Chapter 340: Just a Concubine (5)_1
Sun Quanliang and his father, along with their grandchild, didn’t stay at home to sleep either. They hired two more people to keep an eye on the sweet potato shoots. Someone else was stealthily pinching off sweet potato shoots, too.
Previously, those who had planted vegetables in the garden had come to ask if they could pinch some to plant, all relieved, for it meant they could buy fewer sweet potato slips.
Seeing that some families had prepared their fields, Pei Qin immediately instructed Sun Quanliang’s family to prune and divide the plants according to each family’s field situation. They couldn’t plant too much, otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough to go around.
People from ten miles around swarmed in, as Old Scholar Fang came over to preside, supervising the activity alongside Sun Lizheng.
Soon enough, the sweet potato shoots in the fields had become sparse from all the pruning and dividing. Continuing to cut would lead to a significant decrease in production, so Pei Qin ordered them to stop.
Some who arrived late didn’t manage to buy any potato slips, and there were complaints and dissatisfaction.
Pei Qin told Sun Quanliang and the others to keep an eye on the sweet potato fields. They couldn’t kill the goose that laid the golden eggs if they pruned her sweet potatoes to baldness, as then she would harvest nothing.
After several days of busy work, Pei Yuan felt somewhat afraid. When they were promoting the crop, they didn’t want to plant it, and some even thought the sweet potatoes were too abnormal, blaming the Pei family for using them to harm Pei Qin and her brother. Now, seeing that everybody wanted to buy and plant them, it was practically a mad scramble. The sweet potatoes in their own fields were nearly pruned to baldness, yet people still asked for more.