Farmer’s Blessed Girl

The emperor jumped off the field and shouted back to him, "Old man, I'm here to look for relatives. I heard that Zhuangzi of the imperial physician Zhou's family is here?"

"Oh, are you here to find the owner?" The tenant farmer immediately greeted him enthusiastically and asked with a smile: "Where are you relatives from? Why don't you go to the capital?"

The emperor paused and said: "We came from Yongzhou to go to the capital, but occasionally I heard from my family that the Zhou family has a Zhuangzi here, so I thought of coming to visit relatives."

"That's it," the tenant farmer waved his scythe in a big circle and said with a big smile: "See, this large area is our employer's working field."

The emperor had already looked down at the rice at his feet. He held an ear of rice in his palm, and his heart was pounding: "Old man, your rice is growing well this year."

The tenant farmer who was about to enthusiastically guide them heard this, his attention was immediately diverted, and he nodded fiercely: "Isn't it true, this is the best harvest I have seen in my fifty years of life."

Yin Li, with sharp eyes, stepped into the rice field immediately, stretched out his hand and pulled a rice ear, "Your Majesty, Master, look!"

"Hey, why are you tearing at my rice?" The tenant farmer was anxious when he saw it. "This good ear of rice is to be kept as a seed. You can return it to me."

Yin Li glanced at the emperor and handed it to the tenant farmer with a smile, and said with a smile, "This is the first time we have seen such a long and full ear of rice. It was a novelty. Old man, how did you grow this rice? They are longer than ours, and they are heavy, and it looks like a great harvest."

The owner did not stop them from spreading rumors, and even told them that they could answer any questions they had. By the way, I would recommend their new rice seeds, so the tenant farmers didn’t stumble at all, just let it go. Talk about the new rice seed.

"...Speaking of this new rice seed, my mother-in-law is also credited with it."

"Oh? How do you say that?"

At this time, the emperor and Yin Li were already sitting in the field, right next to the rice plant. The rice plant was quite tall, barely blocking the sunlight on his face, but half of it was flushed.

The tenant farmer wanted to chat with them while cutting the rice, but seeing that they were all squatting and Yin Li took out a handful of copper coins, he also squatted down, stuffed the copper coins into his arms and said, "My daughter-in-law. Careful, she was invited by the owner to weed and insecticide the rice, isn't that her credit?"

The emperor couldn't help but smiled and asked, "I heard that the Zhou family has set up a number of experimental fields in Zhuangzi, which are specially used to cultivate grain seeds."

The tenant peasant glanced at the emperor and Yin Li suspiciously, and his tone was much slower, "The noble man has been here for so long, why don't you go to the boss?"

Yin Li smiled slightly and said, "Zhou Dalang should be in the field right now. Even if we go to Zhuangzi, we may not be able to see him. Didn't we happen to see this big harvest, so I couldn't help but ask?"

The tenant immediately asked, "What kind of relatives are your family and the owner?"

The emperor said with a straight face: "In-laws."

He said, "I have a daughter who is married to their uncle's cousin."

The tenant counted the relative relationship with his fingers, and it was not difficult for them to calculate, so he patted his thigh and said, "Oh, aren't those two sisters-in-law? They are relatives, indeed relatives."

The tenant farmer narrowed his eyes with laughter, so he didn't shy away from anything, got up, pointed to a yard in the distance and said, "Did you see that yard, that's our owner's yard, now Uncle Zhou must be in the field. I'm busy, but it's not far, and the field is not far behind the house."

Emperor: "Is the test field there too?"

"Here, that piece of land is now an experimental field." He said: "In the beginning, it was two or three acres of land. Later, there were more and more seeds to be tested, and more and more seeds were planted. Hehe, to be honest, before this year , We are also worried that in the future, the owner will use this piece of work field as a test field, and we will run out of fields to plant, but we didn’t expect the new seeds they tried out to be so good.”

The emperor stroked the ears of rice in front of him and asked affectionately, "This year's harvest is considered good, or is it bad?"

"It's just so-so. If you want to say the best, it has to be the experimental fields that Uncle Zhou and the others planted by themselves. Hey, it's a pity, those fields are almost recovered. It’s heavy, one ear can get three hundred grains of millet, and one rice plant has ten or fifteen ears, do you think it’s great?”

Anyway, in the end, they didn't count how many seeds a rice plant had.

Emperor: "Have you counted?"

"I've counted it, but it's not from us, it's from the positive mileage. Hehe, we can't count it, and neither can Uncle Zhou. Every time it reaches more than 100, it's messy. , stronger than me."

The emperor became curious, "How many can you count?"

"Eighty!" He was busy: "It's almost one hundred, but my little grandson is amazing, he can count to one hundred now."

Speaking of his little grandson, the tenant farmer couldn't sit still. He felt his sickle and asked, "Your Excellency, do you have anything else to ask? If you don't have me, the rice will be harvested. My family is harvesting rice in another field. It's time to come..."

If you come here and see that he doesn't move the sickle, he is bragging and chatting here...

The emperor turned his head and glanced at the yellow, orange, and heavy ears of rice, and got up with a smile, "Okay, let's go to the relatives, the old man will be busy first."

Yin Li helped the emperor on the road, "Your Majesty, the sun is too big, let's go to the Zhou family's Zhuangzi first."

The emperor nodded slightly and mounted his horse.

Zhou Dalang and Wu Wulang were cutting rice in the field, and when they heard the sound of hooves, they took time to look up.

Then he stayed for a while and got up immediately.

Although they did not know the emperor, they knew Yin Li!

Zhou Dalang hurriedly went up from the field, "Master Yin, why are you here? The sun is so big, hurry up, hurry up and sit in the house, the fifth, don't cut it, go back and boil the water."

Friday Lang responded and trotted to go up the field while wiping his sweat.

The emperor hurriedly said, "No, we are here to see the rice."

But Yin Li said: "Master, it's better to go inside and cool down, drink some water, your face is a little bad."

Zhou Dalang and Wu Wulang glanced at the emperor curiously, wondering why Yin Li called him Master.

When the emperor met their confused eyes, he smiled and responded, but before leaving, he pointed to the pile of rice that had just been cut down and said, "Take a handful and go back, I want to count how many seeds are on the ear. ."

The guard went down and hugged him.

Zhou Dalang and Wu Wulang didn't mind either, they just took them home in confusion.

There are two brothers living in this village now, and more often it is Zhou Dalang alone.

Zhou Dalang led them into the hall and asked Wuwu Lang to boil water, while he poured water for them with a teapot, and said, "This is the water that was boiled in the morning, it's cold now, if you don't mind, moisten it first. Mouth, I'll boil water for you to make tea for a while."

See you tomorrow, good night