Emperor Jingli said, "You continue to sleep."
Liao Qingqing asked in confusion, "But Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"
"I'm fine."
"Then why did you cover my eyes?"
Emperor Jingli made an excuse and said, "I, I just want you to continue to sleep."
"???"
"Go to sleep." Emperor Jingli let go of his hand.
Liao Qingqing blinked and looked at Emperor Jingli with sleepy eyes.
She didn't notice that Emperor Jingli was different, and asked in a low voice, "Your Majesty, did you have a nightmare?"
"...Yes, I did." But it wasn't a nightmare.
"It's okay, dreams are the opposite." Liao Qingqing patted Emperor Jingli's hand in a daze and comforted him, "Don't be afraid."
"...You can continue to sleep, I have to go to the morning court."
Liao Qingqing wanted to get up: "I will help you get dressed."
"No need!" Emperor Jingli refused firmly.
Liao Qingqing stopped and asked, "Really?"
"No, go to sleep."
"Then I will continue to sleep."
"Yes."
Liao Qingqing lay back on the bed and slowly closed her eyes.
She really fell asleep.
Just, just, fell asleep?
Emperor Jingli was surprised, then shook his head helplessly, and a sweet smile rose unconsciously at the corner of his mouth.
When his eyes fell on the quilt, his face froze immediately, and then he lifted the quilt.
Looking at the slightly wet pants, he didn't know whether he was happy or embarrassed.
Fu Sheng was summoned immediately, and he bathed, changed his clothes, and went to court. As
soon as the court was over, Doctor Fan was summoned.
Doctor Fan asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, did you have another reaction this morning?"
Emperor Jingli shrugged his face and body and said: "Not only did you have a reaction, but you also came out."
Doctor Fan didn't understand for a moment, and raised his eyes and asked: "What came out?"
Emperor Jingli glared at him.
Doctor Fan understood immediately and said: "Your Majesty, it's a good thing that it came out!"
Emperor Jingli didn't answer.
Doctor Fan continued, "But not just once."
"Not just once?"
"Yes, the poisoning incident almost endangered the emperor's life. Fortunately, God blessed the emperor and he survived that test. These years, I have been thinking day and night about how to remove the remaining poison from the emperor's body. Although the emperor is young, healthy, and recovers quickly, for the sake of safety, you should still be more vigilant and ensure that there are no mistakes!" Doctor Fan said sincerely and forcefully.
Emperor Jingli nodded and said, "My dear minister, you are right."
"Please be patient, Your Majesty."
"???" Why did he sound anxious? Emperor Jingli didn't think about it, but still said to Doctor Fan, "You can go down."
"Yes."
Doctor Fan left again.
Emperor Jingli stood up and sat at the table, ready to review a batch of memorials. Suddenly, the charming appearance of Liao Qingqing in his dream appeared in his mind.
And there was that feeling of being in heaven...
He had never experienced such a feeling before, it was indescribably wonderful.
At about the same time, he felt a heat in his abdomen.
He quickly put away his thoughts, adjusted his mentality, and focused on the memorials. Only then did he stop thinking about the dream, and he was busy until noon.
Fusheng walked up and asked, "Your Majesty, where is the lunch served?"
The Emperor Jingli said, "In Lisheng Pavilion."
Knowing that the Emperor was going to Lisheng Pavilion, Fusheng had inquired about Liao Qingqing's whereabouts early in the morning, so he said, "Your Majesty, Master Xi is not in Lisheng Pavilion right now."
"Where is she?" "
She went to Shouxi Palace early in the morning."
"What is she doing?"
"I heard that after the rain yesterday, the flowers in the Queen Mother's backyard bloomed, and she called Master Xi to see them, and lunch will also be served in Shouxi Palace." Fusheng smiled and answered.
"Oh, the Queen Mother didn't make things difficult for Xi Zhaorong?"
"I don't know about that." Fusheng knew to keep his mouth shut when he shouldn't say anything.
"Then I'll go to Shouxi Palace."
"Yes." Fusheng was about to rush out to report.
Emperor Jingli stopped them and said, "No need to ride the sedan chair, I'll walk for a while."
"Yes."
Emperor Jingli had been sitting and reviewing memorials for the whole morning, so it was time to walk around. He walked with Fusheng.
As soon as they entered Shouxi Palace, they saw Liao Qingqing accompanying the Empress Dowager for dinner.
"Your Majesty!" Seeing Emperor Jingli coming, Liao Qingqing smiled and called out first.
This call was clear and sweet, and Emperor Jingli's heart softened.
Liao Qingqing stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty
." Emperor Jingli stepped forward and held Liao Qingqing's hand: "Stand up."
Liao Qingqing whispered: "Your Majesty, I am having dinner with the Empress Dowager."
"I know." Emperor Jingli whispered back: "That's why I came here."
Liao Qingqing nodded.
Emperor Jingli looked at the Queen Mother and said, "Your son pays respect to you, mother."
The Queen Mother was as steady as a mountain and asked, "Has the Emperor had his meal?"
Emperor Jingli answered truthfully, "Not yet."
"Let's go together."
"Your son obeys."
Emperor Jingli sat next to Liao Qingqing and accompanied the Queen Mother to have lunch together. He secretly observed the Queen Mother's attitude towards Liao Qingqing. Although the Queen Mother was cold and stern, she was quite nice to Liao Qingqing.
I think the Queen Mother was used to the complexity of human hearts, and she felt a little more sympathy for someone as simple and transparent as Liao Qingqing.
This was also Liao Qingqing's blessing.
Emperor Jingli was relieved.
After lunch, the Queen Mother needed to rest, so she didn't let Emperor Jingli and Liao Qingqing stay. They left Shouxi Palace. Seeing Liao Qingqing's smile all the time, Emperor Jingli couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is Qingqing very happy?"
Liao Qingqing raised her head slightly, her eyes sparkling, and nodded, "Yes."
"Why?"
"Your Majesty, guess."
"..." It was a very childish statement, but Emperor Jingli still guessed, saying, "Because of the promotion?"
"No." Liao Qingqing shook her head.
Emperor Jingli said again, "Because I rewarded you with a thousand taels of gold?"
Liao Qingqing shook her head again, "No."
"Because the Queen Mother has changed her mind about you?" "
No."
"That's..."
Liao Qingqing said proudly, "Because the vegetables I planted have borne fruit."
Emperor Jingli looked surprised.
"Your Majesty, I will take you to see it."
"..." When Emperor Jingli thought of the green vegetables planted by Liao Qingqing, he really had no interest.
Liao Qingqing raised her eyes and asked, "Your Majesty, don't you want to see it?"
"Yes!" Emperor Jingli said hypocritically, "Let's go and see it."
Liao Qingqing took the initiative to pull Emperor Jingli's hand, and as soon as she entered the Lisheng Pavilion, she hurried to her experimental field.
From a distance, you can see a row of lush green plants, and the flowers have almost fallen off. It is unknown what kind of vegetables they are.
"Your Majesty, look." Liao Qingqing pointed to the experimental field.
"What are you looking at?" Emperor Jingli asked.
"Potato vines."
"Potato vines?" Emperor Jingli had never heard of this plant.
Liao Qingqing squatted down and dug the soil of the potato vines. After a while, egg-sized things appeared. She pulled one off with force and showed it to Emperor Jingli, saying, "Your Majesty, look. This is a potato."
"Potato?" Emperor Jingli's eyes fell on the potato in Liao Qingqing's hand.
"Yes, it's edible!"
"Edible?" Emperor Jingli didn't quite believe it.
"Edible." Liao Qingqing nodded.
Emperor Jingli turned his unbelieving eyes to the potato vines. No matter how he looked at them, he felt that they looked familiar. Suddenly he remembered and said, "Isn't this the umbrella flower that was presented as a tribute from the northwest, which means to avoid wind and disasters."
"Yes." Liao Qingqing nodded.
"How did it become like this?"
"I made it better. "
Potatoes are not unfamiliar to people in the 21st century, but they are extremely unfamiliar to people of this era. I don't know if it is due to the climate and environment, but the current potatoes only bloom, and the rhizomes cannot develop and grow.
People in the northwest have not discovered the edible value of potatoes.
They only regard potatoes as ornamental flowers.
According to the meaning of "shielding wind and avoiding disasters", they were given to Emperor Jingli as tribute.
Emperor Jingli sent them to Lisheng Pavilion. Fortunately, Liao Qingqing grew up in the countryside. When she was very young, she went to the fields with her grandparents to dig potatoes, pull radishes, pick cotton, etc., and she had a deep understanding of some crops. She recognized them at first sight
.
The so-called umbrella flower is actually a potato flower.
But she was afraid that the potato flower was a different variety, so she didn't make it public. Since last year, she has been quietly observing, cultivating, transplanting, watering, fertilizing, picking flowers and buds, etc. She has been very careful to save the rhizomes that transport all the nutrients. Unexpectedly,
this morning, potatoes really grew.
She immediately asked He Xiang to roast a few and eat them.
They are exactly the same as potatoes in the 21st century.
She was very excited.
It happened that Nanny Chang came to call her to Shouxi Palace, so she suppressed this joy, and only released it at this moment. She continued: "Your Majesty, this is delicious."
Emperor Jingli asked: "Have you eaten it?"
"Well, Your Majesty, do you want to try it?"
"Okay. "Emperor Jingli became interested in this potato.
There was no small kitchen in Lisheng Pavilion, so they had to go to the kitchen to steam or cook.
Liao Qingqing asked He Xiang to throw a few potatoes into the charcoal stove.
After a while, a faint fragrance wafted from the charcoal stove.
When the potatoes were taken out and the burnt potato skins were peeled off, a sweet fragrance filled the room.
Emperor Jingli looked at Liao Qingqing in amazement.
Liao Qingqing picked up the potato with chopsticks, handed it to Emperor Jingli, and said, "Your Majesty, please taste it. "
Emperor Jingli took it and saw that Liao Qingqing had already started to eat the potato in small bites.
He took a careful bite, and instantly the soft, glutinous and sweet taste spread in his mouth.
This was a taste he had never tasted before.
But he did not reject it at all, but liked it very much.
He looked at Liao Qingqing in shock.
Liao Qingqing asked expectantly: "Your Majesty, is it delicious?"
This potato gave him too many surprises, he said: "It's delicious. "
"Not only is it delicious, but it's also filling." Liao Qingqing said.
"Fill it? "
These two words touched the sensitive spot of Emperor Jingli.
He was a good emperor who cared about the people. He wanted the people to have enough food and clothing, encouraged the people to open up wasteland and plant crops, and even reduced taxes in some areas.
Even so, if it was a good year, the people could eat and wear warm clothes; if the wind was not good and the rain was not good, a year's hard work would still be in vain.
Starving to death would happen from time to time.
So he was very concerned about the word "resist hunger".
"Yes, I ate two in the morning, and I wasn't hungry all morning."
Emperor Jingli looked at the potatoes in his hand, no longer careless, and asked seriously: "How many potatoes can this umbrella flower produce?"
"I don't know, but--"
"But what?"
"But I feel that it can produce a lot. Your Majesty, come with me."
"Okay."
Emperor Jingli followed Liao Qingqing to her experimental field again, dug up a potato, pointed to the root of the potato and said, "Your Majesty, look, these little potatoes can grow very big, bigger than the ones we eat."
"How do you know?"
"Because the one I ate today was very big."
"Can all these little potatoes grow up?"
"Your Majesty, these little potatoes don't have to all grow up. If half of them can grow up, that's also a lot of harvest, isn't it?" Liao Qingqing asked back.
You have to know that the yield of wheat and rice per mu is only about 200 kilograms, while potatoes can reach 1,000 to 4,000 kilograms.
That's why potatoes saved one country after another in her world and created one myth after another.
Obviously, Emperor Jingli also saw the great potential of potatoes.
He looked at Liao Qingqing with shock in his eyes.
After a while, he said, "Qingqing, you have made a great contribution."
Liao Qingqing knew it!
Emperor Jingli continued, "Come with me to the Ministry of Revenue."
Liao Qingqing didn't know, and asked in confusion, "What are you going to do in the Ministry of Revenue?"
"Go to the Ministry of Revenue to register."
"Register what?"
"I have opened an Agricultural Department in the Ministry of Revenue, which specializes in research on crop planting and yield increase. Your potatoes have great potential. Go and register with the director of the Agricultural Department so that they can be put into the private sector and benefit the people."
"Wait a minute." Liao Qingqing stopped Emperor Jingli.
"What's wrong?"
"Your Majesty, I discovered this potato by accident, and I also gave it the name by accident. I have no idea of its nature at the moment." For example, if a potato is moldy and sprouts, it is poisonous. She cannot reveal this for the time being, and can only say: "It will not be released to the public yet. We need to discuss and study it further."
Emperor Jingli laughed.
Liao Qingqing asked: "Your Majesty, what are you laughing at?"
"My Agricultural Department is not just for free. They understand that these matters concerning life are decided after repeated experiments. In this regard, they are more cautious than us." Emperor Jingli said.
Liao Qingqing nodded with relief.
"Follow me."
Liao Qingqing smiled and said: "Okay."
Emperor Jingli took Liao Qingqing's hand and walked directly to the Ministry of Revenue.
Before they even arrived at the Ministry of Revenue, their whereabouts had spread throughout the harem. In Linhua Palace, Concubine Liang asked in surprise, "Did the Emperor take Xi Zhaorong to see the Minister of Revenue and the Director of the Department of Agriculture?"
Concubine Xian nodded.
"Why?" Concubine Xian
frowned.
Concubine Liang asked, "Concubine Xian, what do you think of? Just tell me."
"My Lady Concubine, do you still remember what happened at Banshan Temple on the Double Ninth Festival last year?" Concubine Xian asked.
Concubine Liang recalled briefly and said, "I remember that when Xie Jian went to the backyard of Banshan Temple for an inspection, Xi Zhaorong jumped into the ditch to avoid suspicion."
"Well, that jump also promoted Xi Zhaorong from Xi Concubine to Xi Xiurong."
That's right! Concubine
Liang clenched her hands tightly.
The Banshan Temple on Wansui Mountain was originally a good opportunity.
As long as Liao Qingqing and Xie Jian were related, then Liao Qingqing would be doomed, and there would be no Xi Zhaorong now? !
She got angry when she thought of this.
Angry at the incompetence of Liao Guiren and Jiang Guiren!
Concubine Xian asked again: "Then Concubine Gui, do you still remember what the emperor said to the ministers when Xi Zhaorong was promoted?"
"What did he say?" Concubine Liang couldn't remember for a moment.
Concubine Xian said: "The emperor said, 'I think this is the tribulation that Wansui Mountain has given to Concubine Xi. I believe that Concubine Xi will achieve something in vegetable planting in the future, which will also benefit the people. Therefore, considering Concubine Xi's loyalty, Concubine Xi is named Xi Xiurong.'"
Concubine Liang was stunned when she heard this.
"In terms of vegetable growing, achievements, benefiting the people, loyalty..." Concubine Xian deliberately picked out these key words, and added: "The Department of Agriculture is in charge of vegetable growing. The emperor took Xi Zhaorong to the Department of Agriculture..."
Concubine Liang shuddered when she heard this.
She stared at Concubine Xian.
Concubine Xian said nothing.
Concubine Liang said: "Is the emperor paving the way for Liao Qingqing's future?"
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Emperor Jingli: I am paving the way, so that Qingqing can walk to my side more smoothly.
Liao Qingqing: No need!
Emperor Jingli:? ?
Liao Qingqing: I can get over it with a simple flip!
Emperor Jingli: ...
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