PEASANT WOMAN'S DECREED LIFE AS A WIFE

Chapter 1216: Chapter 113: Yield of 1800 jin per mu

Zhang Shi nodded hurriedly, shouldering his hoe to give instructions to the long-term laborers to start collecting, and he loudly reminded them to be careful and pay extra attention.

“Lady, there really are a lot of potatoes, all round and small, but why is there such a big difference in size?”

Ye Muyu didn’t actually know, she had to assume it related to the intake of nutrients as well as the variety.

“However, it’s already very good that from just half a potato for sowing, five or six potatoes can grow.”

“Some have seven or eight,” Su Mei added quietly while bending down to pick them up.

Pleased with the harvesting, Chun Xing picked the potatoes, “Lady, is this year considered a great harvest? I see that the land where the manor grows potatoes is only third-class and not fertile land, yet I didn’t expect these potatoes to grow so easily.”

“This is sandy land, which is very suitable for growing potatoes,” Ye Muyu wiped the sweat from her forehead and didn’t go back to rest in the manor until noon.

The long-term laborers worked quickly.

They dug up two acres of land just in the morning.

In total, twenty-five acres of potatoes were planted, and each plot yielded well.

In the afternoon, Ye Muyu did not personally carry the hoe anymore, she just bent down to pick potatoes.

Understanding the growth in the fields, she recorded the situation, and then they could fully proceed with the harvest.

After five days, all the potatoes from the manor were dug up and weighed to calculate the yield per acre.

A group of long-term laborers curiously stood by and watched, with Zhang Shi leading two of the stronger laborers to do the weighing.

Ye Muyu had changed her clothes, and the red patches on her hands were treated with the ointment Lu Sangqi had a talent for making—it was effective quickly and felt cool and comfortable to use.

She stood by watching, waiting for the data to be reported.

After weighing the yield from two acres of land.

Suppressing his excitement, Zhang Shi said with a smile, “Lady, the sandy soil near the slope yielded one thousand eight hundred catties per acre.”

“This small sandy area isn’t bad either, with a yield of one thousand seven hundred fifty-six catties per acre.”

Ye Muyu calculated in her mind that this yield was about the maximum, without fertilizer; fortunately, they had wood ash to use, they also took good care watching over it every day, and the variety planted wasn’t the best. The large potatoes of later generations with yields of ten thousand catties per acre certainly couldn’t be compared.

But the yield was not bad.

One thousand eight hundred catties per acre, considering a flour yield rate of ten percent, one acre of potatoes could produce one hundred eighty catties of potato flour.

However.

Right now, the situation in the Northern Region was urgent, and this year’s rice had just been planted, with harvest expected only after mid-July; the North grew wheat, the South grew rice, and the imperial court had to rely on the South’s harvest for rice supplies.

These potatoes, after keeping aside enough for seeding, would be sent entirely to the military camp—they didn’t need to be turned into potato flour.

Perhaps in extreme hunger, a single potato could save the life of a soldier.

Working through the entire manor’s potatoes took two days.

Close to fifty thousand catties of potatoes.

She had Zhang Shi lead the long-term laborers to first select the seeds.

The rest were stored in the manor’s cellar for the time being.

It was three days later that Ye Muyu got in touch with Du Heng.

These days, Du Heng was always out running the trade routes, and with the Mei Mian Rouge Shop leading the way, his progress had been very smooth.

“Lady, Shopkeeper Tang is here.”

Ye Muyu received Tang Dongfeng in the guest room. Seeing that he had just rushed back, she couldn’t help but ask, “Shopkeeper Tang, have you just returned from somewhere?”

“From the West Continent,” Tang Dongfeng didn’t stand on ceremony, taking the tea she poured and drinking several mouthfuls before sighing with relief, “I heard that the potatoes passed down from The West have been grown?”

“Yes, but the seeds were wild potatoes, yielding generally, if there is a chance to buy better seeds from the Westerners, the production could likely be increased even more.”

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