After being divorced, I took care of my two children and reached the peak of my life

Chapter 217 Sweet and Sticky

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Han Yiyi's words. Aunt Zhang, who was standing by, looked at the half-acre field of sweet potatoes in front of her and spoke.

"Han girl, since everyone is here today, let's dig out all your sweet potatoes together. By the way, we can dig a cellar for your house. This way, you two won't have to do it again." Hearing Aunt Zhang say this, everyone quickly agreed.

"Yes, girl Han, Master Yun has never done this kind of farm work. If you dig it alone, it will take you several days. Let's dig it together today while there are many of us..."

When Han Yi heard everyone say this, he quickly began to express his gratitude.

"Thank you so much, everyone. Let's do this. Please help me dig some sweet potatoes, and I'll steam some for you to try first. When you leave, you can take some back home to eat!"

In order to see what sweet potatoes look like, people from almost every household came to see how to dig them. With so many people coming, the work went very quickly.

There was only about half an acre of land in total. Everyone was digging sweet potatoes, and some were digging cellars, working hard.

While they were digging hard here, Han Yiyi's steamed sweet potatoes were ready. In order to cook them faster, Han Yiyi picked out smaller ones. Now everyone had one, which made it convenient to eat.

Han Yiyi walked to the edge of the field with steamed sweet potatoes and shouted, "Everyone stop for a moment and come over to taste these sweet potatoes."

Everyone was already drooling at the delicious smell in the air, and now when they heard Han Yiyi's shout, they hurriedly put down their farm tools and gathered around.

One of the boys saw this and couldn't wait to grab one. As a result, he was so burned that he kept changing hands, which made everyone laugh. The adults next to him saw this and couldn't help but laugh and scold him.

"You greedy cat..."

Everyone was a little embarrassed at first, but when they saw the village chief take the lead and take one, they all stepped forward and took one each.

After taking a bite, everyone's eyes lit up.

"This, this, could it be that sugar has been added to it, why is it so sweet?"

"Yes, it's sweet and soft. I, I, have never eaten anything so delicious."

For a while, there were praises one after another, and the village chief beside him nodded while eating.

Seeing that everyone likes sweet potatoes so much, Han Yiyi felt a sense of accomplishment. She just ate one and it was indeed sweet and sticky.

The village chief swallowed the sweet potato in his mouth and then spoke.

"Sweet potatoes have a high yield and are easy to grow. We can plant more next year. And the sweet potato leaves can be used as cooking vegetables, so there is no waste at all. With this, we don't have to worry about going hungry anymore..."

The villagers nodded frequently after hearing this, as if they had already seen the good days to come.

After eating the sweet potatoes, everyone seemed to be more motivated. In just half an hour, the cellar was dug.

Because Han Yiyi had started making some sweet potato vermicelli in the past few days, she did not store all the sweet potatoes in the cellar.

Watching the sweet potatoes being put into the cellar one by one, everyone's face was filled with happy smiles. After all, these little sweet potatoes gave them new hope for their future life.

Before everyone was leaving, Han Yiyi asked each family to take some back home and steam it for dinner. Everyone was a little embarrassed at first, but seeing Han Yiyi's firm attitude, they accepted it reluctantly.

Although they all had sweet potatoes at home, they all wanted to let them grow for a few more days. After all, Han Yiyi had said before that as long as they were all dug out before the end of October, they could grow for a few more days and perhaps they could grow bigger.

After everyone took them home, they cooked and ate them that night, so that the air of the entire Zhushan Village was filled with the unique sweet smell of sweet potatoes.

Han Yiyi likes to eat sweet potatoes very much. She likes them whether they are steamed, boiled or roasted. However, in addition to these ways of eating, Han Yiyi’s favorite is porridge cooked with sweet potatoes.

You don't need to put rice in that kind of porridge. Instead, cut the sweet potatoes into small pieces and put them into cold water to cook together. After the sweet potatoes are cooked, add a small amount of flour to thicken it and boil it again before drinking it. The porridge cooked in this way is fragrant and sweet, and it tastes very comfortable in the stomach. Ah! I'm drooling just thinking about it.

Moreover, this kind of porridge tastes even better when cooked in this firewood stove, so Han Yiyi decided to cook this porridge in the evening, and then put a few small sweet potatoes under the stove and roast them, and this would be tonight's dinner.

At this time, the two men in black who came to Zhushan Village to gather intelligence and hid in the back mountain were swallowing their saliva constantly, smelling the sweet smell they had never smelled before coming from the village below.

"What, what on earth is this thing? How can it taste so sweet?"

The man in black standing by heard his companion's question, swallowed hard, then shook his head and spoke.

"I don't know, I haven't smelled it either. Wait a minute, let's go down and take a look..."

"Didn't the people of Dongli say that there is no food left in the entire Beichen country? How come the smell of dinner wafting from such a remote mountain village is so sweet?"

"The people of Dongli have always been cunning. Their goal is to join forces with us in Nanjing to attack Beichen. Of course, we cannot trust everything they say, otherwise our national army would not let us come here to investigate the situation..."

It turned out that Dongli was unwilling to accept the defeat, and because of that crushing defeat, he was unable to continue attacking Beichen, so he wanted to instigate Nan Jing to attack Beichen together.

The envoy of Dongli also said to his king: Beichen was originally depleted of national troops due to the previous war, and suffered a flood a few days ago, so the entire Beichen is now out of food. If we send troops at this time, we will definitely be able to severely damage Beichen, and then take it into our possession. Then the land of Beichen can be divided equally between the two countries.

King Nanjing was naturally very tempted by the envoy's words of taking Beichen into his possession, but he was still very wary of Nangong Yuan. Moreover, he did not completely believe the words of the Dongli envoy, so he sent people to Beichen to investigate the situation.

Naturally, Dongli used the same rhetoric to the Northern Dynasty on the other side, with the intention of hoping that one of the two sides would send troops.

The two men smelled the scent wafting from the village, swallowed their saliva together, and one of them couldn't help but speak.

"How about we go down and see what they eat and whether they are really as Dong Liren said, that every one of them is a bad person!"

The other person nodded slightly upon hearing this, but still spoke.

"Be careful, don't get discovered..."