"What are you thinking about?" Gu Zhen saw the hesitation in her eyes and knew she was thinking something wrong. Even if he was a bad person, he wouldn't do anything to her in public, right? What was that look in her eyes?!
Song Jiaren came back to her senses and felt the breath on her eyes. It turned out that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was helping her blow the sand out of her eyes.
She was saying, when did His Highness become so open-minded and start showing affection.
But why do I feel a little lost?
Could it be that she secretly wants His Highness to treat her this or that?
After wandering around absentmindedly, she discovered that the camp was actually quite large, with a lot of open space. Moreover, it was located in the north, with fertile land and moist soil, making it very suitable for planting and raising livestock.
"Why are there so many empty areas? Why don't you cultivate them and grow some vegetables or medicinal herbs?"
Luo Wenhao was silent for a moment. "You don't know, there are laws in the camp that forbid private hunting."
Song Jiaren pointed to the black earth beneath her feet. "We grow some seasonal vegetables. We don't hunt or prey for food. Besides, hunting is not allowed. We can raise a flock of chickens. When they grow up, we can eat eggs and chicken. We can also raise a few ducks and geese. It doesn't count as hunting or prey for food."
Luo Wenhao never thought that he could raise livestock in the camp, so he had been tightening his belt and waiting for the military supplies that arrived every two months. After deducting the rotten and damaged ones, there was not much left.
They had to save on food and practice boxing and archery on an empty stomach every day. If they could really raise livestock, all the soldiers in the camp would be able to fill their stomachs.
Gu Zhen was also thinking about what she said and found that it was indeed feasible. However, he could not let the soldiers raise poultry and grow vegetables, so he could only ask farmers for help.
"This method is feasible, but we need to find people who know how to plant and raise livestock to take care of it. It's best to have a few people from far away in the camp. If we recruit ordinary people from outside, I'm afraid it will be inappropriate. It's best not to spread this matter outside the camp."
Although they were taking shortcuts, relying solely on military supplies was indeed a bit tight.
"Then I will gather everyone together to discuss this matter." Luo Wenhao was eager to share the good news.
Gu Zhen stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, let's not let too many people know about this. General Luo, first ask the kitchen staff, then the cleaning soldiers. Don't ask the non-commissioned officers or the like."
After all, they have to farm and feed poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese every day. There is no need to ask the soldiers who have made meritorious services, nor the non-commissioned officers below. They all come from ordinary families in the city and do not know how to farm. We can only ask the soldiers who sweep and do odd jobs. Maybe some of them know how to raise livestock and farm.
"Okay, I'll go now." Luo Wenhao went back to prepare for this matter, leaving Song Jiaren and Gu Zhen staring at each other.
Gu Zhen once again looked at her with some admiration. She was indeed smart and understood the advantages and disadvantages of the land here. However, she was too bold and did not know how to restrain herself in public. She interrupted him, the prince, several times without noticing.
He looked at the woman standing on the black soil and sighed.
He spoiled it all.
In the evening, Luo Wenhao counted several soldiers who knew how to farm and raise livestock. There were ten of them in total. They all came from the village and had known how to plant, farm and raise poultry since childhood.
It was late at night, and Luo Wenhao and Gu Zhen discussed for a long time in the tent, including how to distribute the ten soldiers and how to open up the land.
Song Jiaren had already fallen asleep in the tent and did not wait for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to come back. She guessed that he and General Luo were both very excited at the moment and would not go to bed so early.
When Gu Zhen walked back to the tent in the cold moonlight, Song Jiaren was sleeping soundly on the couch with a quilt covering her. She seemed to be dreaming of something delicious and was smacking her lips.
He walked over and pinched her small nose, not daring to use force, just gently.
Song Jiaren struggled to her feet, raised her hand and slapped away the evil hand on her nose. "What are you doing!" she hummed sleepily.
Gu Zhen smiled and said, "Why don't you wait for me?"
"I'm so sleepy. Shouldn't you guys have a long chat all night long?" How come you came back so soon? Only an hour ago.
Gu Zhen took off his coat and sneered, "What's there for two grown men to talk about for a long time? I can give it a try with you. Do you want to try?"
Song Jiaren intuitively felt that his "talk" and her "talk" were not the same, so she changed the subject and asked, "Ahem, um... what did you talk about?"
"Currently, there are ten people willing to grow vegetables and fruits and raise poultry. We've discussed the seeds and types of poultry we need to buy. Tomorrow, two of them will go buy the necessary supplies. Two of them know how to raise pigs, so they'll go buy piglets tomorrow. We'll also fence off an area in the camp to build a shed to raise pigs. That's all we need. Do you have any other suggestions?"
Gu Zhen pushed her and asked her to lie down inside. She had such a bad sleeping posture, yet she always liked to sleep on the edge of the couch without being afraid of falling off.
Song Jiaren thought about how modern people grow vegetables and raise poultry, sat up, frowned, and said slowly, "There are indeed a few things we need to pay attention to. Isn't it the end of autumn and the beginning of winter now? The weather is cold and it's difficult for vegetables to survive. If we can build a larger tent and grow vegetables in it, we won't be afraid of freezing to death."
He also said, "All chicks should be fed with preventive medicine so that they will not get sick and grow up healthily. They should also be kept warm. The chicken coop should be built larger and cleaned frequently to keep it clean."
Since the people in charge of raising poultry have experience, there must be no problem in other aspects, but bird flu cannot be ignored. They must be fed with medicine to prevent the disease from an early age. The heroine should be able to develop a prescription.
"Oh, and the piglets too. They also need to be fed with disease prevention medicine, and the pigpen environment must be kept clean to reduce the occurrence of diseases."
Swine flu cannot be ignored. Once an infectious disease broke out in ancient times, it would be out of control. Even if the heroine is proficient in medicine and studied under the medical saint in the book, it would still be too late to treat it if it broke out on a large scale.
Gu Zhen had never heard that poultry could take medicine to prevent illness?
"Can you say these words again tomorrow and tell the people in charge of poultry?" Gu Zhen was lying on the outside, facing Song Jiaren who was cowering on the couch. She looked like she wanted to stick to the wall, which made him speechless for a moment.
"Are you afraid of what I will do to you?"
Song Jiaren shook her head like a rattle. "No, no, I'm just afraid of squeezing you. After all, I don't sleep well, hehe."
"I'm used to it. Come here." Gu Zhen was used to sleeping with his arms around her soft body. Although he would sometimes have some romantic thoughts, he was afraid of scaring her, so he could only kiss her gently a few times with extreme restraint, ignoring the pain in his body caused by suppressing desires.
Song Jiaren moved cautiously towards His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and was suddenly hugged around the waist and pulled forward, pressing against his hard chest through two layers of nightgown.
She put her hands in front of her chest to block the attack, her heart beating wildly as if it was about to go out of control. "You...you scared me!"
Gu Zhen was very calm and said, "I'm just worried that you'll be cold at night."
Song Jiaren didn't believe his clumsy lie. She would cover herself with a blanket when she was cold. After struggling for a few times and finding that she couldn't get free, she turned around and faced away from him.
Look at how he is still daydreaming. He clearly has some ideas, but he says they are not true.
Gu Zhen smiled helplessly. He really didn't think anything of it just now, but this heartless woman twisted and turned in his arms. The vague touch and the warm body temperature under his hands made him a little distracted. The uncontrollable reaction of his body made him embarrassed for a moment.
Fortunately, she turned her back to him in time and did not see his current state.
The next morning, when Song Jiaren woke up, there was no one next to her. She didn't know when she had left, and there was no trace of her body temperature left on the couch.
She changed into clean men's clothes, tied up her long hair, and found His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and General Luo in the commander-in-chief's tent, as well as the heroine and ten soldiers in charge of farming and breeding.
"Awake?" Gu Zhen looked at Song Jiaren, who was also wearing men's clothes but would not be mistaken for a man. The gray long gown still could not hide her enchanting and beautiful figure, and her cute and innocent posture when she just woke up.
He felt a little bittersweet in his heart. There were so many men here. If he had known she would come looking for him, he would not have come out so early.
Song Jiaren looked around silently, nodded to Su Su, and then stood next to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. "Why didn't you wake me up?"
Gu Zhen laughed unhappily and said, "I called you more than ten times, but you slept like a pig and wouldn't wake up no matter how hard I called. How dare you accuse me of not calling you?"
Song Jiaren let out a long "oh" and then smiled embarrassedly, "Hey, that's not your fault. I slept too deeply. I must have been tired yesterday."
Whatever she said was the truth. Gu Zhen knew that refutation would be futile.
"To put it simply, poultry and piglets can get sick, and some will likely die before they grow up. One or two might be fine, but if it's a contagious disease, there's no telling how many will survive. So, just in case, we feed poultry and piglets disease-preventive medicine when they're still young. That way, they can grow up smoothly and avoid a lot of danger."
Song Jiaren stood in the middle of the big tent and talked freely, "Another point is to maintain the hygiene of the enclosure. It must be cleaned regularly to keep it clean, otherwise it will easily breed bacteria."
After hearing what she said, the ten people whispered to each other. Su Su also thought that what she said was worthy of attention. It was not just the poultry that was sick. If it infected humans, the consequences would be disastrous. Maybe the disease in the small village before was transmitted from these poultry, which was why the disease kept recurring and ordinary medicines were ineffective.
"Leave the medicine for preventing diseases to me." Su Su stepped forward and said to the woman standing in the middle.
Song Jiaren's original intention was to let the heroine prepare the medicine. Her title of medical saint was not for nothing. She was able to cure the plague with her bare hands and save the villagers. Her contribution was invaluable.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Mr. Su."
"It's okay, I'm just applying what I learned."
Even though Gu Zhen knew that the fair-skinned Mr. Su was a woman, he couldn't bear to see Song Jiaren flirting with her, and interrupted their mutual courtesy with a heavy cough.
Song Jiaren looked at the Crown Prince in confusion. Is he catching a cold?
I hope she didn't grab the quilt last night.
Probably not.
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