Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

From now on, this will be her home.

The house in this life is different from the dormitory and rental house in her previous life in that it was built specifically for her after asking her about her preferences and it belongs only to her for a certain period of time.

Wu Quan saw that she was staring at a certain place with a distracted look, and thought that he was deliberately showing off his skills and making her unhappy.

He asked carefully: "Master Shen, do you think...there is something wrong? I will change it immediately!"

"Nothing." Shen Zheng came back to her senses, her eyes fixed on the pavilion in the backyard.

With a smile on her face, she said, "The pavilion has also been turned over. There are many people in the backyard, so there will inevitably be competition."

She found it funny when she thought that in the future when people came to cool off in the summer, everyone in the yamen would crawl under the pavilion, making it difficult for them to even step foot.

There are only a few stools, and I don't know how to divide them. I can't just stack them on top of each other.

When Wu Quan heard her say this, he quickly pointed her in a direction and said, "Look over there, sir."

Any surprises?

Shen Zheng turned around and looked, then said in surprise, "When was the corridor added? I didn't even notice it."

She walked towards the corridor and asked, "This was originally just a small gravel path. I didn't expect you to build a short corridor on it. Is this your idea? When I discussed the blueprint with Lord Liang and the others, we didn't mention this corridor."

Wu Quan followed him closely and said respectfully, "Your Excellency, this is my idea. As you just said, the pavilion in the backyard is not big, and I am afraid it will be crowded when there are many people. The government office just happened to have some dismantled wood, so I thought of using the existing wood to build a corridor."

Ready-made wood?

After Shen Zheng walked in, she noticed that many of the wood in this corridor looked familiar - wasn't this second thickest capital the one removed from her previous room?

Because her previous house was considered the best house in the entire county government, the things that were dismantled had extra value in Wu Quan's eyes.

"I never thought you could use the dismantled wood here. It's really great."

This corridor was actually very similar to the corridor of Shen Zheng’s school in her previous life. It seemed like every school had such a corridor. It was clearly just a frame, but it was covered with vines and filled with the breath of life.

Seeing that she liked it, Wu Quan felt relieved and asked, "Sir, do you think this corridor should be capped? If necessary, there are some remaining wood over there. I will make the roof frame later and it can be capped today."

Shen Zheng felt something and looked up.

The pergola seemed to be covered with vines. The sunlight squeezed through the gaps between the vines and sprinkled down, casting spots of light and shadows on the ground. A breeze blew by, and the vines became unstable. The tails were accidentally blown off, and could only swing above her head with the breeze.

Wu Quan quietly waited for her instructions, only to hear her whisper: "It's a pity to seal it. If... I don't know if there is any here."

"What do you mean, sir?" Wu Quan thought that the "here" she was referring to was "Shangjing", so he could only say, "What do you think, sir? Just tell me. If it's not here, I'll ask someone to find it."

The more Shen Zheng thought about it, the more excited she became.

If limestone can be found in Da Zhou, how could there not be vines?

Even if they are not the same variety of vines, there must be vines that look similar.

She pointed to the top of the corridor and said to Wu Quan, "There is a kind of vine that has a strong ability to survive and reproduce. We call it creeper. As long as you give it a wall or a pillar, it will continue to grow along with the building, flourishing and full of vitality. It is often used for landscape creation."

"Ivy?"

Wu Quan frowned slightly, feeling that her description sounded very familiar, but he had indeed never heard of a vine called "ivy".

He just felt his head itching, and after thinking for a while he asked again: "Sir, I wonder what other characteristics this vine has? I... always feel like I might have seen it somewhere."

"Features..." Shen Zheng recalled for a moment and mentioned the most prominent feature of the creeper: "It looks like a grape vine."

"Grapevine!" Wu Quan's eyes lit up: "I know! It's a fake grapevine! I call it fake grapevine!"

"Fake grapevine?" Shen Zheng chuckled. "That's quite fitting. Its seedlings look like grapevines, but they can't produce grapes."

Wu Quan scratched his head when he heard this: "To be honest, sir, I have this 'ivy' in my house. You also know that grapes are rare, especially sweet grapes that can grow. At that time, I was in Quanyang County and met a foreign merchant, who said..."

He felt a little embarrassed and laughed awkwardly, "He said it was a grapevine brought back from the west, and it was very rare. So I bought it at a high price, thinking that after a few years the vine would grow up, it would produce grapes, so that my wife could also taste what sweet grapes taste like, but who knew..."

"Who knew you would buy a creeper and take it home?" Shen Zheng laughed, "I don't blame you. But creepers grow much faster than grapes, and they change every day."

Wu Quan felt a pain in his heart when he thought of this. "That's right. It started climbing the trellis after just a few days. I thought the sweet grapes from the west were different and grew faster than grape plants. But it turned out to be a fake grape!"

"You don't know, at that time, Chi Qing's sister almost twisted my ears off. But now..."

He suddenly did not feel that he had done anything wrong, and grinned, "Who would have thought that I would have hit upon the right path and bought exactly what you said. When I return home today, I will dig it up with its roots!"

Did you dig up the ivy you bought a few years ago with its roots?

Shen Zheng was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What does the creeper look like now?"

Wu Quan said, "It has crawled all over the grape vines... and even into the yard next door."

Only then did he realize why Lord Shen called this vine "ivy".

Isn't it just crawling everywhere?

Shen Zheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "...If you dig it up with the roots, I'm afraid that next spring, our county will be full of creepers. Too many of these plants are not good, they need to be taken care of regularly. And it doesn't need to be transplanted with the roots. When spring comes, you can cut a three-inch long vine and insert it into the prepared nursery ground, and it will soon survive and grow."

Wu Quan was stunned when he heard this: "Sir, this creeper... is so tenacious that a three-inch vine can grow so big without even using roots?"

How great it would be if the crops in the fields could be like these vines. No one in the world would go hungry anymore!