The Three Spirit Stones

All the plants in the yard have sprouted and are growing well, thanks to Cheng Yu's careful care.

Sweet potatoes and potatoes are easy to grow plants. They grow densely and green in pots. They should be transplanted into the ground, otherwise they will not grow well in the pots.

He had been to the garden and found a piece of sandy loam with good air permeability, suitable for growing sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes. The land for tomato and pepper seedlings needed to be fertilizer and should be planted in a farther place.

After choosing the land, call the gardener and ask him to remove all the flowers and plants planted there.

The gardener Xu Laogen felt distressed as he cleaned the house.

Hey, my Lord!

These flowers and plants are all loved by the ladies, and they have spent a lot of time and effort to take care of them! Some of them were specially sent by my uncle from far away. Now I have to move them to other places. I don’t know if they will survive.

He removed the flowers and plants and prepared to reclaim the land. He had done this before. He would go to the garden early in the morning with a hoe on his shoulder and wearing his farmer's shirt.

Ah Cai heard him say last night that he was going to open up wasteland in the morning, and Cheng Fugui, who was holding her, also came with him.

For Cheng Yu, land reclamation was a piece of cake. In one morning, he had reclaimed more than a dozen plots of land.

She saw that he dug very deep and asked him why he dug so deep. Was it because he was very strong?

Cheng Yu was amused by her and said that the deeper the soil, the better to prevent insect pests. The sweet potatoes will grow, and if they are shallower, they will be exposed to the ground, which will attract a pest called elephant beetles and mice. If they are buried deep underground, they cannot eat them.

After the land was ready, I had the servants plant the sweet potato, potato and corn seedlings and then water them. It was already afternoon when all this was done. I also specially arranged two people to watch over the fields and do tasks such as watering, weeding and bird prevention in the morning and evening.

The next day, the pepper seedlings and tomato seedlings were also planted. These plants are more afraid of cold, so we built a shed with some white gauze to protect them from the cold.

These crops would have been introduced to the Central Plains much later, but now, thanks to Cheng Yu, they have been introduced many years earlier!

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Now that the yard is ready and the crops are planted, it’s time to do the most important thing – save Acai’s life!

He is going to find the Taoist priest who gave him the Yuanling Gem!

Some time ago, two of his childhood friends came over. One was Zhang Yu, whose father was a general named Zhang Chao under his uncle Cao Wei. The other was Xu Bei, also a descendant of a general. The other two had taken up posts in local areas.

After Cheng Yu came back, he resumed his correspondence with them.

They had seen the Taoist priest before, and he asked them to keep an eye out for the Taoist priest. They also sent people out to search for him in Taoist temples in and outside Bianjing.

But there were so many people in Bianjing City, and there was no developed network like modern ones in ancient times. How could it be easy to find someone in such a vast sea of ​​people?

After finishing all his work, he decided to go find it himself.

Sun Yuechan discovered that Cheng Yu had recently been taking Ah Cai out for a stroll, and sometimes they came back very late, but she had been busy with farm affairs recently and had no time to pay attention to them.

The Cheng family had two farms in the north of the city. The land was barren and they could not grow much food all year round.

There were more than a dozen households in the village. Not to mention paying the annual rent, the food they grew was not enough for them to eat. In bad years, they had to ask the Cheng family to subsidize them.

Mrs. Cheng was kind-hearted and exempted them from paying rent for a few years, but this was not a long-term solution.

It just so happened that some time ago someone wanted to buy their farm and the price was agreed upon, but the tenants on the farm refused to move. If the farm was sold, they would have nowhere to go, and these dozen households could not be resettled for the time being, so the sale of the farm was put on hold.

Sun Yuechan has been trying to find a way to accommodate them during this period. She originally wanted to discuss it with Cheng Yu, but seeing that he didn't seem to care about anything in the mansion, she was too lazy to talk to him.

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During this period, Acai was very happy!

Because, she could finally truly appreciate the charm of the Northern Song Dynasty's Bianliang, which was known for its wealth and charm!

There is a famous painting throughout the ages - Along the River During the Qingming Festival, which describes the natural scenery and prosperous scenes of Bianliang and the banks of the Bian River during the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the past, we only saw pictures and scenes in books and on the Internet, but now we can actually be in the real scene. How can it not be exciting?

Eat, drink and have fun!

Eating comes first, and the snacks here are called chewy, with a wide variety and a dazzling array!

For soups alone, there are lotus seed soup, Baiweiyun soup, colorful soup, leaf soup, five-soft soup, four-soft soup, three-soft soup, crispy soup, three-crisp soup, double-crisp soup, etc.

Animal offal, such as kidneys cooked with salt and wine, steamed kidneys with fat, stuffed kidneys, kidneys cooked with lychee, fried kidney lungs, etc.

Sheep, lamb with four soft meats, steamed lamb with wine, lamb with embroidery, lamb with five flavors and apricot cheese, lamb from a thousand miles away, lamb offal, lamb head and fish, lamb feet and bamboo shoots, raw lamb with finely rubbed meat, lamb with sauce…

Sashimi, fish maw sashimi, seafood sashimi, sea bass sashimi, carp sashimi, crucian carp sashimi, ...

Among these delicacies, Cheng Yu didn't dare let her eat raw fish, and the rest had to be cooked thoroughly and kept clean and hygienic!

In addition, the interior decorations of the restaurants here are very elegant and luxurious, and many restaurants are named after gardens.

Such as Zhongshan Garden Main Store, Manwang Garden Main Store, Shaozhai Garden Main Store and so on.

As the poem says: [There must be halls and courtyards, shaded corridors, small pavilions arranged in rows, hanging windows with flowers and bamboos, and curtains hanging down].

When it comes to drinking, how can we miss tea?

The tea here is very artistic!

There are numerous teahouses of all sizes in Tokyo, and the most densely populated and prosperous ones are located near the famous Panlou and Imperial Street.

Among them, there is a tea technique called tea division, which is also known as tea art, soup art or tea art.

All kinds of strange and bizarre pictures are painted on the tea soup, like elegant paintings, mountains, rivers, clouds, flowers, birds, insects and fish, just like a series of ink paintings, so it is also called "water painting".

Cheng Yu took Ah Cai to these teahouses to drink tea. She was reluctant to drink the cups of works of art when she saw them. The latte art coffee she had drunk before was simply weak compared to the tea.

There are many kinds of entertainment in Bianjing City!

Playing polo, kicking football, hiking, barbecuing, watching plays, dancing, listening to music, horse riding, sumo wrestling, throwing pots...

There were many storytellers in the theaters, and these storytellers were like today's talk show artists. She didn't like listening to storytelling, she liked watching people dancing and pitching pots.

There are some famous dancers in several large theaters. They have graceful postures and amazing dancing skills. If they were in modern times, these dancers would definitely be like stars.

Among them, there was a geisha named Hatsuun whom she liked very much. She had been to her for three consecutive days to show her support, and each time she would buy a basket of flowers.

These flowers had to be bought on the spot, each costing two taels of silver. After each guest bought a flower and saw the wonderful performance, they would throw it into the venue.

These flowers are one of the important sources of income for this group of geishas. Others would buy at most ten or eight flowers, but Ah Cai was generous and bought baskets of them every time.

As they were shopping, they had a follower named Cheng Chang, the son of the housekeeper Cheng Sanbao.

As a loyal servant of the Cheng family, he couldn't stand the prince's obedience to the young lady. Just like now, the young lady wanted to reward Chu Yun, and she gave him several hundred taels of silver at a time, and the prince gave it to her as if the silver was blown by the wind.