The servant of Ying, the god of the Red Chamber, only loves farming

Daiyu spent the next few days studying the prescriptions in her hand, and even the teacher Jia Yucun's class arranged by Jia Min was suspended.

Jia Yucun didn't need to teach in the past few days, so he went to the Lin Mansion to go to some places where literati often go to dance and write.

After studying the recipe, Daiyu found that there are several important points in potato planting.

Baoyu mentioned in the recipe that potatoes are born from the expansion of the roots of plants, which means that the soil needs to be loosened to make the potatoes swell better.

In addition, the potatoes planted by Baoyu need to be watered in large quantities every few days; and the most important point is the division of seed potatoes.

Daiyu looked at the potato in her hand, and Daiyu cultivated seed potatoes according to the teaching method in the prescription, but the division of this kind of potato failed Daiyu.

Daiyu looked at the clumps of small buds emerging from the potatoes and was puzzled, did she want one bud or several buds on one piece?Also, should the buds be divided into slices or cut into pieces?

Is this cut into long strips or squares?

Daiyu looked depressedly at the rows of sprouted potatoes on the table, unable to make up her mind after much deliberation.

Xueyan looked at the eyebrows of her own lady and said: "Miss, why don't we divide the land into several areas; the lady in each area only uses one method to try, and we will mark it. This will be done after maturity. Afterwards, Miss will come to a conclusion."

Xueyan's words gave Daiyu a flash of inspiration, and Daiyu cheerfully came up with an idea, which made the servants in the mansion reluctantly move the flower garden in her courtyard to another place; For the nine areas, Daiyu wrote nine signs and inserted them respectively.

The first row is the seed potato cut into one piece, and the second row is the multi-bud piece.The three regions under the first column are planted with high ridges and low ridges with flat soil.The Daiyu in the three areas of the second row are cut differently.

As for the empty ones in the last row, Daiyu also planted those potato sprouts that were accidentally stained with charcoal dust when Snow Goose cut the potato cubes.

Xueyan looked at the potato chips "spoiled" by herself, and she knew that the lady did these for the wife and the master; but Xueyan did her own lady a disservice.

"Miss, I'm sorry. I wasted those potato chips." Daiyu twisted the charcoal ash powder in her hand.Daiyu had an idea in her heart to comfort Xueyan and said: "Snowyan may have new discoveries... Since ancient times, warlocks have liked to use this charcoal ash to make elixirs. Maybe this charcoal ash is also effective for these potatoes."

Xueyan's eyes were red, and she felt even more sorry in her heart. She clearly caused trouble to the young lady, but she still wanted the young lady to comfort her.Xueyan took the silk handkerchief and carefully wiped off the thin sweat on Daiyu's forehead, pursed her lips and said in her heart that she must accompany the young lady to grow potatoes!

Daiyu spends most of her time on potatoes, except learning from Jia Yucun and walking with Jia Min to bask in the sun. Daiyu and Xueyan irrigate every few days. Although the two of them are tired from working, they will not be exhausted.

During this period, Daiyu found that the timing of her previous planting was wrong, and some potatoes were wasted. However, Daiyu was not discouraged and planted another batch in September based on her experience.

Watering and weeding; Daiyu recorded the growth of potatoes in different areas every few days; as the days grew, the growth of potatoes in the nine areas gradually became different.The ridges of the mounds will be planted in Pyongyang to be taller and greener; and Daiyu was also pleasantly surprised to find that the potatoes that were mistakenly coated with charcoal ash grew healthier than those in other areas, and on the contrary, there were fewer pests.

Xueyan also noticed the difference, and was as happy as a little sparrow: "Miss! These charcoal-smeared potatoes are really as you said. Miss, you are amazing! You know all of this." Xueyan looked at it with eyes full of admiration. Daiyu.

Daiyu was a little embarrassed by being stared at, and hurriedly found something to send Xueyan away, and Xueyan walked away with a smile.

In fact, apart from potatoes, what makes Xueyan most happy is Daiyu's change.

Daiyu, who has been busy in the potato field for the past few months, is a little darker from the sun; but Xueyan can clearly feel that the little master is no longer as prone to fall when the wind blows as before, and the whole person is much sunny.

Xueyan most hoped that Daiyu would become better.

Xueyan pulled up the weeds in the field with joy in her heart. She watched the potatoes growing one by one in the field and prayed from her heart that these potatoes would have a good harvest.

In this way, Daiyu's hard work can be rewarded.

The weather is getting colder and colder. Although there is no snow in Yangzhou in winter, there are a few winter rains; it is cold and humid.

At the beginning of December, Daiyu finally ushered in a wave of harvest.

Daiyu had stuffed a padded jacket over her close-fitting clothes early on, and was digging potatoes in the field with a hoe and snow geese in her hand.Seeing the sky, Xueyan was afraid that Daiyu would catch the cold and said to Daiyu: "Miss, sit by the fire; let Xueyan do the work. Miss's body has finally become stronger, so don't freeze to death." .”

Daiyu listened to Xueyan's nagging and said with a smile: "Which one is as delicate as you said, it will freeze me to death." Xueyan wanted to say more, Daiyu had already stepped into the potato field with a hoe .

The temperature in the morning was still a bit low. Breathing out the heat, Daiyu kept digging with her hands according to the divided areas one by one, and separated the dug potatoes for comparison later.The movements of Xueyan's hands were done quickly and more than half of them were completed in a short while. Compared with Xueyan, Daiyu was a little bit strenuous and worked hard for a while, and even broke out in a cold sweat.

Seeing that Daiyu's temples were a little wet, Xueyan hurriedly asked the little girl to take a charcoal basin and fox fur to wrap Daiyu up; The moisture on the body dries up.

Xueyan moved extremely nimbly and after being busy for a while, she dug out the few remaining potato plants of Daiyu. Xueyan divided the potatoes and was called by Daiyu to the stove to warm up.

Daiyu saw that the snow geese were also steamed up, so she asked the little girl to fetch another thick cloak for the snow geese to wear.The two were roasting on the fire, and the ground in the yard was covered with potatoes, and the harvest was considerable.

"Goo~"

Looking at the potatoes on the ground, Daiyu picked a few and threw them on the white charcoal to roast, and the aroma wafted out after a while.

Xueyan used a small wooden stick to turn over the potatoes on the white charcoal. The outer coat of the potatoes became a little wrinkled after being roasted, as if a whole piece could be peeled off with a light tear.

When the fire was almost ready, Snow Goose poked the potatoes lightly with a wooden stick to ensure that the potatoes were fully cooked, then took the potatoes out of the white charcoal and placed them on the plain plate that had been prepared.

The potatoes that had just been taken out of the fire were a little hot. Xueyan blew on the heat and touched her earlobe, turning the potatoes upside down in her hand to dissipate the heat;

puff-

There was an extremely thin and light sound of potato skins cracking, and a wisp of white smoke floated out from the crack; the aroma of roasted potatoes also poured into the nostrils of the two along with the wisp of white smoke.

Daiyu sniffed her nose, feeling even hungrier.

After Xueyan handed the split potato to Daiyu, she took another small potato and peeled off the potato skin from one end while exhaling hot air.

After baking the potatoes, the skin and the mashed meat inside have been separated; the skin can be peeled off with a light twist of your fingers to reveal the slightly beige meat inside.

Xueyan swallowed, and bit off a piece of potato in one bite.

"hot!"

"Hot and astringent (tongue) head." Xueyan sucked in the cold air with her mouth open, and the mashed potatoes in her mouth were steaming, but the sweet taste made Xueyan reluctant to spit out the potatoes in her mouth.

Xueyan took a few breaths and swallowed the potatoes whole when they were not so hot.

A sense of warmth fell from the mouth into the stomach, and the baked potatoes with nothing added tasted authentic, not bland at all.

Daiyu watched the snow geese eating greedily while being afraid of being scalded; she followed the snow geese and ate the big potato in her hand.

The baked potatoes tasted good, Daiyu's brows and eyes stretched slightly, thinking of Lin Ruhai and his wife in her heart, and baked two more and sent them to have a taste.

Daiyu picked two big potatoes and threw them into the stove, put her hands together by the stove to warm the fire, the baked potatoes in the palm of her hand were delicious and warm; .

After an unknown amount of time, Xueyan shook Daiyu.Daiyu slowly opened her eyes before realizing that she had fallen asleep. "Miss, wake up, you can't sleep outside the house, you'll catch a cold." Xueyan persuaded Daiyu after shaking her awake.

Daiyu got up and stretched her waist. The fatigue from warming up before the fire subsided, and she regained her energy to see the harvest of those potatoes.

After Xueyan divided the baked potatoes into two plates and called two little maids to give to Lin Ruhai and Jia Min, she followed Daiyu to look at the potatoes.

"Miss, look, the potatoes in the area with many sprouts have many potatoes, but they are not big; and the potatoes in the area with many sprouts are small, but the potatoes are big. And those covered with charcoal ash, the surface It's not as smooth as most of these potatoes have moth-eaten marks on them." Snow Goose babbled.

really interesting!Miss divides the area into different areas, and the style of potatoes is also different.

What Xueyan said was exactly what Daiyu thought in her heart, and Daiyu happily wrote down these changes, and then asked the servant to sort the potatoes according to their size, pack them, and carry them to Lin Ruhai's study.

Daiyu wanted to tell Lin Ruhai about the happy event as soon as possible.

"Daddy! My daughter has succeeded!" Daiyu excitedly ran all the way to find Lin Ruhai.Lin Ruhai looked at the potatoes in the three bamboo baskets with a smack of tongue. He couldn't find his tongue for a moment and stuttered, "Yu...Yu'er. You really planted these?" Daiyu blushed, straightened her back and said, "Daughter I didn’t calculate the season before and wasted some, but fortunately the remaining potatoes were not wasted. All the harvest is here, please look at it, Dad.”

Lin Ruhai looked over one by one, and among the three bamboo baskets, one contained big and good-looking ones, the other contained small potatoes, and the remaining one was of poor quality compared to the first two baskets.

Even Lin Ruhai couldn't bear to see Daiyu take out three baskets at once, "Yu'er, did you grow these potatoes in the past three months?"