She followed Zhao Liangcai to look at a row of six cave dwellings, only two of which were filled with things.
It wasn't far from Yangshu Village, only an hour's journey from the Qin family.
Qin Junyao stood in front of the cave dwellings and pointed forward, "Does the road ahead connect to the main road to Yan County?"
Zhao Liangcai stood beside Qin Junyao, also looking at the road ahead, "It connects and is wide enough for carts. I'll draw you a route map back, it's a bit of a detour."
"Okay, if there's enough corn to fill all four of these cave dwellings, can you eat it all?"
Zhao Liangcai turned his head to look at Qin Junyao, "Are you serious? Is there that much grain?"
He thought Qin Junyao only knew a large grain farmer or a small grain merchant.
Not many people in the Northwest grew corn; they primarily ate potatoes in the army, along with some coarse grains.
These four cave dwellings were not small; even filled with corn cobs, each could hold tens of thousands of catties.
The yield of corn per mu was about five hundred catties. How many mu would it take to produce over a hundred thousand catties of corn cobs?
Zhao Liangcai had never heard of any large household in the Northwest growing so much corn at once.
The reason he could be sure it was Northwest corn, and not too far away, was because the corn sold was in cobs, not kernels.
Zhao Liangcai couldn't fathom that in some place, the corn yield would be double that of outside, and it could be harvested twice a day. Sudan Novel Network.
Qin Junyao hadn't been accumulating this grain for a day or two; it had been a full year since she obtained the space.
After the space expanded and a super-capacity storage room appeared, Qin Junyao not only kept the corn un-hulled but also the rice and wheat. She bundled them up and stacked them in that room, greatly shortening her labor time.
In the past month, Qin Junyao had been planting, harvesting, and planting corn day and night.
If not for her extraordinary resilience, anyone else would have gotten sick of seeing corn.
Qin Junyao turned back to look at the four cave dwellings, "There should be, she has a lot of grain, enough to fill several granaries. Do you want it all?"
Zhao Liangcai clenched his fist and hit his palm, "Yes, I'll clear out those two cave dwellings too. Take as much as you can. I'll have Dengzi Tui find you, and you can send the grain."
"Okay."
Returning to the Qin family from the cave dwellings, Zhao Liangcai played with Fuzi for a while. Apart from two nosebleeds and signs of overconsumption of ginseng like stomach distension and dry throat, there were no major issues.
Zhao Liangcai didn't eat dinner at the Qin family's. He took the ginseng slices and some vegetables given by Qin Junyao and rode his horse back to Yan Lake.
Qian Duo stood halfway up the mountain, watching Zhao Liangcai ride away on his black horse, a cold smile on her lips.
"You ignore me now, but later I'll make you inseparable from me."
Zhao Liangcai acted quickly. Within three days, he had cleared out the cave dwellings, removed the guards, and told Dengzi Tui to let Qin Junyao know she could send the corn.
Qin Junyao didn't rush to send it. She went twice to ensure no guards were present, then made a few scarecrows at home with Qin Xiaoyu before swaggering to the cave dwellings one morning.
She held six keys and, like the previous two times, opened the doors, looked inside, and then locked them as she left.
However, this time, she left corn cobs inside the cave dwellings before departing.
Three days later, Qin Junyao informed Dengzi Tui that the corn had been placed in the cave dwellings and handed over the six keys.
Dengzi Tui went to the cave dwellings to check and then rushed back to Yan Lake to report.
All six cave dwellings were filled with golden corn cobs.