton coat, and noticed that there was a big bag, "What is this?" "A padded coat made for me?" When it was taken apart, it looked more like a quilt, "Xie Sanlang!"

Xie Lang quickly said: "The grass people don't know that His Majesty is here with Zhongqing."

Besides, I don't know you very well.

At this moment, Liu Che wished he could tear him apart, "You know you won't do it to me."

"This item should be dedicated to His Majesty." Wei Qing said, "There are two."

Liu Che turned to him, "Don't try to excuse him. Two, one up and one down are just right." He glanced at Xie Lang, "It's so kind to your brother Zhongqing."

"The grassroots are just reciprocating." Xie Lang said.

First, "Under the sky, is it the land of the king", and then there is "returning peaches and rewards", and it can also be said that "the people depend on food for heaven".Xie Lang said that he is just an ordinary farmer, but he still believes in Xie Lang, he is Xie Xiaoqi.

Liu Che asked directly, "Who did you study under?"

"Caomin has never seen his old man." Xie Lang said nonsense.

Liu Che pointed at him, "Don't tell me you learned it in your dream?!"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

"..." Liu Che choked for a moment, and said angrily, "Do you think I am the child in your arms?"

Xiao Qi put his arms around Xie Lang's neck.

Liu Che's eyes lit up, "Is Xiaoqi right? Grandpa Liu wants to ask you a question."

Xiao Qi buried her entire face in Xie Lang's neck.

Liu Che was angry, what kind of person really has what kind of children.

"Zhongqing!" Liu Che turned to Wei Qing.

You have to follow your orders.

Wei Qing walked forward, "Xiao Qi, give me a hug from Grandpa Zhongqing. Your third master is tired."

Xiao Qi stretched out her arms to hug Wei Qing's neck, and secretly glanced at Liu Che.

Liu Che had no choice but to take the big ones, and seemed to have no choice but to take the small ones.

"Xiao Qi, did your third master find this thing on the mountain?" Wei Qing pointed at Mian Mian.

Xiao Qi nodded.

Wei Qing: "Is there a lot?"

"A lot, a lot." The child looked at Xie Lang after finishing speaking, am I right?Third Lord.

Xie Lang smiled and said, "Your Grandpa Zhongqing wants to know who I learned writing from."

"Master." The child blurted out.

Liu Che hurriedly asked, "Which Master?"

"It's the master." The child was puzzled, is there any other master?

Wei Qing said, "Have you seen it?"

The kid nodded vigorously.

"Where is it?" Liu Che asked hurriedly.

Without even thinking about it, the child said, "School."

"School?" Liu Che and Wei Qing looked at Xie Lang at the same time.

Xie Lang first said that he sold the bears last year, and then he gave Liu Cheche a reward of a hundred gold coins, but he only brought back ten gold coins.

In the end, Xie Lang said, "The characters that the grassroots know are all taught by the masters of the village school."

"You set up a private school in the village?" Liu Che pointed at him. Is there anything he dare not do.

Xie Lang: "Your Majesty only respects Confucianism, and the grassroots worship His Majesty, so they seek out people in the village who understand Confucianism to learn about Confucianism. Knowing that Confucius was preaching in his hometown, the grassroots respect him very much, so they set up a private school in the village."

Liu Che opened his mouth and found that he couldn't refute. He turned to Wei Qing, "Do you believe his nonsense?"

"If you don't believe me, I can only find Ting Wei." Wei Qing said.

Don't look at Liu Che being so angry, let him torture Xie Lang, Liu Che is really reluctant.

"I'll write it down for him first." When he's useless, I'll do the math with him.Liu Che glared at Xie Lang, "I pray that you won't be caught by me in this lifetime."

Xie Lang coughed softly, "There is one thing Caomin has always wanted to confess to His Majesty and Zhongqing. When Caomin was young, a sorcerer once told Caomin's fortune—"

"The appearance of a nobleman is as high as the title of Marquis." Liu Che said.

Xie Lang glanced at Wei Qing, "That's Zhongqing's face. Cao Min had a death at the age of 37, and died after that, so he went if he couldn't make it through."

"Xie Sanlang, Xie Sanlang, I only know that you are bold, but I didn't expect you to be so ruthless. You even cursed yourself." Liu Che pointed at him, "Thinking that, I won't hold you accountable for repeatedly deceiving the emperor?"

Xie Lang smiled wryly: "Your Majesty believes in lies, so why don't you believe in the truth?"

"Nine of your ten sentences are false and one is true, how can I believe you." Liu Che stared at him and said.

Wei Qing couldn't help asking: "Sanlang, is this true?"

"I'd rather be fake." Xie Lang said, "But what I encountered was so miraculous that I had to believe it." Pointing to Cotton, "People in the village have never seen it before, and I saw it when I went up the mountain. I have seen it for two years. It’s as if I’ve gotten my head around it, as long as I want to do anything, I can do it.” Then, he quickly added, “Small things, small things. Cao Min is talking about small things.”

Liu Che sneered twice, "Are these trivial matters?" he asked, pointing to the quilt.

"Your Majesty cares about the world, but he only cares about food and clothing. Compared with His Majesty's worries and thoughts, he thinks they are trivial matters." Xie Lang said.

Liu Che nodded, "You're right! I can't say no to you, I admit it. Now let me ask you, what are you going to do next?"

"I hope the things in the field can grow up." Xie Lang said.

Liu Che wrote it down, and then asked, "Is there any cotton at home?"

"It's in the field, it hasn't been harvested yet." Xie Lang continued nonsense, "Now it's picked every three or four days. It will all be harvested at the end of the month." After a pause, "The grassmen plow the land to grow soybeans."

Wei Qing wondered, "Why not grow cotton?"

"There are only me and Xiaoqi in my family. The four acres of cotton I am planting now are picked by the villagers. When they plant cotton, they can no longer help me." Xie Lang said, "If it is beans, the soybeans are ripe , They can cut it for me within half a day. Otherwise, the cotton will grow well and cannot be picked in time, and it will also become moldy when it catches the rainy day. Moldy can’t be used, it’s better to plant soybeans directly.”

Liu Che was very surprised, "You are not greedy."

"Too greedy will be punished." Xie Lang blurted out.

Liu Che had to re-examine him, "Is this what Master taught you?"

"The grass people realized it by themselves. Because they are not greedy, the grass people can only get what they want recently." Xie Lang said.

Liu Che wanted to believe him, but was also worried that he would use this to fool himself.But he thought that Xie Lang kept such a big matter a secret, and he didn't even intend to tell him. Liu Che had to believe that he didn't ask for much, but a stable life.

"I believe you for the time being." Liu Che turned his head and called Xiao Huangmen, "Take these back."

Xie Lang hurriedly said: "Zhongqing's."

"It's hot now, I don't need it for my brother." Wei Qing winked at him as he spoke, following His Majesty's wishes.

Xie Lang pointed at the cotton-padded coat, "Your Majesty is tall and mighty, even if you take it back, you won't be able to wear it."

Liu Che didn't believe it.It happened that the clothes on his body were thin, so he didn't need to take them off, so he immediately ordered Xiao Huangmen to come over and wait for him to change.

My arm went in and I couldn't lift my arm up.Looking at the long and big clothes, if the armpits are bigger, or if the shoulders are wider, he will fit just right... Liu Che instantly understood, "Xie Sanlang, how dare you guard me?!"

"Caomin don't dare." Xie Lang thought to himself, since he knew, why bother to say it, "Brother Zhongqing is still a bit bulky in this dress."

Liu Che winked at Wei Qing when he took it off.Wei Qing gave Xiao Qi to Xie Lang, and put on the padded coat in front of Liu Che.Liu Che tugged at his shoulder, "Raise your hand."

Wei Qing raised his arm very easily.

Liu Che took a deep breath and secretly reminded himself that if he didn't have a son yet, if he died of anger, the world would fall into the hands of others.Then he turned to Xie Lang and said to Xiao Huangmen, "I removed the bedding."

Xiao Huangmen looked at Xie Lang subconsciously.

"What are you looking at him for?" Liu Che asked angrily.

Xiao Huangmen thought to himself, of course he is the only one who can make Your Majesty so angry that you want to kill, so he dare not touch him.

"That ball of cotton is enough to make a cotton coat." Xie Lang said.

Liu Che didn't believe it, "So little?"

"Cotton is heavier than silk, and it's very tiring to wear if it's too thick." Xie Lang said, "Zhongqing's is also very thin. If your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can pick it up and weigh it."

Liu Che really didn't believe it, and he didn't dare to believe him.

Wei Qing handed over the cotton coat, and Liu Che picked it up from the cart, weighed it with his left and right hands, switched sides, and weighed it again. It was almost the same.

"You still have the truth in your mouth." Liu Che couldn't believe it.

Xie Lang couldn't bear the urge to roll his eyes, "Every word of the grass people is true."

"Just say half and keep the other half." Liu Che gave him a white look, and let the little yellow door push away together with the cart.

Xie Lang quickly reminded, "The cart belongs to someone else."

"It's not yours?" Liu Che looked at him.

Xie Lang: "There is only one cow in the Caomin family."

"You don't even have a horse?"

Xie Lang thought to himself, I don't even have a donkey.Isn't it surprising.

"Small households can't support them." Xie Lang said.

Liu Che wanted to say, then

Stop nestling in silkworms.

But after he thought about it, Xie Lang couldn't make bamboo paper or grow cotton after Xie Lang came out.He came out to be disappointed, contrary to Xie Lang's original intention, Xie Lang was not happy either.

Liu Che then asked, "Can a cow and a donkey be raised together?"

Xie Lang shook his head.Without Xie Sanlang's memory, he wouldn't know how to raise cattle, let alone donkeys that he had only seen on TV in his previous life.

"Yes." Wei Qing said.

Liu Che turned to Xiaohuangmen, "Buy him a donkey and a car."

"Your Majesty, Weichen has a car at home." Wei Qing didn't wait for him to speak, and ordered his servants to pull out his mother's car.

Xie Lang couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, Wei Qing is really a good person.His uncle's car was saved, so he didn't have to go back with a headache and how to explain it.

Liu Che was almost dizzy with anger, he was a majestic emperor and could rely on him to have a wooden cart.This small-bellied Xie Sanlang!

Originally wanting to stay a little longer, Liu Che decided to return to the palace immediately.

Xie Lang followed Wei Qing to send the Emperor out, turned around and couldn't help asking, "Your Majesty is busy recently?"

That's true, he hasn't been in town lately.

Wei Qing heard his hidden meaning, smiled and said: "It's just a coincidence." After a pause, "Sanlang, just now His Majesty wanted to try cotton-padded clothes, you shouldn't have said that only brother can wear them."

"Your Majesty will try it on in the palace, and you will be even angrier if you find that you can't wear it." Xie Lang looked at Wei Qing, "Although it is very disrespectful to His Majesty, I believe His Majesty hates being deceived even more."

Wei Qing: "Then you still lie to His Majesty?"

"I won't lie to Your Majesty, I told you everything last time, how should Your Majesty reward me?" Xie Lang asked back, "I don't need high officials and rich salary.

"Besides, thunder, rain and dew are all the grace of the king. Your majesty can make me a prime minister with a word. You can also degrade me into a commoner with a word. I didn't do this for vanity. Why let your majesty rack my brains to reward me? I am happy, but His Majesty regretted it later, and racked his brains to demote me to a commoner."

Wei Qing sighed, "So you are deliberately angry with His Majesty, to balance your merits and demerits?"

"Not all. I really didn't expect to meet His Majesty today." Xie Lang sighed, "You tell me the truth, what a coincidence?"

"Your Majesty, are you not going in?"

Liu Che looked at the closed door and snorted, "Go back!"

"Don't you give the paper to Mr. Wei?"

"With Xie Sanlang, Wei Qing won't need to buy paper in his life." Liu Che turned around and left after speaking.

Wei Qing frowned slightly, "I seem to have heard His Majesty's voice."

"Going back and forth?" Xie Lang hurriedly looked in the direction of the gate.

Wei Qing listened carefully, it was very quiet outside the door.Looking at the wooden cart, there is only one thing on it, which is the cotton coat Xie Lang made for him, "There is nothing left behind, it must be that Brother Wei heard it wrong."

"Scared me to death." Xie Lang breathed a sigh of relief, "He's an emperor, why is he always elusive?"

Wei Qing smiled and said, "It's much better now. In the early years, His Majesty often pretended to be someone else and went out to play, which was really hard to guard against."

"Let's not talk about that." Xie Lang said, "I just said that His Majesty has to wait a few more months to see the white flowers all over the place. It's true. If Your Majesty wants to go, Brother Zhongqing persuade you to go when the weather cools down."

Wei Qing nodded, "It's hot, His Majesty won't go."

"That's good. I'm worried that when His Majesty arrives, he won't even have to look at the four acres of my house." Xie Lang said, and suddenly remembered that Liu Che had taken away the two bundles of paper when he left. "I still have paper at home. I'll bring you some more tomorrow."

Wei Qing looked up at the sky subconsciously, "Are you still leaving at this hour?"

"This cart belongs to someone else, so I have to use it in the afternoon. The donkey and cart that His Majesty rewarded me should be put at Zhongqing's house first. I'll come and take them tomorrow." Xie Lang said.

Wei Qing nodded, "I'll see you off."

Knowing that Xie Lang drove here by himself, Wei Qing sent him and Xiao Qi to the north gate, Xie Lang drove away, Wei Qing turned back.

Xie Lang looked back and saw that he was far away from the city gate, so he asked, "Xiao Qi, do you know what Your Majesty does?"

"A very powerful official." The child said.

Xie Lang said with a smile, "Xiao Qi is really smart. Xiao Qi, His Majesty will come to play with us in the silkworm farm in the future. Do you know what to call Your Majesty by then?"

"Grandpa Liu?" the child asked tentatively.

Xie Lang shook his head, "Wrong. You should call Grandpa Meng Da. Your Grandpa Liu is very powerful. People in the village can guess the identity of your Grandpa Liu when they hear the word 'Liu'. So you can't mention Liu."

The child asked curiously: "If I mention Liu, Grandpa Liu and Grandpa Zhongqing will become someone else's grandfather?"

"Yes." Xie Lang said.

The child covered his mouth, "I don't want to say it."

"Xiao Qi is so good." Xie Lang said, "Tomorrow when people in the village ask us where we got the donkey and cart, do you know what to say?"

Xiao Qi shook her head, "I don't know about G."

"Grandpa Zhongqing gave it." Xie Lang said, "I don't know how to answer in the future, so I just say it was from Grandpa Zhongqing."

Xiao Qi knew this, "I remember."

At the silkworm farm, the two of them got out of the car, Xie Lang went home to make stew for the golden monkey, white tiger and black wolf, Xiao Qi took the delicious food that Wei Qing bought for him and showed off outside, "My grandfather Zhongqing bought it. .”

"Give me a taste."

When Xie Lang heard this voice, he turned his head and looked out.

"I won't give you food."

Xie Lang laughed, "It deserves it!"

"I'll give it to the calf, but I won't give it to you. Huh! Maverick, let's go over there and play."

Xie Lang looked out again, Xiao Qi led a group of children running from east to west.

The aniseed food and the pork bought from the city were thrown into the pottery urn, and a few big firewood were stuffed into it, Xie Lang washed his hands and walked out, "Qian Xiaohua, how old are you?"

"Eighty is still fifty." Qin Hong laughed.

Xie Lang stared at the woman who wanted to hide behind the drying room, "In a few years, my daughter will be married, so show some face."

"I'm teasing Xiaoqi." Qian Xiaohua said.

Xie Lang: "Only you can believe this. Let me hear your coaxing Xiao Qi again, and I will make you regret coming to this world."

"I'm really teasing him. Don't say he won't give it to me, and he won't give it to me."

Xie Lang: "I only look at the result." After speaking, he led the cow into the house.

The stewed pork was fragrant, Xie Lang fished out the meat, and went to the back of the house with a sickle to pry open a sweet potato.Seeing that some sweet potatoes were as big as a palm, Xie Lang cut a basket of sweet potato vines, threw them into the sheep pen, and picked up the sweet potatoes with a hoe.

Then he packed up a piece of land behind Xie Jianye's house and put sweet potatoes in it.

Seeing him sprinkling soil and watering, Qin Hong went over to help, "Raise seedlings?"

"I'll try it. I don't know if it can come out. I went to the mountains to get those seedlings planted behind the house." In fact, I got them from the map of mountains and rivers.Xie Lang relied on the fact that there were also some on the mountain, but the villagers didn't know about it, so they made nonsense, "If it can be done, each family will share a share and try to plant it in front of and behind the house. It depends on God's will if it can't be done."

Qin Hong smiled and said: "Xie Guang's father said that you have had good luck in the past two years, and you hope to succeed."

"I hope." Not knowing that sweet potato vines could grow alive, Xie Lang didn't expect to be able to produce sweet potato seedlings at all.

But Xie Lang hoped that he could eat roasted sweet potatoes openly in winter, so he looked at them three times a day and sprinkled them with water twice in the morning and evening, more attentive than serving himself.

I don't know if his hard work paid off, or he was bothered by the sweet potatoes. When the silkworm farmers were busy harvesting wheat, his sweet potatoes sprouted.

When the silkworm farmers started planting beans, Xie Lang pulled out the bare cotton that had been picked.

With the help of Xie Jianye's family and the villagers, the four acres of cotton were pulled out in half a day and piled outside the courtyard wall of Xie Lang's house.

After the cotton was pulled out, the men in the village started making paper and the women made yuba. Xie Lang asked the old people in the village to help them harvest sweet potatoes.However, Xie Lang was not idle.

Xie Lang moved the pottery urn to the ground, fetched a bucket of water from the well, and washed the sweet potatoes

Clean it and throw it into the pottery urn and stew it with wheat straw.

Four acres of sweet potatoes were transported to his yard one after another, and a pot of sweet potatoes was cooked.

Xie Lang called the old man and the child to him and said, "The old man eats the big ones, and the children eat the small ones. Stand in line and I'll share."

"How can you eat it so hot? Sanlang." Xie Guang's grandma asked.

Xie Lang thought about it, "Go home and get a bowl. I'll serve you some soup. I feel that this soup is as sweet as honey."

After the words fell, the child turned around and ran home.

Xiao Qi hurriedly looked for Xie Lang, "Third Master, give me the key quickly."

"What do you want the key for?" Xie Lang was puzzled.

The child hurriedly said, "Go home and get the bowl."

"You still have a bunch of them at home."

The child turned to the speaker, pointed to the pottery urn, "I want to eat this."

"I'll save two for you later." Xie Lang finished dividing the sweet potatoes and left a small one for the child to eat slowly with a spoon, then asked everyone, "How does it taste?"

"It's as sweet as honey. Yes, it's a bit choking."

Xie Lang grows very large red-skinned potatoes with extremely high yields. This kind of potato is not as sweet as yellow-skinned potatoes, but it is still very sweet to the villagers who have almost never eaten sugar.

"You can only control your hunger." Xie Lang said, "All the sweet potato seedlings I planted behind my uncle's house have come out. After you have planted your own cotton, leave a small piece of land to grow this kind of potato. When it comes to the autumn harvest, Eat half and keep the other half in the cellar, and plant a little in any field in the coming spring, and it will be enough for the family to eat."

"Is this not for sale?" Xie Jiankang's uncle hurriedly asked.

Xie Lang shook his head, "I don't know how to sell it. I can't cook a big vat and ship it to the city to sell it. Plant it first, and then I'll ask the prince. Let us eat by ourselves."

"I can't finish it. There are so many in your house, enough for you to eat until New Year's Eve."

Xie Lang laughed and said, "I plan to cut it into slices and dry it, just like dried bamboo shoots. It doesn't matter if you eat it until this time next year."

When the old man who had experienced the famine heard this, he quickly asked, "How long can it be kept?"

"I don't know either. How long the bamboo shoots can be stored, this should last as long."

"Then let's make a variety of points and save them for the famine years."

Xie Lang smiled and said, "Whatever you want. Don't forget to plant cotton tomorrow, and help me plant sweet potatoes the day after tomorrow."

The old people waved their hands again and again, never forgetting.

The next day, Xie Lang plowed the land again and planted four acres of soybeans.The other four acres are still reserved for planting sweet potatoes.

Xie Lang didn't give any of the sweet potatoes that Xie Lang collected this time except for his uncle and Xie Bowen's family.But each family gives a handful of sweet potato seedlings, and if they grow well, they can harvest a hundred catties of sweet potatoes.

Everyone in the village knows that Xie Lang can't be messed with now, so some people heard the old man in the family say that sweet potatoes are good, a good thing to deal with in times of famine, they are greedy for his sweet potatoes, and dare not go to his sweet potato fields to pull out sweet potato seedlings.

So passed more than two months.

The bamboo paper made by the people in the sericulture was sold, every household added donkeys or cows, the village school started again, and the cotton in the sericulture also bloomed.

On September [-]th, a holiday, when Xie Lang was staring at the villagers picking the first crop of cotton, Liu Che came to Wei Qing's house and asked, "Has the white cotton in the silkworm breeding bloomed yet?"