Yuan Rui has been very comfortable during this time, in fact, this kind of life is what he has been longing for, and being an official and making money is not what he really needs in his heart.

He thought very simply, just live his little life comfortably.

Just like now, he is a young master who is more young than the young master, either he walks around with the river to raise the fetus, or he practices swordsmanship with the county lord, or he chats with his two mothers-in-law, don't mention that little day, don't be too comfortable.

If there is a little annoyance, it is that the county lord is a little abrasive now, and what she is particularly concerned about is that Xiaohe is pregnant before her.

It's not anything else, it's just pure awkwardness in the heart, a woman's comparison heart.

So during this time, Xiaohe's fetal recuperation just provided an opportunity for the county lord, she doesn't care what others think, the key is to have a child, besides, this child is different, surnamed Yuan!

At the end of June, with the harvest of early season rice, the harvest of Xujia Yangzhou and Beijing has been calculated, and the average yield per mu is 530 catties, which is a very good harvest, which is one or five times higher than the original normal yield per mu.

Yuan Rui also got the yield per mu in Hangzhou, with an average of only a little more than 480 yuan, and this harvest was actually a bit unexpected for Yuan Rui.

According to his thoughts, Hangzhou is higher than Yangzhou and Beijing, but the result is the opposite, and he didn't understand the reason.

Now the late season rice has been ready to be planted, this is the thing that Yuan Rui is most concerned about, only the success of the late season rice, can it be shown that in the Beijing, Yangzhou, Hangzhou this large triangle double cropping rice has complete planting conditions.

Yuan Rui also did one thing, that is, let Dashan take people to prepare the potato seedlings first, which is also a big deal.

He wants to have so many seeds after the late rice harvest is completed. He had already arranged in advance, and had prepared large areas of land on dry fields and slopes that were not suitable for rice cultivation, and as soon as the time for preparation came, he began to plant potato seedlings on a large scale.

It's still a pity that Yuan Rui is not very familiar with potatoes and doesn't know how to improve the yield.

The potatoes he experimented with were large and small, and some of the potatoes were only the size of Damu's fingers, which made Yuan Rui cry and laugh.

But he didn't have a good way, so he could only try it over and over again, picking and picking seeds, and trying and trying fertilizers.

Scholar Meng sent someone in the capital, but it was because he got the news from the capital, telling him that his baby daughter was pregnant, and the Meng family had a future, so he let people buy a lot of things and send them to Hangzhou.

Of course, along with the things came a handwritten letter, which mainly talked about some miscellaneous family affairs, but at the end of the lesson Yuan Rui a few words, what loyalty, for the people, filial piety, integrity, etc., let him do more things in a down-to-earth manner, and share more worries for the saints.

Yuan Rui thought about it for a long time, and didn't seem to understand what Scholar Meng meant, it was very strange, at this time, it didn't make sense to teach himself!

is still the county lord smart, and immediately contacted a few recent events, and understood what Scholar Meng meant, this is to point Yuan Rui.

For this matter, the county lord and Mrs. Xu deliberately took a moment to talk to Yuan Rui for a long time. This shows the gap.

Yuan Rui, whether in his previous life or in the past few years, is almost isolated from officials, and he doesn't understand the living environment of officialdom at all, let alone being an official, even if he doesn't have many opportunities to watch others become officials.

In the past few years, it seems that he has been doing things, but he is actually doing most of his work, and he doesn't need to think about how to be an official, especially how to do it well.

Yuan Rui then had one more thing, the county lord didn't know where to get a basket of files, there were everything, he would take a look at it if he was okay, and kept asking him some of these questions and coping ideas.

This leisurely day was broken one day in late July, when not only the Hangzhou general Fang Yan, but also Hu Honghai and the Hangzhou prefect Ma Lin brought bad news that three ships had been hijacked in the Nanhai of Ningbo.

It was not until this time that these few people knew that there was a sea bandit in Ningbo, who had been looting near Ningbo for several years, and a month ago they took advantage of the storm to occupy Ninghai City and loot a large amount of property.

Yuan Rui looked at the three of them helplessly, "It's not that I shirk it, I really can't do anything about the bandits, I can't do anything to fight, you know that I can't do it, let alone go to the sea to suppress the bandits, applying for reinforcements from the court is the right way." ”

"Childe, I won't tell you anything, we also came here for another reason."

The prefect of Hangzhou can only speak first, and he is a small official here, so he will become the biggest scapegoat this time.

"The pirates over there sent some soldiers and shipwrights back, and brought a letter directly to the head of the sea trade, they hoped that the court would send someone to negotiate, and promised to consider returning the ship intact."

When Yuan Rui heard this, he was stunned, after so many years, he really hadn't heard of this, and the looted property could be returned!

"My lord, what do you want from the bandits?" Yuan Rui understood what Ma Zhifu meant, if the negotiation was good and the ship wanted to come back without loss, then this matter could be brought over gently, and the court's blame would not be so big.

"No, the bandits just invited people to talk about this matter, and one more thing, Childe was mentioned over there."

The prefect glanced at the other two and paused slightly.

"Brother, that's right, the condition proposed over there is that you, the person from the court, will lead this matter, otherwise we won't talk about it."

Hu Honghai is not afraid of being responsible, the robbery of ships by sea bandits really has little to do with him, but it would be better if it could be solved now.

"It should be, Childe's dismissal was in front of him, and they didn't know about it at the time, so they directly approached you."

Yuan Rui scolded several times in his heart, these stupid thieves, they didn't run away after grabbing things, they still wanted to talk, what to talk about! I've been dismissed, and I'm still looking for me, such a dangerous situation, let me go, that's not looking for death!

"Adults, you see, I have been dismissed, I will not be involved in this matter, besides, I can't do this thing!"

"Childe, the other party said very clearly, either a few important ministers of the court will come forward, or you will come forward, and it is really not convenient for us to tell the court in this situation, so we can only implore you to come forward, otherwise this matter will not be good!" Fang Yan also spoke.

Yuan Rui looked at a few people and thought for a moment, "You guys wait a minute, I'll go and discuss it with the county lord." ”

After listening to this, although he was also a little confused, he still felt that he might as well listen to it and say, no matter what, Fang Yan's face should be given, and Hu Honghai's affairs should be taken care of, of course, Yuan Rui could not come forward in person, and it was still possible to send someone from the county lord.

When he returned to the house, he discussed with a few more people, and asked a guard from the county lord's mansion to take Yuan Rui's personal seal and follow the head of the Hangzhou Mansion who went to negotiate with him, and go to the bandits to find out the news first.

Yuan Rui didn't ask about other things, they were all arranged by Fang Yan and Governor Ma, and the location of the meeting was also chosen by the other party. It was only when the guards came back that Yuan Rui knew that this meeting was just a temptation.

This time, the guards came back with a letter, naming him, and at the same time, in order to show their sincerity, they put all the shipwrights and soldiers back, and agreed that if Yuan Rui was willing to come out for an interview, he could make an appointment somewhere in Hangzhou directly.

Yuan Rui was even more confused now, he shouldn't be so famous, how could he even be willing to contact him with the newly gathered pirates, it didn't make sense!

But this matter is already like this, I can't help but retreat, and besides, I am in Hangzhou City, and I am not afraid of what tricks the bandits will play.

The county lord will definitely follow, go to other places, the county lord will definitely not allow it, in Hangzhou, it is quite safe, plus the personal guards of the county lord's mansion, it is expected that these bandits will not be able to play any tricks.

Besides, they don't know what they are going to do, so they won't spend so much effort to deal with Yuan Rui, so relatively speaking, the danger is not great.

Yuan Rui originally thought that the other party would be very careful to hide his whereabouts and find a place that was very conducive to escaping to meet.

But on the contrary, according to what was said in advance, when he arrived at an inn and identified himself with a businessman, the other party directly gave an address to Yuan Rui, and in a private house not far from the side, the representative of the bandits was waiting for him.

When they arrived at the door of the private house, the two family members opened the door, and it was a small courtyard, and there was a scholar standing in front of the main house, and there was a scholar on the side, and the doors of the other rooms were all open, as if everything was open.

The county lord didn't care about this, and motioned for his soldiers to go in and see if anyone was hiding inside.

After a while, the soldiers came to tell me that all the places were searched, and they were very small, and they were very simple, there were no dark rooms or anything like that, and there was no one else.