Crossing the Qinghe Landlord GL MTL

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Li Qingshi had been playing with the two immature potato tubers. When he saw Zhang He also bringing one over, he knew it was the one Xia Jiniang had taken back. He smiled and said, "Does Erlang know what this is?"

　Zhang He shook his head: "How would I know? I'm just very interested in its origins and want to know where Brother Qingshi got it!"

　" Didn't my cousin tell you? I found it when I was passing through the wasteland on the west slope." "

　That's really interesting. I'm very curious about this thing and want to find out. I wonder if Brother Qingmi has time to help me Lead the way?"

　Li Qingshi said cheerfully: "That's no problem." After that, he walked ahead.

　Zhang He hurriedly called him and said: "Brother Qingshi, why don't you tell your sister-in-law Qingshi?"

　Li Qingshi was stunned and said in confusion: "We are just going to Xipo, why should we tell her?" But he remembered something, so he went in with a smile and spoke to Mrs. Chen. When he came out, he said with relief, "I've informed her, let's go!" After leaving the courtyard of Li's house, Li Qingshi asked Zhang He:

　" Could it be that Erlang always informs his cousin like this when he goes out?" "

　Yes, so that she will not know where I have gone and worry."

　Li Qingshi suddenly realized: "No wonder my cousin asked me to pay more attention to the matchmaker a few days ago. Erlang learned it."

　Before Zhang He knew who the "matchmaker" was, he heard Li Qingshi say: "The matchmaker has been very pestering recently. She has to worry about some small things and even puts on makeup for no reason." "Maybe

　. Will he show his temper to you?" Zhang He asked.

　Li Qingshi agreed: "Yes, occasionally I will lose my temper and get angry. Fortunately, it's only occasionally, and I won't be ignorant and let my mother get hurt. But why does Erlang know so well?" "Brother Qingshi might as well praise Sister Qingshi more, go

　out If you let her know and buy her some small items occasionally, maybe she won't be like this." After Zhang He finished speaking, he found Li Qingshi staring at her and smiling, and felt scared, "Brother Qingshi has a different opinion?"

　Li Qingshi shook his head: "No, I just feel that Erlang, who didn't know what he was six months ago, will be so familiar with how to get along with husband and wife after he wakes up. Fortunately, I am five years older than you, and I got married three months earlier than you, but I don't understand women's thoughts as well as you."

　"..." Because I am a woman!

　The two of them chatted and walked to the wasteland near the Li family's field. This is a slope facing west, so it is called "West Slope". The western slope is far away from the Qinghe River and has no ditches. It is overgrown with weeds and has a lot of sand and gravel. The government has not reclaimed the wasteland, so it allows weeds to grow and become abandoned.

　There are several solitary graves on the slightly higher slopes. These are graves piled up by people who had no money to build cemeteries on the mountain, so they buried the bones of their ancestors here at will. Not even a decent tombstone was erected. As for Hanshi coming to worship his ancestors, he had to rely on memory to identify it.

　Li Qingshi picked up a half-withered seedling and gave it to Zhang He, saying: "This is the fruit of this seedling." Zhang He pretended to be curious and observed it carefully, then suddenly glanced at it and pointed not far away

　. A similar seedling said: "There is another one over there!"

　"Erlang has such good eyesight!"

　The two walked over, and Zhang He pulled out the surrounding grass to reveal the flowering seedling. She looked at Li Qingshi: "Brother Qingshi once dug a taro like this from its rhizome, so it's better for brother Qingshi to do it?" Li Qingshi nodded. He found a piece of wood nearby and walked around the seedling

　. Excavation. Every time he dug, hope arose in his heart, and he worked harder and harder. The soil here is not compacted, and after a while, you can see its rhizomes and the tubers connected to the rhizomes.

　When someone from the village saw the two of them being so "sneaky", they came over and shouted: "Hey, what are you doing in broad daylight? You are so sneaky!" "You are the sneaky one, let's dig it up.

　" Do you want to tell you too?" Li Qingshi was very angry by his words. This was a wasteland and they didn't do anything bad, so why did he say it so badly. Taking a closer look, this person was Zhang Hua, who had strangled several newborn daughters to death, and she looked even more embarrassed to him.

　Zhang Hua shrank a little after being treated so harshly by him, and muttered: "Who knows if you are secretly burying something to hate winning?" "We are not you. If you strangle the baby girl to death, your wife and children are sick.

　She didn't want to seek treatment from a doctor, but she actually believed the words of the witches and asked her to bathe in cold water and drink a bowl of soup made from an unknown source, which tortured her to death!" Li Qingshi said coldly.

　"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Zhang Hua was embarrassed and annoyed by what he said.

　Some people nearby heard the noise and gathered around. Zhang He glanced at Zhang Hua and said to Li Qingshi: "Brother Qingshi, don't talk to him too much. We are upright and not afraid of slanting shadows." "Erlang's words make sense

　. ." Li Qingshi nodded and dug out five egg-sized tubers from the ground. However, these five tubers are better looking than the previous three, at least they are all yellow on the surface.

　Zhang Hua explained to the onlookers: "I saw the two of them digging here secretly, not knowing what they were going to do, so I came over and asked, but I didn't expect them to spit on people. Look at the things in the ground. It's green and yellow, and I don't know what kind of poison it is!"

　"No way?" Someone asked in confusion, "It doesn't look like a poison?"

　"It looks a bit like...an egg?" Someone agreed.

　"I think it looks like kudzu."

　"Is this taro?"

　Everyone was arguing. Zhang Hua saw that they did not follow his words to question Li Qingshi and Zhang He. He was very angry and said, "Aren't you afraid of poison?" "

　I found this when I passed by here today. I didn't know what it was, so I brought Zhang Erlang over to take a look. We found another seedling like this, so we planned to dig it up and take a look. I didn't expect you to say something. We are doing something shameful, what are your intentions?"

　"You!" Zhang Hua glared at Li Qingshi.

　Someone looked at the seedling pointed by Li Qingshi and found that there was also one in the distance. He immediately shouted excitedly: "Really, there is one here too!"

　Everyone gathered around and started digging. However, they only dug out a few black and green tubers, and then returned to Li Qingshi and asked, "What is this and when did it grow here? None of us noticed it." "I don't know how

　. Can you eat it?"

　"Show me?" They stared at the tuber in Li Qingshi's hand.

　Li Qingshi generously gave one to each of them and said, "This seedling has so many fruits on its roots. It is similar to that taro. Could it be some unknown taro?" "It's possible!" Everyone thought deeply

　. Of course.

　"How about cutting it open and taking a look?" someone else said.

　Li Qingshi took these tubers back and said with a smile: "I want to cut them open and take a look. I will tell you when I find out what they are." These things were dug by Li Qingshi and Zhang He, and they are not valuable.

　Although people are curious about things, they are not greedy. Even if they were greedy, they would not dare to take these things away from Zhang He while Zhang He was here.

　Back at Li's house, Li Qingshi took out a knife and cut one of the tubers. He heard a crisp "click" sound and the tuber was divided into two halves. Li Qingshi said in surprise: "It's really beautiful here, the colors are very well-proportioned."

　Zhang He touched his chin, and she also discovered that these potatoes didn't seem to be bitten by insects. Moreover, it is quite surprising that it can produce results even if it is left to grow on its own without taking care of it. Except for the few potatoes that were exposed to the soil and turned green, these five potatoes are all close to maturity.

　"Perhaps the planting has just started, so no corresponding pests have appeared yet?" Zhang He was not sure and could only think about it in his mind.

　To her delight, she had not discovered the potato, and no one questioned its origin. At most, they only argued about its species. Even if she cultivates it in the future and starts planting it openly, others will not doubt that its origin is related to her!

　"It's similar to taro, and it's probably not poisonous. I want to see if it can be cultivated. If I can grow it, I'll have a taste and see what effect it has." Zhang He said with a smile.

　Li Qingshi pondered for a moment and said, "Why bother to plant it?"

　"Brother Qingshi, look at it, it's just a seedling, and there are so many taros growing on the rhizome. If it can be eaten, this seedling can feed one person." A day's ration, right? If you plant hundreds of plants in one acre of land, how many can you get?" Zhang He said.

　"A taro plant bears three or four taro seeds, but many people are still unwilling to cultivate it because it can satisfy hunger but cannot be used to pay taxes. Moreover, many people do not know how to plant it properly, so the harvest is often meager. "Li Qingshi smiled. Although he discovered this thing, he never thought about growing it. After all, he was thinking about food and clothing. But Zhang He was different. She didn't worry about food and clothing, and she had time to think about it.

　Zhang He thought carefully, it was not easy for people to accept these new species in a short period of time, and in the eyes of many people, many potato crops were classified as "taro". In their hearts, these potatoes Perhaps it is also a "taro", so there is no need to cultivate it.

　Then she thought about the fact that sweet potatoes were introduced during the Wanli period and were widely cultivated during the Qianlong period, and that the government's promotion was indispensable, so she stopped arguing with Li Qingshi. As long as she can grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., these crops will one day be promoted elsewhere.

　But she remembered sweet potatoes, which she secretly planted at the beginning. Sweet potatoes are resistant to infertility. She believed that potatoes could miraculously grow naturally, so they must be able to grow sweet potatoes as well. It's just that sweet potatoes can't be harvested until December, and she can't guarantee whether everyone will become suspicious after discovering two fresh crops in a row.

　Seeing that Zhang He had not returned at noon, Xia Jiniang went to Li's house to look for him. Zhang He was about to take a bite of the potato in front of Li Qingshi to let people know that it was not poisonous. When Xia Jiniang saw this, she quickly held down her hand and said anxiously: "Erlang, what are you doing?" Zhang He was startled

　. Blinking her eyes: "Try this thing and see how it tastes."

　"The origin of this thing is unknown, how can it be eaten at will?" People are so anxious. But this thing was discovered by Li Qingshi accidentally and had nothing to do with Zhang He. How could she let Zhang He take the risk?

　"Yes." Li Qingshi also said, "Although we temporarily regard it as taro, it is not exactly taro!"

　Zhang He had no choice but to give up. She told Xia Jiniang about digging potatoes with Li Qingshi. Xia Jiniang was also quite surprised: "It's really wild?" "I plan to go back and chop it into pieces to feed chickens and ducks to see if it's poisonous. If it's not poisonous

　, Then I thought about how to cultivate it. If it is poisonous, tell the villagers and don't eat it if you see it. What do you think of Ji Niang?" Seeing her persistence, Xia Jiniang agreed: "As long as it's harmless, just follow Erlang's wishes

　! "

　The author has something to say: Hmm... At that time, a bunch of creeping herbs that had nothing to do with "taro" were named "taro", so potatoes would not have a name so soon...