As Qiu Jin spoke, he couldn't help but think of the sweet potato feast he had eaten at the Beichen Palace. He subconsciously swallowed. In fact, the reason he insisted on coming along this time was all for that food!
Princess Ruyue, upon hearing Qiu Jin's words, noticed his involuntary swallowing and quickly spoke up.
"Really? If that's the case, then let's speed things up!!"
The ministers from Beichen who came to greet them were all bewildered to see the previously slow-moving procession suddenly speed up.
Since the princess had already arrived, Emperor Beichen naturally had to keep his promise and hand over the sweet potato seedlings to Nanjing. In order not to make the people of Nanjing think he was too stingy, Emperor Beichen "generously" gave them a thousand sweet potato seedlings.
Actually, it's not fair to blame Emperor Beichen for being stingy. The reason he only gave them a thousand plants was firstly because he didn't want their sweet potatoes to spread too quickly and overtake Beichen. Secondly, Emperor Beichen felt bad seeing that the national treasury, which had just been filled, was almost emptied again by Han Yiyi.
Even so, these sweet potato seedlings, when distributed throughout Beichen, amount to only one hundred seedlings per person nationwide.
However, based on the yield per mu of sweet potatoes, the whole country should have enough to eat. If that's the case, perhaps in less than two years, the Dongli tribe can be wiped out.
With the sweet potato issue resolved, Han Yiyi prepared to return to Zhushan Village, as she still had things she wanted to do. However, before leaving, she uprooted all the flowers in the Palace Master's Garden and planted watermelons instead.
The two little ones looked at the beautiful flowers that their mother had just pulled up, their eyes filled with regret. But when they heard Han Yiyi say that in a few months they could pick watermelons here, their regret immediately disappeared, replaced by excitement and joy.
Looking at the departing carriage, the two children were reluctant to part, but they also knew that their mother was happier in Zhushan Village. However, Han Yiyi was equally reluctant to leave Chu Yun, who had now gained a lot of weight, and the four of them, Feng Yu Lei Dian. Of course, the reason for their reluctance was that they would no longer have good food and would have to go back to their old life of eating and sleeping in the open.
Along the way, seeing that sweet potatoes were planted in the fields to varying degrees, Han Yi couldn't help but smile, thinking to himself, "If this is the case, the people will no longer have to go hungry."
Because each family received sweet potato seedlings according to the number of people in their household, the remaining land could be used to grow rice. As a result, wealthy households were worried that their old grain would become worthless, since the old grain would be even less valuable once the new grain was harvested. Therefore, they sold off their old grain.
For a time, the price of grain was even cheaper than before the flood, which was undoubtedly great news for the people. As a result, everyone's lives gradually returned to normal.
After returning to the small courtyard at the foot of the mountain, Yun Xiao looked at the things Han Yiyi handed him, but did not take them immediately. Instead, he stared at Han Yiyi with deep eyes.
Han Yiyi felt a little uncomfortable under the gaze, so she coughed lightly before speaking.
"Take it quickly, Manager Tong and the others are all waiting for you to start work."
Upon hearing Han Yiyi's words, Yun Xiao reached out and took it, his eyes filled with gratitude as he spoke.
"Thank you, Yi Yi."
"Hey! I'm not giving this to you for free. I'm going to invest in it. Consider this my investment capital. If we make money, I want a share of the profits!"
It turned out that Han Yi had bought back the land deed for Yunlai Restaurant in Ping'an Town from the government office.
Hearing Han Yiyi's words, Yun Xiao's eyes deepened. He knew that Han Yiyi was using her status as a princess to support him. After all, given the state of his Yun family after their property was confiscated, it wouldn't be easy for him to regain his footing in the business world. But with Han Yiyi's princess status, things would be different.
The happiest people upon hearing that Yunlai Restaurant had reopened were Manager Tong, Wang Xiaojiang, and several of the shop's employees. Of course, the restaurant's name would not be Yunlai Restaurant again.
To thank Han Yiyi, and also because of his own little scheme, Yun Xiao named the restaurant Yun Han Restaurant.
Yun Xiao was in charge of the restaurant, so Han Yiyi stayed home tending to her vegetable garden. In order to be able to eat watermelons openly, Han Yiyi planted all of her half-acre of land with watermelons.
Thinking that watermelons were too monotonous, Han Yiyi exchanged some fruit tree saplings in the system, such as cherry trees, peach trees, apple trees, and dazed peach trees. Han Yiyi didn't care whether the area was suitable for them to grow, she just planted them first.
Since Han Yi's family didn't own any land, and their only half-acre plot was planted with watermelons, they bought five acres of mountain land from the village chief. The land was located behind their house, so that it would be more convenient to pick fruit in the future.
As for the grapes, they were planted in the corner of the wall, with the idea that once they grew up, a grape trellis could be built, and people could enjoy the cool shade under the trellis in the summer, eating watermelon with one hand and grapes with the other. Just thinking about it is wonderful.
Looking at the grapevines that had covered the trellis in just a few months, Han Yi thought to himself, "As expected of a product of the system, it is truly extraordinary."
The moment the thought crossed my mind, I heard that familiar electronic voice in my ear.
"Of course, this system is the most advanced!"
Hearing the arrogant voice, Han Yi ignored it and began to study the restaurant's opening menu.
Seeing that Han Yiyi ignored it, Xiao Hua snorted softly and then fell silent.
On July 28th, Yunhan Restaurant opened. In order to attract customers, and naturally to promote watermelons, Han Yiyi also wanted every citizen of Beichen to be able to enjoy such delicious watermelons.
Therefore, it was decided that for the first three days after the restaurant opened, every table that dined at the restaurant would be given a slice of watermelon, and they would be told that the black seeds inside the watermelon could be planted.
Everyone was initially curious about the large, green-skinned, red-hearted creature, but once they tasted it, the entire restaurant was filled with exclamations of praise.
With its existing foundation and the added advantage of Han Yiyi, the restaurant's business is as good as expected.
The half-acre of watermelons yielded about two hundred watermelons. About one hundred were used when the restaurant opened. Han Yiyi gave one to each of the villagers in Zhushan Village. The remaining watermelons were put into her spatial storage so she could eat them slowly.
The villagers of Zhushan Village were eating such delicious and juicy fruit for the first time, and their eyes were filled with disbelief. If Han Yiyi hadn't told them that it was hot today and they had to eat it all on the same day it was cut open, otherwise it would spoil, they probably wouldn't have been willing to eat it.
However, inside the princess's residence, looking at the garden which was one watermelon less than yesterday, the two little ones' faces were so wrinkled they looked like dried soybeans.
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