Chapter 952 Being taken on board a pirate ship

"Hiss, is this black, furry thing a taro? It's quite large, weighing at least three taels each. No wonder the yield per mu is so high."

"What are these small black beans the size of dates? Can they be eaten?" Kang Rong saw a kind of black round bean at the bottom of the box. It looked very crispy. He asked while holding it up, and wanted to open his mouth to eat one.

"Don't eat it. This is the fruit of the sweet potato vine. It can be planted as seeds, but it cannot be eaten. It is slightly poisonous!" Master Chen Shijiu hurriedly reminded.

"Is it poisonous?!" Kang Rong was shocked and threw away the wild yam bead bud fruit. He asked Qin Xiaomi, "Mr. Qin, didn't you say that the mountain people in Lingnan Prefecture have been eating wild yam for years and it's not poisonous? How did it become poisonous?"

Qin Xiaomi said, "Cooked taro and wild yam are indeed not poisonous, but the pearl buds that grow on the wild yam vines are slightly poisonous, so it's best not to eat them."

"You can eat it if you want. It's not poisonous anyway. It just makes the inside of your throat itchy, but you can't scratch it."

"Also, after peeling these two kinds of potatoes, juice will come out, and this juice can also make your skin itchy. If your skin itches, just wash your hands with hot water and don't ask me again."

After thinking for a while, he sat down again, picked up his pen, and wrote six pages of paper, recording some important information about taro, potato and mountain potato.

Jiang Dalang stayed by her side the entire time. When she finished, he took the six sheets of paper and handed them to Master Qiong. "Master Qiong, this is what Master Qin wrote about the important things to know about the second potato. Have the students copy them and then read them carefully. There's no need to ask Master Qin again."

Su Su is not their teacher and has no time to answer their questions.

"Okay. Thank you, Mr. Qin." Old Jing was overjoyed. He took the paper and handed it to Ying Zilin, asking him to find a few students to copy it.

The students were busy studying potato seeds, copying precautions, and asking Lingnan people like Mr. Chen Shijiu about the growth habits of these two crops.

"How long does it take for a frost to completely kill the plant?"

"The wild taro and mountain yams in the mountains also produce over 1,500 kilograms per mu? Master Chen Jiujiu, do you have a growth record book? Let us see it."

"Sage Master, you actually have growth record books, and several of them. Uncle Nineteen, you are amazing!"

"This, this is a mountain yam. It's so big, as big as a pottery basin!" Li Zhiyuan was shocked by the size of the mountain yam.

"It's so big, no wonder the yield per mu is so high!" The other students also gathered around, looking at the big mountain yams as big as washbasins, and exclaimed: "It's amazing that there are such things in Lingnan Province."

The Chen family member said proudly, "This thing has always grown in the mountains. We have been eating it since we were young. We are surprised that you don't have it in the north."

The Dashanshu from Dawei Lingnan Prefecture is actually a giant potato similar to yam. After peeling, it is also slippery like modern yam.

However, the color of the big yam is a bit purple, not the white color of the yam, and the taste is similar to the modern yam.

After the students had gathered around to look at the yam, Kang Rong asked, "How do you eat it? Uncle Nineteen, how about you take a box of taro and yam and cook us a meal so we can try it?"

With a slap, Master Jing passed over the two students and slapped Kang Rong on the head: "These are potato seeds, they should be kept for planting. All you know is to eat them, and you want to eat a whole box!"

Master Chen Jiushi was a clever man. He sighed, "We didn't bring many potato seeds to Northeast Province. If we ate a whole box, I'd feel bad... If the more than a thousand carts of potato seeds from outside Taizhou Mansion could come in, and you could try ten carts, I wouldn't feel bad at all."

Ah this?

There's no need to be so obvious.

Ying Zilin was the first to speak: "I, Ying Zilin, will write a letter immediately, asking the Ying family to bring people to receive the potato seeds and safely escort the potato seed convoy to Taifeng Town. If anything happens to the potato seeds, I, Ying Zilin, will never take the imperial examination or enter the government in this lifetime to forgive this sin!"

This?

Shi Songxin scolded the Ying family on their behalf: "You unfilial son! If the elders of your Ying family heard this, they would beat you to death!"

Ying Zilin looked at the students, bowed deeply to them, and said, "I beg you all to resolutely write to your family and protect the life-saving food for the people of this world!"

Everyone inside and outside the tent who heard this was moved.

Kang Rong was very emotional. He raised his hand and shouted, "Write a letter to the family, asking the elders to help protect this life-saving food for the people of the world!"

Kang Lang and Master Lu: “…” They wanted to pinch their own philtrum.

But Kang Rong had already shouted, what could they do? Naturally, they would shout the same words, after all, this was a righteous matter that would benefit the people of the world.

It's a matter of great justice, how can the other students not follow one? If they don't, the family's reputation will be tarnished.

Students like Shi Songxin, Yang Zeru, Dong Chengxin, Zhao Wuming, Lu Qian, and others all shouted, "Let's write to our elders and unite our entire clan to protect this life-saving food for all the people of the world!"

It was so loud that half the camp could hear it.

You know what? Duke Yan, Master Jing, and Master Xun have taken great pains to guide these students, and they really did the right thing...

No matter what family the students come from or what concerns they have, their youthful spirit of being willing to do something for the people of the world is precious.

"Okay, come on, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are ready. Come and write the letter. Finish it quickly so that the soldiers can send it to your elders as soon as possible, and your elders can escort the high-yield grains and potato seeds to the Northeast Province as soon as possible!" Uncle Qin laid out the papers and told them to act quickly and stop talking nonsense.

Students: “…”

Why do I feel like I'm being forced onto a pirate ship?

Oh, forget it, I'm already here, what can I do? Just do it!

"Here I am." The students picked up their pens, dipped them in ink, and began to write letters. In order to avoid being punished by their family elders, they sincerely praised the protection of potato seeds and trial planting of potato seeds. If they succeeded, their names would be recorded in history. Even if they failed, they could earn the family the reputation of "providing high-yield grain seeds for the people of the world."

In short, they put in the same effort to coax their grandparents during the Chinese New Year, and the letter was written in such a way that... anyone who read it and didn't do as they were told would be punished by their grandparents according to the family rules.

After the letter was written, signed, fingerprinted, and stamped with a private seal, it was taken away by Captain Zhong and Captain Wang.

Captain Wang smiled and said, "You students are so righteous, protecting the grain for the people of the world. I will definitely report this righteous act to His Majesty!"

After saying this, Captain Wang also performed the official salute of the Wei army to the students.

The students were so excited that they wanted to rush home, put a knife to their own necks, and force their family elders to agree to promote these two high-yield grains!

If you don't support its implementation, they might kill themselves on the spot for the greater good.

Captain Wang, Elder Jing, and even Second Uncle Qin felt a little embarrassed and kept praising them: "Good children, all of them are good children."

Oh my God, I knew you were easy to fool, but I didn’t expect you to be so easy to fool.

I just don't know if it's easy to use for you?

Regardless of whether it was useful or not, Captain Wang and Captain Zhong immediately sent troops to quickly deliver the students' letters to their family elders.

"Mr. Qin, how about we try these two kinds of grains?" This time it was Old Jing who suggested eating potato seeds.

The show is over, it's time to eat.

After all, trying high-yield grains is also a necessary experiment.

Qin Xiaomi smiled and said, "Master Jing, you can make the decision with the military officer, Mr. Lu, and the clerk Guan."

Mr. Jing: No, this is your fault, and now you don’t care about it?

Qin Xiaomi said, yes, I have done enough, and I have used the high-yield grain issue to push the Qin family to a new height, so that no matter how much the Aristocratic Family Alliance hates us, they dare not harm my Qin family again.

My Qin family is safe, so you can take care of the remaining troublesome and trivial matters with the students. I will not do it.