Chapter 1883 Visit
Manbao handed the horse to the servant and got into Mingda's carriage.
Because the weather was getting hot, Mingda's carriage was surrounded by light curtains. Changyu and she were sitting cross-legged in the carriage drinking tea and eating snacks.
Seeing Manbao come in, the two of them immediately pulled her in and said with a smile, "We just said we didn't know where to find you."
Manbao said, "I've been waiting for you outside the city gate since early morning."
She looked around and exclaimed, "Your car is really big."
The carriage was pulled by two horses, so it was naturally much more spacious than Manbao's blue cloth carriage.
Manbao discussed with the two men, "Are you going directly to the Yongzhou Palace, or to my manor first?"
Mingda said, "I asked the Crown Prince, and he said the temporary palace is on the other side of Yongzhou. We have to go to your farm first before we can reach the temporary palace. So we will stay at your farm and go to the temporary palace in the afternoon."
Manbao was happy, "That's great, there are wild fruits on the mountain now, we can go up the mountain to pick wild fruits."
"What wild fruit?"
"My eldest brother told me there are pears, but they are very sour. You can pick them and dip them in sugar."
They had never eaten like this before, and it sounded very novel.
Manbao didn't have any either, "My nephews ate it this way, I want to try the taste too."
The prince didn't want to go at first, as he wanted to go hunting, but they were already passing by, and he was worried about letting his two sisters go alone, so he went along.
As for Prince Gong's opinion, no one asked for it.
The ceremonial procession was quite large, and there were many guards accompanying it, so the head of the Pu Village and the people in Lao Zhou's village were alarmed from afar.
Madam Liu and the others only received news that the two princesses would come, but they did not expect that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would also come, so they hurried to the roadside to greet him.
The prince didn't like red tape, so he asked Eunuch Wu to go ahead and send everyone away, and then he pointed directly at Bai Shan to lead the way.
"What do you want the princesses to play?"
Bai Shan: "...We want to go up the mountain to pick wild fruits."
The prince frowned, "What's so fun about picking wild fruits?"
He turned his head to glance at the small forest, his brows furrowed even more. "Such a small mountain, I'm afraid there isn't even a rabbit?"
Mingda got off the car and came over hand in hand with Manbao. Seeing so many people, he said to the prince, "Brother Prince, you and Third Brother should go to the palace first. Leave our people to us. We will come over later when we are tired of playing."
Manbao also promised the prince, "We will personally send the princess to the palace."
The prince glanced at her, then looked around. He pointed his whip at the fields on both sides and asked, "Are these all your official fields?"
Manbao responded.
The prince dismounted and went to the field to see what was going on.
The wheat in the capital grows slower than that in Mianzhou. After all, the snow melts later. So although the wheat ears have sprouted, they are still green and show no signs of breaking. It will probably take another month or two before they can be harvested.
The farmland next to it was planted with rice that had just been planted. The rice was still a little sparse, but it was quite green, so it must have grown well.
At this time, when the breeze blows, the water in the farmland ripples, reflecting the green rice, which is very beautiful.
The prince stood at the edge of the wheat field and looked around. After a while, he squatted down to examine the wheat. He even reached out and pulled out a wheat ear to examine it. He nodded slightly and said, "You have taken good care of this wheat field. Since I am here, I will take a look."
This is to prevent those people in the Ministry of Revenue from always saying that he is ignorant of the sufferings of the people.
Humph, it seems like he doesn’t go to the fields when plowing is done every year.
The prince went straight to the ridge of the field, and Manbao pulled Mingda and Changyu to follow him, and Baishan and Bai Erlang also followed.
Naturally, the officials of the Eastern Palace and the imperial guards who followed also followed.
However, the ridge of the field was small and could only allow two people to walk side by side, so they formed a long line.
Prince Gong, who was sitting on his horse, gritted his teeth, and finally got off the horse and followed with his men.
The guards tactfully let him go first, but in order to protect the prince's safety, two of them still walked in front.
Mingda and Changyu held Manbao's hands and walked carefully on the ridge of the field. Seeing how careful they were, Manbao smiled and said, "It's very flat here. You can walk freely. Don't be afraid."
Chang Yu looked at the grass under her feet, and the saplings that were as tall as her waist, and frowned, "It's so dirty."
After saying this, she wanted to reach out and break the sapling in front of her eyes, but the prince was quick to slap her on the back of her hand. He glanced at her and said, "This is a mulberry seedling."
Manbao, who was about to stop him, nodded repeatedly and said to Changyu, "This is for the silkworms to eat. The silk they spit out can be used to make clothes for you."
Chang Yu looked down at his clothes and muttered, "I know... I, I've seen mulberry trees, and they don't look like this."
Mingda smiled and said, "What we saw was a mature tree, which is somewhat different from a sapling."
The prince walked forward and saw a mulberry tree planted far away on the ridge of the field. He nodded slightly and said, "This will save some land."
In the distance, he saw some people weeding or applying fertilizer in the fields, so he said to Zhou Man, "You're lucky. The tenant farmers you were assigned are quite hardworking."
Manbao said, "This farm is jointly managed by me and them. The more we harvest, the more they will get, and they will naturally devote themselves to it."
The prince nodded and continued to look down, following the ridge of the field. After looking at the fields, he came to the dry land. The dry land was mostly planted with beans, and there was very little grass in the bean fields. This was rare. The prince raised his eyebrows in surprise.
He lowered his head and took a closer look, confirming that these were beans. There were indeed very few weeds in them. He then turned and asked Zhou Man, "Are these fields also managed by your tenants?"
Manbao nodded. Who else could it be if not them?
The prince walked around the dry land with his hands behind his back, then looked at Zhou Man and smiled, "Not bad, you are good at managing your subordinates. I have seen so much land, even the fields in the imperial farm, sometimes only pull the weeds so cleanly when they need to meet the inspection of the emperor."
He wasn't sure if Zhou Man would do this to save face in front of him. Even if he did a good job, she wouldn't reward him, so there was no need to do so.
Mingda, Changyu and the other two were all confused, but Baishan and the other two nodded in agreement. They were all from the village, so who wouldn't know?
When working in the fields, wheat and rice always come first. Only after these two are taken care of can beans be worked on.
People also like to rank beans. The beans in the most fertile land are weeded first. If there are not enough people, most beans in dry land are not weeded, basically allowing the beans and weeds to grow beautiful together.
Anyone who can pull out the weeds in the bean field so cleanly in the early stage is indeed a hardworking person.
The prince nodded with satisfaction, continued walking down, and then returned to the road. He originally wanted to encourage Zhou Man to leave his two sisters behind for the time being and go, but when he turned around, he saw a field on the other side of the road. He had already withdrew his gaze, but felt something was wrong, so he turned his head again to look.
I even walked to the side of the road and looked down.
Not to mention Manbao, even Baishan and Bai Erlang were nervous.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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