Chapter 253: Deciding to Make a Small Profit (5)_1
The Li Family’s land had not been irrigated with Spirit Spring Water initially, so the soybeans grew to be quite ordinary. After the harvest, Lizhong had the villagers separate and stack them before threshing them separately; the yield was also around one hundred and eighty catties per acre, and the quality was far inferior to that of the Mo Family’s.
The villagers who helped were bewildered; they had taken care of the crops similarly, but why did the Mo Family’s crops grow so well? Could it be that the Mo Family’s land was blessed by gods?
They believed that "three feet above your head, there are gods," but no one had ever seen one. This absurd notion passed through their minds in unison, then they dismissed it, still believing that it was because Mo Yan had grown vegetables the previous year.
By the time all the harvested soybeans were threshed and dried, the Mo Family’s twenty acres yielded a total of four thousand eight hundred catties, reaching a yield of two hundred and forty catties per acre.
When this news spread, it shocked the entire Liu Yang Village. Without the need for deliberate promotion, a long line of customers formed to buy seeds.
This year, most people in the village grew green beans or soybeans to rejuvenate the soil, with a few growing grains. But the land was too barren, and the grain yielded little. Careful calculations revealed that they hadn’t earned as much as they would have from selling beans.
Originally, the villagers who had grown beans to rejuvenate the soil planned to plant grains the next year. Now seeing that the Mo Family’s soybean yield was not much less than grain’s yield, and even earned more silver when converted, many people considered continuing to grow soybeans.
About five catties of soybean seeds were needed per acre, and the households interested in buying soybean seeds almost all had over twenty acres of land, which meant each household would purchase more than one hundred catties of seeds.