Armed with a machete and a gun, armed with a system, they fled the famine.

Chapter 449 Let's go to the capital

understand.

They expressed their understanding.

Yuan Yutang's eyes flickered slightly, and he said to Qiu Zhen, "Sister-in-law, don't worry. Sometimes pulse diagnosis is inaccurate. The time is still short, and it may change in the future."

After hearing this, Qiu Zhen believed it to some extent, and her mood was not as bad as before.

"Okay, I'm not in a hurry. I'll know after the baby is born."

Qi Caixia touched her belly and thought helplessly, if her mother-in-law really wanted a granddaughter, then she hoped that the baby in her belly would be a little girl.

……

The Spring Festival flies by, and soon it will be the Lantern Festival again.

This year, Zhao Yan and her family didn't go anywhere; they stayed at the farm and lived a quiet life every day.

After the Lantern Festival, the people sent by Dou Qingran to pick up Dou Xingyan and take her back to the capital arrived.

The imperial decree for their marriage had already been issued before the new year, so Dou Xingyan had no choice but to return to the capital no matter what.

There's a whole set of procedures to follow when a princess gets married. And it's not even possible for her and Shen Yu, the two people involved, to be in the capital.

After making arrangements at the restaurant in Stone Town, Shen Yu and Dou Xingyan boarded a carriage to return to the capital that morning.

Dou Xingyan looked at Zhao Yan and the others through the car curtain with teary eyes.

"Sister Zhao, I'll be waiting for you in the capital. You must come!"

The wedding was set for May of that year, just a few months after the Lunar New Year.

Zhao Yan nodded to her and said with a smile, "Don't worry, we will definitely be there. You can focus on preparing for your wedding."

Dou Xingyan responded softly, "Okay."

Shen Yu and Dou Xingyan left the farm in a horse-drawn carriage.

As February drew to a close, Zhao Yan began breeding sweet potatoes.

Zhou Hu came to her a few days earlier to learn sweet potato breeding methods. After learning them, he went back to teach the villagers how to breed them.

As a result, during this period, almost every household was busy with sweet potato breeding.

Since the villagers of Huaihua Village made a fortune from sweet potatoes last year, some villagers, feeling sorry for their mothers' families who were struggling, secretly asked Zhou Hu if he could give them some sweet potato seedlings so they could also grow some sweet potatoes and not go hungry every day.

Zhou Hu initially disagreed, but then he remembered that the imperial court had bought a lot of sweet potatoes from their area last year. So he approached Zhao Yan and asked somewhat apologetically, "Little Zhao, I've come to ask if, once the sweet potato seedlings are ready, if we can't plant them all at home, could we... could we let other people plant them? Like... like our relatives or something..."

They already benefited from Zhao Yan's fame, and now they shamelessly ask this question. He himself felt extremely embarrassed.

To everyone's surprise, Zhao Yan smiled and said, "Of course! Sweet potatoes are high-yielding and easy to grow. The more people grow them, the more people can have enough to eat. Isn't that great?"

“Uncle Zhou, you don’t need to be too strict with the villagers. If they have extra sweet potato seedlings, they can just give them to their relatives.”

Zhou Hu was stunned for a moment, then quickly came to his senses.

He said gratefully to Zhao Yan, "Oh, Xiao Zhao, I really don't know what to say. Yes, yes, you're right, sweet potatoes are indeed a good thing, they're plentiful and filling. You're busy, I'll go back and tell the villagers."

After saying that, he quickly got lost.

He jogged back to the village and started shouting at the top of his lungs from house to house.

"Listen up, everyone. Little Zhao said that anyone with extra sweet potato seedlings can do whatever they want with them. You can give them to your relatives to plant, or sell them to others. In short, we can't let the sweet potato seedlings go to waste. We must make the most of them and use them all."

"The sweet potato seedlings are almost ready to grow. Anyone who wants to give them away should hurry up and tell their relatives so they don't miss out."

Upon hearing this, the villagers of Huaihua Village couldn't sit still any longer. They all rushed to their relatives' homes, bringing some sweet potatoes with them so that they could also taste the deliciousness of sweet potatoes.

So when it was time to plant sweet potatoes, many families in the villages near Huaihua Village planted sweet potato seedlings.

Although the place is small, at least we're growing something.

Dou Qingran, far away in Beijing, was also busy with the sweet potato business.

Last year, he sent people to buy nearly 100,000 jin of sweet potatoes from Zhao Yan, and this year he distributed them all.

He personally oversaw the entire process, ensuring that every sweet potato actually reached every ordinary person before he was satisfied.

After the spring, he sent a large number of people to the homes of ordinary people to teach them how to breed sweet potatoes.

The work will only temporarily end when sweet potato seedlings are planted in the ground.

This is a huge project, and although it's tiring, it's worth it.

This wave of planting has basically covered the area around the capital, and even most of Daizhou.

Not long after planting the sweet potatoes, Zhao Yan discussed going to the capital with Yang Sanlang and others.

The purpose, of course, was for Dou Xingyan and Shen Yu's wedding.

Zhao Yan asked Yuan Yutang, "Uncle Yuan, when do you and Master plan to go?"

It's the end of March now, and there's about a month and a half until Dou Xingyan and Shen Yu's wedding.

If they're not in a hurry, they can actually wait until the end of next month to go to the capital.

Zhao Xiaomi and the others were clamoring to go to the capital as soon as possible, and she also wanted to go out and see the world, so she brought it up.

Yuan Yutang glanced at Su Yanzhi and then threw the question back at Su Yanzhi.

"I don't care, you can ask your master."

Seeing Zhao Xiaomi and Yuan Tianbao staring at him expectantly, Su Yanzhi paused for a moment and then said to Zhao Yan, "If you want to go, then go. The weather is nice now, so let's take our time and enjoy the scenery along the way. Isn't that great?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Xiaomi and Yuan Tianbao jumped three feet high.

"Alright, alright, we'll listen to Grandpa Su and head to the capital now."

Little Fu Niu chimed in, "Mommy, Mommy, let's go to the capital! Let's go to the capital!"

Zhao Yan glanced at everyone, smiled, picked up Xiao Fu Niu, and tapped her little nose.

"Okay, let's go to the capital tomorrow."

To prevent them from not being able to return and the sweet potatoes from rotting in the fields, Zhao Yan made a special trip to Zhou Hu's house and asked him to find someone to harvest the sweet potatoes they had planted on the back hill.

Zhou Hu naturally patted his chest and assured him that he would take care of everything.

So Zhao Yan and the others spent two days packing at home, putting away all the extra things in the closet, and each of them only brought a few changes of clothes and some food.

On the morning of the third day, they set off from the farm.

Seeing that they left early in the morning, Qiu Zhen followed the carriage and escorted them to the village entrance before returning home.

The two little gray ones that Xiao Hui brought were also taken onto the carriage by Zhao Yan, and were in Zhao Yunchen's carriage.

There was no way around it; these two were wild wolves, unlike domestic dogs.

They couldn't just leave the wolves in the villagers' care; the villagers would definitely be scared.

Zhao Yan thought for a moment, then waved her hand and left.

Really.

They'd done traveling with wolves before; at worst, they could just hide the two little gray ones under the car.