Beautiful Peasant Girl: The Young Marquis's Beloved

Shortly after noon, Liu Xu was about to take people to plant corn when Zhu Jiacheng arrived with people and materials.

Liu Xu could only ask Liu Ming to take everyone to build the ridges first, and she took everyone to the cross-yard first.

"Uncle Zhu, you can build the layout of the two courtyards according to the courtyard you built. Make it more exquisite. The main house and the wing rooms should be the same as the main courtyard, and you can also have a small kitchen and other things." Liu Xu said as he walked.

"No problem. Will the furniture in the house remain the same as before?"

"Yeah, the furnishings in the room remain unchanged."

"Okay, I got it." Zhu Jiacheng nodded, paused, and then asked, "Xu girl, I remember you still have a lot of colored glass left. Do you want me to help you replace all the windows in your house?"

"Well, if you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have thought of this. But are those colored glass enough?" She had looked at it earlier and there wasn't much left.

"It should be enough for a courtyard. It depends on whether you want to change the main courtyard or build a cross courtyard. If you need colored glaze for both, I'll buy some for you. This one is not used much, so it's easy to buy."

"Then let's change them all!" It doesn't matter which yard is decorated, so it's better to change them all. It just so happens that Zuiyunxuan has distributed dividends before, so there is no shortage of money.

After the matter was settled, Zhu Jiacheng led the workers to start moving materials and working.

There weren't many people here today, only about 40, and both sides started working at the same time. Because they were in the yard, Liu Xu asked Uncle He to tell them that her family would cook for everyone.

So, there were two fewer people working in the afternoon.

Liu Changshun didn't bring many people with him, just the three of them, father and son, and Dong Bin.

There are more than 60 pounds of corn that were peeled earlier, and the willow catkins have sprouted, so now is the perfect time to plant them.

"Uncle San, I have already germinated the seeds. When you take them back, you can do what we did, dig ridges and dig furrows. Each ridge is one and a half feet apart. Dig holes on the ridges. Two inches deep is enough. Dig one every one or two feet. First, apply fertilizer, and then sow two seeds. This is a heavy method."

"The other method is to raise seedlings uniformly and transplant them when they are five inches tall. The other steps are the same."

Liu Changshun was originally a farmer, so he understood what Liu Xu said and asked, "Xu girl, how are you going to grow crops?"

"I plan to plant two batches, one for direct sowing and one for seedling raising. The seedling raising also has another function, which is to fill in the gaps of the direct sowing. In case there are some that have not sprouted, I can just fill them in when the time comes. I want to see whether the germination rate is higher for direct sowing or for separate seedling raising."

"Corn is drought-tolerant and does not require excessive watering. On sunny days, open the straw thatch, but do not turn off the charcoal basin in the shed. Keep the temperature at spring time in the early stage. When it blooms, add the charcoal basin to keep the temperature in the shed at early summer. Also, remember to leave ventilation holes after covering the straw thatch at night."

Liu Changshun and others, as well as Liu Ming and his group, listened attentively and nodded as they listened. No one was puzzled as to why Liu Xu knew all this.

Xing'er looked at her little sisters with admiration, her eyes almost sparkling with stars.

After the theory, it was time for practice. After Liu Changshun had planted a few ridges with them, Liu Xu gave him the seeds and told him to go home and plant them. The amount was not too much, not too little, enough to plant about five or six acres of land, and there would be some land left to plant peppers.

Liu Xu and his men worked for most of the afternoon. The eight of them managed to plant ten acres of land and even grew the remaining seeds in the greenhouse.

Before it got dark, He Feng and his colleagues moved all the peppers that had been grown in the mushroom house into the room.

When she got home, Liu Xu felt like she was about to fall apart, and the others were not much better.

Xu Ruolan had come back earlier to help, but was driven back by her daughter. Seeing Liu Xu dozing off while eating, she felt so distressed.

Qiao Yun, Qiao Yu and Huan Xi were in the same situation as her. At night, the adults also took care of the little maids and let them rest early.

Han Duoduo immediately told Ye Miaoyin that they would stay to help next time they planted seeds. Ye Miaoyin touched her head and nodded in agreement.

She didn't ask much about her young apprentice's family, but neither Xu Ruolan nor Liu Xu hid anything from her and treated her and her daughter as one family, which touched her heart.

Originally, I came here out of gratitude for the Mu family, but after getting to know Liu Xu and her mother, I felt somewhat grateful to that kid Huai Jin.

They can be considered to be secluded here, but they are not isolated from the crowd. Both mother and daughter are very happy.

The geographical location of Liujia Village is also peculiar. Although it is not far from the town and the county seat, the village is backed by the Canglong Mountains to the north, and there are small hills to the west and south. There is also a medium-sized river to the east that separates them from the Xiangyang Village opposite. There is only a main road in the southeast leading to Yuyang Town.

As a result, there have been few outsiders coming and going in Liujia Village. Although the villagers are not starving or freezing to death, they are really poor.

Fortunately, because everyone is poor, the young and strong people in the village have to go out to work all year round, so the population of Liujia Village has not grown so fast. Otherwise, with only a few hundred acres of land...

On the other hand, Xu Hean and his son did not come back today, but they said goodbye to Xu Ruolan before leaving, so their family was not worried.

The two of them went to the county town today because they received a letter from Xu Mingli, asking them to purchase real estate in Qinghe County.

He could foresee that since his sister was here, his parents would definitely stay in Qinghe County often, but he couldn't always let his parents live in his sister's house.

Xu and his son, He'an, followed the pawnbroker for a long time today and finally chose a satisfactory three-yard house. In addition, they bought two small farms and three shops, which were the dowry that Xu Mingli prepared for his sister.

He knew that his parents and elder brother would definitely give his sister some, and would also give him some, but what he prepared was his own gift.

He has to be on duty and can't come for the time being, so he has to ask Uncle An for help.

As a result, when he received his sister's handwritten letter, he felt that he should have prepared better himself.

New grain, and a high-yield new grain! At this moment, he was extremely looking forward to his niece. Previously, Liu Xu was his sister's daughter, and he loved her as much as he loved her, but now he wanted to treat this girl as his own daughter.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Shangshu will enter the cabinet next year, and the position of Shangshu will become vacant.

Today, he and the Left Vice Minister are on par with each other in terms of political achievements, but the Left Vice Minister is half a rank higher than him and comes from a noble family, so his chances of winning are much greater than his.

But if this new grain variety is introduced, it is still unclear who will win.

Master Xu immediately decided to submit a memorial to His Majesty tomorrow to raise the issue of home leave. After all, he had never taken a leave in these years.

It just so happens that their family has just found their long-lost sister. He explained the situation to His Majesty, and he believed that His Majesty would agree.