All Hail Cousin Brother

At this time, Chunxiao came over with some snacks.

Yu Youyao's eyes lit up, she signed a piece of white fruit, and handed it to her cousin.

Zhou Linghuai looked at the piece of fruit on his mouth, and then at the little girl, smiling with crooked eyebrows, feeding intimately as if he didn't know it, brother and sister are not seen, only loving couples have it.

He slightly bent his lips and ate the fruit piece handed over.

After he finished eating, Yu Youyao couldn't wait to ask: "Is it delicious?"

Zhou Linghuai nodded slightly: "The heart is crisp and juicy, and its taste is sweet, like water chestnuts. It tastes very special. I have never eaten this thing before. What is it?"

Yu Youyao immediately beamed and said, "This kind of fruit is called sweet potato, which is somewhat similar to yam. They are roots that grow in the soil. They are sweet and juicy. They are not a product of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

Zhou Linghuai was a little surprised: "I thought it was a fruit, but I didn't expect it to be a farm product. How did you get it?"

As soon as this was mentioned, Yu Youyao frowned with a smile: "Some time ago, I owned a merchant ship and went to Luzon with a group of merchant ships from the Xie Mansion. The local merchants took this precious food called "sweet potato". Entertaining the steward on the merchant ship, after the steward tasted it, he felt that the sweet potato was delicious, so he managed to exchange a lot with the local merchant, and at the end of the year, it was sent to the mansion together with the New Year gift. At first, no one in the mansion knew it was Whatever, no one cares."

Sweet potatoes are a controlled product in the local area, so it is not easy to get them. The steward probably thinks that they are very precious, so they have changed a lot.

Zhou Linghuai smiled lightly: "What happened next?"

Yu Youyao laughed again: "It was also yesterday that the servants mistook sweet potatoes for purple taro, and found that sweet potatoes were fresher and sweeter. Mother Xu was very interested, so she tried various methods, and found that whether it was eaten raw, steamed, Fried, boiled, grilled, and fried, they are all very delicious." After finishing speaking, she sandwiched another fried golden ball: "This is the sweet potato ball fried by Madam Xu according to the method of frying taro balls. Cousin, hurry up!" Taste it to see if it tastes good."

The meatballs were fried to the right size, just one bite at a time. With a smile in his eyes, Zhou Linghuai took a bite of the meatballs: "Eat it after frying, it is fragrant, glutinous, soft and sweet, and has an indistinguishable taste. It is a good thing."

Yu Youyao also smiled: "Cousin, this food is not only delicious, but also very hungry. I ate two sweet potatoes the size of my fist yesterday, and I couldn't eat anymore. I didn't feel hungry at noon, so I sent someone to the suburbs of Beijing. On Zhuangzi, the steward of the merchant ship was invited into the mansion and asked about the specific situation of the sweet potato."

The merchant ship belongs to Yu Youyao, and sailing at sea is very hard and risky.

People who come to Beijing with merchant ships every quarter will stay in Beijing to recuperate for about two to three months, and the master's family will also find a doctor to take care of their bodies.

Zhou Linghuai knew that Yu Youyao attached great importance to the cultivation of new species distributed by the imperial court every year, and specially arranged for people to do this. At first sight of new species that looked fresh, delicious, and resistant to hunger, it was inevitable that they would have thoughts of planting them.

Sure enough, when Yu Youyao got excited, she took her cousin's arm: "The farming industry in Luzon is not as developed as in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the cultivation of sweet potatoes is also very simple, that is, in April and May every year, they are buried in the ground and left alone. Let it grow naturally. The growth of sweet potatoes is not picky. Many poor areas in Luzon can also be planted. One plant can bear two to five fruits, and the small fruits are only the size of a baby's fist. , the largest fruit is as big as an adult's palm."

How clever Zhou Linghuai was, he immediately understood the little girl's thoughts: "That is to say, sweet potatoes are resistant to barrenness, hunger, drought and flood, and the yield is not low."

Yu Youyao's eyes brightened suddenly: "Yes!"

A cluster of fires ignited in the little girl's eyes, like a fire in full swing, scorching Zhou Ling's arms, and even her heart beat a little faster, those delusions that were suppressed in her heart,

Wrapped around him, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Zhou Linghuai stared at her.

Probably because the cousin's eyes were too deep, staring at it made Yu Youyao's scalp tingle, and even her cheeks felt a little hot: "Cousin, cousin, why are you staring at me?"

Zhou Linghuai sighed slightly: "When will I grow up?"

Are you talking about sweet potatoes?

Why did the topic go so wrong?

Yu Youyao was puzzled, and looked at her cousin innocently: "I'm already ten years old, so I'm not too young."

Sure enough, she was still an unenlightened little girl, Zhou Linghuai suppressed the delusional thoughts in her heart, but couldn't suppress the residual impulse in her heart.

He stretched out his hand to stroke it lightly. The little girl's black eyebrows were curved like a crescent moon. When she glanced at her, she felt that the moon was shining brightly.

When laughing, a pair of curved eyebrows are even more beautiful than the crescent moon.

Yu Youyao felt itchy between her brows, and even her voice trembled: "Cousin, cousin?"

Zhou Linghuai withdrew his hand and asked, "What Luozidai are you using today?"

Yu Youyao smiled and bent her lips: "Well, it's the Yuanshan snail that my cousin gave yesterday. It's green in color, and after it's smudged, it looks even brighter and more beautiful. Isn't it beautiful?"

On the basis of the original Luozi Dai, my cousin adjusted five different shades, and Yuanshan Luo is one of them. After dyeing this Meidai, the eyebrows are like Yuanshan Cuidai, dark green and blue, Huajingyanya , very nice.

This is a New Year's gift from my cousin.

She really likes it.

Zhou Linghuai smiled. If he was older, he would be even more amazing.

Yu Youyao thought of sweet potatoes again, and continued what she had just said: "Cousin, cousin, I plan to take some sweet potatoes and try to grow them on the Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing, and use different soils for high-quality cultivation. If the sweet potatoes are as good as the steward said , resistance to barrenness, hunger, drought and flood, and high yield, can it be promoted in the north?"

The northern border is dominated by sandy land and halogen-alkali land, so the products are not rich. If the sweet potato grows without picking the land, then it can solve some livelihood problems in the northern border.

If someone else had eaten a sweet potato, they would probably think it was good and delicious.

Few people think about the advantages of this thing, want to cultivate it, and plant it.

But Yu Youyao will.

Yu Youyao knew that because of the lack of supplies in the northern border, not only the people were having a hard time, but even the You Army was having a very difficult life due to the lack of troops.

Therefore, she is very concerned about the court's annual cultivation of new species.

I have always wanted to cultivate crops suitable for growing in the north and promote planting.

Yu Youyao had read a lot of farming books before, and saw records about growing cotton in the halogen-alkali land, so she found a farmer who was proficient in cotton farming to conduct experiments on Zhuangzi.

Although, the result is not ideal.

However, the cotton also bears fruit, which also proves that her thinking is correct.

Most of the cotton in the Great Zhou Dynasty was produced in Long Province. Yu Youyao immediately sent people to Long Province to learn cotton planting techniques.

As long as the technology is strong, it is definitely feasible to grow cotton in halogen-alkali land.

Who doesn't like such a pure and bright girl? !

Zhou Linghuai chuckled, "Okay!"

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Continue to ask for a monthly ticket! When it came to the plot of growing up, I was not satisfied with how I wrote it, I barely wrote two chapters, and I will update it first, so as not to wait too long for everyone to grow up in the next chapter.

The sweet potato was introduced to China by sea merchant ships during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that it was introduced from Luzon (Philippines), and it was called sweet potato. Later, because it was introduced from a foreign country, it was called sweet potato.

Chinese people have a natural talent for planting. In Luzon, it is said that the production of this species is very small, and the control is particularly severe. It is not allowed to spread the species. After arriving in China, it has been promoted in less than two years. Most of the domestic area.

There are some records in the history of growing cotton in saline-alkaline land, and it is not groundless~

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