"Meng Jin—"

"Meng Jin—"

While the two were talking, Li Zheng's angry voice sounded behind the two.

Xu Yin turned her head to look, the man in official uniform who was accompanying Li Zheng couldn't be the newly arrived county magistrate, right?

She guessed correctly, the person who came was Chen Zhanpeng, who filled the vacancy in the county order of Qinghe County.

He is a member of the Four Princes' faction.

Zhou Zhihai's presentation made His Majesty's Sacred Heart happy, and immediately transferred him to Pingzhou Mansion, which is not far from the capital and occupies a favorable terrain for both offense and defense, and let him serve as the prefect, show his strength to develop farming, and stock up enough grain and grass for the military department.

When the other princes saw that Zhou Zhihai had fallen into His Majesty's blue eyes, they were racking their brains to win him over, but the four princes sent someone to carefully investigate Zhou Zhihai, and found that the so-called manure method that can increase the yield per mu by more than one stone was not summed up by Zhou Zhihai from inspecting the cultivation of farmers in his jurisdiction, but learned from a small mountain village called Dawa Village.

The four princes immediately used their connections to transfer Chen Zhanpeng to Qinghe County.

As soon as Chen Zhanpeng took office, he came to Dawa Village to inspect it.

Sure enough, Dawa Village was the first to use the new manure method.

Other villages in Qinghe County have learned to use this method one after another, and Dawa Village has already eaten new grain to increase production.

After some inquiry, I found that the source of this method was actually from the hand of a peasant woman who could not read a single word.

This gave Chen Zhanpeng a headache, and the fourth prince asked him to win over the other party, but the other party was not a man, but a peasant woman, which ......

Li Zheng didn't know that Chen County Ling was distressed in his heart, so he enthusiastically introduced the county commander to Meng Jin and his family, and finally asked: "The state doctor said that Meng Jin's leg is fine?" Now Meng Jin's daughter-in-law, can you rest assured? I heard Dawang say that Meng Jin came back with a bag of lotus roots, and he planned to plant it in the lake? ”

Chen Xianling was surprised and asked, "Lotus Festival?" But the roots of the lotus? ”

Xu Yin: "Back to my lord, yes!" ”

Chen Xianling was shocked.

I didn't expect that in such a small place as the countryside, there were people who bought lotus root from the state capital all the way back to plant in order to reward the lotus, and they were still peasant women who couldn't read a single word.

It seems that this peasant woman is indeed not ordinary, and it is no wonder that she can figure out a way to increase the yield of the field.

Li Zheng is more concerned about whether he can grow alive, after all, he has never heard of anyone planting lotus root in the local area before.

"It should work." Xu Yin moved out the rhetoric that she had thought of a long time ago, "There are people in the state capital, and they grow quite well, and we think that since the state capital can grow live, we may be able to do it here." Wouldn't it be another kind of full-stomached food to be sown and lived? ”

"Can lotus root still be full?"

Chen Xianling and Li Zheng spoke in unison.

“……”

Xu Yin's innocent face: "Can't you?" When the women saw that this lotus root was cooked, it tasted a bit like taro, tender and crispy, old powder, so if it was dried and ground into powder, it could be used as a staple food? ”

“……”

Can it be inferred like this?

"I wonder if this official is lucky enough to taste the taste of this fresh lotus root?"

Xu Yin: "......"

It's only fifty pounds in total, and my sister kept it for spring seeding.

"If it is really as you and your husband said, lotus root can be used as a vegetable in fresh food, and dried and ground flour can be used as food, this official will send someone to the state capital to buy a large number of lotus root seeds and give them to the two of them for planting."

“……”

Xu Yin instantly felt the pain of moving a stone to hit her instep.

No one in the state sells lotus root seeds.

Inevitably, Liu Yuanwai's seventh lady came to her to settle accounts, and hurriedly explained: "Back to my lord, the lotus root seeds of the people's women were not bought, but they helped a small favor from a member of the state government, and he gave them to my family." If you want to buy in bulk, the women think that they still have to go to Jiangnan. Jiangnan is rich in water chestnut and mushrooms, if adults are interested, they can also bring some seeds back and hand them over to the women to plant together. ”

“……”

Chen County Ling inexplicably felt that he was a little aggrieved as a county magistrate, why was he led away by a peasant woman?

However, he kept in mind the instructions of the four princes, and now that he has a good opportunity to win over the other party, what are he hesitating about? gladly obliged.

Xu Yin asked Comrade Xiao Jin to take them home first, and she caught some fish and shrimp.

You can't just use lotus root to entertain the prefectural order, right?

Chen Xianling ate a meal of farmhouse dishes with lotus root as the protagonist and river fresh as the decoration at Xu Yin's house, and immediately said that he would send someone to Jiangnan to purchase lotus root seeds when he went back, and he would purchase them and give them to Xu Yin and his family to plant.

But he has one condition: when the lotus root is ripe and ground into powder, can you give him some? And teach him how to make a few lotus root noodles?

Xu Yin agreed to this small request made by Chen, the sponsor, and the county order who sent it to the door, and it was quite refreshing: "Of course you can." ”

In this way, Xu Yin developed 20 acres of lakes and ponds into ecological lotus ponds-

Fish and shrimp are raised in the deeper waters of the center of the lake;

The shallow water area around is planted with lotus root, lotus root, water chestnut and mushroom;

The onshore wetland is divided into several large blocks, which are planted with rice, corn, taro and callus;

Next to the lake embankment, build a four-corner pavilion fishing platform;

Wild flowers and grasses such as reeds, calamus, wormwood, and canna are still preserved, and the neat beauty of artificial cultivation and the wild beauty of natural scenery contrast with each other, constituting this picturesque picture of the pastoral scenery of lotus ponds.

Cui Mengjin wrote a few words in his spare time, sat in the south hall room, carved and polished, and finally colored, and made a plaque for Diaoyutai.

Xu Yin thought that he had a good name, and after a closer look, she couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth, fortunately it was not called "Quyuan Wind Lotus", otherwise she would have suspected that this was the predecessor of West Lake.

In the spring of the following year, the lotus leaves in the lotus pond and the lake are green and clear.

The newly-born ducklings, led by their mother ducks, swim freely on the surface of the lake, and from time to time they bow their heads and peck at small fish and shrimp.

Li Zheng is more worried about her family's lotus root planting than Xu Yin, and comes to her family's lotus pond every once in a while.

Seeing the green and fresh lotus leaves, stretched on the surface of the lake, he breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that it has survived!" ”

He's really sweating.

Meng Jin and his family had no heart and lungs, and the county commander sent someone to buy lotus root seeds from Jiangnan and give them them, but they really accepted them without giving money, and they were not afraid that they would not be able to plant them.

How can the gift of the county magistrate be so easy to receive, if one does not come out, it will not be finished?

Not only will Meng Jin and his family be held accountable, but the entire Dawa Village will have to be eaten.

Luckily, it was planted!

Li Zheng stroked his chest, which had been stuffy for several days, and let out a long breath of turbidity.

"Meng Jin's daughter-in-law, ......"

As soon as she opened her mouth to persuade her not to act so recklessly in the future, she had to leave a way back for herself, so she heard Xu Yin say: "Li Zheng, you can take this basket of horseshoes back to eat." ”

Li Zheng subconsciously took the basket she handed over, and looked down: "Hey, where did you dig this horse's hoof?" It's so big! ”

"I didn't dig it in the wild, I planted it myself."

When cleaning the lake pond last year, several litters of wild horse hooves were found, and while Comrade Xiao Jin was not paying attention, they were replaced with Lipu horse hooves in the system warehouse, with little slag and thin skin and more juice.

(End of chapter)