Rember what?
Of course, it’s about how to plant potatoes. It was back when I was on a reality show and went to borrow food from a farr, and I saw him handling potato seeds. Song Ci, curious, asked a few questions.
Asked but practiced?
Song Ci was completely puzzled.
No matter what, to grow sothing, you must have the best soil first, so the first step must be to cultivate a fertile land.
Since Song Ci was staying at the Prince Dingbei’s Mansion, she couldn’t go back to the Pri Minister’s Mansion to do it. So she chatted with Niu Pan’er, and it was no big deal. They turned a garden inside out, moved all the precious flowers and trees, spread fertilizer, and then deeply plowed the soil.
Nanny Gong watched Song Ci enthusiastically directing the farrs to till the field and then glanced at the whispering servants, holding her forehead speechlessly.
"Commandery Princess, you’re really letting the Old Madam have her way."
A perfectly good garden was turned into a vegetable plot just like that.
If the garden had feelings, it would probably rebel, the noblewoman turning into a farmwife!
Niu Pan’er laughed and said, "Let Mother have her fun. I’ve heard that frequent activity is good for health. Besides, it’s just a garden, it’s not valuable, the Prince Mansion is big enough."
Not to ntion one garden, they could make a ss of ten more.
"You’re spoiling her." Spoiling her into an outrageous mother-in-law.
Niu Pan’er pursed her lips and chuckled: "Nanny spoils her too."
Nanny Gong: "..."
"And if the potatoes really grow, that’s a good thing too. Nanny, haven’t you eaten the stir-fried potato strings? Quite tasty, you know." Niu Pan’er reminisced about that dish.
But she also knew the remaining potatoes must be kept as seeds and couldn’t be wasted. After all, who knows if they would grow? With more seeds, surely one of them would sprout, right?
Nanny Gong said, "If they really do grow..."
That would be quite an achievent.
Song Ci ca over, full of excitent: "Looks like they can be planted very soon."
"What if they don’t take root?" Nanny Gong poured cold water on her enthusiasm.
Song Ci glared: "Don’t jinx it."
This is an achievent, she’s not just planting potatoes, this is an achievent, they must live!
Niu Pan’er asked: "Mother, how do you plan to plant them?"
Song Ci vaguely replied: "I don’t really know, since I haven’t planted anything before, I’ll just experint. If it fails, we’ll have Xiazhi Foreign Trading Company help us buy seeds from overseas. If it doesn’t work once, we’ll try ten tis. We’ll surely learn from the experience."
"I believe Mother can grow them."
"Thanks for your kind words." Song Ci grinned: "Co on, let’s go back and process the seeds."
How to process the seeds?
Nanny Gong’s eyes widened, oh no, this garden was ssed up for nothing. She’s never seen anyone cut a fruit into eight pieces for planting.
She just knew, the Old Madam was unreliable.
But Niu Pan’er noticed sothing different, pointing to the little sprout eyes on the potato pieces: "Mother, what is this about? Does each potato slice need this?"
"These little sprout eyes, they need to sprout. Each piece must have them to ensure it sprouts,"
Song Ci said in a sowhat learned manner.
That old farr said it like this, it should be correct.
Nanny Gong glanced at her, then at the chunked potato, it kind of made sense, could it be...
The few chatted and laughed, and Steward Mama Lu walked in, saluting Song Ci and Niu Pan’er.
"What is it?"
"Reporting to the Commandery Princess and the Old Madam, the doctor from Zhang’s residence on Eight Lane reported a bereavent. The Old Madam of Zhang’s residence has passed on to bliss."
The laughter stopped abruptly.
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