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Chapter 247 Digging Potatoes

"Hold the tools."

Su Yujiao gave each of the three people a bamboo basket, gloves and a small hoe.

"Mommy, mommy, I want some too. I want some too." The two children also clamored to dig vegetables.

Su Yujiao had made preparations in advance and gave each of the two little ones a small backpack and a small wooden shovel, allowing them to play freely in the vegetable garden.

"Cousin, your yard is getting bigger and bigger."

"Well, we've also bought the house at the back, and connected the two courtyards."

"Half of this yard is used to grow vegetables, and the other half is used as a martial arts training ground for the children."

Su Yujiao took them to a lush green vegetable field, about half an acre in size.

The two little princesses asked excitedly, "Cousin, is this the vegetable we are going to dig today?"

"Correct!"

"What is this dish called?"

"Potato!"

The prince was a little curious: "Cousin, is the fruit of this vegetable a kind of bean?"

The prince took a closer look and saw only green leaves but no beans.

The name of this dish is very strange. A good green leafy vegetable is called the name of beans.

Su Yujiao smiled and said, "The fruit is buried in the soil, we are not eating its leaves."

"In fact, the fresh young leaves can be eaten after blanching and can also be used as medicine."

"For example, it can be used to treat stomach pain, eczema, burns and other symptoms."

"In addition, potato leaves can beautify the skin, regulate the stomach and intestines, relieve stomach heat, and relieve symptoms of high blood pressure and high blood lipids."

"In short, potatoes are full of treasures."

"But this vegetable is mainly eaten for its rhizome, which can be used as a staple food or a vegetable. Few people eat the leaves, except during famines, but they are better than the bark."

"We'll have potatoes for lunch today."

Su Yujiao introduced it seriously, and the prince and princess were quite interested.

But when I heard that I was going to eat this for lunch, I felt a little disappointed.

Can you swallow something that tastes better than tree bark?

But the prince and princess did not spoil the fun, as they came here to experience farm life today.

To put it bluntly, you are here to have fun. If it tastes good, eat more. If it doesn’t taste good, eat less!

The Queen Mother often said that they were too pampered and could not distinguish between grains. They should be made to suffer a little so that they could understand the difficulties faced by ordinary people.

"Cousin, please teach me how to dig."

"Okay, let me demonstrate first."

Su Yujiao held a shovel in one hand and pulled the potato leaves with the other, digging with a hoe. After the soil was loosened, she pulled hard and brought out a series of potatoes, some big and some small.

"Wow, potatoes are this big! I thought they were the size of fennel beans."

The two little princesses exclaimed in surprise, and the two little babies also cried and clapped their hands in cooperation.

Lu Ziqian and the prince's expressions changed. They didn't expect that a single seedling could produce so many fruits.

Lu Ziqian was quicker than the prince. He weighed the potato and found it very heavy.

"Go get a scale."

"Yes."

The prince hurriedly asked, "Cousin, does this potato have a core? Can the skin be eaten? How much of it is edible?"

The two little princesses looked at their two brothers' nervous expressions and quieted down and stopped laughing.

They knew that when their brothers showed such expressions, it was a very important matter.

“There’s no core, so you can eat the whole thing.”

“The skin doesn’t taste good, but it’s okay to eat.”

While Su Yujiao was speaking, Lu Ziqian had already taken out the dagger he carried with him and cut the potato in half in front of everyone.

The cut surface is very smooth, with no core or seeds, and the internal texture is the same.

Lu Ziqian was surprised: "Can this whole thing be eaten?"

"Yes, just wash it and cook it and eat it. There is almost no waste."

The prince's face showed excitement: "Cousin, can each of these plants produce so many fruits?"

Su Yujiao smiled and said, "Prince, why don't you dig out a few plants and take a look and see what's going on?"

Without saying a word, the prince rolled up his sleeves and started digging.

Just at this time, the servant also brought the small scale.

Lu Ziqian placed the largest potato on a tray and weighed it. It actually weighed eight taels.

This one weighs more than three kilograms!

After realizing how productive potatoes were, Lu Ziqian called everyone in the yard to dig potatoes.

He wanted to see how many kilograms of potatoes this half acre of land could produce.

The prince meant the same thing and asked his guards to join in as well.

Seeing this, Su Yujiao went to prepare dinner. She took a large basket of potatoes, weighed them, and brought them to the kitchen so that they could count them later.

"Grandma Zhang, go kill some chickens."

"Chicken and potatoes stew for lunch today."

"There are so many of them, let's kill ten."

"okay."

"Xiao Tao, go wash and peel all these potatoes."

"Yes."

Su Yujiao gave instructions in an orderly manner, stewing chicken with potatoes as the main dish, and then making hot and sour shredded potatoes, candied potatoes, French fries, potato chips, and some vegetables.

"Miss, these potatoes are peeled."

Su Yujiao nodded: "Soak them all in water."

"Cut some into thin strips, some into thin slices, some into thick strips the size of your pinky finger, and the rest into dice."

Su Yujiao spoke as she demonstrated.

The kitchen is busy cooking, and the vegetable garden is also busy.

As expected, there is strength in numbers. Before Su Yujiao finished cooking, all the potatoes at the back had been dug.

After all, there is only half an acre of land, but there are more than a dozen people, so the efficiency is naturally very high.

Lu Ziqian and the prince looked at the potatoes piled up like a hill, their eyes sparkling with excitement.

This is only half an acre of land, but there is so much!

If all the people planted potatoes, they would never go hungry again.

It doesn’t matter if it tastes a little bad, it’s better than starving to death!

After all, it’s a year of famine, there’s no choice!

"On the scale."

"Yes."

The guards brought in a large iron board from outside, which was borrowed from a butcher's house and used to weigh the whole pig.

Then the guards put all the potatoes into large bamboo baskets and weighed them one by one.

There were twenty-two baskets in total, plus the one hundred kilograms that Su Yujiao took away, which added up to a total of 2530 kilograms.

Everyone present was silent, except for the two little princesses and two cute babies who didn't know what the more than 2,000 kilograms of potatoes meant.

Everyone else was shocked, staring at the account book in Lu Ziqian's hand with wide eyes in disbelief.

Did I calculate it correctly?

Half an acre of land produced 2,500 kilograms of grain!!!

Is this a dream?

The key is that they dare not even dream of so many things.

The prince was shaking with excitement, and even his voice changed its tone: "Cousin, am I... am I right?"

Lu Ziqian handed him the account book: "You calculate it yourself."

The prince calculated it himself and found that the number was exactly the same, including the decimals and the whole numbers.

"No, weigh it again."

Lu Ziqian nodded.

Not to mention the prince, even he didn't quite believe it.

The people of Zhou felt it was necessary to weigh it again.

This is as fake as it gets, no one will believe it if I tell them!!!