Forced to farm for the princess

Wei Ruojin drew the tool drawings for making briquettes. This thing is relatively simple, and ordinary carpenters can do it, but he hasn't heard Shang Guanjia's report of finding a craftsman.

"Add some loess, but it can't be too much. We can try a little bit for specifics."

Lin Heng carefully looked at Wei Ruojin's drawing, and said, "Okay, I'll find someone to do it."

"Don't forget the craftsman I want, as long as it's a craftsman, I want it." Wei Ruojin urged again, several days had passed, and Shang Guanjia didn't believe him at all.

"Don't worry." Lin Heng walked outside the door and asked someone to hand over the blueprint to Steward Shang and send it to the barracks.

Wei Ruojin spread out the bamboo slips, and was about to write another volume for Tang Mo, when he saw Lin Heng came back again, he was taken aback, and said, "Why are you back again, aren't you going to the barracks?"

Lin Heng's face darkened, "I'm not here for a few days, can't I come back to accompany you now?"

"Didn't I think you were going to the military camp?" Wei Ruojin smiled at him flatteringly, and pulled him to sit aside.

"I won't go for a while. There is General Di in the military affairs. I haven't looked at government affairs for a long time." Lin Heng didn't sit down, went to his seat and picked up the bamboo slips solemnly.

Wei Ruojin smiled, and sat back; Lin Heng's complexion became even worse, but he continued to work on what he was doing without noticing it.

Lin Heng felt depressed for a while, and couldn't bear to read the bamboo slips in his hand. Could it be because he often went to the military camp, so Wei Ruojin talked about his feelings for him?

"Ajin, I'm angry."

Wei Ruojin's writing hand paused, and a drop of ink fell on the bamboo slip. He put down his pen and said, "I know you're angry, but I can't think of how to coax you right now, so I have to leave you alone to calm down."

Before Lin Heng got angry again, Wei Ruojin had already come to his side, moved to the corner of his mouth, and kissed him.

Lin Heng's face softened, and he hugged Wei Ruojin tightly, "You will coax me."

Lin Heng was in the room, Wei Ruojin didn't go out again, the two of them were doing other things in the room, which was considered a rare sight.

The next day was almost sunday, and Wei Ruojin got up dragging her aching body, scolded Lin Heng in her heart, and saw him coming in from the outside refreshed.

She even approached him shamelessly and kissed her, but he slapped her open.

"You should be fine." Lin Heng coughed to hide his inexplicable guilt.

"You'll be fine if you keep doing this next time." Wei Ruojin gave him an annoyed look, got up and got ready to get dressed, and Lin Heng went over to help him get dressed with a wink.

"Butler Shang just asked me if the sweet potatoes can be harvested? He accidentally dug them up yesterday, and the fruits underneath are not small."

Wei Ruojin counted the days in her heart, and it has been more than three months since it was planted, "It's almost time, usually it can be harvested in more than three months, let's go take a look later?"

Wei Ruojin ate too much breakfast, Shang Jiaguan took the family members of the mansion to harvest together; he didn't grow much in the yard, and the harvest would be finished soon.

"The sweet potato vines can still be planted." Wei Ruojin hastily dug out the cloth of sweet potatoes, and checked again. According to the above, it can indeed be planted for another season.

Sow in March and April in spring and harvest in June and July. In summer, you can plant in June and July and harvest in October and November.

I just don't know how much I can harvest this time, I can use all of it to grow seedlings, and all the wasteland he bought can be planted.The open space is not big, and two baskets were packed away. Butler Shang's hands trembled a little, and he looked at the general who was pretending to be working in surprise, and they both saw shock in each other's eyes.

Lin Heng also found out, pushed the person away, and picked up the basket himself; walked in front of Wei Ruojin with a sullen face, and stared at him without blinking.

"What's the matter?" Wei Ruojin took a look, and only collected two baskets. When he was in the countryside, he saw that people collected sweet potatoes, which seemed to be quite a lot. This is a little less.

"Ajin... I will definitely not let you down." Lin Heng hugged Wei Ruojin tightly.

Wei Ruojin thought, maybe there are not enough sweet potatoes, but they have never seen such a high-yield grain, so it is normal to be a little excited; it seems that Lin Heng was not as excited as he is now when he went to harvest corn last time.

"Shang Butler, it's ready. These weigh 78 catties together." The voice of the general who spoke was trembling. It was like a dream that nearly [-] catties of grain could be grown in such a small amount of land.

"78 catties?!"

"Congratulations, General, Congratulations, Young Master, with this grain, there will be no shortage of grain in the future." Butler Shang knelt down excitedly, if the princess was not willing to take out the seeds. "The son's merit is unmatched by anyone."

"My son's merits and virtues are unmatched by anyone!"

Hearing this, Wei Ruojin felt ashamed, and hurriedly asked people to wake up, "It will take a while before there is no shortage of food. What's more, the things in the yard are still fertilized, and ordinary people don't understand it yet. "

"I've seen the general, I've seen the young master." Outside the main courtyard, a general stood outside and saluted.

"What's the matter?"

"General, Zhuangzi's steward is here, I'm looking for Steward Shang." The general outside replied.

Butler Shang responded, and quickly said to Lin Heng and Wei Ruojin: "General, Princess, I have something to report."

"Tell me." Lin Heng held Wei Ruojin's hand and didn't want to let go.

"That day, when the young master handed over the sweet potatoes to the young master, because the young master had seen how the young master handled them, he followed his example and cut off the grown vines, and sent them to the general's farm for planting. Presumably today Today is an experienced steward who came to ask if this sweet potato should be harvested." Butler Shang kowtowed.

This kind of seed was brought by the young master. Although the young master and the general are a family now, he deliberately kept this matter from him.

"This king doesn't like people who make their own decisions." Lin Heng's complexion was not good.

"Please, general, come down." Steward Shang honestly admitted his mistake.

"Forget it, it's because I didn't think too much, and I haven't planted land before, so I'm loyal to you." Wei Ruojin stopped him. In fact, this matter was indeed his negligence. How could it be possible to compare with experienced people according to the scriptures? Although there are generals in the palace, most of these generals used to be tenant farmers.

"How much is planted in Zhuangzi?" Wei Ruojin asked.

"About an acre." Butler Shang kowtowed again, "Thank you, Young Master."

Wei Ruojin looked at Lin Heng, "It's just that you don't plan to go out now, and go to Zhuangzi together. Speaking of which, I don't know how much private property you have." After finishing speaking, she smiled straight at Lin Heng.

Lin Heng touched his ears, "Didn't I give you the things at home?"

"no!"

"I'll give you everything when I come back later."

Wei Ruojin chuckled.

In the entire Northwest Palace, only Wei Ruojin and a few children could not ride horses, even Xin Yi could. In order to be faster, everyone rode to Zhuangzi, and Wei Ruojin was led by Lin Heng.

This Zhuangzi is not far from the city, even closer than going to the coal mine, but it took more than half an hour to arrive; when we arrived at Zhuangzi, the stewards of the Zhuangzi rushed out to greet them, their feet were covered with mud.

"I have seen the prince and the concubine." The steward immediately knelt down.

"My lord, this is Steward Niu, and he is in charge of this village." Seeing Lin Heng nodding his head, Steward Shang said to Steward Niu, "Take the prince to the field to have a look."

Steward Niu took them to the field, and said as he walked, "The grain that Steward Shang asked to grow is really good, and the leaves are also delicious, but I dare not eat too much, so I only pick them once a month, for fear that picking too much will be bad for the grain. The food should be ready, but the vine keeps growing, so I have to ask someone to ask Butler Shang."

After saying this, I arrived at the ground, full of sweet potato vines, and a breeze created a green wave, which made me feel relieved.

"Thanks to Butler Shang, otherwise I would have wasted so much." Wei Ruojin really thanked Butler Shang for his self-assessment.

"Dig it and see."

After Lin Heng spoke, Butler Shang immediately stopped and picked one out with his hands. The sweet potatoes were heavy and big.

"My lord, you can take it." Shang Butler grinned, stood up, and looked at the sweet potatoes in the acre of land, grinning from ear to ear.

Steward Niu didn't expect that the fruit of this grain was underground, and it looked really big.He hurriedly shouted at the tenant farmers who were working at the same time: "Everyone put away what you are doing and come to collect food."

There are a lot of people in the village, and it didn't take long for this acre of land to be harvested. The sweet potato vines were neatly laid aside. It should be that the housekeeper Shang told them that they can still grow them.

An acre of sweet potatoes piled up into a hill, some people were busy harvesting, some people were busy weighing, and they didn't finish counting until mid-afternoon.

"General, Young Master, this time we have collected a total of 1000 catties of grain." Steward Shang stood aside, his eyes were a little wet, and he turned his back and wiped it quietly.

Lin Heng stood up excitedly, did not speak for a long time, then sat down slowly, took Wei Ruojin's hand, "I am so lucky to have met you. Your Majesty has hated me for a lifetime, but in the end he gave me the best. "

Wei Ruojin shrank her hand, but didn't pull it back, "You also think this food is good, don't you?"

Lin Heng nodded.

"Hurry up and plant it again. If you plant it well this time, the entire Northwest will soon be able to grow this kind of food. By then..." Wei Ruojin looked into his eyes and concealed the second half of the sentence.

"I know, I know, don't worry, the northwest can only be ours."

All the people in the hall are deaf and blind, and they can't see what they shouldn't hear and what they shouldn't see.Wei Ruojin looked at Butler Shang and said, "Butler Shang, this sweet potato was entrusted to you to manage before, and now you are still in charge. Half of the grain harvested this time will be used to grow seedlings, and the Zhuangzi's grain for the second half of the year will be planted in this. "

"Young Master will definitely live up to your entrustment." Steward Shang quickly knelt down, it was because Young Master thought highly of him, and he must handle this matter well.

Back in the palace, Wei Ruojin asked the kitchen to steam the sweet potatoes directly, and everyone in the mansion could get a share.Just after eating, Tomer ran over.