Chapter 3179 Interview (fourth update)

Uncle Qian nodded, but after he got up from his sleep, he took Zhou Lizhong and started talking, "It's not good for husband and wife to be separated for a long time. Although there is a future for being an official here, a family cannot always be separated. I heard that your wife is the same."

An official?"

Zhou Lang, who was squatting in the yard washing his face, paused, looked up at Uncle Qian, and frowned slightly.

After breakfast, Zhou Zuorang insisted on sending Uncle Qian home. As he walked in, Uncle Qian muttered, "There is so much work in the fields. I think you just want to be lazy. It's not that I don't know the way. You

You still have to send me back home."

Zhou Zuorang smiled naively, stretched out his hand to pull his eldest cousin aside and whispered, "My uncle's memory is not very good recently. I found that he forgot what I just told him last night this morning."

The eldest cousin said nonchalantly: "Isn't it normal for people to have bad memory as they get older? It's not an important thing. He will forget about it now. If it is an important thing, he will mention it again and again. It's okay.

Son, please say a few more words."

Zhou Erlang: "...No, I heard Man Bao say that forgetfulness is also a disease."

"You said you are forgetful, so you have to be healthy to forget things. If you are healthy, what disease can you have?"

Zhou Erlang was convinced for a while, but he quickly reacted, grabbed his eldest cousin's arm and said, "No, Man Bao said this is a disease, this is a disease."

Qian Dalang: "...What should we do?"

Zhou Erlang: "Go and see the doctor."

Qian Dalang stared, "Now?"

"How long do we have to wait if we don't do it now? It just so happens that my uncle forgot something today. He might be ill. He should be able to feel his pulse now."

"But we are busy with farming right now... Okay, okay, go ahead, but you have to go with me and tell my dad that I don't mind taking a day to send my dad to see the doctor, but do you think my dad will

Going?"

Uncle Qian beat the two of them out with a broom. He was so annoyed that he even said that he was not sick. If he was sick, would he still be able to go to the fields and help Lao Zhou's family harvest so much rice yesterday?

Qian Dalang was hit in the face by the broom. He covered his face and said to Zhou Erlang: "It's all you. I haven't been beaten by my father in many years. My grandson was watching just now."

Zhou Erlang: "... Anyway, this is an illness. When the busy farming season is over, you should find a way to take your uncle to the city to see a doctor."

"Okay, okay, I understand."

Zhou Zuorang became worried. After finishing his work in the evening, he told Zhou Lizhong: "Tomorrow, I will thresh the rice in the yard, weigh it, and write a letter to Man Bao. By the way, I told Man Bao that your grandpa is forgetful now.

I remember she said it before, this is a disease, you ask her if she has a good prescription and give her a prescription for your grandpa to drink."

Zhou Lizhong was surprised, "Grandpa is sick?"

Zhou Zhoulang nodded, "Probably, it's just a disease of always forgetting things. Anyway, you can understand it at a glance when you write Man Bao like this."

Zhou Lizhong nodded repeatedly, threshed all the rice the next day, wrote down the number, and sent the letter.

Their letter was sent via caravan and had to be sent to the capital first and then to Qingzhou.

The caravan picked up the letter a little faster than the inn, and it arrived in the capital in less than ten days. Mr. Zhuang in the capital had also just received the box sent by Daji.

The Zhou family opened Zhou Lizhong's letter because it stated the yield per mu of new rice seeds there, so Qian sent someone to give the letter to Mr. Zhuang for his decision.

After reading it, he made a copy and handed the handwritten envelope to Daji, "I will send someone to Qingzhou. You stay in the capital first and wait until there is news from the palace before leaving."

Daji agreed, received the letter and left.

Mr. Zhuang looked at the folding paper and letter in front of him, pondered for a long time, then put away the box and stood up, "Prepare the car and go to Wei Mansion."

Daji personally drove Mr. Zhuang to see him off.

Mr. Zhuang caressed the box in his hand, sighed when he got out of the car, then walked into the Wei Mansion with a smile.

Wei Zhi's condition has improved a bit recently and he has begun to go to court. However, his health is not as good as before, so he does less government affairs and still has a sick look on his face.

"Master Zhuang, are you speaking?" Wei Zhibi paused and immediately put it down, "Please come quickly."

Although Wei Zhi had a good relationship with Bai Shanzhouman and had an old relationship with Mr. Zhuang, it was just because Zhuang Xun was a lecturer at Chongwen Hall and was considered a member of the East Palace, so Wei Zhi had little contact with him in private.

Wei Zhi was surprised to hear that he came to his door.

When he got the book in the box, he was even more surprised, "Why didn't Master Zhuang deliver such an important thing to the prince?"

Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "This is Bai Shan's secret. It is the contribution of Bai Shan and the Zhou family. But because they are not in the capital, it was forwarded to the palace by the lower official. This is something for your majesty and the court."

Wei Zhi understood clearly that he was him, Bai Shan was Bai Shan, and the Zhou family was the Zhou family.

Wei Zhi's eyes showed approval and he quickly looked at the rice ears in the box.

At this time, the rice ears had dried a lot, but the rice was very full. He picked it up carefully, and the hanging rice ears were heavy.

Wei Zhi marveled, "They actually planted it."

Mr. Zhuang smiled and nodded. Although he was surprised, he was not too surprised. The Zhou family has been doing this very carefully in the past few years. Every year when the rice was harvested in Zhuangzi, he had mixed emotions. He was happy when the rice was planted, but it was broken when the rice was harvested.

It's inevitable to be disappointed.

After spending so much time and energy, it is normal to gain something, but he did not expect the harvest to be so big.

Wei Zhi read Bai Shan's book carefully twice and said with bright eyes: "The people are the foundation of the world, and food is the foundation of the people. If the new rice seeds are so high-yielding, the world will be greatly changed."

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"The yield per mu is six stones, while the previous yield was less than three stones..." Wei Zhi counted, feeling excited.

Mr. Zhuang said: "This is just the harvest of one of the fields. Before, when they cultivated this rice seed in the field, the yield per mu reached seven stones. It was still sun-dried rice, and the weighing on it was still raw rice."

Wei Zhi was surprised, "Isn't that a reduction in production? Why is there such a big difference?"

Mr. Zhuang has often heard them talk about cultivating rice seeds in the past few years. He himself has also studied agricultural books, so he smiled and said: "With different environments, different soil fertilizers, different rainfall, and even different sunlight, the yield will naturally be different."

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He said: "Actually, after they are planted in various places, they have already begun to differ, and will later differentiate into different seeds. This is the same as the new wheat seeds more than ten years ago."

Mr. Zhuang said: "Up to now, new wheat species are planted in various places, but they are already different from the first batch of new wheat species, and they are even different from each other."

"For example, wheat seeds in the north are more drought-tolerant, while wheat seeds in the south are more water-loving. Now when new wheat seeds that have been growing in the south for more than ten years are planted in the north, there will definitely be many differences compared with wheat seeds that have been grown in the north.

Big difference.”

Wei Zhi nodded, "Sir, what you said makes sense."

He stood up immediately and said, "This matter is of great importance. I will go into the palace to meet with His Majesty. Let Minister Zhuang talk about it together."

? ? ?There is one more chapter, but it will be very late, so everyone go to bed first and read it tomorrow

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Chapter completed!