Chapter 490 491 Baby (Please Vote for Me)

Zhou Jia politely sent away the servant who delivered the order and returned to the courtyard to entertain the guests.

After the chamberlain left, many guests came. The number of guests who came to congratulate them greatly exceeded their budget. Zhou Jia had to go to Zuixian Tower to book a banquet before arranging the guests. The banquet did not end until dark.

After seeing off the guests, the two returned to the house. Li Yu glanced at Zhou Jia, sat in front of the dressing table, and took off the headdress, "Finally the work is over! Chen Yue, Chen Xing, it's better now, you are white again Be busy."

Zhou Jia walked up behind Li Yu and helped Li Yu spread his hair, "This is a good thing. Do you think some of my colleagues have become more affectionate and polite after they left as chamberlains?"

Zhou Jia hugged Li Yu and whispered softly in her ear, "Yu'er, it's time for us to rest."

Li Yu responded softly: "Yes!"

Li Yu nodded, "That's right. Your Majesty is so grateful. I will find a day after spring to send a basket of sweet potatoes in wooden frames to the palace to His Majesty, so that he will be happy."

Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu curiously, "Have you dug it out and looked at it?"

Li Yu shook his head, "Spring has begun, and the sweet potato seedlings will begin to grow. All those sweet potatoes need to be dug out and replanted."

"You are good at these things," Zhou Jia thought for a moment, "Before sending them to the palace, you'd better dig out a basket and take a look. You don't know what it looks like underneath, so it's better to be cautious."

"Okay, I'll dig a basket tomorrow and look at it before I send it to you."

Zhou Jia also wanted to see what the sweet potatoes looked like, so he quickly told Li Yu, "dig a basket and leave another basket for me to dig when I come back."

Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia and laughed, "Yeah! I'll leave a basket for you to open your eyes."

Early the next morning, Zhou Jia went to the Yamen feeling refreshed. As soon as Li Yu got up, Grandma Chen and Xinghua came to Li Yu holding Yueyue and Xingxing respectively.

Nanny Chen whispered: "Madam, the second young master is already full. The young master did not want the wet nurse to feed him this morning, so he drank a small cup of goat's milk after coaxing him to do so."

Li Yu saw that Yueyue was fast asleep after eating, and Xingxing was still sleeping with her mouth flat.

Li Yu held him in his arms, kissed his cheek, and started to feed him, "I feed him every morning, he may remember it!"

Nanny Chen nodded, "Madam, the second young master is very careless, and his temper comes and goes quickly. It's okay if the young master isn't angry, but it's hard to coax him when he is angry."

Li Yu looked at the stars in his arms and said, "Yes! A small little person has a temper."

After feeding Xingxing, Nanny Chen took over the child. Li Yu thought that she hadn't seen Yangyang when she got up today, "Has the eldest young master gone to school?"

Grandma Chen smiled and said, "The master asked the eldest young master not to come to say hello and let him go to school."

"No wonder I didn't see that child." Li Yu said a little uncomfortable, put on his shoes and went to the back garden to exercise.

After dinner, Li Yu went to the back garden to dig sweet potatoes. Uncle Zhou, Aunt He and Mrs. Liu followed them to the back garden. Everyone gathered around the wooden box and watched Li Yu cut off the sweet potato vines.

Mrs. Liu also helped cut out the other two baskets, leaving one uncut. The uncut frame was sent to the palace, and the other was dug up when Zhou Jia came back.

The little loach looked at the cut sweet potato vine curiously, "Madam, is it still useful to cut the sweet potato vine?"

Li Yu thought that they all used sweet potato vines as seeds, and those who had planted them once should be able to plant them, so he pointed to the open space under the wall, "dig out a piece there and plant them in the garden."

The little loach nodded excitedly, "Hey! I'll go get the hoe."

Zhou Bo was amazed again and again, "Madam, this thing is a treasure! Can you plant it again after planting it?"

"I can plant it, but I don't know what the harvest will be like. Besides, this is the time to raise seedlings. Aunt He, you can just cut the potato vines like I did and then you can plant them."

Uncle Zhou excitedly surrounded the wooden frame, "Madam, dig one out and see what it looks like."

Li Yu looked at the wooden frame and said, "It's not easy to dig in here! Maybe it will break even after digging. How about we dismantle the wooden frame?"

"Madam, I'll pull it out." Maodou grabbed the potato vine left outside, pulled it out hard, broke the remaining section of the potato vine, and squatted down.

Ji Xiang also ran in to take a look at the strange thing. Seeing that the edamame was not pulled out, he walked forward and looked at the wooden frame. "It seems that it is quite deep. Let me dig it out and take a look."

Li Yu pointed to the bulge, "Just start digging from here."

Jixiang dug away the soil with his bare hands, revealing red-skinned sweet potatoes. Jixiang increased his speed, dug out one and lifted it up. Everyone stared at the sweet potatoes with their red skin exposed.

Edamame exclaimed, "Wow! There are five red-skinned radish-like things hanging on this one."

Li Yu took one and put it in his hand and found that it was a sweet potato with a red heart. He was so excited that he had actually grown it. Now it was better. There was something to eat even during the drought!

When it is planted in large quantities, you can also make sweet potato noodles, eat hot pot, and make hot and sour noodles...

Uncle Zhou picked up one and weighed it, smiling so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. "I'm afraid the big one weighs half a catty, and the small one weighs three or four taels."

Ji Xiang looked at Li Yu, "Madam, is this really edible?"

Li Yu affirmed: "It's edible. Let's cook a few and try them today. I'm sure you like them!"

The little loach looked at Li Yu curiously, "Madam, have you eaten it?"

Li Yu shook his head, "My master said it can be eaten."

Mrs. Liu touched it in surprise, "My darling, this thing is as beautiful as a red radish. Compared with radishes, there are only so many in one nest. How much does it cost to dig them all out?"

Aunt He greeted Ji Xiang, "Xiangzi, dig them all out and see how long this frame is."

"Hey!" Jixiang bent down and started digging, and several small loaches also joined in. A few people stuck out their buttocks, and amid bursts of cheers, they dug out all the sweet potatoes in the two wooden frames and piled them on the ground.

Everyone counted and found that there were forty or fifty sweet potato plants in the three large wooden frames. The largest plant had seven or eight sweet potatoes growing on it, and the smaller ones had two or three.

Uncle Zhou picked it up again with a flower hoe and pulled out a few more fish that had slipped through the net.

Uncle Zhou sighed: "Madam, this is incredible. So much can grow in a wooden frame. It should be better to plant it in soil!"

Li Yu shook his head, "That's not necessarily true. I think sweet potatoes like soft sandy soil. When planting, they need to be fertilized and not overwatered."

Aunt He smiled and said: "This is already good. Think about it, the leaves and stems of this thing can be eaten, and the fruits below can also be eaten. Where can I find such a good treasure!"

Li Yu smiled and nodded, "It's a good treasure. Let's plant the sweet potatoes first. Po Liu and Aunt He, you guys can wash some and cook them. You all have a taste. When the seeds come out this season, let everyone eat freely."

The seeds were so precious that Li Yu couldn't bear to eat them, so he asked Jixiang to send a few pieces to Li Qing's family and Uncle Lin Jia to try them all.

"Yes." Mrs. Liu and Aunt He picked up some and went back to the kitchen.