GBP Chapter 79 New Seeds
Chapter 79 New Seeds
More than half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, Xiao Siyue opened another hot pot restaurant in the county town. Now, including her previous ones, she has three restaurants, and all of them are doing extremely well.
Xiao Siyue plans to have the villagers in Xiaojia Village plant some chili peppers this year. In the future, their hot pot restaurants may continue to expand, and the chili peppers they grow themselves will probably not be enough.
The villagers planted chili peppers, and then the buyers came to purchase them. This way, they not only had chili peppers for themselves, but the villagers also earned more income.
In March, on the third day after the Xiao family planted the potatoes.
Xiao Siyue heard the long-lost system voice.
"Congratulations, host. You have completed the hidden mission: promote potatoes on a small scale. You have earned 500 points. Please continue your efforts."
"System, you're finally out. It's been two years since the last time, hasn't it?" Xiao Siyue thought back for a moment.
"Yes, the system will be in a dormant state when the host does not trigger a task."
"If I need anything, or if I'm looking up information, can I wake you up?" Xiao Siyue asked curiously.
"Of course, I'm just asleep."
"That's good." Xiao Siyue felt much relieved; that was good.
"System, the task is to promote it on a small scale. When the potatoes are promoted nationwide, will I still get merit points?" Xiao Siyue thought that the small-scale promotion might be in Xiaojia Village, where potatoes have already been planted in the past few days.
"Yes, but the merit points won't be much."
"Why?" Xiao Siyue was immediately unhappy. She hadn't earned many merit points in the past few years, less than 4000 at most. That meant she wouldn't live past fourteen, but she was already eight years old.
"Because the subsequent promotion was not done by the host himself."
“But it was because of me that the court was able to promote it before,” Xiao Siyue said, somewhat unwillingly.
"That's why the host will receive merit points later."
"Okay, so what will I get as a reward if I complete this mission?" Xiao Siyue asked again after a moment of frustration, she was really looking forward to the reward this time.
"Host has completed the mission. Reward: 100 jin of sweet potatoes."
"It's actually sweet potato! Sweet potatoes have a higher yield than potatoes." Xiao Siyue was pleasantly surprised.
"But system, sweet potato planting requires seedlings. It's already March, is it still possible to plant them in time?" Xiao Siyue was a little worried. If it wasn't possible, she would have to wait another year.
"Don't worry, host. You can safely cultivate these seeds into seedlings. If there's not enough time, you can plant summer sweet potatoes."
Hearing the system's explanation, Xiao Siyue felt much more at ease. After these few planting experiences, Xiao Siyue had developed a great deal of trust in the system.
However, this place is not very suitable for growing sweet potatoes, so the yield is not expected to be very high.
After much deliberation, Xiao Siyue finally decided to take the sweet potatoes to the south where Xiao Qinian lived to grow them, where the temperature was more suitable.
After all, with only 100 jin of seeds, you can only plant a maximum of 1 mu of land.
Xiao Siyue naturally hoped for a larger harvest.
However, she had to deliver the seeds herself; otherwise, she wouldn't feel at ease.
But what reason could she give for going to Qianyuan County?
After thinking for a while, Xiao Siyue finally decided to discuss it with Grandpa Xiao.
Xiao Siyue went to Grandpa Xiao's room.
"Grandpa, there's something I'd like to discuss with you," Xiao Siyue said, sitting down next to Grandpa Xiao with a serious expression.
"Yue'er, just tell me what's wrong." When Grandpa Xiao saw his granddaughter like this, he thought something serious had happened to her.
"Grandpa, I want to go to Qianyuan County."
"Does Yue'er miss your parents and your brother?" Grandpa Xiao asked.
“Yes, Grandpa, I haven’t seen them in a long time,” Xiao Siyue did miss Xiao Qinian and the others, but that wasn’t the most important thing.
"It has indeed been a long time, two years already." Old Master Xiao couldn't help but sigh. It had been two years since his third son took office in Qianyuan County, and he hadn't seen him for a long time.
Although we've kept in touch by letter, I haven't met them in person and don't know how they're doing.
"Besides, Grandpa, didn't we leave some potato seeds for Dad? He can take them with him." Seeing that Grandpa Xiao's expression had softened, Xiao Siyue quickly continued.
“That’s true,” Grandpa Xiao also remembered that the previous potatoes were given to each household in the village at 90 jin each, leaving nearly 600 jin. They planted 200 jin this year, and now they have more than 300 jin left, which they plan to bring to Xiao Qinian.
“Okay, you can go, but Grandpa will go with you,” said Grandpa Xiao.
"Grandpa, you're coming with me? What will happen to the family?" Xiao Siyue never expected things to end this way.
“There are so many people in the family, how could they possibly be unable to leave me?” Old Master Xiao said, raising his voice.
He was at ease with things at home, but he absolutely couldn't feel at ease with his granddaughter going to Qianyuan County, so far away, all by herself.
“Okay, then Grandpa will come with me. We can also visit Qianyuan County and see my dad and the others.” Xiao Siyue thought it made sense. Now that everything at home was back on track, there was no need to keep an eye on things every day.
What are you talking about?
Just then, Old Lady Xiao walked in from outside.
"Grandma, you're here. Grandpa and I were just talking about going to Qianyuan County," Xiao Siyue said, pulling her mother-in-law down to sit.
"Going to Qianyuan County? Who wants to go to Qianyuan County?" Old Mrs. Xiao asked in confusion.
“Grandma, I’m going to Qianyuan County. Grandpa said he’ll go with me,” Xiao Siyue explained.
Upon hearing this, Old Mrs. Xiao glared at Old Mr. Xiao and said, "Well, you've made such a big decision without even consulting me."
"You old woman, I was just about to talk to you, and look at you, why are you getting angry again?" Old Master Xiao said helplessly, and gestured to Xiao Siyue with his eyes.
Xiao Siyue immediately understood and quickly said to Grandma Xiao, "Yes, Grandma, we were just about to tell you when you came in, and it was me who wanted to go."
"Oh, my Yue'er must be missing her parents." Old Mrs. Xiao affectionately stroked Xiao Siyue's soft hair.
"Yes, I miss them. Grandma, can I go?" Xiao Siyue looked at Old Lady Xiao with her big, wet eyes full of anticipation.
"Yes, that's fine, but..."
"I also need to go."
Xiao Siyue: She knew it would be like this.
It wasn't that she didn't want her grandparents to go, but they were both already in their sixties, and it would take them half a month to travel by carriage to Qianyuan County; their health might not be able to handle it.
“Grandpa and Grandma, Qianyuan County is too far away. Your health can’t handle it.” Xiao Siyue frowned, somewhat disapproving.
"What? You look down on your grandpa? Grandpa killed enemies back in the day." Old Master Xiao said with a proud look.
“That’s right, Grandma is in great health. She can still chase after your uncle and beat him up.” Old Mrs. Xiao couldn’t wait to pick up a stick and prove it to Xiao Siyue.
Xiao Siyue couldn't help but burst out laughing; her grandparents were just too adorable.
"Okay, let's go together."
However, Xiao Siyue thought that they couldn't go by themselves, so it seemed that they would have to buy some more servants, preferably those who knew some martial arts, so that they could take care of the elderly couple along the way.