The magnates of Chang'an are in the royal leisure mountain villa to escape the summer, and they are inevitably allowed to go out to play, boating in the water, looking at the weeping willows on the riverside, and the open fields and villages, which also makes people feel happy.

The lodge has specially prepared bamboo rafts for the magnates, with huge logs under the surface of the water and several layers of straight and tight bamboo tubes above, which are much more stable than ordinary light boats. In summer, the water near Nanshan is gentle, and the gentle breeze can't lift the waves, and the wide bamboo rafts can keep the powerful safe.

The man-made lake in the villa is a diversion canal from the water channel, and a wide waterway is dug out, and the bamboo rafts of the magnates can be rowed out of the mountain village and directly into the water. Just ask the guards to rent a few light boats, follow the bamboo raft far away, and enjoy the scenery of the water and mountains.

Yuan Ang and Liu Sheping said that they were busy with government affairs and it was difficult to travel, so they sat on the bamboo raft at this time, went down the river, and enjoyed the coastal scenery, but it was also quite leisurely. They asked the attendants to set up a few tables and mats on the bamboo raft, and drank tea and discussed, which was very comfortable.

Today, the two of them were in a happy mood, and the bamboo raft traveled farther, and drifted out for more than ten miles unconsciously. After the two drank the tea, they were about to order the attendants to return to the villa, but they saw that the large fields on the shore here were faintly yellow, and they couldn't help but have some doubts.

The villa specially prepared a bamboo raft for the magnates to accompany the attendants to explain the scenery along the way, as well as ancient legends such as the Juelong Ridge. Yuan Ang and Liu She were both well-educated people, but they didn't need him to explain more, and at this time, seeing that the fields on the shore were a little strange, they could just ask him: "It's not summer now, why are the crops here already tasseling, and they can be harvested when they see it?" ”

The attendant bowed down and said: "Back to the prime minister, the farmland here is the official field of the orphanage, and the field is not planted with millet grass, but rice. This year is a good year, looking at this growth, I am afraid that it can be harvested without waiting for the beginning of autumn. ”

"Oh? Don't have to wait until October to harvest? Hearing this, Yuan Ang asked with a happy face.

Don't underestimate the month of early harvest, the main crop corn in the north of the Han Dynasty, before and after the harvest, many people have not much surplus food left at home when they reach the first month. At this time, if this rice can be harvested, it can greatly alleviate the food shortage, and in the eyes of Yuan An, who cares about the people, it is really a heaven-sent treasure.

"That's why the grass people's uncle worked as a gentleman in the agricultural college in the orphanage, and he often mentioned some agricultural matters, so that the grass people knew about the situation of rice." The attendant replied respectfully, with a faint look of pride on his face, as if his uncle was a great man.

Yuan Ang didn't care, and couldn't wait to order: "Come to the shore quickly, the old man wants to see this rice with his own eyes." ”

The attendants had served Yuan Ang for many years, so they naturally knew the surname of their master, so they didn't dare to slack off at the moment, and hurriedly rowed towards the shore. After a while, it had already landed, and under Yuan An's continuous urging, the light boat waiting for the guards docked, and a group of more than ten people headed towards the rice field.

At the edge of the rice field, many children were carrying nets, laughing excitedly. Farmland needs to be irrigated, and every field has a canal running through it. There is a gate at the edge of each hill through which the channel passes, so that the water can be stopped and irrigated. There are more than a dozen gates in one channel.

The canal is covered with natural mud on three sides, and there are puddles under the gates. Even if the canal does not flow, there is still water hoarding in the puddle. There are a variety of fish in the water that swim down the river from upstream; At the bottom of the puddle is silt, hiding loaches and yellow eels.

The boys pulled a dustpan, blocked the water at the source of the channel with mud and stones, tried not to let the water leak, and then from the upstream to the downstream of the channel, the puddles under the sluice were poured out with basins in turn, which was quite the meaning of fishing with exhaustion. Then use both hands to dig water chestnuts and peanuts to pick up the mud inch by inch, every time you go down with both hands, always full of expectations, natural surprises are also constant.

At the end of the downstream of the channel, the water can flow through the mesh of the sink, and the fish that have escaped from the upstream are caught here.

Yuan Ang and Liu Sheping said that they were always busy in the official office, and even the children and grandchildren in the family rarely accompanied them, and they had not seen such childlike fun for a long time, and their mood became more and more happy, and their old faces, which were usually always flat, couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

However, just as everyone continued to move forward, Liu She's face was slightly gloomy, and he stepped out of the crowd and strode towards the field in front of him. Yuan Ang was quite surprised when he saw this, and hurriedly followed, he had been a minister in the same hall for many years, and he had never seen Liu She look like this.

"Qing'er!" Liu She ran to the field and said in a gloomy voice.

Yuan Ang was stunned when he heard this, turned his head to look at the rice field, but saw a girl in a yellow dress, slightly flirting with her skirt, squatting on the edge of the field, guarding a big fish basket, her big eyes were full of surprise and dodging, and she didn't dare to look directly at the angry Liu Che. Take a closer look, it is Liu She's granddaughter Liu Qing. The talented woman who is famous in Chang'an is now like a peasant woman, her slender jade fingers are full of mud, and there are a lot of mud spots on Luo's skirt, and she can't complain about Liu She's anger.

"Grandpa Liu, why are you here?" A crisp voice sounded, and another girl ran over, clutching a live fish in her hand, struggling desperately.

Liu She raised his eyes and looked, and he was a little dizzy again, the person who came was Wang Yan, the daughter of Dali Qing Wang Xuan, her whole body was covered with mud, and her red little face was mixed with mud and sweat, and her dirty appearance made people cry and laugh.

"Humph! Look at your appearance, it's really humiliating! Liu She was so angry that his beard turned up, glared at the panicked Qing'er, and scolded: "Don't get up quickly and go back with so!" ”

"Liu Yushi is serious." A graceful young woman walked slowly, without caring about Liu She's might, and said with a smile: "They are traveling with this concubine, although they have a little with their surname, it is not insulting, right?" ”

"Yuan Ang has seen the princess!" Yuan Ang looked at it and recognized that this young woman was Chen Jie, the princess of Changsha, and hurriedly pulled Liu She's sleeve, even if he was angry in his heart, the etiquette could not be abolished, and bowed to salute.

Liu She frowned, but she had no choice but to salute. Chen Jie also hurriedly bowed her knees to return the salute, Yuan Ang and Liu She were ranked as the third duke, although she was a princess of the princes, she also had to be respectful.

"Since the princess is traveling with the unworthy granddaughter of a certain family, how can she be allowed to come nonsense?" Liu She's face was displeased, Wang Yan in Wang Dali's mansion was stubborn and naughty since she was a child, and everyone in Chang'an City was well-known, this Changsha princess Chen Jie and her were cousins, and it was understandable to indulge her to play wantonly, but bringing her own well-behaved and sensible Qing'er really made Liu She complain.

Chen Jie grabbed Yan'er, who was about to refute, and said slowly: "How can this be said to be nonsense? Farmers are a major matter of the country, and the sons of heaven in the past dynasties are still cultivating every year, and now the two of them are just helping the princes to clean up some fish and shrimp, how did it come to the eyes of Liu Gong, but it is unbearable? ”

Yuan Ang and Liu She were stunned when they heard this, and they didn't pay attention to Chen Jie's defense, but quickly grasped the key point of the words. Princes? The two twisted their necks that were a little stiff at the moment, and looked at the rice field with Chen Jie's interesting eyes, only to see several teenagers with embarrassed faces, standing up straight in the field, smiling and not saying a word.

"Brother Huang, look, crab! Crab! A boy covered in mud did not pay any attention to the people who looked at each other, stood up from the muddy water, held the crab in his hand high, and excitedly offered treasure to the young man beside him.

The young man smiled and took the crab handed by the boy, praised him with an embarrassed face, and ignored the muddy water on his body, picked it up and slowly walked to the edge of the field, and put the crab into the bamboo basket at Qing'er's feet.

He then walked up to Tiankan, simply tidied up the placket on the **, and said to Yuan Ang and Liu She, who were stunned: "The lonely king originally planned to visit the prime minister and the imperial history again after a while, but it was a coincidence that he met here today." ”

“…… Xia Guan has seen the prince! I've seen all the princes! Yuan Ang and the others hurriedly saluted Liu Che, and bowed to the princes in the rice field.

"There is no need to be polite, today the lonely king originally planned to take a few royal brothers to visit the idyllic scenery, but Cheng'er saw that the students of the Agricultural College were collecting fish in the field to see the results of fish farming in the rice field, so he started to play, fortunately he played with him for a while." Liu Che grinned and explained, and gently patted the little ** of Liu Cheng, the king of Qinghe, in his arms, and asked him to be honest.

Liu Cheng is only five years old, where do you know how to do it, wow wow to continue to go to the field to catch crabs, seeing that the two old men who suddenly appeared ruined his good deeds, the round little eyes stared at them, as if they were enemies of life and death, thinking about letting their father beat them after returning to the palace.

Yuan Ang was speechless, but Liu She did not forgive, although the prevention of men and women in the early Han Dynasty was not as good as that of future generations, but he was still angry at the baby granddaughter who showed up and fooled around with the princes, although it was inconvenient to blame the prince and the princes, but it did not prevent him from disciplining his granddaughter: "Qing'er, after going back, be grounded for a month, think about your mistakes!" ”

Chen Jie, who has always been outspoken, heard this, lowered her face and said: "Liu Gong is so unreasonable, why is Qing'er wrong?" It was the concubine who forced her to travel together, if there was anything wrong, it was also the concubine's fault, she had to be beaten and punished, and she would listen to it. ”

"The woman is talking nonsense, quickly apologize to the imperial history!" Liu Fa, the king of Changsha, also stepped up from the rice field at this time, and hurriedly reprimanded him when he heard the words, Liu She, as a doctor of imperial history, often ** princes in peacetime, Liu Fa was not less affected, for fear of provoking him.

Hum! Chen Jie rolled her eyes, her face full of disbelief. Liu Fa has always been afraid of guilt, and he can't do anything about her, so he had to hurriedly step forward and bow to Liu She, who was pale, and said: "It's because this king is not strict in discipline, and I hope that Liu Gongmo will take the women's Taoist gossip to heart." ”

Stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling person, seeing Liu Fa respectfully admitting his mistake, Liu She was not easy to attack, and looked at the baby granddaughter again, and saw her little head lowered, her eyes were red, and big tears slipped down her cheeks, and her heart softened for a while, so she had to sigh and stop speaking.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, Liu Pengzu, the king of Zhao, who was good at observing words and feelings, hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "A little thing, it was originally a few of our brothers who accompanied Cheng'er to frolic, and it happened that the imperial sister-in-law took the two noble girls to play here, so I asked them to help clean up the catch." ”

Liu Che secretly praised Lao Ba in his heart for speaking cleverly, grasped the key point that Liu She cared about the most, and pointed out that it was not his granddaughter and the princes who met here, but happened to meet, and there was a great difference between the two in ancient times. Originally, Liu Che could also come forward to ease his cheeks, but he inevitably fell behind, as the respect of the prince, it was really shameless to explain to his subordinates. (To be continued.) )