Farming in another world to make a fortune

Yu Zhou finally let go of his held breath. Fortunately, although Tao Jiang escaped a bit, he was still unmarried after all, and he didn't do such things as send a picture of the spring.

Otherwise, if Jin Chuan caught him in broad daylight, even if he said that it had nothing to do with him, he would not be able to tell.

Jin Chuan knew Yu Zhou well, and he guessed from the subtle changes in his expression, "Didn't you buy this book?"

"Tao Jiang sent it," Yu Zhou spread his hands, "I said I would definitely like it."

Jin Chuan couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the words, he shook his head after a while and said: "If he finds out that you are a foreigner in the future, I don't know how he will feel."

Yu Zhou thought for a while and said, "So it's better not to let him know."

Regarding social customs, except for Jin Chuan and Chang Ning Bookstore, Yu Zhou didn't intend to lose his horse in front of others, even if he was a good friend.

"The script?" Jin Chuan asked.

Yu Zhou: "Put it away, it won't take up much space anyway."

During dinner at night, Yu Zhou told Jin Chuan all about what happened at He's house today.

When Jin Chuan heard that He Yunqi's marriage was told by a matchmaker from the brother's family, he suddenly became interested: "I don't know what kind of person He Yunqi's fiancé is, I really want to meet him."

"Think he is brave?" Yu Zhou could probably guess what he thought.

Jin Chuan nodded, "He's the first brother I've heard of who can offer to marry the person he likes."

"Really?" Yu Zhou raised his eyebrows and teased, "If I remember correctly, it was someone who offered to give me the purse back then."

Jin Chuan took a quick look at Yu Zhou, but he didn't expect him to bring this up, and said uncomfortably, "We... aren't we different?"

"Although the specific situation is different," Yu Zhou said, "but he is not the bravest person you have heard, and you are the bravest one, no matter what it is."

After hearing this, Jin Chuan glanced at Yu Zhou, then lowered his eyes and ate quietly.

Afterwards, he talked about Tao Jiang, but it was a little bit more funny. Jin Chuan was teased several times. He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his fingers and asked, "You really told him directly, if you come here during this time , can you harvest rice and dig sweet potatoes for us?"

"Yes," Yu Zhou said as a matter of course, "From what Uncle Chen said, the rice should be harvested in about ten days. As for the sweet potatoes, it should be soon after the rice is harvested."

Uncle Chen is watching over the rice, and before the harvest, there will be an autumn harvest ceremony in the village, so Yu Zhou doesn't have to worry about missing the harvest time.

Sweet potatoes are completely different. Yu Zhou himself is not sure about the exact time. He only vaguely remembers that it was before and after the frost. Others in the village have no experience and cannot give advice.

And this year, only he and Uncle Chen's family planted sweet potatoes in the whole village, and Uncle Chen's family planted less than one-fifth of his family's.

Therefore, the standard for confirming whether the sweet potatoes have grown well is to dig out a nest in the ground every once in a while.

Time passed quickly, and it was time for the autumn harvest in a blink of an eye.

Different from the early rice harvest in summer, this time it is not only the harvest of millet, but also other crops such as peanuts. After all these things are collected, it means that this year's harvest has come to an end, and after that, we only need to plant some crops that can survive the winter. For wheat and vegetables, it's time to prepare firewood for the winter.

So the villagers attach great importance to it.

After class the previous morning, Mr. Wen gave Yu Zhou a holiday, and each family in the village brought two kinds of vegetables, each with some rice, and the whole village had an autumn harvest feast together.

It was the first time for Yu Zhou and Jin Chuan to participate in this kind of activity. They were very interested, and they brought a big pot of fish and a big pot of meat without hesitation.

Perhaps because the autumn harvest is coming soon, even the poorest families in the village are much more generous than usual, and the families with better conditions also prepare meat dishes, so the two brought by Yu Zhou and Jin Chuan The big pot of fish and meat is not too special.

During spring plowing and autumn harvest, people in the village always get up very early.

On the second day, Yu Zhou got up at [-]:[-] as usual, and was still fetching water to wash his face in the yard, when he heard Aunt Chen next door whispering to Chen Feng, hurry up and cut some rice from the field, so that it can be harvested at dawn.

The two families still agreed to form a team to thresh millet, so after hearing those words, Yu Zhou didn't want to go too late, and went to the field with the sickle he had prepared earlier after washing.

Yu Zhou and the three of the Chen family went home after laying down a field of rice early in the morning.

Jinchuan didn't see Yu Zhou in the morning, so he guessed that he must have gone to the fields, so he went to the next door and told Xiaojuan that he didn't need to cook, and then cooked the two families' breakfast together.

So Yu Zhou and the others can eat directly when they come back from work.

After the meal, apart from Aunt Chen staying at home to watch the house, the two families were mighty, and even Xiao Juan went to the field with them.

The weather is getting colder, and everyone is wrapped up tightly when they go to the fields. Jinchuan even made a few pairs of gloves for those who need to wear them, so that they don't have to worry about being cut by straw.

The speed at which the two families work together is unusually fast. Yu Zhou's family originally only had two acres of land, and Uncle Chen's family did not have much land. Within ten days, all the rice had been harvested.

Afterwards, a drying mat was placed in the yard to dry, and the shriveled grains were blown away with a windmill, and the rations for the next year were collected.

After harvesting the rice, Yu Zhou asked Uncle Chen's family to cut the sweet potato vines in his field.

This thing is of no use to him, but it is a good thing for Uncle Chen's family. A lot of vines can be cut from half an acre of sweet potatoes, which can feed Uncle Chen's pigs and cattle for most of the winter.

It was also a coincidence that Uncle Chen and Chen Feng had been busy for a few days, and just after cutting the sweet potato vines and carrying them back, the frost began to fall the next day. Fortunately, the sweet potatoes were buried in the ground, so as long as there was no heavy snowfall, it would not be affected.

However, the weather change is also telling Yu Zhou that the things in the field can be harvested.

Their family was the only one in the village who grew sweet potatoes. On the day of the excavation, not only Chen Feng and Xiaojuan, but also Er Gouzi, who was closer, followed to watch the excitement.

Yu Zhou knew that the land in Yujia Village was fertile, but he didn't expect it to be so suitable for the growth of sweet potatoes.

Some time ago, he didn't think there was anything wrong with digging a plant every once in a while, but now it has enough time to grow, and when he hoeed down, a large bunch of sweet potatoes were turned out.

He didn't pay attention when he dug for the first time, and he dug up two roots.

Seeing the people around him staring helplessly, he peeled off the skin and dug up the rotten place, and gave it to Chen Feng and the others to eat.

Fresh sweet potatoes are crispy and fragrant with a little sweetness, which is also a kind of delicacy for the group of people who don't have too many snacks.

After Chen Feng finished eating half of the sweet potato, he happily picked up another hoe and said, "Let me dig it for you. It's enough for Jinchuan and Xiaojuan to clean off the sticky soil on the sweet potato."

Er Gouzi followed suit and said, "I'll help too."

If someone offered to help, Yu Zhou would naturally not refuse.

What surprised them was that they only dug about one-tenth of half an acre of land, and they dug up four large baskets of sweet potatoes at least two hundred catties.

Chen Feng looked at the pile of sweet potatoes piled up like a hill, licked his lips and said, "You harvest so much all at once, can your family... finish it?"

Yu Zhou also didn't expect this output, and he was shocked, "It should be more than enough."

He arranged roasted sweet potatoes, dried sweet potatoes, sweet potato powder, and all kinds of food that he could think of, but he still couldn't arrange all the nearly two thousand catties of sweet potatoes in the field.

If he had a mobile phone at this time, he would really like to call Tao Jiang and tell him to come back quickly and eat sweet potatoes.

But this thing can also fill the stomach, and it can be sold if it is too much to eat, so he said: "Don't worry about so much, just take it home and talk about it."

When he went back, he asked Er Gouzi to take as much as he could with the vine. Uncle Qing happened to pass by, and Yu Zhou gave some to Uncle Qing.

He also told them that they can take it home and bury it in hot firewood ash and bake it, or peel it and put it on rice and steam it.

As for Chen Feng, Yu Zhou asked him to help him carry a load back, and he could take as much as he wanted, or even carry it away with one load.

When Yu Zhou sent these sweet potatoes to these people, he just thought that his own family would not be able to eat them all anyway, and he had a good relationship with these people, so he gave away some.

But it never occurred to him that not long after he and Jin Chuan arrived in the field in the afternoon, Aunt Qing and Er Gouzi's mother led several women from the village to the field happily to find them.

A few fields away, Aunt Qing shouted at the top of her voice: "Boy Zhou, my nephew happened to come over for those sweet potatoes you gave me today, and he liked them so much, can you share some of them and sell them to me? "

Both Yu Zhou and Jin Chuan are good at observing words and expressions. Looking at Aunt Qing's posture, they know that they like sweet potatoes for real, but they brought such a large group of people here to ask if they sell them, just to show it to other women in the village. up.

Otherwise, based on the relationship between the two families, even if Aunt Qing came over with a backpack and asked for some, Yu Zhou would not refuse to give it away.

They have already built a bridge for him, so Yu Zhou will naturally not tear it down by himself. Besides, he can send a few women here, and there are so many people in the village, so it is impossible for him to give it to every household for free.

So after thinking about it, he said, "Since my aunt wants it, I don't think it's expensive, so let me just five Wen and two catties."

Aunt Qing nodded slightly and didn't say anything, but someone among the women who was traveling with her immediately said, "It's more than two pennies per catty, so it's not expensive?"

After noon, Yu Zhou had already figured it out. They couldn’t finish eating sweet potatoes, but at worst, they would work hard and make them into sweet potato flour. This is durable and delicious. In winter, cook it in hot pot for breakfast in the morning. all fast.

So when she heard that the woman thought it was expensive, she smiled and said: "Auntie, you can go to the town to find out, the shops are all selling three Wen for a catty, and you have to carry it back from so far."

Since the women can get together to buy sweet potatoes, it is natural that someone knows the price in the town. After hearing what Yu Zhou said, they fell silent.

Aunt Ruqing and the others who really wanted to buy just walked to the ridge of the field and asked, "Then can we pick it ourselves?"

"Yes." Yu Zhou said bluntly. Most of the returned sweet potatoes should be sweet potato flour in the end. There is no requirement for the size of the sweet potatoes to make sweet potato flour, so everyone wants to choose big and small. It doesn't matter.

To Yu Zhou's and Jin Chuan's surprise, Aunt Guangqing and Er Gouzi's mother bought nearly two hundred catties of sweet potatoes and left in one afternoon.

After realizing the value of his own sweet potatoes, when he packed up and went home, Jin Chuan said, "Tomorrow, I will invite a few people from the village to help, dig up all the sweet potatoes and bring them home."

Yu Zhou also had this intention, and before leaving, he marked the junction between dug and undug.

As a result, when I came to the field the next morning, I still saw that the marks he made the day before had been moved, and at least one basket of sweet potatoes had been dug away.