Chapter 830 - 178: Hold Head High_2
Li Baoxiang also felt refreshed as he changed into a new silk robe and invited the Fang family and the Yu family, before coming to invite Mo Heng and Pei Qin.
These days were the prime time for spring planting. Since the Fang family village had set up a sweet potato flour workshop, the cultivation of sweet potatoes had increased as everyone wanted to plant more. With higher demand, the prices were likely to rise.
The one hundred and sixty acres of the sweet potato base were allotted, with sixty acres for spring soybeans, and the remainder all for sweet potatoes. There were also sunflowers on Taiping Mountain.
Pei Qin, heavily pregnant, was still overseeing the work in the fields and lands.
Last year, when Fang Fang got married, relatives from each family had said that this year they would buy mountain land to cultivate sunflowers. They provided the sunflower seeds and taught them how to plant. With Pei Qin pregnant, Pei Qian and Pei Wendong took on this responsibility.
Several of the earthen hills in Taiping Town had been properly laid out. Some families bought an entire hill, divided it into sections, and planted sunflowers on all of them.
The spacing between the rows and the width of the rows, how many plants per acre, and how to care for them after planting—those who had never grown sunflowers were not well versed in these matters.
Every year during farming season, Pei Qin sent Pei Wendong and the others off the land, so they knew how to plant. Wherever they went, villagers saw them as wealthy young masters, yet they were better at farming than the villagers. Once they were done teaching one family, they moved on to the next.
Unaffected by his exam failure, Chang Yonglin was still upbeat. Xiaoyong had been taught by famous teachers since childhood. Wendong learned alongside him, watching, more diligent than him. His different upbringing gave him unique insights. Though he might not match him in business, his academic intuition was very sharp. So when Chang Yonglin failed the exams, he just cursed the neighbor who knocked over the chamber pot a few times and merrily went off to teach people how to plant sunflowers.
Li Baoxiang came over but found no one, only Pei Qin and Jiujiu at the end of the field.