Chapter 35 – Selling Groundnut Leaves

In the next few days, the school captain’s house returned to its usual calm, and Wei Ruo’s relationship with her family was a little colder than the moment she first arrived.

Especially with Yun, originally when Yun was warm to Wei Ruo, Wei Ruo reacted not so eagerly, now Yun is cold, then Wei Ruo’s end is even colder.

For this reason Wei Yi Chen was a bit worried, but Wei Ruo didn’t care.

She didn’t care what kind of attitude the rest of the family had towards her, she had several things on her hands that she needed to be busy with.

First of all, the sweet potatoes on the little sunny hill have grown vine leaves.

Sweet potato vine leaves (groundnut leaves) are also a good food to pick and eat as a green vegetable, an added bonus before the sweet potato matures.

And sweet potato leaf leaves this kind of thing has an advantage, can be sold as much as pick as much, can not be sold to stay in the ground, to provide nutrients for the underground sweet potato tubers.

The first time I picked sweet potato vine leaves, the nanny was a little uncertain, and Wei Ruo, because it was inconvenient to go in and out, sent Xiu Mei over.

As soon as she left the door of the school captain’s house, Xiu Mei put on her drapery.

After the meeting between Xiu Mei and Nanny, the two commanded the long laborers to select a part of the sweet potato field picking, picking good sweet potato vine leaves with divided into a handful of handfuls of straw bundled, with baskets loaded, placed on the oxcart for easy transportation.

The first time picking considering the people do not know enough about the sweet potato vine leaves, Xiu Mei and the milkmaid followed Wei Ruo’s instructions to pick only two baskets of the amount.

The oxcart was then transported to the market to be sold for two cents a hand.

This price is set by Wei Ruo, the selling price is not expensive, thin profit.

Wei Ruo’s pricing of agricultural products is generally not too high, the pursuit of volume to win; on the contrary, in some only the rich children of the dignitaries can afford to use things, Wei Ruo will be as high as possible.

And selling sweet potato vine leaves is also a way to better publicize sweet potato as a crop and to warm up for the subsequent release of larger quantities of sweet potatoes.

On the way to the fair the milkmaid even went home to fry a big plate and brought it to the fair with her.

When you bring it to the market, use smaller dumpling leaves to roll it into a funnel shape, and divide the fried sweet potato vine leaves into it, each containing only a bite-sized amount.

Then let the long laborers who help with the delivery help yell, “Two cents a handful, free trial.”

Because of the small amount of arable land in Xingshan County, vegetables were already a bit more expensive than those from outside the county, and with the decline in vegetable production due to bad weather in the past few years, as well as the disturbances of the Japanese invaders, which led to a decrease in the number of incoming and outgoing merchant caravans, and a smaller amount of vegetables transported from outside the country, the end result was that the price of vegetables in Xingshan County was several times more expensive than that of other places.

A handful of green fresh vegetables for two cents really attracted a lot of people to come and watch.

I’ve never seen it, but there are finished products to try.

The milkmaiden very enthusiastically handed the dumpling leaves containing fried sweet potato vine leaves to the onlookers.

After learning that this is an edible vegetable with a refreshing and delicious flavor and a very affordable price, some people started to buy it on a trial basis.

In no time, two baskets of sweet potato vine leaves were sold out.

After leaving from the bazaar, Xiu Mei followed the milkmaid again to their present-day residence.

There was a store in the front and a small mansion in the back, not a big place, but the milkmaid’s family was content.

Especially this location, the choice is very good, close to the school lieutenant’s house, the front of the store and in the lively neighborhood, such as the store opened out, customer traffic should not worry.

Xiu Mei had lunch with the three members of the Xu family inside the small mansion before returning to the school captain’s residence.

When he came back, he also brought Wei Ruo sweet potato vine leaves and some mushrooms and vegetables. All of them were prepared by the Nurse’s family for Wei Ru, they were afraid that Wei Ru would not be used to eating in the school captain’s residence.

After that Wei Ruo asked Xiu Mei to guard the door of her room and not to let anyone in.

Then he went into the space himself and collected the sweet potatoes planted on the two plots of land in the space.

The speed at which the space land grows plants is not quite the same as outside, the sweet potatoes on Xiaoyang Mountain in the north of the city have just grown full of sweet potato leaves, the ones in her space are already ready to be harvested.

After collecting two whole baskets of sweet potatoes, the experience value of the space had risen by a huge wave, and there was less than a hundred experience value left from the thousand experience value needed to upgrade.

With the upgrade on the horizon, Wei Ruo became more and more excited about the new seeds that would be updated after the upgrade.

Collected sweet potatoes Wei Ruo did not transport out of the space, out of thin air out of two baskets of sweet potatoes is too suspicious.

Wei Ruo stored the sweet potatoes in the space after collecting them, as long as the preservation environment was dry, they wouldn’t go bad in a short period of time.

It was inconvenient to transport it out of the space to sell it now, so it would stay in the space for now and be her spare food.

In case of any disaster, lack of food and water, there are ready-made spare food and water in the space, at least to ensure that starvation will not die.

The next day Wei Ruo personally went to the south of the city, and using the paperwork Wei Mingting had given her, she managed to get the guarding officers and soldiers at the south city gate to release her.

In the south of the city, Wei Ruo selected a piece of flat land with convenient transportation and close to a water source as her test field.

had the two long laborers Yun had assigned to her do the weeding and turning of the ground.

After that they were told to bring water from a nearby creek daily to water the land.

It’s a puzzling move to ask someone to water every day when there’s nothing planted on the ground.

And Wei Ruo asked the long workers to make the land into a rice paddy that can plant rice, it is almost to the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, other people’s rice has grown over the knee, Wei Ruo now wants to make a whole rice paddy to plant rice, it really makes people doubt whether she really knows how to plant.

In this regard, Sister Zhang and the two eldest workers had some opinions, thinking that Wei Ruo’s operations were strange.

After two days of work, Sister Zhang couldn’t help but mention to Wei Ruo: “Miss, why don’t you plant some other crops? Although I haven’t planted for many years, I often heard people say in my hometown that everything has a time, and there is a time to plant crops, fruits, and vegetables, and after that time, you can’t plant well!”

“Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing, and I promise that it’s not too late to sow rice when you’ve finished the land.” Wei Ruo certainly knew the importance of time.

It’s almost June, and normal rice definitely can’t be planted.

But the rice seeds in her space are of the variety that can be used for both early and late rice.

Early rice will bloom next month, while late rice will not be sown until June or July of the lunar calendar, and she is perfectly in time.

This also allowed her to experiment with both saline land reclamation and late rice cultivation at the same time.

If it is successful, not only can the arable area of Xingshan County be greatly increased, but it can also realize the planting of two rice seasons in a year, and increase the grain production in both horizontal and vertical dimensions at the same time.

“Then what about those fruits and vegetables and whatever straws and rice chaff that Eldest Miss asked us to collect before?” Sister Zhang asked again.

“Those continue to be stored, it will take a bit of time, when the time comes, I will tell you how to use them.” Wei Ruo said.

Sister Zhang looked at Wei Ruo’s confident face and wanted to say something, but swallowed it back.

Forget it, there’s no use talking about it, Missy doesn’t look like she can listen to people.

Moreover, Missy also said that it was her problem if this couldn’t be done, and when the time came, it was she herself who would be punished, it had nothing to do with her.