Chapter 83 You are out of your mind

Chapter 83 You are out of your mind

After a lot of noise in the middle of the night, no one slept well. Shen Zhi went to the big kitchen to cook a big pot of wontons, and gave a bowl to the village head and the men who came out to help. Everyone was called up in the middle of the night, and it was already very cold. Now there is a bowl of steaming wontons, and it is pure meat filling. Who wouldn't feel warm in their hearts? Everyone's impression of Shen Zhi has improved a bit.

Little Liu was so greedy that she watched Shen Zhi serve a bowl to everyone else, but not her.

"Erya, what about mine? I am your biological aunt. You give it to outsiders and not to your aunt." Little Liu naturally reached out to Shen Zhi for it.

Shen Zhi was so angry that she laughed. How could there be such a shameless person? She replied unhappily, "No more."

Little Liu was anxious. She pointed at the bowl of wontons on the tray held by Shen Zhi and asked, "How can there be none? Isn't there another bowl here? You are lying, you little girl. How did your parents teach you? You are so uneducated."

Shen Zhi raised his hand to interrupt Xiao Liu's words, "Are you mentally ill? I can't eat this bowl by myself. You sent your son to rob my house, and I cooked food for you and fed you. I am stupid enough to worry about you starving to death, so no one will bother me."

Little Liu whispered back, "That doesn't mean the robbery hasn't been successful yet?"

Shen Zhi glanced at her, wishing he could strangle her to death, "Then I should thank your son for not succeeding in the robbery."

"Of course, it's because my son is kind-hearted and showed mercy," little Liu climbed up the pole.

"Xiao Liu, shut up. It's not enough that you stay at home and do it every day, but you also drag so many of us to accompany you." The head of the village yelled at Xiao Liu with a sullen face.

Xiao Liu stopped talking awkwardly.

Not long after dawn, Qin Zheng returned with the yamen runners who had just started their shift.

The head of the village was ashamed. It had only been a short time, but the runners from the county government came to Shitou Village again and again. The head of Shitou Village had lost all his respect in the eyes of the headmen of other villages.

The bailiff asked about what happened at the scene, and then took the nine people tied to the tree back to the county government office. The third uncle followed the village head. Little Liu gouged out her eyes at Shen Zhi viciously and followed him.

It was almost time for lunch when my third uncle came back and brought back the verdicts on those people.

The eight hooligans were often caught stealing and had been in jail many times. This time they were sentenced to 20 lashes and three months in prison. As for Liu Changsheng, the main offender, he was sentenced to 20 lashes and six months in prison.

Xiao Liu made a big fuss in the court, saying that they had not stolen anything and that her son was tied to a tree and exposed to the cold wind all night. She said that her son should not be convicted. She even scolded the county magistrate.

The county magistrate sentenced her to ten strokes of the cane for disrupting the order of the court.

"You didn't see the face of the village head. It was blacker than the charcoal in the stove. The village head from the neighboring village happened to be there, and he made fun of the village head for not managing Shitou Village well, making Shitou Village so foul," the third uncle described it vividly.

"Uncle San, it won't be long before they will all envy our village head. I have decided to lead our village to prosperity." Shen Zhi smiled secretly.

Everyone thought Shen Zhi was joking and didn't take it seriously.

Shen Zhi was thinking that the autumn potatoes she had planted earlier would be harvested soon, and they would definitely not be eaten up if they were eaten directly. It would be better to find someone to help make the potatoes into potato flour, which would be easier to store. When spring comes, if anyone in the village is willing to plant potatoes, she is willing to sell some potatoes for seed to the villagers at a low price. The yield per mu of potatoes is amazing, and it does not require fertile paddy fields. It can be planted directly on dry land. At least if potatoes are planted, there will be no need to starve. If someone is willing to sell, she is also willing to buy, and open a small workshop to make potato flour, which can also provide a job for the villagers in need.

Shen Zhi took her third uncle to her family's field and pulled up a potato seedling. Unexpectedly, there were more than a dozen fist-sized potatoes on it, and some were broken in the soil. She dug the soil with her hands and found several more potatoes.

Uncle San was shocked. If one seedling produced so many potatoes, how many would be produced from the three mu of land? Xiao Zhi said that the potatoes were not fully grown yet. It would take another ten days or half a month to harvest them. By then, they would be even bigger. If they continued like this, everyone would go hungry if they planted potatoes. When Erya wanted to plant potatoes, she blamed Yulan in her heart for letting the child do whatever he wanted and using the good land to plant something she had never seen before. Now she regrets it when she thinks about it. If she had known that the yield of potatoes was so high, she would have reclaimed all the vacant land in front of and behind the house and planted potatoes without eating or drinking. Oh my God, why didn't he come across this kind of food earlier? He wasted so many years.

Third Uncle randomly pulled a potato seedling from a nearby field, and it bore more and bigger fruits. "Oh my god, Erya, we don't have to worry about not having enough to eat anymore. I'm going back to Shenjia Village tomorrow and ask your great grandfather's family to plant more potatoes next spring. Let them plant my two mu of thin land. They have a large family, so they don't have to save on two meals a day anymore."

"Okay, Third Uncle, let's dig more now and send them two sacks of potatoes so that they can have a taste. Only when they see it with their own eyes will they believe that this is a high-yield crop." Seeing Third Uncle so excited, Shen Zhi knew that his decision to buy land to grow potatoes was the right one, so he planned to find the head of the village to buy all the wasteland in this area in a few days, and hire someone to plant it if he couldn't finish planting it.

Shen Zhi and his third uncle dug two sacks of potatoes in a short while. Shen Zhi went home and got a small trailer and easily transported them back.

While it was still early, Shen Zhi went up the mountain alone to hunt some pheasants and rabbits. He was lucky today, as pheasants appeared in large numbers, and Shen Zhi easily caught more than 30 big, fat pheasants. Of course, he also found several nests of pheasant eggs, so there must be quite a few.

Early in the morning, Shen Zhi drove the carriage back to Shenjia Village with his third uncle.

It was cold in winter, and there was no work in the fields, so the great grandfather and his family were busy in the house. The great grandfather sat alone in the yard, repairing an old hoe in his hand.

"Great-grandfather," Shen Zhi shouted outside the yard. The fences of rural yards were very low, and Shen Zhi saw the great-grandfather sitting in the yard at a glance.

"Hey, it's Erya. Wait a minute, grandpa will be here to open the door soon." Grandpa opened the door, and Shen Zhi parked the carriage in the yard. Third uncle got out of the carriage and called him "big brother".

Seeing that his third uncle and great grandfather were talking about potatoes, Shen Zhi felt bored, so he went into the house to find Shen Bi.

Today, my great-grandfather's house is very quiet. In the past, their house was always bustling, but at this moment there is always a hint of unusual atmosphere.