After the prosperous Tang Dynasty

Li Tan looked at Xiao Yansui standing there with his hands in his pockets looking at him, he was a little dumb for a while, and then he couldn't help laughing.

Compared with him, Xiao Yansui seemed much more casual.

She walked over directly and stood by Li Tan's side, making the distance between the two of them a little closer, so that it would be convenient for them to talk while standing together.

Li Tan couldn't help but took a serious look at the two fluffy pockets on Xiao Yansui's clothes, and after confirming that Xiao Yansui's posture was indeed very comfortable, he held the sleeves in his hand firmly. Furnace, did not mention the matter of returning it to Xiao Yansui.

"Why didn't I see you come here with Li Chu and the princess?" Xiao Yansui still glanced towards the main hall in front, but the content of his speech was directed at Li Tan.

Li Tan said with a smile: "My elder brother should be in the front right now, and elder sister is looking at the bride. I have nothing to do by myself, so I came to the back for a walk."

In the Eastern Palace, Li Wenning was ranked third among the daughters of the crown prince Li Heng. However, Li Tan has always been friends with Li Chu and Li Wenning. Although he is not the only sister, he will always be called "Sister" by him. Sister's, but Li Wenning is indeed the only one.

After a slight pause, Li Tan turned his head in a timely manner, looked at Xiao Yansui, and asked with a smile, "What about you, why are you alone?"

"I didn't quite understand some of what they were chatting with, so I came out to hide." Xiao Yansui said casually.

Xiao Yansui is not without curiosity, even, her curiosity may be a little stronger than ordinary people.

It's just that, for those wives or little girls who start a conversation casually, you just listen to the general idea, and then they are amazed and emotional. This kind of irresponsible gossip attitude, Xiao Yan Sui is totally insensitive.

--It all aroused people's curiosity, but in the end they couldn't tell the whole story, so a large group of people just speculated and couldn't figure out whether it was true or a rumor, that was too disappointing up.

From this point of view, Xiao Yansui is not a person who is too gossip after all.She likes to clarify things thoroughly, and then there will naturally be judgments in her heart, but she doesn't like to be obedient and only listen to half of it. This will make her feel that those who spread this kind of news around are very irresponsible.

Even if it's watching a movie, you still have to watch the full set, right?Otherwise, what a disappointment...

After hearing this, Li Tan didn't say much, but thought about it seriously, and then said with a smile: "I know an interesting place, should I go and have a look?"

"Okay," Xiao Yansui agreed straight away, turned around, stood side by side with Li Tan, and even asked curiously, "Which side?"

"Follow me." Li Tan said, and walked forward without hesitation.

Li Tan is about three or four years older than Xiao Yansui, and now he looks like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy. His stature is a bit thinner than that of an adult, but his general height and frame are already in his infancy. It's revealed.

Compared with him, Xiao Yansui, who is only about the age of cardamom, has grown a lot taller than before, but now, she still looks like a young girl with exquisite features.

Just her pair of beautiful eyes, which are bright and lively but always have a hint of contemplation, making people look a little more mature than her age.

Xiao Yansui followed directly, and when walking on the road, he asked casually, "How come you are so familiar with Shouwang Mansion?"

Li Tan is the third son of the crown prince Li Heng, and the crown prince Li Heng and the longevity king Li Mao are not brothers from the same mother.

Xiao Yansui, a science student who doesn't know much about literature and history, has been living in the Xiao family for these years. From the words of his grandfather Xiao Song and others, he can also tell that the relationship between the prince and the king of life is really serious. It's hard to say.

Under such circumstances, would Li Tan know where the Shouwang Mansion is fun and interesting?This is somewhat surprising.

Li Tan answered quite freely, "It's not that I'm familiar with this place, I just happened to see the drawings of the Shouwang Mansion made by craftsmen before, and just now I heard from the maid beside Princess Xianyi that there are several fruit trees in the courtyard. Quite interesting."

"Fruit tree?" Xiao Yansui raised her eyebrows slightly, showing a bit of curiosity, "I didn't notice these when I was up there just now..."

Even though Li Tan deliberately slowed down his pace, because Xiao Yansui's legs are still much shorter than Li Tan's at the moment, so when he was walking, he was still accidentally pulled down a short distance, Xiao Yansui naturally He took two quick steps and followed up again.

Li Tan has also been paying attention to the situation of Xiao Yansui around him. Seeing this, he slowed down a little, then smiled and joked, and replied: "After all, it is winter, and the leaves of the fruit trees are almost gone. It has snowed a few days, and the treetops may still be covered with snow, how can you tell if it is a fruit tree or an ordinary tree?"

"It makes sense." Xiao Yansui nodded, but asked directly: "Since they are all bare tree trunks, then you said, what's so interesting about fruit trees?"

Li Tan didn't answer directly this time, but looked at Xiao Yansui and blinked, and smiled deliberately, "I'll understand when I see you."

"Okay," Xiao Yansui said no more.

After all, although it is said that she has lived in two lives, Xiao Yansui really did not grow up in the rural countryside, no matter in this life or in her previous life. Moreover, she did not specialize in agriculture and forestry in the past, so, The understanding of plants and fruit trees is basically limited to the parks in the city, the gardens of Xiao's family, or the common sense in biology textbooks such as genes, inheritance, cuttings, grafting, auxin, and chlorophyll...

The area of ​​Shouwang Mansion is not small. Xiao Yansui was at the top of the rockery just now, and this way went around. Moreover, when leading the way, there was still a place where there were many crowds. Therefore, Xiao Yansui After walking with him for a long time, I finally heard him say: "Here we are, look!"

There was no surprise in Li Tan's voice, but there was a bit of a smile.

"Hmm..." Xiao Yansui naturally saw the scene at the end of the path ahead at a glance - it was a small forest, but the trees planted were not ornamental trees, but several rather thick persimmon trees.

Frost and cold late autumn have long passed, and the leaves on the persimmon tree have long since turned red and withered along with the bleak autumn wind, because the dry leaves even made a rustling sound when they were touched a little, and then flapped lightly. Spin down to the ground and blend into the soil near the roots of the tree.

The small piece of persimmon trees in front of Xiao Yansui had long since become bare, leaving only dark gray trunks and branches without any greenery.

--Of course, with Xiao Yansui's eyesight, she can still recognize it as a persimmon tree. The simplest reason is naturally that the leaves on the nearby bare persimmon trees are gone, and each one is big or small. There are still many red, orange and yellow persimmons hanging high on the branches, and many of them have fallen into the fallen leaves on the ground.

In the cold winter, there are still a few birds that have not traveled far away, pecking at three or two persimmons on the treetops seriously. The half of it is still hanging on the branch.

The longevity king Li Hao certainly would not lack such a few persimmons to eat, so the persimmon tree in his yard really blooms and bears fruit every year, and then a tree of persimmons hangs on it waiting to feed the birds in winter...

These persimmon trees were popular all over the corner as early as in autumn.

Xiao Yansui was staring up at a big persimmon that hadn't been pecked by birds in time, wondering if he could find a bamboo pole with a cloth bag hanging on it to pick it off, then listened to Li Tan's soft explanation beside him He said: "Persimmon trees have a year, and each tree has a different year. Usually, it will bear fruit this year, and it will not bear fruit next year. It will not be ready until the next year."

"Oh!" Xiao Yansui blinked, and suddenly remembered that she seemed to have seen similar reading materials in biology books, and what she wrote down seemed to be aimed at how to solve this problem.

"It's the big and small year of the fruit tree! If the fruit tree has too many fruits in one year, it will consume too much nutrients, resulting in no fruit in the second year." Xiao Yansui rested her chin on one hand, looking at the persimmon, as if she was very tired. With experience, he said deeply: "Generally, you can use appropriate fruit thinning methods to artificially pick off the overly dense fruits, and fertilize to supplement nutrients. In this way, the fruit trees can continue to bear fruit every year, um..."

Hearing Xiao Yansui's words all of a sudden, Li Tan was probably a little dazed, and even stunned for a moment, subconsciously asked: "Is that so?"

"En." Xiao Yansui nodded affirmatively.

At the time of the Tang Dynasty, there were actually some books on agronomy, and experienced farmers in the crop fields often had some unique insights.

However, in fact, it was not just the Tang Dynasty. During the entire ancient period, domestic agricultural science was mostly limited to experience summarization. According to past experience, some empirical work with good results was artificially carried out during the planting process. In anticipation of a good harvest.

After a brief silence, "It's the same for fruit trees, isn't it the same for other crops?"

"If you want to have a good crop, the most important thing is the variety of seeds and the use of chemical fertilizers." Xiao Yansui told the truth, although she didn't know much about agronomy.

Li Tan nodded thoughtfully.

Seeing that Xiao Yansui was still staring at that persimmon, regardless of whether it was delicious or not, she definitely wanted it anyway, so Li Tan simply said, "Wait for me here for a while."

"Huh?" Xiao Yansui looked at him subconsciously.

After a while, he brought a long spear from the nearby guards, and raised his hand to just cut off the branch that was only an inch away from the root of the persimmon.

Li Tan reached out to catch the persimmon, turned around and handed it to Xiao Yansui, "Here you are."