Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

Li Qingshi kept playing with the two immature potato tubers, seeing that Zhang He also brought one over, he knew that it was the one Xia Jiniang took back.He laughed and said, "Does Erlang know what this is?"

Zhang He shook his head: "How would I know, but I am quite interested in its origin, and want to know where Brother Qingshi got it!"

"Didn't my cousin tell you? I found it when I was passing through the wasteland on the west slope."

"That's really interesting. I'm very curious about this thing and want to find out. I don't know if brother Qingshi is free, can you show me the way?"

Li Qingshi said straightforwardly: "It's no problem." After saying that, he walked ahead.

Zhang He hurriedly called to stop him, and said, "Brother Qingshi, won't you tell Sister Qingshi?"

Li Qingshi was stunned, puzzled and said: "We are just going to Xipo, why should we tell her?" But he remembered something, so he went in with a smile and talked to Mrs. Chen, and when he came out, he said with a sigh of relief, "I told her, let's go!"

After leaving the courtyard of the Li family, Li Qingshi asked Zhang He, "Could it be that when Erlang goes out, he always informs his cousin like this?"

"Yes, in case she doesn't know where I went and worries."

Li Qingshi suddenly realized: "No wonder my cousin asked me to pay more attention to the matchmaker a few days ago. I think I learned from Erlang."

Before Zhang He realized who the "matchmaker" was, he heard Li Qingshi say again: "The matchmaker has been very annoying lately, and she has to worry about some trivial matters, and she even has to put on makeup for no reason."

"Maybe he will still play tricks on you?" Zhang He asked.

Li Qingshi agreed: "That's right. Occasionally, I will play with my temper and get angry. Fortunately, it is only occasionally, and I will not be ignorant and make my mother suffer. But why is Erlang so clear?"

"Brother Qingshi might as well praise Sister-in-Law Qingshi more, and let her know when you go out, and buy her some small things occasionally, so she might not be like this." After Zhang He finished speaking, he found Li Qingshi staring at her and smiling, and felt a twinge in his heart. Frightened, "Brother Qing Shi has a different opinion?"

Li Qingshi shook his head: "No, I just feel that Erlang, who didn't know what it was half a year ago, will be so well versed in how to get along with husband and wife after enlightenment. Fortunately, I am five years older than you, and I started a family three months earlier than you, but You can't understand a woman's mind better than you."

"..." Because I am a woman!

The two chatted and walked to the wasteland near Li's Xiatian.Here is a soil slope facing west, so it is called "Xipo".The west slope is far away from the Qinghe River, and there are no ditches. Weeds are overgrown, and there are many sandy rocks. The government has never reclaimed the wasteland, so it has allowed the weeds to grow and be abandoned.

On the slightly higher slope, there are several solitary tombs. These are the tombs piled up by families who have no money to build a cemetery on the mountain, so they bury the bones of their ancestors here at will.There is not even a decent tombstone erected. As for the cold food to worship the ancestors, we have to rely on memory to identify them.

Li Qingshi picked up a half-withered seedling and gave it to Zhang He, saying: "It is the fruit of this seedling."

Zhang He pretended to be curious and observed carefully, then swept his gaze away, pointed to a similar seedling not far away and said, "There is another one over there!"

"Erlang has good eyes!"

The two walked over, and Zhang He pulled out the surrounding grass, revealing the flowering seedling in front of his eyes.She looked at Li Qingshi: "Brother Qingshi once dug such a taro from its root, so brother Qingshi should come here?"

Li Qingshi nodded, he found a piece of wood nearby, and dug around the seedling.Every time he dug, anticipation was born in his heart, and he worked harder.The soil here is not compacted, and after a while, you can see its rhizomes and the tubers connected to the rhizomes.

Some people in the village saw the two "sneaky" and came over and shouted: "Hey, what are you doing in broad daylight? You are so sneaky!"

"You're sneaky. Do we have to tell you when we dig grass?" Li Qingshi was very angry at what he said. This is a wasteland, and they didn't do anything bad, so why should he say it so embarrassingly.Taking a closer look, this person was Zhang Hua who had strangled several newborn daughters, and showed him even more embarrassing.

Zhang Hua shrank a little after being so fiercely attacked by him, and muttered, "Who knows if you guys are secretly burying something you don't want to win?"

"We are not you, let alone strangle a baby girl, your wife and child are sick, and you don't want to seek medical treatment from a doctor, but you still believe those witches' words, let her bathe in cold water, and drink a bowl of what I don't know. Tang Shui, you tortured her to death!" Li Qingshi said coldly.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Zhang Hua was ashamed and annoyed by what he said.

Some people nearby heard the movement and gathered around, Zhang He glanced at Zhang Hua, and said to Li Qingshi: "Brother Qingshi, don't talk to him too much, we are not afraid of the shadow."

"Erlang is right." Li Qingshi nodded and dug out five tubers the size of eggs in the ground.But these five tubers are better looking than the previous three, at least the surface is yellow.

Zhang Hua explained to the onlookers: "I saw the two of them digging furtively here, and I didn't know what they were going to do, so I came over and asked, but they were bloody. Look at the things in the ground, It's green and yellow, and I don't know what kind of poison it is!"

"No way?" Someone asked in confusion, "Doesn't this look like some kind of poison?"

"Kind of like... an egg?" someone chimed in.

"I think it looks like kudzu."

"Is this taro?"

Everyone was arguing endlessly, Zhang Hua saw that they did not follow his own words to question Li Qingshi and Zhang He, she was very annoyed, and said, "Aren't you afraid of being poisoned?"

"I found this when I passed by here today. I didn't know what it was, so I brought Zhang Erlang over to have a look. We found another seedling like this, so we planned to dig it out. I didn't expect you to be so stupid. What is your intention to say that we are doing unscrupulous things?"

"You!" Zhang Hua glared at Li Qingshi angrily.

Someone looked at the seedling that Li Qingshi was pointing to, and found that there was another plant in the distance, and he immediately called out excitedly: "Really, there is also a plant here!"

Everyone gathered around and started digging.But they only dug out a few black and green tubers, and then they returned to Li Qingshi's side again and asked, "What is this and when did it grow here? We didn't even notice it."

"I don't know if I can eat it!"

"Show me?" They stared at the tuber in Li Qingshi's hand.

Li Qingshi graciously distributed one to each of them, and said: "There are so many fruits on the root of this seedling, which is similar to that taro. Could it be some unknown taro?"

"It's possible!" Everyone agreed.

"Why don't you cut it open and have a look?" Another person asked.

Li Qingshi took these tubers back and said with a smile: "I want to cut it open and have a look, and I will tell you guys after I find out what it is."

These things were dug up by Li Qingshi and Zhang He, and they were not valuable. Although everyone was curious, they would not be greedy.Even if they were greedy, they would not dare to take these things from Zhang He's hands even if Zhang He was here.

Back at Li's house, Li Qingshi took out a knife and cut open one of the tubers, only to hear a crisp "click" sound, and the tuber was split into two halves.Li Qingshi said in surprise: "It's really beautiful inside, the colors are very well-proportioned."

Zhang He touched his chin, and she also noticed that these potatoes didn't seem to be bitten by insects very much.And it is very unexpected that it can produce results without taking care of it and still growing by itself.Except for the few potatoes that were exposed to the soil before and turned green, these five potatoes are close to maturity.

"Maybe it's just the beginning of planting, so the corresponding pests haven't appeared yet?" Zhang He didn't know very well, so he could only ponder in his heart.

To her delight, the potato was not discovered by her, and no one questioned its origin, at most it was just a matter of its species.Even if she cultivates it in the future and starts planting it openly, no one will doubt that its origin has something to do with her!

"It's similar to taro, so it probably won't be poisonous. I'd like to see if it can be cultivated. If I can plant it, I'll taste it again and I'll know what it does." Zhang He said with a smile.

Li Qingshi pondered for a moment, and said, "Why bother to plant?"

"Brother Qingshi, look, it's just a seedling, and there are so many taro seeds growing on the root. If it can be eaten, this seedling can be enough for a person's daily ration? If you plant hundreds of taro plants in an acre of land, How much can there be?" Zhang He said.

"One taro plant bears three or four taro seeds, but many people are still unwilling to cultivate it, because it can not be used to pay taxes except for satisfying hunger. And many people don't know how to plant it properly, so the harvest is often meager. "Li Qingshi smiled. Although he discovered this thing, he didn't think about planting it. After all, he was thinking about food and clothing.Unlike Zhang He, she didn't worry about food and clothing, and she had time to think about it.

Zhang He thought about it carefully, it is not easy for people to accept these fresh species in a short period of time, and in the eyes of many people, many potato crops are classified as "taro". Maybe it is also "taro", so there is no need to cultivate it.

Considering that sweet potatoes were introduced in the Wanli period and widely planted in the Qianlong period, and the government's promotion was indispensable, she stopped arguing with Li Qingshi.As long as she can grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., one day these crops will be spread elsewhere.

But she thought of sweet potatoes, and secretly planted sweet potatoes back then. Sweet potatoes are resistant to barrenness. She believes that potatoes can grow naturally miraculously, so sweet potatoes must be able to do so.It's just that sweet potatoes can't be harvested until December, and she can't guarantee whether everyone will have doubts after discovering two fresh crops in a row.

Seeing that it was noon, and Zhang He hadn't returned yet, Xia Jiniang went to Li's house to look for her.And Zhang He was planning to take a bite of the potato in front of Li Qingshi to let people know that it is not poisonous. Seeing this, Xia Jiniang quickly pressed her hand and said anxiously, "Erlang, what are you doing?"

Zhang He was taken aback, and blinked: "Taste this thing and see how it tastes."

"The origin of this thing is unknown, so how can you eat it at will?" Xia Jiniang said, if this thing was planted by Zhang He, or related to it, then it wouldn't make people so anxious.But Li Qingshi accidentally discovered this thing, and it has nothing to do with Zhang He. How could she let Zhang He take risks?

"That's right." Li Qingshi also said, "Although we temporarily regard it as a taro, it's not just a taro!"

Zhang He had no choice but to give up. She told Xia Jiniang about digging potatoes with Li Qingshi, Xia Jiniang was also quite surprised: "It's really wild?"

"I plan to go back and chop it up to feed chickens and ducks to see if it is poisonous. If it is not poisonous, I will think about how to cultivate it. If it is poisonous, I will tell the village and don't eat it by mistake. What does Niang Ji think?"

Seeing her persistence, Xia Jiniang agreed, "As long as it's harmless, do whatever Erlang wants!"

The author has something to say: Well... At that time, a bunch of vines that had nothing to do with "taro" were named "taro", so potatoes will not have a name so soon...