Chapter 3183 Inquire

The emperor jumped down to the field and shouted back to him, "Old man, I'm here to see my relatives. I heard that Zhuangzi, the doctor of Zhou Tai Hospital in the capital, is here?"

"Oh, are you here to see your employer?" The tenant farmer immediately greeted him warmly and asked with a smile on his face: "Where are you relatives from? Why don't you go to the capital?"

The emperor paused and then said: "We came from Yongzhou to go to the capital, but occasionally I heard from my family that the Zhou family has a village here, so I thought about coming over to visit relatives."

"This is it," the tenant farmer waved his sickle proudly, drew a big circle, and said with a smile on his face: "Did you see, this large area is our employer's working land?"

The emperor had already lowered his head to look at the rice at his feet. He picked up an ear of rice in his palm and his heart was beating loudly: "My father, your rice is growing well this year."

When the tenant farmer who was about to enthusiastically guide them heard this, his attention was immediately diverted. He nodded fiercely and said, "Isn't it? This is the best harvest I have seen in more than fifty years of life."

Yin Li had sharp eyes and immediately stepped into the rice field, stretched out his hand and pulled out a rice ear, "Your Majesty, sir, look!"

"Hey, why are you pulling my rice so casually?" The tenant farmer saw it and was very worried. "These good rice ears are meant to be kept as seeds. Give them back to me."

Yin Li glanced at the emperor and handed it to the tenant farmer with a smile, saying with a smile: "This is the first time we have seen such long and full ears of rice. It was novel for a moment. Dad, how do you grow this rice? At a glance, the rice ears

They are all longer and heavier than the ones we have there, so it looks like a bumper harvest."

The boss didn't stop them from spreading the word, and even told them that he could answer any questions they had, and also recommend their new rice seeds. So the tenant farmers didn't answer at all, and just kept talking.

We talked about the new rice seeds.

"...Speaking of which, my mother-in-law contributed to this new rice seed."

"Oh? What do you mean?"

At this time, the emperor and Yin Li were already sitting in the field, blocking the way of the rice plant. The rice plant was quite tall and could barely block the sun on their faces, but half of them were still red from the sun.

The tenant farmer wanted to chat with them while harvesting rice, but when he saw that they were all squatting down, and Yin Li took out a handful of copper coins, he squatted down too, stuffed the coins into his arms and said, "My wife

She is so attentive that she was asked by her boss to weed and remove weeds and insect pests in the rice. Isn’t this a credit to her?”

The emperor couldn't help but smile and asked: "I heard that the Zhou family has set up many experimental fields in Zhuangzi, specifically for cultivating grain seeds."

The tenant farmer glanced at the emperor and Yin Li suspiciously, and said in a much slower tone, "The noble man has been here for so long, why don't you go find your employer?"

Yin Li smiled slightly and said: "Zhou Dalang should be in the fields at the moment. Even if we go to Zhuangzi, we may not be able to see him. Didn't we just see this big harvest and couldn't help but ask?"

The tenant farmer immediately asked, "How are your family and your employer related?"

The emperor said calmly: "In-laws."

He said: "I have a daughter who married their uncle's cousin."

The tenant farmers counted the relationship on their fingers. It was not difficult for them to calculate the relationship. So they patted their thighs and said, "Oh, aren't those two sisters-in-law? They are relatives. They are indeed relatives."

The tenant farmer laughed so much that his eyes narrowed, so he didn't shy away from anything. He stood up directly, pointed to a yard in the distance and said: "Have you seen that yard? That is our employer's yard. Uncle Zhou must be in the field now."

I’m busy, but it’s not far away, the field is not far behind the house.”

Emperor: "The experimental field is over there too?"

"Here, that area is now a test field." He said: "It was only two or three acres at the beginning. Later, more and more seeds were tested, and more and more seeds were planted. Hehe, to be honest, before this year

, we are also worried that in the future, the owner will use this piece of farmland as a test field, and we will have no field to plant. We did not expect that the new seeds they tested would be so good."

The emperor stroked the ears of rice in front of him and asked affectionately: "Is the harvest of this field considered good this year, or is it bad?"

"It's just so-so. If you want to say the best, it has to be the experimental fields planted by Uncle Zhou and his family. Hey, it's a pity. Those few fields have almost been harvested. It seems that there is still one piece left to be confiscated. That's it.

"It's so heavy. One ear has three hundred grains of millet. One plant of rice has ten ears. Fifteen ears. Do you think it's amazing?"

Anyway, in the end they couldn't count how many seeds a rice plant had.

Emperor: "Have you counted them?"

"We have counted it, but we didn't count it. We counted it correctly. Hey, we couldn't count it, and Uncle Zhou couldn't count it either. Every time he counted more than a hundred, he got confused. In the end, he counted it correctly.

, better than me."

The emperor became curious, "How many can you count?"

"Eighty!" He said hurriedly: "It's almost a hundred, but my little grandson is amazing. He can count to a hundred now."

When he mentioned his grandson, the tenant farmer couldn't sit still. He touched his sickle and asked, "My lord, do you have anything else to ask? If it weren't for me, I would have to harvest the rice. My family is harvesting rice in another field, and we will be harvesting rice soon."

It’s time to come over…”

If you come here and see him not moving his sickle, but instead bragging and chatting here...

The emperor turned his head and glanced at the yellow-orange and heavy ears of rice, and stood up with a smile, "Okay, let's go find our relatives. I'll be busy first."

Yin Li helped the emperor on the road, "Your Majesty, the sun is too strong. Let's go to Zhou's Zhuangzi first."

The emperor nodded slightly and mounted his horse.

Zhou Dalang and Wu Lang were cutting rice in the field. When they heard the sound of horse hooves, they took the time to look up.

Then he stayed for a while and got up immediately.

Although they didn’t know the emperor, they knew Yin Li!

Zhou Dalang hurriedly came up from the field, "Master Yin, why are you here? The sun is so big, hurry up, hurry up, come and sit in the house, Lao Wu, don't cut it, go back and boil water."

Wu Lang agreed and trotted up to the field ridge while wiping his sweat.

The emperor said hurriedly: "No, we are here to see the rice."

Yin Li said, "Master, you'd better go inside to cool down and drink some water. You don't look good."

Zhou Dalang and Wu Lang looked at the emperor curiously, wondering why Yin Li called him master.

The emperor met their confused eyes and responded with a smile. However, before leaving, he still pointed to the pile of rice that had just been cut and said: "Take a handful back. I want to count how many seeds are on each ear."

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The guard went down and gave him a hug.

Zhou Dalang and Wu Lang didn't mind either, but they just led them home in confusion.

The two brothers currently live in this village, and most of the time, Zhou Dalang lives alone.

Zhou Dalang led them into the hall and asked Wu Lang to boil water. He carried a teapot and poured water for them, saying: "This is the water boiled in the morning. It is already cold now. If you don't mind, moisten it first."

Come on, I'll run out of water to make some tea for you."

? ? See you tomorrow, good night

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