"Yes," Magistrate Qin sighed. "Droughts easily lead to trouble. Farmland needs water, and people and livestock need water. In the northern county town, many people have already started fighting because they have no water. Cases of people fighting each other between villages for water resources, resulting in bloodshed, are increasing every day."

Upon hearing this, the Su siblings exchanged a glance. With things going so badly outside, their Shanghe Village needed to make plans as soon as possible.

Therefore, sweet potato planting must begin as early as possible.

Su Hua pursed her lips and asked Su Dahu to bring over the book next to her. "Uncle Qin, this is the book I asked my elder brother to write down yesterday about how to plant sweet potatoes. Due to time constraints, only eighteen copies were written. I plan to give them to the town officials along with the sweet potato vines when they are distributed."

Although planting sweet potatoes is not difficult, initial care still requires some effort.

There are tens of thousands of people in Qingshui County, and Uncle Qin and I are afraid that we may not be able to take care of everyone. Therefore, I plan to implement a system of county-level management of towns and town-level management of villages after the sweet potato vines and planting manuals are distributed. The eighteen town officials will report to us regularly and irregularly to ensure that every household's sweet potato planting is carried out effectively. Uncle Qin, do you think this approach is feasible?

"County governs towns, and towns govern villages?" Magistrate Qin murmured, then his eyes lit up.

"Hua'er is indeed very clever. In this way, each farmer's sweet potato will have a designated person in charge, and everyone in Qingshui County will take good care of it and dare not slack off. I will also select people from the county government's yamen runners to form a special team to check on the sweet potato situation in each town from time to time..."

Su Dahu listened intently, his pen never ceasing as he wrote down everything the two men mentioned.

In the front yard, in the flower hall, the atmosphere was completely different. Jun Yan was looking at the young man in front of her with a headache, as if there was a whole swarm of bees buzzing in her ears.

"Young Master Yan, where do you live? How old are you? Are you married?"

"I wonder when and where Young Master Yan met my sister? As her older brother, I've never heard her mention having a friend like you!"

"Young Master Yan's peach blossom eyes are truly exceptionally handsome. When I first saw you at the gate, I thought you had a human skin pasted on your face..."

Jun Yan's lips twitched; the conversation was simply going nowhere.

Su Hua was usually a woman of few words, but this older brother was the one who talked the whole family. As the old saying goes, even a master can be beaten by a novice. He talked so much that he practically ripped the skin off Su Hua's face.

Just then, a maid came in carrying a fruit platter.

The man stood up abruptly, a perfectly measured look of surprise on his face. "These plates of fruit are truly beautiful! I've never seen such juicy fruit in the county!"

As he spoke, he picked up a fruit and walked towards the courtyard. Before leaving, he waved to Su Sanhu, saying, "It's stuffy in this room. I'm going to the flower toilet. Su Sanhu, you don't need to see me off."

Su Sanhu called out, "Young Master Yan, you've come to the wrong place! The flower toilet is on the west side, not the east! Although the flower toilet smells nice, Young Master Yan should finish his fruit before going in!"

Upon hearing this, Yan San shifted his feet and took a bite of the fruit.

As the sweetness gradually spread to the tip of her tongue, she suddenly paused, "This taste... isn't this the very same as the currently popular green apple?"

After holding the fruit in his hand and examining it carefully for a long time, he finally understood where the green crabapples that the Li family had been selling at extremely high prices for the past month came from. Moreover, the crabapples from the Su family were even more fragrant and pure than those sold by the Li family.

While eating fruit, Jun Yan strolled around the front yard and saw a woman with a small child in the corner of the yard opening a clam. At their feet, there was already a small bowl of pearls. He was even more surprised that everyone in the Su family had rosy complexions and did not look like people from the mountains at all.

Furthermore, these pearls are just as good as those from pearl farms by the sea.

Further ahead, you'll see a familiar hut with a small child drying herbs.

However, he was still more than two zhang away when he was chased away by the guy with the messy hair. "Go away, go away, go further away. These are all herbs that this old man just picked today. Don't let your sweat drip onto your head!"

Jun Yan shook his head. This old Xue was still as short-tempered as ever.

At this moment, clanging sounds rose and fell from the side. After taking a dozen steps forward, I glanced into the window and saw a man in a dark blue robe chopping wood with an axe. Behind him, there was already a pile of firewood.

Jun Yan narrowed his peach blossom eyes. This General Zhennan is really willing to lower his status!

Just as he was inwardly complaining, the man's cold eyes swept over him, "Young Master Yan, do you want to chop wood?"

"Chopping wood...?" Jun Yan's brow twitched slightly upon hearing this, and he instinctively wanted to refuse, but his feet seemed to have a mind of their own and he walked straight in.

A moment later, two loud clanging sounds of chopping wood echoed through the courtyard.

At the same time, news of the "Tongrenyi Family" in Le'an County spread like wildfire.

In Qingshui County, the people spread the news and gathered at Su's Restaurant to offer their congratulations. The restaurant unfurled a large red silk banner that day, and all dishes were offered at a 50% discount for seven days.

In Tangshan Prefecture, Prefect Liu began inquiring about the sweet potato. Liu Lin completely gave up his feelings for Su Hua. Inside Feixian Courtyard, Huayi hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the young girl. "Miss, now that Su Hua is a county princess, and the Su family is even personally honored by the Emperor as a benevolent family, should our restaurant still be open?"

Liu Yuxian clenched her fists, her fox-like eyes burning with jealousy. "So what if she's a county princess? So what if she comes from a benevolent family? I'm doing business legitimately. Do you think Su Hua and the Su family can eat me alive?"

Hua Yi lowered her head, not daring to utter another sound, but her legs were trembling.

Thousands of miles away, in the capital city, at the Prince of Zhan's mansion, a snow-white carrier pigeon fluttered its wings and flew into the backyard.