Chapter 353 The Dying Man (9)_1
The people were all so grateful that they hurried home to prepare their lands for planting autumn sweet potatoes. Left and right, lower-quality fields growing wheat couldn’t yield much grain. Planting sweet potatoes on the other hand could bring in a higher harvest!
Once the Wang family and the Chang family had their two hundred mu of land ready, Pei Qin, along with Pei Yuan and a few little radishes, went to Tian Zhuang. Along with Chen Gua’s family, they spent three days and finally cut out sweet potato seedlings for over four hundred mu of land.
Within their own Tian Zhuang, Pei Qin decided to plant more than ten mu with sweet potatoes, and the rest she planted with wheat. They also needed flour for eating and for the noodle shop, and continually buying flour from outside was not sustainable due to the high cost.
After the autumn harvest, it was assumed that fewer people would plant sweet potatoes because everyone needed to plant wheat. In the eyes and hearts of the farmers, wheat, corn, sorghum, and millet were the true staple grains.
However, those whose lands were poor and hoped for a high yield to fill their bellies all planted sweet potatoes on their lower-quality fields or cleared out an additional three or four mu for sweet potatoes.
Pei Houli also hurried over with an ox-cart, bringing Lady Zhu to buy sweet potato seedlings.
When the Sun Quanliang family saw them, they said, "Not for sale!" The young owner had given his word that they would sell to anyone, except the people from Old Pei’s House.
After Pei Wenli’s success in the examinations, Lady Zhu held herself even higher, feeling that riding in an ox-cart was below her status and wanting to buy a mule cart instead. Upon seeing her alight from the ox-cart and hearing the Sun Quanliang family bluntly refusing to sell, her face darkened immediately, "Didn’t you see who I am? You still won’t sell to our family!?"