My father-in-law is Kangxi

Chapter 1117 Qingming

"My lord didn't realize it at the time. I thought Fourteen was really in a hurry, but how dare a person in a hurry run away? It's all upside down. Looking at it like that, when I took him to the South Fifth Institute, I was still a little dazed... ..."

Brother Nine said to Shu Shu.

Shu Shu looked outside, the dark clouds dispersed and the scorching sun hung high.

Children can't eat hard, and it's normal to want to be lazy.

"Sir, don't reveal it. At such an advanced age, it's time to show respect."

Although Shu Shu also laughed, she still kindly persuaded her.

The fourteenth brother is a bear, it is true, who can be divided into bears.

When it's bear to others, it's quite cute.

Brother Jiu nodded and said: "I won't expose him, but if I can react, others will think of this."

Shu Shu called Xiaotang over, and asked her to bucket the sour plum soup, mung bean paste, sweet-scented osmanthus herbal tea, etc. prepared in the dining room, as well as clean watermelons, cantaloupe, peaches and other melons and fruits, and add the ready-made meat in the dining room. A total of ten food boxes have been prepared for candied meat and pastry.

Then the ninth elder brother didn't go there, so He Yuzhu led people, and followed the fourteenth elder brother to send the things to the boundary.

It took nearly four miles from the potato field to the North Fifth Institute, and it took half an hour to go back and forth, plus things like preparing things.

The appearance of the princes became more and more embarrassing.

Each of them looks like dehydrated cabbage, and they are about to wilt.

Seeing that He Yuzhu came over with someone carrying things, everyone stopped at the same time.

"Crack", Brother Ten sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

Strength is strength, but who ever did this when you were young?
This bending down to dig things is different from practicing arrows with strings.

The weather at the moment is also steaming hot, like a big steamer between heaven and earth.

Sweating incessantly, mouth ringing and dry.

His eunuch Wang Ping'an was beside him, looking worriedly at the imperial front.

Elder Brother Fourteen and He Yuzhu have arrived at the Imperial Palace.

Kangxi looked at the dozen or so food boxes and asked He Yuzhu to open them out of curiosity.

As a result, I drank four kinds of drinks, four kinds of melons and fruits, four kinds of dried meat snacks, and four kinds of pastries.

There are also two food boxes, specially for towels, one box soaked in clean water, and one box of dry towels.

The fourteenth elder brother saw his elder brothers exhausted to death, felt a little guilty, and said, "Ama Khan, the ninth elder brother prepared these, so the son asked the elder brothers to come over to help?"

Kangxi did not answer immediately, but looked at everyone.

Except for the tenth elder brother sitting directly on the ground, the fourth elder brother's face was pale, and he looked a little unsteady.

Brother Thirteen's hand holding the handle of the shovel was also shaking.

The remaining four looked okay, but only okay.

It was as if they had been washed with water, and they could not breathe calmly.

Kangxi nodded and said to Brother Fourteen, "Call!"

The fourteenth elder brother went over immediately, and said in a loud voice: "Ninth brother has prepared a lot of food and drinks, brothers, come and eat..."

Except for the eldest and tenth elder brothers who got up and left, the fourth elder brother also handed over the shovel in his hand to Su Peisheng. The crown prince, third elder brother, eighth elder brother and thirteenth elder brother did not move.

The four of them have been digging potatoes for more than half of their journey, and only one third of them are left.

After suffering, I became afraid and didn't dare to stop, for fear that I would not be able to go all out.

These four brothers are all strong people in their bones, not for the top three, but they can't bear to give up halfway.

I am worried that if that happens, it will affect the emperor's father's perception of them, and show timidity in front of other brothers.

Brother Fourteen said again: "Ama Khan ordered it!"

These four people moved.

At this moment, the elder brother and the fourth elder brother have arrived at the imperial front.

"Khan Ama..."

After the elder brother called people, he sat cross-legged on the ground, touched his forehead indiscriminately, and said, "My son understands the meaning of 'sweat dripping down the soil' today. This farmer is not everyone. Can be."

He is in the prime of life and has great strength, but he feels ecstasy after digging less than a fraction of the potatoes.

But for farmers, regardless of men, women and children, they all work so hard.

Kangxi said: "The people's livelihood is difficult. That's what I'm talking about. In the capital city, there are still people who can't eat enough, let alone in remote areas. If the improved seeds can be promoted, a few more people can live in famine years."

The elder brother listened with a serious expression on his face, and said: "Khan Ama is kind and loving, that's why he values ​​this matter so much, the sons have also been educated today, and in the future, when spending on food and drink, we must also think about frugality, not extravagant, wasteful manpower and material resources.”

The tenth elder brother also sat next to the eldest elder brother, his face was flushed from the sun, and his forehead was covered with sweat.

He didn't interrupt, but he was calculating in his heart.

If the corn and potatoes really want to be popularized, then my ninth brother will not have to do all the work, but he can also get a piece of work.

That's good too, the big head of suffering and suffering is given to the fourth elder brother.

Look at what the fourth elder brother has ruined?
She was already thin, but now she is even thinner and darker, as if she has aged several years.

When the fourth elder brother took small steps and moved over, the eldest elder brother and the tenth elder brother had already wiped their hands, finished drinking the sour plum soup, and were eating watermelon with big mouthfuls.

The fourth elder brother's waist is still straight, but his body is also washed.

Seeing his appearance, Kangxi knew he was exhausted, so he pointed to the other side and said, "Sit down and rest."

The fourth elder brother's face was a little stiff.

Afraid to sit down and get up.

Su Peisheng followed beside him, not knowing whether to help or not.

Brother Fourteen was also eating the watermelon, but instead of sitting, he was squatting.

Seeing the fourth elder brother standing beside him, he was unhappy, and said: "Fourth elder brother, Khan Ama is sitting, you want Khan Ama to raise his head and talk?"

The fourth elder brother sat upright and carefully.

Kangxi said: "The next one mu of land has been raised and weighed. A total of four thousand and twelve catties and four taels of potatoes have been harvested."

The fourth elder brother smiled when he heard this, and said: "Even if there is only half of the harvest in the dry land, it will still be two thousand catties."

Kangxi nodded and said, "Even if you can't make food, but only cook it, it's good to save a few catties of food for your family."

The beauty of this potato is that it does not need to be planted in pieces like millet and rice. As long as one seedling is alive, more than two catties of potatoes can be harvested.

In this way, as long as one field is used, two to three hundred catties of potatoes can be harvested.

At this moment, the crown prince, third elder brother, eighth elder brother, and thirteenth elder brother also came over.

Everyone is up.

The prince patted the fourth brother on the shoulder and said, "Potatoes are good. If they can be popularized, they can also be used as a food source in times of disaster."

He is the prince of the country, so he naturally knows the importance of food.

They look like black bumps, and the color is not good, but even if you haven't eaten it, you can guess it, similar to yam and taro.

That's fine.

Because the output is too high.

"Khan Ama, you can't beat two or three hundred catties per cent..."

The prince excitedly said: "My son has only dug for more than half a cent, and there are already three baskets of potatoes."

Kangxi nodded and said, "I just weighed the total output next to it, and the output per mu is 12 jin."

The third elder brother and the eighth elder brother both took a breath of air.

They knew very well that the potatoes and corn were collected by the ninth elder brother last year, and the fourth elder brother cut off the beard.

Such a high yield, how much credit is this trial planting and promotion? !

The prince was overjoyed, and said: "The prosperous age is peaceful, that's all."

It is said that it is auspicious for the nine princes to give birth to three children, so what kind of auspiciousness is that?
These multiple births are originally mother-to-daughter and father-to-son.

At present, the yield per mu is four thousand catties, which is the real auspiciousness.

The thirteenth elder brother was very tired, but he also laughed when he heard the prince's words.

Since the year before the Northern Tour, during the past three years when Sheng Jia left Beijing, he was always in the ranks of his retinue, and he had seen more, knowing how hard it is for ordinary people.

For the common people, it is the simplest wish to have enough food and clothing.

The eighth elder brother looked at the fourth elder brother, feeling very complicated.

Is the fourth elder brother really impartial, or did he see the situation today?
His mind was in turmoil.

If he hadn't become estranged from Brother Jiu, he would be Brother Jiu's most trusted brother. Even if someone took over the trial planting of grain seeds, shouldn't it be him?
And the 10,000+ taels of silver, the matter of hoarding land in Xiaotangshan.

He got the news a few days ago, knowing that Brother Nine distributed dividends to everyone on a one-to-one basis.

The eighth elder brother became angry because of this incident, and his upper teeth were broken.

Thinking that the fourth elder brother had taken advantage of it, and seeing that he was about to get a big credit, his mouth became bitter and the corners of his mouth tightened.

Brother Fourteen was handing out towels to everyone. When he arrived at Brother Eight, he glanced at him and said, "Brother Eight, are you on fire? There are blisters at the corners of your mouth? Didn't it happen just now?"

In a word, everyone looked at Eighth Prince.

The eighth elder brother couldn't see it himself, touched the corner of his mouth, and found that it was indeed two blisters the size of mung beans.

He said embarrassingly, "Perhaps it was in the sun."

The fourth elder brother next to him was eating watermelon, but he retched without taking two bites, and immediately took two steps back, before vomiting it out in one gulp.

Seeing that his face was pale and he was sweating profusely, which was a symptom of heatstroke, Kangxi hurriedly told Liang Jiugong, "Hey Si Age, take two Rendans."

Liang Jiugong agreed, and went forward to feed Si Age two Rendans.

After this commotion, there was no way to dig the remaining potatoes.

Kangxi said: "Okay, let's go back to freshen up. At noon, go to the North Fifth Institute for dinner, and experience the potato feast that brother Jiu said."

The crowd responded.

Kangxi glanced at the fourth elder brother and said, "Do you use a chariot?"

The fourth elder brother hurriedly said: "No, my son is fine, but the noodles for breakfast are a bit hard."

Kangxi nodded, said no more, and looked at the prince.

It's okay for others, they have all eaten at the North Fifth Institute, but the prince has not.

This is not only the case in the Fifth North School, but the prince rarely goes to the other elder brother's schools.

The prince thought of the "little brother" and said: "Ama Khan, after I wash up, go to Wuyizhai to pick up the fifteenth elder brother and the sixteenth elder brother, and go there to see and see?"

He thought of the two years when Elder Brother Fifteen was raised in Yuqing Palace.

Before, he really thought it was for the crown princess to beg for a son, so he sneered in his heart.

After all, Yuqing Palace already had two elder grandsons at that time.

Now that I think about it, I'm so stupid.

Fortunately, the Crown Princess is considerate and her uncle and sister-in-law are close, so it is good to raise the fifteen elder brother well, otherwise I am afraid that I will be marked by the emperor.

Kangxi was a little surprised, but still nodded and said: "Okay."

He is already preparing to take his two young sons on a tour of the north, so it would be better to let them get close to his brothers in advance...

(End of this chapter)