Reborn as a bride, pretending to be virtuous, the prince held his waist and regretted

Return to Changning Marquis Mansion.

Gu Xiling and Zhou Jin asked the kitchen to prepare more vegetarian food and send it to the old lady.

At noon, they accompanied the old lady for lunch.

When the old lady saw her grandchildren and their wives coming to eat with her, she smiled kindly, "I knew they would invite Xiling to persuade me."

Gu Xiling chuckled, took the old lady's arm, and walked towards the dining room.

Because of sitting for a long time, the old lady's back, legs and feet became stiff and inflexible.

These days, the old lady has a poor appetite because of taking medicine.

Even when his grandson and his wife were there for dinner, they didn't eat much.

After dinner, the old lady would return to the small Buddhist temple.

Gu Xiling stopped her, "Grandma, the prince and I will help you walk around the yard."

The old lady was very stubborn and stubborn. She waved her dry hands and said, "No, I want to worship Buddha. I am tired of the flowers and plants in the yard. There is nothing new."

Zhou Jin was anxious, it seemed that Gu Xiling was not able to do it either.

Gu Xiling held the old lady's arm, no longer smiling, with a serious expression, "Grandma, you worship Buddha all day long, what have you done?"

The old lady was stunned, then smiled and replied, "Good and evil, cause and effect, reincarnation."

Gu Xiling tilted her head, her eyes searching, "Grandma, reincarnation, no one knows, and no one can verify it. Good and evil are in the human heart, and everyone in the world can judge. Only cause and effect can be controlled by humans."

Is her rebirth considered reincarnation?

Gu Xiling couldn't figure it out, so she stopped thinking about it.

The old lady showed approval in her eyes, "Xi Ling, you are very intelligent. How about worshiping Buddha with me?"

Gu Xiling shook her head without hesitation, "Grandma, I may make you unhappy if I tell you this, but I don't believe in gods and Buddhas, but I do believe in karma and reincarnation."

"This is related to the environment I grew up in, so I have been experiencing this through my own thoughts and making it my own path."

The old lady blinked, "You believe in Taoism? But do you know that the elixirs sold by those Taoist priests with big noses have poisoned many people?"

Gu Xiling shook her head. "I believe in Taoism. It is the Tao in Laozi's Tao Te Ching. Everything in the world has Taoism, and it can be seen and touched."

"For example, spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four seasons rotate; for example, the heavens give birth to things in spring and autumn bears fruit; for example, you reap what you sow."

"I grew up among the common people, so I understand better how to live. How to live, if you live well, and how to help more people live well, is what I pursue."

Gu Xiling's words made the old lady of Changning Marquis dumbfounded, as if she had been enlightened.

The old lady worshipped Buddha all day long. Apart from sitting in meditation and chanting scriptures and donating incense money to the temple, she had never done anything to save sentient beings.

Zhou Jin looked up, his eyes sparkling with curiosity about Gu Xiling.

What kind of woman can figure out her own way?

It is unknown whether many people waste their entire lives.

The old lady smiled and said, "Xi Ling, you have tried so hard to persuade me to go out for a walk. I know it in my heart. Well, tell me how you realize your 'Tao'?"

Gu Xiling pointed at the two sacks of seeds that Lai Fu and his men had just brought in and said, "Grandma, these are the seeds that my granddaughter-in-law bought from a foreign merchant in the West Market. The merchant said that the yield is high."

"I would like to ask my grandmother to try planting with me. If we fail, it proves that we have tried and are seeking the truth. If we succeed and the yield is high, the people's granaries will have more grain, and fewer people will starve to death, and we will have succeeded in our search for the truth."

"This kind of merit is immeasurable. Isn't it greater than the merit you gain by constantly reciting the sutras? Grandma, does what your granddaughter-in-law said make sense?"

The old lady's eyes fell on the sack, then she looked at the garden of Songheyuan, and said to the servant, "Pull out all the flowers and plants in my yard! I want to farm!"

When everyone heard this, they were dumbfounded.

The garden of Songheyuan is planted with precious flowers and plants that are hard to find outside.

If we pull them out rashly, most of them will die. Isn't that a pity?

Zhou Jin didn't care about that. As long as he could let his grandmother move more, it was more important than anything else. "Clean it up quickly!"

Just as the servant was about to start, Gu Xiling stopped him, "Grandmother, Prince, you have never farmed before, but you know that the land needs fertilizer."

"These fertilizers include a lot of human feces, animal manure, weeds, and plant ash... Even if my grandmother's yard doesn't stink, it doesn't smell good."

"Besides, this garden is full of precious flowers and plants. It would be a pity to pull them out. Grandmother, Xiling and the prince will accompany you to the farm, and we will farm there."

The old lady thought for a moment and said, "That makes sense. Pack your bags and we'll leave tomorrow."

During the conversation, Gu Xiling accompanied the old lady for a walk, which lasted for two incense sticks of time.

Mrs. Song, the wife of the Marquis of Changning, was surprised, but of course she was happy to let her mother-in-law move more.

Marquis of Changning Zhou Ze did not stop them and said that he would visit them at the manor after his day off.

Zhou Jin had not yet been reinstated, nor had he been summoned by His Majesty, so he was directly sent to the farm by Changning Marquis Zhou Ze.

It is euphemistically called "lamenting the hardships of people's lives", but of course one has to go deep into the people to understand it, rather than just reading a few short lines of description on paper.

The next day, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren took a carriage and brought their servants to a farm twenty miles outside the city.

The old lady didn't even have time to rest and dragged Gu Xiling to the fields.

Old Man Li, the head of the village, had seen the old lady who came to the village to escape the summer heat before. He learned that the old lady wanted to farm, so he left the ten most fertile acres of land on the village to her.

Old man Li led his men to tidy up the ten acres of land overnight and applied appropriate fertilizers.

"Madam, I have never seen the seeds you brought. I don't know how to plant them."

The old lady thought for a moment and said, "Although I have never farmed before, I know that farming is a science. Since you have never farmed before, you can try it boldly. Divide the field into several plots and plant in different ways."

Gu Xiling agreed, "It is said that having an old person in the family is like having a treasure. Grandma, what you said makes sense. This thing doesn't have a name yet, Grandma, how about you give it one?"

The old lady smiled and said, "That's easy. This is from foreign countries, so it's called Fanmai."

Thus, these high-yield crops that came across the ocean from distant places were given a Kangguo name, "fanmai".

They consulted the old farmer while trying their best.

In front, Zhou Jin was digging a hole with a hoe. The old lady threw a seed into the hole, and Gu Xiling pushed the soil into the hole with her feet to bury it.

After working for a while, the old lady felt tired and sat down in the field to rest.

She was very pleased to see her grandson wearing coarse linen clothes, waving a hoe and sweating profusely.

Then look at Gu Xiling, who is wearing a bamboo hat and following behind Zhou Jin. She is scattering seeds and pushing the soil with her feet to cover the seeds.

The husband follows the wife, and great-grandchildren will be here soon!

Zhou Jin was sweating profusely. Gu Xiling wiped his sweat with a handkerchief and said, "Prince, don't go so fast. I can't keep up."

Zhou Jin's skin was slightly red from the sun, and he smiled heartily, quite proudly, "You said you grew up in the countryside, but you're not as good at work as I am?"

"Your Highness is right. I am not as good as you. Those who are capable should do more work. Your Highness, please do more." Gu Xiling joined in the fun and laughed secretly.

Let’s wait until tomorrow morning and “laugh at” Zhou Jin for being sore all over and unable to get up!