nycdaug Chapter 55 Eye Drops
Chapter 55 Eye Drops
Prefect: "Zisu, Grandpa wants to promote sweet potatoes and potatoes throughout the entire prefecture this year. Do you think that's realistic?"
Zisu: "Grandpa, I'm afraid that won't work! I only got a few seeds. There's only enough potatoes for half a mu of land and enough sweet potatoes for about an acre. However, we can plant another season of sweet potatoes after the summer harvest. I suggest we promote it in Wulipo then, which is feasible. If we want to promote it throughout the whole county, we can only postpone it until next spring!"
"Is that so? What a pity!" the prefect said regretfully.
Zisu: "Grandpa, in three months, when the sweet potatoes and potatoes I planted are ready to harvest, you should personally go to the field to check the results. If the yield is considerable, Grandpa can report it to the Emperor, which would be a great achievement for you! At that time, the Emperor might have different ideas about how and where to promote it! Perhaps he will even send people from the Agricultural Bureau to plant a few acres of experimental fields together!"
Upon hearing this, the prefect immediately perked up: "Hmm, you're absolutely right! Let's do it that way!" The girl was right; as long as he reported it, he would have done a meritorious service. A promotion of two ranks wouldn't be a pipe dream.
The prefect was overjoyed and gifted Zisu a cartload of things, and even sent his personal guards to escort her back to Wuliping. Zisu could not refuse and had no choice but to accept.
Time flies, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye. By now, the sweet potatoes that Zisu planted have grown into vines three feet long. Looking around, the green vines cover the ground.
Zisu estimated that these vines could plant about two-tenths of an acre. She personally led Xiangli, Haitang, Yingtao, and Aunt Li to the field to plant sweet potatoes.
At her instruction, everyone broke the sweet potato vines into sections the length of chopsticks and planted them in the soil that had already been turned over.
Xiangli asked worriedly, "Miss, will it survive like this?" Those potatoes were planted by cutting them into pieces, not by using vines.
Zisu: "Yes, it will definitely work! That's what the book says!"
She attributed everything new and interesting to ancient books.
The old clan chief was filled with curiosity about the novel crop growing in Xiaoshitan: "Perilla, what are you growing in this field? Can it survive if it's grown as a vine?"
Zisu: "Sixth Grandpa, the ancient book says that it can be planted with vines and survive! It's a pity that the ancient book was burned, otherwise I could show it to Sixth Grandpa."
Mentioning the ancient books, the old clan chief couldn't help but curse again: "Shangguan Chengfeng, you spendthrift! Such good books, ruined like this, what a cruel thing to do! If I ever have the chance to see that kid, I'll definitely give him a good scolding!"
Zisu quickly tried to smooth things over: "Sixth Grandfather, my eldest uncle and aunt often say that Wuliping is a backward and ignorant mountain village, and they will never come back in this lifetime. Otherwise, how could I dare to bring my mother and grandmother to Wuliping to settle down? If they find out, my mother, my brother, and I don't know if we will survive!"
"He dares?!" The old clan chief was indeed furious, glaring and shouting, "If his family dares to lay a finger on you, I'll break his legs and expel him from the clan!"
Between the Zisu family of three and the Shangguan Chengfeng family, the old clan chief chose the former without hesitation. His impression of the latter was getting worse and worse, to the point that he wished he could expel the family from the clan immediately.