"I think I haven't been talking to Brother Xiaoyong lately, you're idle." Wei Ruo said with a smile.

"Miss, you are not allowed to bury me, I don't like to quarrel with him, I don't want to see him, annoying." Xiumei said in disgust.

"Then aren't you going to Sibaozhai with me today? If you go, you'll see Brother Xiao Yong. Speaking of which, Brother Xiao Yong doesn't know how long it will take for him to return to the barracks this time." Wei Ruo said deliberately.

"Of course I want to go with Miss, but I'm not here to see him, I'm trying to protect Miss you, and it's not very peaceful outside now, so I don't worry about Miss you're running outside alone." Xiumei explained.

"Okay, okay, you're for me, Mei Mei knows that she feels sorry for me the most!" Wei Ruo said with a smile.

Xiumei's face was slightly red: "I won't tell Miss, I'll go eat snacks and eat on the way out in a while!"

Wei Ruo smiled, he didn't debunk it, anyway, the distance they went to Sibaozhai was very close, and they didn't need to eat anything, and most of the snacks they made were going to enter Brother Xiaoyong's Five Organs Temple.

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Just after the Dragon Boat Festival, it was a hot day, but I didn't want a sudden wave of cooling to catch everyone off guard.

The temperature plummeted for several days, and there was hoarfrost in some mountainous areas, which was very rare in previous years.

Although there is a saying in Jiangsu and Zhejiang that you have to freeze three times after eating the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, it will not be so cold that there will be frost again.

This sudden drop in temperature caused damage to crops, and many growing crops froze to death.

Wei Ruo's rice seeds are already considered to be relatively resistant to cold, and the losses are not so great, and it is said that the rice fields in some places are directly wiped out.

Those farmers who planted Wei Ruo's late rice seeds were a blessing in disguise, and the losses were relatively not so heavy.

Wei Ruo's Zhuangzi was naturally also affected by some of the seedlings raised in advance, and some of the seedlings raised in advance were lost.

Fortunately, before the Dragon Boat Festival, all the wheat in Wei Ruo's fields had been harvested, and the land began a new round of renovation, which was not affected by this wave of cold waves.

After counting, the remaining steward found that the remaining seedlings were not enough to plant the fields vacated after harvesting the wheat, so he sent someone to send a letter to Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo, who received the letter, sneaked to Zhuangzi to check the situation,

The remaining steward asked Wei Ruo for instructions on how to deal with the situation in front of him.

"Miss, what are we going to do now, the seedlings should not be planted, is it too late to raise seedlings now?" Steward Yu frowned, very worried.

"How many seedlings can be planted?" Wei Ruo asked.

"About eighty percent of the fields can be planted, and the remaining two percent are empty." Steward Yu replied.

"Eighty percent of the land is planted with rice seedlings, and the remaining two percent are kept, so there is no need to rush or prepare new seedlings, I plan to plant taro in a few days." Wei Ruodao.

"Taro?" Steward Yu looked at Wei Ruo in some surprise.

"Well, taro, I believe Steward Yu has also eaten taro."

"That's naturally eaten, and there are people in this state capital who grow it, but the year has not been good these years, everyone can grow rice, and there are fewer people who grow taro." Steward Yu replied.

When there is enough rice and noodles to eat, everyone will want to eat more other fruits and vegetables, or some fields are not in good conditions, so they will plant others. ….

Although taro can also fill the stomach, the overall yield is somewhat unable to keep up.

"Just plant taro." Wei Ruo's attitude was clear.

"Okay, then listen to Miss, I'll have someone go and change the two percent of the paddy fields into dry land." Steward Yu responded.

"There is no need to change it, what I want to plant is taro, not dry taro, and the fields must be filled with water." Wei Ruo explained.

"Taran?" Steward Yu looked surprised.

"Well, planted in water." Wei Ruodao.

Wei Ruo knew that the taro planted in Taizhou Mansion in the past was dry taro, planted on dry land, with large petioles and small taro, average taste, and unimpressive yield.

But Wei Ruo wants to plant multi-head taro this time, the mother taro is large, the child taro is many, it is a sticky taro, with a good taste and high yield.

"Where do you find this taro?" Steward Yu asked.

"You don't have to worry about this, you have people plant the seedlings in the next few days, and the two percent of the paddy fields will be kept for me, and when the rice is planted, I will have people send taro seeds, and then plant taro."

Compared with rice, taro cultivation is not in a hurry.

Moreover, the taro seeds that Wei wanted to give to Steward Yu were the new seeds that had just been unlocked in her space, and she still needed to plant them in the space for a period of time, and she had enough seeds to plant two hundred acres of land.

"Okay, then I'll give the order." Steward Yu trusted Wei Ruo 100%, but as long as the decision made by their host, there would be no mistake.

Because there was no disguise today, Wei Ruo did not stay in Zhuangzi for a long time, and left after explaining the matter to Steward Yu.

On the way back, Xiumei asked Wei Ruo, "Miss, will planting two hundred acres of rice have a big impact on us?"

"Don't worry, it won't affect us much, first, we have a bumper wheat harvest this year, and the yield of wheat alone is enough for us to eat for two years; Second, it's not just because the seedlings are freezing to death, but even if the seedlings don't freeze to death, I'm thinking about setting aside some of the land to grow taro."

"Why?" Xiumei didn't quite understand, "That taro doesn't have rice to fill her stomach."

Wei Ruo explained to Xiumei: "Planting the same plant on a piece of land for a long time will lead to a lack of soil fertility, and although I ask the people in the village to top fertilize after each harvest, this practice is expensive and laborious."

"Alternating cropping is a very good way to improve soil fertility, taro and rice are just two crops that can form a complementary relationship, planting taro this year and rice next year will be more productive than planting rice all the time."

"And such a thing? That's great!" Xiumei said happily.

"And this taro is also very filling when it is planted, taro can also make a lot of delicacies, Meimei, you forgot, we used to make a lot of taro delicacies, and the taro varieties used at that time were not very good, you wait for my batch of taro to be planted, and it is guaranteed to be better than what we made before."

"Miss, don't talk about it, it's almost time for dinner, I'm already hungry, and my saliva is coming down when I hear you say taro."

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It was already dinner time for Wei Ruo to return to the school captain's mansion from Zhuangzi.

As soon as Wei Ruo entered the door, he was invited to Cangyun Yuan by Cuiping, who was waiting.

Wei Ruo also vaguely guessed the reason in his heart.

After entering the main house of Cangyun Garden, I saw the Yun family sitting on the Taishi chair facing the door with a frown, talking to Mama Li.

Wei Ruo stood next to him for a while after entering the door, and after the Yun family and Mama Li explained the matter, they asked Mama Li to step back, and then invited Wei Ruo to his side.

"Ruo'er, there are some things for my mother to trouble you."

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