The little cook in the book has fallen asleep

"Sister, sister, it's going to rain heavily in two days. Do you want to harvest the corn first?" Since the system was upgraded to level three, Xiao Ou also upgraded the early warning function.

"Ah? It's going to rain? How long will it rain?" Cheng Yu asked regretfully. She also said that she would wait for the corn to dry thoroughly before taking it down, especially because she had to wait for Lord Zheng.

"I didn't see the details, but it shows that the sun won't come out until at least next week!" Xiao Ou flipped through the weather forecast page and said.

"Okay, then when will it start raining?" Cheng Yu thought about what Zheng Rong had asked her to do, and she had to make plans in advance.

It turned out that after Cheng Yiyu and the others set off, Zheng Rong ran to Cheng Yu to ask if he wanted to sell corn seeds!

Cheng Yu thought about it and realized that their Cheng family had no background. Once corn started to make a profit, they would not be able to keep the corn seeds. Moreover, their Cheng family had not only corn seeds, but also potatoes, peppers, and those seeds that she would take out later.

She needed the court's support, so she agreed to Zheng Rong's request, but she proposed to talk only to the court, not to individuals or aristocratic families.

Zheng Rong understood what she meant, and she wrote a letter to Lord Zheng overnight, asking him to come directly to Qingshan Village for the talks in his capacity as the director of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The news that Lord Zheng brought corn rice to the palace to meet the emperor has already spread in the capital. Corn has already been set eyes on by the noble families!

Cheng Yu promised Zheng Rong to wait for Lord Zheng for five days and then harvest the corn after five days. However, man proposes, God disposes, and it started to rain heavily soon!

If the rain is too heavy and there are several days of cloudy weather, the corn will sprout on the stalks. Not only can you not eat it, even the seeds won't be preserved.

"The weather forecast is around 8 o'clock the day after tomorrow!" Xiao Ou looked at the time. The forecast usually takes about an hour.

"Okay, then I'll collect it the day after tomorrow afternoon!" With such a small amount of corn, the Cheng family collected it in less than an hour, with you putting a bundle and me holding an arm.

Judging from Lord Zheng's speed, he should be setting off now.

Cheng Yu told her idea to Grandpa Cheng and his two sons, and asked them to make some racks for her. She would collect the bracts directly, and then tie them together and hang them on the racks to dry.

After hearing this, the father and his two sons happily took their axes and went up the mountain to cut bamboo.

Zheng Rong was also afraid of accidents, so she did not let the escort agency take the letter and corn kernels, but asked the servants at home to take them back by water.

She also calculated the time. It was almost time for her grandfather to deliver it to her. According to her grandfather's character, he should be rushing out the door and rushing here.

Indeed, Lord Zheng did come. He calculated the time and felt that taking the official road was too slow, so he asked the carriage to continue on the official road, and he came directly by water with his entourage.

He was going downstream at a very fast speed, but he didn't eat or sleep well, so Lord Zheng was seasick and vomited all the way. The journey was supposed to take four or five days, but he compressed it into three days.

Even the two attendants and several guards were tortured beyond recognition.

The ship that Lord Zheng used on his original diplomatic mission was ten times larger than this one, and it sailed very smoothly, unlike this ship which was bumpy and had undercurrents.

He almost cried when Lord Zheng's footsteps landed on the land. He never wanted to suffer like this again!

When Lord Zheng arrived at Cheng's house in a hurry, there was no one in the front yard of the Cheng family. Everyone was busy harvesting corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes in the backyard.

"Is anyone there?" Lord Zheng shouted loudly towards the Cheng family.

"Bang, bang, bang!" "Is anyone there?" Lord Zheng's entourage knocked on the Cheng family's door with increased force.

"Xiaoqi and Xiaoba, go open the door!" Old Mrs. Cheng said immediately when she heard the knock on the door.

Five, six, and seven were on vacation. Originally, Old Lady Cheng asked them to have a good rest and not to come to help. However, when the three of them saw that the whole family was here, they started to move again.

"Squeak!" The door of the Cheng family finally opened.

"Hello, who are you looking for?" Cheng Xiaoqi and Cheng Xiaoba, each standing on the side, stuck their heads out and asked.

"Hello, I'm looking for Zheng Rong!" said Lord Zheng. He seemed not to know the names of the Cheng family, so he had to report his granddaughter's name.

"I don't know, there is no such person!" Cheng Xiaoba thought about it and felt that the grandfather in front of him must have found the wrong door.

"Hey, Xiaoba, don't close the door! Have you forgotten your cousin's surname?" After all, Cheng Xiaoqi is two years older than Cheng Xiaoba, so he still remembers his cousin Zhao's surname.

"Hello, Grandpa, we are a little busy now. Please come in! I will help you call your cousin!" Cheng Xiaoqi opened the door, let Lord Zheng and his entourage enter the Cheng family, and then closed the door again!

They are harvesting corn. If they are seen by others, they will definitely come to ask for seeds!

"Cousin, someone is looking for you!" Cheng Xiaoba shouted loudly.

Zheng Rong and Xiao Lan came out of the backyard reluctantly. Who is looking for her? It's so annoying. She is harvesting corn with great enthusiasm!

"Rong'er, it's me!" Lord Zheng stood up and greeted Zheng Rong.

“Grandfather, why are you…” Like a beggar! Zheng Rong didn’t dare to say anything.

"Grandfather, come quickly with me!" Zheng Rong thought of the Cheng family members who were working hard in the back, and immediately pulled Lord Zheng and ran.

The people who came with Lord Zheng also followed behind. What game are these grandparents and grandchildren playing?

"Rong'er, if you have guests, just sit with them!" Zhao Yunniang said immediately when she saw her niece bringing an old man in.

"Aunt, he is my grandfather. Grandfather, this is my great aunt's daughter, Aunt Zhao Yunniang!" Zheng Rong introduced Lord Zheng, whose eyes were about to fall into the corn pile.

Lord Zheng was stunned by the corn picked out from the backyard. How could such a small piece of land produce so much corn?

"Uncle, hello!" Zhao Yunniang's call of "Uncle" brought Lord Zheng back to his senses. He looked at Zhao Yunniang in disbelief, who looked 50% like his elder sister.

"Hello...Hello!" He was so happy that he forgot to prepare a gift. What should he do? And this...this corn is so beautiful. He wants to see his niece and the corn. What should he do?

"Uncle, please forgive us for the poor hospitality. We need to harvest corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes first, because it's going to rain!" Zhao Yunniang pointed to the dark clouds in the sky and then to the Cheng family who were still busy.

"Okay, I'll help too!" Lord Zheng walked towards the corn stalks, watched how Cheng Jin harvested corn, and immediately started moving.

Two attendants and several guards also followed Lord Zheng and started moving.

Is this corn? I thought it was exaggerated when I heard Mr. Zheng say it, but now I see it in person and it’s amazing! The yield is too high!

The corn was harvested quickly. The Cheng family boys each carried a basket and piled the corn under the eaves.

"Grandpa, be careful! You've dug up all the potatoes and sweet potatoes and rotted them!" Cheng Yu said with heartache as he looked at the rotten sweet potatoes and potatoes.

"Okay, okay, it's grandpa's fault. Don't be angry, girl. Now grandpa will dig carefully, dig carefully, and there will definitely not be a single rotten one!" Grandpa Cheng immediately assured.

Even though his granddaughter said that potatoes and corn were discovered by babies who were more than one year old but less than two years old, the scene before him did not shock him as much.

Mr. Zheng stood there in a daze, watching the Cheng family's sweet potato harvest. Wait! The one that's as big as a fist is a sweet potato?

He thought of the sweet potatoes in the imperial farm, which were only as big as his little finger, and he found it unbelievable!

"Look, grandpa, that's a potato. It's delicious. It tastes good whether you stew it with meat or cook it directly and dip it in chili powder!" Zheng Rong looked at the piles of potatoes and couldn't help drooling.

"How is it possible? Producing so much?" said one of Lord Zheng's followers.

One of them was a seventh-rank agricultural official in the Ministry of Agriculture, and the other was a sixth-rank official in the Ministry of Revenue.

"Is it amazing?" The official from the Ministry of Revenue had never seen the sweet potatoes in the imperial farm, so he didn't know how pitiful the sweet potato yield was.

"Let me put it this way. The sweet potato output in the imperial farm is two-thirds more than this. But the imperial farm is ten acres of land. Does this piece of land account for one-third of it?" said the small farm official.

"That's terrible!" said a minor official from the Ministry of Revenue.

"Hello, are you Cheng Yu? I'm your great uncle!" Lord Zheng walked up to the little dumpling and greeted him.

"Hello, uncle! Hey, grandpa, you've ruined another one! I don't want you to dig anymore!" Cheng Yu shouted.

The main reason is that she has no points left in her space, so she must keep some of these potatoes for seeds.

"Let me do it, let me do it, brother, let me try!" Lord Zheng grabbed the small hoe from Mr. Cheng and started digging gently.

"Grandpa, look, this is what my great uncle does right!" It turns out that farming also requires talent. Grandpa Cheng has been farming all his life, but he is not as good as Lord Zheng.

"You mischievous ghost!" Old Man Cheng tapped Cheng Yu's nose, then picked up the backpack and started picking potatoes.

"Ah! Why are there so many?" Lord Zheng asked in surprise as he looked at the potatoes and sweet potatoes piled up in the kitchen.

"It takes experience to grow these things!" Zheng Rong criticized her grandfather. He came here for the corn, but now he has set his eyes on potatoes.

"You...!" Lord Zheng was so angry that he stopped talking to Zheng Rong!

"Time for dinner!" It was raining heavily outside, so Lord Zheng and the other four had to have dinner at Cheng's house.

"Xiao Chengyu, do you want to sell your corn?" Lord Zheng looked at the corn piled under the eaves.

"Are you talking to me as your great uncle, or as Lord Zheng from the Ministry of Agriculture of the imperial court?" Cheng Yu asked while sitting on Cheng Shang's lap.

"Is there any difference?" asked Lord Zheng.

"If you come to talk to me as my uncle, I will give you two to eat; if you come to talk to me as an official appointed by the court, I will give you seeds for free!" Cheng Yu said bluntly.

"Free? Free?" Lord Zheng asked in surprise!

“Yes, it’s free!”

At the gate of the Imperial Examination Hall in the provincial capital, Cheng Lixiao was standing there, staring at the door, feeling extremely anxious.

His three younger brothers have been taking the provincial exam for three days. According to the schedule, they should be out today. I wonder how they did?

Suddenly, a cheer came from the crowd: "They're coming out, they're coming out!" Cheng Lixiao looked closely and saw a large group of people walking out. His three younger brothers were among them, and they were walking towards him.

Walking in front was the third student, Cheng Zhiwen. His face was filled with an excited smile, and it seemed that he had done well in the exam.

"So what? My bet is right, right? Why don't you give me the money quickly?" Cheng Zhiwen pulled his second and fourth brothers, and shouted excitedly, totally changing his usual calm demeanor.

"Here you go. I'll help them both out. Look how capable you are!" Cheng Lixiao said with a smile from behind.

At this moment, a servant of the Yuan family ran up to Cheng Lixiao breathlessly and shouted, "It's bad, it's bad, the general has been assassinated, young masters, please come back with us."

"What? Which general?" Cheng Lixiao's face changed and he asked quickly.

"General Yuan Heng, how many General Yuans are there?" the servant answered anxiously.

"Hurry, go back first!" Cheng Lixiao made a prompt decision and hurried to Yuan's house with his three younger brothers.

Along the way, Cheng Lixiao and the other three were in a heavy mood. They didn't know what General Yuan Heng's current condition was like. They hoped that General Yuan was not seriously injured!

The author has something to say: I took a day off yesterday and brought back a new member, a little Teddy. It is cute, but it won’t eat.