Chang'an Ferry

As soon as they got up the steps, the emperor came back, the two waited for a while, Mu Yanying took the emperor's hand, and the three of them went in together.

"Aunt and Uncle, can I go play with Lin Chen tomorrow?" Mu Yanying asked obediently while holding a bowl.

The emperor picked up a chopsticks dish and put it in Mu Yingying's bowl, "Yes, but you must come back before dark."

"Okay, I'm going to write a letter to Ah Chen." Mu Yanying was a little excited. This was the first time she went out to play. Ying wiped the corners of his mouth with an embroidered handkerchief, "Look at you, you don't even ask your aunt and uncle what plans you have for tomorrow!"

"Ah!" Mu Yanying lowered her head, put the food in the bowl to her mouth, and said, "Your aunt is teasing you, see you are nervous." The emperor comforted, "Hurry up and eat, eat us go out for a walk”

"it is good"

Mu Yanying deliberately told Lin Chen that Li Shengye was coming and apologized to him.

Lin Chen didn't think much of it, he just came, there were so many people.

The next day, Mu Yuying arrived at the Changqing Palace early, and Li Shengye was eating, when he saw Mu Yuying was slightly startled, "An'an so early"

"That's right! Lin Chen sent a message to the palace people yesterday, let's go earlier." Mu Yanying explained, then sat across from Li Shengye, propped her head up to watch Li Shengye eat.

"An'an, do you still need it?" Li Shengye was embarrassed by the look. It really took some time to practice martial arts this morning.

Mu Yanying shook her head, "No, I ate a lot."

Li Shengye didn't speak but just speeded up his eating, and soon Li Shengye finished eating, "Let's go!"

"Oh, good!" When we arrived at Lin Chen's house, the sun had just come out, and Lin Chen, who had been waiting at the gate for a long time, hurried up to greet him, "Oh, you are here!"

"Ah Chen, you said yesterday that there was a surprise, what kind of surprise did you say?" Mu Yingying thought about what Lin Chen said in yesterday's reply.

Lin Chen kept the key, "you will know in a while." After pulling people in, he went straight through the main room to the backyard. Lin Shangshu and his wife were putting some farm tools on the mule cart. "An'an is here" saw Li Shengye next to him, Zhang Xian saluted, "Fourth Highness"

Li Shengye is a prince, but he is also a junior. The other party is an elder and his wife, so he didn't dare to accept it all, so he returned a half salute. Lin Yuanzhi is currently studying with the princes, and he is Li Shengye's teacher. He didn't salute, but just nodded to Li Shengye Continue to move things up.

"An'an, today we will go to the village outside the city to pick vegetables and fertilize by the way." Mysteriously gathered together, "There are still fun, you will know when we arrive."

Mu Yanying's eyes were shining, and she nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, let's go!" Lin Yuanzhi greeted.

In view of the fact that there are two more people today, before leaving the house, I replaced the mule with the horse that brought Mu Yanying and the others, "Sit on it!" Lin Yuanzhi led the horse out, Zhang Xian, Lin Chen, Mu Yanying and Li Shengye Sitting on the cart, Lin Yuanzhi led the horse and walked in front, and the accompanying palace servants followed far behind.

Lin Yuanzhi's footsteps were very fast, so he took another shortcut, turned left and turned right, and left the imperial city. As soon as he left the imperial city, there was a wide official road. After walking along the official road for more than ten minutes, he saw When we arrived at the village, it would be spring, and it was the season of sowing grain. The fields were full of workers. Mu Yanying and Li Shengye entered the city like bumpkins who had never been out of the house, and they kept looking around, "Be careful, Don't fall!" Zhang Xian reminded.

"No, there is a railing." Mu Yanying lay on the railing, and Li Shengye sat towards him, grabbing Mu Yanying's clothes without a trace.

After walking for another half an hour, Lin Yuanzhi finally turned his direction and walked towards the path, "Ah!" Fortunately, Li Shengye was holding on to Mu Yingying's clothes, and Mu Yingying jumped forward, if Li Shengye hadn't pulled her Soon, the front teeth are gone.

"Thank you, Aye" Mu Yanying sat up straight, Li Shengye withdrew his hand, "No need"

"An'an, you scared me to death. If you have anything, I think I will be beaten to death." Lin Chen patted his chest in fear, and Mu Yanying rushed over, "No way!"

"Okay, sit still, we'll be there after a short walk." Lin Yuanzhi put on a face, Mu Yuying and the two quickly sat down, Zhang Xian changed positions and supported Mu Yuying and Li Shengye with both hands, "The road ahead is not easy."

After bumping around for a while, I finally arrived. It was a small village. When I saw Lin Yuanzhi, many villagers greeted him. The villagers brought up a large bundle of grass, "The grass that was just plucked is fresh." After looking at Mu Yanying and Li Shengye, he naturally knew that the people who were in contact with the current Shangshu were not ordinary people, and these two might be someone's precious son. , "These two sons are so handsome!"

The villagers smiled very sincerely, turned around and left after carrying the basket on their backs.

Mu Yanying and Li Shengye were a little embarrassed, and hurriedly helped Lin Yuanzhi carry things. Lin Yuanzhi waved his hand, "I will carry it myself" and then said, "They are all simple and honest folks. don't be shy"

"That's right! That uncle, usually likes to praise people the most." Lin Chen said cheerfully, and picked up a basket filled with food, while Zhang Xian carried water and another basket, "Let's go!"

Along the Qianmo trail, there are fields on both sides. After going up a few slopes, you will see a fruit forest. The peach blossoms will bloom in just a few days, and the snow-white pear blossoms will bloom in the fields. I don’t know who the man is singing. , one after another.

Lin Yuanzhi spent money to buy a few plots of land in the village for growing vegetables.

"Didn't you say that your father went to open up wasteland at the foot of the mountain?" Mu Yanying asked in a low voice.

Lin Chen shook his head, "It's just spreading rumors!"

When he arrived at the place, Lin Yuanzhi put down his back basket, took out his hoe and began to dig the soil. Zhang Xian found a flat place, spread a cloth, and sprinkled insect repellent powder around, "An'an, you rest here." After washing his hands Remove jug cups, fruit treats from the basket.

Seeing Mu Yanying and Li Shengye's embarrassment, they just came to add to the chaos.

Zhang Xian took out a cloth bag from his back basket after doing these things, and put the seeds inside into the dug hole one by one, while Lin Chen filled the soil with a small hoe in the back, Zhang Xian said in a low voice What, the latter put down his hoe and ran over, "An'an, let's go play!"

"Aren't you going to help?" Mu Yanying and Li Shengye were helping each other to roll up their sleeves, ready to help, "Oh, mom and dad did the same thing last time, today we just order vegetables, we're not busy, let's go play!"

However, after going around the village, children of seven or eight years old like them were all helping out in the fields, no matter how young they were, they couldn't play together, so the three of them squatted on the ground and watched the Lin family couple work. , "An'an, let's go fishing!"

"Fishing" The two bumpkins looked at Lin Chen curiously, Lin Chen nodded, "Yes, we are fishing, and we can have extra meals when we go back at night."

"Okay!" Mu Yanying had no objection, and Li Shengye naturally had no objection. Lin Chen asked Father Lin for instructions. Father Lin put down his hoe, broke a branch, and chased Lin Chen to beat him. Mu Yanying hurried forward to try to persuade him, " Master Lin, we are just joking!"

Lin Yuanzhi was so angry that his beard turned up, and he went fishing. In case something happened, his ancestral grave was not enough to dig, "No, children can't go to the water, it's very dangerous." He breathed a sigh of relief, Lin Yuanzhi went back to pick up the hoe again, "You all come to help, it will be finished in a while, I will take you to go fishing"

"Yeah" the three children jumped up, Zhang Xian distributed a handful of seeds to Mu Yanying and asked him to put them with him, Lin Chen and Li Shengye each took a small pick to fill the soil, Lin Yuanzhi instead dug two rows of holes, I sat and rested for a while on the way. The sun has been relatively mild these days, but Lin Yuanzhi was afraid that Mu Yanying would not be able to bear it, so he asked him to sit under the shade of a tree. It was near noon, and Lin Yuanzhi finally carried the water to drink After watering the seed pit, Zhang Xian took out the pots and pans and prepared to cook, which once again made Mu Yanying and Li Shengye think that he was here to make trouble.

Zhang Xian prepared these, and Lin Yuanzhi had already returned the bucket to the nearby villagers, with a hang of bacon in his hand, "It's a gift from the villagers, I'll get some to eat later."

After Lin Yuanzhi handed it over to Zhang Xian, he picked up the hoe and dug a big hole a few times, "This is a simple stove" explained like the three children watching around him, and carefully handled the details before putting the pot on the Going up, Zhang Xian has already prepared the ingredients in the pot. It is very simple to go out, cut the bacon into pieces and put it in the porridge. "Have An An and Your Highness heard of the Laba porridge?"

"I have heard" I have to say that Li Gu, the emperor's choice of teachers, is very good. He will teach these royal children from important court affairs to small folk gossip. Things count as knowing.

"Do you know what it means?" Zhang Xian asked.

"It is said that in ancient times, people had no food and not enough food at the turn of the year. One person had a sudden whim and put all kinds of things in one pot to cook, and found that the taste was not bad. I made a big pot and managed to get through that period of time, and then it was passed down like this, and everyone added more things to it, and it became more and more delicious!" Mu Yanying smelled the fragrance and went off topic, amused Everyone laughed.

"That's almost what it means." With a smile on his face, Lin Yuanzhi picked up a spoon and stirred, "I have to wait a little longer. If I'm hungry, I'll eat snacks to fill my stomach."

"Not hungry." The three looked at the pot intently and shook their heads.

After waiting for a while, Lin Yuanzhi finally nodded and agreed, the three of them finally cheered, and Zhang Xian stood next to Sheng Hao, "Be careful!"

"Master Lin, this is a dish from the village. Don't dislike it." A white-haired old man was carrying a basket with several dishes in it. Normally, Lin Yuanzhi would have refused, but seeing that he was so old Elderly, it is not good for others to carry it back. "Thank you, village head, I will send you the basket and bowl later."

"Okay!" The village chief waved his hand and went back with a walking stick.

"Every time Dad comes to plant the land, the nearby villagers will come to deliver food at noon, and sometimes Dad won't pick it up, but today is such an old grandpa, it's hard for Dad to refuse," Lin Chen said in a low voice.

Lin Yuanzhi brought out the dishes in the basket, they were all ordinary dishes, one meat dish and two vegetarian dishes, the meat dish was twice-cooked pork, the other two were shredded potatoes and green vegetables, Lin Yuanzhi put the three dishes into a bowl and ate them Then I said, "It tastes good, you should try it too"

After dinner, Zhang Xian took the pots and bowls to the river to clean them, while Lin Yuanzhi took a hoe and leveled the land under the woods. He carried a large bundle of straw from the field and laid it out. , I will go fishing later”

"Okay." The three children lay on it, looking at the sky, while Lin Yuanzhi picked up the medicine bottle and sprinkled insect repellent around it, and then sat aside, "Is this how the people of the Jin Dynasty lived?"

Li Shengye looked at the field, there was no one in the field at this time, they all went back to eat, thinking about the dishes brought by the villagers just now, although they were simple, they were full of vegetables and meat, not like what was written in the book. .

Lin Yuanzhi glanced at Li Shengye, "This is just under the imperial city. Maybe there is no place where there is someone to shelter from the rain. Since the founding of the Jin Dynasty for more than a hundred years, the people's livelihood reported in various places has become better and better. I'm not interested in taking a look, is that right?"

"Well, I will definitely do it in the future." Li Shengye nodded.

"I'm going too," Mu Yanying leaned forward, "I want to visit various places..., especially the Northwest, I heard that the Northwest is very bitter."

"That was in the past. In the past few decades, many good generals have emerged in the Northwest, keeping the Hu people out of the desert, and did not give them the opportunity to come to the border of the Jin Dynasty to plunder. The Northwest is now generally prosperous!" Lin Yuan way.

Thinking that her own father and elder brother are the ones guarding the frontier, Mu Yuying felt a little proud. Lin Chen turned over and said, "In the future, I will develop the Northwest after I make money in business."

Lin Yuanzhi rolled his eyes at his son, "Northwest is your turn." Lin Yuanzhi fully understands what his son is worth. If you have any money, you spend it all. If you have a business, who will give you the foundation.