Chapter 78: Planting Potatoes
Shang Wuyang refused to believe it.
How could such a smart person have such a dumb daughter? He didn’t believe he couldn’t teach her well!
Shang Wuyang was a very persistent person. He didn’t look for a tutor, but personally spent some time teaching the child every day.
Then…
The butler watched his City Lord emerge from the study, roaring.
“Ahhhh!!!”
He even felt pity for the City Lord.
When the City Lord wasn’t going mad, his emotions were quite calm, but now he had repeatedly broken down due to tutoring Miss Wanwan.
And he couldn’t roar like this in front of Miss Wanwan.
“Daddy.”
Qin Wanwan timidly appeared from behind the door, her fair, tender little face still smudged with ink.
“I’m still young, you have to teach me slowly,” she said seriously, defending herself.
Shang Wuyang: (￢_￢)
“Go play.”
Don’t make him rack his brain anymore.
So stupid, she must have been influenced by that brute Xie Chong.
Qin Wanwan showed a cheerful smile: “Daddy, don’t be sad, Wanwan will become smart later~”
Qilins have long lifespans and will inherit a lot in the future. It doesn’t matter if she’s a bit slow now.
Mother said, she just needs to be happy and do whatever she wants, hehe…
Fertilizer fermentation needs time, at least a month.
Before that, the potatoes had already sprouted.
Shang Wuyang took Qin Wanwan to the manor.
The group was already waiting there.
“City Lord, what should we do next?”
Shang Wuyang didn’t know either, so he naturally asked Qin Wanwan and Keke.
Qin Wanwan was holding a peach and gnawing on it.
“Cut them into pieces, leave the ones with sprouts.”
“Can they still live after being cut?”
It was the first time they had heard of cutting seeds before planting them.
“Do as she says.”
“Yes!”
So a group of people got busy.
The potatoes were large, and they had many sprouts.
After cutting them into pieces, all these potato chunks were taken to the land that had already been reclaimed.
It was all top-quality land with loose soil.
Planting potatoes is quite simple: dig a small trench, place the potato chunks with sprouts facing upwards, at intervals of about one foot, cover them with soil, and that’s it.
It’s actually best to add fertilizer while planting, but since the fertilizer hasn’t fermented yet, they’ll have to wait until the potato seedlings emerge to fertilize.
Fortunately, the land is fertile, so it shouldn’t be too bad.
There were only over two hundred catties in total. With many people at the manor, they finished planting in just one morning.
Qin Wanwan herself was holding a small hoe, digging pits and burying potatoes in the field.
When they went back, she was dirty, and her biological father refused to let her ride in the carriage.
The little one was humming on the elephant’s head.
“I’m not dirty, Wanwan smells good.”
Shang Wuyang looked at the little ball sulking with her back to him and couldn’t help but smile.
“Uncle Wen, send her a cup of milk.”
Uncle Wen nodded with a smile: “Miss will only be angry for a little while, and when she gets to the City Lord’s Mansion, she’ll definitely be begging you to hold her again.”
By interacting with Qin Wanwan, everyone had gotten to know her temperament.
The little one would forget her anger quickly each time and then stickily look for her daddy everywhere.
What’s more, the City Lord loved to tease her, enjoying her angry little expressions, which were so rich.
The butler handed the milk to Qin Wanwan. The little milk bun, whose cheeks were puffed out in anger just a moment ago, forgot her anger the next second and beamed with joy.
“Thank you, Butler Uncle.”
She held the cup, lifting her little feet, and drank it with relish.
After drinking, she completely forgot that she had been angry and started playing with Kanta the elephant and Keke without any annoyance.
“Such a carefree little thing.”
Shang Wuyang fanned himself with his fan.
He had quite a few good-looking folding fans.
However, they weren’t for fanning himself, as he was afraid of the cold.
They were for looking cool.
“Miss Wanwan is fine like this. If you have no worries in your heart, you can live happily.”
Shang Wuyang leaned on the couch, his deep purple eyes looking at the cheerful Qin Wanwan.
“Yes, if you have no worries, you can be happy.”
He didn’t have a happy childhood, so naturally, his daughter should be happy every day.
The potato variety Qin Wanwan produced had been improved; not only was it delicious and high-yielding, but it also grew relatively fast.
In just two or three days, someone from the manor came to report that the potato sprouts had emerged from the soil.
Shang Wuyang attached great importance to this batch of potatoes. He not only specially assigned skilled farmers to plant and manage them but also had people record their growth.
Therefore, the moment the potato sprouts emerged, someone immediately galloped to the City Lord’s Mansion to report.
“Understood.”
Shang Wuyang ordered: “Uncle Wen, arrange for someone to prepare a carriage, and go to the manor.”
This time, they didn’t prepare an elephant carriage.
Although the elephant carriage was comfortable, spacious, and imposing, it wasn’t fast.
A carriage was much faster and more discreet.
He didn’t want anyone to notice the potatoes at the manor right now.
“Daddy, I want to go too.”
Qin Wanwan hugged his leg tightly, like a beautiful and cute pendant.
However, this pendant was a bit too large.
Shang Wuyang picked her up, grabbed the Black Snake’s seven-inch point, and pulled it off, throwing it aside.
“Don’t let Little Black coil around you, it’s heavy.”
Qin Wanwan’s little arms could no longer circle such a large snake, so Little Black could only coil around her waist.
“Oh, I know.”
She always said that, and agreed obediently, but she would do it again next time.
If Qin Wanwan was going to the manor, a group of animals wanted to go too.
The carriage wasn’t that large, so Big Goldy was refused entry.
Besides, those horses were particularly afraid of Big Goldy.
Big Goldy, unable to get into the carriage, wailed and cursed from outside.
Shang Wuyang accurately threw a cup, hitting it on its head.
“Shut up.”
Big Goldy immediately became obedient.
But the wolf cubs around it weren’t so obedient and continued to yelp.
Qin Wanwan sat in the carriage, holding a clean white little fox.
The little fox was quiet and well-behaved, the only little animal besides Keke that Shang Wuyang allowed in the carriage.
Even the gosling wasn’t allowed.
It’s because Keke could fly out by itself if it needed to defecate, but the gosling couldn’t.
The gosling was put on the Great Lion.
This little thing was hatched and raised by Qin Wanwan. Not only was it larger than a normal gosling, but it was also unusually brave and not afraid of fierce beasts like Big Goldy at all.
Upon arriving at the manor, the animals ran around everywhere.
Qin Wanwan held Shang Wuyang’s finger, her short legs moving rapidly.
“City Lord, look, quite a few have emerged.”
Shang Wuyang stood on the ridge and scanned the field, nodding with satisfaction.
“How is the fertilizer coming along?”
“There’s no strong smell anymore, so it should be fine.”
“Let’s go take a look.”
When Shang Wuyang ordered them to collect livestock manure for fertilizer, everyone had collected quite a bit, and even the elephant’s manure was used for composting.
The completed fertilizer looked spectacular, piled up like a small mountain.
It was at least several tons.
“Keke, go check if it’s ready.”
Keke: “Why should I be the one to check!”
Grumbling, it flew over anyway.
Humph, they didn’t want to let their daughter go, so they just ordered it around!
However, it also didn’t want Wanwan to go.
