mtlumby2d Chapter 384 Digging Sweet Potatoes
Chapter 384 Digging Sweet Potatoes
A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and one day Chunlai asked whether the sweet potatoes should be harvested now.
The fruits of sweet potatoes are hidden deep underground, and Chun and his friends have no experience in growing sweet potatoes, so they had to come and ask Sumu.
"It's indeed time to harvest sweet potatoes this season." Su Mu nodded.
"I'll go with you to the fields and have a look."
Su Mu got up and followed them to the sweet potato field.
The sweet potatoes planted cover a large area. I have eaten the sweet potatoes here several times and they taste very good.
Su Mu took a look at the fields and said, "It's time to harvest the sweet potatoes."
"It's time to find someone."
It all depends on manpower, so harvesting sweet potatoes is quite laborious and time-consuming.
"Yes."
The villagers were very excited when they heard that the sweet potatoes in the sumu fields could be harvested.
Because they also planted some sweet potatoes in their own fields. Those who didn't have extra land to grow sweet potatoes also planted some in their own yards. Although not many, there were still one or two.
People excitedly ran back to their homes, looked at the sweet potatoes in the yard, and started digging!
Today, the village was filled with the sound of people digging sweet potatoes, and the harvest was very good. The sweet potatoes in the field had red skin and were very large.
Those who have planted more sweet potatoes at home have gained some experience in digging sweet potatoes and know how to harvest them better.
Seeing that a single sweet potato in their yard could produce so many fruits, they couldn't help but begin to wonder what the per-acre yield of sweet potatoes would be on a field as large as the county lord's.
In the evening, every household ate fresh sweet potatoes.
Eating hot sweet potatoes in this cooling season is so comfortable. After taking a bite of hot sweet potatoes, you will feel comfortable all over your body.
The next day, those who knew how to dig sweet potatoes took the initiative to sign up to dig sweet potatoes.
A lot of people gathered in the fields, preparing to dig sweet potatoes.
The sweet potato vines in the fields have dried up. Before digging the sweet potatoes, cut off these dry vines first. The cut sweet potato vines are also useful and cannot be discarded.
Digging sweet potatoes does require some skills, otherwise the sweet potatoes in the field will be accidentally dug up and rotted if you use the hoe, so you need to be extra careful.
Also, you need to be gentle when digging the sweet potatoes, but not so gentle that you can't turn over the soil.
The sweet potatoes in the fields of Sumu are relatively easy to dig. When each sweet potato is planted, there are ridges, both horizontal and vertical. You can know the approximate location of the sweet potato by following the ridges.
People in the fields started to move. Those who didn't know how to dig sweet potatoes were cutting the sweet potato vines in front.
After the land is exposed, the sweet potato diggers will go online and start digging sweet potatoes from the back. Following the roots of the sweet potato vines, they can bring out a lot of sweet potatoes at once. They also need to look for the sweet potatoes that have grown outwards.
Behind the people digging the sweet potatoes are people waiting to pick them up. They put the dug sweet potatoes into large frames, and when the frames are full, they will transport the frames out.
The people in the fields worked hard as if they were looking for treasure. Every time they dug out a particularly large sweet potato, there would be bursts of exclamations.
Some sweet potato vines are particularly good at growing sweet potatoes, and the bunches of sweet potatoes are pleasing to the eye.
People were infected by the harvest atmosphere and couldn't help but smile when they saw the sweet potatoes just dug out of the ground.
Sweet potatoes were sent out from the fields in baskets. People outside couldn't wait to weigh them, and then the convoy pulled the sweet potatoes back.
For the whole day, the cart carrying sweet potatoes did not stop, and kept going back and forth, but the sweet potatoes in the field were still not dug up.
On the one hand, people still need to rest. Digging sweet potatoes is very tiring and they cannot be asked to work all the time. On the other hand, there are many fields for growing sweet potatoes.
We will continue digging the remaining sweet potatoes tomorrow.
The sweet potatoes were transported back to the warehouse, and everyone was told that they could rest today and continue digging tomorrow. Everyone came out of the fields one after another.
On the way home, we were discussing the number of sweet potatoes.
"I think the yield per acre of this sweet potato is quite high."
"Yes, those sweet potatoes are so big." A man picking sweet potatoes gestured with his hands and spoke in an exaggerated tone.
Everyone is guessing the per-acre yield of sweet potatoes. Since they are all working in the fields, they can roughly guess what the yield is, but they don't know the exact number.
But since they dug out so many sweet potatoes, the yield must be quite high.
And they hope that the sweet potato yield will be as high as possible.
The more sweet potatoes the county lord produces in his field, the better the sweet potatoes are.
So, when the county lord sells the sweet potato seedlings, they can buy them and plant them, and they can harvest a rough amount.
Such a good thing, they would like the quantity to be as large as possible, and even hope that the number of sweet potatoes can reach an astronomical figure.
Those who are curious about this output are not just the villagers and family members, but also the retired emperor and many officials of His Majesty in the capital, all of whom are looking forward to this number.
"How much? How much?"
A group of people saw Su Mu and Ji Shiyan coming back from the warehouse and hurried over to ask them.
Everyone looked at them with great anticipation.
Su Mu and Ji Shiyan looked at each other and spit out a number.
"How much! How much did you say?" Several people were in disbelief.
The visitor repeated it again, and the few people were sure that they had not heard it wrong.
"So many!" The emperor paced back and forth happily.
The same was true for the others. They were so excited, but at least they were mentally prepared because Mumu had once mentioned a rough estimate of the output to them.
But the emperor didn't know! So the impact was quite big for them.
"Nine stone! This is nine stone of grain per mu!"
The retired emperor's hands were shaking with excitement. Even though he had seen so many great things in the world and had the foundation of corn and wheat, he still couldn't remain calm when facing the production of sweet potatoes.
"That's more than a thousand pounds!"
Thousands of them, this is not a small amount! In the past, several acres of land did not produce this much.
What's more, the yield of this sweet potato does not require discarding things like corn cobs or stalks, as all the produce from this sweet potato is edible!
They are all edible! This is especially important. Even when the sweet potato is not yet ripe, the leaves of the sweet potato can be eaten!
"Okay, okay, that's great."
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha." The emperor laughed excitedly.
"How magnificent is my Huaxu Nation!"
Their country is going to start making crazy progress.
"Su girl, thank you so much." The emperor looked into Su Mu's eyes with gratitude.
"You are the lucky star of our country."
"No, you're welcome." This was praising her too much.