In the next few days, Zhu Youzhen moved to the mansion that Luo Yangxing sent him, and Luo Yangxing had already arranged for someone to hang the plaque of Zhu's mansion on the door of the mansion.

Although he was not married, Zhu Youxiao also moved into the house that the emperor rewarded last time.

Zhu Youzhen went to the Sihai Manor Horse Farm to practice equestrianism when he had nothing to do, and every time he was vomited and diarrhea by Qingshuang in the first few days, this body is really bad, the equestrian skills have finally been proficient in the past two days, and the situation is much better, at least I don't worry about falling off the horse, and I will no longer be faint, this is also thanks to Gao Sheng, Gao Han, Zhu Youzhen asked them to guide them to learn some physical fitness skills in their free time, and now a set of knife techniques have been learned, and they will not swing the knife a few times, and the arm will feel difficult.

Today's free time, Zhu Youzhen was ready to go to Sihai Manor, and within a few steps of the back door, he saw Zhang Zhiji looking in from time to time in front of a mansion not far away.

Zhu Youzhen had long wanted to return the two words to Zhang Zhiji, but he hadn't met Zhang Zhiji's face for a few days, and he heard Lao Luo say that Zhang Zhiji had been reporting to Fenglaiyi every day recently, and even the Sihai Manor had gone less.

At this time, a porter came out of the mansion and said a few words to Zhang Zhiji, and Zhang Zhiji raised his feet and walked inside.

Zhu Youzhen greeted him from afar, Zhang Zhiji turned his head to see it, and waved to Zhu Youzhen with some excitement.

Zhu Youzhen approached and looked up, and the mansion said "Xu Mansion" on it.

"Fifth brother, you came just in time, I was asking Miss Xu for something, you are more familiar with Miss Xu and Xiao Xu, you must help me talk later."

"Which Miss Xu?" Zhu Youzhen asked suspiciously.

"This is Xu Shilang's house, naturally it is Miss Xu Ming'er, you have been a neighbor for so long, you don't even know this, right?"

"I have nothing to do to ask who this is, but I can't say that Miss Xu and I are familiar, and we have only had a one-sided relationship."

"Fifth brother, you must help me this time, didn't Junior Brother Xu invite you to the house as a guest last time? Just today, you can't refute people's kindness. Zhang Zhiji pulled Zhu Youzhen and was about to go inside.

"Hey, wait a minute, I'll ask Gao Sheng to pick up your two paintings, and when he comes, I can't see you every day, and I finally met you, so you can quickly take the things away."

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, Zhang Zhiji stopped pulling him and waited at the door with the porter.

After a while, Gao Sheng took the scroll back, Zhang Zhiji quickly took the scroll and clamped it under his armpit, and pulled Zhu Youzhen again and walked inside.

The Xu Mansion is not big, but the courtyard is quite elegant, planting many flowers, plants and fruit trees, and planting some vegetables and grains in a special place.

The porter led a few people to a side hall, "My lord is waiting in the main hall, please drink some tea here and wait for a while, my young lady will come over immediately." After saying that, he served tea and withdrew.

After a while, I saw Xu Ming'er and Xu Erjue walking out, and when I saw a few people in the hall, Xu Erjue shouted excitedly, "Brother Zhu, you are here too?" ”

Xu Ming'er was also quite surprised to see Zhu Youzhen in the hall, and the concierge report only said that Zhang Zhiji was alone, and did not mention that there were other people.

Zhu Youzhen stood up and said, "I just met Ziyu at the door, I heard that this is Miss Xu and Little Brother Xu's house, and as a neighbor, I should also come over to visit." ”

"Neighbors?" Xu Ming'er said with some puzzlement.

"The Zhu Mansion next to it is the fifth brother's new house, isn't it a neighbor?" Zhang Zhiji said with a smile.

"It turns out that it is Brother Zhu's house, great, I can go to play often in the future, I have long heard that the house is very beautiful, and I have never been in to see it." Xu Erjue said excitedly.

Xu Ming'er just smiled, "I heard that the little grandfather has something to look for me, I don't know what it is?" ”

Zhang Zhiji didn't answer directly, but asked, "When I came in, I saw that there were many flowers and plants in the yard that I had never seen, were they all planted by Miss Xu?" ”

"That's right, Ming'er likes to cultivate some flowers and plants when she has nothing to do, which makes the little grandfather smile."

"I'm here for the sake of flowers and plants, and I have a reluctant request, can Miss Xu transfer that Phalaenopsis to me?"

"This ......"

Zhang Zhiji saw that Xu Ming'er was a little hesitant, and hurriedly gave Zhu Youzhen a requesting look.

"Phalaenopsis should be a mutant variety of orchids, but Miss Xu is the only one?" Zhu Youzhen asked.

"When the son asked me to buy that orchid a year ago, there was indeed only one plant, and now a few more plants have been cultivated, not that Ming'er is stingy, but this phalaenopsis is not easy to cultivate, and it is extremely difficult to feed without knowing habits, I don't know what the little grandfather wants this orchid for? Ming'er is worried that it will be ruined in the end if it falls into the hands of someone who doesn't understand orchids. Xu Ming'er said embarrassedly.

Zhu Youzhen also knows that for people who love orchids, they will regard orchids as life, and they will never see people tyrannical things.

Zhang Zhiji said with some twists, "Don't hide it from Miss Xu, I have a confidante who is obsessed with orchids, and it is her birthday recently, and I want to give this orchid to her as a birthday gift." Because she was worried that Xu Ming'er would refuse, she hurriedly said, "Miss Xu, don't worry, she is also a person who loves orchids, she is familiar with all kinds of orchid habits, and she will definitely not spoil it, if there is really any problem, I will come to consult Miss Xu in time." ”

"In that case, I'll go and fetch one and give it to the little grandfather, and I hope that your friend can treat him kindly." Xu Ming'er got up and said.

Zhang Zhiji bowed excitedly and said, "Thank you Miss Xu for cutting love, but I can't raise 300,000 taels of silver in the next moment, only 100,000 taels for the time being, I hope Miss Xu can give me grace for a while." ”

Xu Ming'er stopped and looked at Zhang Zhiji and said, "Little grandfather doesn't have to be like this, Ming'er agreed today for the sake of Brother Zhu who helped Erjue that day, orchids have always been noble and unstained, if the little grandfather wants to measure it with silver, then please go back." ”

Zhang Zhiji was stunned for a while, he had good intentions, but he didn't expect to mess things up by giving people money, and he regretted it for a while.

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly said, "Miss Xu misunderstood, I think Ziyu saw that Fang Shihong opened such a high price, Miss Xu didn't sell it, I'm afraid that Miss Xu was treated badly." ”

"Exactly, exactly, it's abrupt, please don't be surprised Miss Xu." After saying that, Zhang Zhiji thought of something again, turned around and picked up the two words placed next to him and said, "These two are the two poems that Miss Xu auctioned that day, I found someone to frame them, and it is not easy to come to the orchid Miss Xu to cultivate, and please Miss Xu don't dislike it, accept these two words." ”

"Oh?" Xu Ming'er took the two words, slowly opened, it was the poem he copied, and when he saw the inscription on it, Xu Ming'er was shocked, and looked up at Zhang Zhiji, his own words can be inscribed by the emperor, the prince and the two princes at the same time, what a relationship this little grandfather is.

"That being the case, Ming'er is disrespectful." After speaking, Xu Ming'er put away the scroll.

After a while, Xu Ming'er came out with a pot of phalaenopsis, Zhang Zhiji looked at the flowers in Xu Ming'er's hands, fresh and elegant, the petals were straight like butterflies that wanted to fly out, so that he had pity for people who were not interested in flowers and plants, let alone people who loved orchids.

After taking the orchid, Zhang Zhiji hurriedly said, "Thank you Miss Xu, then I won't bother me much, fifth brother, you can drink more tea here, I will leave first." After saying that, he ran away with the orchid.

Xu Ming'er was frightened when she saw it, and shouted at Zhang Zhiji, "You be careful, it doesn't matter if people fall, don't drop the flowers." ”

Zhang Zhiji is so stumbling, how can he tell people like this.

Zhu Youzhen complained in his heart that Zhang Zhi was not kind, and he didn't have to think about it to know that this guy must have gone to Fenglaiyi to find Furong to offer treasure, and directly left him here. Originally, he was not very familiar with this Miss Xu, and he felt even more uncomfortable here alone, so he had to keep drinking tea to hide his embarrassment.

"Brother Zhu, shall I take you to meet my grandfather?" Xu Erjue also saw that Zhu Youzhen was uncomfortable.

"Isn't Lord Xu receiving guests?"

"It's okay, that person is Mr. Xingzhi from our academy, and you have also seen it, so it's not in the way."

Zhu Youzhen didn't want to meet Xu Guangqi, but when he heard that the person who came was Mr. Xingzhi, he remembered what Zhang Zhiji said before, and felt that it would be better to meet him now.

followed Xu Erjue to the main hall, and saw Mr. Xingzhi drinking tea with an old man who was nearly sixty years old, thinking that this was Lord Xu Guangqi.

"Grandpa, Yuanzheng." Xu Erjue first saluted the two, and then said, "Grandpa, this is the big brother Zhu I mentioned to you before." ”

The two people who drank tea looked at Zhu Youzhen, and Mr. Xingzhi Tao Wanhua said with a smile, "It turns out that Zhu Xiaogongzi is also there." Then he said to Xu Guangqi, "Old Xu, don't underestimate Zhu Gongzi, Zhu Gongzi has been very famous in the capital recently, whether it is those princes and nobles, or literati, they all don't want to compete with Zhu Xiaogongzi." ”

"Hehe, how can it be, I also heard Erjue's deeds about this little friend, even the old man admired those couplets, and now there are not many young people with such insight as Zhu Xiaoyou." Xu Guangqi stroked his beard and smiled.

"Grandpa, Brother Zhu and us are neighbors now, and it is the Zhu Mansion next to it."

"Oh? The mansion next to it is actually a little friend's mansion? "Xu Guangqi is old and refined, but he is not as ignorant as Xu Erjue, he knows the origin of that house, but not everyone can live in it, ordinary people living in this house is beyond the system." I don't know if Xiaoyou is here today? ”

"The kid was originally accompanying a friend to come to Miss Xu today to have something to ask for, and I heard that Lord Xu and Mr. Xingzhi are here, so the kid came to visit."

"Xiaoyou is polite, haven't you asked Xiaoyou's name yet?" Xu Guangqi asked.

Zhu Youzhen knew that Xu Guangqi was afraid that he had seen some signs, so he simply didn't hide it, "Boy Zhu Youzhen." ”

Xu Guangqi and Tao Wanhua hurriedly got up, "It turns out that the prince is coming to the cold house, please take a seat." ”

"Brother Zhu, you are actually the son of the world?" Xu Erjue said in surprise.

"Erjue, Hugh is rude." Xu Guangqi reprimanded.

"It's okay, Brother Xu, you have to keep it a secret for me." Zhu Youzhen said with a smile to Xu Erjue.

"Confidentiality, confidentiality." After Xu Erjue finished speaking, he ran to the back hall, afraid that he would tell his sister as soon as he promised to keep it secret.

In recent years, I have been suffering from disasters in the Ming Dynasty, since the defeat of Salhu last year, I am in the Ming Dynasty and is in trouble, if the work of Lord Xu can be implemented on the ground, it will be able to solve many problems, the boy has listened to a visit to the Taoist priest in the early years, and when chatting, I heard that there were people in the south who could be in the middle of the three crops of rice, in addition to the southeast someone from Luzon (now the Philippine Bin) to introduce sweet potatoes, raw and cooked can be edible, an acre can produce dozens of stones, 20 times better than the grain, and there is no land is not suitable, If it can be implemented in the mountainous areas and the barren land in the north, it will surely benefit the people and solve the dilemma of food shortage today. ”

"The prince is really well-informed, and the old man has also heard of sweet potatoes, and the Westerners who have asked the church to help me bring some sweet potatoes from Luzon to try planting, as for the three-season rice, the old man has not heard of it." Xu Guangqi said.

"The kid has seen Miss Xu's cultivation of Phalaenopsis, beautiful, Lord Xu may discuss with Miss Xu the cultivation of Phalaenopsis orchid, rice is also a truth, if you use excellent rice seeds for cross-breeding, maybe Lord Xu will have gains, now a good year of rice is only about six stones per mu, if you can cultivate a good rice seed, maybe you can produce 100 stones per mu."

"What? 100 stones per mu? Xu Guangqi couldn't believe it.

The super rice of later generations can be converted into stone up to 200 stones, Zhu Youzhen has already said conservatively, at this time he hopes that by giving Xu Guangqi some hints, he can experiment with rice that can save the people like Yuan Lao in later generations.

"Anything is possible."

Xu Guangqi fell into deep thought, he had seen Xu Ming'er's phalaenopsis orchid, but he didn't think about the method of food cultivation in this way.