Xiao Chong, the official of Luan County, has to worry about other towns and villages in Luan County. Linjiazhuang has become busy after the hurricane.
Although this hurricane caused damage to many people's houses, and all the thatched and adobe houses collapsed, because Lin Wanwan was here, not only could she exchange sea goods for rare tiles, but also the family members
There is a side business of sweet potato fans.
Everyone has no idea how much cotton is worth, but everyone knows very well whether the fans are worth anything! When these fans are made and sold in the town, they will be able to exchange for a lot of corn and cloth!
Compared with other villages, Linjiazhuang, which relies on the sea for a living, suffered the least damage - because they have very little land, and the sweet potatoes and other foods they grew were all harvested by women before the hurricane.
Naturally, the men in the clan joined the men in Lujiazhuang to harvest the cotton grown by the two villages.
Lujiazhuang, which is not far away from Linjiazhuang, suffered much greater losses than Linjiazhuang in this hurricane. After all, they are pure farmers. Each family has much more land than Linjiazhuang, so naturally they grow more crops.
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The damage caused by this fierce hurricane to the fields is visible to the naked eye. I don’t know how many crops that were supposed to be harvested soon were blown down in the fields by the hurricane. Even the crops that were lucky enough to survive the hurricane
, it also breaks branches and damages roots, and leaves are damaged.
Especially for late rice that has been damaged by hurricanes, its disease resistance will be greatly reduced in the future. Not only is it threatened by insect pests, but it is also very likely that plant diseases will break out. It is completely uncertain whether it can last until the harvest in October and how much yield it can produce.
.They would all thank God for being able to guarantee half the harvest of previous years.
Because of this incident, the people in Lujiazhuang were not in high spirits even when they began to dry cotton.
After all, cotton is inedible, and it is still unknown how much it can be exchanged for, but the grain production that is expected to be reduced in the fields is a real loss.
How can people like them, who live in the fields depending on the weather, be relaxed and happy?
But they were lucky enough to live in the same village as Linjiazhuang. They used corn to exchange for a lot of sweet potato seeds. This time they harvested a lot of sweet potatoes. The yield of high-yielding crops is not comparable to that of ordinary crops in the Tang Dynasty.
And it was just in time for everyone to dig out before the hurricane came.
In addition to sweet potatoes, this time Mr. Le'an of Linjiazhuang also opened his own granary to help people who were particularly severely affected by the collapse of nearby houses.
With Lin Wanwan's relief and the existence of sweet potatoes, at least the people of Lujiazhuang and Dafengzhuang will not have to run out of food and drink the northwest wind before the autumn harvest, which can be considered a blessing among misfortunes.
Of course, if you want to eat as much and as well as you want, that’s really overthinking. Farmers who depend on the weather for food encountered such a huge hurricane disaster before the autumn harvest. It’s good that people didn’t starve to death. How dare they expect to eat with open stomachs?
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No matter how difficult life is, you must still try your best to get through it.
Now all the clean open spaces in the two villages are drying cotton. In order to dry the cotton, everyone went up to the mountains to cut new bamboo and weaved a lot of bamboo mats during the slack season.
The children were the most carefree. When they saw the snow-white cotton on the drying field for the first time, they were as happy as anything. They shouted "white clouds" in their mouths and ran over to roll on it and run wild, but were caught by the adults at home.
Stir-fried butt meat on a bamboo board.
These cottons are the treasures of adults!
This year's tax collection will begin in a month. Whether the cotton can be exchanged for as much kudzu and grain as expected depends on what happens after it is dried.
In addition to drying cotton, Linjiazhuang also makes fans.
Women are mainly responsible for making fans. During the period of making fans, Linjiazhuang is closed to visitors, and no relatives are allowed to visit!
Whether it’s a married daughter or a daughter-in-law’s natal family, they are all outsiders. Naturally, people can’t learn about sweet potato fans!
Although Xiao Mingfu said that the fans had already been recorded in the book, Patriarch Lin didn't care about it.
Whether the noble landowners want to make vermicelli or not, ordinary people can't stop them. Chief Lin only knows that there are no farmers in these ten miles and eight villages who can make vermicelli - not any kind of vermicelli.
The fans that appear in the town are imported from other towns and villages.
And now, they in Linjiazhuang can make sweet potato vermicelli!
This time, every household in the village had 20 acres of land to grow sweet potatoes, and harvested a total of 10,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes! One kilogram in the Tang Dynasty was 16 taels. If converted to modern calculations, that would be 16,000 kilograms!
Although according to modern production, without various chemical fertilizers and nutrients, the harvest of Datang was reduced by more than half. But in the past, one acre of land could only harvest one to two stones (that is, about one hundred and twenty to two hundred and forty kilograms).
For ordinary people who are concerned about food, the yield of sweet potatoes is unparalleled in the world. It’s a great harvest!
Even if you don't become a fan and every household just eats sweet potatoes, you won't have to worry about starving to death.
It's just that these sweet potatoes are less durable than potatoes. The climate in Luang County is hot and humid, and it's not like in the north where you can dig a cellar for storage. If you dig a cellar in Luang County, it will definitely be damp and moldy!
Therefore, if it cannot be further processed, whether it is potatoes or sweet potatoes, it will not be as good as corn or rice.
Since last year, the county government has convened the elders and residents of each township every three months to teach them agricultural planting knowledge. Among them, it was mentioned that sprouted potatoes should not be eaten because they are poisonous.
Although sprouted sweet potatoes are not as poisonous as potatoes, because this is a humid and hot Luan County, germination is often accompanied by mold, so naturally they cannot be eaten.
Therefore, in the publicity plan written by Xiao Chong after discussing with Lin Wanwan, he directly stated that sprouted sweet potatoes cannot be eaten.
Because you can't expect illiterate people to distinguish between them, just make one blanket decision.
Now Linjiazhuang can process sweet potatoes into sweet potato vermicelli and sweet potato starch. Both of these are much easier to store than the sweet potatoes themselves. Whether you take them to the town to exchange for money or goods, or you can hide them at home.
So when it comes to making sweet potato starch and sweet potato vermicelli, the women in Linjiazhuang are all very motivated!
In order to keep it secret, Patriarch Lin did not even allow unmarried girls to participate in the production. In Patriarch Lin's opinion, compared to the Lin family daughters who will marry outside the family in the future, the Lin family's daughter-in-law who marries into the Lin family village is one of his own.
Although there was talk of divorce in towns and high-ranking households in the Tang Dynasty, and Tang law also supported it, there was absolutely no such thing as divorce in the countryside, not even divorce. It was not easy for Tian Shelang to marry a wife.
, did you spend so many colorful gifts to get it back just to give it up?
Therefore, once a woman marries into the Lin family, she will live as a Lin family member and die as a Lin family ghost.
Lin Wanwan naturally felt sorry for the girls, so she advised Patriarch Lin not to be like this. Aren't both men and women members of the Lin family village?