All Hail Cousin Brother

At this time, Chun Xiao brought snacks over.

Yu Youyao's eyes lit up, he inserted a piece of white fruit and handed it to his cousin.

Zhou Linghuai looked at the piece of fruit that was handed over to his mouth, and then looked at the little girl, smiling with brows and eyes, but he didn't know that he was feeding intimately. There were no brothers and sisters, only loving couples had them.

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

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

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

Yu Youyao immediately said: "This fruit is called sweet potato, which is somewhat similar to yam. It is a root block that grows in the soil. It is sweet and juicy. It is not a product of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

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

When he mentioned this, Yu Youyao smiled and raised his eyebrows: "Some time ago, I had a merchant ship under my name and followed a group of merchant ships from Xie's house to Luzon. The local merchants took this precious food called "sweet potato". He entertained the stewards on the merchant ship. After the stewards tasted them, they thought the sweet potatoes were delicious, so he tried to exchange a lot with the local merchants. What, no one cares."

Sweet potato is a managed product locally, so it is not easy to get it, and the steward also thinks it is very precious, so he has changed a lot.

Zhou Linghuai chuckled lightly: "What happened later?"

Yu Youyao smiled again: "It was also yesterday that people mistaken sweet potatoes for purple taro, and found that sweet potatoes are fresh and sweet, and Xu Ma was very interested, so she tried various methods, and found that whether it was raw, steamed, Fried, boiled, roasted, fried, they are all very delicious." After she finished speaking, she took another ball that was deep-fried golden: "This is the sweet potato **** that Mrs. Xu fried according to the method of frying taro balls. Taste it or not."

The **** were fried not too big or small, just one bite at a time. Zhou Linghuai smiled and bit the balls: "Fried and eaten, it is fragrant and soft and sweet, and it has a completely different 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 with a fist size yesterday morning, and I couldn't eat anymore. I didn't feel hungry at noon, so I sent someone to the suburbs of Beijing. Zhuangzi, invited the steward of the merchant ship to enter the house and asked about the specific situation of Sweet Potato."

The merchant ships belonged to Yu Youyao's name, and sailing at sea was 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 host family will find a doctor to take care of them.

Zhou Linghuai knew that Yu Youyao attached great importance to the cultivation of new species issued by the imperial court every year, and specially arranged for people to do this. At first glance, the new species that looked fresh, delicious and resistant to hunger would inevitably give birth to the idea of ​​planting.

Sure enough, Yu Youyao was excited and took his cousin's arm: "The farming industry in Luzon is not as developed as in the Zhou Dynasty, and the cultivation of sweet potatoes is also very simple, that is, in April and May every year, it is buried in the ground and ignored. , let it grow naturally. The growth of sweet potato does not pick the soil bag. It can also be grown in many poor areas in Luzon. A single plant can bear two to five fruits, and the small fruits are only the size of a baby's fist. , the largest fruit is the size of an adult's palm."

How clever is Zhou Linghuai, he immediately understood the little girl's thoughts: "In other words, sweet potatoes are resistant to barrenness, hunger, droughts and floods, and yields are not low."

Yu Youyao's eyes lit up suddenly: "Yes!"

There was a fire in the little girl's eyes, like a raging fire, burning Zhou Linghuai, and even her heart beat a little faster.

Zhou Linghuai stared at her.

It's probably because the cousin's eyes are too deep, staring at Yu Youyao's scalp, and even his cheeks are a little hot: "Biao, cousin, what are you staring at me for?"

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

Aren't you talking about sweet potatoes?

Why did the topic get skewed here?

Yu Youyao was at a loss and looked at his cousin innocently: "I'm ten years old, and I'm not too young."

Sure enough, she was still a little girl who didn't understand. Zhou Linghuai suppressed the delusional thoughts in her heart, but she couldn't suppress the remaining impulses in her heart.

He stretched out his hand and lightly rubbed it. The little girl Daiqing's eyebrows were curved like a hook of the moon. At a glance, she felt that the moon was bright and bright.

When laughing, a pair of curved eyebrows are even crescent like hooks, which is extremely beautiful.

Yu Youyao felt a little itchy between his brows, and even his voice trembled: "Biao, cousin?"

Zhou Linghuai withdrew his hand and asked, "Luozidai used today?"

Yu Youyao smiled and bent her lips: "Well, it was the distant mountain snail that my cousin gave yesterday. The color is green. After the smudge, it looks even more clean and beautiful. Isn't it beautiful?"

On the basis of the original Luozidai, my cousin has adjusted five shades of different shades. Yuanshanluo is one of them. After dyeing this eyebrow, the eyebrows are like Yuanshan Cuidai, green and green, and Hua Jingyan is beautiful. , very nice.

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

She really likes it.

Zhou Linghuai smiled. If he were a little older, he would be even more amazing.

Yu Youyao thought of sweet potatoes again, and continued with the unfinished words: "Cousin, cousin, I plan to take some sweet potatoes and try to plant them in Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing, and use different soils for high-quality cultivation. If sweet potatoes are really like what the steward said , resistant to barrenness, hunger, drought and floods, and large yields, can we promote planting in the north?"

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

If someone else had eaten sweet potatoes, they would have thought it was good and delicious.

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

But Yu Youyao will.

Yu Youyao knew that because of the lack of supplies in the northern border, not only did the people live poorly, but even the You Army had a very difficult life due to the lack of troops.

Therefore, she is very attentive to the cultivation of new species by the court every year.

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

Yu Youyao had read a lot of farming books before, and saw records of cotton planting on halogen-alkali land, so he went to Zhuangzi to find farmers who were proficient in handling cotton to conduct experiments.

Although, the results are not ideal.

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

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

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

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

Zhou Linghuai chuckled: "Okay!"

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