Chapter 69: Five Thousand Catties
Shang Wuyang did not feel reassured and asked Keke.
Although it is a bird, I have to admit that this guy knows a lot, more reliable than three-year-old little Wanwan.
After receiving a positive answer, Shang Wuyang let Qin Wanwan hold the potatoes and go to the kitchen to have someone cook.
Qin Wanwan asked Lang Ya to take out all ten catties of potatoes and run to the kitchen.
The kitchen made shredded potatoes according to her request, cut into rolling pieces and braised with chicken, as well as fried potatoes, mashed potatoes…
These potatoes are very large, ten catties in total are not many, but there are many dishes that can be made, and each one tastes different.
When the dishes were served, it was rare to have a large table full of food. Shang Wuyang generously invited Yin Yuanli and his group to eat together.
“What is this? I’ve never seen it before.”
The border soldiers ate the potato chunks braised with chicken. The soup was absorbed by the potato chunks, making it especially fragrant and soft and mellow with one bite.
It actually tasted no worse than chicken!
“Delicious!”
Qin Wanwan dangled her feet, smiling broadly, and introduced them.
“This, this, and this are all dishes made from potatoes, and they are all delicious~”
The potatoes bought from the mall are not only large, but also have a rich aroma.
“What potatoes, how have we never heard of this thing.”
Shang Wuyang: “I don’t know, Wanwan brought it.”
He also quite liked the taste of this thing.
Wanwan’s voice was tender: “It’s potatoes.”
But if she were to say where they came from, Qin Wanwan said the mall, but those two words were like being blocked in the ears of these people, and they couldn’t hear clearly at all.
“This thing is filling, and I don’t know where it’s produced or what its yield is.”
Potatoes are very filling. Colonel Lin, who has always cared about grain, gnawed on a potato chunk and mumbled.
Qin Wanwan said innocently: “I know, I know, the yield is five thousand jin per mu.”
The mall told her.
Qin Wanwan didn’t know what the concept of five thousand jin per mu was. Everyone present suddenly froze.
Some people, eating, thought they misheard.
“You, Wanwan, what did you just say?”
Qin Wanwan blinked her eyes, not understanding: “I said, five thousand jin per mu, what’s wrong.”
“Clatter…”
Someone’s chopsticks fell to the ground.
Someone gasped, their eyes wide like copper bells.
Shang Wuyang and Yin Yuanli both put down their chopsticks and stared at Qin Wanwan.
The agricultural productivity of this era was very low.
And most of it was controlled by nobles and wealthy merchants.
These less than 10% of people controlled the vast majority of resources.
The remaining commoners, the better ones could fill their stomachs, and the more difficult ones could starve to death.
The main reason was that the current grain yield per mu was only one to two shi, which is about two hundred jin.
Therefore, the impact of the five thousand jin per mu mentioned by Qin Wanwan on them can be imagined.
“Wanwan, you, you didn’t say it wrong, did you?”
Everyone calmed down and thought it made sense. How could little Wanwan know the yield of this thing, she must be talking nonsense.
Qin Wanwan pouted unhappily: “I didn’t say it wrong, it’s five thousand jin, ask Keke if you don’t believe me.”
At this, everyone couldn’t eat peacefully and quickly called Keke, who was in another room disciplining his subordinates, over.
“What’s wrong? Are you asking the bird to eat at the table? The bird is full.”
“Keke.”
Shang Wuyang swept a glance at the parrot Keke, and it immediately quieted down.
“Where did these potatoes come from, and what is their yield?”
“Potatoes.”
It breathed a sigh of relief, scared to death, thinking it had made a mistake and was caught.
“This thing came from a place called South America, which is very far from here. You have to take a boat across the ocean to get there. Originally, the yield of potatoes was very small, only about eight hundred jin, and if planted well, it could be about a thousand jin.”
Although not as exaggerated as Qin Wanwan said, for them, this was an astonishing number.
Before they could get excited, Keke dropped another bomb.
“However, the potatoes that Wanwan brought are a selectively improved breed, with a yield of three thousand to five thousand jin per mu.”
“Hiss…”
This time, many people couldn’t sit still, and some even stood up directly due to shock.
Yin Yuanli’s eyes shone.
“Really, really five thousand?”
They were dazed by the news.
That was five thousand jin.
This thing was also filling!
“Five thousand jin, five thousand jin, hehehehe… Did my ears make a mistake, is it really five thousand jin and not five hundred jin!”
Keke looked at them disdainfully: “Uninformed, already so excited?”
That’s five thousand jin, so be it if they’re uninformed, five thousand jin!!!
At this moment, everyone’s mind was repeating five thousand jin.
“Five thousand jin, five thousand jin… we just ate it like this?!”
After Colonel Lin got excited, he looked at the various dishes made from potatoes on the table, his voice trembling.
At this moment, he felt pain in his heart, liver, spleen, and lungs.
At his reminder, the others also reacted.
Looking at the dishes on the table, they clutched their chests, as if they were about to collapse in the next second.
What a sin, what a great sin they had committed!
Shang Wuyang also: w(?Д?)w
“Wan… Wanwan, do you have any more?”
Yin Yuanli tried to keep his voice calm.
Qin Wanwan: “All ten catties were made into dishes.”
“Pfft… not a bit, not a bit left?”
They spat out a mouthful of blood. The happier they were before, the more heartbroken they were now.
Qin Wanwan tilted her head: “You like potatoes, Wanwan can buy them.”
Phew… alive again.
Everyone looked at Qin Wanwan with shining eyes.
“You can buy them? Where can we buy them, we’ll go buy them!”
They didn’t even know about such a good thing, wait, what is that South America?
Earlier Keke said they still had to take a boat across the sea.
“Just ****”
Qin Wanwan’s subsequent words were directly blocked.
They listened, completely confused. Wanwan had clearly spoken, why… they couldn’t understand.
Keke: “Oh, don’t ask, you won’t know even if you ask. Just take it when you buy it then.”
Very weird.
But that was five thousand jin of potatoes.
Five thousand jin was already very weird, and a bit weirder wouldn’t hurt, right.
They didn’t ask where she bought them, only asked if Qin Wanwan had enough silver.
At this moment, everyone wished they could stuff all their silver into Wanwan’s hands, so she could buy, buy a lot!
Qin Wanwan gnawed on a chicken leg: “You can’t buy it with silver.”
As for when to buy it, Qin Wanwan originally planned to buy it as soon as she returned to her room.
But she was stopped by Keke.
“Isn’t this clearly telling them you have a problem? We still need to be a bit more cunning.”
Qin Wanwan: “Then what should we do?”
“Let your father take you out for a trip.”
Shang Wuyang was Qin Wanwan’s biological father. Even if he didn’t remember anything or know anything now, Keke believed that the cub’s Qilin father would never harm her no matter what he became.
