Dantai Mo's mouth hung half open, his pupils widening for an instant in shock.
If a crop like this could be grown widely, wouldn't it be a blessing for Great Xia and its people?
His expression startled Jian Ruonan.
[What's wrong with the Fourth Prince?]
[His mouth's open so wide. Is he going to fight me for the potatoes?]
[He looks so cool and above worldly concerns. Who knew he was a glutton too?]
Dantai Mo: "..."
"I won't eat any. Take your time, Fifth Miss, and be careful not to burn yourself."
[For realsies? Your eyes look like they're about to fall out from all that craving!]
Dantai Mo: "..."
He needed oxygen.
Dantai Mo put down his bamboo skewer to prove he really wasn't eating. "You wouldn't deceive me, would you, Fifth Miss? This thing can yield five thousand jin per mu?"
Ordinary wheat and rice yielded only one or two hundred jin per mu even on the best farmland. The yield of these potatoes was absurdly high.
"If you don't believe me, Your Highness Prince Rui, you can watch the farmers harvest a mu and weigh it yourself." Jian Ruonan finally understood. He really wasn't going to eat any; he was probably just curious about the potatoes.
Jian Ruonan gathered everyone on the Farm Estate, and they soon dug up a mu of potatoes. When they weighed the harvest, the yield actually reached five thousand five hundred jin.
[Ding-] [Positive emotional fluctuations detected in the conquest target. Points +10.]
Jian Ruonan: !!??
Happiness had come so suddenly!
It had been ages since she'd earned any points!!
She could draw cards again!!
Jian Ruonan's eyes darted thoughtfully. The Fourth Prince seemed very interested in crops.
She tested the waters. "Potatoes can be planted twice a year.