In a blink of an eye, when it was time to harvest the corn, Mai Xiaohuan's hands were almost good, and she personally went to the field to demonstrate and tell everyone how to harvest it.

In front of the field are women and half-grown children who break corn, followed by men with sickles in their hands to cut corn stalks, and the cut corn stalks are stacked in neat stacks, which are all good fodder for the animals.

The wooden shelves in the yard are hung with golden corn, which can be threshed and sent back to the capital after a few days of drying.

"Master, madam, the old lady is here with the uncle's family and the third master's family." The steward of the villa came to pay his respects.

At this time, there is a good chance that you want to hunt corn! Mai Xiaohuan told Zhou Yue to look at it, and he took his father and mother back to the living room.

"Second brother, just now we stood in the distance and took a look, the scene of corn harvesting is really spectacular! Xiao Huan is really capable. Mai Xing couldn't stop praising his niece, Mai Quan was beating the side drum next to him, whether they could turn over or not depended on what his niece meant.

As soon as they came, they began to praise people, not to mention Mai Xiaohuan, even Mai Wang and his family were not very comfortable with the sudden change in their attitudes, Shan Cuihua invited everyone to sit in the living room and asked Mai Liu how he was doing in the county. Mai Liu is very satisfied with his current life and does not want to go back to Shaxi Village or move in with his second son's family. She was hard-pulled by her two sons today, and no one in the entire Qingcheng County now knows that new crops have been planted in Maijia Villa, and if they are planted during the New Year, they will definitely be able to make a lot of money.

"Uncle, third uncle, these corns are not allocated by us, and in a few days, the prince of King Chen will take them back to the capital." Mai Xiaohuan didn't wait for them to speak, the first to strike.

"Don't you still have a cornfield at Breeze Villa?" Mai Xing had already investigated clearly.

Mai Xiaohuan was a little angry, why did these people hold on to their own house and refuse to let go! Half of the corn seeds in Yifeng Villa were given to Zhou Yue, and it would be good to be able to plant them in a few villas for the New Year. What's more, there are also the Dou family, the Tang family, and the Hao family waiting! Mai Xiaohuan dared to guarantee that he would give the uncle seeds on the front foot, and the aunt on the back foot would be able to take them out and sell them. It wasn't so much that they were here for the corn seeds, but rather that they wanted to take the opportunity to ask for some money.

Mai Wang didn't want to embarrass his daughter, so he asked people to go to his room and take out a small wooden box, which contained a few land deeds: "This is the land I bought a while ago, the eldest brother, the third brother, the eldest sister and Qiaoyue's family are all fifty acres, and the seeds that Xiao Huan made are not enough now, and I will let people give you some in two years." ”

Fifty acres of land! Wu and Qiao are happy to talk together, with these lands, even if they don't grow and rent out, they can get a lot of money every year. They were satisfied, and Mai Liu's began to hit the ground with a stick again, their own share!

"Mother, this is five hundred taels of silver tickets, you can take it." Forgetting who and not daring to forget your old man, Mai Wang hurriedly handed over the silver ticket.

This is about the same, Mai Liu took the silver ticket, and did not forget to pat her chest, she decided to sew a pocket on her underwear after she went back, and the silver ticket was stored close to her body later.

Finally sent these people away, Mai Wan was afraid that his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law would have ideas, and was about to explain, Shan Cuihua patted her clothes and only said: "If they come to the villa to make trouble again in the future, I will report to the official." "The money and land have been given, and if these people come back, they will really be welcome.

Now that the family has money, the land and silver are given, and Mai Xiaohuan doesn't care too much. However, she agrees with Shan Cuihua's point of view, if relatives still come to make trouble, the government should be asked to come forward, for fear that her father will not be able to be ruthless at that time. Mai Wan was already satisfied with the understanding of his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, there was only so much he could do, and if the brothers and sisters were not satisfied, there was really nothing he could do.

More than 600 acres of corn can be recovered, which is definitely a huge project, and it took more than 10 days to get up early and be busy at night, and only half of the crops were recovered.

"It's not okay to go on like this!" Mai Wang was a little anxious, ready to hire some more people, before he could act, Mai Yonghai rushed over with the long-term workers and tenants of Yifeng Villa and Hailan Villa, as well as many people in Tongbei County, heard that the life-saving benefactor still had food confiscated, and took the initiative to find Mai Yonghai and asked him to bring it over to help.

Mai Xiaohuan handed over the things in the field to his father and second brother, and immersed himself in studying various ways to eat corn, corn porridge, corn tortillas、...... Every day, everyone will try it.

Now these people finally believe her, corn is more widely used than sorghum and soybeans, the yield is much higher than other crops, it is easy to manage, and it is full of treasures.

"Little bad, you have made a great contribution this time, and you can mention whatever reward you want." Zhou Yue's hanging heart can finally be put down, and now everything is ready, only a holy decree from the emperor's uncle is needed, and he can return with a little bad. ”

"Anything really." If she could, Mak would really like to abolish the law that a woman must marry before the age of eighteen.

Zhou Yue nodded happily, even if Uncle Huang didn't meet the requirements of the bad girl, wouldn't he still have himself? After thinking about it for a long time, Mai Xiaohuan finally shook his head and gave up, his thoughts must be deviant in the eyes of these ancients, so don't stimulate them!

"Then you just think slowly, don't rush." Zhou Yue scratched Mai Xiaohuan's nose, the two of them have to spend decades together, and she will try her best to meet any requirements.

Seeing Zhou Yue's intimate actions, Shan Cuihua felt like crying without tears, and she was worried that her little girl would never find her in-laws again. Mai Wan and Mai Yonghai also frowned, this prince is becoming more and more unscrupulous, he doesn't know that such an intimate act is inappropriate for two people who are unmarried and unmarried?

"O Yonghai! Has Young Master Ding come back? Mai Wan was still thinking about Ding Qixiang, and he felt that this person was a good match for his daughter.

Mai Yonghai was able to come here to help, it was because his mother-in-law went to Yifeng Villa to accompany his daughter-in-law, and he vaguely heard his mother-in-law mention that Ding Qixiang seemed to be left in the Hanlin Academy in the capital, and he didn't know much about the specific situation.

"Uncle Mai, Young Master Ding won't be back for the time being." The relatives of your two families are destined not to do it, you! Don't think about what you have or don't have, Zhou Yue sat on the side and drank tea comfortably.

Mai Xiaohuan glared at Zhou Yue angrily, and if you dare to stimulate my father, you should be careful for me. Zhou Yue hurriedly accompanied a smiling face, and silently promised not to make an example.

In the next few days, Zhao Gelao, Qu Hao, Hao Jia and Tang Jia came one after another, and everyone came to see corn, this new thing that had never appeared in Xirui naturally aroused everyone's curiosity. There were more and more people standing on the ground to visit, and many people circled around the corn on the shelves, asking all kinds of questions to Shan Cuihua and Mai Xiaohuan.

When the corn in the field was recovered, Mai Xiaohuan organized people to thresh the corn that was harvested first, and there was no mechanization, so it could only be operated by hand. The yellow corn kernels were left to dry in the drying yard for several days before they were bagged, and the long convoy lined up from the lodge to the gate.

"You can go back on your errand." Mai Xiaohuan stared at the team with his eyes, and said leisurely, I don't know if the two of them will have a chance to meet after this separation. Although he knew that this day would come sooner or later, Mai Xiaohuan couldn't help but feel sad when it really came.

"Wait for me for half a month." When I come back, I and the bad girl will be together forever.

Mai Xiaohuan didn't dare to take his words seriously, and it wasn't until he was about to set off, but left Xiaoquanzi behind, that Mai Xiaohuan faintly sensed that something seemed to be wrong.

"Isn't Xiaoquanzi going back to the capital?" Tang Yujun asked quickly.

Zhou Yue patted Tang Yujun on the shoulder hard, and asked him to drink together next time, thinking about it, it's good to have such a brother-in-law, don't worry about him calculating himself, you can still have fun with him when he is bored.

Tang Yujun shook off Zhou Yue's hand on his shoulder, he didn't want to drink with him, he! It's best to never come back when you're gone.

Regarding the matter of Xiao Quanzi staying, the Mai family had different thoughts, and most of them couldn't figure out what Zhou Yue meant. Qu Hao can roughly guess some reasons, Zhou Yue asked Xiaoquanzi to stay first, first, to take care of Mai Xiaohuan, and secondly, to prevent others from coming to the door to propose, there are people with him sitting here, timid, and lively thinking have to weigh and weigh if they want to come over to propose.

After a few days, the guests were almost gone, Mai Xiaohuan went back to Yifeng Villa to take a look, divided the corn seeds and placed them properly, and then it was time to be busy with the greenhouse business.

"Xiao Huan! What's the matter with a big girl and a man behind you? Let Xiaoquanzi go back to the capital! Shan Cuihua reminded.

You don't want to! Seeing that the half-month deadline Zhou Yue said was about to arrive, Mai Xiaohuan was quite calm on the surface, but her heart became more and more irritable, and she felt that Zhou Yue would keep her promise and rush back within half a month; After a while, I felt like he would never come back.

In the midst of gains and losses, more than ten days have passed, and I still haven't seen Zhou Yue's shadow. Mai Xiaohuan slapped his head hard, it was time to wake up.

Just when Mai Xiaohuan was desperately trying to convince himself that he was no longer allowed to think about Zhou Yue, a team of people came to the villa, and the officials of Qingcheng County, relatives and friends of the Mai family followed behind, which was spectacular.

Mai family, look at me, I look at you, I don't know what happened, at this time, Zhou Yue, who got down from the tall horse, respectfully saluted Mai Wang and Shan Cuihua, and he was followed by Gonggong Li with a smile in his hand.

After preparing the incense case, the surroundings quieted down, Gonggong Li cleared his throat and read the first holy decree, the emperor named Zhou Yue as the king of Chen, and asked him to move back to the palace after returning to Beijing.

Just when Mai Xiaohuan guessed the reason why they read this holy decree at their doorstep, Gonggong Li took out the second holy decree, and the emperor affirmed Mai Xiaohuan's outstanding contributions and rewarded a lot of valuables.

"Zhou Yue, I said that I wouldn't marry within three years." Why did you choose a day to get married! Mai Xiaohuan got up and ran, asking her to marry Zhou Yue, but it is not okay to get married now, she is still a child!

"Mai Xiaobad!" Zhou Yue chased after him, you got into my eyes and occupied my heart, now I want to run, it's too late! Everything is ready in the palace, there is a lack of a hostess, where are you going!

Looking at the two people who ran out one after the other, the people at the door were stunned, who had ever seen such a greeting of the holy decree......