The sun was scorching, but Li Xiu took Li Chengdao and others wearing straw hats and bent down to work on the fields by the river. They each saw a small shovel, digging a small hole in the soft land, and then took out a few seeds from a small cloth pocket at their waist and threw them in, and then covered the soil.

"What a pity to plant all such delicious peanuts!" Li Chengqian muttered quietly while planting. Before coming to the field this morning, Li Xiu fryed them a small bowl of peanuts, sprinkled with salt, and it was so crispy. Now when he thinks about it, he drools.

"Okay, don't murmur. Although peanuts are delicious, they are too small in quantity. Now let's plant them. When we harvest them in autumn, it's okay to eat as much as we want!" Li Chengdao heard his cousin's voice and said with a smile. Although peanuts are delicious, he is much more sensible than Li Chengqian, who is older.

"I know, but I still want to eat peanuts and corn!" Li Chengqian said pitifully at this time. When talking about corn, he turned his head and looked at the corn field next to him. Since Li Xiu took them to steal corn once last time, he has been obsessed with it. Unfortunately, Li Xiu refused to eat it anymore. After all, this thing only needs to be tasted fresh, and the rest must be kept as seeds.

"It's really unpromising. You ate half of the peanuts this morning. Xiao Ya gave it to you. You haven't eaten enough yet!" At this moment, Qi Niang also heard Li Chengqian's words and said with a blank look that she was fighting for her little sisters.

"Sister Qi Niang, I don't like peanuts very much. Cheng Qian just likes it, so I asked him to help me eat it." At this time, Xiao Ya whispered. This little girl lived in Li Xiu's house for a year. She usually ate well and slept well. She also studied with Li Xiu. Now she is white and tender and cute. Perhaps because of her age, she has the best relationship with Li Chengqian, and sometimes she even helps Li Chengqian do her homework.

"Hehe, don't you see? Xiaoya gives me food only if she doesn't like it, so I'm helping her." Li Chengqian laughed heartily at this time. Compared to Xiaoya, he was more afraid of Qi Niang, not only because Qi Niang is older than him, but also because Qi Niang is better than him in every aspect of her studies, which makes him feel very unconfident in front of Qi Niang.

"Don't just talk. You guys should finish your work quickly and have to go to class in the afternoon!" At this moment, Li Xiu, who had already left several children far behind, suddenly turned his head and shouted. He had given most of the peanuts to Boss Liu and the others to plant. These were some things he left specifically to let these children experience the hard work of farm work.

Hearing Li Xiu's urging, the children immediately did not dare to chat anymore. They agreed and started to speed up the speed. However, the weather was too hot today. Seeing that the peanuts had just been planted a little more than half, everyone was sweating profusely. At this moment, a few women suddenly came with baskets. When they approached, Li Xiu realized that it was Princess Pingyang and Yi Niang who came with Yue Chan and others.

"Okay, let's take a break. We bring sour plum soup to relieve you of the heat!" At this time, Princess Pingyang placed the basket on the grass by the river and shouted to Li Xiu and the others.

"It's so good!" Several children immediately cheered when they heard this, threw down the shovel and ran over. Li Xiu also smiled at Princess Pingyang and the others at this time, and then inserted the shovel into the ground. Then he walked over and drank the cold sour plum soup to relieve the heat.

"Husband, I heard from Qu Yi that uncle is leaving?" At this time, the lady in the clothes suddenly came to Li Xiu and asked in a low voice.

"Yes, I guess it will be a few days later, so we should try to go to my uncle's place as little as possible during this period and let their family spend more time together." Li Xiu also said with some emotion at this time. God knows when the bearded guest will come back, not to mention that he doesn't know what dangers he will encounter on the way to America. When he thinks of this, Li Xiu doubted whether he was right or wrong in telling the bearded guest about America?

"Well, since my uncle is leaving, are we going to see him off? We also need to prepare some gifts?" The lady asked again at this time. As a housewife, she had to worry about these trivial things.

"It is certain to see off. As for gifts, you should prepare some, preferably some food, such as canned food. Uncle wants to go to America again and stay on the boat for a long time. Canned food should be very suitable for him. If you ask someone to prepare a few more cars, please let your uncle take it away at that time!" Li Xiu suddenly thought of the effect of canned food on sailing, and immediately ordered.

The cooperation between Ma Ye and Cheng Yaojin has begun. In order to promote canning, Ma Ye has established several small canning workshops near Chang'an, mainly producing some canned food to those who need to go long distances, such as those Hu merchants walking on the Silk Road, which is extremely popular with canning, which has also made canned food recognized in a small range. Now the canned workshops on the northern grassland are also under construction. It is estimated that can be produced and canned food will be transported back to the Central Plains for sale this fall.

"Well, I understand. I'll ask someone to prepare in the afternoon!" The lady in the air nodded and said when she heard this.

At this moment, Li Xiu suddenly realized that Princess Pingyang was missing, which made him stunned. He turned his head and looked at it, but found that Princess Pingyang had actually gone to the cornfield and was carefully observing the corn. This made him smile helplessly, and walked over and smiled: "Princess, these corns will need some time to mature, so there is no need to see them every day."

Compared to those sweet potatoes that cannot be seen in the ground, the corn in front of me is real and visible, and one corn cob is more than ten wheat, so Princess Pingyang is also paying special attention to these corns. Although these corns are not yet mature, she has roughly estimated that the yield of these corns is likely to reach four or five hundred kilograms, which is several times higher than wheat.

Princess Pingyang heard Li Xiu's words and said, "I'm not looking at the corn to see if it is ripe, but to see if anyone comes to steal it?"

"Uh? Why is it? Uncle Liu has arranged a person. People are watching here for twelve hours a day. Look at the small shack over there, where Uncle Liu and his friends rest. Now the guards are working not far away. It is impossible for anyone to steal corn!" Li Xiu explained immediately when he heard this, but the more he explained, the more he felt guilty.

"Haha, is that right? But why did I hear Uncle Liu say that the corn on several corns disappeared some time ago? Was it taken away by birds?" Princess Pingyang stared at Li Xiu with a scrutiny look. Apart from Li Xiu, he really couldn't imagine that anyone would steal corn.

"It's very likely that I saw an eagle flying in the sky recently. Maybe it was it that stole our corn!" Li Xiu said seriously. Judging from Princess Pingyang's emphasis on these corns, if she knew that she not only stole the corn, but also took Li Chengdao and the others to steal it, the consequences would be very serious.

"I have never seen a vegetarian eagle before. Why don't you say that a phoenix stole the corn?" Princess Pingyang couldn't help but laugh and cry when she heard Li Xiu's nonsense. Faced with Li Xiu's shamelessness, she sometimes said helplessly.

"Hehe, maybe it's because he's eaten too much eagle meat and wants to change his taste. What's more, the eagles in our Central Plains have definitely never seen corn, so they might treat them as mice!" Li Xiu then used his skills to the limit. Anyway, he would never admit the stealing of corn.

Seeing Li Xiu's rogue appearance, Princess Pingyang couldn't help but laughed angry by him. Then she reached out and whipped Li Xiu's arm hard and said, "I told you to talk nonsense. If I find that there is less corn in the future, then I'm not polite!"

When Li Xiu heard that Princess Pingyang no longer cared about this matter, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Then he smiled again and said, "Princess, the corn is about to mature, and it is probably about the sweet potatoes. Should we dig out some and see how the yield is?"

When talking about sweet potatoes, Li Xiu couldn't help but think of the deliciousness of roasted sweet potatoes again. I remember that when he was a child, whenever the sweet potatoes were ripe, he and a group of friends would run to the fields. When they were hungry, they would dig a few sweet potatoes, then light the heat. When the fire was halfway through, they would throw the sweet potatoes into the fire, cover the fire with soil, and let the sweet potatoes simmer inside for a while. When they were peeled out, the sweet potatoes would be stewed so hard that they would be tender inside, breaking them apart to reveal the golden meat inside. A sweet fragrance made people saliva. Unfortunately, when they grew up, they could no longer taste the taste and feeling of childhood.

"Now? But I see that the sweet potato vines are still green. Isn't it a bit early?" Princess Pingyang said hesitantly when she heard this. In her opinion, the sign of crop maturity is that the plants turn yellow, such as wheat and rice, and even corn is the same. Only when the plants turn yellow can this crop be harvested, but the sweet potatoes have no sign of yellowing and withering.

"It's getting late. Our sweet potatoes were grown early. Now it's over five months. The sweet potatoes grown in spring are harvested at this time. Of course, sweet potatoes are different from wheat and rice. Sweet potatoes can also be planted for one year before harvesting. Then the roots of the sweet potatoes will be larger and the yield will be higher, but that's not necessary, because it has grown big enough in the first half of the year and will grow very slowly in the second half of the year, so it won't be harvested early, so that some other things can be planted on the field."

Li Xiu patiently explained that when it comes to crops like sweet potatoes, they usually ripen every year in the north, but they can reach ripen every year in the south. It is said that they can also reach ripen every year in the north in the later years. However, Li Xiu probably used new varieties, at least in the old farmers in his previous life, they usually ripen every year.
Chapter completed!