"Your Majesty, all the corn has been picked." Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, Xirui's long-awaited savior arrived first.

Kangxi and Xirui immediately looked in the direction of the voice.

I saw Wuwu coming forward and talking.

Looking from the direction he turned sideways, he could just see a large field of corn stalks that were trampled to the ground, and the corn berries that were gradually being packed into baskets.

"Your Majesty, please tell me where should these corn kernels be stored?" The imperial kitchen probably couldn't use so many corn kernels at once. Wu Wu didn't dare to make a decision on his own and could only come and ask for instructions.

"Hmph~" Kangxi snorted coldly. There was no need to find a place to store these corn berries.

I wonder how many people inside and outside the palace are thinking about them.

Kangxi was furious just thinking about it, but he had to step in to solve the problem. "Liang Jiugong, send these corn kernels out of the palace, and ask the ministers to taste them together. They are the fruits of the hard work of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

There was a slight hint of gnashing of teeth in these words, but it made everyone around hold their breath, and they were so terrified that they wished they could curl themselves up into a ball.

"I obey your command." Liang Jiugong did as he was told and called the group of guards who wished they could disappear on the spot immediately to come forward and carry away the baskets of corn berries.

"Your servants will take their leave first." There was no room for error in distributing things out of the palace. Liang Jiugong was unwilling to leave it to his subordinates, so he had to go and watch over it himself.

Kangxi closed his eyes slightly, indicating that they should leave quickly.

Liang Jiugong did not dare to delay, and led most of the people present and the remaining baskets of corn and left.

Xirui was left alone to continue facing this increasingly suffocating scene.

[What the hell are you trying to do? Do you want to beat me or punish me? Can't you just give me a straight answer? What's the point of scaring a child like this?] Xirui, who couldn't stand this atmosphere, started to protest first.

[If it really doesn't work, Father Huang, can you let me sit aside for a while?] As long as she is not implicated, she will not care how long the stalemate between you two continues.

Xirui said as she shook her arms, trying to bring Kangxi back to consciousness.

The hint of provocation in the words can also be regarded as a move of retreating to advance.

Kangxi regained his senses, his anger gradually subsided, and the hand that was holding Xirui's arm slowly loosened its grip.

"Tell me, what exactly do you want to do by spreading the news of good seeds throughout the capital before I even return?" Kangxi asked again after he felt much more relaxed.

Yinreng was overjoyed when he heard this, as he felt that the emperor's words were no longer as cold and hard as before.

This left him room for explanation.

"My Lord, the trial planting of the improved varieties went smoothly. I was just too happy for a moment and lost my composure." He thought the development of the situation was completely under his control.

Yinreng then boldly explained in a sincere manner according to the explanation he had prepared in advance, "Besides, before leaving Beijing, the Emperor did not say that this matter must not be spread, so I am thinking..."

"I didn't make it clear that this matter should not be spread to outsiders, but you can't wait to let everyone outside know that it is you, the prince of the Qing Dynasty, who grew the magical thing that can save the people from starvation, right?" He never expected that the prince would dare to use the loophole in his words to shut him up.

Kangxi became increasingly angry.

As soon as he let go of Xirui's arm, he raised his hand and pointed at Yinreng.

"You...you rebellious son!" His anger surged, causing his fingers to tremble slightly uncontrollably.

"In your eyes, do you still have me, your father?" Kangxi seemed a little disappointed and sad at this moment, making people dare not look directly at him.

When the emperor is angry, corpses will float for thousands of miles.

For a moment, everyone under the majesty of the emperor knelt on the ground, shouting, "Your Majesty, please calm down."

The imperial guards and palace servants knocked their heads hard on the ground, not daring to look up or listen to a word.

What's worse, the body lying on the ground was shaking like a sieve, and he wished he could bury his head in the ground to avoid the emperor's wrath.

Xirui looked around and was a little hesitant about whether she should kneel down as well.

I shouldn't kneel down, something seems a little wrong.

But if she had to kneel, she didn't know how long she would have to kneel, and she felt sorry for her knees.

The land that was newly reclaimed for the purpose of trial planting improved varieties has the most abundant supplies of small gravel.

She just came along to solve the problem, not to cause trouble.

"Father, please calm down. How about we first..." Let's go back to the Qianqing Palace first.

At least the ground over there is smoother.

Xirui suggested in a low voice.

At this point, she couldn't help but feel a slight regret in her heart.

She shouldn't have brought this place to settle the score.

It's really hard and I have to suffer as well.

"No need to say more." Kangxi did not notice what Xirui was thinking beside him. He just raised his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet.

Xirui was smart enough to shut her mouth.

Then, in order to make himself less conspicuous, he sat down on a relatively flat ground at his feet.

Successfully eliminated the gap between myself and the people around me.

Perfectly hiding himself in the crowd.

Now when Xirui watched the father and son on the field again, he felt much more at ease.

"Let me ask you one last question. Is there someone behind the scenes instigating you to spread the news about the good seeds?" Kangxi asked in a serious tone.

In fact, he could already guess about 70% of the truth of the matter.

It's just that he didn't want to believe it, or maybe he still had some hope, and wanted to ask Yinreng in person and give him one last chance to explain.

Unfortunately, sometimes people’s thoughts cannot be completely shared.

Kangxi's words had a completely different meaning to Yinreng.

"My Lord, no one instigated this matter behind my back, and I really have no intention of spreading the matter of the good seed." Yinreng knew very well who the so-called instigator Kangxi was referring to.

Naturally, it is impossible to agree to this.

Under Gelfin's nervous gaze, he continued, "It's just that you are not in the palace. After the trial planting of the improved seeds was successful, I was happy, but I had no one to share this joy with me. That's why I thought of my cousin outside the palace."

"Who would have thought that the aroma of this good variety after being roasted would be so overbearing that it would float out all at once, and that's why..." Yinreng's voice became more and more hurried, but he still intended to insist that he did not do it on purpose.

He was certain that there would be no definite evidence to prove that he had planned this for a long time.


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