On the second day of Xu Xiaoxiao's birthday, Xia Qingfeng came to Master Kongzhi with several large bags of potatoes and sweet potatoes. This was taken out of the space after discussion with Xu Xiaoxiao and Ling Xiaoyu.
The yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes was very high in previous lives. Under normal circumstances, the yield per mu was about three thousand kilograms, and many places could grow two crops a year. This was an astronomical figure in ancient times when agricultural production was still extremely low. If we could If planted in large quantities, it will fill the bellies of many people.
It's August now, and we can still catch up with the planting time of the second season. It's just in time to initiate germination immediately.
In their previous lives, they both lived in the city and didn't know much about agriculture. Fortunately, the library in Xu Xiaoxiao's space contained a wide range of books, and they found books about farming.
Xia Qingfeng copied down the germination and planting methods and gave them to Master Kong Zhi.
Ling Xiaoyu also agreed to hand over the potato and sweet potato planting experiments to the monks of Chongfu Temple. First, the temple can add several crops to himself. In addition, the situation in the court is unclear, so leaving this matter to Chongfu Temple makes him feel more at ease.
Also, Xia Qingfeng and Xu Xiaoxiao agreed that the origin of these things was really difficult to explain, and it was also out of protection for Xu Xiaoxiao. These crops were contributed and promoted by the temple, so it could be explained that they were seeds obtained by Master Kong Zhi while traveling abroad.
Not only that, Xia Qingfeng and Xu Xiaoxiao also poured a lot of soybean oil into various bottles and jars in the temple. Life in the temple was too hard. It was impossible to eat animal oil, so food made with soybean oil was The food at the temple can be improved.
They also put a lot of rice, white flour, and of course corn and mung beans in the granary of Chongfu Temple. These two new crops had passed the sowing time. Xia Qingfeng asked Master Kongzhi to save part of these two crops for seeds. Others can be eaten by the monks in the temple. Needless to say how to eat corn, all the monks in the temple have eaten it, while mung beans are for them to relieve the heat. In the hot summer, the masters boil some mung bean soup to drink just to relieve the heat.
After arranging everything here, Xia Qingfeng took Xu Xiaoxiao back to Xipinghou Mansion early the next morning.
Cang Qiang, who stayed behind at the Xiping Hou Mansion, sent a message saying that Xu Jingchen was very busy every day recently and had to go to the western suburbs almost every two days, sometimes leaving for two or three days before coming back.
What is he busy with? Cang Dao has been sending people to keep an eye on the third prince. According to reports from spies, the third prince stayed in Xu Concubine's yard every day. Xu Jingchen looked for him several times but found no one.
Xia Qingfeng thought: Is Xu Jingchen such a messy person? His immediate superior didn't even bother to ask, so he still went to train troops on his own?
In fact, Xu Jingchen has also been very depressed recently. Originally, Chu Jiaming committed suicide and the Chu family collapsed. He thought that he would be more important to the third prince, and felt that he could become the number one person under the third prince this time.
In fact, he has been coveting the iron mine in Bingzhou for a long time, and that is the real deal. But the third prince gave it to the bookboy he grew up with to take care of it. Humph, he would rather give it to a slave than to him.
So, he wanted to visit the Third Prince's Mansion often, to make his presence felt in front of him, and try to get the fat guy over, but who knew that since the Third Prince was banned, he had visited the Prince's Mansion several times, but he couldn't even see anyone. arrive.
After asking around, I found out that the third prince stayed in his fifth sister's yard all day.
This was originally a good thing. If the fifth sister was really pampered and gave birth to a dragon son, then after the third prince ascended the throne, it would be easier for the fifth sister's mother to take the position of queen due to her son's wealth and her own help.
But now, before the great cause is successful, the third prince should take advantage of the time when Da Sima is missing and lead his troops to take advantage of the situation, pull the old emperor off his horse and ascend to the throne.
But several visits to the Prince's Mansion yielded no results, and he couldn't do anything privately, so he had to go to the western suburbs to train troops and be ready to raise troops at any time.
Xia Qingfeng thought: No matter whether they have a plan or not, they will always have to do something. We must find a way to keep Xu Jingchen busy. In short, just keep an eye on him and don't let him always run to the western suburbs.
Therefore, after returning home, Xia Qingfeng took Xu Xiaoxiao into Mrs. Xu's yard immediately.
Mrs. Hou, who had received the tip, was stunned after hearing this. She had never set foot in the eldest daughter-in-law's yard since she returned home. She also knew that now that Xu Jingchen was in power, not to mention everyone in the palace, even the marquis had to respect him. And her own son was unlucky and was not reused by the third prince, so she did not dare to say anything.
But she really wasn't willing to accept it. She was a young lady from a noble family who married into a marquis's manor as his wife. Her biological son was the legitimate son of the manor and would inherit the marquis' manor in the future. But now she had to look at the face of a bastard born from a maid.
What did Mrs. Xia want to do when she came to her place today? Do you want to show off in front of her?
It shouldn't be, this Xia family is not such a person at all, and she also heard someone come to report her. After returning, Xia Qingfeng and Xu Jingchen have always been respectful to each other, and their relationship is not very good.
I heard that there was a white fox in Xia Qingfeng's yard, which was very fierce, so Xu Jingchen had never stayed in her yard.
Inviting people into the room, Mrs. Hou took a closer look at the mother and daughter. They looked really good.
She knew from the beginning that Xu Jingchen married the daughter of a minor official as his wife because of Xia's beauty. She was very happy at that time, after all, she could not bring any benefits to this bastard. And I have never taken a serious look at this Xia family. For a big family, power and birth are important, and what does beauty mean? But this time it was not the case when we looked at the mother and daughter.
I saw only two people coming in. The adults had a complexion like snow, a graceful figure, and a fairy-like appearance. There was a charm that seemed to come from the bones, a Qinghua demeanor, and a charming style. The female doll has skin as white as porcelain, a childish face with an otherworldly natural beauty, and a pair of big, smart eyes, with a hint of cunning in her eyes.
This seems to be very different from the mother and daughter in her impression. Have they really been enlightened by the Buddha in Chongfu Temple in the past six months? Yes, Xia Qingfeng's daughter was named the head of the village because of her contribution to suturing skills. The news that she was enlightened by the Buddha in the temple has spread throughout the capital.
At first, Mrs. Hou didn't believe it, because if there really was such a destiny, then Xu Jingchen couldn't keep the mother and daughter as treasures. How could they just leave them in the yard and ignore them like they do now?
But this time it seemed otherwise. It wasn't that Xu Jingchen was neglecting the mother and daughter, but that they didn't take Xu Jingchen seriously at all.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Hou also became more interested in Xia Qingfeng's visit.
