"You planted these?" Chenguang asked curiously.

The young man was startled and at a loss, and the young man who had embarrassed him earlier had already been frightened away when he saw the morning light approaching.

When the young man standing behind the stall saw that Chenguang had brought many guards, he guessed that this should be His Royal Highness the Phoenix Lord of the Phoenix Underworld, and he calmed down, and replied politely:

"It was planted by grass people."

"You're a peasant?"

"No, the grass people are engaged in the trade of leather goods." The young man was a little restrained in his answer, and his eyes wandered around, but he didn't dare to fall on her.

It's really a child of a merchant's family.

"What's your name?" Chenguang stared at the big melon in front of him and asked with a smile.

"The grass people's surname is Chai, and their name is Shao'an."

Chenguang nodded, and picked up the gourd on the stall, the long gourd, emerald green, delicate and pleasing.

"This melon is so big! How did you grow it? Chenguang asked with interest.

Chai Shaoan hesitated for a moment and replied softly: "It is a gourd that grows out of ten gourd seedlings connected into a vine." ”

Chenguang was stunned, she didn't know how to plant, she was confused when she heard it, thought about it carefully, understood it literally, and continued to ask:

"Is it to use ten melons to join together to form a big melon?"

It can be understood in this way, although the meaning is a little biased, Chai Shaoan also understands how the phoenix lord of a country can understand farming, so he nodded and replied:

"That's probably what it means."

Chenguang tilted his head and thought for a while, and suddenly became excited: "Can rice also be turned into big rice?" ”

"No, Your Highness, it can only be used on melons and fruits with vines."

When Chenguang heard this, he was a little disappointed.

Chai Shao'an thought for a while, picked up a verdant gourd, and asked, "Your Highness, do you want to taste it?" ”

The morning light was slightly stunned, and looked straight at the gourd.

Chai Shaoan regretted it after finishing speaking, how could His Royal Highness the Venerable Lord Feng gnaw a gourd in front of the public, he began to break out in a cold sweat, and he was more and more overwhelmed than just now. At this moment, he listened to Chenguang and asked happily:

"Can I eat it?"

Her eyes were sparkling, brighter than the sun in the sky.

Chai Shao'an was taken aback by her happy expression, nodded his head, peeled off the gourd with a knife, and handed it to Chenguang.

The morning light took it and bit down on the tender flesh, slightly sweet, the moisture was just right, much softer than the ordinary gourd, delicate and tender, light and refreshing. It doesn't make it unpalatable because it's bigger than the usual gourd, but it's more delicious than the regular gourd.

"It's delicious." Chenguang puffed out his cheeks and chewed and chewed, and after swallowing, he happily bent his eyebrows and said to Chai Shaoan.

Chai Shaoan was complimented, but he didn't expect that the first person to praise him was His Royal Highness the Phoenix Lord, who had only heard his name and had never seen him, he was stunned for a moment and smiled shyly.

Chenguang propped his hands on his stall and asked with interest: "You are a merchant's son, why do you want to grow melons if you don't do business?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, instead of doing business, the grass people prefer to cultivate the fields to grow vegetables and fruits, grow delicious vegetables and fruits, and grow delicious rice, maybe the grass people's ideas are too rampant, but the grass people really feel that the rice and vegetables and fruits in Cangqiu Country are too unpalatable."

Chenguang looked at him, burst out laughing, and after a pause, she asked:

"You'll still grow delicious rice?"

Because she had just praised him, Chai Shaoan was also rarely in a high mood, as if he was in a hurry to offer treasures, he opened the lid of the bamboo steamer on the stove built next to him, and there was actually fragrant steamed rice inside. The grains in steamed rice look fuller and more tender than normal rice, and the sweet aroma is very tempting.

Chai Shaoan hesitated, although he didn't know if she would dislike it, but he still had the courage to take a small porcelain bowl, put a spoonful of steamed rice, and handed the spoon to Chenguang.

Chenguang really didn't dislike it, so he took it excitedly, stood in front of the stall, scooped up a mouthful of steamed rice with a spoon, and couldn't wait to put it in his mouth and chew it carefully.

This rice is sweeter, more glutinous, and a little sticky than the rice you usually eat, but it is not a lump of paste, and it is also distinct after it reaches the mouth, and there is an illusion that it is about to melt.

Chenguang likes sweet and silky things the most, she has traveled around the world, and has eaten a lot of rice, the rough taste, the fine taste, only this bowl of rice she tastes just right. Sweet but not greasy, fine but not chymy, people want to taste it carefully, and tempting to eat it in one go.

"Delicious!" She opened a pair of big round eyes, and said indistinctly, those big eyes were shining, as if they contained the most clear and beautiful spring water.

Chai Shaoan was praised again, was very happy, and laughed.

Chenguang finished eating the remaining rice, thought for a moment, and asked Chai Shao'an: "This rice is better than all the ones I have eaten, has it been planted in Cangqiu Country?" ”

When Chai Shao'an heard this, his eyes dimmed: "Cangqiu Country has its own Daohe Yamen, I am from a merchant family, and my father hopes that I can manage my accounts and do business, and I am not allowed to do this." ”

"Then why did you bring the rice to the Peony Fair?"

"I heard that Your Majesty will be here today, so I asked a friend to find a place for me, I thought that I could be seen by Your Majesty, but this corner is really not good." Chai Shaoan smiled bitterly, he was very shy, probably because he liked to farm, he often faced the field, his temperament was not cheerful, to be precise, wooden and closed, the rhythm of his speech was very chaotic, and he often bit his tongue.

"Sometimes you need to nominate yourself, if you really want to do it." Chenguang said.

Chai Shaoan lowered his head and did not respond.

Without courage and perseverance, this is no different from not giving up.

Chenguang thought for a moment and asked, "Since you are so good at growing rice, do you know how to increase rice yield?" ”

Chai Shaoan was stunned and replied: "I heard that the newly planted rice in Daohe Yamen has increased the yield by two percent compared with the rice of the old year, and I have thought about it carefully after hearing about it, but I have not tried it, and I am not sure." ”

"We don't have much rain in Fengming Country, and there are few rivers, although we are also growing rice, but we don't have enough to eat every year." Chenguang said worriedly.

Chai Shaoan didn't understand her intention to say this, thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and replied according to the meaning of her guess:

"There is not much rain and there are few rivers, so you can try to dig wells to divert groundwater to irrigate the farmland."

Chenguang was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise: "Can well water also be introduced into the field?" "She really doesn't know anything about farming, and there are basically no wells where she lives, and it's great that she can know what well water is when she gets out of the desert.

"Yes, the western part of Cangqiu Country is full of high mountains, and there is very little river water on the flat land, and when I used to pass there with my father selling goods, I saw that the locals were digging the ground to bring out the water from the ground to irrigate the fields, or to bring down the spring water from the mountains to irrigate the fields. In this way, it is much cheaper and simpler to find water around the fields than to renovate a river. If not, you can also try to plant upland rice, as long as the rain is stable in the summer, it should be successful. ”