Chapter 264 Are You Even Letting Others Live? (1)_1
Lady Zhu and Lady Chen confirmed that it truly was Master County who had come. Seeing his warm smile and courteous speech as he talked to Pei Qin, both of them looked uncomfortable.
After exchanging a few words with Wu Dongsi, Pei Qin led him and a group directly to the fields.
Lady Chen spoke to Lady Zhu, and then quickly followed behind them in secret.
They left Taiping Town, heading eastward, and after traveling half a mile, they stopped.
There, Sun Dashun was leading the craftsmen in building a workshop.
Seeing the large compound, Wu Dongsi asked, "Is this workshop being built for processing sweet potatoes?"
"The workshop has nothing to do with sweet potatoes, although it can be used to store them after harvest," explained Pei Qin, pointing at a large expanse of luxuriant sweet potato fields not far ahead. "That’s it! This time, we could only plant a little over seven acres, but next year, after another cycle of seedling cultivation, we should be able to expand to about seven hundred acres."
Wu Dongsi did some mental calculations: two thousand pounds per acre – if it was seven hundred acres, then no one in Yuanyang County would starve again! He couldn’t help but feel a bit excited and quickened his step.
Upon reaching the field and observing the thriving sweet potato vines, Pei Qin bent down, plucked a handful of leaves, and said, "When there are excess sweet potato vines, they can be harvested to feed pigs. These sweet potato leaves and the ridges can be used as vegetables too!"
"The vines have just started growing; don’t be so wasteful!" Shen Songming couldn’t help but interject. If they let Wu Dongsi eat them now, in a couple of days, when he wanted to eat more, wouldn’t there be much less left?