At the entrance of Beiyuanshan Village, the steward stood in front, waiting for Yin's family to arrive. Here, he was the village chief, leading his servants and family members to work together.
The carriage slowly came into his view, and he quickly led several servants to kneel by the roadside to pay their respects to their masters.
"Greetings to the master, greetings to the princess, greetings to the young masters!" The village chief led the stewards in paying their respects.
"Village Chief, please kowtow." Yin led Qingyan down from the carriage. "Is the house ready?"
Qingyan was quite pleased to see the village chief arrive with his wife. The village chief's wife also came from a family of the Imperial Household Department. After spending a long time in Beiyuan Mountain Village, she had become completely calm and had lost much of her previous scheming.
When Yin discovered this, he sent over some troublemakers. The whole family worked in the remote mountain village in the north, far from the garden, so they were practically isolated from the world. Without any conflict, these servants were easier to manage.
"Reporting to Your Majesty and Madam, everything is ready. After the servants cleaned up, everyone has evacuated!" The village chief understood Yin's meaning; Yin would not allow the servants to approach the main courtyard.
When Qingyan first came to Beiyuan Mountain Village, he was provoked by the local servants, a memory that Yin and Qingyan never forgot.
The group arrived at the main courtyard. Qingyan looked at the clean courtyard and saw that everything had been prepared in the small kitchen. Qingyan would be cooking for the next few days.
"Eru, take the guards and move to the first courtyard. No matter which servant comes in, turn them away!" Yin instructed directly.
Qingyan chuckled. Back then, she was quite angry, but now she no longer had those thoughts. Yin had always been with her, and now they had two children. How could she possibly be interested in someone else?
"Reporting to Master, those two have been sent to the back," the village chief, who was a witness to the incident, quickly told Yin.
"Shut up!" Su Peisheng quickly scolded.
"This servant deserves to die!" the village chief quickly apologized.
"Alright, let's leave now." Yin just wanted to get closer to normal life. In this small courtyard, Qingyan had to take care of the whole family.
"I'll prepare some lunch. Mother will prepare the food. If you don't like it, I'll eat it, understand?" Qingyan said directly to the children.
The twins' eyes lit up. If their mother prepared the food herself, it would definitely be more thoughtful than the servants.
Every year, they can only enjoy their mother's cooking during this period when they come to Beiyuanshan Village. At other times, they can only eat substitutes.
"Okay!" The twins' clear voices made Qingyan very happy.
Su Lan and Su Zhu took the twins to a side hall to rest, while Ha Feng was placed in a cradle in the inner chamber.
"Little darling, have the men below help you out. They'll stay with me until we're done watching, then we'll have lunch," Yin said directly.
Qingyan asked Suhua to prepare vegetables according to the list. She was ready and had made some things in advance in the small kitchen in the garden. The broth was already prepared.
"Master, are the cotton seeds we prepared really enough?" Qingyan accompanied Yin out of the courtyard and slowly walked towards the field.
“It’s definitely not enough. Let’s try it out first. Before, I didn’t have high hopes. I just thought you liked it, so I decided to give it a try.” Yin finally told the truth.
During the spring planting season, Yin asked the local farmers, but none of them were sure about it.
A few years ago, Qingyan put fish in the rice paddies and actually won a great victory. The fish and rice together brought in two incomes at once.
Now, many rice paddies in the south have already been put into use, and Kangxi, looking at those rice paddies, was even more satisfied with Yinzhen.
"Pfft, is that so? No wonder you didn't object at all!" Qingyan chuckled.
The two walked one after the other to the rice paddy, where many villagers had begun working and starting the autumn harvest.
"The master is here! The princess is here!" someone shouted, and everyone quickly knelt down to pay their respects.
"Get up!" Yin quickly woke the people up. Some of them were in the paddy fields. These were the doctors that Yin had sent. They would have the opportunity to have their pulse checked once a month. Yin found that these people in the paddy fields had a high probability of having rheumatism.
He even wrote a memorial about this matter and submitted it to Emperor Kangxi, but the matter was dropped.
"Master, the intercropped fields will not be ready for harvest until you arrive!" The village chief came over and quickly told Yin about the harvest.
"Alright, start harvesting soon. Send more people, and give you four days to report the harvest to me!" Yin had a tent prepared in front of the intercropped land. They were there to monitor the harvest and ensure it was accurate.
"!" The village chief quickly accepted the order and left.
For this intercropping project, the village chief really gathered a lot of experienced people, hoping to successfully complete the task assigned by Yin. It doesn't matter if Yin fails every time, but everyone is holding their breath and ready to complete the task. Yin will definitely not be stingy with the reward.
Qingyan sat inside the tent, looking at the open tent door. There were some fruits and vegetables on the spot where Yin and Qingyan were sitting, and two ice basins were placed on the left and right sides.
Although it was hot outside, the temperature inside the tent was still quite low.
"Master, are we going to start harvesting in four days?" Qingyan asked curiously. Yin wasn't here to collect things, so why wasn't he in a hurry?
Yin nodded. Father Emperor had given everyone a harvest holiday. From the princes who were studying to those working in private schools, everyone would start working during the harvest holiday.
"There's a month to go, and even the children will be here!" Yin won't go to the fields near Changchun Garden anymore. Kangxi has ordered that the intercropping here must be completed as soon as possible.
The reason why Lian Yin and others were sent by Kangxi was that he did not intend to let Yin and Yin Si get too close to me.
"Moreover, the ninth and tenth princes also need to harvest in their courtyards in the autumn. We can't just let these two stay here with us and abandon the things in their courtyards, can we?" Yin said to Qingyan.
As they were talking, the village chief had already led a lot of his servants to the fields. Qingyan looked at the servants in the fields and thought to himself that if there were harvesters, such a large area could be harvested in just one afternoon. Now, the only option was to use sheer numbers.
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