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Chapter 918 - 907: Beastman Plane 27

Chapter 918: Chapter 907: Beastman Plane 27

Yan Mo told Xia Yue and the others about the situation and regulations of the assembly.

"The meeting is set to start in half a month, and it will take one and a half months to go and return. If there’s a delay, it could take two months.

Our potatoes in the field will be ready to harvest in about ten days; we shall harvest them a week from now to show the tribe. As for the sweet potatoes, they will need another month. If there’s any delay, we can ask the Priest and the others to help harvest. We’ll just show them how," thought Yan Mo, considering the harvest time of the potatoes and sweet potatoes to be within these two months.

"That’s feasible. The bountiful harvest of potatoes can greatly encourage those Beastmen planting sweet potatoes. We’ve planted three acres of potatoes, which should yield about 10,000 kilograms.

Based on our planting, 10,000 kilograms of potatoes can plant more than two hundred acres. If planted well, we could have at least 500,000 kilograms of potatoes by the second half of the year, and together with the harvest of sweet potatoes, the tribe should not starve in winter," Xia Yue roughly calculated and spoke.

"But will they plant that many acres? More than two hundred acres is too much," Ziluo said.

"As long as the quantity of potatoes we gather is substantial, they will. In this place, the biggest problem is ensuring survival, especially during winter.

Planting does not involve risking one’s life; just being diligent is enough. This is very cost-effective for the tribe’s people," Wei Se remarked.

"So, when we harvest, should we ask the tribe’s people to join us, and also invite the Priest and the Clan Leader?" Xia Yue said.

"Yes, we might indeed need their help to harvest the sweet potatoes. By asking for their help this time, we’re also giving them some experience. Remember the wild chickens we caught earlier? They’ve started laying eggs, and we didn’t eat them. Instead, we boiled the eggs and gave them to them.

This is also a good opportunity to promote farming, letting them raise their own wild chickens in the future for a continuous supply of meat and eggs," Yan Mo spoke.

The four of them discussed and agreed, and the day before harvesting the potatoes, Yan Mo went to see the Clan Leader and the Priest to invite them to watch the potato harvest.

Xia Yue and the others, holding boiled eggs, went to find a few of the most diligent and careful Sub-Beastmen to help with the potato harvest the next day.

Those Sub-Beastmen were, of course, willing as this was a chance to gain experience since they had also planted sweet potatoes and were concerned about how to harvest them when the time came.

Initially, they disliked the eggs as they tasted too gamey raw, a trait favored only by some unique Beastmen.

Seeing their reluctant reaction, Xia Yue told them that these eggs were cooked and wouldn’t taste gamey, leading them to accept and try them skeptically. After peeling and eating an egg, they realized it truly wasn’t gamey.

Thinking back to the times when they had nothing to eat and had to eat raw, they all felt they had suffered.

After teaching the Sub-Beastmen how to boil eggs, Xia Yue and the others left.

The next day, early in the morning after breakfast, they took their tools to the field and saw the Clan Leader, the Priest, the invited Sub-Beastmen, and some other onlookers who had come to watch the excitement had already arrived.

"How come you are so slow?" the Clan Leader said with a hint of disdain as they arrived.

Xia Yue checked the time in the system, which showed it was just before six-thirty; they too wanted to finish before the sun got too hot.

They hadn’t expected these Beastmen to arrive even earlier.

"All right, now that you are here, how shall we start? You show us, and we will watch and then help together," the Clan Leader said without giving them a chance to explain.

Yan Mo and the others had no option but to explain, so they divided the invited Sub-Beastmen into four groups and demonstrated how to harvest the potatoes.

At their first attempt, they uncovered five to six potatoes as big as the palm of a grown Beastman under the first plant.

"Wow, there really are things here, and they’re big," said the Beastmen nearby, surprised at the unearthed potatoes.

Yan Mo and his group ignored them and continued to teach the Sub-Beastmen to harvest, and after digging up four or five plants, the Sub-Beastmen had almost gotten the hang of it.

Yan Mo then let them spread out to dig.

The Clan Leader and the Priest also watched from the side, and after asking Yan Mo, they too dug up two plants.

Then the Clan Leader and the Priest inquired about the potatoes’ satiation effect.

"Based on this plant, without meat, it can feed an average appetite adult Beastman for two meals, but just eating these potatoes is not suitable for you, you still need to eat meat.

Considering a Beastman needs about ten kilograms of meat per meal, with potatoes, this ten kilograms can be divided into two or even three meals," Yan Mo explained.

The other Beastmen also heard Yan Mo’s explanation and were amazed.

This calculation meant that with the same amount of game, what previously would have lasted a month could now last two or even three months.

With winter approaching, they wouldn’t have to worry about going hungry and could eat their fill every day.

"Is what you said true?" the Priest also looked at Yan Mo in surprise and asked for confirmation.

"Of course, and with these potatoes, it will also keep you from going hungry," Yan Mo nodded.

"Can we exchange the potatoes you harvest this time for our tribe?" the Clan Leader inquired.

"Of course, but these newly harvested potatoes need over a month to sprout. After we harvest them, we’ll facilitate the sprouting. Once we return from the assembly, it will be just about time to plant.

In the meantime, Clan Leader, you can clear more land.

The potatoes I’ve harvested can potentially plant about a hundred times the area I currently have, so you can clear land according to the actual situation," Yan Mo explained.

"So much? How long can we eat for?" the Clan Leader asked, wide-eyed, unable to fathom the amount.

"It should be enough to keep the tribe from going hungry in winter," Yan Mo replied.

"As long as that’s the case, I guarantee we’ll clear more land in this time. Just being able to eat our fill and get through the winter would be the best thing for me as the Clan Leader," the Clan Leader immediately decided.

Afterwards, the Clan Leader had the onlookers help gather the potatoes, reminding them to be careful not to damage them.

Although Yan Mo and his group could not empathize completely, they could somewhat understand the tribe’s appreciation for these potatoes, which could stave off hunger in winter.

"If potatoes have this effect, what about sweet potatoes?" the Priest thought of another crop and inquired.

"Sweet potatoes are good too, and they can be made into a flour that’s even more filling. We’ll teach you how to do that when we harvest them," Yan Mo said.

"Good, good, good," the Priest, reassured by the answer, thought of having these two crops for the winter, which surely wouldn’t let anyone starve, perhaps even able to get through the coming Ice Age.

Many hands make light work; in one day, they excavated the three acres of potatoes.

The Beastmen helped transport the potatoes back to Xia Yue and their home.