“Brother Ye, these are called potatoes. We didn’t dig them up in the mountains. The seeds were provided by Yuan Yuan’s great-uncle, and our family figured out how to grow them. We planted them before the New Year and only harvested them a few days ago. We only dug up one basketful; the rest are still in the ground!” Gu Shouxin explained.
"Yuanyuan's great-uncle?" The emperor blinked.
"It's Master Zhou from Zhoujia Town. He used to present chili peppers to the Emperor in the capital, and these chili peppers were grown by him," Grandpa Gu said with a smile.
"That unfortunate old man!" the emperor blurted out, chuckling as everyone looked over. "I met him once before, when I was a teenager. He was really unlucky. Back then... I heard the late emperor was going to reward him with a countship! But he refused, and instead asked for a marriage decree for his daughter. Then, a few years later, his daughter died, and I heard his wife also died. He was all alone now!"
I almost called the emperor my father.
When Master Zhou presented the chili peppers, his father, the Emperor, was on the throne. As the Crown Prince, he had naturally met Master Zhou before.
He still wanted to marry the Zhou family girl—yes, marry her, not take her as a concubine. At that time, he was young and didn't have a Crown Princess yet. However, the Zhou family girl was a few years older than him, so he gave up that idea.
He never wanted to marry a noblewoman; he just wanted someone with a simpler background. Going back in the Ye family, there was an ancestor who married the daughter of a powerful minister, and then the maternal relatives interfered in politics for decades.
Unfortunately, he ultimately failed to achieve his wish and married a woman from the Xue family, who was Xue Qianyu's aunt.
Gu Xin blinked: "Uncle Ye, you know Master Zhou! Have you ever met the Zhou family's daughter? Is she pretty?"
When Uncle Gu told the mother and daughter the story of Zhou Yujia before, she felt sorry for her uncle's little sister Jia and was very curious about this little sister Jia.
The Emperor nodded: "I've seen her! She even fought with my sister! She was fierce, but she was truly beautiful. Although she's gone, she had a daughter who looks a lot like her, and she's very beautiful. She also had a son, but I've never met him!"
After the emperor finished speaking, he asked, "By the way, why doesn't old man Zhou grow them himself and give them to you to grow?"
Gu Shouxin said, "They said it was calculated by a sorcerer that the land in our location is suitable for planting. Master Zhou got some of these seeds, but they didn't grow. He had only two bags left, and he gave us one bag."
The emperor nodded: "I see! This stuff tastes pretty good."
He just said that once, and then continued eating.
He had never eaten sausages or pickled chili peppers before; they were very appetizing.
The Gu family didn't rush to tell him about the yield per mu or anything like that.
After the meal, Eunuch Fu and his four guards were taken to the old house to stay, while the emperor and Xue Qianyu remained on the second branch of the family.
The emperor finally had the opportunity to use a shampoo and conditioner set.
The emperor, holding a toothbrush, stood by the large sink at the kitchen door, brushing his teeth as he asked, "Oh my, my dear niece, this is wonderful! It's orange flavored! How did you put the orange in there?"
Like a little child, he even used a lamp to shine on the foam coming out of his mouth.
Gu Nianzhen felt this wasn't an emperor: "Uncle Ye, this is what I use to make money. You're a businessman, so can I not tell you?"
The emperor was taken aback for a moment, then laughed and said, "Alright, alright, if you don't want to tell me, then don't! When I leave, just give me a thousand or eight hundred sets, okay?"
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