Fortunately, Yan Yan was busy again in the next few days, she not only had to watch the seedlings of yams, but also the seedlings of cotton.

Although she knew the approximate season of cotton planting in her hometown in her previous life, the climate was different between ancient and modern times, and there were differences between the south and the north, and she didn't know whether the way she kept the seeds was right or not, just as she didn't know if those sweet potato beans could grow seedlings at the beginning.

So most of these days she spent most of her time in the back garden staring at these potato beans and cotton seeds, she didn't dare to plant all the seeds at once, communicated with several officials of the Department of Agriculture, and consulted a few crop experts, Yan Yan divided the seeds into four parts.

One part she soaked in warm water, another part was sun-dried, the third part was wrapped in a slurry of plant ash and planted together, and another part was planted without any treatment.

I don't know if it's because of the cold weather and low temperature, or because she didn't handle it properly, and after half a month, I didn't see a single cotton tooth seedling grow, but those potato beans sent out a little small sprout.

There was no way, in the end, she had to plant the cotton seeds she got from the Western missionaries last year, this part of the seeds may have been processed, Yan Yan remembered very clearly, in the old years, she didn't do anything and planted them directly and germinated.

Fortunately, half a month later, the weather warmed up, and these seeds finally germinated one after another, and Yan Yan also had the heart to start breeding red rice.

During this period, Yan Yan entered the palace twice, heard that Weizhou had fallen into the hands of the Western Xia people, and also knew that the Great Zhou and the Jurchens had formed an alliance, and the Jurchens sent troops south, and the Great Zhou side also fought with the Khitan on the border, but unfortunately Baozhou was still not recaptured.

However, the Lu family has good news one after another, Lu Ming has three more concubines, two sons and one daughter, that is to say, Lu Ming is now the father of five children, three sons and two daughters.

The arrival of these three grandsons somewhat diluted some of the regrets of Mrs. Lu and the Zhu family that they did not have grandchildren, and also diluted some of their worries about their relatives on the front line.

And Yan Yan hasn't seen her since Yan Yu gave birth, but she heard one or two from Yan Tong's mouth, saying that Yan Yu didn't see the child crying or something, not that the Lu family didn't value her daughter, but she got into the horns of the bull herself, complaining why she didn't give birth to a boy.

"Eldest sister, you didn't give birth to a boy, and your eldest brother-in-law didn't take a concubine, why aren't you worried about not being able to give birth to a boy?" Yan Tong asked Yan Yan.

is also giving birth to a daughter, Yan Yan holds her daughter every day, and Yan Yan also feeds the child in person, changes the child's diaper, etc., she likes everything about the child.

But on the other hand, Yan Yu rarely sees her holding a child, and the child is basically carried by a nurse, so Yan Yu is not in a good mood all day long, either sighing or complaining to the child, saying why she is not a boy.

In fact, strictly speaking, Yan Yu can be regarded as having three sons, even if she can't give birth to a son, those three sons have to call her mother, and they are also in her name.

Therefore, if you want to say that you are worried, it should be Yan Yanchou, not only does Yan Yan have no son here, but Yan Yan is still dystocia, and the female doctor also said that it is estimated that it is difficult to get pregnant in the short term, and she has to recuperate for a while.

Lu You didn't plan to take a concubine, so the elders of the Lu family talked about it a lot behind their backs, and even her mother didn't take the matter of the eldest sister to explain the second sister, but the second sister just couldn't listen.

Yan Yan saw that Yan Tong actually asked such a thing, and first laughed, "You said that you are a good girl's family to ask this, beware of the second aunt hearing you." ”

After speaking, seeing that Yan Tong was really blushing, Yan Yan didn't tease her anymore, "Okay, tease you, what's there to worry about, children are gifts from God, whether boys or girls, they are all the continuation of our bloodline." ”

"But boys and girls are different." Yan Tong was anxious.

She didn't know anything else, but she knew one thing, if Yan Yan was a boy, the title and family business of the Yan family should be inherited by Yan Yan, even if Yan Yan had a younger brother, this family business would have to belong to that younger brother.

Of course, Yan Tong didn't say this, she just wanted to indirectly remind Yan Yan not to make the mistakes her parents had made.

"Okay, I also know that boys and girls are different, don't mix with your little girl's family. By the way, do you have any eyebrows in your family lately? Yan Yan changed the subject.

Yan Tong shook his head.

Yan Yan didn't ask any more, because she also knew that she shouldn't get involved in this kind of thing.

It's just that what Yan Yan didn't expect was that half a month later, she and Lu You returned to Yan's house to send the Duanyang Festival Gift, and then they knew that Yan Tong was still discussing marriage with Wang Shixiu's grandson Wang Zheng.

"What does the third sister think?" Yan Yan looked at Yan Tong.

"I, I, I listen to my mother." Yan Tong lowered his head, and then, probably because he was afraid that Yan Yan would misunderstand the Ma family, Yan Tong raised his head again: "The Queen Mother also said that the Wang family is good, and this family affair is led by the Queen Mother." ”

Having said this, Yan Yan had no choice but to remain silent.

Presumably, the Ma family has already made the stakes of this family matter clear to Yan Tong, otherwise Yan Tong should not agree.

But then again, after removing the fact that the Wang family had threatened Zhou Wan, Wang Zheng's conditions are really good, he was born as a Jinshi in the second class, and his grandfather was the right minister of the court, maybe this Wang Zheng will still be a help from Lu Ming in the future.

In other words, Lu Ming will also be a help for Wang Zheng, the Lu family was originally close to the Xu family, Xu Liangxing was the left minister of the court, and now there is a right minister, the Lu family will only have more and more power to speak in the court in the future, and correspondingly, the Wang family and the Xu family will also borrow light.

Therefore, this family business can be regarded as a win-win situation.

It's just that in this way, the emperor's position is not so easy to sit.

However, Yan Tong is right, this family affair is led by the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother has been immersed in the harem for decades, and the experience of these court battles must be much richer than Yan Yan, presumably these are within her scope of consideration, so there is no need for Yan Yan to eat radishes and worry about it.

couldn't make sense with Ma's Yan Tong, Yan Yan asked about Yan Zhang, and learned that Yan Zhang took Yan Bin to Ma's mother's house to give a gift to him, and Yan Yan didn't have the heart to stay in Yan's house.