It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 323

"Oh..." Jiang Wang was very happy at first when he heard that there was news about the plow cart, but when he knew that someone else had already made it and it might have been used for decades, he felt a little depressed.

Dongshan Village has always been practicing both spot sowing and broadcast sowing in order to take advantage of the good weather and harvest more.

"If I had known about this thing earlier, I could have saved some effort on farming..."

Jiang Yan also felt regretful after hearing this. Why didn't she think of it a few years ago?

"By the way, Yanyan, what did Master Hao want to talk to you about?" Jiang Wang wiped his face and asked with concern, "If he asks you to go into the mountains to find some rare things, don't be stupid and agree."

"Those rare things aren't that easy to find. They grow deep in the mountains and old forests, unlike the mountains behind us that we're already familiar with. Once you go there, you can't come back."

"I know. I wouldn't agree to something this dangerous," Jiang Yan said. "Then Mr. Hao politely praised me, saying I had some talent for farming and asked Manager Hao San to give me a small bag of new seeds from outside the province next time."

"What seeds?" Jiang Wang skipped the polite words praising Jiang Yan's "talent for farming" and asked about the topic he cared about most.

Jiang Yan shook his head: "I didn't say anything, just said I could have some to show you."

……

As August approaches, the weather becomes hotter.

Jiang Fa cut the last handful of millet, rubbed his forehead against his arm clothes to remove the sweat and grass leaves stuck to them, and then said to Jiang Yan, "Let's send these over."

Dongshan Village still didn't plant much millet this year, only about two acres of land. When the villagers took half a day to harvest, there was basically nothing left.

"Have you separated the seeds?"

Jiang Yan exhaled hot air. "I've sorted them out. I asked Manager Hao San, and he said the small ones are Taoshu. He's never heard of them before, and he doesn't even know the name of the big ones. But I guess we have to wait until next spring to plant them."

Rongcheng County has always been short of grain varieties, and due to climate restrictions, there are not many crops that can be grown.

I heard that this time the steward of the Hao Mansion accidentally exchanged it with a caravan traveling to and from Western Xinjiang when he was delivering a Fenggu cart to other places.

However, the caravan also came to trade with the locals and was not clear about the specific situation of the seeds. They also mixed the seeds into one bag by mistake.

"Fortunately, the two seeds are quite different in size, so they are easy to separate." Jiang Yan said with relief.

"Besides, I heard that the winters there are even colder than in Heding Prefecture, and the summers are even hotter. If they can survive in such harsh conditions, we should be able to survive here too."

……

In mid-August, Jiang Yan started to promote Fenggu vehicles in the surrounding villages with Jiang Shun, Jiang Qi and Jiang Hu.

But after running for more than ten days without any results, Jiang Yan finally understood why the Hao family directly gave up the Rongcheng County market and turned to other families.

"Jiang Yan, aren't you going out today?" Li Hao walked out of the yard and saw Jiang Yan squatting outside the house mending clothes. She had disappeared at this time some time ago.

"I'm not going." Jiang Yan said gloomily, "Those villages seem to be in a much worse situation than us. They have no money, and they have to pay most of this year's harvest for grain. Even if they work together, they can't even put together a Fenggu cart."

Li Hao asked, "I remember you returned it last month and only gave me a little over half a bag?"

Jiang Yan hummed, "Maybe it's because I only bought half a bag on credit from the Fu family, which is not enough for the villagers to share. But those families bought several bags on credit, and they ate more than they planted, so they can't pay it back all at once."

Li Hao was surprised and asked, "How can you sell so much on credit? Didn't they say that each person can only get one bag at most?"

Jiang Yan stopped sewing and said, "They took the village land."