The Double Ninth Festival was supposed to be a time of crisp autumn, but this year it was particularly abnormal, the cold rain was transparent, and the air was filled with cold.

In the early morning, Zhao Cheng, who had been crying all night, was picked up by the frame, which was the convoy of the Liao delegation, and followed by the honor guard of the Great Song Dynasty.

The princess left in a low-key manner, although there should be no less guard of honor, but it was not as red as described, and only the cold rain of the Great Song Dynasty and a group of strange and silent people accompanied her to that strange place.

The princess was a few hours away, and only a few inconspicuous carriages started slowly in one corner of the city.

There is no identity mark, no team honor guard, only two light carriages, one with the crown prince of Liao sitting in it, and the other sitting with the father and daughter of the king of the Southern Courtyard.

They sent an envoy to the Song State this time, not only completed the task of marriage, but also overfulfilled the tasks of commerce, alliance and lend-lease, etc., which can be said to be a full return. That is to say, if there is turmoil in Liao, Song will unconditionally borrow 100,000 troops to aid Liao.

The point of contention here is whether to borrow or send, the difference between the words is thousands of miles. In the end, Fobaonu changed "sending troops" to "borrowing troops" with the right to garrison Haizhou, but she had to bear the food, grass, and military salaries of the 100,000 soldiers.

But this is not a matter, because as long as there is a promise from Emperor Song, the throne of Buddha Baonu will be stabilized after the 100,000 borrowed troops are in hand.

In such a huge diplomatic battle, it stands to reason that Yelu Buddha Baonu should be ecstatic, but at the moment she was curled up in the carriage alone, staggering and napping, because of the early morning drinking medicine, her spirit seemed a little sluggish.

When the carriage arrived at the city gate, she handed over the documents out of the city, and after traveling several miles, although the Buddha Baonu was not in good spirits, she was no longer sleepy, she leaned on the soft cushion, held a book in her hand and looked at it without a glance, and from time to time tightened the fur blanket on her body but still felt cold.

Suddenly, the guard outside stopped, turned back to the Buddha Baonu inside, and said, "Your Highness, the head car has stopped." ”

Buddha Baonu frowned and opened the curtain, but found that the king of the southern courtyard was arguing with a man at the edge of the ten-mile long pavilion, the person was wearing a coat and hat, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but he just looked at his figure, and Buddha Baonu put down the curtain: "Go and tell the king of the southern courtyard, don't be delayed by idlers, and set off quickly." ”

"Yes."

The escort got out of the car and went to tell the king of the Southern Courtyard the instructions of the Buddha Baonu, and the Jin Lang snorted coldly after hearing this, and pointed to the person opposite and said: "You'd better not contaminate her again, you and her are just Pingshui and have no intersection, and from now on, you don't have to entangle again." ”

"I know." Xiao Song shrugged his shoulders: "I was also entrusted by someone to come to send a farewell gift, since His Royal Highness the Liao State doesn't want to see me, then please hand it over." ”

The king of the Southern Courtyard looked down at the box in his hand, and although he sighed, he still took it.

"Let's go!"

The wheels of the carriage rumbled forward, and after Xiao Song saw the rut disappear into the vast rain, he shrugged his shoulders lightly and turned to leave, but there was no more mud and water.

After the two cars resumed for another forty miles, they had to stop in the post station due to heavy rain, and several people entered the post station to rest.

"Girl, this is ......" The king of the southern courtyard handed the package to the Buddha Baonu: "If you dislike it, I will throw it away." ”

Buddha Baonu just chuckled and raised his head: "Why do you throw it, I am the one with a clear conscience, why should I throw it?" If someone gives a gift, then just take it. ”

"But ......" The king of the Southern Courtyard was silent for a long time: "I am afraid that there will be fraud in the things sent by that person." ”

"He doesn't deserve it." Buddha Baonu snorted coldly: "If I hadn't moved my love for talent, would I want to coax me with that kind of trick?" ”

Hard-mouthed ...... As a person who watched Buddha Baonu grow up, the prince naturally knew how hard this girl's mouth was, but it was not easy to debunk, so he could only treat it as if nothing had happened, and quietly ate something in the post station, and when the rain was lighter, several people set foot on the road back to their hometowns again.

They have always maintained a distance of about fifty miles from the family sending off team, not too close and not too far away, and compared with the grandeur and noise of the family sending team, their two carriages are extremely low-key, and no one can imagine that the two most important people in the whole team are sitting here.

With the swaying of the carriage, Buddha Baonu opened the box, this thing is heavy but mostly for some worthless Jinling specialties, some Su embroidery, some Shu embroidery, the most valuable is a pair of jade gold dragon and phoenix tiara, there is a small note on the top that reads "Congratulations to the newlywed", neatly written in the former Tang Dynasty wedding greetings.

Buddha Baonu threw this aside in disgust, feeling bored.

But by accident she found a very beautifully bound booklet, she curiously picked up the booklet, gently opened it, a fresh and elegant jasmine smell mixed with a special ink fragrance came to her face, and on the title page wrote a small hand.

As soon as she saw the font, she didn't even look at the word and flipped it over, and the resistance in her heart was still difficult for her to face.

And the rest of the contents of this booklet are quite attractive to her, the sentences in it are very strange, but if you read them carefully, they are very tasteful - "The day is coming to an end, and your body is like a light sail on the sea, and you can listen to the evening tide dance." ”

Buddha Baonu liked this very much, she carefully turned to the last page, and when she was done with it, she did not expect that there was a very long paragraph at the end, like a letter.

And this letter is not a little pretentious, but just a straightforward narrative of the regrets in the world.

At the end of the letter there is a sentence that says, "The so-called encounters in the world are all accidental." The world is difficult only in the majority, the time is unfavorable and the difference is sighed, the pursuit of the future and freedom of the person is certainly beautiful, so that the heart is galloping. But the things in the world are not allowed to rebel, and this is true at home and in the country. In order to thank the girl for meeting her as a confidant, I wish her a smooth journey. ”

After reading it, Buddha Baonu was already in tears, and she wanted to cry but couldn't, and there were only thousands of sighs left in her heart.

She slowly flipped this poetry collection to the front, and the farewell song slowly flowed out like a song, and the sentence "Don't dream cold tonight" couldn't help but make people cry again.

But she will be the king of a country, and she can't cry or be sad, so she has to bite the blanket and choke softly.

When she was gone, she opened the last box, and there was nothing special in it, except a round box of delicate silver, and when she opened the box, there were only two layers of what looked like cotton but not cotton, and a note with the usage of this thing written on it.

Buddha Baonu looked at it a few times, then took out a square carbon-like black block from the box, and used the small bottle next to him to drip a few drops of oil on the coal according to the note on the note, and then folded it with fire, and the carbon block ignited, and a faint blue fire appeared.

She carefully placed it in the silver box, and then into a thick cloth bag, and in a moment it was as hot as a stove.

And the last sentence under the note is "two pieces a day, and when you run out, the spring flowers will bloom".

Holding this stove, the chill on Buddha Baonu's body gradually subsided, and she sat in the car but didn't know what she was thinking, but she looked out from the gap in the curtain that was lifted by the autumn wind from time to time, and her eyes became calm and indifferent.

At this moment, Xiao Song was sitting under the cloister, looking at the trees in front of the court that began to fall leaves, and while eating a fried dumpling, he said to the pretty girl who was quietly knitting a sweater next to him: "You learn very fast." ”

"It's so easy." Pretty raised her head and said, "But I'm just wondering, why can this wool become thread?" ”

"This is the ability of the workshop, and in the future, this kind of thing will be popularized, not only wool but also duck down."

"Wow......" Qiaoqiao has no idea how to make duck down into threads, but she just thinks that her man is a thief......

However, these plans must still be linked to grain production, and the progress of chemical fertilizers must keep up, because before there are high-yield crops, there is no other way than for a country to produce grain to fill the appetite of the industrial giant of the Great Song Dynasty.

But in this way, the risk of eating in the sky is still huge, the problem that Xiao Song must overcome now is in front of him, the biggest problem in the old society is not the output but instability, the low output of the monomer can be made up for by the quantity, but if there is a natural disaster, it will be ruined......

Therefore, Xiao Song has three task groups under his hands, one is the fertilizer team, and this is his business. One is the Department of Agriculture, which is based on the New Third Division of the Imperial City Division, and this group specializes in new varieties of grain and grain hybridization technology. There is also a group that studies the combination of crops and fruits, grains, and meat products, and they are now studying how to use a large amount of wood produced by clearing land to cultivate insects to obtain protein......

Anyway, these three teams were led by Xiao Song himself, and even the main work of the medical school is now handed over to the senior brother Yan.

"Xianggong."

"Huh?" Xiao Song turned his head: "What's wrong?" ”

"Why don't you go to Liao with that princess of Liao?"

"Silly girl." Xiao Song pinched her face: "I'll go with her, what should Jin Ling'er do?" What do you do? What should Sister Qiaoyun do? Your home is here, my home is here, my pretty family is my roots, and I am a treasure of my heart. You say, if I leave behind taking care of my pretty character for more than ten years for a woman I've known for a few months, this is what people do? Except for Zhang Wuji, no one can do this kind of. ”

"Who is Zhang Wuji?"

"It's a piece of rubbish, so don't mention it." Xiao Song smiled, leaned back on the recliner and swayed: "It would be great if there was a baked potato and baked sweet potato to eat at this time." ”

"What are baked potatoes?"

"It is a kind of grain with a yield of 5,000 catties per mu."

Pretty smiled: "Net bragging." ”