Generals take care of their children: The master mother leads the system to farm

Manager Lin went out with his servants, taking away the bamboo basket filled with vegetables and the big black fish.

A maid washed the fruit and brought it up on a plate.

The twins are unwrapping chocolate wrappers.

Fang Ruyu opened one and took a bite, but for a long time she couldn't tell what it tasted like.

"Yeah, that's right, there's a scent of wine? No wonder it's called wine-filled chocolate. Is there really wine in it?"

Li Huaitong was surprised to hear this and took the wine from the twins. "Since there is wine, you are not allowed to drink it..."

As he said that, he stuffed it into his mouth.

"...It's too sweet, but the taste is also peculiar. It has the aroma of wine, but it's just the smell of wine. Bao'er can eat it, he can eat it, hahaha."

Bao Er, one of the twins whose candy was snatched away, teased her father, "Father, shame on you, snatch the candy."

Fang Ruyu laughed and peeled a lychee for her. "The fruit is delicious, too. Which one do you want, Baoer?"

The other twin: "Both!"

The handsome boy wiped the chocolate mud off the corners of his sister's mouth with a silk handkerchief, "You are the greedy one, Belle. Be careful not to damage your teeth!"

Fang Ruyu pushed Guoran towards her son, "Try it too, Yang'er. Don't just focus on your sisters. They won't suffer any loss."

Li Huaitong also picked up a lychee, peeled it, handed it to his wife, and joked:

"I don't have anywhere to get these for you on weekdays, so I still have to beg for food from you."

His wife was different from him. She was born into a wealthy family and the food and things she used were naturally fine.

The children were enjoying the meal, especially the twins. Fang Ruyu called the nanny who was serving them and asked the young masters and young ladies to wash their hands to stop them from eating.

I put away the chocolates a long time ago because they are too sweet. I can only eat one or two a day at most.

Only the couple were left in the room, and Li Huaitong lowered his voice and told Fang Ruyu:

"Madam, you don't know, but that Lady Li did a lot of things under my nose.

It wasn't a bad thing, she was just careless. Because she lived outside Li County and there were a lot of things going on in the government office recently, she didn't notice it.

Earlier, the general asked me if there were any manors in the county that were for sale, and I helped him find one. Guess what happened?"

Fang Ruyu: "What's going on?"

Seeing his wife looking very interested, Li Huaitong suddenly didn't want to tell her that Gu Jingyan had asked him for the city gate token.

I’m afraid this isn’t that simple, so I’d better pretend to be confused.

He twisted his tongue and said, "Well, he immediately registered the farm in the name of his wife."

This was enough to surprise Fang Ruyu. "General Gu really loves his wife so much? I heard that... the general's wife was placed in Lushui Village as a disaster victim?"

Li Huaitong shook his head. "The twists and turns in this are their own business."

Fang Ruyu listened and nodded, but her focus was not here.

"Although the gifts she sent back were a bit shabby, they were all things that money couldn't buy.

Even the vegetables and fish are not as delicious as what ordinary people can buy."

"That's true. Look at that sweet potato. I think it's her..."

Fang Ruyu stopped him from blurting out the words in time, "Husband! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has discovered a new variety of grain, which is a great contribution to the country. In the future, the people will definitely be grateful to him."

When Ouyang Siyuan treated Li Huaitong like an ancestor, he said unhappily:

"Yes! Madam reminded me!" He pressed his forehead and said:

"Fortunately, this big Buddha has returned to peace, so I can spend a peaceful new year."

Fang Ruyu smiled and said nothing.

As a subject, one must also be a good official. There are many things that are beyond one's control. You know this well.

-

Kyoto is safe.

As soon as Ouyang Siyuan entered the imperial palace, the news that the prince had returned to the palace spread throughout Kyoto.

As soon as I stepped into the imperial study, I was greeted by an ink pen that was fully soaked with ink.

"Rebellious son! You still remember to come back?"

The Great Yan Emperor Ouyang Qin, who was sitting behind the desk, looked at Ouyang Siyuan with a sullen face as he stepped into the door of the imperial study.

"Why not just bury it outside?"

Ouyang Siyuan retracted his foot, turned around and walked out: "...Oh, the king wants the minister to die, but the minister cannot..."

Before he finished his words, another ink pen flew over at high speed.

"Stop! Come back here!"

Fortunately, Ouyang Siyuan dodged quickly and avoided the attack of the ink pen.

"Tsk! It's been such a long time since we last met, and yet your temper changes with each passing moment...ah, maybe it's because of me?"

Ouyang waved a fan nonchalantly and approached the imperial desk, "Your Highness, I pay my respects to you, Father."

When he came closer, he bent his knees properly and kowtowed to his father.

Ouyang Qin was angry, "You won't be satisfied unless you piss your father off to death, right?"

Ouyang Siyuan knelt with his back straight, "Father, please live longer..."

Ouyang Qin's expression eased a little, thank goodness this rebellious son was not so cruel as to not care about his father's life or death.

"I want to relax for a few more years. When you retire and become the emperor, I will have to get up earlier than the chickens and sleep later than the dogs every day..."

"If that happens...I won't have many good days left."

Ouyang Qin: "..."

The emperor pointed at his own son who was kneeling below him with shaking hands, and then looked around for his ink brush...

The father and son of the royal family were arguing with each other in the imperial study, and the situation was as chaotic as ever.

All the eunuchs and palace maids looked at each other with their eyes and their noses in their hearts, not daring to say a word.

When the emperor dropped his pen or a memorial paper, they would just pick them up silently.

After all, it was over after all. We have been doing this for years and the servants didn't make a fuss about it.

-

Ouyang Siyuan followed Ouyang Qin to Kunning Palace to pay respects to the Queen.

Behind him followed a group of eunuchs and palace maids holding boxes of different sizes.

"Father, I heard that my sister-in-law is going to open a farm. It sounds interesting. If I get bored of staying in Beijing one day, I will go to Li County to stay for a while."

Ouyang Qin had vented his anger in the study and was now able to communicate with his son in a calm manner.

"It's been less than an hour since you came back, and you're already thinking about when you'll go out again. Are you still the crown prince?

The Grand Master misses you very much, go visit him later."

"Father, being a crown prince is really not that fun. It's better to be a leisurely rich man, traveling around, like... Gu Jingyan's father."

Ouyang Qin, who was standing in front with his hands behind his back, said, “Hmm.”

"I also made an agreement with your mother at the beginning. When you and your two sisters are married, I will find a place with mountains, water, flowers, grass, and a few acres of land for working, and take her to live in seclusion there."

"Nowadays, the country is busy with state affairs, so how can we have the leisure time to think about such beautiful things?"

Ouyang Siyuan said with sympathy: "It is indeed a bit tragic, so now that your son can enjoy a few more days of leisure, shouldn't your father be comforted?"

"You go and take care of your state affairs. When you have some free time, I will take my mother out for a walk so that you can live out the days of seclusion that you didn't bring her with you."

This statement really deserves a beating.

Ouyang Qin turned around and kicked him, "You are such a rebellious son, why do you have to worry about my affairs? You have been out for so long, you should think about how to deal with the test from the Grand Tutor."

Having said this, Ouyang Qin's steps became much lighter.

He and the Queen couldn't deal with this rebellious son, nor could they bring themselves to do so, but there were people willing to do it for them.

As they were talking, they arrived at Kunning Palace.

Queen Sun was already waiting outside the palace to welcome the emperor.

When the two men came up to her, she first glared at her son, then bowed down.

Ouyang Qin helped her up. "I have already taught him a lesson for you in the Imperial Study. Queen, don't be angry with him. Let's forget about it. It's not worth it to get yourself hurt by getting angry."

Ouyang Siyuan looked at Ouyang Qin hugging his queen into the palace, chuckled, and quickened his pace to follow.

Ouyang Siyuan, who was fed dog food wherever he went, was thinking in his heart whether he should just find someone to marry.

I'd better go talk to the Master later about him and Xiuying...

Although his books might be smashed on him and he might be kicked out of the Taifu Mansion.

-

The emperor and empress took their seats.

Ouyang Siyuan kowtowed to the two of them again and said, "I am an unfilial son. I apologize to my father, the emperor, and my mother, the queen."

The queen had gotten used to his behavior since he was a child, and she pointed at his forehead and cursed, "You are a prince, but you have no rules for doing things, and you don't even have enough people to take with you when you go out.

It's not that I'm holding you back, but you have to ensure your own safety, right?

If your father hadn't sent out eagle guards to follow you, you'd better be careful of your uncle's son!! "

Ouyang Siyuan rubbed his forehead, not caring at all, "That fat pig? Mother, just wait for it. I will take care of him sooner or later."

Ouyang Qin took a sip of the hot tea served by the palace maid, and after hearing what he said, he snorted, "You almost got yourself killed and had no descendants, yet you still dare to speak so shamelessly."

The mother and son over there didn't listen to his complaints and just kept talking to themselves.

Ouyang Siyuan smiled and tried to please the queen.

"Your son has brought you some good things from the north." He ordered the palace maids and eunuchs holding the boxes to show the things.

"I have already ordered someone to pack up the portion for the Grand Master, and the rest are for our family."

Queen Sun Lanzhi rolled her eyes at him and said, "You two have been eating and drinking with others all day long, and now you are taking so many things back. Do you have any shame?"

Ouyang Siyuan glanced at his father and said:

"These are the New Year gifts that my sister-in-law sent to you and my father. She asked me to bring them back."

Sun Lanzhi picked up the round fan in the box and said, "Oh, this fan is really beautiful. Is it nailed with gold beads?"

“What is this?

Eh? Rouge? Wow, this rouge is so unique! It can be turned out and back..."

"...Thermos cup, this is also a rare item. How can a pot of water stay hot all day without being placed on the stove? This sounds a bit exaggerated, doesn't it?"

Ouyang Siyuan asked the palace maid to boil a kettle of water and pour it in, and check in the evening to see if the water was still hot.

Sun Lanzhi looked at them one by one. She had eaten a lot of fruits with Ouyang Qin, but they tasted good. There were really no fresh fruits to eat at this time of year, so she asked the palace servants to put them in the cold storage.

"Your sister's children also love to eat this fruit, save some for them later.

The round fan looks so beautiful, let's give one to them too. Oh, the weather is getting warmer, and wearing spring clothes and holding a beautiful fan is really pleasing to the eye."

Ouyang Siyuan: "Mother, please make your own arrangements."

"Father, I brought back two sacks of sweet potatoes that I grew myself as a gift to you two."

He took off a sachet from his waist and handed it to Ouyang Qin, "This is what my sister-in-law asked me to give you. It also contains a method for growing sweet potato seedlings.

She said that the sweet potato was a gift from heaven to Da Yan, and that the method of growing the seedlings should be handed over to heaven and then popularized throughout Da Yan.

"Sweet potatoes are not picky about the soil, they can grow even on sandy and rocky land. Father, this less than one acre of sandy and rocky land has produced 7,000 to 8,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes, which is truly the highest yield of grain."

"Seven or eight thousand kilograms? One acre of land?" Ouyang Qin stood up in shock when he heard it.

He knew that this thing would definitely have a better yield than wheat. One sweet potato lump weighs two kilograms, so you can tell how high its yield was.

But I didn't expect it to increase by several thousand kilograms.

Ouyang Qin hurried back to the imperial study, holding the seedling cultivation method in his hand.

When I left, I didn't forget my own thermos cup.

Along the way, he told Chen He to quickly summon that adult to the palace for an audience, and to summon that adult to the palace for an audience.

Seeing how anxious he looked, Sun Lanzhi knew that the emperor would miss dinner again, so he hurriedly ordered the maid beside him to prepare snacks in the small kitchen.

-

As soon as Ouyang Siyuan left Kunning Palace, he met the East Palace guards Wufeng and Wuxin.

Wu Feng: "Your Highness, Grand Tutor Sun requests to see you."

Ouyang Siyuan: "...It came too quickly."

His father had told him to go see the tutor later, but he had just returned to the palace and hadn't even had time to catch his breath when the tutor himself came to him impatiently.

Is it too late for him to leave the palace and hide now?

"His Royal Highness!"

Someone outside the palace wall called out loudly.

Wu Xin: "Your Highness, the Grand Tutor has been waiting outside Kunning Palace for quite some time."

Ouyang Siyuan had no choice but to accept his fate and go out to meet people.

The truth is, the Grand Tutor will test you and won't let you go until he's satisfied.

When he got outside, he saw Sun Li standing on the palace road with a solemn look on his face. He bowed to Ouyang Siyuan as soon as he saw him:

"His Royal Highness."

Ouyang Siyuan quickly pushed the box in his hand away to avoid talking about schoolwork when they met:

"Master, these are the things your granddaughter-in-law sent you, along with some melons, vegetables, and fruits. I'll have them delivered to your house."

It took Sun Li a while to realize which granddaughter-in-law Ouyang Siyuan was talking about.

He glanced at Ouyang Siyuan, whose eyes were as sharp as a honeycomb, and raised his hand to open the gift box.

Recently, almost every meal in his yard is more or less related to this granddaughter-in-law.

Eat sweet potato porridge, steamed sweet potatoes, and sweet potato buns for breakfast.

Dessert sweet potato soup, sweet potato mash.

Have sweet potato rice for dinner.

The potatoes, vegetables, fish and shrimp...

The two old people were given priority in terms of food in the mansion. No one dared to touch the things sent from Li County, except for the hard-to-eat fruits, so they were left for the two old people to feast on.

This made Sun Li feel like he was being ungrateful.

When Li Changle bought this thermos cup, he chose the roasted bamboo shreds model.

The entire body of the thermos cup is made of smooth thin bamboo sheets, with only a circle of stainless steel at the mouth of the cup and a handle.

Once the cork is closed, the water temperature remains constant all day long.

Ouyang Siyuan had an expression that said "come and ask me" and was smiling brightly.