Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "After they have seen it, we will start large-scale breeding. We must try to plant all the sweet potatoes within a month."

As they were talking, Qin Shen had already brought his men in.

"General," Qin Shen bowed, "I have brought the person."

As he spoke, he glanced back and said, "The person who couldn't come last time is here today."

Lu Yanzheng and Jiang Qinyu followed his gaze and saw a man around fifty years old. He was very clean and tidy and did not look like a farmer.

"This humble citizen, Qi Wu, greets the General and the Madam." Qi Wu immediately stepped forward and bowed when he saw them looking over, but his bow to Jiang Qinyu was somewhat perfunctory.

At this moment, an old farmer couldn't help but stand on tiptoe and peek into the backyard. "General, Madam, has the hydroponic breeding method you mentioned really worked?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Qinyu and Lu Yanzheng exchanged a smile, and she stepped aside, saying, "Everyone can go in and see for themselves."

Upon hearing this, a group of people rushed into the courtyard, and soon exclamations could be heard.

"My God! So many varieties of seedlings have sprouted?"

"Madam is so clever! She used a ditch instead of a trough, so we don't need to make so many troughs!"

"These sticks are easy to find too. It seems that Madam has found an even simpler method than the one mentioned last time..."

Jiang Qinyu stood behind them, smiling but saying nothing.

At this moment, Qi Wu, who hadn't come last time, suddenly spoke up: "Madam said to cultivate it with water, but this ditch is on the ground, so... I'm afraid it can't be considered hydroponics, right?"

As soon as he said this, everyone fell silent and looked at Jiang Qinyu.

"Qi Wu," Lu Yanzheng said to Qi Wu before Jiang Qinyu could speak, "Take a close look at whether the roots of the sweet potato have grown into the soil."

Upon hearing this, Qi Wu carefully flipped over a shelf, and was stunned when he saw the sweet potato roots.

The others also saw the sweet potato roots he had turned over, and they were all stunned.

The ditches were all over 20 centimeters deep, but after seven days of cultivation, the sweet potatoes' roots were only about five centimeters long and hadn't touched a single bit of soil.

"Madam really wasn't exaggerating; seedlings and roots can be cultivated using water!"

"That's great! We have water in our river now. If we set up the breeding site by the river, we can save ourselves a lot of trouble!"

“You’re right. These past few days we’ve followed Madam’s method of composting and produced a batch of soil that looks incredibly fertile. Once it’s transported to the sweet potato field, we won’t have to worry about the yield!”

"..."

Everyone was overjoyed. Qi Wu also put aside his airs and bowed deeply to Jiang Qinyu, saying, "Madam is very talented and generous. I am completely convinced!"

"Uncle Qi, there's no need for such formalities. I've heard you're skilled in farming. I hope you'll pay more attention to sweet potato cultivation in the future, so that the sweet potatoes in the border town can have an even greater harvest," Jiang Qinyu said with a smile, giving him a slight push.

She guessed that this person must be dissatisfied with her, a woman, teaching them how to farm, since he didn't come last time. After everyone went back and told him about hydroponics, he must come to see if it's true today.

If it were according to Jiang Qinyu's old temper, she would never have given him a kind look. But now she knows that people in this era are really lacking in planting skills. Someone as famous as Qi Wu who knows how to farm must be given some face. After all, she can't stay in the border town forever. In the future, she will have to leave the farm to them to manage.

"Thank you for your appreciation, Madam. I will do my utmost!" Qi Wu immediately bowed and accepted.

Lu Yanzheng asked Qin Shen in a low voice, "What's the background of this Qi Wu?"

"Reporting to the General, his family has a long history of farming and scholarship, but he is now the only one left in his generation. He is indeed a bit arrogant, but he is also quite capable," Qin Shen replied immediately.

He didn't explain Qi Wu's situation in detail last time since Qi Wu didn't come. He hesitated before agreeing to Qi Wu's visit today.

Similar to Jiang Qinyu's thoughts, Qin Shen also didn't want capable people to be detached from important matters.

Lu Yanzheng nodded without saying anything more.

After showing the group the sweet potato seedlings in the backyard of the General's Mansion, Jiang Qinyu explained the matter of sweet potato breeding to everyone in detail.

Qi Wu asked many related questions, and Jiang Qinyu answered them all. Even if she didn't know the answers, she gave Qi Wu some guidance.

As everyone was leaving, Qi Wu bowed deeply to Jiang Qinyu again, saying, "Today, Madam's words have enlightened me. In the future, whenever Madam has any requests, I will do my utmost!"

“Uncle Qi, there’s no need for that. It’s just a normal discussion,” Jiang Qinyu said with a smile, not avoiding his courtesy.

She deserved the courtesy. What she just said involved a lot of high-tech stuff that most people wouldn't know.

After everyone had left, Lu Yanzheng turned to ask, "Qinqin, would you like to go and check on the fields by the river?"

“Go ahead, but we might need to plan it out a bit more,” Jiang Qinyu nodded.

Since she had promised to teach the people of the border town how to grow sweet potatoes, she couldn't just do it casually; she had to do it properly.

The two then drove the carriage out of the mansion and headed straight for the river.

After Jiang Qinyu and the others left, Yu Hanyan came out from the side gate of the backyard, her gaze lingering on the direction they had gone.

“Girl, let’s go back. We don’t know anything about farming, so there’s no benefit for us even if we go with them,” Ruhua sighed as she advised.

Who would have thought that one day someone who can farm would be more popular than someone who is proficient in all the arts, including music, chess, calligraphy, and painting?

"Ruhua, do you think it's too late for us to learn farming from Madam now?" Yu Hanyan asked, letting out a soft breath.

Ru Hua was shocked. "How could you have such a thought, young lady?"

She took Yu Hanyan's hand and said, "Look at your hands, how can a peasant woman compare?"

After saying that, she looked at Yu Hanyan's face and said, "And your face, young lady, how can you maintain your beauty if you are exposed to the wind and sun all day long?"

Yu Hanyan touched her face and looked at her hands. The determination she had just felt to compete with Jiang Qinyu immediately dissipated.

She said worriedly, "If a woman doesn't have beauty and fair skin, how can she win a man's heart? Why don't you understand this principle, Madam?"

Ru Hua thought about Jiang Qinyu's appearance and exposed skin, and silently swallowed the words she wanted to say.

She was also puzzled. The general's wife was dealing with soil all day long, but her face and hands didn't look rough at all, and her skin was fair and clean.

Is there really such a person in the world who is so favored by God?

Jiang Qinyu, blessed by the heavens, was instructing everyone on how to dig an irrigation ditch by the river.

"No, we can't do it like this... and here, we need to do it like this first... yes, that's how we can irrigate the entire breeding base in one go."

Looking at Jiang Qinyu, who was shining brightly in the crowd, Lu Yanzheng's smile never faded.

Just then, a soldier rode up on horseback, shouting as he ran, "General, it's terrible! The Dayuan army and the Western Qiang army are attacking again!"

Everyone felt a chill in their hearts. Another war was about to break out. Could they withstand it this time?