An hour later, as the steaming food was placed on the table, Shen Lie, who was sweating profusely, took off his apron and sat down next to Zhang Jingxiu.
Then Shen Lie showed a bright smile to everyone, and said with a smile: "What are you still waiting for... Let's have dinner!"
Everyone was also starving.
Everyone is here.
Under Shen Lie's courtesy, a large table of people picked up their chopsticks one after another, picked up the fragrant white rice, and began to eat happily while talking and laughing.
It's also fun.
This meal is really delicious and sweet. The pure natural and pollution-free organic ingredients are cooked by Shen Lie's masterful hands, exuding a fragrant smell.
The portion was large and filling. It was plump and juicy in one bite. Soon everyone was sitting around the table and their mouths were full of oil.
The various dishes were quickly exhausted, but no one paid attention to the bowl of sweet potatoes. It seemed that no one was interested in this novel food.
After all, the sweet potatoes of this era don't look very tasty.
Seeing that no one was there to support him, Shen Lie had no choice but to pick up a piece of boiled sweet potato, break it into pieces, and then pass it to Zhang Jingxiu, Yun'er, Tian Hong and others.
"Come on, have a taste..."
Under Shen Lie's strong recommendation, several people took the novel food, took a bite carefully, and savored it in their mouths.
Then they all showed strange expressions.
Miss Zhang only tasted a small mouthful and then spat it out, frowning and saying: "It doesn't taste good...what does it taste like? It's too unpleasant."
Yun'er also frowned and chewed for a long time, then swallowed it hard and put it aside in disgust.
Only Miss Xuan'er and Tian Hong gave Shen Lie a small favor and swallowed the plant called sweet potato.
Then the two of them hurriedly got up and looked for water.
Seeing everyone's disgusted looks, Shen Lie was stunned, looked at the remaining half of the sweet potato in his hand, and tried to take a bite.
This taste.
Shen Lie also frowned. It really tasted like sweet potatoes, but it was not the roasted sweet potato that he was familiar with. Instead, it tasted like cheap white potatoes that had a rough texture and was difficult to swallow.
At this time, Yun'er commented from the side: "This thing can only be used to feed pigs."
Zhang Jingxiu nodded and agreed: "It tastes terrible."
Although Tian Hong and Xuan'er didn't say anything, their expressions had already said everything.
As Shen Lie chewed the sweet potatoes, which were very unpalatable in this era, his expression became strange, and he muttered in his heart, it seemed that the history books had lied again.
This stuff is really unpalatable, hard to swallow, and easy to fart if you eat too much. No wonder it was not widely promoted in the late Ming Dynasty.
No wonder the Qianlong Dynasty relied on the government to promote cultivation.
Under the gaze of everyone.
Shen Lie still swallowed the unpalatable sweet potato alive, then burped and drank the mountain chrysanthemum tea handed over by Yun'er, which finally made him feel better.
The atmosphere was a little awkward.
But no matter what, Shen Lie decided to grow some sweet potatoes. Although this stuff was unpalatable, it could fill his stomach.
And because it has a large yield and is easy to grow, it is cost-effective even to feed pigs.
In a time of great disaster, this is a life-saving tool!
As Shen Lie coughed a few times, the embarrassment eased a little, and he asked Victor again: "Are you ready for the potato seeds and green and red pepper seeds that I asked you to prepare?"
Nowadays, hundreds of acres of land in Shenjiazhuang are full of places where food can be grown. It is time to continue to buy land around it and expand the scale of planting.
This requires a lot of seeds.
Victor hurriedly said: "Everything is ready."
Looking at his blond hair and blue eyes, Shen Lie patted his shoulder with admiration and said encouragingly: "Well done, I'll give you an extra ten taels of silver as a reward."
Victor immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, shopkeeper."
At this time, Yun'er put her little head over and said excitedly: "Master... do we still want to buy land to grow potatoes?"
Shen Lie smiled and said: "Yes, plant potatoes, plant lots of them!"
Compared with the unpalatable sweet potatoes, it is much easier to promote potato cultivation in this era.
Yun'er immediately became happy, looked at Miss Zhang, and then at the young master, her delicate eyes narrowed with a smile.
The little maid seems to be thinking about a bright future.
There is a faint warm atmosphere in the air.
Afternoon.
After lunch, we rested for a while.
Shen Lie became a little restless, took out the tools from the warehouse, and led others to continue repairing and building his farm.
The fences around the village were tightened, the ditches for water diversion were expanded, and the basement containing muskets and ammunition was carefully concealed.
Soon Shen Lie was covered in stinking sweat from being basked in the bright sun, so he threw down his tools and walked to the small river outside Zhuangzi to wash his face.
But after washing his face, Shen Lie still felt greasy all over his body. Looking at the clear river water, he wanted to jump in and take a bath.
Of course, this idea can only be thought of. There are still female relatives in Zhuangzi, so it can't be too rough, so an idea popped up in Shen Lie's mind.
He picked up a sharp ax and called a few people.
Shen Lie then went straight to the forest behind Zhuangzi, spat on his hand, and swung it at a poplar tree as thick as a bucket.
After cutting down a few trees, Shen Lie walked around and found some moso bamboo, which made him feel pleasantly surprised.
There are also bamboos in this part of the capital, but the quantity is small. Because the winter is too cold, it is not easy for bamboos to grow.
Looking at this small patch of bamboo forest, Shen Lie was pleasantly surprised and planned to ask Victor to find a way to cultivate more, and then picked out a few extra thick bamboos and cut them down.
Busy and busy.
Shen Lie first trimmed the leaves on the moso bamboo, then found a saw, shook the tendon on his arm, and sawed the moso bamboo into small and even segments.
Then use hemp rope to connect the bamboo tubes to make a square shower head.
Then Shen Lie began to carefully drill holes in the bamboo tube.
At this moment, soft footsteps sounded behind him, and then Shen Lie heard the familiar and sweet charming chuckle of his sweetheart.
"Oh, I'm such a good bamboo, how can I offend you?"
Shen Lie turned around and saw his sweetheart standing not far away, looking at him with a smile.
Her pretty and bright red face was dripping with sweat at the moment, and a strand of hair was stuck to her forehead. Her whole person exuded a healthy and youthful atmosphere.
Such beauty is so natural that you will never get tired of looking at it for a lifetime. It was originally a canary in a cage, but at this moment it exudes a bit of wildness.
It seems like she is going crazy!
My heart skipped a beat.
Shen Lie looked at her red mouth with evil intentions, then stuck out his tongue and licked his lips meaningfully.
Zhang Jingxiu's already flushed pretty face immediately turned a thrilling flush, and her little mouth quickly closed.
Shen Lie smiled proudly at her: "Hehe."
She was so amused that her pretty face turned red, and she paced her cute little feet for a while.
