Quickly wear a life of peace

After Eunuch Wu left, Song Changgeng took office and became the county magistrate.

The Song family also moved into the backyard of the county government office.

The first thing County Magistrate Song did after taking office was not to light the three fires, but to bring the county magistrate and others to the farm to let them see the crop yield with their own eyes.

After they were promised a big profit, with the help of these local gentry, they quickly popularized the high-yield and high-quality varieties.

He is a foreigner, and even if he is an official, he cannot get any respect among the locals.

With the endorsement of these officials and clerks who had close ties with the local people, the local farmers easily accepted it and happily came to Song Qingning's farm to exchange for good seeds.

Those who came to exchange for good seeds were all envious when they saw that Song Qingning had so many good things.

Wealthier families would exchange some other seeds and fruit seedlings for them.

Song Qingning also took the opportunity to open his own shop.

The poultry from her farm tastes good, and the pigs she raises have no smell and are full of fat, so they are very popular among everyone.

Song Qingning asked someone to tell them the address of his shop.

Some restaurants and hotels saw business opportunities and wanted to do business with her, sign contracts, and purchase the output from her farm.

There are also people who want to buy her technology outright.

Of course, these people also include Xie Muyan.

However, Song Qingning did not agree immediately.

He just asked someone to tell them that they had no say in these matters and that the matter had been reported to the court, so they should wait for news.

After these words were spoken, no one dared to make trouble and everyone waited obediently for news from the capital.

It's not Song Qingning's fault that he wanted to keep this matter secret. It was because Eunuch Wu believed that some decisions should be made by the emperor.

Song Changgeng understood immediately that it was just to give the emperor a chance to show his ability.

You, the common people, can enjoy these good things only because of the emperor's benevolence. Therefore, you must give the emperor a chance to show his benevolence.

Xie Muyan was unaware of the situation and also purchased some mountain land and started engaging in breeding.

After all, they were all time travelers, so she had some understanding of advanced agricultural knowledge. At least she still remembered basic common sense knowledge such as castration of pigs and epidemic prevention.

Song Qingning felt that such an approach might hurt the emperor's fragile heart, causing him to bear a grudge against him, and even causing the emperor to question Song Changgeng's ability.

So, she made a suggestion to Song Changgeng, hoping that he could find an opportunity to give Xie Muyan some advice, tell her the reasons, and advise her to stop raising livestock for the time being and wait for the emperor's edict to be issued before making any plans.

But now Xie Muyan has put it into practice, we can't let her destroy all those pigs, right? Then Song Changgeng's reputation will be ruined.

After some discussion, it was finally decided that Song Qingning would take over all the pigs she raised, and Xie Muyan obtained the right of first refusal to purchase the agricultural products from Song Qingning's farm.

The problems with crops and livestock were temporarily solved. Song Qingning felt that such good conditions here should not be wasted, so he began to continue improving the yield and taste of the fruit.

So he bought a few more hills and planted all kinds of fruits on them.

Now Song Changgeng has become the county magistrate here. He has connections above him and the support of the people below him. Song Qingning has a solid backer.

It is much easier to get things done. Now if she wants to buy people, the human traffickers will arrange it very tactfully. There are no more refugees like before to put her off.

Two years later, Song Qingning's fruit trees have not improved much. Currently, the only difference is that the taste is slightly better and the yield has increased a little.

However, the imperial edict finally arrived along with the newly appointed county magistrate.

Song Changgeng returned to the capital and took up a post in the Ministry of Industry. Song Qingning was awarded the title of Ning'an County Lady for his contribution to seed improvement.

The Song family was overjoyed and happy to be able to return to the capital.

Only Song Qingning was unhappy. The fruit improvement had not been completed yet. Besides, after returning to the capital, she would only be a canary trapped in the backyard and would have no freedom.

When they reach a certain age, they have to marry and have children, and they are locked up in the inner courtyard of the back house for the rest of their lives and cannot go out.

Of course it is not realistic not to go back. She has been conferred the title of county lady and she has to go to express her gratitude!

She still needs to plan carefully and find a way to get her family to agree to her coming back.

I originally wanted to entrust Zhuangzi to the Zhou family, but unfortunately the imperial physician Zhou was obsessed with medicine. He went around seeing patients and studying medicine every day.

Zhou Huaixi's body was too weak and he fell ill easily. Although Song Qingning had found opportunities to send him some good things in recent years, that was a disease he had been born with and it took him too long to recover.

Everyone in the Zhou family focused their attention on him and were unwilling to spend more time managing the farm.

In the end, Zhou Huaixi decided to help Song Qingning manage the farm. "Junior Sister Song, don't worry. There are people in charge of the farm. I'm just watching them to make sure they don't do anything naughty. It won't affect my health."

That being said, looking at the resentful look in Zhou's mother's eyes, Song Qingning still didn't dare to agree. It was Imperial Physician Zhou who made the final decision.

"Okay, Huaixi's health has improved a lot. He is not unable to do anything. It's not a bad thing for him to do some things, so let him take care of it!"

Song Qingning immediately thanked him gratefully, "Master, don't worry, I will be back soon and won't let you work too long."

After arranging all matters, the Song family set off back to Beijing.

This journey is so much more comfortable. We take a boat along the coast. Not only is it fast, but we also don't have to worry about the dangers on the road.

Then, halfway through the journey, when the ship docked for supplies, we received big news.

The second prince rebelled, the first prince was injured in the leg while protecting the emperor and became lame. The third prince died young, and the mothers of the fourth and seventh princes were princesses of foreign races and could not succeed to the throne.

The fifth prince rebelled together with the second prince. He wanted to take advantage of the situation while the mantis stalks the cicada, but unfortunately he was shot by arrows from the eldest prince's men and died on the spot. He was worse off than the second prince, who at least managed to keep his life.

It was now clear that the Sixth Prince had no other problems except being a little weak.

Although he was weak, he already had several healthy male heirs, both legitimate and illegitimate sons.

The Song family members looked at each other in bewilderment. Why did it feel like pie had fallen from the sky and they had gotten lucky?

Song Qingya also has a son. If this happens in the future...

You can’t think about it. It’s too dangerous and goes against their family motto.

Jia even called everyone together and gave them a vaccination.

"No matter whether that child has a future or not, we should not get involved."

"Of all the noble families that made their fortunes with us, I don't know how many of them have perished because of things like this."

"The reason we are still doing well is because we don't get involved in the royal family's affairs."

"If that kid is willing, we just need to not hold him back."

"If he doesn't mean it, that's even better. We have to be more low-key."