Chapter 116: The fragrance of the valley is floating, and the golden waves are rolling
Chapter 116: The fragrance of the valley is floating, and the golden waves are rolling
Ye Tang brought a group of people to Wenggang Village driving ox carts and horse carts.
Ye Peng and Ye Ping'an are in the county town, so there is often no one at the Ye family's place. However, Ye Tang always sends people to clean, so it is not deserted.
The vegetable garden was clean, without a single weed. All the red peppers had been picked, leaving only some green peppers and half-red and half-green peppers.
Cucumbers, cowpeas and other edible fruits were also picked and sent to Xiao's house.
Everyone ran straight up the back slope.
The moment they stepped into the field and saw the potatoes, excitement flashed in everyone's eyes, especially Lu Anbang's family. They looked at the potatoes as if they had seen a mountain of gold.
"Madam, shall we start digging now?" Lu Anbang asked expectantly.
Ye Tang nodded: "Dig."
As soon as she said this, Lu Anbang's family immediately rushed into the field, swinging their hoes with all their might.
The others reached out their hands and were inspired, their blood boiling, and they quickly walked over to dig potatoes.
Half an acre of potatoes was quickly dug up, and the potato digging army was still not satisfied, so Ye Tang didn't even have a chance to take action.
This is newly reclaimed land, not a good one, but this half acre of potatoes produces more than 1,600 kilograms.
As lazy as Xiao Jingxuan was, he was no longer lazy at this moment. He looked at the potato left and right.
Ye Tang took them to see the rice she planted.
Other people's rice has been harvested, but her rice is still growing in the rice field. Dragonflies and grasshoppers are flying and jumping around, the air is filled with the fragrance of rice, the breeze is blowing, and golden waves are rolling.
"What plump grains of rice!" Xiao Jingxuan stood on the edge of the field, looking at the brilliant golden rice, feeling like he was dreaming.
The grains in the paddy field planted by Ye Tang are full and the ears of grain are so heavy that they cannot stand up straight.
This is the perfect rice that every farmer dreams of growing.
It was the first time that Xiao Jingxuan saw rice growing so well.
Qin Jinhua didn't understand how rice grew, but she could see that the acre of rice in front of her was growing exceptionally well.
She asked Chunxi beside her: "Is this rice as good as the one your family used to grow?"
Chunxi was born into a peasant family. Her parents had six children, and she was the eldest sister. Her family was so poor that they could not even make ends meet, so her parents sold her to Prince Xian's palace.
Chun Xi covered her mouth and looked at the rice in front of her, her eyes moist again: "The rice grown by my family is far inferior to the rice grown by Madam Xiao."
"This is the best rice I have ever seen."
Lu Anbang's family was also very excited.
Ye Tang touched the ears of grain and looked at the sky again: "Come back to harvest in three days."
Jamel Xiao stood beside her, looking at her with burning eyes: "How much can this acre of rice yield?"
Ye Tang smiled and said, "You will know when the time comes."
Ye Tang and his group drove ox carts and horse carriages to pull the potatoes back to Xiao's house.
This attracted the attention of many villagers along the way, but Ye Tang didn't say much to them.
The first thing I do when I get home is to rearrange the potatoes and separate them by size.
Then wash the red peppers, prepare ginger, garlic and salt, and make pickled peppers.
These small tasks were assigned to the servants. After Ye Tang gave instructions and arranged everything, he took the fresh potatoes and rushed into the kitchen to start preparing the delicious food for tonight.
Potato rice, potato chips, shredded potatoes, potato balls, potato pancakes, omelette potatoes...we're having a potato feast tonight.
Qin Jinhua ate too much.
Before leaving, Ye Tang packed some shredded potatoes, potato chips, potato cakes, and a can of pickled chili peppers for her, asking her to take them back for Tao Quan to taste, and also to help her bring some back to Ye Peng and Ye Ping'an.
Tao Quan is dealing with a big matter.
Prince Duan actually placed someone next to Su Jing.
Su Jing discovered this person and reported the matter to him without alerting him.
Tao Quan sent people to keep an eye on the spy and found out that Prince Duan sent the spy here not to monitor Su Jing, nor to deal with him, the idle prince, but to find someone through him and Su Jing.
Tao Quan only needed to use his brain a little to guess who Prince Duan was looking for.
Tao Quan was very unhappy when he returned home, feeling irritated all over. When he entered the house, he did not notice Qin Jinhua sitting in the main hall waiting for him.
He walked back and forth in the main hall with his hands behind his back, and Qin Jinhua's eyes followed his steps.
Seeing that he still didn't see her, Qin Jinhua yelled impatiently: "Gongsun Tianhua, you are finally tired of me, right? I am a living person sitting here, and you pretended not to see me."
Tao Quan was so frightened that he trembled all over: "My beloved, when did you come here? You scared me."
"I've been sitting here the whole time." Qin Jinhua said aggrievedly, "Alas! You really do dislike me and you can't even see me."
"Don't be sad, my beloved concubine. I didn't mean it. I was just too focused on something. I didn't ignore you on purpose."
"What on earth were you thinking about?"
"Thinking about my cousin."
"You really only have your cousin in your heart. I'm going to tell Atang that you're trying to steal her husband."
"My dear, don't say that. That's not what I meant. I miss my cousin because something happened."
He looked around to make sure no one was eavesdropping before he leaned over to Qin Jinhua's ear and whispered a few words.
Qin Jinhua paused: "Is there such a thing?"
She narrowed her eyes dangerously: "Why does Prince Duan want to find Jing Xuan? How does he know Jing Xuan exists?"
Xiao Jingxuan only recognized Tao Quan. No one else knew of his existence, not even the emperor.
And those people in the Nangong family, no one knew about Xiao Jingxuan's existence.
Tao Quan shook his head: "I don't know either. Jing Xuan has been investigating the truth behind the deaths of his uncle and aunt in recent years. Perhaps he leaked his whereabouts during the investigation and attracted the attention of Prince Duan."
Tao Quan thought for a moment, and then said, "Or maybe Jing Xuan deliberately revealed his existence, wanting to use him as bait to lure out the enemy. This kid has a lot of thoughts, and he won't tell me many things. He carries everything on his own."
"Forget it, let's not talk about him. Let's talk about you. Didn't you go to Qingquan Village? How was it? Did you see the red peppers? How did they taste?"
Speaking of this, Qin Jinhua became excited. She immediately put Xiao Jingxuan's matter behind her and excitedly pulled Tao Quan to the small kitchen to show him the pickled peppers: "Atang said that this pepper will taste better after being stored in a cool place for six or seven days. It has a moderate sour and spicy taste and is very appetizing. If you can't finish it, you can keep it for a year without any problem."
She took out potato chips for Tao Quan to taste, and told him about the production of potato chips and the acre of rice.
Tao Quan was stunned.
Such high-yield crops actually appeared on his fiefdom?
He, the idle king, can no longer be idle.
When building the new house, Ye Tang designed a cellar. All the potatoes were placed in the cellar, and the pickled peppers were also put in.
While no one was paying attention, Ye Tang stored most of the potatoes into the space, leaving only a small part in the cellar.
The cellar can't preserve food as well as her space.
Time flies when you are busy farming.
Three days passed quickly.
At daybreak, Ye Tang came out of the room and saw that all the servants were ready to go. They were holding sickles, wearing straw hats, and carrying threshing buckets. They were standing in the yard in a clean state, waiting for her orders.
Ye Tang said with a smile: "It's only one acre of land, there's no need for everyone to go there."
Lu Anbang laughed and said, "There is strength in numbers. We want to collect the grain as soon as possible."
Ye Tang asked them to have breakfast before going over.
Jamel Xiao also followed.
When they arrived at Wenggang Village, Ye Tang saw that Qin Jinhua and Tao Quan had already been waiting by the rice fields with their men.
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