Chapter 534 (1/2)
It was cold in early October.
The pace of winter, has come to the capital.
At this time in previous years, many businesses have been ready to leave the capital. I'm afraid that later, the river will be frozen and the road will be difficult to walk, which will delay going home for the Spring Festival.
But this year, businesses are taking their time.
There are more goods that are being transported to the capital.
The capital is full of excitement.
Unexpectedly, this season, you can also eat the fruit of the south, which is really surprising.
”Have you heard that the cement road from Beijing to Luozhou is almost completed.”
”I've heard it for a long time. It seems that it's only a few dozen miles away that the two ends can be closed.”
”Recently, many new varieties have been added to the restaurants of Sihai merchants. It seems that they are all from the south, and the price is not expensive. ”
”Why not. An orange, a little bigger, costs two Wen. You can buy a few eggs for two Wen. ”
”I tasted a fresh one yesterday. The orange is so sweet. It's said that it's different from our products. ”
”And dried sweet potatoes.”
”I've only heard that there's a race of sweet potatoes in the south, but I didn't expect that it's really starving.”
”It's said that sweet potatoes can also be planted in the north.”
”Really? You can't talk nonsense about it
”What nonsense. My sister-in-law's brother-in-law's brother-in-law's cousin, works in Chuang Tzu. It has been said that many Chuang Tzu have planted sweet potatoes this year, which can reach more than 1000 Jin per mu. ”
”Really? Oh, my God, with a yield of more than 1000 Jin per mu, doesn't it mean that you don't have to worry about starvation when you're out of date? ”
”You can't just grow sweet potatoes. Annual taxes, corvee, there is no way to use sweet potato to offset. We have to grow wheat and rice
”So it is.”
”Is there any other sweet potato besides high yield per mu that can be used as dried sweet potato?”
”Why not? It's very good to feed pigs. It can also be ground into flour, making sweet potato vermicelli. It's said that wine can be made. ”
”Can sweet potato really make wine?”
The teahouse owner even joined in the conversation of several porters.
”I've heard people say that sweet potato has a high yield per mu, so it can be boiled, steamed and roasted. It's the fart. Feeding pigs is also excellent, pigs eat sweet potatoes, meat grows fast. He said he could make wine, but I haven't seen it before. ”
The teahouse owner said, ”if I can really make wine, I will also plant ten acres and twenty acres.”
”I don't know if it can make wine.”
”What kind of sweet potato vermicelli you just mentioned
”You go to the butcher's shop in the market of big locust tree. There's something for sale. It's good, but it's not expensive. I'll go and buy half a kilo tomorrow and have a taste of it. ”
The porters had a rest for half an hour and went back to work.
The teahouse owner paid attention to the sweet potato and bit his teeth. He still spent money to buy dried sweet potato and sweet potato vermicelli. He also weighed tens of kilograms of sweet potato back, ready to learn to cook, steam and roast.
This teahouse is the lowest grade teahouse on the road. It is a grass shed. It can only block the rain and snow.
The teahouse owner has been open for many years, and all he earns is hard money.
Finally, he saved money and bought more than ten mu of sloping land and a few mu of irrigated land. He was also a little rich.
The teahouse owner plans to buy more land for a few more years while he is in good health. When you are old, you will go to the countryside to provide for the aged. Relying on dozens of acres of land, the family can live.
If the yield of sweet potato per mu is really so high and so good, the teahouse owner thinks that the plan to buy dozens of mu of land may be realized ahead of schedule.
In the next few days, the teahouse owner's family, changed the pattern to eat sweet potato.
Don't say, the taste is really good, sweet Zizi, glutinous. It's best to roast, fragrant.
As those porters said, sweet potato top hungry, is fart more, not elegant.
After eating sweet potato, the teahouse owner is looking forward to the day when sweet potato can make wine.
Must be able to make wine.
As long as he could make wine, he would plant sweet potatoes on his hillside.
As for where the seeds come from, the teahouse owner has not thought that far.
In any case, when it comes to spring ploughing, one can always think of a way to get the seeds.
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Balipu, 300 miles away from the capital, is located on the official road from the capital to Luozhou.
Since the construction team came to repair the road last year, this small place in the depression has become lively.
Road menders, cement burners, supplies
In the coldest winter, the engineering team did not rest and was still firing bricks. It's about building a house.
The local people do not understand the relationship between road construction and building houses.
All they knew was that after the engineering team arrived, the family life would be better.
Men go to work on the construction site, two meals a day, and broth to drink, and pay.
When a woman helps cook a meal, she has to pay for it.
I didn't find a living woman, so I took the mending job.The engineering team is full of big men who earn a lot of money and are willing to pay people to wash clothes.
People near the construction site will get substantial benefits.