Chapter 56 The semen female partner chooses to farm (6)
After the meal, I had a cup of sweet lychee soup. I didn’t add rock sugar, but the natural sweetness of the lychees was cooked out.
There are more than a dozen lychees in a clay pot, and the sweetness is just right.
"Mommy, when you leave tomorrow, leave a bag of food for the host's family, and give them some oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. Just say, I like today's dinner very much."
Aunt Feng came down happily.
A sleepless night.
This seemed to be the most peaceful sleep Xu Yin had ever had since entering this book.
In the eyes of the servants, entering the fiefdom of King Jinnan and being unable to leave the fiefdom without an imperial edict, the fourth girl must be unhappy.
Only she knows what this means - a big turning point in the fate of cannon fodder.
Therefore, she had an extra bowl of porridge for breakfast than usual, which was soft and glutinous stewed red bean and millet porridge. Chunlan added a spoonful of honey to her, which tasted sweet.
The people below were loading her luggage onto the carriage one after another while she was having breakfast.
Aunt Feng took the time to visit the host and left the rice, flour, grains and oil that the girl had given her last night.
The host is indescribably grateful.
It was their first time to see nobles at the level of princes, and they felt uneasy, so they used the only ingredients in the clan to give the nobles some food.
Even so, except for the youngest son who was still young, everyone else slept extremely uneasily that night, for fear of accidentally offending the nobleman and bringing disaster to the family.
Unexpectedly, the nobleman not only did not offend them, but also rewarded them with food and seasonings.
The clan leader excitedly led his clan members, kneeling and kowtowing from a distance towards the direction where the nobleman lived, across the human wall blocked by the guards.
The female family representative was brought over by Grandma Feng to thank her in person.
Xu Yin did not dare to accept such a big courtesy from them, so she hurriedly asked them to get up and asked the maids to bring in some stools.
It was not appropriate to get in the car right after eating, so I took them to chat for a while.
"Isn't your harvest good here?"
The leader's wife was nervous and excited. She stood up and said cautiously:
"Your Excellency, you don't know. There are few flat and regular fields here, and the crops grown there are not very good. In the early years, some people went into the mountains to hunt some game and exchange it for food in the city. However, the miasma in the mountains became more and more poisonous year by year, let alone every year.
It’s so long that even young people can’t handle it, and every household is having a hard time..."
I dare not say that taxes are gradually increasing, the burden is getting heavier and heavier, and I risk my life to go into the mountains. The game I harvest, even if I am not willing to eat it myself, is transported to the capital to be exchanged for food. Even so, I haven’t had enough to eat for several years.
It’s time to eat.
The patriarch's wife raised her sleeves and wiped the corners of her eyes: "It made the nobles laugh."
Xu Yin shook her head: "It's okay."
After thinking for a while, he said to the patriarch's wife: "The rice harvest is low, and the terrain conditions here are actually more suitable for growing sweet potatoes. You don't need regular land, and you don't need to take care of it. You can plant it anywhere at the foot of the mountain, or on the mountain.
Otherwise, I will provide you with some sweet potato seeds brought from the north. It is spring plowing right now, and with good weather and good luck, you may be able to plant two seasons a year."
The patriarch's wife was once again so excited that she wanted to kneel down and kowtow, but Xu Yin stopped her.
She asked Grandma Feng to take people to move the sweet potatoes in the second mule cart.
Those were the high-yielding sweet potatoes she asked the system to redeem.
The yield of sweet potatoes in the Central Plains of this dynasty is low, but the sweet and glutinous taste is very good. Rather than being used as food, it is more suitable to be dried into candied dried potatoes and used as snacks.
She took the opportunity to exchange a batch and stocked it in the system warehouse.
"Do you grow beans here?" Xu Yin asked again.
Feed beans and horse feed beans are the name of this dynasty. They are actually soybeans. Before tofu was invented, they were eaten by horses, mules and other livestock.
People also eat them, but because eating too many beans can cause gastric bloating, they are usually eaten as condiments or snacks.
"There are seeds, but not much. Crops have been planted on all the land that can be planted."
"The beans do not need to be picked up by the soil, and they can be interplanted with corn. Corn is planted in the middle and the beans are planted on both sides. When mature, the rotten bean leaves and branches can also provide nutrients for the corn field."
The patriarch's wife exchanged looks with the other female relatives in surprise.
Someone in the tribe originally pointed out that planting corn was a waste of land. The poles are high, the leaves are wide, and the corn cobs produced are pitiful. Each plant only produces one, and it depends on whether it is full or not, so they simply stopped planting it. It is better to work harder and plant it.
As for rice, no matter how small the harvest is, you can still produce two crops a year if you work hard.
Today, some noble people have given me some advice and asked them to interplant beans with corn.
This is equivalent to two crops in one land, planted so that two crops can be harvested at one time.
Besides, the noble lady also said, no matter how many beans you plant, don’t worry, she will buy them and harvest them as much as you can.
The patriarch’s wife and others once again thanked Xu Yin.
Xu Yin waved her hands.
"Have you seen this?"
She drew a picture of sugar cane with charcoal.
The charcoal pens were made by someone when she was staying at the inn. She could practice calligraphy with the brushes, but she was not used to using them as ordinary writing pens.
The patriarch's wife shook her head after looking at it.
Xu Yinxin guessed that sugar cane production might not have become popular yet.
Along the way south, she had tasted all kinds of sugar, including honey, caramel, and rock sugar made from beets, but she had never seen brown sugar or white sugar made from sugar cane.
"This is called sugar cane. Please pay attention in the future. It is easy to grow. When mature, it can be cut into sections and eaten as fruit. It tastes extremely sweet. It can survive by inserting the head into the soil. If it is planted one day, it can be eaten with
The food beans are delivered together...
Xu Yin paused and turned to look at Nanny Feng: "Nanny, what is the name of the place we live in?"
Aunt Feng was speechless: "The palace of Baigui County is the Jinnan Palace."
Xu Yin told the patriarch's wife: If sugar cane is grown, she is willing to trade grain and cloth with them.
In fact, there is plenty of sugar cane in her system's warehouse, an excellent variety cultivated in the days of peasant women. Unfortunately, there was no trace of sugar cane on this journey south, so it was inconvenient to take it out.
She had a vague idea in her mind: she wanted the people in Lingnan to plant sugar cane and soybeans on a large scale.
She makes sugar from sugar cane and she has a secret recipe for brown sugar, which is ancient brown sugar.
Even in later generations, ancient brown sugar is still highly respected.
She has never made white sugar, but it is said that just drizzling it with yellow mud water can turn caramel-colored sugar water white. I have never done it in detail, so I went back to the system mall to see if there is such a skill book, but there is really no such book. I can try it based on my impression.
Give it a try.
As for soybeans, she wants to try making soy sauce.
The cost of soy sauce brewed with fresh meat is high and the sales price is higher. If you can brew a low-cost soy sauce, you will definitely make a fortune.
Seeing that Xu Yin was still not coming out, Yan Kejin glanced in the direction of the patriarch's house and asked his men what was going on.
Yan Qi inquired and replied: "The princess tasted the food sent by the master last night and felt very satisfied. She rewarded them with some food. The patriarch was grateful and asked the female family members to go over and thank them."
Yan Kejin chuckled: "She has changed a lot."
How could Ms. Xu Si in the past have such a kind heart?
It would be nice to kick down the vulgar food in her eyes without being in front of the master.