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

Seeing her anxious look, Xu Zhubu, who was standing by, also followed her example, putting his hands to his mouth and repeating her words in a raised voice.

Only then did Zhang Lizheng hear clearly what they were saying. He slowed down his pace and pointed at his ears to indicate to them that he was old and his hearing was not working well.

Zhang Lizheng walked up to them and spoke:

"My Lords, I have inspected all the rice fields in the village today. Except for a few shallowly planted rice that were washed up, the rest of the rice should be safe. I have also asked the villagers to replant the washed up rice. We found it in time, so it should be able to survive."

Shen Zheng also felt that there should be no problem. After all, hybrid rice is famous for its durability. All of this is thanks to the old man who developed hybrid rice.

She also instructed Zhang Lizheng to arrange for the villagers to rinse the rice leaves again with canal water to avoid affecting the later heading.

Zhang Lizheng nodded and sighed, "Fortunately, you had the foresight to let us dig the canal. Otherwise, with the heavy rain last night, the losses of our farmers would be much greater."

When Shen Zheng heard this, she suddenly became worried.

However, what she was worried about was not the crops in her own county, but those in other counties, because the function of ditches is not only to irrigate crops, but also to drain water.

As far as she knew, other counties in Liuyang Prefecture did not have systematic ditches like her Tongan County.

This led to other counties being hit by sudden heavy rains and farmlands being flooded, and the only way to drain the water was to pass the buck between the farmlands.

Either this family's fields will be flooded, or that family's fields will be flooded. There is no way to drain the rainwater. So we can only see who can dig the field ridges faster.

Shen Zheng sighed in her heart, and at this moment she actually hoped that the heavy rain last night only fell in her Tongan County.

At this time, Zhao Xiu, who was helping in Qingyuan Village, came over. He had changed his clothes, which must have been lent to him by a villager.

Shen Zheng asked him to borrow a place from the headman's house to rest for a while, and then go to other villages to ask the villagers to wash rice leaves after he felt better.

Zhao Xiu nodded in agreement, but he felt a little uncomfortable. If he was a teenager, not sleeping for a night would be nothing.

Now that the adults have assigned him tasks, he feels a little overwhelmed.

Shen Zheng was thinking about the loom drawings, so she asked Xu Zhubu to go back to the county government first.

When they arrived at the gate of the county government office, they saw a long line of carriages at the door and thought they had come to the wrong place.

They looked again and saw that it was the Fang family's carriage.

Just as the two were puzzled, a servant from the Fang family saw them and quickly ran to the leading carriage to report.

As soon as the servant finished speaking, Fang Ziyan jumped off the carriage and turned back to urge the people in the carriage.

"Brother, hurry up!"

Shen Zheng and Xu Zhubu looked at each other. What were the Fang brothers doing here?

After Fang Wenxiu got off the carriage, he led Fang Ziyan towards the two of them.

He bowed to the two of them and said, "Sir Shen, I have something to ask you. Can we go in and talk?"

Before Shen Zheng could answer, he saw Xu Zhubu covered in mud and asked in confusion: "Xu Zhubu, what are you doing?"

Shen Zheng then turned to look at Xu Zhubu. As they walked along the way, she had forgotten that Xu Zhubu was covered in mud.

"It rained heavily last night, and we stayed in the fields all night, so we got a little dirty."

She began to explain on behalf of Xu Zhubu and urged him to go back to his room to change his clothes.

After Xu Zhubu entered the county government office, she looked at the long line of cars parked in front of the government office and wondered what needed Fang Wenxiu to come to the gate with a carload of things to ask for favors?

However, she suppressed her doubts and raised her hand to invite them in.

After Shen Zheng sat down with them in the study for a while, Fang Wenxiu was still struggling with how to start the conversation. In his opinion, this request was a bit unreasonable.

When Fang Ziyan proposed it, he had refused it outright, but since their father doted on Fang Ziyan too much, he forced him to bring Fang Ziyan over.

Seeing Fang Wenxiu's conflicted face, Shen Zheng did not urge him, but just took out the tea that Fang Wenxiu had given her last time.

After Shen Zheng added hot water to the teapot, Fang Wenxiu finally spoke.

"Sir Shen, I know this request is a little unreasonable, but I really can't persuade my father and Zi Yan, so I hope you can listen to me."

Upon hearing this, Shen Zheng looked at Fang Ziyan who was looking at her with a silly smile. What did this little fat guy want to do?

"You tell me first."

Fang Wenxiu took a breath and said, "I hope Mr. Li in the yamen can accept me as a student so that I can study in the yamen."

"what?"

Shen Zheng cried out in surprise, thinking to herself, are these two people just bored? His Fang family is so rich, do they need to come to her county government to study?

But after a moment she realized that Fang Ziyan might have other intentions.

She asked Fang Ziyan directly: "Do you want to study with Pei Zhaoqi?"

Fang Ziyan was suddenly asked and felt a little shy, then nodded.

Since he returned home a month ago, his elder brother has taught him a lot and let him know what a true friend is like.

It turned out that He Liangping had never regarded him as a true friend before. He was indeed very sad at first, but his eldest brother told him that after this experience, he would have his own true friends.

When Fang Ziyan heard the words "true good friend", a person appeared in his mind, and that was Pei Zhaoqi.

He wants to be good friends with Pei Zhaoqi.

At first, his elder brother and father did not agree with him coming to Tongan County to study. Although Fang Wenxiu had a good impression of Shen Zheng, in their opinion, the teaching level of Tongan County was not as good as that of Liuchang Academy in Quanyang County.

Moreover, Fang Ziyan went to Tongan County to study and could not go home every day. How could they not know if he was bullied there?

They thought Fang Ziyan was just impulsive and just rejected him.

Who would have thought that Fang Ziyan, who was always fickle, would persist for so long this time, pestering them every day, saying that he wanted to go to Tongan County to study.

It was the first time that Mr. Fang saw his youngest son being so stubborn, and after a while, he softened his heart.

Because Fang Ziyan's grades in Liuchang Academy were not very good, he could be said to be just going there for the formalities, and Fang Wenxiu was managing the family business, so Fang Ziyan could just enjoy himself from now on.

It seems that no matter how good the teaching level of the gentleman in Tongan County is, it is enough for Fang Ziyan to be happy there.

After Fang's father figured it out, he asked Fang Wenxiu to bring Fang Ziyan to study here.

......

Shen Zheng looked at Fang Ziyan's expectant expression and couldn't say no.

In fact, she didn't hate Fang Ziyan from the bottom of her heart, and she even liked him a little.

But the situation this time was different from the last time she brought Pei Zhaoqi back. She could no longer make the decision on Li Hongmao's admission of students.

She had no choice but to say, "I can't make the decision for Mr. Li. If you are not in a hurry, you can wait here. Let's talk about it after Mr. Li gets off duty, okay?"

Fang Wenxiu was a little happy at this time. He thought Shen Zheng would refuse outright, but he didn't expect there was room for negotiation.