There is an imperial village in the southern suburbs of the capital. Every spring plowing, Emperor Wu of Zhou would come here with his sons and ministers to plant rice in the fields.
On the way to the southern suburbs, Zhao Yao rode on his horse and kept looking around. The fourth prince kept watching him closely, worried that he would fall off his horse.
"Fourth brother, there is a kite flying in the sky." Zhao Yao pointed to the kite in the sky in the distance, "Whose kite should have broken the string."
"Want to fly a kite?"
Zhao Yao nodded vigorously: "I think so."
"When we get back to the palace, I will take you to fly a kite." At this time last year, the fourth prince took Zhao Yao to fly a kite.
"Okay, let's make a big kite then."
"OK."
After Zhao Yao finished speaking, he lowered his head and stared at the roadside.
Seeing that his body was getting lower and lower and that he was about to fall, the fourth prince quickly reached out to hold him.
"Sit down."
"Fourth brother, now that I have stirrups, I won't fall off so easily."
"Don't be careless."
After Zhao Yao came up with the stirrups, Emperor Wu of Zhou ordered the manufacture of stirrups. Nowadays, stirrups are used on horses in palaces and military camps. Of course, private horses also have stirrups.
Since the introduction of stirrups, the cavalry's combat capabilities have improved a lot.
Recently, the Huns are ready to make moves. Emperor Wu of Zhou ordered the cavalry to practice diligently. You must know that the Huns' cavalry was very fierce.
Dazhou will have a battle with the Huns sooner or later. For this battle, Dazhou must be fully prepared in advance, especially the cavalry's combat capabilities must be improved.
"Fourth brother, I'm looking at wild vegetables." Zhao Yao said, "Wild vegetables are very delicious, especially when made into dumplings."
"Are you going to dig some wild vegetables and bring them back to the palace?"
"Yes, I plan to dig some and take them back to make dumplings to eat."
Seeing that Zhao Yao never forgot food wherever he went, the fourth prince smiled helplessly: "You..."
"I will pick some wild flowers later and take them back to my mother and concubines." Zhao Yao said, "Fourth brother, you will also pick some and bring them back to Concubine Li."
"Sending wild flowers?"
"Wild flowers are beautiful." Zhao Yao suddenly thought of something, "Isn't there a saying that domestic flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers?"
The fourth prince was so shocked when he heard this that he almost fell off his horse. He asked with a somewhat unpleasant look on his face: "Who told you this?"
"I heard that."
"Where did you hear that?"
"I heard it on the street."
"These words are not good words. Don't say them again in the future." The fourth prince said with a serious look, "This sentence is not about flowers."
"Ah, you're not talking about flowers, so what are you talking about?" Zhao Yao asked with confusion on his face.
The third prince turned around and smiled at Zhao Yao at this time: "I'm talking about women. What this sentence means is that the women at home are not as fragrant as the wild women outside."
The fourth prince said to the third prince calmly: "Brother Third Emperor, don't teach the tenth brother a bad lesson!"
"I'm telling my tenth brother what he meant by what he said just now, but I didn't teach him a bad lesson."
"Tenth brother is still a child."
"It's just because the tenth brother is a child, so I have to tell him what this sentence means, so that he won't say nonsense again in the future." After the third prince finished speaking, he saw that the fourth prince looked at him with an increasingly cold look, and felt in his heart Somewhat frightened, he smiled coquettishly and said, "Okay, okay, I won't say anything anymore."
The fifth prince said: "Fourth brother, this sentence means nothing. You are too protective of the tenth brother..." Seeing the fourth prince glance over with a cold look, the fifth prince quickly shut his mouth and did not dare to say anything more.
Zhao Yao blinked, and it turned out that this was what he meant.
"Fourth brother, I will never say this again in the future." He quickly changed the subject, "Fourth brother, how do you plant rice seedlings?" His mother-in-law told him to learn how to plant rice seedlings.
"Planting rice seedlings..." The fourth prince explained seriously to Zhao Yao how to plant rice seedlings. "When the time comes, I will show you how to do it."
"Then I have to open my eyes and watch carefully."
Next, the fourth prince talked to Zhao Yao a lot about planting rice and farming.
Zhao Yao listened very carefully. If he didn't understand something, he would ask.
Ever since the fourth prince started planting rice in the fields, he had read a lot of books on this subject. He has read basically all books on agriculture. He also asked many people with farming experience, and then recorded these experiences in detail, and then compiled the contents into a book. This book was published two years ago.
The fourth prince has the richest experience in farming among all the princes. Of course, he was also the best among the princes in farming.
More than an hour later, Zhao Yao and the others finally arrived at Huangzhuang in the southern suburbs.
After arriving at Huangzhuang, Emperor Wu of Zhou took his sons and ministers to the fields to plant rice.
Emperor Wu of Zhou wore coarse cloth, rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs, stood in the field with his waist bent, and planted rice seedlings skillfully.
The prince was beside him, planting rice seedlings very skillfully.
Dai Wang on the other side was a little unfamiliar. After all, he had not been in the fields to plant rice seedlings for several years.
The prince saw that the rice seedlings planted by King Dai were not very good, so he personally taught him how to plant them.
Although King Dai was not happy for the prince to teach him, he could not refuse and could only follow him. If he didn't learn and couldn't plant seedlings well, he would be reprimanded by Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty.
The Third Prince and the others were a little unskilled at first, but they became proficient after planting rice seedlings every year.
While planting the rice seedlings, the fourth prince told Zhao Yao, who was standing on the ridge of the field, how to do it.
Zhao Yao looked very seriously. After watching it for a while, he wanted to go to the field and try it.
"Fourth brother, I'll be there for a while."
"The water in the field is very cold. If you're not feeling well, it's better not to come down..." Before he finished speaking, the fourth prince saw Zhao Yao quickly taking off his shoes and socks, and then jumped down.
"Tenth brother, you..."
"Fourth brother, I'm not afraid of the cold." The water in the field is indeed very cold. "Fourth brother, do you think what I planted is right?" Zhao Yao picked up the seedlings and imitated the actions of the fourth prince just now to plant flag seedlings.
The fourth prince inspected it carefully, then nodded and said, "It was inserted well."
"Then I will continue to penetrate." Zhao Yao is small and short, so he can just squat down and penetrate. He moved very quickly and penetrated a lot in a short time.
The fourth prince was afraid that he would not do well. Every seedling he planted had to be carefully inspected by the fourth prince to make sure there were no problems.
"Ouch..." Zhao Yao felt something bite his leg. He quickly raised his leg to look and found something stuck tightly to his leg. When he was about to reach out to grab it, he was stopped by the fourth prince.
The fourth prince led Zhao Yao up to the field ridge. He immediately squatted down, raised his hand and swatted away the leech adhering to Zhao Yao's calf. Then, he took the medicine bottle from Wei Mian and applied medicine to the area where Zhao Yao was bitten by the leech.
"Fourth brother, what was that thing just now? Is it so disgusting?"
"Vampire leeches, there are a lot of them in the fields." The fourth prince said, "You can't catch them directly with your hands, you have to slap them away with your hands."
"Fourth brother, have you been bitten?"
"No."
"Am I too young?"
"Tenth brother, your body is too cold. You can't go to the fields anymore." The fourth prince was worried that Zhao Yao would be frozen if he went to the fields again.
"Fourth brother, I'm fine." It was a little cold in the field, but it stopped being cold after a while.
"obedient."
The fourth prince's hands were covered in mud and he could not put shoes and socks on Zhao Yao. Zhao Yao's chubby hands were also full of mud.
The fourth prince called Wei Mian over and asked Wei Mian to help Zhao Yao put on his shoes and socks.
After Zhao Yao put on his shoes and socks, he had to stand on the ridge of the field to watch the fourth prince planting rice.
The seventh prince on the side seemed to have been bitten by a leech. He was so frightened that he almost screamed. He hurriedly went to the field and asked the eunuch serving him to brush the leech off his leg.
"Brother Qi, are you okay?"
The seventh prince said with an ugly face: "It's okay." After saying that, he frowned and returned to the field very reluctantly.
"Fourth brother, seventh brother seems very unhappy." He also seems to be disgusted.
The fourth prince glanced at the seventh prince, and then said in an indifferent tone: "Don't worry about him."
The seventh prince complained in his heart while planting rice seedlings.
He didn't understand why he, with his noble status, had to go to the fields to plant rice like those untouchables?
What did the father think?
When I was growing rice, I was often bitten by leeches. This thing is so disgusting, I have a psychological shadow on it. Just seeing it makes me feel uncomfortable.
(End of chapter)
