I fought back after reselling my engagement

The honest farmer said, "Wait...next spring, Da Hu and I will go into the mountains together. If he can find one, he will definitely be able to find a few more."

This thing can be made into winter clothes to keep warm, and can be made into winter quilts to survive the winter. If it is planted on a large scale, no one in the world will freeze to death anymore, which will benefit all people.

"Please keep these seeds first. Remember to dry them before packing them up to prevent moisture. I will teach you how to grow cotton later. If you follow my instructions, you will be able to grow more cotton."

Su Zhen found a cotton plant in this family's field. Although it only grew five cotton bolls, and three of them had grown into mature cotton seeds but were gone, nine cotton seeds were taken out from the other two cotton bolls as seeds, and all of them were mature.

That night, she returned to the house and drew a pattern for planting cotton, starting from soaking seeds and raising seedlings, using nutrient balls to cultivate the seedlings. When they grew two large leaves, they could be transplanted to ridges. She had a set of rules for ridges and digging holes.

Su Zhen sighed softly: "It would be great if we had corn and sweet potatoes. We can interplant them with cotton to increase yields."

She uses a combination of pictures and texts, and then explains it, so I think Dahu's family will be able to understand it.

Her village has industrial research and various inventions. Even the farmers are different. Every household and every person here is a talent, recruited by the Inspectorate from all over the place.

Su Zhen painted the picture all night and slept in the next day. At dawn the next day, Chunmei saw Xia Yang coming out in a short blue-gray outfit.

"Are you going out?"

"I made an agreement with Da Hu last night to go into the mountains with him to see if we can find other cotton seeds. If we can find more seeds, we can plant more seeds in the fields next spring."

That's really thoughtful.

The princess lamented that there were too few seeds, so she went into the mountains to look for seeds.

Su Zhen has many plans, such as building a glass greenhouse so that he can have fresh vegetables all year round and cultivate flowers all year round.

When she woke up, it was almost noon.

Xiao Luo has become much bolder in speaking because of her close service for more than a month.

Chunxiao served the food.

Xiao Luo stood aside, "Princess, the Su family's fleet is back. Master Xie Liu went to Liuli Country and Fusang Country and brought back a lot of new things!"

Su Zhen smiled and said, "It seems that I have gained a lot from this trip."

Xiao Luo scratched her head, "Madam sent Cui Ma's son to report the news. The princess wants to see him."

"Send him over."

Soon, Cui Ma's son Shitou came over and greeted her.

You cannot walk around randomly in Baixian Manor. It seems that the princess is taking care of it, but in fact, this is the court's place, and there are supervisory guards from the palace guarding it.

"Thank you Sixth Master for coming back. Before he went out to sea, he looked for some crops according to the crop atlas given by the princess. He found corn and sweet potatoes, but not the others. The old man asked me to bring these here."

Another servant who came with him asked the servants to bring in a basket with a cloth bag on it.

Su Zhen put down his bowl and chopsticks, grabbed a handful from the cloth bag, and it was indeed corn.

There is soil in the basket.

Shitou said, "Master Xie Liu bought it from a merchant with blond hair and blue eyes. No one in Fusang knew it, but Master Xie Liu was looking for it on the street with a map, and the merchant saw it and asked someone to show it to him, saying that he had it."

The basket was filled with soil. The merchant said that soil was not easy to store and would go bad if touched or damaged. He asked Xie Liuye to bury the sweet potatoes in dry soil so that they would not go bad. The merchant's hometown had soybeans, sweet potatoes, and even the corn in Xie Liuye's painting, but he had eaten all the corn he brought. The two agreed that the next time they met, they would give Xie Liuye corn and potatoes.

Su Zhen said: "Master Xie Liu, have you opened a shop in Liuli Country or Fusang Country?"

"He spent a large sum of gold and silver to buy the shop, saying that he would have a place to stay when he went there again, and it would also be convenient for him to do business. The cloth, tea, and porcelain he brought with him sold very well. When he came back, half of the goods in the two shops had been sold.

He brought back a boatload of goods this time, including pearls, gems, corals, amber, clay figurines, and puppets, all of which were very finely crafted. The lady's shop was filled with the goods."

Stone spoke briefly.

The Su family was very happy. With just one trip on the sea, they could earn ten times more than what they had earned before. Pearls, gems, and corals were all rare items and of excellent quality.

"We also accidentally bought a piece of ambergris this time. The old man said we should present it to the emperor."

Shitou talked incessantly about how beautiful the gems were and how many excellent South pearls there were. They were obviously top-quality South pearls, but they were just ordinary pearls there. Top-quality pearls were not rare there. The people of Liuli Country were good at growing pearls, and every family was a pearl diver.

Su Zhen smiled and said, "I will ask the glassmaker to prepare some more glass products to bring over. Please thank Master Liu for me."

"The princess is not going back?"

"There are many things going on in Baixian Manor, and I have to keep an eye on some things." She paused, "Chunxiao, give the gifts I prepared for the old man, the third master, and the third mistress to Shitou, and ask him to take them home."

"Here——"

Chunmei was practicing martial arts outside the courtyard gate.

After arriving at the manor, it was very safe because there were supervisory guards here. In less than half a month, Xia Yang was promoted to the eleventh-level martial artist. She couldn't fall behind others.

Su Zhen went to Dahu's house in the afternoon. She pointed to the map she had drawn and talked about how to grow cotton. She explained every step. She drew two sets, one set was a book. This map was on a large piece of paper, just like the current promotional booklets.

Few people in the Great Qi Dynasty ate pork, because most domestic pigs were not castrated. Pork had a strong smell, so even rich people did not eat it, thinking that it was something that inferior people ate. However, if the pigs were castrated, they would love to sleep and would gain weight more easily.

The family raising pigs on the farm uses a pig-raising technique passed down from their ancestors. Although they raise the pigs to be fat and strong, they do not know how to castrate the pigs.

Su Zhen's skill of castrating pigs is something that people must ponder. Both boars and sows need to be castrated.

Xia Yang came back with a bag of cotton, which weighed nearly one kilogram. Su Zhen smiled and said, "Xia Yang, you are so thoughtful! Thank you. I will make you a pair of winter gloves to protect your hands."

Xia Yang felt as sweet as if he had eaten honey.

Su Zhen asked Xiao Luo and Chun Xiao to pick the cotton seeds and peel off the cotton fibers on the seeds. This would be enough cotton seeds for half an acre of land next year. She asked Chun Xiao to send the seeds to Da Hu's family and used the cotton to make a pair of cotton shoes and a pair of knee pads for Su Jingzhai, and a pair of gloves for her uncle.

Su Zhen made another pair of cotton boots for Emperor Dezhi. There was very little cotton left, and there was not enough to make gloves. He went to Dahu's house to ask for his cotton, and they put the two together to barely make a pair of gloves for Xia Yang.

Xia Yang held the winter gloves in his hands, and his heart became as warm as a stove.

Does the princess have him in her heart?

He secretly admires the princess, and the princess also likes him!

Su Zhen arranged for someone to send the cotton boots for Emperor Dezhi back to Beijing, and also brought a letter with him.

The others were sent back to the Grand Marshal's Mansion by Chunxiao and his men.