August 15th, Mid-Autumn Festival.
The palace is particularly lively this year.
At Yun Zheng's invitation, Zhang Xu and Qin Qihu both came to the palace with their families.
Originally, Ye Zi wanted to invite cabinet members to the palace to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together, but was stopped by Yun Zheng.
Those people in the cabinet were not as familiar with him as Zhang Xu and others. When they came to the palace, they were more concerned about hierarchy. Even when they sat down to have a meal together, they seemed uncomfortable.
The purpose of celebrating a festival is to have fun. There is no need to make everyone so restrained.
Isn't it more comfortable to see other families happily celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival at home than to be with them and have to think twice before saying anything?
The servants in the mansion began preparing for tonight’s Mid-Autumn Festival banquet after lunch, while Madam Shen led a group of beautiful girls to make desserts.
Yun Zheng and the other grown men had nothing to do, so they could only drink tea and chat in the pavilion, and look after these naughty kids at the same time.
"Boss, you better give in to me, No. 2. If you dare to mess around again, I'll beat you to death, do you believe it?"
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Qin Qihu said something fierce to the eldest Qin family member who was fighting with the second child from a distance, then turned to look at Yun Zheng: "Brother, you are not going to recite poems tonight, are you?"
"I feel pain all over my body just talking about this!"
Before Yun Zheng could say anything, Zhang Xu's face turned bitter. "I'm really scared of doing this. I remember when I was sixteen, the old man took me to the palace to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. The emperor asked me to write a poem, but I couldn't do it, so I wrote a doggerel. When I got back, I was almost beaten to death by the old man and my father..."
"Isn't it?" Qin Qihu nodded in agreement. "I used to be afraid to attend banquets in the palace. There were too many rules. You had to drink with some people even though you wanted to beat them up..."
Seeing the two of them like this, Yun Zheng couldn't help but laugh, "Don't worry! Let's not do this, let's just eat and drink!"
"That would be great!"
Qin Qihu grinned and asked Yun Zheng again: "By the way, why didn't the Fourth Prince come? Does he still have any objections to you?"
"If you were the fourth child, would you be willing to come?"
Yun Zheng smiled faintly, "He is eating and drinking with others in Suqu, and he can be as carefree as he wants. If he comes to my place, do you think he will be at ease?"
In fact, Ye Zi had invited the fourth brother.
However, the fourth brother declined on the grounds that he had just settled down in Suqu and was busy with his tasks.
He will feel more at ease if the fourth brother doesn't come.
If the fourth brother's family really came, he would still have to be insincerely polite. Why?
As for whether the fourth brother had any opinion about him, he didn't care at all.
As long as the fourth brother doesn't do anything rash, it'll be fine.
"Too."
Qin Qihu nodded, nudged Yu Shizhong, winked and said, "You are now married, you should have a few drinks tonight! If you get drunk and have sex, you might be able to take Zhuoma down tonight!"
"Can't you give me some good ideas?" Yu Shizhong frowned, then laughed, "Besides, Zhuoma and I were married by His Highness, so it's only natural for us to sleep together! What's the point of having sex?"
Listening to Yu Shizhong's words, the three men couldn't help but look at each other silently, and at the same time revealed a smile that all men understood.
Just as a few people were bragging and chatting, Ye Zi suddenly walked in.
Behind Ye Zi, there were two servants carrying a large sack.
"Sister-in-law, are you going to kidnap someone?"
Qin Qihu was joking with Ye Zi.
Ye Zi smiled and replied, "The corn and potatoes in the official fields of Changle County have all been harvested. Qu Zhi sent a bag of corn over. It was just delivered to your house. I asked someone to bring it here for Yun Zheng to see! Oh, and here is a letter from Qu Zhi."
As she spoke, Ye Zi handed the letter in her hand to Yun Zheng.
Yun Zheng took the letter and asked someone to bring the corn over quickly.
Soon, Yun Zheng opened the letter sent by Qu Zhi.
Qu Zhi knew that Yun Zheng was very concerned about the crops in the official fields, so he reported the harvest situation in detail in the letter.
The 25 acres of corn in Fuzhou only yielded nearly 5,000 kilograms of corn, with an average yield of less than 200 kilograms per acre, which was far from what Yun Zheng had expected.
Qu Zhi didn't know whether it was because the corn seedlings were flooded, because the soil was barren, or because their planting method was wrong.
However, the yields of potatoes and pumpkins are good.
With only one and a half acres of potatoes, we harvested more than a thousand kilograms of potatoes.
The yield of pumpkin is also quite high, with a yield of four to five hundred kilograms per acre.
Qu Zhi was also going to send pumpkins and potatoes, but he was afraid that the precious pumpkins and potatoes would be damaged during transportation, so he didn't dare to move.
At present, the rice brought back from overseas is about to be harvested. Qu Zhi estimates that the yield of this rice should be slightly higher than that of the Dagan rice, but not much higher.
In addition, Qu Zhi also talked about the harvest status of other crops.
Because Yun Zheng himself didn't recognize many of the crops, Qu Zhi didn't know what to do with them, so he could only let those crops continue to grow in the fields.
The seeds of some crops began to fall, so Qu Zhi asked people to collect all the seeds.
At the end of the letter, Qu Zhi asked Yun Zheng to take some time to go to Changle County to see what to do with the remaining crops in the government fields.
After reading Qu Zhi's letter, Yun Zheng couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
Is the yield of corn so low?
This is even with Arita Bing's careful care and priority in fertilizing.
If it were left to ordinary people to grow, the yield per mu would probably be less than 150 kilograms.
What the hell is this!
While Yun Zheng was secretly disappointed, two servants had already opened the bag of corn sent by Qu Zhi.
Yun Zheng handed the letter to Ye Zi, then grabbed a handful of corn to check, and found that these corn kernels were quite different from the corn kernels he had seen in his previous life.
There are very few corn kernels as big as a little fingernail. Most of them are the size of soybeans, and some are even the size of mung beans.
With this kind of condition, there is no way the yield can be high!
Seeing Yun Zheng's disappointed look, Ye Zi comforted him softly: "Although the yield of corn is not satisfactory, fortunately the yield of potatoes and pumpkins is still quite high."
“Yes, yes!”
"Your Highness, you don't know how envious Madam Jiayao is of crops that yield four to five hundred kilograms per mu!"
"My dear brother, don't you always say that people should be content?"
Zhang Xu and others also followed to comfort Yun Zheng.
It’s already a blessing to have high-yield crops like potatoes and pumpkins!
As for corn, the yield is lower so be it!
It’s not like they can’t survive without corn.
"Too!"
Yun Zheng adjusted his mood and said with a smile: "The potatoes and pumpkins alone are great! As for the corn, just think of it as the icing on the cake! Oh, by the way, have someone pick out the corn kernels, keep the big ones and separate the small ones, they will be useful to me later!"
"it works?"
Ye Zi was puzzled, "What are you going to do?"
"Keep it a secret!"
Yun Zheng blinked and smiled, his eyes fell on the group of crazy kids playing...
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