"That's it, it's finally time to rest." Shang Moqi shouted happily.

"Loaded, you can get up." Night Thunder half-squatted on the ground with the basket on his back, and leisurely loaded the basket with corn behind him. After loading the last corn, he patted the dirt on his hands and said.

Wan Lei stood up with a whole basket of corn on his back, followed Qingfeng and others, who were also carrying corn, and walked towards the field.

"Miss, are you back?" Wanyun and Wanxue were helping Wanlei unload the corn on their shoulders, and when they turned around, they happened to see Youran and they had also come back together.

"Just when I came back, the slaves and maids cooked sour plum soup and chilled it! At this time, it is ready to drink. Wanxue smiled and came over with a basin of water, so that the few of them could clean their hands.

"Ah, you two little girls are really getting more and more lovely!" Just come back and have delicious food, for Shang Moqi, it is really a beautiful thing, "Hurry up, hurry up, go and bring each of us a bowl, we are all about to die of thirst!" ”

"Alas, good! The slaves and maidservants are going. Wanxue replied with a smile.

"Sweet and sour, and cold to relieve the heat, it's really delicious." Zheng Wenjun drank half a bowl in one gulp and sighed.

"Well, and it's very raw." After Huang Haoxuan finished drinking, he nodded and agreed with Zheng Wenjun's statement, and added.

"Knock knock...... Ah, it's delicious! Wanyun, bring me another bowl. Shang Moqi drank a big bowl in one go, smashed it, smashed it, felt that it was not enough, handed the bowl to Wanyun and said.

Wanyun smiled and took his bowl and filled it for him; I shook the kettle in my hand, and I didn't feel much: "The slave is going to fill a pot."

"Well, go ahead! By the way, I came over with some snacks, and I was a little hungry. Leisurely nodded and ordered.

"Okay." After Wanyun agreed, he walked to a house not far away.

After drinking the sour plum soup, their tired bodies felt much better, and they sat down under an umbrella-shaped tree at the head of the field. The tree was so tall that the trunk needed two adults to hold hands and wrap around. After a leisurely estimate, this tree should be a hundred years old.

"You'er, why are you in such a hurry to batch corn? You also said that it would take three days to complete the approval, I see it hanging! As soon as Shang Moqi sat down, he snatched Zheng Wenjun's folding fan and fanned the wind fiercely.

"You think I want to? This corn is the same every day, and the variety of this batch today is just to eat at this time, and it will be impossible to eat when you are old. You also sat down, took out a handkerchief from the purse around her waist, and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Variety? Is there any other variety of this grain called corn? Huang Haoxuan seemed to be very interested in this, and when he heard leisurely discussing corn, he immediately asked: "How many varieties are there here?" They all look the same, huh? ”

"It looks the same on the surface, but the corn wrapped inside is different." You explained, "Today's batch is sweet corn, which is called fruit corn. Growing up like this, it tastes just right. ”

There happened to be a pile of corn nearby, and she picked one up and peeled off the skin, revealing the pale yellow corn cob inside.

"This is corn?" Shang Moqi sat down for a while, stretched his neck and watched, "You'er, how do you eat this?" ”

smiled leisurely: "You can eat it this way!"

As she spoke, she broke the corn into three pieces with her hands, and handed one to Shang Moqi, one to Zheng Wenjun, and one to Huang Haoxuan: "Taste it, it's sweet, it's like eating fruit."

Leisurely took another piece of corn, quickly peeled off the skin, and broke it into three pieces. handed Qin Yanran and Sikong Mingyi one piece each, and kept one for himself.

"Eat like this." Seeing that they didn't move, I knew that they might not know how to eat!

"Just eat this yellow corn kernel, the cob inside is not edible." She took a corn kernel and showed it to them.

She ate the corn kernels into her mouth and bit them open, and suddenly a thick corn flavor overflowed her mouth: "Hmm~ Sweet and sweet, delicious."

When the rest of the people saw her eat, they tried it the same way she did.

"Uh-huh——?" Shang Moqi stared at the piece of corn in his hand with wide eyes, "I didn't expect it to taste good!" ”

"It's delicious." Sikong Mingyi tasted the taste in his mouth, nodded and said.

Leisurely eyebrows and eyes curled smiled: "This variety of corn grows to this extent is the sweetest time, and the corn flavor is also very strong." After a few days, it will grow old little by little, and the sweetness will not be so high; When you are completely old, there will be no sweetness. Therefore, it is necessary to batch it all down and store it before it gets old, so as to ensure that it tastes the same as it does now. ”

Everyone knew it and nodded in unison to show that they understood. You curled the corners of her lips slightly, smiled, and then stopped talking, and quietly ate the piece of corn in her hand.

At this time, Wanyun and the others came back, and at the same time, there were also Wanlei and them, who carried corn. Wanyun and Wanxue placed a small tea table in the center of the leisurely sitting around them, and then put the pastries and sour plum soup they brought on top.

"Oops~ There are still snacks! I'll try it—" Shang Moqi stretched out his hand with joy on his face and took a piece of mung bean cake to eat, "Hmm...... It's delicious, and this must be made leisurely. ”

"So sure?" Youran raised the corners of his eyebrows and asked suspiciously.

"Of course, although your pastry shop and the chef's skills are all passed down by you, you just can't make your kind of taste." Shang Moqi replied to her while eating.

"My taste? What kind of taste? "Curious, she never knew what she made had a special taste.

"It's a very delicious taste." Shang Moqi swallowed the last bite of the pastry and replied affirmatively.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, this answer is the same as not saying! Who knows what he said about 'extra tasty'?

"By the way, Sister Youran, is there any other way to eat this sweet corn?" Huang Haoxuan was eating snacks, but his mind was still all on corn.

"Yes! All varieties of corn can be boiled and eaten, and they can also be roasted; Or do corn branding. After a leisurely pause, he took a sip of sour plum soup to moisten his dry throat, and continued: "Sweet corn can be used for cooking, what pine nut corn, corn and vegetable salad, stir-fried vegetables and cold salad can be; It can also be squeezed into corn juice, which is delicious and healthy; It can also be used to make soups, any thick soup, clear soup can be. ”

"There's quite a lot to eat." Qin Yanran grinned.

"Is it just for cooking? So how can it be said to be a kind of food? Can you eat enough food? Huang Haoxuan continued to ask.

You didn't expect him to care so much about this topic, glanced at him inexplicably, and then patiently explained: "After the corn is ripe, it can be ground into flour or slag of different thicknesses." Corn flour can be used to make corn porridge, or it can be made into tortillas and wowotou, the same as dry food. And one of the varieties is sticky sticky corn, which can be ground into flour to make sticky dough and sticky cake. ”

"Really?" Huang Haoxuan's eyes flashed with a bright light, and he said with some excitement: "You said that this crop can be planted twice a year, and the maturity time is short, right?"

"Hmm." Leisurely nodded, very confused about what he was excited about?

"If these seeds are really popularized as you said, then we will have one more high-yield crop in Dajing; And it's easy to eat, easy to store, and it's really ......"

"Cousin." Sikong Mingyi interrupted Huang Haoxuan when he was talking energetically.

Huang Haoxuan first felt inexplicable, turned his head to look at him, neither of the two cousins spoke, and looked at each other silently. Huang Haoxuan retracted his gaze, and said to Youran with an unnatural expression: "Sister Youran, I'm sorry, I don't mean anything else."

Leisurely looked at his cheeks, which were slightly red because of embarrassment, and smiled slightly: "It's okay."

"Yes, Haoxuan, don't care, it's nothing." Qin Yanran also comforted him gently.

Nodding leisurely in agreement, they had already considered this aspect when they chose to plant a large area. Because he is a person with ambitions for the country, he will not let go of this thing that can bring a huge harvest to the country.

In ancient times, for a big country, it was often not enough to have strong combat effectiveness, they also needed to have a strong backing, and this backing included food, clothing, and living and working in peace and contentment.

No country attaches great importance to the development of agriculture, and ancient crops are not as good as the high-tech products of modern society, and grain production can be made by any means.

The crops grown in the Dajing Dynasty are very similar to the ancient times of the leisurely world, and there are already wheat, rice, rice, sorghum and so on.

Now, you have brought corn into the world, which is quite tempting for a dynasty that focuses on agricultural development.

"Actually, before planting, I had already thought about whether to give the corn seeds to the imperial court so that they could be promoted. It's just ......," he said leisurely, and stopped here.

Huang Haoxuan, Sikong Mingyi and Zheng Wenjun looked at her together, and couldn't figure out what the meaning of her 'just' was?

"But what?" Zheng Wenjun asked.

Youran looked at her brother, and after getting Qin Yanran's nod of approval, she lowered her voice and continued: "Everyone is a friend, and I don't want to hide anything from you, so my next words, in addition to keeping them firmly in your hearts and not passing them on, are you forgetting them, okay?"

Under the leisurely gaze, several people looked at each other, and then they all nodded at her. And after receiving the guarantee, he slowly talked to them.

"I've been frail and sickly since I was a child, and if I hadn't met my master, the Void Daoist, I'm afraid I would have been out of the world a few years ago."

Qin Yanran lowered his eyelids silently, not wanting people to see the distress in his eyes. He reached out and rubbed his little head as usual, as if to comfort her in this way.

He didn't say anything, just listened quietly and leisurely: "The master took me to Lingyun Peak alone, and I lived there for a few years. As you know, Ling Yunfeng is located at the geographical boundary of the Great Jing Dynasty, which can be said to be a place of exchange and integration between countries. I have lived there for so long, and I have met some friends and strange people from other countries; And all the novelties in this Zhuangzi are gifts from them. ”

After a leisurely pause, he took another sip of sour plum soup to moisten his throat: "It's not that I don't want to hand over the corn seeds, but even if I hand them over, no one else can grow them."

After saying this leisurely, he received four pairs of puzzled eyes. She smiled slightly and explained, "Everything here is rare in the world, and ordinary people can't grow it at all."

“…… So here...... Where did it come from? Shang Moqi pointed around suspiciously, and asked intermittently.

"That's what I want you to remember and not publicize." After leisurely looking around and confirming that there were only a few of them here, he said solemnly: "Because there is a capable person who has opened a kind of ability on me, with this thing, I can grow these rare flowers, fruits, vegetables and other things." When the seedlings can grow on their own, they can be transplanted and maintained. ”

After saying this, the four of them were speechless in surprise.

Sikong Mingyi could be said to be the most calm of them, and he asked: "In other words, all the rare things in this Zhuangzi can be grown by no one except you?" You can only grow seedlings from seeds, right? ”

"Hmm." Leisurely and earnestly nodded at him.

"Don't tell others about this kind of thing casually in the future, and it's not okay to be close." Sikong Mingyi said suddenly.

Then he turned his head to look at Zheng Wenjun, Shang Moqi and Huang Haoxuan, who were still a little surprised, and admonished: "You remember, forget all the words you heard today, and treat them as if you didn't hear anything, you know?"

"Uh-huh......" Shang Moqi also knew the seriousness of the matter, and when Sikong Mingyi said that he wanted to forget what Youran said, he quickly nodded in agreement.

"Rest assured, we didn't hear anything." Zheng Wenjun's face was full of seriousness and responded to him seriously.

Huang Haoxuan also nodded in agreement, "Sister Youran is just like my own sister, since she told me such an important thing, of course I have to think about her safety, don't worry!" We're all going to rot this secret in our stomachs. ”

smiled leisurely, she really didn't misunderstand a few people, each of them is a righteous gentleman with good roots, and they are worthy of deep friendship.

Qin Haoran was very grateful for the words and actions of several people, after all, this was a matter related to the safety of his sister, and he couldn't be treated carelessly: "Thank you, I can't thank you enough here."

He stood up and bowed to them with a solemn gesture of deep gratitude.

"Alright, Randy, what are you doing so politely? You'er is also our sister! Shang Moqi got up to stop him, complaining that he was too polite.

"That's right! Youran trusted us to tell us all this, how could we live up to her trust in us? Zheng Wenjun also stood up and spoke on behalf of Sikong Mingyi and Huang Haoxuan.

"Alright, brothers, sit down quickly! It's good that this incident didn't happen, and there is no need to thank you. He smiled leisurely and said, "Come and have a snack, and when it's noon, I'll make you a corn feast." ”

"Yay!"

"Good ......"

“……”

Several people smiled at each other and responded one after another.