Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

Early the next morning, old man Zhang was wearing winter clothes, while Zhang He was wearing the quilt stuffed with hay, and the father and son went door to door to pay off their debts.

In the season when everyone is in danger, it is already a great kindness for others to lend money and food to the father and son.

So this time, besides repaying the debt, the father and son also want to express their gratitude to everyone.

Old man Zhang divided the leftover boiled beans from last night into many small portions, and planned to send one to each family as a token of his gratitude.

The first is Zhang Laoqi's family. Almost half of Zhang Laotou's debts in the village are borrowed from Zhang Laoqi.

When old man Zhang put the five Wen money he owed and two catties of corn in front of him, Zhang Laoqi was taken aback.

"You father and son raised money so quickly? Don't worry about my debts. I should be able to survive this winter.

You should pay off the debts of the fourth housekeeper first. The fourth housekeeper keeps saying that he wants to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, but in fact he cannibalize people without spit out bones. "

"Thank you, old brother, for your kindness. The debt of the fourth steward has been paid off."

Zhang Laoqi was taken aback when he heard the words, but he knew how much old Zhang owed.

Nowadays, there is a world of ice and snow everywhere, and it is difficult for everyone to survive. How can we get the money to pay off the debt?

"I tell you, you must keep it secret..."

So old man Zhang recounted Zhang He's encounter with the fairy master Yujian Fei, and then repeatedly told Zhang Laoqi to keep the secret.

Next, the father and son went to several other houses in the village to pay off their debts.

In the same way, old man Zhang publicized Zhang Zhao's encounter with the immortal master, and told him to keep it a secret before leaving.

It's already known to everyone, so how can you keep it a secret?

But Zhang He didn't say anything, he made it up anyway.

At the same time, let him decide in his heart that the secret of the space must not be let old man Zhang know.

After paying off all the debts, both father and son breathed a sigh of relief. It feels good to be debt-free.

When repaying the debt, Zhang Zhao also saw that none of the villagers in Zhangjialing was rich.

The entire land, mountains, and rivers around Heishui Town belong to Wanjia in Heishui Town.

These villagers are all tenants of the Wanjia, mainly renting and planting land. In addition, whether they go to the mountains to collect firewood or fish in the water, they have to pay a part of the commission to the Wanjia.

The fourth housekeeper who lent money to old man Zhang is the agent sent by Wanjia to manage this area.

The more Zhang He understood the world, the more hopeless he felt, and he felt oppressed and out of breath.

Everything here belongs to Wanjia, even the land of their thatched house was set aside by Wanjia for tenants to live temporarily, and it can be taken back at any time.

In this world, where there is still room for him to stand, how can he survive?

If the aborigines were born and raised in this world, they might be able to spend their whole life in a daze, even if they were just working as cows and horses.

But there is a soul in him from the 21st century of the earth, especially he was born in a prosperous and stable country where meat can be eaten for every meal.

But it's useless to think too much now. The more he thinks, the more desperate he will be. At least he still has an acre of land in his space. If he makes good use of it, he won't starve to death.

Zhang He consciously entered the space, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the sweet potatoes planted the day before yesterday were already covered with vines on the ground.

After searching around the house, he found a hoe and a hatchet, which he brought into the space.

Use a hoe to dig out the roots of those sweet potatoes.

He planted five sweet potatoes the day before yesterday, and these five sweet potatoes have now doubled in size, with several small sweet potatoes growing on their roots, making a total of twenty-three.

Zhang He piled the sweet potatoes aside, collected all the sweet potato vines, and cut them into two or three sections with a knife.

Sweet potatoes are mainly reproduced by vines, as long as the sweet potato vines are inserted into the soil, they can live.

After these sweet potato vines are cut, it should be enough for cuttings.

When the sweet potato vines in this part of the land grow up, you can cut an inch of sweet potato vine cuttings, and this mu of land should be filled with sweet potatoes soon.

After cutting all the sweet potato vines, he was already dizzy and unable to support himself.

He is just an illusory figure formed by spiritual thoughts in the space, and it is very laborious to do anything in it.

After the consciousness came out of the space, he fell asleep.

When he woke up again, he found that the sky was already dark, and old man Zhang was sitting in front of the bed, looking at him worriedly.

Seeing Zhang He opened his eyes, the old man finally felt relieved: "He'er, you must be fine, you scared me to death."

"Dad, how long have I been asleep?"

"You have been sleeping since you came back from paying off the debt in the morning, and you have slept all day."

Speaking of which, old man Zhang has already brought over a bowl of corn porridge, which is mixed with a lot of wild vegetables.

Although Zhang He said that he can live on dry food now, but the old man Zhang is still uneasy and dare not be so extravagant.

It would be good to make the porridge thicker and to add less wild vegetables.

In fact, old man Zhang thinks that corn is still too expensive, and tomorrow he has to change some weed seeds and mix it into the porridge to be more cost-effective.

Zhang Zhao took the pottery bowl and took a bite into his mouth with chopsticks.

After swallowing the juice, there is only a bunch of wild vegetables in the mouth, which is bitter and sticky, making it difficult to swallow.

This kind of wild vegetable is collected in summer and autumn, dried in the sun, and stored until winter. It tastes like chewing cow grass.

It took a lot of effort before he swallowed this bowl of wild vegetable porridge.

"Father, let's eat dry rice in the future, okay?"

"Stupid boy, don't even inquire about it. In the entire surrounding area of ​​Heishui Town, only the gentlemen of the Wan family can afford to eat.

It is enough for us tenants to eat one or two meals during the holidays.

Keep the money that the immortal master gave you first, and after this winter, I will marry you to a daughter-in-law. If there is still money left, then I will buy another acre of land, and we will have hope in the future. "

The old man Zhang made careful calculations and had already helped Zhang He plan a happy life in the future.

"Father, it's too early for me to marry a wife at the age of sixteen, isn't it?"

Zhang Zhao felt that his life shouldn't be so mediocre, maybe he could get ahead, at least he should be able to eat dry rice and have meat every meal.

"You are stupid, of course you are marrying a child bride. This way you can save a lot of dowry and add a little labor to the family."

Old man Zhang's eyes shone shrewdly, and he had a sense of strategizing.

"Let's stock up more food now, and when it's too late next year, there are some families who can't make it through. As long as they give them a bite of food, they can get a daughter-in-law.

Let me tell you, when the time comes, you have to choose those with thick waists and legs, dark skin, and the ones with thin skin and tender flesh. Don't choose those with small arms and legs, because they won't work.

If you like it, you can marry a few more. "

At this moment, Zhang He can already imagine what his future daughter-in-law should look like.

The two communicated for a long time. It seems that it is difficult to achieve the goal of persuading old man Zhang to eat dry rice every day.

He still couldn't take out all the remaining five hundred renminbi, because the family had too much money and food, and it was easy to be thieves if it was spread.

After all, hunger and cold steal the heart, and people are driven to a dead end and can do anything.

Zhang He made up his mind that he had to rush to cook the rice in the future. He cooked the uncooked rice first so that the old man could not eat it.

This is not entirely a problem of gluttony, but the most basic nutritional needs for human beings to survive.