After the marriage, my husband's family listened to my voice and turned the tide

Shang Tingli paused for a moment, then asked, "Hasn't my father ever come to see Zhuangzi?"

Manager Li replied, "The master and his wife have been here several times."

Shang Tingli was a little surprised and asked, "Then why didn't he teach you how to farm?"

"Master, you know how to farm?" Manager Li was stunned for a moment. "Maybe it was the autumn harvest time, and the harvest was pretty good, so Master thought we knew how to farm, so he didn't say much?"

There is indeed this possibility.

Shang Tingli recalled what her father had said when she was young, and told him how to deal with the rainy season when farming. She said, "It rained heavily last night, and the water is flooding the ridges today. We should hurry up and drain the water from the fields to avoid prolonged flooding that will restrict the growth of the seedlings and cause their death."

Manager Li was a little confused: "But these seedlings also need water for irrigation, so they will be drowned?"

Shang Tingli laughed and said, "Of course they will. Manager Li, why don't you think about it? In the rainy season in previous years, were there many seedlings without nests? Even if they could survive the rainy season, many of them were empty and barren?"

Manager Li said seriously, "It is true."

"When farming in the rainy season in the future, Manager Li can make preparations in advance." Shang Tingli said.

Steward Li said respectfully, "Miss, please speak."

"Before the rainstorm comes, you can do these things. First, drain the irrigation water in the rice fields and dredge the ditches. This will ensure that the accumulated water can be drained quickly after the rain and reduce the damage caused by flooding." Shang Tingli said, "After the rainstorm, you can do as I said just now."

Manager Li said, "I am grateful for your advice, Miss. I will find someone to work with me right away."

When he thought that no one would entertain the young lady while he was at work, he said, "Should I ask the wife to come and talk to the young lady?"

Shang Tingli waved his hand and refused: "No need, just do your thing."

"Yes." Manager Li led Li Peng out of the yard.

"Crown Princess..." Gan Tang called out weakly.

This girl used to be very lively and active in Nanwu, but she gradually became more restrained after I came to Beijing. Now when I see her like this, I know what she is going to do. She just misses the feeling of climbing fruit trees in her childhood. Shang Tingli raised his eyebrows: "Go ahead."

Gan Tang's excitement was written all over his face. He bowed, glanced at Fang Zhi, and said to Shang Tingli, "Can Fang Zhi come with me?"

Fang Zhi held her forehead with her hand and said, "I'll go with you, who will serve the Crown Prince's Consort?"

Originally, there were only two maids who came to Nanwu with the Crown Princess.

Gan Tang opened his mouth and quickly apologized: "It was my fault for not thinking it through."

The two girls have been with him for nine years, and the relationship between them is no less than that of people who grew up together. Shang Tingli naturally would not blame them, "It's all right, Fangzhi can go with Gan Tang."

Gan Tang: "Then you..."

"Isn't the prince still here? Don't worry about me. Besides, I have hands and feet, so it shouldn't be a problem for me to peel the fruit by myself." Shang Tingli glanced at Ke Xin who was still peeling lychees to eat.

[Tsk tsk, the prince is peeling the nut himself, why should I be so hypocritical? ]

Ke Xin paused while holding the litchi in his hand.

The two maids said no more, bent their knees, and left the yard.

Perhaps it was because Ke Xin was eating too happily, Shang Tingli suddenly felt like eating some too. When his eyes fell on the table, he was stunned to see that the basket of lychees that was originally full was now less than one-third left.

[Wow, where are all the lychees? Don’t tell me, in just a short while, there are only a few left?! ]

She looked at Ke Xin blankly: "Prince, are lychees delicious?"

Ke Xin coughed and said, "It's okay."

Shang Tingli: “…”

[Hehe, it's just the prince's classic rhetoric - it's okay, right? It's just okay, how can you eat so much? Admit that it's delicious and you love it, is it that difficult? ]

Shang Tingli was too embarrassed to expose him, so he silently picked a lychee and peeled it.

Ke Xin's ears turned red as he told Du Heng and Chang Di, "You two go pick some lychees."

"Yes."

The two guards left.

Shang Tingli wondered, "Your Highness, haven't you eaten enough?" Thinking of what her mother had said when she was a child, she added, "Lychees can easily cause internal heat, so Your Highness should eat less, but——"

She glanced at the pile of fruit shells he had peeled, and her expression was indescribable for a moment.

Ke Xin asked: "But what?"

Shang Tingli smiled and said, "You have already eaten so much, just eat until you are full. Eating too much will easily cause you to get angry, so eat until you are full and you won't."

Ke Xin paused: "Is there such a saying?"

Shang Tingli nodded. "It's possible that your Highness doesn't know. After all, lychees are hard to come by in Shangjing, but Nanwu is the hometown of lychees. I grew up in Nanwu, so I'm naturally more familiar with lychees than your Highness."

[My mother said that lychees are warm in nature and can easily cause internal heat, so when eating lychees, you should either eat less or eat as much as you can.]

Shang Tingli added: "We can ask Manager Li to help cook some mung bean soup later. Mung bean soup is a cooling food and is perfect for reducing internal heat."

Ke Xin nodded. He didn't quite understand, but he was willing to follow her arrangements.

"Let's go, Prince." Shang Tingli stood up.

Ke Xin was confused: "Where to go?"

"Manager Li is busy draining the rice fields. How can he have time to cook mung bean soup for you? Let's go ask his wife for help."

Shang Tingli stepped out of the hall.

Ke Xincai stood up and followed.

As soon as I walked out of the yard, I saw some people gathered around a small round wooden table under a fruit tree not far away. They were holding a child about three years old in their arms. With a smile on their lips, they looked up at the person on top of the fruit tree with gentle eyes.

I could vaguely hear the woman say, "Miss Gan Tang, please be careful with your steps. Don't miss a step."

Gan Tang responded energetically: "Okay!"

Fang Zhi was standing under the fruit tree, walking on a step ladder, holding a bamboo winnowing basket with some lychees in it. The next moment, she caught some lychees picked by Gan Tang.

Then the woman's voice was heard saying, "Miss Fangzhi should also be careful. This ladder is not absolutely safe."

Fang Zhi smiled and said, "That's a relief."

When I got closer, I found the figures of Du Heng and Chang Di on the lychee tree next to them.

Shang Tingli and Ke Xin walked over and sat down at the small round wooden table.

The three-year-old child stared at the two with bright, round eyes, "Fairy, fairy sister, fairy..." It seemed that he realized that the words he was about to say were not right, and after thinking for a while, he continued, "Brother is beautiful, beautiful brother."

"Fairy sister? Yes, Miss Fangzhi and Miss Gantang are both very beautiful." The woman stared at the two maids and smiled, and said in a strange way: "Beautiful brother? Where is the beautiful brother?"

She looked left and right at the fruit tree before she spotted two figures on another tree. "Huh?"

The woman was only concerned with the two girls from beginning to end, and she didn't know when the two young men came.

At this time, the child in her arms kept pulling her sleeves, "Mother, fairy sister, beautiful brother."

Yao turned around and looked at him: "What's wrong with Zong'er?"

Zong'er repeated what he had just said.

Shang Tingli looked at the cute little guy and smiled: "Mrs. Li."

Yao was surprised to find someone coming. She looked up and saw a man and a woman in front of her. The woman was extremely beautiful and the man was very handsome. It really fit the saying "golden boy and jade girl". It turned out that the "fairy sister and beautiful brother" her son mentioned were here.

These must be the young lady and son-in-law that my husband was talking about.

She hurriedly stood up to greet them: "I guess you two are the young lady and the uncle. Hello young lady and uncle."

"Mrs. Li, there's no need to be so polite." Shang Tingli said with a smile.

Yao smiled shyly: "I am not worthy of being a lady. If you don't mind, you can just call me Aunt Yao."

"Aunt Yao."

Shang Tingli shouted, and then said, "I wonder if Aunt Yao can help me?"

Yao was stunned for a moment, then asked hurriedly, "What does the young lady want me to do?"

"Auntie also knows that lychees are very easy to cause internal heat."

Yao nodded.

Shang Tingli glanced at Ke Xin and smiled at Aunt Yao, "My husband is from the capital. He only knew how to eat lychees in the past. How could he know that lychees are warm in nature? Now, lychees are not popular in the capital yet, but he is eating them like crazy. So I thought, please help me cook some mung bean soup to cool him down."

"That's no problem." Yao agreed immediately.

She asked her son to sit on a small wooden stool and told him, "Zong'er, be good here. Mother will go and cook some mung bean soup."

Zong'er nodded obediently.

Yao smiled at Shang Tingli embarrassedly and said, "Miss, please help look after my son and don't let Zong'er run away. Don't worry about the rest."

Shang Tingli said, "Don't worry, Aunt Yao."

Only then did Yao go back to the house to cook mung bean soup.

The people picking lychees have come down from the tree, and two people are carrying lychees over.

"Please try it and see if the lychees I picked are sweeter!" Gan Tang couldn't wait to run to Shang Tingli.

Seeing this, Chang Di scratched the back of his neck. When Du Heng came to Ke Xin's side, he imitated Gan Tang's tone and said, "Try it too. Are the lychees I picked sweeter?"

Ke Xin: “?”

Du Heng: "..."

Du Heng gently bumped Chang Di's arm and asked in a low voice, "What are you crazy about?"

Why do you say he's crazy? Chang Di didn't understand and pointed at Gan Tang. Just as he was about to speak, he saw three women, including the Crown Prince's Consort, looking at him with the same unspeakable gaze.

"Uh..." Chang Di touched his nose, pretended to look up at the sky awkwardly, and then lowered his head again.

Okay, that was a mistake.

Gan Tang whispered to Shang Tingli and Fang Zhi: "Why do I feel that Chang Di doesn't seem to be very eye-catching?"

Fang Zhi hurriedly said: "Shh——"

Du Heng turned his back to look at the fruit tree and pretended he heard nothing.

Chang Di: “…” People who practice martial arts have extraordinary hearing ability. He wanted to say that he heard it.

Shang Tingli smiled but said nothing.

[The prince is a fool, how smart can you expect his guards to be? ]

Ke Xin: “?”

He peeled the lychee shell fiercely again. Very good, very good, but he secretly implied it in his heart!

An hour later.

Yao came out of the kitchen with a few bowls of mung bean soup. "The mung bean soup is here. It's just out of the pot. Everyone, be careful not to burn your mouth."

She counted the number of people, filled seven bowls and placed them on the round wooden table. When she brought the bowls out, the fruit that was originally on the table had been moved to the floor by Fang Zhi and Du Heng.

"This thing can relieve heat and reduce internal heat. Everyone should eat more. I have made a big pot of it." Yao said with a smile.

Everyone thanked him.

Yao then turned back to the kitchen and started preparing lunch.

At 3:00 p.m., Manager Li and Li Peng, who had been busy in the fields for half a day, came back carrying hoes.

Yao had just finished preparing lunch.

In addition to the men led by Manager Li, there were also a few women who went to work in the fields. Because Zong'er was a little young, Yao stayed at home to take care of the meals.

At this moment, everyone gathered in the yard outside Manager Li's house to eat. Shang Tingli and Ke Xin also sat down together. At their insistence, two maids and two guards also sat down at the table.

This meal may not be as exquisite and delicious as before, but it is more delicious than before.

After dinner, Manager Li and his colleagues drank some mung bean soup and went back to the fields.

Shang Tingli and Ke Xin returned to the yard and prepared for a nap.

"When are you planning to go back?" Ke Xin asked.

Shang Tingli replied: "I want to stay here for two more days."

"Okay." Ke Xin didn't refuse.

This place is far away from the hustle and bustle, not too noisy, and has a different kind of tranquility. Fruits and vegetables can be grown freely here, so it is a good place to live.

But...how long can this tranquility last?

In the past two days, Shang Tingli went out with the tenant children to catch snails in the river and in the fields. He had a lot of fun, like a child who had not grown up.

Ke Xin actually joined their activities. He felt that he was probably really crazy, but his happiness was also real.

Especially the stone snails and field snails that you catch yourself, they are really delicious.

On the day they left the village, the children gave them stone snails and field snails that they had caught, while Manager Li and his men picked a lot of lychees for them to take back and eat.

Shang Ting accepted all the gifts.

On the way back to the prefectural government office, everyone felt a little disappointed and dazed.

The life on the farm these past two days made her feel like she was back in her childhood. When she was young, she followed her father to the village. When her father was busy, she followed her friends in the village to catch snails in the river. Sometimes she would go up the mountain with them to pick wild fruits. Occasionally, she would abandon her manners and follow them to steal fruits grown by other people. At this time, she would be obedient as long as she was beaten, but she was not completely obedient. She would dare to steal again when she felt itchy.

Thinking of this, Shang Tingli couldn't help laughing, and then shook his head.

[I am really going backwards as I grow older. 】

Ke Xin closed his eyes to rest, but moved his ears.

[I have lived two lifetimes. Those childhood days that are gone forever were eleven years ago.]

Shang Tingli closed his eyes with a slight smile on his lips.

Ke Xin opened his eyes, glanced at her, and sighed in his heart. He had been having fun for two days, but he still hadn't had enough.

However, if not for what he saw and heard in the past two days, he would never have known that a person’s childhood could be so colorful.

Ke Xin shook his head.

Whatever a person enjoys, he must lose something.

When I returned to the prefectural government office, the sky suddenly darkened, a cold wind blew, and the sun hid behind the clouds again. It was about to rain, and a shower began.

Shang Tingli squinted at the sky and murmured, "The rain is coming again."