SFS Chapter 233: Yam, food crisis solved
Chapter 233: Yam, food crisis solved
After the wild boar meat was distributed, Yao Qingnian called the village chief aside, took out the sweet potatoes he had cooked and handed them to the village chief.
"Village chief, you've worked hard. Come and have something to eat."
"What's so hard about this? I'm so happy! What is this? Is it another new delicacy you researched?" The village chief took it and it looked a bit like a hairy potato.
"Try it and see."
The village chief gently broke open the sweet potato, and saw the skin of the sweet potato slowly cracking, and a faint fragrance wafted out. As the sweet potato was broken open, its snow-white flesh gradually revealed. A bite of it was soft and chewy, and tasted sweet.
"What is this? It's much better than our hairy potatoes."
"This is a sweet potato. I accidentally dug it up on the mountain yesterday."
"Yam? I've lived in this village all my life and have never seen anything like this."
"This thing grows in clusters. If there's one, there's a lot more."
"Hmm, hm? What did you say?" The village chief paused holding the sweet potato. A lot?
"In the area where we went hunting on the mountain." Yao Qingnian said truthfully.
"Girl, this is not a joke, are you sure?" The village chief looked incredulous.
"Well, I don't know exactly how many there are. I looked around there and there are indeed quite a few."
The village chief's hands were shaking with excitement: "Girl, the food crisis has been resolved. You are the savior of the whole village."
Yao Qingnian could have dug such a good thing by herself. If she didn't tell him, who would know? But she didn't hide it and told him the matter openly. If it was true, it would be like helping him solve the biggest problem at the moment.
The village chief immediately called a few reliable people and went to the mountain that Yao Qingnian mentioned.
When Yao Qingnian returned to the yard, he just saw Lu Huaijin coming out of the kitchen.
"What did you just talk about with the village chief for so long?"
"Come here and I'll tell you." Yao Qingnian hooked his finger, motioning him to come over.
Lu Huaijin came over, and Yao Qingnian told him everything about digging up the sweet potatoes.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He touched his itchy ears and asked in a deep voice.
"What? Do you have any objections?" Yao Qingnian thought he was blaming himself for acting on his own.
"No, you can let me do this kind of thing in the future." Lu Huaijin felt that his wife was too capable and he had no room to show his abilities.
"Aren't you sleeping?" Yao Qingnian wanted to tell him, but they were busy dealing with the wild boar last night, and they went to rest in the morning. She thought that since Lu Huaijin was willing to distribute the wild boar meat to the villagers, he would agree with her approach, so she said it directly while the village chief was there.
"Well, I've boiled some water for you to take a bath, so wash up and go have some rest!"
This man is quite considerate. He even helped me prepare the bath water. That’s very nice.
"How is Xiaolian?" Thinking of the injured Jiang Jingyi, she asked.
"She'll have to lie down in the house for a while. I'll send her back home after the weather warms up after the New Year."
"Well, I'll go see her later."
Yao Qingnian first checked her wound, changed her medicine, and then took a hot bath. She felt refreshed after the bath, and couldn't fall asleep so quickly, so she sat in the yard and taught Yinuo to read and write, then took out the sour jujube cake she made and ate it while sitting on the swing.
Less than half a day later, the village chief ran into the Lu family's yard with joy: "Girl, I went to the mountain you mentioned. Guess how much we dug today?"
"Dozens of kilograms?" Sweet potatoes are so difficult to dig. It should be enough to dig dozens of kilograms in just half a day.
"More than 200 kilograms! We haven't finished digging yet! We've only dug a small area, but there are so many sweet potatoes underground. We can dig a large area. Our village is really lucky this time. We don't have to worry about food problems." The village chief couldn't hide his joy at all. It was beyond Yao Qingnian's expectation that he could dig up so much.
"You really saved everyone's life this time! Girl, to be honest, the food in the village has been distributed in the past two days. I am in a hurry now. The sweet potatoes came just in time. I want to thank you on behalf of all the villagers in the village!" The village chief blushed and bowed deeply to Yao Qingnian.
"No, it would be too humiliating to give such a big gift! Our village is blessed to have a good village chief like you." Yao Qingnian quickly helped the village chief up.
"A simple bow is nothing. The whole village should thank you. I'll go back first and continue digging in the mountain tomorrow." The village chief's depressed mood of the past few days finally cleared up and he left happily.
In the yard, Yinuo and Xuanfeng were playing shuttlecock. On a snowy day, there was nothing to do except playing snowballs. It was too cold, and Yinuo's friends were afraid that they would catch a cold, so they didn't dare to go out to play. Especially since there were refugees in the village, they were afraid that something might happen, so they simply didn't let the children go out. Yinuo was almost moldy, so Yao Qingnian used the chicken feathers that she had selected earlier to make a beautiful shuttlecock for him.
Jiang Jingyi was extremely envious, but she was injured and could only sit and watch. For her, who was lively and active, every day was like a year, and she had a pout all day long. Yao Qingnian had no choice but to make a set of checkers for them to play.
Yao Qingnian drew the blueprint and asked Lu Mingchuan to make it. He himself did not have such skills. Although Lu Mingchuan made some modifications, the final product is really beautiful.
In order to distinguish the colors, Yao Qingnian specially thought of a way and went to the village to find materials, and then he made a set of chess pieces with different colors. The round chess pieces were polished and colored, and they looked very beautiful.
The rules of checkers are simple and can be played by three or five people. After Yao Qingnian demonstrated it once, the few of them soon had a lot of fun playing it. Even Lu Huaijin was called over to play with them.
After playing for a while, they found that they were no match for him. He was too smart and there was no fun at all, so they kicked him out and didn't want him to play anymore.
"What are you thinking about?" Lu Huaijin took a cloak and put it on her, then sat on the swing next to her and swung gently.
"Why don't you go to the main room and play checkers with them?"
"It's too boring. It's just for kids. It's not suitable for me."
"I think you were kicked out? Haha." Yao Qingnian laughed. She didn't expect that this man was so concerned about his reputation.
Yao Qingnian sat in the yard in a daze. The food problem had been solved, but he didn't know how the refugees in the city were doing. He really hoped that the weather would warm up soon so that everyone could return to normal life. It snowed again in the past two days, and a thick layer of snow fell at the door.
The village chief called a group of people together these past two days, and they went up the mountain to dig up all the yams and prepare to distribute them to the villagers...