Miss Lin Family of the Red Chamber

Two carriages left the city from the south gate of Yangzhou City and headed out of the city. After half a day, the carriages drove into Zhuangzi and stopped.

"Madam, young master, the lady has arrived, please get off."

The half-grown boy climbed into the carriage and yelled into the carriage. Two servant girls and a boy got off the carriage behind him. When they got off the carriage, they hurried to the carriage in front to wait for Meng Yan and the three masters to get off.

Xiaobao and Meng Yan got out of the car first, and Meng was finally supported by Qin Liu.

"Small lady, young master, Miss." Zhuangtou got a message from Uncle De a long time ago that he knew that the master's family was coming. At a moment, he was wiping off the water on his hands and going to say hello.

"Father Wu, please." It was the first time Meng Shi and Xiaobao came back to the village, and they were not familiar with each other. Meng Yan called Father Wu and said to Meng Shi: "Mother, it's almost noon and it's very hot now. Let's go to the house to enjoy the coolness, wait for lunch and rest in the afternoon, and then go to the fields to have a look."

"Okay, mother will have a rest." She was really tired after driving for a long time.

"Xiaobao, you and mother go to rest first, I'll go and have a look and come back."

"Then my mother and I will go into the house. It's hot and you should be careful not to suffer from heat stroke."

"Got it, let's go."

Xiaobao was not annoyed by Meng Yan's impatient tone, and helped Meng Shi to let the servants lead them to the specially built yard in the Zhuangzi. He ordered Uncle De to build a house with two courtyards.

The two five or six-year-old children spoke like adults, and the servants they brought didn't think anything of it when they were used to seeing them, but everyone in the village looked at the two little masters in surprise.Sure enough, the children of rich families are extraordinary, and the several farmers thought in unison.

Yangzhou City is still too hot, and Meng Shi has been bored at home for several months. Meng Yan wanted to come, just as she and Xiaobao were going to Zhuangzi, she invited Meng Shi to come with her, which happened to let Meng Shi relax.

Zhuangzi outside the city is much cooler than in the city. Looking at the vast land and the various surrounding scenery will make people feel happy, and it will also make them healthier if they are active.Mrs. Meng has been helping the nunnery with farm work for several years in the nunnery, and she is used to working. If she is always left alone, Meng Yan is afraid that she will get sick from boredom.

She was so busy that she didn't think of this before. After finding out that the Meng family was in a panic, Meng Yan decided to come out with the family every once in a while to relax, look at the scenery and change her mood, and work hard to exercise her body.

Meng Shi didn't want to come out at first, but since Meng Yan took care of things outside the mansion, Meng Shi suddenly felt as if she had returned to the time when she was a housewife. It's not good to go out.Meng Yan spent a lot of time persuading her to go out and found a lot of reasons, and finally moved out Xiaobao, saying that he wanted Xiaobao to exercise, familiarize himself with crop cultivation, and prepare for his future decentralization after the imperial examination... Regarding the future, Meng Shi still hesitated and agreed.

After lunch, Meng Shi and Xiao Bao disappeared and fell asleep, but Meng Yan didn't sleep. She was studying the two Zhuangzi blueprints presented by Zhuangtou and how to plan the two Zhuangzi so as to maximize the use and maximize the benefits.

She is now in a large Zhuangzi of [-] mu. She does not plan to change too much in this Zhuangzi and still mainly grows grain. The other smaller Zhuangzi of [-] mu is backed by mountains. Meng Yan plans to use that Zhuangzi to grow flowers. in the development of perfumes.

Although I have harvested a lot of flowers this year, it will not only take a lot of manpower and material resources but also time-consuming to collect flowers scattered like that. It would be different if I grow them in my own village.More importantly, the quality of carefully managed flowers planted by our own Zhuangzi will be better, and the quality of the perfume produced will also be better.

Now she has a lot of things to do, Dazhuangzi's one-year planting plan, and Xiaozhuangzi's soil quality test to confirm whether it is suitable for planting which flowers.In order to arrange Zhuangzi's planting, she had checked many books about planting in this era before coming here.

This side is in the south, rice and sorghum are mainly grown for food, rice is grown in paddy fields, and sorghum is grown in dry land.Rice has two seasons a year. After the snow melts in spring, seedlings are planted and seedlings are planted for harvesting at the end of April and early May, and then seedlings are planted and transplanted until harvesting in golden autumn and October; after harvesting, winter vegetables such as cabbage and radish are planted for the next harvest It is edible for several months from winter to early spring.

Now the field in Zhuangzi has just planted the second season of seedlings, and the wind caresses the field, which is green and undulating.

Regarding Mengyan's new idea of ​​raising seedlings and transplanting seedlings, she thought of modern greenhouses, and planned to test this method in Zhuangzi next year. In addition, she also planned to experiment with modern throwing seedlings next year.

In my previous life, I followed the professor to the countryside and saw farmers throwing rice seedlings. Throwing rice seedlings can not only save seeds and increase the survival rate of seedlings, but also increase production. In addition, it can save labor. The labor saved can be used to grow flowers or do other things.

In addition, she also plans to study the cultivation of fungi, which can be profitable in winter, but she doesn't plan to do experiments this year and plan to do it next year.

She also plans to use some land in Zhuangzi that cannot be used for growing food, such as planting lotus water and raising fish.

In addition, she also needs to find some high-yield crops such as corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and cassava that she is familiar with in this era. If these can be introduced, the problem of food and clothing for farmers will be greatly improved.Of course she wanted to do this not because of how great she was, but because it would benefit the country and the people and accumulate great merit for her, which would be beneficial to her cultivation.

Dream of Red Mansions was written with the background of the Qing Dynasty. She thought that the world of Red Mansions was similar to the Qing Dynasty. After checking the history books in the world of Red Mansions, she realized that there was no Qing Dynasty in this world.

The Ming Dynasty in this world was overthrown only by the time of Ming Xianzong, and the first emperor rebelled until Emperor Gaozu finally established the current Daqi Dynasty.It has been more than a hundred years since the establishment of the Daqi Dynasty. Four generations of emperors are Qi Gaozu, Qi Taizong, Qi Gaozong and Qi Shizong; the current emperor is the fifth emperor of the Daqi Dynasty, the sixth son of Qi Shizong, and the country name is Xihe.It is now the 53rd year of Xihe, and Emperor Xihe only cared about his reputation in his early years, but now the princes and princes in the court are fighting for power, corrupt officials, money-gathering and cruel officials, and the lives of the people are miserable.

The Ming Dynasty is gone, and high-yield food crops such as corn and sweet potatoes introduced to China at the end of the Ming Dynasty and cassava and potatoes introduced in the Qing Dynasty did not exist in this era.Ever since Meng Yan knew this, she made up her mind to find out and grow these crops, and spread them throughout the Daqi Dynasty.

But she is not in a hurry, she will do everything.

After the afternoon sun became lighter, Meng Yan pulled Xiao Bao out of the book and took him to work in the fields.The seedlings have been inserted for a month or so, and weeds have slowly begun to grow in the field, and the tenants are weeding the field at this time.

"Little girl, why are you dragging me into the field?" Xiao Bao was dragged away by Meng Yan reluctantly.He is very happy to come to Zhuangzi to relax, but working in the fields is not what a scholar should do.

"Of course I came here to work and learn about farming. Don't you think I brought you here for a tour?"

Meng Yan gave Xiaobao a blank look. Don't think that she doesn't know his thoughts and doesn't take farming as an important matter at all. You must know that she did all this for his sake.

"There is a specialization in technology, and the farming is done by farmers. What does it have to do with us?" The most important thing for him now is to study and take the imperial examination.

"What do you know? Food is the paramount thing for the people. It's not just farmers but the whole human being. You and I are the same. Food is paramount. If you don't eat, you can live. Don't tell me What about studying and taking the imperial examination. What are you studying and taking the imperial examination for, is it to become an official?"

Xiaobao: "Of course, the imperial examination is for official career."

Meng Yan: "Then why did you become an official?"

Xiaobao: "Naturally, for the glory of our ancestors..."

Meng Yan interrupted Xiaobao's words: "Is it just to honor your ancestors? Then do you want to honor your ancestors as a corrupt official who amasses money, or as a good official who serves the country and the people and benefits the people?"

"How can you be a corrupt official to honor your ancestors! Naturally, you must be a good official for the country and the people, and for the benefit of the people."

Xiao Bao glared at Meng Yan angrily, very angry at Meng Yan's suspicion of him; Mother and Xiaoya are his close relatives, how could she say that about him, how could she doubt him.

"Huh, for the country, for the people, and for the benefit of the people! How do you want to serve the country, for the people, and for the benefit of the people? Are you following the book to serve the country, for the people, and for the benefit of the people?"

"If you are sent to the lower level to become an official after the imperial examination, do you know how to arrange the farming of the peasants under your rule? Do you know how to deal with the rainy season and how to deal with the drought? What about the heavy rain and flood? What about snowstorms and cold disasters? What about plagues?...Do you know all of this?"

"me……"

Meng Yan was stunned by a series of questions about how to ask Xiaobao, he really hadn't thought about it so much.In his previous life, he only wanted to pass the imperial examination to prove himself, to prove that the family's decision to exile him was wrong, and he hadn't thought about how to become an official; Apart from life and glory, he has not yet had time to think about other things.

"Xiaobao, you study every day. Do you know that there are many people in the world who are still suffering from hunger and cold? And food...these are just that we don't know."

"Little girl, how do you know this?"

"Think about how long you haven't paid attention to the outside world. You know that there is a severe drought in the north and there are no harvests. Many refugees have already gone south..." Thinking of the news that was inadvertently found at night, even the indifferent Meng Yan couldn't bear it. I can't bear it.

"It's not good to study behind closed doors, especially for officials. More often, they need to make correct decisions based on local conditions at that time and local conditions to guide the people..."

The anger in Xiaobao's heart gradually subsided, maybe his views were really narrow, maybe just like what Xiaoya said, he is still learning more, knowing more...

"Let's go, let's talk to the tenants." Xiaobao held Meng Yan's hand and continued walking towards the field, Meng Yan smiled gratifiedly.

Maybe she is selfish, Xiaobao is her younger brother, since Xiaobao has decided to take the imperial examination to become an official, she must make him a good official who will be famous forever, and not cause evil karma to her because of blood relationship.