Drive a RV and go farming in ancient times.

After seeing the guests off, Xu Huaiyi told his wife about this matter with a sad heart.

Gu Huanxi said without thinking, "Your master is right, let's just stay here."

Xu Huaiyi sighed and said depressedly, "I was hiding before because I had no backers and was afraid that if I stood out too much, I would be plotted against.

Now I have a certain status and I have several people to rely on, but I am afraid of being feared by the royal family, so I have to hide my life. What kind of life is this?"

Gu Huanxi said, "Don't be ungrateful for what you have. Our lives are the best. Although we have encountered many bad things, we have always escaped danger and have been blessed. And you, from an illiterate farmer, have become an uncle. If you are still not satisfied, haha..."

Xu Huaiyi muttered quietly, "What's the use of being an uncle? He still has to live in fear..."

No matter how unwilling he is, he has to do it. After all, he is not alone. He has a big family behind him. If he becomes so powerful that it threatens the ruler, can he still rebel?

After thinking it over, he came up with a hope for himself, "I still have to hurry up and push Xiaoyu to that position. As long as Xiaoyu becomes the emperor, we don't have to worry about this or be on guard against that, right? We can be a little freer, right? We can do whatever we want, no matter how capable we are, we don't have to worry about offending anyone."

Gu Huanxi said nothing when he heard this, but just gave him a look that showed he understood the situation himself.

Is there absolute freedom in this world?

They were grateful to Xiaoyu for raising him, and Xiaoyu was indeed kind and filial to them, but people's hearts always change. Who knows what the future will be like?

Besides, talking about love with an emperor is a joke.

Therefore, if you want to act recklessly relying on that little bit of favor, it is impossible.

Xu Huaiyi's face fell, and he looked depressed. He wailed, "If I had known earlier, I would not have become an Earl. This title is useless and only brings trouble. It's like a tight ring around my head."

It was a pity that he had planned so carefully before, thinking that being conferred a title would be a great thing that would bring honor to the family and provide honor to his wife and children, but it turned out to be a trap.

Seeing him like this, Gu Huanxi rolled her eyes and said, "If others hear you say this, they will definitely think you are being too hypocritical. How can a title be a problem? It is a popular commodity that everyone wants to fight for. Stop complaining!"

"But, with this title, we won't be able to do anything freely. How miserable will our life be?"

"What do you want to do? You have already used up most of the skills you have. What do you have left? You have enough money to spend in business. You have also produced high-yield wheat and corn. You have also experienced war and made contributions. As for being an official, you are a general of the fourth rank and a nobleman. Isn't that enough?"

Xu Huaiyi listened to his wife counting on her fingers, blinked, and said shamelessly, "It sounds like my life has really reached its peak. There is really no need to continue to struggle. We are not planning to rebel, so... can I just lie down, eat, drink, and enjoy life in the future?"

Gu Huanxi looked at him steadily, "Do you have any other goals?"

Of course he has a goal. Xu Huaiyi wants to go to the battlefield, either to quell a rebellion or to drive out the Tartars in the north. Anyway, he likes the thrill of galloping across the battlefield, the excitement of having his blood boiling and being high-spirited. He feels like he is tempted to return to his youth.

But he didn't dare say it, because if he did, his wife would be furious.

He shook his head. "I don't have any big goals anymore. The goals I set before have basically been achieved. Now I just want to take good care of you and the child and live a stable life. When our daughter grows up, we can find a son-in-law and we can stay at home to play with our grandchildren."

Gu Huanxi smiled, "Don't you think this kind of life is boring?"

Xu Huaiyi looked innocent and sincere, "How could that be? A simple life is a blessing. You have to be alive to enjoy the ups and downs of life, right?"

Gu Huanxi said, "It's good that you understand. Don't take advantage of our RV and some worldly experience from our previous lives to be so arrogant. People in this era are not stupid at all. On the contrary, they are much smarter and more capable than us. If they play tricks on us, we are no match for them. So don't underestimate them. It's easy to fail..."

Xu Huaiyi argued, "I didn't underestimate it..."

Gu Huanxi ignored him and continued, "You see, Meng Yao should have been alert. She relied on her rebirth to act recklessly and flaunt her sense of superiority of having lived a second life. But what was the result? She had the strongest support from Emperor Jianxing, but she still ended up with nothing left."

Xu Huaiyi laughed dryly, "Wife, wasn't her fate caused by me?"

Gu Huanxi glared at him, "If she had behaved herself and not made trouble, would you have treated her like that?"

Xu Huaiyi shook his head. He was not a murderer. Why would he target a six-year-old child?

Gu Huanxi said, "So, she could have lived a good life, but because she was not satisfied and messed around, she wasted the rebirth benefits given to her by God. Don't you think it's unfair?"

"Unfair!" Xu Huaiyi said firmly, "She was wronged so much."

"What about you in the future?"

"Hide!" Xu Huaiyi gritted his teeth, "I must hide well."

After saying this, he silently added in his heart that at least he could survive this period of time. As for the future, if things really got chaotic, even if he wanted to survive, the court would not allow it.

If the emperor ordered him to go to war, then we can't blame him, right?

After the celebratory banquet, Xu Huaiyi lived a quiet life, going to work and going home every day, and spending the rest of his time playing with his children. He was so low-key that he didn't seem like someone who had been granted a title. Instead, he seemed like someone who had committed a serious mistake and was keeping his tail between his legs.

Because he had to survive, he did not get involved in the wheat seed matter anymore. After discussing with Sun Yu, he handed it over to the Ministry of Households for overall planning. Only a small portion was left to sell in his own seed shop.

It is just to keep a low profile and no longer attract more popularity and reputation.

In fact, the store they originally planned to open was an agricultural supply store, but now it has been changed into a seed shop.

The agricultural supply store is a comprehensive one. In addition to various seeds, it originally sold more practical farm tools and fertilizers, all of which were improved and optimized, but nowadays, they dare not bring them out anymore.

The limelight is too great to bear.

The store was packed with people when it opened that day just for selling high-yield wheat seeds. All were sold out in less than an hour, and there were still people shouting at the door and refusing to leave.

Even other grain seeds were later bought up, and vegetable seeds were not left out.

In order to be more convincing and to express how good their vegetable seeds are, they set up several planting boxes in the shop and arranged several kinds of vegetables. Now they are all growing very lush and you can tell at a glance that the yield is not low. Who can resist not buying them?

Especially the very rare tomatoes and peppers, which were sold in limited quantities. Gu Huanxi cultivated the seedlings in advance, and each person was allowed to have at most five plants. As soon as the guys took them out, they were snatched up.

Those who couldn't get the items complained and wailed, beating their chests and stamping their feet, as if they had missed out on hundreds of taels of silver.

The store was open for only one day before it had to close.

Because the goods are sold out.

Gu Huanxi had previously compiled a book on homemade fertilizers. He had planned to print it out and sell it in the store, but in order to avoid attention, he temporarily put it on hold and gave it to Shangshu Sun, asking him to arrange for officials specializing in agriculture to find ways to promote it.

In this way, any achievements in the future will be the business of those people, and will have little to do with her as the emperor.

Xu Huaiyi felt sorry for her because of this. "If they promote it in your name, maybe your imperial title could be raised two levels higher. Now it's just a free gift to others."

Gu Huanxi was very open-minded. "I didn't contribute much. I just copied and pasted. The content of the book was not researched by me. If there is any credit, it can't be attributed to me. It should go to those who ran around and took the trouble to promote it."

"What about our daughter?" Xu Huaiyi was very unwilling. "She was supposed to sell fertilizer in the store, but now she is dead. If you don't take what God has given you, you will suffer the consequences."

Gu Huanxi said with a smile, "Why not take it? Those tears collected by my daughter are not wasted after dilution, right? They can't be sold as fertilizer in the store, but they are all kept for cultivating those rare Chinese medicinal materials."

"Really?"

"How could this be false? We cleared land on the farm in the early spring to plant some herbs, and there are people specifically looking after them. The rare and precious ones are all taken care of by Ah Li himself. Many of them that could not survive are now growing well. Doctor Jiao exclaimed that they were amazing when he saw them, and he stared at them like treasures every day.

When the herbs mature, they can be used as medicine to treat diseases. By then, they can cure many difficult and complicated diseases and save more people. Don't you think this is meaningless? Are you wasting the golden finger that your daughter traveled through time with?"

Xu Huaiyi hurriedly shook his head, looking excited, "No, this is more meaningful. The key is that it is not obvious and there is no safety hazard."

"Do you feel relieved?"

"Hehe, I feel relieved. But, it's a pity for you, my wife."

Gu Huanxi said speechlessly, "Is it okay if I just like to be unknown? But you, you have been living in peace for these days, are you about to get tired of it?"

"No, I don't have to worry about anything. I'm free and at ease. There's nothing more comfortable than this."

"Ah……"

Let’s see how long he can endure!

By June, tomatoes and peppers were ripe and ready for the market. Xu Huaiyi only took the children to pick them, and Su Zhe took care of everything else. The villagers made a lot of money, and Su Zhe's shop became popular again because of the dozen or so recipes with tomatoes and peppers as ingredients contributed by Gu Huanxi.

But all this excitement has nothing to do with Xu Huaiyi.

He pushed all the invitations to banquets and even had a ready-made excuse. He had internal injuries from an explosion in the palace before and had been taking medicine to recuperate. He couldn't drink alcohol for a year or so and had to avoid many foods. So when he went out to attend a banquet, he could only watch. What was the point of going?

He is also very low-key in the Yulin Guard. He originally wanted to make some achievements as soon as possible so as to gain a firm foothold, but now he dares not do that. He just goes with the crowd and blends in with the crowd so that he won't be targeted.

Also, the war to quell the rebellion was not going well, and he did not dare to ask for support, so he stayed quiet for a while.

This made some people who were waiting to laugh at him feel very regretful. When a poor person suddenly becomes rich, it is inevitable that he will be frivolous and dissolute, and it is especially easy for him to make trouble. However, Xu Huaiyi was not frivolous at all. He was so calm that he seemed to be in seclusion from the world, which made many people unable to watch the show.

There were also some people who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to do something, but they didn't find any chance. When others were conferred a title, they wanted to announce it to the world, and the servants in their families were arrogant when they went out, which made it easy for them to take advantage of loopholes. But the Gu family, on the contrary, was so low-key, as if the Jingning Earl's Mansion was a fake title.

This low-key period lasted until September.

After the wheat was harvested, the corn that was to follow finally matured.

There were not many corn seeds left last year, and we could barely plant about a hundred acres of land. But we took good care of them, so they grew well. Many of them had two corn cobs on one stalk, and they were quite large. After peeling off the husk, the grains inside were golden and plump, which was a pleasing sight.

Xu Huaiyi took a leave of absence and took the children to the farm to pick corn.

The children were also very excited, as if they were not going to do farm work but to have fun.

Before the corn was harvested, they had already eaten it several times. They would choose the tender raw ones and cook them directly, or use them as an ingredient in dishes, porridge, or pancakes. They all tasted delicious and they never got tired of eating them.

Now it's time to test production.

This time, Minister Sun specially brought people from the Ministry of Revenue to the scene in person.

Even Prime Minister Lu couldn't resist his curiosity and followed along.

The two of them had also eaten corn. Xu Huaiyi presented them with several baskets, but because there were so many people in the mansion, they couldn't eat much even if they shared it, so they kept thinking about it.

I want to see it with my own eyes now. Of course, what I care most about is the production issue, which is the top priority concerning people's livelihood.

The cornfield was full of people, all waiting to witness the miracle.

As soon as Xu Huaiyi gave an order, more than a dozen strong men rushed into the cornfield impatiently, each doing their own job, some were breaking the corn, some were chopping the stalks, and some were carrying the corn out, all in an orderly and busy manner.

When the corn arrived at the edge of the field, another group of people began to peel the husk, thresh the corn, and dry it in the sun. With more people, there is more strength. It took less than an hour to harvest an acre of land. When it was finally weighed, it was more than 1,100 kilograms.

The yield was higher than that of wheat. Some people were ecstatic at that time. But now, they were even more emotional. They cried and laughed, knelt on the ground, and thanked the heavens, the earth, and all the Bodhisattvas.

The people in the Ministry of Revenue were also very excited. They weighed the weight over and over again, never getting tired of it. Every time they saw a number of more than a thousand kilograms, they couldn't help but burst into tears.

Minister Sun's eyes were red with tears. He called over to the busy and sweaty Xu Huaiyi and said sincerely, "You are truly benefiting the people. Your contribution is greater than defeating the Japanese pirates. Future generations will all remember your kindness. You saved them from starving!"

More than a thousand kilograms, which means one acre of land can feed several people.

The key is that corn is easy to grow, drought-resistant, and tastes better than millet and beans. It is a great blessing for the people.

Xu Huaiyi said modestly, "The corn hasn't been dried thoroughly yet. If it's dried for a few more days, it will probably lose more moisture. I estimate that it will be around 1,000 kilograms."

Minister Sun patted his shoulder and said, "One thousand kilograms is quite impressive. Besides, the land you chose is actually medium-quality land, right? If it was good land, the yield should be higher."

Xu Huaiyi did not deny it. "We'll know after we look at the average later."

After working for a whole morning, the average number still remained at around 1,100 kilograms. No one was dissatisfied with this result.