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

"Well, the variety of fruits and vegetables here is not very complete. Let's take your mother to the backyard and enjoy the pastoral joy."

Honghui nodded in agreement: "Yes, my son will pick some himself and send them to the kitchen to make a few dishes to honor my father and mother."

While they were talking, the group changed direction and continued walking forward.

From far to near, a large fruit forest is right in front of us. Apricots, plums, dates and other fruits are hanging on the branches. More than half of the fruit trees have only leaves and have not yet grown fruit.

Honghui knew these commonly eaten fruits without Amado's teaching, but he had never seen them growing on trees.

After walking forward from the orchard, a pond comes into view. The green and red in the pond echo the saying "The lotus leaves are endless and green, and the lotus flowers are exceptionally red in the sun."

Seeing such a magnificent scene, the group couldn't help but stop to admire it.

Yinzhen became interested and recited poems about lotus with Honghui on the spot, one line at a time.

"The spring eye silently cherishes the trickle, the tree shadow shines on the water and loves the soft sunshine. The little lotus has just revealed its pointed tip, and a dragonfly has already landed on it." "The flowers and leaves in the world are not comparable, the flowers fall into the golden basin and the leaves become dust. Only the green lotus and the red lotus bud, open and close as they please." ...

Only after reciting twenty or thirty poems did the father and son move forward with a sense of unfulfilled desire.

"Father, although there are lotus flowers in the mansion, they are still more graceful and elegant. The pond in the mansion is not as wide as the one in the manor."

Yinzhen raised his lips slightly, put his right hand on his eldest son's round head, and his eyes became softer. "In two days, Father will bring you here to catch fish, shrimps, and lotus roots. That will be a different experience."

Honghui just kept nodding his head and responded with a word or two from time to time. Everything in Zhuangzi was quite fresh to him.

"My Lord, my eldest brother, there is a mulberry forest ahead. Now is the time for the mulberry trees to bear fruit. In a few days, the mulberry trees will be full of mulberries."

Honghui looked into the distance and saw people moving in the mulberry forest, obviously busy.

Seeing Lord Beile and the eldest prince coming, the tenants in the mulberry forest knelt down in a large group and said, "Common women/common women pay their respects to Lord Beile and to the eldest prince."

Yinzhen waved his hand slightly and said loudly: "Everyone, get up! Go and do your own things. There is no need to wait here."

After saying this, he began a new round of teaching: "Honghui, look, aren't the mulberry trees full of mulberry leaves? These mulberry leaves are extremely valuable. Farmers rely on them to feed silkworms. The silk spit out by silkworms can be processed and woven into silk. A piece of the most ordinary silk can be exchanged for several taels of silver."

"..."

Honghui was shocked. You know, a liter of ordinary rice is only about seven or eight cents, and a piece of silk can be exchanged for half a year or even a year's food for a person. You can see how precious it is!

"How many rolls of silk can this farm earn in a year?" He couldn't help but say out loud what was on his mind.

Yinzhen glanced at Manager Lin and motioned for him to come forward and answer the question.

Manager Lin bowed slightly and said honestly, "Let the eldest prince know that since the mulberry trees were planted on the farm, the annual income has exceeded 500 taels, and in good times it can reach 700 to 800 taels. Even the tenants' lives have become much better."

This was just a small farm of only over 600 acres. It was considered good enough to have such a promising future. Yinzhen was quite satisfied with it.

However, Honghui was not satisfied at all. The annual expenditure of the mansion was at least 10,000 taels of silver. His father's salary was 2,500 taels of silver plus 2,500 hu of rice. Adding the harvest from various farms, the income and expenditure could only be said to be barely balanced.

My father, this Doroberel only has a slightly larger mansion, and that is the only benefit he gets as a prince. As for salary and other things, there is nothing more.

"Father, please be more frugal in your household expenses in the future. Your son doesn't need so many dishes for every meal!"

Yinzhen couldn't help laughing out loud: "You are so young, but you are worried about something! Honghui, just relax, your father is not so poor that he can't even support the whole mansion."

When he founded the palace, the Emperor gave him 100,000 taels of silver. In addition, he had the private property left by Empress Xiaoyi Ren, the private silver given by his mother in the palace, and the rewards he received from time to time over the years. As a result, this little Doroberel was not short of money at all.

Furthermore, he never made friends with ministers of the previous dynasty or members of the royal family, so he saved a lot of money on this aspect alone. Therefore, the annual harvest from the farm was enough for a year's expenses.

Really? Is Father trying to save face and suffer? Honghui didn't quite believe him. However, now was not the time to talk about this. He would think about it carefully later. It was time to increase the income of the mansion.

Honghui nodded obediently to show that he understood, and then followed his father's steps forward. This time he finally saw the fields.

It is very easy to distinguish between the best fields and the inferior fields. One is green and growing well, while the other is a little sparse, with the leaves slightly yellowish, and some plants even lie down. The contrast between the two places is very obvious.

When he saw the rice seedlings, Yinzhen started talking, from sowing to tillering, from jointing to heading and ear formation to heading and filling, etc. He spoke fluently and freely, and Manager Lin didn't need to remind him at all.

Honghui listened attentively, asking a question or two from time to time, and using real objects for comparison, this teaching session was much more useful than just reading.

He also learned how to distinguish between rice seedlings and weeds, and even went to the fields to remove a few weeds under the guidance of his father, which gave him a taste of the hard work of farm work.

It was not until the red sun rose high in the sky that the warm sunlight made me sweat on my body, and the journey came to an end in the morning.

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For the next two or three days, the father and son wandered around, sometimes bringing Yixiu along, fishing, catching shrimps, picking fruits, etc. They had a blast.

Until early in the morning of this day, someone suddenly came to the mansion and brought the news that Miao had launched the attack in advance.

After hearing the news, Yixiu rushed to the front yard, "Should you go back and take a look? It's only been more than nine months! My eldest sister is still ill, and there are some grudges between her and Miao. How can we trouble her to make decisions? It's better to have someone in charge in the mansion! Otherwise, I'll go back and take a look."

"No need, I'll just take Qi back with me, and we'll have to come back to live here after Miao gives birth. Li and others are all on this farm, so you'd better stay and take charge!" Miao's child would be given to Qi to raise, and this matter had already been decided before coming to the farm, and now it was just a matter of going through the procedures.

But it was no big deal. The court doctor had already diagnosed that the child was most likely a little princess, so Yinzhen agreed to Qi's request.

Then, he hurried back with Qi, leaving the others to continue living on the farm.