webnovelfull Chapter 147 Boasting Should Be Moderate
Chapter 147 Boasting Should Be Moderate
Ling Yao dismounted and glanced into the carriage, where he saw Tian Tian. "Second Miss Tian, I went to the teahouse just now, and your waiter said that you and Young Master Qian went to plant vegetables."
Ling Yao remembered that Tian Tian had said that the vegetables she wanted to grow were novel vegetables that Da Qi did not have. Now that she was going to start planting them, of course he had to come and see.
"Miss Tian, may I go with you?" Ling Yao asked directly.
Qian Fulai scoffed, "You little coward."
Ling Yao didn't hear clearly, "Second Miss Tian?"
“Then you can come along,” Tian Tian replied.
Ling Yao happily cupped his hands in thanks, "Thank you, Miss Tian Er."
He turned around, mounted his horse, and did it all in one smooth motion.
Qian Hai gave him an approving look.
In his heart, he thought to himself that this Young Master Ling was truly handsome. Even if he was a scoundrel, he was still a handsome scoundrel, while his son was just a scoundrel.
waste!
Qian Fulai received a look from Qian Haiduo and looked at himself with a puzzled expression.
The Qian family's two hundred mu of land was actually a small estate with more than a dozen farmers.
"Mr. Qian, Mrs. Qian." The farmers were all in their forties, and they all looked bewildered.
"If we're not planting rice this year, what are we going to plant?" Their relationship with the Qian family was similar to that of a landlord and tenant.
The land belonging to the Qian family was cultivated by them, and they could receive 30% of the grain produced. The rest belonged to the Qian family, who also paid grain taxes for it.
It seems that they only take 30% of the profits, which is a bit small, but the Qian family's land is all fertile farmland, which yields a higher harvest than poor farmland. In addition, the Qian family also provides food and lodging.
Compared to farming poor land at home, with low yields and having to pay grain taxes themselves, farming at the Qian family's place was much better.
But this year, Mr. Qian gave notice early on that he would not be planting rice this year, but other crops.
As for what exactly to plant, there's still no answer.
Qian Haiduo looked at Tian Tian.
Tian Tian immediately told everyone to unload the seeds from the car.
Baskets of potatoes, bundles of potato seedlings.
"This is what we're going to plant this year."
"What kind of seeds are these?" The farmers were dumbfounded.
never seen it.
Tian Tian took out a potato. "This thing is called a potato."
Rotate the potato to show everyone the sprouts on it. "Each sprout here is a seed."
"We need to cut the potatoes open, mix them with wood ash, and plant them in the ground with the sprouts facing upwards."
Everyone: "..."
Tian Tian picked up another sweet potato seedling, "This is a sweet potato seedling. When planting it, you need to insert it horizontally in the ground..."
Everyone: "..."
"Can this thing be planted after being cut open?"
“No seedlings are planted horizontally, they are all planted vertically.”
Who is this little girl?
"Does she know how to farm?"
Why does Master Qian listen to her?
"Isn't this nonsense?"
"Mr. Qian, is this all you're planting this year?" A farmer who looked older than the others stepped forward, his face grim.
"Are these two things edible? What is the yield per acre?"
Qian Haiduo didn't know, so he looked at Tian Tian instead.
"We've never seen or heard of either of these things before, let alone grown them. What if they don't grow?"
Qian Haiduo retorted unhappily, "How could it not grow? My daughter said it can be grown, so it can be grown."
"Mr. Qian, we need to eat too."
They depend on the harvest from this land for their livelihood; if they can't grow it, they won't have a harvest that year.
They can't gamble.
Everyone agreed.
Tian Tian gestured for everyone to be quiet.
"Everyone can plant with peace of mind. When it's harvest time, you'll still get 30% of the harvest."
"If the harvest is poor, or if you can't grow anything, I will calculate your pay based on last year's harvest."
Tian Tian's words left everyone looking at each other in bewilderment, each secretly calculating their own thoughts.
Last year was a bumper year, with an average yield of 340 jin per mu in Qianjiazhuangzi, the highest ever.
Everyone had already guessed that this year's harvest would be lower than last year's.
According to the young woman, if these two things cannot be grown, the silver can be calculated based on last year's harvest...
This is definitely a good thing.
"However, I can tell you in advance that if you are serious and plant them according to my instructions, the harvest of these two things can reach the level of previous years..."
Tian Tian's gaze swept over the crowd, and she parted her lips slightly, uttering, "More than ten times!"
More than ten times?!
Three hundred and fifty jin, that's three thousand five hundred jin?
"Nonsense!" Sure enough, no one believed her!
Even Qian Fulai, not believing it, leaned closer and said, "Tian Er, there's a limit to how much you can brag..."
She claimed that the yield of the previous high-yield rice varieties was already astonishing, with a yield of 1,000 jin per mu. People were probably full of hope, so they reluctantly believed her.
But it weighs three thousand five hundred jin...
Putting everything else aside, would it even stick to the food? Wouldn't it collapse under the weight?
Tian Tian gave a brief explanation: potatoes and sweet potatoes are both underground, and when you dig them out, they grow in bunches.
Qian Fulai frowned. Even underground, wouldn't 3,500 jin (1,250 kg) be densely packed all over the land?
How is that possible!
"I wasn't bragging." Tian Tian looked at Qian Fulai helplessly.
They were even conservative.
Qian Haiduo glared fiercely at Qian Fulai.
This kid can't even speak properly.
"Daughter, ten times is..."
He looked at Tian Tian with anticipation.
Tian Tian replied, "Ten times is three thousand five hundred jin."
"As long as you plant it according to my requirements, you will get exactly 3,500 jin."
"Moreover, although these two dishes are called dishes, they are actually similar to staple foods."
"Three-tenths of three thousand five hundred jin is one thousand jin."
Tian Tian looked at the farmers and asked, "Are you willing to listen to me and farm properly?"
The farmers looked at each other, and the girl said she wasn't bragging...
Judging from her expression, she didn't seem to be joking, much less bragging.
Should we believe her?
"Isn't this girl... the manager of Baishi Teahouse?" someone suddenly recognized her.
"The manager of Baishi Teahouse? Madam Lu? Madam Liu?"
"What madam? It's the younger one, the second young lady."
"It really is her. She wouldn't be lying, would she?"
"Anyway, it's all farming. The second young lady guarantees that even if we don't grow anything, we'll be paid based on last year's harvest."
"Then let's plant them properly. If they grow well and the harvest is really that high, then we'll make a profit."
"It's not a loss if we can't grow it."
That's true!
That's exactly what Tian Tian hoped for.
The farmers looked at each other, and finally nodded in unison, "Second Miss, as long as you keep your word, we will listen to you and plant these two things well."
"I, Tian Tian, will naturally keep my word."
Qian Haiduo came to his senses and said, "Don't worry, you've worked for the Qian family for so long, we won't treat you unfairly."
When the farmers saw that Qian Haiduo had also spoken up, the last trace of hesitation in their hearts disappeared.
"Then, Second Miss, please teach us how to do it now."