I'm reborn, so it's not too much to kill the one who traveled through the book, right?

The two left Minghui Courtyard, and Changsheng went to another courtyard to help repair it.

When Shen Rong returned to Guiyuan, she began to think about what kind of flowers to plant that could be included in the Banquet of Flowers.

The Flower Festival is on February 15th, and there are less than ten days left. It’s time to prepare what flowers to plant in advance.

The Eighteen Scholars planted behind Shen Rong has already grown, but she has already sold one to Liu Dongjia, so it is not suitable to take out this Eighteen Scholars plant.

Shen Rong looked at the other flowers again.

The elegant and graceful bean green peony.

The crabapple blossoms are red with a hint of pink.

Orchid with elegant posture.

The chrysanthemum is like a coiled dragon and a beautiful girl.

There is also a sea of ​​red and white roses.

Each one is beautiful in its own way, and is truly breathtakingly beautiful.

From ancient times to the present, the precious flowers and plants in poems and paintings are nothing more than this.

Shen Rong was not completely ignorant. These flowers and herbs were not only flowers, but could also be used as medicine. The Qian Jin Fang and Compendium of Materia Medica that she had read before also had records of these flowers, so she knew a little about them.

She picked up these dying flowers and planted them because she thought they would become a beautiful sight in her house after they were grown and she didn't care whether they were valuable or not.

But when I took a closer look, I found that these were also rare species.

However, there is still some gap between it and those precious and valuable flowers and plants.

Since ancient times, the few flowers praised by poets have always been plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, bamboo and peony. The flowers collected by those noble families must be the best of the best. The ones in her space will definitely not be comparable.

Shen Rong wanted to use flowers to let Changsheng show himself in the aristocratic circle of the capital, so that others would know that Changsheng was no different from an ordinary person.

But if the flowers she prepared didn't make any splash at the banquet, or even attract other people's attention, Changsheng would naturally have no chance to show them in public, and they would have missed an opportunity in vain.

As for the grafted roses that Changsheng and the children had practiced on before, a few of them did grow new branches, but the flowers grafted with orchids and chrysanthemums did not survive.

Shen Rong couldn't come up with an idea for a moment, so she left the space.

She called Chun Xing and the other two again and asked:

"Do you know which flowers won the first prize at the Flower Banquet in previous years?"

Except for people like Shen Rong who had just arrived in Beijing, locals like Chun Xing and others knew something about this news.

Chun Xing only needed a little recollection to get the answer, "Madam, I know that the winner of last year's banquet was a black and white peony, and the second place..."

Chun Xing doesn’t even remember the second place. People subconsciously only remember the first place. No matter if it’s the last or the first place, it will always be impressive.

"I heard from my brother that the second place was a pot of pansies, and the third place was a golden orchid," Juxiang added.

The reason why she remembered it so clearly was because her brother was interested in these flowers and plants and even wanted to cultivate rare flowers, so Juxiang paid more attention to it.

After listening to the two people's introduction, Shen Rong felt a little regretful that she had sold the eighteen scholars to Liu Dongjia.

Although the flowers in her space now are valuable, they are not as rare as those that ranked top last year.

If you take those out, you will end up in obscurity.

Shen Rong remembered the grafting method of Juxiang's brother Jiafu, maybe she could give it a try.

Shen Rong told Changsheng her thoughts.

Changsheng thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow I will go ask Jiafu for advice, and I will give it a try in the evening. Anyway, there are still ten days left, and the plants in there grow fast, so there is still time."

Before, Changsheng and the child randomly grafted a lot of branches in the space, but what grew out were the same red and white roses as before.

It was obvious that their previous grafting was unsuccessful, and because of the characteristics of this space that anything can grow, the rose planted in the soil took root, sprouted, and grew new branches.

It's obvious that not just any two plants can survive together.

Therefore, Changsheng said that he would go to Jiafu to learn from him again.

Juxiang's brother Jiafu has already entered the house and is busy filling the ground under the wall with soil for flowers.

"Okay, if we can grow a flower that blooms in multiple colors, we should have a chance to show off, but which flower should we choose?"

She was not obsessed with whether or not to get the first place. She just wanted Changsheng to show his face in front of the nobles in the capital so that those people would know that Changsheng was a normal person.

In this way, His Majesty has no reason not to allow Changsheng to inherit the title.

Changsheng was silent for a moment. "Let's plant roses. It seems that only flowers of the same species can be grafted successfully. Roses can be grafted with wild thorn roses on the roadside, and roses should also be okay. This way, the colors will be much richer."

"Okay, then we'll plant roses."

The next day, Shen Rong asked Juxiang to go to the flower market to buy various roses and roses.

She and Changsheng had been to the flower market once and attracted a lot of people's attention. This time, Shen Rong did not show up and gave Juxiang two hundred taels of silver and asked Juxiang to buy it.

"I don't need expensive varieties. I just need ones with different colors. Even if they are wild flowers on the roadside, as long as they look similar to the branches and leaves of roses, I'll buy them. If you don't have enough money, just come back and ask me for more." Shen Rong instructed.

Juxiang nodded, "I'll remember this."

Roses and wild roses are not rare flowers, but they are popular because of their beautiful shapes, and the price is also relatively affordable. Two hundred taels of silver is already a lot.

Juxiang took the silver and left the house.

Shen Rong turned her attention back to the renovation of the mansion.

All the unsuitable low houses in the mansion have been demolished, and the bricks and tiles removed have been used to repair the old courtyards in the east.

The extra blue bricks are used for paving the floor.

There were about 20 to 30 people, including the bricklayers hired by the mansion and the servants, who completed most of the work in just a few days.

The next step is to clean up the ground, plant flowers where needed and fill soil where needed.

As Shen Rong had planned, Jiafu took the masons and servants to build a flower bed and fill it with soil at the foot of the wall.

Because the mansion covers a large area, a circle of roses needs to be planted around the periphery. The construction of the flowerbed alone is a task that cannot be completed in a day or two.

For the sake of aesthetics, Shen Rong spent a lot of money and asked the housekeeper to buy granite to build the flower bed.

Not only was there a row of low flower beds built at the base of the wall, but flower beds were also built in some corners of the mansion that were suitable for growing flowers.

In addition to the road, the open space is used to grow fruits and vegetables. Shen Rong has always kept this in mind.

The housekeeper has been so busy these past two days that he has hardly been seen. He runs out of the city early every morning to recruit people to dig the soil.

They dug rotten soil in the woods and transported it to the Pingyang Marquis's mansion using ox carts. One cart of soil cost one hundred coins, and two people could pull three carts of soil in a day.

If you have cattle, you can earn more.

At the end of the day, each person can earn 150 coins.

This job earns much more than carrying bags at the dock.

As soon as the news came out, people outside the city rushed to join the movement. As long as their family had a cart, even if they didn't have a cow, they would pull the cart to sign up.

In fact, you don't need to sign up for anything. As long as you pull a cart of soil to the Pingyang Marquis Mansion, someone will come to the side door to collect money, one cart at a time.

Logically speaking, soil is not valuable, but why would those villages outside the city ask you to dig soil?

If you are willing to pay and ask people there to dig, that’s another matter.

In two days, a layer of soil was scraped off the forest outside the city.

In the mansion of Marquis Pingyang, a layer of soil was added to all the places where things were to be planted.

The digging work was completed in just two days.

Those who had worked for two days felt that they had not yet finished their work, while the people who lived farther away heard the news and rushed over, only to find that the work had already been done. They regretted it so much that they beat their chests and stamped their feet, saying that they knew it too late.

However, the housekeeper took into consideration the difficulty of pulling a cartload of soil into the city, and finally accepted the soil. But before the other party left, he asked the people to go back and tell them that the house would no longer accept soil.