The next day, Du Jinning took Chen's subordinates and luggage, and left the capital when the sky was bright and the city gate was just opened.

The road in Suzhou is much easier than the road from Guizhou Province to the capital. Du Jinning and his entourage took a sharp look at the post station at noon, and then continued on the road. In the evening, the city gate of Runzhou appeared in front of him.

"It's here, Runzhou has arrived." Seeing the city gate of Runzhou from afar, everyone was very excited, that is, even the horses were a little more energetic, and they ran more energetically.

"Hey, look, isn't that Steward Yao?" Zhang Songtao pointed to a figure standing in front of the city gate.

Everyone looked over there, and although it was a little far away, they could still see the tall and thin figure with two beards that was inexplicably familiar.

"Ah, Steward Yao is here to pick us up." Everyone is getting happier.

Chen couldn't help but lift the curtain and look outside.

Yao Shuqi thought that he had also seen them, so he turned over and rode up to this side, turned around in front of Du Jinning's horse, and said with a happy face: "Young master, you are finally here." He said hello to Chen in the carriage again.

"Everything is in order?" Du Jinning asked.

"Yes, I bought a house and a field. However, the fields near the city could not be bought for a while, and because it was necessary to rush the farming, I bought them according to your orders, even if they were a little far away. Almost 300 acres of fields are contiguous with high-grade, medium-, and low-class fields, and there are 50 or 60 acres of dry land. This dry land was sold together with eighty acres of fine land, and the owner of the land had to build it, otherwise he would not sell it, so I bought it in my own right. ”

When Yao Shuqi came, Du Jinning instructed him to buy the land. She also knows that buying a field needs to be coincidental, otherwise it is difficult to come across a good field that can be connected into a piece. So she once told Yao Shuqi that it doesn't hurt if the price is higher, if it is not connected into pieces, the price of the field in the middle will be raised, and it must be taken 300 acres.

The owners of those fields are not fools, originally one acre of high-quality land was worth ten taels of silver, and if you came out of thirteen or fifteen taels, they would definitely be tempted. It's a big deal to sell this, and then buy it elsewhere. Sell one acre of land here, and buy one and a half acres there, so a fool won't do such a good thing.

Of course, in order to prevent someone from maliciously raising the price, there is a skill in buying these fields. Yao Shuqi was originally born in business, and he has been with Du Jinning for so long, he still has this ability, and Du Jinning is very relieved.

Knowing that Yao Shuqi had bought the house and the land, Du Jinning was relieved.

In the first year, she was not ready to make a big move, and only studied rice seeds in her own fields.

In fact, when she had a little money in her hand and lived in the Zhuangzi behind the Boyue Academy, she began to conduct rice seed research.

Hybrid rice is produced by the crossbreeding of different rice species, and before the hybridization, it is necessary to breed a kind of rice with thin and degraded stamens and shriveled and deformed anthers as the mother parent, and then breed sterile lines, restorer lines, and maintenance lines, and the situation is quite complicated. Therefore, even if Du Jinning knows the theory of how to cultivate hybrid rice, there will be a very long research and cultivation process.

Now, her experiment is infinitely close to the final results, and she dares to make a three-year plan.

However, in order to let Zhao Yu know that this rice seed is not easy to come by, even if she obtains excellent hybrid rice seeds, she plans to hand them over before she dies. In the past three years, her task is water conservancy construction, as well as the construction of ecological recycling breeding system. After she used these to increase the existing grain production, and made Zhao Yu and the court fully realize the benefits of water conservancy construction and ecological recycling breeding system, she handed over high-yield hybrid rice seeds.

Yao Shuqi reported on the situation of the field, and then talked about the house: "The house is a good house, and the price is not expensive, but it is far away from the yamen, and you need a meal if you walk." ”

"It doesn't matter." Du Jinning said, "I rarely go to the Yamen, and I spend most of my time in the fields. ”

While they were talking, the group had arrived at the gate of the city. Du Jinning took the road guide and the official documents to the officers and soldiers guarding the city, and the captain there hurriedly saluted Du Jinning and waved his hand to let the soldiers go immediately.

When Du Jinning led his family into the city gate, a small soldier whispered to the captain: "Strange, since you are a fellow acquaintance, why don't you see anyone waiting here?" ”

The captain glared at him: "Guard your city gate, I can't control these things, it's your turn?" "There has always been a clear distinction between civilian officials and military attachés.

The soldier didn't dare to speak again, stuck out his tongue, and hurried to guard the door.

Du Jinning also discovered this situation early. It's just that when she entered the city just now, there were a lot of people, and she didn't want to ask Yao Shuqi.

Now that she entered the city and kept walking inside, she saw that there was no one around, so she asked, "Have you informed Lord Zhizhou about my visit to Runzhou today?" ”

"Informed." Yao Shuqi said, "When I received the news yesterday, I hurriedly went to the yamen, handed the post in, and told the messenger about your visit to Runzhou today. The messenger went in with the post, and when he came out, he said that the governor was busy, so he would not come out to receive me; He already knows about your visit to Runzhou. ”

Du Jinning's brows furrowed.

She is from the sixth rank of Tongzhi, and the official rank in this state is second only to the Zhizhou from the fifth grade, and she is also from the Jingli Hanlin Academy. It stands to reason that yesterday Yao Shuqi went to inform him that no matter how Zhizhou was, he should send someone like a master to receive him, and he should not directly let the messenger say "I know" and send him away; Even if he doesn't come to greet him today, he should send his master to greet him. Officials at the same level as her, judges and officials with lower ranks than her should come here to greet her.

However, except for Yao Shuqi at the city gate, there was no one in half of the yamen.

"This Cao Hongshou has a grudge against me?" She asked.

If Yao Shuqi didn't know to inquire about such a thing, it would be in vain to stay by her side for so many years.

Yao Shuqi secretly congratulated himself on doing his homework, and said: "I sent someone to check it out, and found out that he was Jing is the brother-in-law of the director of the Ministry of Works. ”

“……”

It's a small world. At the same time, it also interprets the sentence: the road is narrow.

The two were talking next to Chen's carriage, and Chen was worried, and couldn't help but lift the curtain and ask Du Jinning: "That Chen has a grudge against you?" Isn't he blocking you when you're doing things here? ”

Du Jinning laughed and explained to Chen: "This Chen is my teacher's opponent, and later the teacher was promoted because of me, but he was belittled, so it is certain that he has a grudge against me." But don't worry, don't talk about Zhizhou, it's the prefect and the governor, if you dare to obstruct my research on rice seeds, the emperor will let them go to class without saying a word. ”

Chen didn't understand anything about the court, and Yao Shuqi also vaguely knew something. As for the word "out of class", they couldn't understand it. However, they have great confidence in Du Jinning. Hearing Du Jinning say this, knowing that the Buddha would block and kill the Buddha, everyone put their hearts back in their stomachs.