Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 307 Discovering Taro 2

"Well, that's fine. Let's wait here first."

……

A quarter of an hour later, the two mules were full and satisfied.

Da Niu and A'er lifted the wooden box onto the mule cart, and the three of them got on the mule cart before setting off back to Shijing Town.

Although she didn't buy any food, she was lucky enough to get a big box of taro home without spending a penny. This was more practical for An Yue than twenty kilograms of rice.

The mule cart was driving fast and was shaking a lot along the way. An Yue felt like her brain was about to be shaken out.

A few quarters of an hour later, the mule cart finally arrived at Shijing Town.

An Yue handed the money for the mule cart to the driver, while Daniu and Ale carried the heavy wooden box and went straight to the entrance of the town.

When they arrived at the entrance of the town, they saw Li Wu waiting there.

An Yue waved to Li Wu from afar and asked with a smile, "Uncle Li, are you really waiting for us here?"

Li Wu laughed and said, "Haha, of course not. We made an agreement in advance, so we must keep our word!"

After saying that, he went to help Da Niu Ale and the others put the wooden boxes on the ox cart.

Because the wooden box was too heavy, An Yue couldn't bear to ride the ox cart again, so she and Ale Daniu and the others walked quickly behind Li Wu's ox cart.

Not long after, they arrived home.

As soon as I entered the yard, Ba Shi came to greet me.

When Meng Xiuer saw An Yue and the others arrived home, she hurriedly brought all the food that she had specially reserved to the eight-immortal table in the main hall.

After Daniu and Ale carried the wooden box under the eaves, they hurried to drink water and then washed their faces on the bluestone slabs.

An Yue went to the room to put the cloth bag away, then hurried to drink some water and eat something.

Meng Xiuer stood under the eaves and pointed at the wooden box and asked, "Yueyue, it seems that Daniu and Ale are struggling to carry this box back. What's in it?"

At this time, Chunzhi also came over.

While eating, An Yue said to Meng Xiu'er and Chunzhi, "If you are curious, you can open it with Chunzhi and take a look."

Meng Xiuer and Chunzhi smiled at each other, and started to open the boxes.

They opened the box and Chunzhi picked up a taro and asked, "Miss, what are these mud balls?"

When An Yue heard Chunzhi call taro "mud egg", she suddenly smiled and almost choked the food in her mouth.

An Yue explained with a smile: "This is taro. It's edible. It's nutritious, soft and tender, and sweet and sticky."

Meng Xiuer and Chunzhi's eyes lit up when they heard this. Chunzhi said, "Such a good thing, we are in for a treat."

"However, they are also more difficult to handle. You have to clean the mud off the outside first, then cut them into slices or chunks, and cook them before eating."

When An Yue was in the 21st century, her grandfather liked to grow taro. He always said that eating taro could relieve hunger.

Unexpectedly, taro can be of great help nowadays.

Ale, who was eating nearby, said, "Miss, the taro you are talking about is something I saw in our village when I went out with Daniu to cut grass for pigs."

When An Yue heard what Ale said, she quickly asked, "Oh? Where did you see it in the village?"

Daniu swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "It's right next to the stream... the stream."

"It's just that the taro leaves in our village are not as big as those in the county town." Ale also agreed.

"Take me to see it later." An Yue couldn't wait to go and see it.

Although I have stayed in Baili Village for quite a long time, I have never been there for too long on weekdays, and I only went there to wash clothes.

Later, after the stream dried up, An Yue never went there again.

The three of them finished their meal quickly.

An Yue planned to go to the west wing room to see the silkworms, so she stood up and walked towards the west wing room.

When we went in, we saw that most of the silkworms had already climbed onto the silkworm racks and started to spin silk and make cocoons.

At this time, A'er and Daniu had already picked up their hoes and carried backpacks, ready to go to the creek.

An Yue also carried her small backpack and followed Da Niu and the others down along the stream.

Soon, they found the place where taro grew.

Now the stream has completely dried up and the pebbles are scorching hot from the sun.

An Yue walked closer and took a closer look, and found that the taro leaves and stems had dried up.

She took the hoe from Da Niu and dug up a taro to take a look.

After a few hits with the hoe, the taro in the soil was dug out.

An Yue cleaned the hard soil off the taro. The taro growing by the stream here was indeed much smaller than the taro growing by the river bank in the county town.

As far as An Yue knows, both of them are taro.

It was just taro growing beside a river in the county town, with a single large taro growing under a stem.

The taro in the village has small stems, but they grow a bunch of small taro the size of eggs in the soil.

An Yue took a rough look and found that the area along the stream for about a few hundred meters was full of these small taro.

An Yue was overjoyed, now the villagers were saved.

Now that the drought situation is severe, the government has asked the villagers to pay summer taxes, and the families with large populations in the village have been forced to tighten their belts and make ends meet.

Especially in families with seven or eight children, the children are at the age of growing up, and not only do they have big appetites, but they also get hungry easily.

After paying the summer tax, most families had no surplus food, and the children would have to eat, so there would be no food for the adults.

Nowadays, every household lives in a tight situation and life is extremely hard and difficult.

For this reason, An Yue decided to go to the village chief to discuss whether he could organize the villagers to dig taro together.

Of course, the taro dug out must be divided equally among people.

An Yue knew that although she was in a difficult situation now, she could not save herself.

But there were more than ninety households in Baili Village, and she couldn't bear to see the villagers starve to death.

So, she decided to let Daniu Ale dig more and take them home to store in the cellar, and then go to the village chief to discuss organizing the villagers to dig taro.

"Daniu Ale, let's dig up more taro and store it in the cellar. I will go to the village chief to discuss it in the next two days and ask the villagers to come and dig taro as well."

"Okay, miss." Daniu Ale didn't ask any more questions. After they responded, they speeded up their actions.

At this time, it was already You time.

The three of them had already dug a large pile of taro. An Yue looked at the taro in front of her and felt very at ease.

They picked up the dug taro and put it into a backpack, and then carried the dry taro stems back as well.

Since the locust swarms moved through, cutting grass for the pigs has become very difficult.

They took their own farm tools and carried a basket full of taro on their backs as they prepared to go home.

I walked along the path towards home and soon arrived home.

After returning home, they put down their backpacks one by one.

Daniu and Ale put all the taro they dug today into the cellar.

An Yue planned to use these taro to make a delicious dinner that no one had ever eaten before.