Chapter 156: Sky Screen Live Streaming System (31)

The full-experience package their two families booked covers consumption in both the Planting and barbecue areas.

There is no need to queue; upon arrival, you can use the Recreational Vehicle key card to collect tools and start the experience immediately.

Otherwise, it will be dark before you can eat the dinner you picked and cooked yourselves.

"Put away your luggage, we're heading to the Planting area to pick the vegetables and fruits you want to eat!"

Nuo Nuo Ma checked the time, saw it was already four o'clock, and hurried everyone along.

The drive, which usually takes just over an hour, took a full four hours to complete today.

National Day really is crowded everywhere; just getting out of the city center took half the day.

It seems that not traveling far during the golden holiday is indeed the most accurate choice!

Many of those who traveled far are probably still stuck at stations and airports right now!

"Mom, what are we going to pick? Are we picking grapes?"

During summer vacation, little Feng Zinuo went to the countryside with his grandfather to pick grapes, so when he heard they were going picking, he assumed it was grapes again.

"Grapes are long out of season; we're picking vegetables and melons, and digging up sweet potatoes and Potato, then we'll buy some lamb later to have a barbecue tonight."

"Yay! I love barbecue the most!"

"..."

Is there anything you don't like to eat?

But it's a good thing the child loves to eat, so Nuo Nuo Ma said happily: "When we get to the field, you can pick whatever you want to eat, and I'll grill it for you when you bring it back."

"No! I want to grill it myself!"

"Fine, then you can pick it and grill it yourselves."

"Okay!"

Feng Zinuo pulled his two little friends along and dashed excitedly toward the green fields.

Autumn is the season for the harvest of fruits and vegetables.

Especially for merchants running a business, they naturally make the picking garden look quite enticing:

Verdant leafy greens, red and yellow bell peppers, purple and white eggplants, large and small Tomato, bean pods climbing the entire bamboo wall, corn cobs with only one ear per stalk but every kernel plump, luffa, Cucumber, and calabash hanging down like silk ribbons, and winter melon and Watermelon hanging upside down like basketballs...

It made the three children let out exclamations of "Wow" and "Oh" from time to time.

The three children were responsible for picking the effortless vegetables, while the three adults were responsible for digging up the sweet potatoes in the field and picking the heavy Watermelon.

Seeing a large cluster of sweet potatoes come up with a casual tug, Xie Yang said thoughtfully: "I haven't seen such fresh sweet potatoes in a long time. When I was little, I used to roast sweet potatoes with my cousins at my grandmother's house, but in my memory, they weren't this long and red."

"These are local sandy-soil sweet potatoes." Nuo Nuo Ba also dug up a cluster and replied casually, "Red skin and yellow flesh, they roast into honey easily; most of the roasted sweet potatoes sold on the streets are this variety."

He was from a rural area, and he often helped adults with farm work in the fields when he was a child, so when it came to topics related to farming, he could talk about them with ease.

"Can sweet potatoes be grown in sandy soil too?" Xie Yang feigned ignorance, intending to educate the people of Daliang, "I've only heard of sandy-soil Watermelon."

"You bet! Sweet potatoes grown in sandy soil are the sweetest!"

Nuo Nuo Ba wiped away some sweat and continued:

"When I was a kid, my family grew mostly sweet potatoes; they aren't picky about soil and have a high yield! Getting three thousand catties per mu is easy."

And there are many ways to eat them; besides steaming or roasting them whole, they can also be made into sweet potato starch, dried sweet potato, sweet potato chips... they are delicious and store well.

Now it's said that some sweet potato varieties have yields as high as five thousand catties per mu. When my grandparents heard that, they couldn't stop smiling.

Their generation experienced famine and the special era of material scarcity, so they were truly hungry. Even though they don't go hungry now, they are still happy to hear about high-yield food crops."

The people of Daliang looking up at the Sky Screen were stunned: "!!!"

How much yield per mu???

Three to five thousand catties!!!

Wouldn't that be seven or eight shi? Or even nine or ten shi?

What kind of divine crop is this!

If Daliang had such a divine crop, why worry about not having enough to eat?

The core members of the imperial court gathered in front of the Imperial Study to watch the Sky Screen were also deeply shaken.

Xiao Yanze immediately sent men to search for this crop called "sweet potato" or "yam".

The Minister of Revenue's voice trembled with excitement; he had just been worrying about the empty treasury and the inability to provide grain for the frontier soldiers, and now things had suddenly taken a turn for the better!

"Heaven blesses our Great Liang, Your Majesty! As long as we find this divine crop, peace and prosperity, and a full treasury, will be within reach!"

The reason Xie Yang brought up this topic was to make the Daliang people watching the live stream value the sweet potato crop.

If the people are well-fed, their state of mind will likely be a bit more stable, right?

Will the possibility of giving negative points also be a little smaller?

Of course, sweet potatoes are not the only high-yield crops; there are also Corn and Potato.

Nuo Nuo Ma happened to be digging up a cluster of Potato, the kind that fills a sack with one dig, and exclaimed happily: "So many Potato! It's so satisfying!"

Nuo Nuo Ba looked up at his wife: "Wife, haven't you dug up Potato before? This isn't considered many; the yield of Potato per mu is even higher than sweet potatoes. Good varieties can yield over ten thousand catties per mu, which is truly dense. One hoe down, and it's all a nest of Potato; you have to hold back your strength."

All of Great Liang: "!!!"

Ten thousand catties per mu!!!

What kind of divine crop is this!

If only Great Liang had such a divine crop!

The next second, they heard the Little Marquis and the Princess's aunt say:

"Historical records state that sweet potatoes, Potato, and Corn, which also has a yield of thousands of catties per mu, are all imported goods. They were first brought out by navigators from America, and when passing through Southeast Asia, they took some out for Trading as supplies. Later, they were introduced to the southwest region of our country, where the climatic conditions were closest to their original planting grounds, and because the yield was far higher than the rice of that time, which was harvested once a year, they began to be planted on a large scale."

"That's right." Nuo Nuo Ba added, "In ancient times, the yields of rice and Wheat were low, and they were only harvested once a year. Rice had a higher yield per mu than Wheat, but at most, it was only five hundred catties. Unlike now, two harvests a year is standard, and many areas in the south even have three harvests a year. Low-yield rice can reach one thousand or eight hundred catties, and for high-yield, I've heard that two thousand catties is not a problem."

All of Great Liang: "!!!"

In the Sky Screen world, adults and children were happily picking fresh vegetables and fruits, and grilling lamb, Fish, and pork belly.

On the large stove of the farmhouse, two steamer baskets were steaming; one basket held white flour buns, flower rolls, and steamed bread, while the other held coarse grains like taro, sweet potatoes, and pumpkins.

The people of Daliang watching under the Sky Screen, however, were mostly distracted, their minds constantly echoing with the conversation they had just heard.

If it were only the high yields of crops they didn't recognize, such as sweet potatoes, Potato, and Corn, then at most they would feel envy and jealousy.

But what did they hear? The yield per mu of rice and Wheat could also reach over a thousand catties!

In some regions, they could even harvest twice or three times a year!

Now, who had the heart to watch what the people in the Sky Screen world were eating or drinking?

If it weren't for the fact that it was pitch black outside, the farmers of the Daliang dynasty, who faced the yellow earth with their backs to the sky, would have even wanted to go to the fields and ridges to ponder how to increase the yield per mu of rice and Wheat.

They didn't dare to hope for a thousand catties, but even half the harvest of the Heavenly Palace would be enough to satisfy them!

(End of chapter)