Man Bao handed the horse to the attendant and got into Ming Da's carriage.

Because the weather was starting to get hot, a light curtain was hung around Mingda's carriage. Chang Yu and she were sitting cross-legged in the carriage, drinking tea and eating snacks.

Seeing Man Bao come in, the two of them immediately grabbed her and said with a smile, "We just said we didn't know where to find you."

Man Bao said: "I have been waiting for you outside the city gate early in the morning."

She looked around and exclaimed: "Your car is really big."

The carriage was pulled by two horses, so it was naturally much more spacious than Manbao's green cloth carriage.

Man Bao discussed with the two of them, "Should you go directly to Yongzhou Palace, or go to my Zhuangzi first?"

Mingda said: "I asked the prince's brother. The palace is on the other side of Yongzhou. We have to go to your village first before we can get to the palace, so we will stay at your village and then go to the palace in the afternoon."

Man Bao became happy and said, "That's great. There are wild fruits to eat on the mountain now. We can go up the mountain to pick wild fruits."

"What wild fruit?"

"I heard from my elder brother that there are pears, but they are very sour. You can pick them and dip them in sugar to eat."

They have never eaten like this before, and it sounds very novel.

Manbao didn't either, "My nephews ate them like this, and I want to try the taste too."

The prince didn't want to go. He also wanted to go hunting, but he had passed by. He didn't feel comfortable letting his two sisters go there alone, so he went with them.

As for Prince Gong’s opinion, no one asked him.

The ceremonial guard was not small, and there were many imperial guards accompanying him. Therefore, the head of Pucun and the people in Lao Zhou's village were alerted from a distance.

Mrs. Liu and others only received news that the two princesses would be coming, but they did not expect that His Highness the Crown Prince would also come, so they hurried to the roadside to greet them.

The prince didn't like red tape, so he asked Eunuch Wu to go ahead and send everyone away, and pointed Bai Shan directly at him to lead the way.

"What do you want the princesses to play with?"

Bai Shan: "...We are thinking of going up to the mountains to pick wild fruits."

The prince frowned, "What fun is there in picking wild fruits?"

He turned his head and glanced at the small mountain forest, and frowned even more tightly, "Isn't there even a rabbit in such a small mountain?"

Mingda got off the car and came over hand in hand with Manbao. Seeing so many people, he said to the prince: "Brother Prince, you and the third brother should go to the palace first. Leave our people to us and wait for us to play later."

Come over when you are tired."

Man Bao also promised the prince, "We will personally deliver the princess to the palace."

The prince glanced at her and looked around. He pointed at the fields on both sides with his whip and asked, "Are these your job fields?"

Manbao responded.

The prince dismounted and went to the fields to see what was going on.

The wheat in Beijing grows slower than that in Mianzhou. After all, the snow melts later, so although the wheat has sprouted ears at this time, it is still green and there is no sign of hooking. There is probably one or two left.

It takes months to harvest.

The farmland next to it is planted with rice that has just been planted. It is still a little sparse, but it is still quite green and should have grown well.

At this time, when the wind blows, the water in the farmland sparkles, reflecting the green rice beautifully.

The prince stood by the wheat field and looked around. After a while, he knelt down to look at the wheat. He also reached out and pulled an ear of wheat to examine it. He nodded slightly and said, "You have taken good care of the wheat field. Now that you are here, I am so lonely."

Just take a look."

In order to prevent the people from the Ministry of Finance from always saying that he does not recognize the grain and does not know the sufferings of the people.

Huh, it seems like he doesn't go to the ground every year when plowing.

The prince went directly to the field ridge, and Man Bao pulled Ming Da and Chang Yu to follow him. Bai Shan and Bai Erlang also followed.

Naturally, the subordinate officials of the Eastern Palace and the guards of the imperial army who came out also followed suit.

It’s just that the ridge is small and can only allow two people to walk side by side at most, so there is a long queue.

Prince Gong, who was sitting on the horse, gritted his teeth, finally dismounted, and followed with his people.

The guards wisely let him go first, but in order to protect the prince's safety, two people still walked at the front.

Mingda and Changyu held Manbao's hand and walked cautiously on the field ridge. Seeing how careful they were, Manbao smiled and said, "It's very flat here. You can walk casually, don't be afraid."

Chang Yu looked at the grass under her feet and some saplings as high as her waist, then frowned and said, "It's so dirty."

After saying that, she wanted to reach out and break the small sapling in front of her, but the prince struck her on the back of her hand with quick eyes and quick hands. He glanced at her and said, "This is a mulberry sapling."

Man Bao, who was about to stop him, nodded repeatedly and said to Chang Yu, "This is for silkworms to eat, and the silk they spit out can be used to make your clothes."

Chang Yu looked down at his clothes and muttered: "I know...I, I have seen mulberry trees, but they don't look like this."

Mingda smiled and said: "What we see are adult trees, which are somewhat different from saplings."

The prince walked forward and saw a mulberry tree planted far away on the field ridge. He nodded slightly and said, "This saves some land."

From a distance, he saw some people pulling weeds or applying fertilizer in the fields, so he said to Zhou Man, "You are lucky. The tenant farmers you have been assigned are quite hard-working."

Man Bao said: "I share this farm with them. The more we harvest, the more they will share, so naturally they will do their best."

The prince nodded and continued to look down, along the ridge of the fields. After looking at the fields, he arrived at dry land. Most of the dry land was planted with beans, and there was very little grass in the fields where beans were grown. This was rare. The prince was surprised by the challenge.

He raised his eyebrows.

He lowered his head and looked carefully, confirming that these were beans and that there were indeed very few weeds in them, so he turned to ask Zhou Man, "Are these lands managed by your tenant farmers?"

Man Bao nodded, who else could it be if they weren't?

The prince walked around the dry land with his hands behind his back, then looked at Zhou Man and said with a smile: "That's right, I have a good command of you. I have seen so many fields, including the fields in the imperial village. Sometimes I need to deal with my father's inspections."

It will pull out the grass so cleanly.”

He wasn't sure Zhou Man would do such a face-saving project in front of him. If he did a good job, she wouldn't reward him, so there was no need.

Mingda and Changyu were confused, but Baishan and the other two nodded in agreement. They all came from the village. Who could not know this?

Wheat and rice have always come first when it comes to work in the fields. When these two are taken care of, beans are the most important thing.

And people always like to rank beans. The beans in the fattest fields are weeded first. If there are not enough people, most beans in dry land are not weeded. Basically, the beans and weeds are beautiful together.

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Anyone who can pull out the grass in the bean field so cleanly in the early stage is indeed a hardworking person.

The prince nodded with satisfaction, continued walking down, and then returned to the road. He originally wanted to encourage Zhou Man to leave his two sisters behind for now, but when he turned around, he saw the other side of the road.

He had already looked away at a field, but felt something was wrong, so he turned around to look at it again.

I even walked to the side of the road to look down.
Chapter completed!