novelraw Chapter 206
Chapter 206
When Guo Luoluo heard the answer from the fourth sister-in-law, her face froze, and she changed the subject and said, "I heard that Ge Ge is pregnant in the fourth brother's house? The fourth sister-in-law is really virtuous."
It was only then that Wulanara felt that Guo Luoluo was causing trouble, held down her daughter's hand that wanted to touch her earrings, and said with a smile: "It is not inevitable for a woman in the backyard to become pregnant, what does the Fujin care about with them?"
For Gege's concubine in the mansion, Ulanara didn't care much.Back then, when the emperor gave her the reward, her grandfather had already given her enough face by rejecting the side Fujin, and because she trusted her in the back house, she never intervened.So if someone is pregnant, she doesn't have the slightest worry.
Guo Luoluo paused for a while, stretched out his hand to brush a few hairs behind his ears, lowered his head and said shyly: "My sixth master told me that I am enough."
Ulanara nodded and said with a smile, "Congratulations!" She doesn't envy other people, after all, Yinzhen has cared enough for her.
Counting on Yinzhen to be the only one in his life?Ulanara felt that he hadn't lived enough yet!Don't think about these unrealistic things.
Guo Luoluo's boasting didn't get the desired result, so he felt very boring all of a sudden.Just hearing the child crying, Ulanara's way of lowering her head to coax the child felt even more intrusive, turned her head and left without saying hello.
"Who is it?" The maid beside Ulanara shook her head speechlessly.
"Go back and punish you for a month." Ulanara coughed lightly, she didn't care how unreasonable the six younger siblings were, but there should be no irregular people around her.
After the sweet potatoes were planted, Mingxuan gave Yinzhen a lot of raised corn seedlings. The reason for raising the seedlings was just to cover up the survival rate of the seeds.
"Your Majesty should be more careful." Seeing the imperial concubine pulling out all the small corn seedlings and leaving the thicker ones for himself, Yinzhen praised repeatedly.
It's no wonder that even experienced farmers in Huangzhuang have not grown as good as Huangguifei these years.This level of care alone is really rare.
Mingxuan didn't say a word, Yinzhen suddenly asked: "Why do you plant potatoes at the end of autumn?" He remembered that they had already been planted in Huangzhuang.
Because the memories are all potatoes dug in spring?
Thinking of this, Ming Xuan suddenly felt a little dazed. She patted her head, thinking that the planting in different places is not the same, so she said, "I just heard from the person who brought back the seeds that it was planted in late autumn, but I never thought that it can be done now." Give it a try."
After all, Ming Xuan took out some potatoes and covered them, preparing to plant them after they sprouted.
Yinzhen watched the operation of the imperial concubine, and couldn't help but smile again on his face.
After the potatoes germinated, Mingxuan remembered that potatoes were suitable for planting in softer sandy soil, but her own small yard could no longer grow them, so she taught Yinzhen how to cut them into pieces, and asked him to take them all back and test them in the sandy and wetlands to see where they were. It grows better.
The sweet potato is growing very well. Yinfeng has visited it a few times, and even ate the sweet potato seedlings fried by his aunt.
Because it was what Yinfeng wanted, Mingxuan tried her best to take care of these things, even forbidding others to come to her yard, doing everything by herself.
Originally, Yinreng just wanted to divert his aunt's attention. Seeing her intentions, Yinfeng felt so soft. For the first time, he didn't want to discuss with Kangxi, but asked his father-in-law.
A Lantai directly suggested that Yinreng put the credit on the imperial concubine, and Yinreng readily accepted.
Yinfeng originally planned to show his aunt's credit to his aunt in public after the food was ripe, but he didn't expect that on the third day of May, on his birthday, his aunt broke off all the corn in Yongshou Palace, cooked it, and sent it to him with great fanfare. Happy birthday to myself.
Everyone hadn't tasted this kind of fresh food before, and after tasting it, everyone agreed that it was good. At this time, Chunni pretended to be calm and revealed the yield, and Kangxi's soles of his feet slipped from excitement.
A group of people came to Yongshou Palace with great fanfare, but saw corn stalks that had been dug out one by one.
"Why did you pull them all out?" Kangxi swallowed, seeing with his own eyes so many stems planted in a small place, and asked with the corners of his mouth twitching.
Mingxuan nodded and said: "Yes, it was originally planted for Yinreng. The concubine likes to eat fresh, soft and glutinous corn. The corn is already boiled, so why not pull it?"
"The old minister dares to ask my mother, the jade... corn that was delivered to the Yuqing Palace banquet today is all from my mother." Zhang Ying asked with her body arched and her hands trembling.
"That's right! No one in the palace grows this except this palace." Mingxuan finished speaking directly, and asked Kangxi inexplicably, "Your Majesty, why did you bring so many people here?"
Kangxi opened his mouth, he hadn't come over for more than half a year, he didn't expect the imperial concubine to give him such a big surprise.
"I originally wanted to give you the sweet potato as a birthday present, but it still has to grow for at least two months, so why don't you wait?" Seeing that Kangxi did not say a word, Mingxuan asked Yinfeng with a smile in front of everyone. . , After speaking, he pulled out a cluster of sweet potato seedlings.
Seeing more than a dozen sweet potatoes, large and small, everyone was in an uproar.Although it doesn't look big, it is amazing enough!
Yinfeng covered his face and took several deep breaths before looking at Mingxuan and saying, "This is due to my aunt, and..."
"Why is it my merit? If you hadn't worried about people starving day and night, why would I care about such trivial matters?" Ming Xuan interrupted him, and said righteously: "You reminded me, said The output of these things is pretty good, and I only studied them.”
"Dare to ask my mother, is this really born from a sweet potato?" Zhang Ying stepped forward, tremblingly touched the sweet potatoes of different sizes, and asked curiously.If a single sweet potato can produce so many, it means that the taste is not very good, and it is worth promoting.
Even Kangxi looked at Mingxuan in surprise.
Mingxuan shook her head, and said directly: "How can it be possible to use a single sweet potato?" Planting a whole one to grow so little, is it a good yield?
After Kangxi had a meal, he was satisfied with the high yield of corn, so he said with a smile: "It's true that the imperial concubine is good at farming, and all the lovers are laughing at me."
"Khan Ama, it's not just one sweet potato...there are only three sweet potatoes used in this yard." Yinzhen stood up and said respectfully.
While speaking, he tightly grabbed the palm of his sleeve to keep calm.The imperial concubine ate so many sweet potato leaves, it seemed that it didn't really affect the output, but she was still inexperienced.
As soon as the words fell, Zhang Ying sat down on the ground.Even Kangxi's face changed drastically, looking at Mingxuan with a ferocious expression.
Mingxuan shrank her neck, the look in her eyes made her a little scared, so she insisted and said: "All of this palace is given to the prince. King Yong knows how to grow it, just ask him, I'm exhausted. "After speaking, he saluted Kangxi in a hurry, turned around and slipped away.
With the support of Yinfeng, Kangxi heard Yinzhen explain the planting method in detail. In this yard, only three sweet potatoes were used for the entire lush sweet potato seedlings...
After Yinzhen finished speaking, he dug a hole, pulled out Mingxuan and planted it carefully, before he said to Kangxi: "The imperial concubine gave me some seeds, and they were planted in the palace of Yongjun. Turn around and sweat Ama..."
"Take me there! Now! Immediately!" Kangxi said immediately.
The cheering crowd left again, and then Chunni told Mingxuan that Yongshou Palace was guarded by the imperial guards.
There is only one month left for the draft, and Prince Rong was almost in danger in the south of the Yangtze River, and then he came back with a one-third more salt tax than in previous years... It should have been the focus of attention.
But now the whole court is spreading the news about the gift that the imperial concubine gave to the prince.
"What's going on?" Yin Zuo asked the staff with a dark face.
The staff said respectfully: "It is said that the imperial concubine sent a planting method that can increase the yield on the crown prince's birthday."
Yin Zuo clenched his fist, gritted his teeth and said, "True?"
"I don't know, but I heard that the imperial concubine used three sweet potatoes to plant a whole yard of sweet potatoes. It's incredible." The staff sighed. The reason why this news came out was because too many people knew about it back then, but now Not only the Yongshou Palace, but also the Yongjun Palace has been surrounded.
Yin Zuo lowered his head and thought, this must not be true, the imperial concubine's backyard is not too small, three sweet potatoes can fill it up?Isn't this bullshit?He just had to see how the imperial concubine ended up!
The news inside and outside the palace became more and more exaggerated, but Ming Xuan ate and drank well in Yongshou Palace, so she was not affected at all.Even Kangxi gave her her favorite Buddha Jumping Wall several times.
"What are you going to do?" During Mingxuan's stay, regardless of everyone's obstruction, she plucked the tender sweet potatoes a few times, peeled off the skin and fried the meat for dinner.
Even after I felt the sweet potatoes were ripe, I pulled out two seedlings and steamed them in a steamer.
"How is it? Are you familiar?" Kangxi got the news, didn't care to think about it, and hurried over with Yinfeng.
Mingxuan poked it with chopsticks and found that it was cooked, so she gave them, including Liang Jiugong, one by one and said, "It should be cooked."
"It's not sweet, it needs to dry for another two days." Ming Xuan frowned after she took a bite out of the skin.The sweet potatoes that have just been pulled out are soft and waxy, but they are really not sweet.
Yinfeng took a bite with the skin on, there were no hard to swallow filaments, it was soft and sweet, and he was pleasantly surprised: "It's delicious!"
"It's fine if you like it, but it should taste better if it hangs out for two days." Ming Xuan broke half of her food and gave it to Ulan who was beside her, and she only ate what she had in hand, and stopped eating.
After Kangxi finished eating the sweet potatoes with their skins in one bite, he asked Mingxuan, "Can I take it?"
"It should be almost the same?" Ming Xuan replied.
When Kangxi heard the words, he was going to find someone to come over.
"No, this is planted by my concubine for Baocheng." When Mingxuan heard that Kangxi wanted to call the court minister, she quickly stopped her and said, "The emperor wants to show off and find Xiao Si, the concubine here is Baocheng's birthday gift. "
"What about my birthday gift?" Kangxi asked directly.He was so kind to Yinfeng, but his birthday gift this year was so perfunctory, and he only gave one scripture.
Ming Xuan said straightforwardly: "The courtiers and concubines have fallen out of favor, so we have to save money."
Kangxi was at a loss for words for a while, it is true that he did not come to Yongshou Palace without giving any reason for no reason, and he had heard the rumors of the imperial concubine falling out of favor.
"Aunt..." Kangxi had no choice but to look at Yinreng, who grinned and said, "Baocheng wants to show off his birthday gift to everyone."
"Alright then! I'm impatient with so many people asking questions, so I'll go back first, and I'll leave this place to you. After all, this is your birthday gift." Ming Xuan's attitude changed instantly.
Kangxi took a deep breath for a while, then looked at Yinfeng and said, "Your aunt probably blamed me."
Liang Jiugong patted his chest, took a long time to swallow the sweet potato in his mouth, and then stepped aside in embarrassment and continued to chew, pretending that he didn't hear anything.
Yinfeng didn't speak either. He felt that his aunt didn't care much about Khan Ama, and she seemed more at ease after falling out of favor?
With Mingxuan's consent, Yongshou Palace soon became lively.
"It seems Master Zhang is kneeling on the ground and digging with his hands." Chunni looked outside for a while, then came in and said to Mingxuan.
Mingxuan rolled her eyes and asked Chunni to lead people to spread the word outside, saying that all the planting methods came from the prince.
"I remember when Yinfeng was a child, he did things like inserting flower branches in the water to grow roots. In short, it's all thanks to the prince. Without him worrying about the people, I wouldn't do these things."