Chapter 820 My cousin is reborn and wants to snatch my marriage (29)
Mingxun excitedly pulled Gu Shichu's fingers and gently touched the leaves of the mimosa, and the leaves immediately curled up as if shy.
Mingxun said to her excitedly: "Look! Isn't it fun?"
Gu Shichu chuckled, nodded and said, "Yeah, it's really fun."
Mingxun suddenly became extremely proud like a child who had been praised, and pulled Gu Shichu to see other plants.
Gu Shichu listened to him talking while looking around casually. Suddenly, her attention was attracted by two plants more than one foot tall. The two plants looked very much like sorghum trees, but their leaves were wide and long, as big as an adult's palm and as long as an arm. They hung down in curves and were emerald green.
Gu Shichu immediately stopped listening to Mingxun showing off his exotic flowers and plants. He quickly walked to the two plants, pointed at them, and asked Mingxun: "Do you know these two plants? Do you have their seeds?"
Ming Xun walked over, looked at the two plants, shook his head and said, "I don't recognize them. They are a combination of several kinds of flower and grass seeds that the foreign merchant sold me. The merchant said they were edible, but I had someone grow them and cook them into dishes. They are not tasty at all. The leaves are hairy and flaky. The merchant lied to me!"
He said this with a look of disgust, and accused the merchant of cheating him. Then he tore off a leaf and said, "I will have them plucked later. They can't bloom for people to appreciate, and they can't be eaten. Planting them is a waste of my land..."
When Gu Shi first heard him say that he had tried cooking the leaves of this plant, he laughed so hard that he held his stomach and couldn't straighten his back.
How could this thing be so cute? This is corn. Although the leaves are not poisonous, they are not delicious. If it weren’t for a famine, no one would eat it. But this thing was actually used to cook. Gu Shichu couldn’t help but sigh at his wild imagination.
In this era, corn had not yet been introduced from other oceans to become one of the staple foods of the people. It was a coincidence that Ming Xun was able to obtain the seeds from foreign merchants. He did not know the true function of corn and thought it was a vegetable. He even thought about pulling it out. Isn't this a waste of resources?
There were naturally various varieties of corn in Gu Shichu's companion space, sweet, sticky, colorful, all black... She had no intention of taking out the corn openly before, but the appearance of Mingxun's two corn seedlings aroused her love for all kinds of delicious food made from corn, so she decided to grow these two corns well.
"Mingxun, if you don't want these two corns, just give them to me." Gu Shichu stopped laughing and said quickly.
Ming Xun looked at her with a puzzled look on his face: "Why do you want these two kinds of grass? Also, why did you laugh just now? Were you laughing at me?"
Since Gu Shichu wanted the other person's corn seedlings, he naturally would not admit that he laughed at him, so he quickly explained: "I laughed because I think you are very cute. You dare to try all kinds of new things. You are full of curiosity and desire to explore. This is a very precious quality..."
Gu Shichu praised the man for a while, and then said: "I want these two grasses, no, plants, I want to plant more, maybe I can grow something different? And even if they don't bloom, they are quite pleasing to the eye when planted like this. The leaves are long and big, like a green belt. When blown by the wind, they are particularly elegant. It's nice to display them for appreciation..."
In ancient times, it was not directly said that corn could be used as food. After all, Ming Xun had never seen a grown corn cob, let alone eaten it, so he had to wait for these two corn seedlings to bloom and produce ears. He would see it with his own eyes, which would be more convincing.
Corn is an easy-to-grow and high-yield crop. Ming Xun was the first to grow it and verify its uses and eating methods. Maybe he will have unexpected surprises in the future. After all, this is still an era dominated by agriculture.
Ming Xun generously gave the corn seedlings to Gu Shichu. Gu Shichu did not transplant them away, but instead instructed people on how to take care of them. After all, they were not flowers or plants, and their planting method was different from that of other plants in the small garden. Gu Shichu did not want anyone to kill these two precious seedlings.
The first day of Mingxun and Gu Shichu's marriage passed just like that. The two of them had long been familiar with each other and did not feel uncomfortable when they were together. Mingxun finally found an opportunity to show off his strange things to Gu Shichu. They were either small gadgets with ingenious mechanisms, or expensive and rare treasures, or rare animals that he got from who knows where: glass cats, green peacocks, golden monkeys...
Gu Shichu was considered to have broadened his horizons. No wonder everyone said that he was a playboy who was obsessed with material things. He collected so many strange things, including animals and plants. His hobbies were quite wide.
She had wondered before why the Qi Yang Marquis Mansion declined so quickly in Gu Shiyao's previous life. After all, the Qi Yang Marquis Mansion had a history of more than a hundred years, so it was impossible for it to be almost completely destroyed in just a few decades.
Now it seems that according to Ming Xun's practice of collecting all kinds of rare items in his own house, he will definitely no longer be restrained after the death of Marquis Qi Yang and his wife, who can control him. He will start to spend money lavishly and collect all kinds of rare things regardless of the cost. He may even be taken advantage of and cheated from time to time. Over time, how can this family not be completely ruined?
"Shichu, why don't we go somewhere else to play? I have never left the capital since I was a child. My parents don't let me leave, saying they are worried about me. But now I'm married to you, right? They have no excuse to stop me anymore." Ming Xun said to Gu Shichu on a whim, his eyes sparkling, looking at her expectantly.
Gu Shichu couldn't help but widen her eyes. She didn't expect Mingxun's mind could be even wilder. But it didn't matter. She was also wild. She was in favor of going out to play, no matter where they went. So she said without saying anything, "Okay! But we have to prepare in advance. Going out is going out, but I don't want to suffer on the way."
"Of course! I myself am delicate and cannot endure hardship, so naturally I do whatever is comfortable for me. Even when we go out, we have to show our style..." Ming Xun is very self-aware. He is used to enjoying himself and is more afraid of suffering than Gu Shichu.
Gu Shichu was very satisfied with his awareness. After all, a man with self-awareness is always better than an arrogant man who thinks highly of himself but has no clear understanding of himself. If Mingxun overestimates his own abilities, does not prepare anything, and goes out empty-handed without even bringing servants, then she will definitely not go with him.
"Then let's plan where to go first. We have to make an itinerary, and also know which places we will pass along the way, what magical or novel things those places have... We have to understand all this first, so that we won't be like a headless fly, bumping around without a clue when we get there..." Gu Shichu spoke very clearly, and Mingxun nodded repeatedly.
(End of this chapter)
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