Honghui is reborn in Legend of Zhen Huan, I will protect my mother

After saying this, he looked around at everyone and said slowly, "Today's first meal must be eaten together. You can take the dinner back home to eat. If you really can't get used to it, there are small kitchens in each courtyard. If there are maids with good cooking skills, you can arrange it yourself."

Several princesses said "yes" on their faces, but they had made up their minds in their hearts that it would be better to avoid trouble if possible, and they could just muddle through in ten days at most.

Yixiu wanted to build a small kitchen, so she could make some snacks, stew some green bean soup, or sour plum soup. Coincidentally, Randong was quite skilled, so this small kitchen was necessary.

After lunch, everyone went back to their rooms to rest. After all, they had been sitting in the carriage for the whole morning and no one was not tired.

Honghui also went back to his room and slept for more than an hour. When the sun was setting in the afternoon, he washed up and went to the front yard.

"Now that you are here, come sit here. Are you used to being on the farm?"

Honghui nodded, and followed his father's instructions to sit opposite him. On the table above the couch was a rosewood chessboard and two bowls of white jade chess pieces.

"My son thinks this farm is pretty good. The lunch there is also unique and not much worse than the one in the mansion. But my mother might not be used to it. Her taste is relatively light. But when my son came out, Aunt Jianqiu and the others had already cleaned up the small kitchen, so I guess they can start cooking tomorrow."

Yinzhen chose the black pieces and let his eldest son play the white pieces first. The father and son talked while playing chess.

"This farm was given to me by your mama when my father first started the family business. After so many years of operation, it has become what it is today. There are about seventy households on the farm. The first-rate and second-rate farms each have more than one hundred acres, and the second-rate farms are slightly more, about two hundred acres. There is also a mountain forest and two lotus ponds."

Honghui opened his mouth slightly and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Father, do you know so much about the situation in this village?"

Yinzhen felt a little proud, and he put down the black dice in his hand as if nothing had happened. He said calmly, "As the master of a mansion, how can I be bullied by servants? These manors are remote and I can't go there once a year. Even if the manager is loyal, he will inevitably mess things up after a long time. Every year, the mansion has servants to investigate the manors, and each manor has a special account book. Father should know the general situation."

Ama is a man born to worry! But it's better this way, so that the manager won't take advantage of his master to make money, oppress tenants, and deceive his superiors and subordinates.

"Father, along the way, I saw many dilapidated thatched houses and some extravagant mansions. However, when we entered our farm, we found that most of them were flat stone houses and several large brick houses. There were basically no dilapidated houses, which showed that the tenants on the farm were living a relatively good life."

Yinzhen smiled slightly and touched his eldest son's cheek. "You are getting better at seeing things from small details. This is good! You are the grandson of the emperor. You should be able to see things from small details so that you won't be deceived and used by others."

After saying this, he began to explain to his eldest son: "Most tenants nowadays pay 70% to 80% of the rent, and there are a few kind-hearted ones who only pay 65%.

Most of the tenants in this farm came here to farm when your mama was young. They pay 65% ​​of the rent. In addition, there is always a shortage of fruit trees, wild vegetables and mushrooms in the forest. They can go into the mountains to look for mountain products on weekdays, which can save a lot of food expenses in a year. There are also fish, shrimp, lotus, chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, etc. If they take good care of them, they can also earn more money. "

Of course, this is the best case scenario! If there is a drought or flood, how much mountain products can there be in that small forest? If the tenant is unlucky and the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep he takes care of get sick or die accidentally, he will have to pay for the seedlings.

Year after year, the tenants on the farm only hoped for better harvests so that they could save more money to marry their children and grandchildren and continue the family line.

There are so many tricks involved. Yinzhen did not elaborate with his four-year-old eldest son. Instead, he changed the subject and said, "Honghui, from tomorrow on, you will just follow your father. Your father will take you to experience the life on the farm."

He had written a memorial to the Emperor in advance and asked for a period of leave, so he had plenty of time. The affairs in the capital were taken care of by his third and eighth brothers. In the past ten days, if nothing happened, he would stay at the farm, but if there was anything important, he would have to rush back to the inner city.

In view of this, he sincerely prayed that nothing would happen in Beijing! Yinzhen didn't want to run back and forth under the scorching sun.

Honghui also knew that his father would be very free in the next period of time, so he nodded hurriedly: "Yes, son, let your father arrange everything." He couldn't stay in the house all the time when he came to the farm, he must go out and see the world.

Before coming to the village, his father had said, "Literary and martial arts classes will be suspended for about ten days, and everything will resume as usual when we return home," so he had plenty of time.

The father and son realized something and looked up at the same time, unable to help but smile at each other. They thought of the same thing again!

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The next morning, around the beginning of the noon hour, the father and son had breakfast and walked towards the fields hand in hand.

Manager Lin from the farm was leading the way with his body bent, introducing a few words from time to time, but his attitude was quite tense and he looked a bit nervous.

Passing by a vegetable field of several acres, there were quite a few vegetables planted on the ground, but the fruits were a little sparse, and the green leafy vegetables such as cabbage looked small.

Yinzhen and Honghui couldn't help but stop and look, and gave Manager Lin a questioning look at the same time.

Manager Lin became concerned and explained hastily, "Lord Beile, this is the vegetable field on the farm. The tenants usually plant and harvest vegetables here. Because fertilizers are used on the best farmland, the vegetables here are a bit sparse. There is also one in the backyard of the house. The food that the masters have been eating these days is grown in the house. The vegetables there are more carefully tended and have a wider variety of varieties."

Having said that, Yinzhen did not ask any more questions. Food is much more valuable than fruits and vegetables, and the choice made by the tenants could not be more correct.

Coincidentally, isn’t there an excellent place for teaching right in front of us?

Yinzhen walked into the vegetable garden with his eldest son, took the fruits and vegetables handed to him by Su Peisheng, and introduced them one by one: "Honghui, this is cucumber, which was brought back to the Central Plains by Zhang Qian during the Western Han Dynasty when he was on a diplomatic mission to the Western Regions. Also, this is cabbage..."

He recognized most of the fruits and vegetables in the vegetable garden, but there were one or two that he didn't recognize. At this time, Manager Lin would casually remind him one or two, and then the teaching session could proceed smoothly.

Honghui just nodded his head from time to time, and his eyes slowly changed from confusion to thoughtfulness, which shows that this teaching really worked!