Chen Afu led a leisurely life while pregnant. She did needlework, looked after the pretty baby, worked as a child psychologist, and looked forward to seeing Chu Lingxuan. The days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was the end of June.
Everything has been good in the past few months. The children are growing up healthily and the elderly are healthy. Li Xuan's illness has also improved. He is cheerful and can speak two sentences coherently, but his reaction is still a little slow and he is still shy.
The watermelon business made a lot of money. Although the price was not as high as last year, and other melon farmers also used last year's "Dingzhou melon" seeds to grow watermelons, because they were the ones who made the name for themselves, most outsiders still went to Fuyunlai to buy melons, so they still made the most money.
Moreover, this year's watermelons are as delicious as last year's. It should be that the genes of the seeds have been thoroughly improved, which makes Chen Afu very happy.
From this perspective, wheat seeds, rice seeds and corn seeds should also be completely improved.
The winter wheat in Wangshan Village and Tangyuan also had a bumper harvest. The fragrance was secondary. The most important thing was that the wheat grown with this "Fanbang" seed had a maximum yield of 380 kilograms per mu. Like the "Dingzhou rice" and "Dingzhou corn" of the previous year, the yield doubled, creating the highest in the history of this time and space. This is of course not only because of the "Fanbang" seeds, but also because the seeds were soaked before sowing.
Chen Shiying didn't take watermelons too seriously, after all, they were not food and would not play a big role in promoting agriculture. But when he heard that Wangshan Village had another bumper wheat harvest and the yield might double, he was overjoyed and went to Wangshan Village in person, and named this type of wheat "Dingzhou wheat".
Instructions were also given to promote "Dingzhou wheat", "Dingzhou corn" and "Dingzhou rice" on a large scale in the three territories of Dingzhou Prefecture, namely Sanqing County, Zhongning County and Huajiang County.
At the same time, he began to collect various data and characteristics of those grains, preparing to write a golden memorial. After the rice and corn harvest this year, he could report it to the court.
Chen Afu could foresee that Chen Shiying would be promoted again in the near future. While he was quietly making a fortune, he inadvertently accumulated too many political achievements for Chen Shiying. In ancient times, promoting agriculture was a major plan. Grain reform can not only allow the people to have enough food, but also greatly enhance the country's strength.
The only bad thing was that Chen Ahfu ate too much, his belly grew too fast, and he became a lot fatter. His oval face became a big face, and his facial features changed. His eyes became swollen, his nose became bigger, and pimples appeared on his face. His belly was only four months old, but it was so big that many women said it looked like a six-month-old belly.
A few days ago, a doctor from the city was invited to take her pulse, and he said she was pregnant with twins.
This was really great news, and the old marquis was overjoyed. He sent letters to the capital and the prefectural capital, and also held a grand banquet, inviting his relatives and the families with good relations in the two villages, and also letting the servants have a big meal with him.
Chu Lingxuan had gone out of town again, so it was impossible for him to return home immediately. The next day, the Chen Mansion in the capital sent a gift, and on the fifth day, the Hou Mansion in the capital sent another gift.
Chen Ahfu was a little embarrassed. Pulse diagnosis is not like B-ultrasound. Who knows if it is accurate? Besides, the old marquis kept calling him great-grandson. What if he had two daughters? She would not dislike it, and I believe Chu Lingxuan would not dislike it either, but the old marquis might not.
What's even more outrageous is that the old man not only wants to say great-grandson himself, but he also bribes Dabao and Yan'er not to say younger brother or sister, but only asks them to say younger brother.
Even silly little Li Xuan was bought off, and as soon as he saw Chen Ahfu's belly, he said, "Auntie's belly, it's my little brother."
At noon on June 27th, the young monk Guiyi from Lingyin Temple came and said that his master was going to travel around the world, and asked Chen Afu to go with him the next day.
The old monk didn't go out for any business, but was traveling around the world. Judging from his previous behavior, he wouldn't be able to come back for three to five years.
Chen Ahfu was still reluctant to leave the old monk. Although he lacked some of the qualities that a high monk should have, he was still a respectable high monk. After all, his purpose of saving the Ninth Prince was to save lives, save Dabao from many dangers, and also give himself some warnings...
Said, "Okay, I'll go tomorrow."
He also asked someone to bring a few pounds of candy to the little monk.
Chen Ahfu remembered that in her previous life, there seemed to be a saying that pregnant women could not go to temples. However, different places had different rules, and in some places it was still allowed.
So after confirming her pregnancy, Chen Afu did not go to Yingxue Temple to visit Abbot Lechen. It was Lechen who came to Tangyuan to visit Chen Afu twice and often sent people to deliver fruit offerings.
Now that Master Wuzhi allows her to go, she should be able to go to the temple.
The next day, Chen Ahfu got up early and led Hua Mama to make vegetarian snacks in the small kitchen. She did a lot. After going to Lingyin Temple, she also went to Yingxue Temple to visit Abbot Lechen.
When Miss Chu got up and had her meal, they just walked out of Tang Garden and saw a man riding a horse running to the gate of Tang Garden.
It was a yamen runner who said that the prefect would bring officials from the prefecture to inspect Shangshui Village and Xiangluo Village to see the planting situation of "Dingzhou corn" and "Dingzhou rice" and asked the farmers who planted these grains to prepare.
Chen Shiying was her father, so Chen Afu had to return to Yanxiang Pavilion and wait until tomorrow to go to Lingyin Temple.
In these two villages, Tangyuan was the largest producer of these two crops. Manager Luo sent people to notify Chen Ming and Chen Ye, father and son, as well as the landlords who planted these two crops. He also called the heads of the two villages to take the lead in receiving these officials.
At noon, they were invited to have lunch again. Eating with the great Lord made these people extremely excited.
After the hour of Wei, all other officials returned to the city, leaving only Chen Shiying in Tangyuan. He went to Yanxiang Pavilion to visit his daughter and would return tomorrow.
Chen Shiying was full of ambition, young, handsome, and gentle as jade. He looked the same as when Chen Ahfu saw him two years ago. Time had left almost no trace on him. Although he had a short beard on his upper lip, he still deserved the praise of being a gentleman like jade.
It was the first time he saw Chen Ahfu after she became pregnant, and he smiled and said, "When I learned that Fu'er was pregnant with twins, Daddy was very happy."
Chen Ahfu touched his belly and said with a smile, "Dad is so young, he doesn't look like he's going to be a grandfather."
Chen Shiying laughed and said, "Look at what my daughter said. Daddy is old." He added, "Daddy also wants to thank Ah Fu. You got those seeds from Master Wuzhi and used your own land to grow good crops at all costs. This is for the benefit of the people. Daddy mentioned you in the memorial to the emperor, letting him know that you have also made great contributions."
Chen Afu said, "Not only me, but also my other father, he also used his land to grow this kind of food at any cost."
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