A Small Farmer Girl 's Story of Making a Fortune by Farming

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　　As the saying goes, there is no trick to growing sweet potatoes, as long as you plant them early.

　　This sentence means that there is no skill in planting sweet potatoes, but the growth cycle is long, so the earlier they are planted, the higher the yield. Another proverb in later generations is: Plant sweet potato vines in Grain Rain, and you can harvest a large basket from one vine.

　　The best time to transplant sweet potatoes is during the Grain Rain season, but the Grain Rain season has passed and the Beginning of Summer is coming soon. Shen Yao hurriedly urged her grandfather to turn over an acre of land at the foot of the mountain and make ridges of it into raised mounds.

　　Cut the vines from the sweet potato mother plant, then select the thick branches and cut them into segments of about 30 cm for cuttings.

　　After cutting the branches, insert one-third of the root lower end vertically into the soil. This method of cutting can make the roots of sweet potatoes go deep into the soil, produce more potatoes and be drought-resistant.

　　One acre of land was planted with sweet potato seedlings, and before dark, all the sweet potato seedlings were watered.

　　Villagers passing by would inevitably ask: "Grandpa San, are you going to raise ten or eight pigs instead of growing these old potatoes?"

　　"What do you feed so many pigs? These yams are grown as food!"

　　"What? As food? Third Uncle knows that an acre of land can only yield less than a basketful of crops. Planting this as food? Besides, can these vines you plant survive and take root? Can they even produce sweet potatoes?" The person asking the question lowered his head and curled his lips secretly.
The Shen family is now considered a wealthy family in Daliu Village, but no matter how rich they are, they can't just build things randomly. Planting this kind of thing is not only a waste of money, but also a waste of labor. Besides, Old Shen is usually a very smart person, and I don't know why he suddenly got confused.

　　Old man Shen didn't know that the people in front of him had already labeled him as old and confused and a spendthrift. He smiled and said, "We Yaoyao got a farming book, and it said that sweet potatoes have to be planted by cuttings. If planted well, one acre of land can produce 700 to 800 kilograms of sweet potatoes!"

　　After these words were spoken, many people passing by stopped. Some villagers who had walked far away even turned back after hearing these words: "What? Third Grandpa, please don't bully me because I'm young and ignorant. What kind of crop is this? Can it produce 700 to 800 kilograms per mu?"

　　"Why would I lie to you? If you don't believe me, just wait and see the harvest from my one acre of land!" Old man Shen watered the last piece of land, picked up the water and picked up the bucket to go home.

　　In fact, according to his granddaughter, one mu of sweet potato can produce 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms. But Old Man Shen was afraid that no one would believe him if he told others about it, and he was also afraid that he would be embarrassed if he could not harvest 1,000 kilograms, so he said less, only 700 to 800 kilograms.

　　Even so, the villagers still didn't believe what Old Man Shen said, thinking that he was just old and confused and making up stories, and they also implied that the sons of Old Shen's family were filial and accompanied Old Man Shen in making trouble.

　　Only my great grandfather's family believed in Old Man Shen. Not only that, they also listened to Mrs. Wu and dug out half an acre of land, planted the sweet potato seedlings cut from the mother plant in Shen's field, and planted half an acre of land.