Generals take care of their children: The master mother leads the system to farm

Heian Kyoto at the end of the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

The roofs of the buildings on both sides of the streets in the city were covered with white snow.

Early in the morning, the soldiers guarding the city opened the heavy city gate. As soon as the gate was opened, a horse rushed in from outside.

The horse ran wildly on Kyoto's Heian Street, heading towards the heavily guarded Imperial Palace.

At the end of the Chen hour, the emperor was in his study.

Ouyang Qin, the emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, was holding something in his hands at this moment, looking at it carefully with an expression of disbelief.

"The yield per mu is 7,000 to 8,000 kilograms or even tens of thousands of kilograms?" Is there such grain?

He looked at the guard who was kneeling below and who had returned with an urgent letter from Babaili.

"Your Majesty, what your Highness said is true."

"The first person who discovered that it was edible was Jing Yan's runaway wife?"

"Yes." The visitor reported honestly without exaggeration or misattribution.

"He is such a lucky man." Ouyang Qin was surprised.

At this time, a meal was delivered from the small kitchen in the imperial study.

A simple plate of steamed sweet potatoes.

Ouyang Qin wiped his hands, then picked up a piece of sweet potato and carefully put it into his mouth.

It tastes soft, fragrant and sweet when you put it in your mouth. It has an excellent taste and gives you a clear sense of fullness.

Ouyang Qin was overjoyed. The three years of severe drought had caused widespread grief and misery in the north, and the people were living in misery.

As an emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty who always attached great importance to people's livelihood, he lost his appetite and became so worried that his hair turned a lot white when he learned that the crops in the north had failed and the victims had to flee their homes in panic. He even wanted to issue an edict of remorse.

This is the kind of...food in front of me.

He picked up a thin letter on the table, which described the whole story in great detail, including the rather strange origin of the sweet potato.

Ouyang Qin recognized that this was indeed a handwritten letter from his prince. Normally, he would find it cumbersome to add one more sentence when writing articles, but this time he patiently wrote a reply letter honestly.

He stared at the sweet potatoes and the letters behind the desk for a long time, until the eunuch chief Chen He, who served him closely, came in and reported that Tutor Sun had arrived outside the imperial study.

Ouyang Qin then woke up as if from a dream, and hurriedly asked someone to invite Tutor Sun Li in.

The first thing he did after coming in was to order the palace servants to deliver the sweet potatoes, as well as Ouyang Siyuan's handwritten note.

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Sun Li stayed in the imperial study for more than half an hour before coming out. Butler Chen He helped the prince's teacher out of the imperial study and called the servants of the Sun Mansion who were waiting outside the door.

"Take good care of your elders and be careful with your steps."

The servants of the Sun Mansion bowed and said yes, then helped their master out of the imperial study.

Only when Sun Li returned to the Sun Mansion and sat on the chair in his study did he dare to breathe a sigh of relief.

He reviewed the news he had received today in his mind, and then picked up the unopened letter on the desk with a pair of wrinkled hands that were trembling slightly.

After a moment, he put down the letter and called the guards outside.

"Call the master and mistress to the study for me and tell them I have something to discuss with them."

The guard took the order and left.

The one who has the final say in the family had something to ask, so the eldest master of the Sun family came quickly, hurried over with his wife.

Without waiting for the two men to sit down, Sun Li asked the guard to show them the letter from Gu Jingyan.

After a while, the eldest lady, who had read the letter first, suddenly looked up and said, "Father, how can we do this? That's Xiuduan..."

Sun Li's usually serious and solemn face now looked a little hesitant.

"I also think it's a pity to marry Xiuduan to such a young man... But, think about it, the Gu family is one of the most prestigious in Kyoto, and there is no backyard in Kyoto that is as quiet as the Gu family's, without all those messy and troublesome things.

Although this boy does not hold an official position, he is still young and will have opportunities in the future.

Besides, if I go forward to be in charge of Gu's family's finances, it won't be a disgrace to our Sun family's upbringing.

The merits and achievements that General Gu has accumulated for the Gu family are enough to bless two or three generations. The rest of the honor and disgrace will be earned by their descendants themselves!"

"I know that you wanted to marry Xiuduan to Jingyan, but Jingyan refused on the grounds that she was still young and didn't want to get married too early.

Then there was the marriage contract that General Gu had made in his early years...

Xiuduan is my granddaughter. She has learned poetry, literature and etiquette very well since she was young, and has a good character. As an old man, I also want her to live a happy life...

She is a generous child and will not be troubled by the past. You might as well ask Xiuduan herself about her wishes. If she really doesn't want to, the old man will think of other ways."

Due to her father-in-law's authority, the eldest lady did not dare to contradict her father-in-law. But when she left the courtyard where Sun Li lived and returned to her own room, her face immediately fell.

The eldest lady glanced at her husband beside her and said, "My Xiuduan is a famous girl in Kyoto. She is going to marry a boy from such a family, and a boy of unknown origin! Jing Yan is lucky that he can say that. Doesn't he know how Xiuduan treated him..."

"Madam, be careful with your words! What kind of family is that? The Gu family has the highest threshold in Heian Kyoto. I don't think it's too bad for Xiuduan to marry there. Can Jingyan cheat his own cousin?"

The master reprimanded his wife and interrupted her outspokenness in time.

"Isn't this a pitfall? Of the two sons born to the old lady of the Gu family, which one of them can compare to your legitimate nephew? The Gu family is a family of high status, but, but the descendants are not up to par. How can such a boy be worthy of my Xiu Duan!"

The eldest lady felt more and more aggrieved as she spoke, and her eyes became red. Seeing her like this, the eldest master couldn't bear to argue with her anymore. If he did, she would cry on the spot.

After thinking for a moment, he sent the maid to call his daughter Xiuduan into the room.

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Let’s not even talk about what the Sun family is struggling with.

At this time, the old lady Ji of the Gu family also received a letter from her stepson Gu Jingyan.

The concise choice of words and sentences only express three things.

First, Gu Jingyan found a marriage for his youngest son and asked her not to look at the candidate for his youngest son's daughter-in-law carelessly.

Second, if the old lady doesn’t want to take care of the household one day, the responsibility of managing the household must be handed over to the young daughter-in-law.

Third, my stepson’s wife and children have been found, and he will not return to Kyoto in the short term.

After reading the letter, Ji was stunned for a long time.

She knew that Gu Jingyan was really angry this time.

Not only did the words, actions and calculations of the second brother's family touch his bottom line, but even his stepmother would not be in a good situation, because his wife and children were lost under her nose.

Fortunately, he is still willing to take care of the third child. The fact that he is willing to take care of him shows that he still cares about the overall situation.

As for who is given the power of household management, she doesn't mind.

Give it to the third daughter-in-law, who is also the wife of his own son.

The second brother's family is indeed too greedy. If Gu Jingyan wants to take away all the Gu family's belongings, can you stop him or what?

The heavenly family is on his side!

Who says he is so capable?

They both married into a small family and after living together for a long time, I like my stepson's wife more. At least she doesn't fight or make noise.

Unlike the second brother's family, who worry about this and that all day long, worrying about things whether they should or should not.

Ji felt that she had a bad temper, was weak and had no opinion of her own.

He wanted to hand over the household chores to his stepson's wife, but she was forced to run away from home.

Give it to Wu?

Then she should just take care of it herself.

Since the stepson wants the third daughter-in-law to take charge of the family, the third daughter-in-law must be good at this.

She wanted to put aside all these troubles and find a place to eat vegetarian food, chant Buddhist scriptures and copy Buddhist scriptures in peace and quiet.

She put down the letter and thought, I wonder which good girl this is...