Chapter 219: The Seventeenth Gang Solving Problems
After listening to Tian Huairen's words, Tian Huaixiao was afraid of the old man after all. He planned to sell all the grain, but he still left two stones behind and quickly packed it up with Xiao Taohua and left.
Later, Tian Minyan heard that when the old man returned to Henghe, he found that Tian Huaide had never said anything about asking him to go back. When Tian Huaixiao came back and said that he had sold more rations, he realized it and was so angry that he almost gave Tian Huaixiao to
Kicked out of the house.
Of course, Tian Minyan and the others didn't have the time to pay attention to these troublesome things, because they were all busy trying to solve new troubles.
Due to a miscalculation at the time, the 500 kilograms of potato seeds purchased by Tian Minyan could only be planted on three acres of land, and the remaining ninety-seven acres of land have not yet been secured.
After learning about this situation, Tian Minyan immediately went to Faji to find the shopkeeper, but found out that his boss was seriously ill and would not go to the Western Regions in the near future. Moreover, even if he could go, he only bought potatoes and planted them.
They also have to be dried and cut into pieces to encourage germination. It will be October or even longer before they are all ready, and the autumn sowing time has long been missed.
Tian Minyan came out of the hairdresser in despair and walked down the street dejectedly. She felt that her original idea was too naive and too self-righteous, which led to today's dilemma.
The potato harvest was considerable. She thought she could plant more, but it was only three or two acres, which wasted other land. This made her very unwilling. Could it be that the remaining land can only be planted with soybeans and other things?
?
If you can still buy seed potatoes, you can still sow them in winter if you miss the autumn sowing. But where can you get the seed potatoes?
Tian Minyan just lowered her head and thought about it. She didn't look at the road in front of her. Suddenly she hit a wall. The wall still smelled faintly of medicine. She ouched, covered her nose and raised her head to look at the wall she hit.
', shouted in surprise: "Seventeenth Master?"
"You don't look at the road when you walk, and you don't apologize when you bump into someone? You're so rude, girl." Qi Shiqi narrowed his peach blossom eyes, looked at the circle of green and black under her eyes and said, "What are you thinking of, so obsessed?"
"I'm sorry, I'm just thinking about things." Tian Minyan sighed and said with a wry smile: "Of course it's a big problem."
"Oh? Tell me, I might be able to help you." Qi Shiqi raised his eyebrows.
"You can't help me." Tian Minyan pursed her lips and walked forward.
"How do you know you can't help if you don't tell me?" Qi Shiqi said as he walked beside her.
"If you can go to the Western Regions, then you can help me."
"Western Region? I can go."
"Really?" Tian Minyan was overjoyed after hearing this. She turned her head and looked at him with bright eyes: "Let's go to Wenxiang Residence to drink tea and talk."
At Wenxiang Residence, Qin Haitang served them two cups of tea, chatted with them for a few words, and then left.
However, Tian Minyan couldn't wait to look at Qi Shiqi, who was leaning on the couch, and asked: "Master Qi Qi, can you really go to the Western Regions?"
"I just came back from the Western Regions half a year ago, why not?" Qi Shiqi glanced at her, held the teacup to the tip of his nose with his slender fingers, sniffed the fragrant tea fragrance, and said with an evil smile: "In this world
, there is no place that Qi Qi Qi cannot go to."
"Then have you ever heard of potatoes? Ah, they are potatoes." Tian Minyan asked quickly: "They are a kind of potato produced in the Western Regions."
"Potato?" Qi Shiqi looked at her: "What the hell?"
"A kind of food that can be used for cooking or as a complementary food..." Tian Minyan explained the characteristics and even the shape of potatoes in detail.
"Are you talking about the stuff that's cut into strips and fried?" Qi Shiqi said, finally remembering that he had eaten this thing in the Western Regions, and couldn't help but ask her: "What's wrong?"
"Seventeenth Master, I wonder if Shopkeeper Qin has told you that my family bought a hundred acres of wasteland, and Qian'er's employer brought potatoes from the Western Regions..." Tian Minyan told the story of how she wanted to plant potatoes, but made a miscalculation.
I told him, and finally said in frustration: "The yield of these potatoes is very high. The yield per mu can reach one thousand catties or even two thousand. I thought they were all planted, but now, there are no seed potatoes, and the empty land is wasted."
"What, a thousand catties per mu?" Qi Shiqi stood up from the couch and looked at her solemnly: "Are you telling the truth?"
Are there such high-yielding crops? The yield of corn is only about 900 jins per mu. What kind of potatoes can yield 1,000 jins per mu or even more?
Tian Minyan was startled, but she nodded and said: "It is conservatively estimated to be so many. As for planting in other places, I don't know yet. After all, this is the first time to plant, but if the land is fertile, the harvest will definitely be good."
of."
Qi Shiqi stared at her for a while and said, "How many more seed potatoes do you need?"
"If we want to plant all the remaining land, one acre of land will cost about 100 kilograms, which will require at least tens of thousands of kilograms of seed potatoes." Tian Minyan pursed her lips and pressed her fingers with her fingers.
Calculate the size of the potatoes.
"Didn't you say that even if you can buy this kind of potato from the Western Regions now, you have missed the autumn sowing? How can you still plant it?" Qi Shiqi remembered her complaint just now.
"If you can't sow in autumn, you can sow in winter. I've thought about it. If you plant from October to December, you can harvest from January to March of the following year." Tian Minyan said with a smile.
"I will buy these potatoes for you. However, when the harvest comes, you will have to keep these potatoes for me," Qi Shiqi said.
"Ah?" Tian Minyan looked at him and wanted to ask why, but he looked like you just follow my instructions and don't ask why, so she stopped talking and said: "Then I will keep the seed potatoes for next year.
That’s okay, right?”
"I can't do without you." Qi Qiqi glanced at her, as if he was saying she was petty.
Tian Minyan coughed and cursed in her heart, "Who knows, I don't know you very well."
"When will the Seventeenth Master leave? Will he definitely bring back the seed potatoes?" Tian Minyan asked.
"Just leave the land empty." Qi Shiqi glanced at her sideways, and suddenly his peach blossom eyes narrowed: "Why, are you afraid that there will be no seed potatoes by then and this crop planting will be wasted?"
Tian Minyan laughed sarcastically, her eyes wandering, and said: "It's nothing, how can it be, haha."
Qi Shiqi snorted, walked up to her, stretched out his finger to poke her smooth forehead, and said: "Girl, what are you thinking about, and can you hide it from me?"
Tian Minyan didn't watch out for such a poke. She took a few steps back, frowned and said, "Seventeenth Master, men and women cannot be intimate."
"Hey, we all slept together, and you still say this? Isn't it too late?" Seeing her like this, Qi Shiqi deliberately teased her and smiled evilly.
Tian Minyan widened her eyes, glanced outside, and said calmly: "Seventeenth Master, don't talk nonsense. A woman's reputation as a good friend is more important than death. Please forgive me."
Qi Shiqi clicked his tongue twice, suddenly feeling bored, and waved his hand: "You go out, buy the seed potatoes, and I will let someone notify you."
Tian Minyan said oh, blessed her body, turned around and walked out, thinking that Master Qi Qi was really fickle, but since he could help her buy seed potatoes, forget it.
She took two steps, suddenly stopped, frowned, turned around and looked at the man who was leaning on the couch again, and approached him.
"What? You can't bear to leave me?" Qi Shiqi saw her leaving and coming back again, with a rogue smile on his face.
"Master Qi's surname is Qi?" Tian Minyan asked, glaring at him.
Qi Shiqi's eyes flashed and he said, "What's wrong? There are so many people named Qi in the world."
Tian Minyan pursed her lips and said her surname was Qi. Are there really such coincidences in this world? In the bitter love letter she saw in her previous life, the person who bought hundreds of acres of wasteland to grow cotton was named Qi. Could this Qi be the Qi in front of her?
"Have Master Seventeen ever thought about buying land? Have you ever thought about buying some wasteland to open up wasteland or something?" Tian Minyan asked again.
"Yes, I originally wanted to buy your piece of land, but you got there first." Qi Shiqi deliberately joked.
Tian Minyan's heart skipped a beat. Are they really the same person? When will those cotton seeds appear and in whose hands? Is it this person? Foreign country, does it refer to the Western Regions?
No matter what, Tian Minyan wanted to take a gamble and said, "Master Seventeen is going to the Western Regions. Please stop by and see if there is a kind of seed called cottonseed there. If there is, please help Master Seventeen to bring it back."
"Oh, another crop with a yield of one thousand catties per mu?" Qi Qiqi's eyes glanced at her, the girl knew a lot.
"I would like to." Tian Minyan smiled and said: "Although this is not a thousand catties per mu, but if our Southern Dynasty had this kind of crop, I guarantee that the Seventeenth Master will no longer be afraid of the cold in winter, and our Southern soldiers can also
Don’t be afraid of the bitter cold of winter.”
Qi Shiqi narrowed his peach blossom eyes after hearing this, and the dark light in his eyes shot towards Tian Minyan like an arrow, saying: "Girl, do you know what you are talking about?"
Tian Minyan's pupils shrank, but she still said: "As long as Master Qi can find this seed called cotton, I can help Master Qi live a warm winter."
Qi Shiqi looked at her intently and suddenly laughed out loud, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally: "This girl knows a lot. I really want to see how a girl who grew up in the country knows that so many others don't know.
Something you know?”
Tian Minyan snorted, thinking that she was too complacent, forgetting that sometimes being too smart is not a good thing, so she smiled and said: "I also saw from the exotic journals that cotton can be used in weaving workshops to provide ready-made clothes.
If people want to keep themselves warm, Master Qiu will do it if he sees it and brings it back to plant one."
After she finished speaking, she stopped talking and walked out quickly, seemingly calmly.
Qi Qiqi looked at her disappearing back, his eyes a little complicated and unclear. This girl was too mysterious. She always felt like she was covered with layers of veils. If you lift one layer, you will unlock one side of the mystery. If you lift it again, there will be another side.
The layers are different.
Is the eleven-year-old peasant girl too smart?
"Yang Guan!" He shouted, and Yang Guan walked out from nowhere. Qi Shiqi gave a few faint instructions, and Yang Guan took the order and left.
Tian Minyan left without knowing that her unintentional display of intelligence aroused Qi Shiqi's suspicion, to the point that she was being secretly investigated and monitored without even knowing it.
