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Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu and the others got up to wash, cleaned up and went out, and Zhuang Ke had already brought breakfast.

Looking left and right to see Xu Ping's shadow, Fu Bi asked, "Why don't you see the marquis." ”

Zhuang Ke held the plate and said with a smile: "My official got up early in the grange and went out after breakfast!" and Fang Guan and Cao Guanren, who came yesterday, also went to the fields together. ”

Fu Bi and Ouyang Xiu glanced at each other and shook their heads, I don't know what Xu Ping and the others were doing in the field early in the morning, isn't there any beautiful scenery outside?

Li Jing has been staying in the garden, which can be regarded as entertaining these people instead of Xu Ping.

Wang Gongchen had breakfast and said to Li Jing: "Sun Qilang told me last night that I would catch a few fish in the Pitang outside the village today, and you can go with me later." There is still a month before the palace test, so you don't need to work too hard, you have to rest your brain. Otherwise, I will be tired now, and I will be in trouble then. ”

Li Jing replied respectfully: "The official is right. If you have time to catch fish, you can also take a look at the articles I wrote and give some advice. ”

Wang Gongchen was only one year older than Xu Ping when he was a junior when he was a junior high, and now he is only in his early twenties. ”

A child of a poor family, who can be instructed by many high-ranking scholars, and has a previous record to give him patient analysis, Li Jing's treatment has already surpassed that of many children of big families, and no one in this session can compare.

Xu Ping provided him with such conditions, and Li Jing also felt pressure in his heart, not to mention that he was in the first place, and he couldn't say that he was too far behind. The personnel in the editing office, from the champion of the eighth year of Tiansheng and Wang Gongchen and Liu Xin, to the top five of the champion of Tiansheng in the fifth year, Xu Ping all invited Li Ji to his home to guide him, and this treatment is unprecedented.

After breakfast, Wang Gongchen said to Ouyang Xiu: "Uncle Yong, it's rare to come to the countryside grange once, how can you not go to see the wild fun in the countryside?" I told Sun Qilang that I would go to Pitang today to catch fish and come back to make a whole fish feast. There is a lot of game in this village, and I heard that it is especially a good way to make fish, and it is not inferior to Jiangnan. You have been away from home for so many years, don't you miss the scenery of your hometown? ”

Ouyang Xiu was a little moved, although the life was hard when he was a child, and his widowed mother worked hard to raise him, the scenery of his hometown was haunted. Going down to the river to catch fish is really a long memory, and it is good to see it in the capital.

Yin Zhu next to him said: "I heard just now that Deputy Xu made a few people go out first, could it be that they are also going to see and catch fish?" ”

"No, several of them have been pro-people officials for many years, and they persuaded the peasant envoys to take them with them, and they are used to going to the countryside to see the farmland first. The farmland is full of potholes and inconvenient to walk, so what's there to see? In two years, we will all be out of office, and there will be time to see at that time, so why bother ourselves now? ”

Wang Gongchen was young and wanted to play, so he didn't follow Xu Ping to the fields. What's so nice about farming? Lu Duan, the prime minister of Taizong's time, famously said: "Ploughing asks the servant, weaving asks the maid." "If you are an official who cares about everything, can you still understand everything?

Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi glanced at each other and said to Wang Gongchen: "Jun Zhen, we are here as guests, how can we disregard the face of the master's family so much?" How about going to the farmland and seeing? The world of agriculture is fundamental, and we should pay special attention to it. ”

Wang Gongchen heard what they said about this, so he didn't want to say anything, so he had to say to Li Jing: "You don't have to follow us, just take the article and follow Sun Qilang first." What kind of farming is not farming, wait until you get the jinshi. Since these officials will also pass over in a while, it is also a good thing that a few more people will give you guidance. ”

Wang Gongchen's relationship is much closer to Xu Ping, and he speaks and acts casually, here is the same as his own home, what is polite or not. But when others talk about it, they have no choice but to go with the crowd.

Let a villager take it, and the group went out of the garden and walked towards the farmland not far away.

It is close to the river, and there are many ponds, and all the rice fields are opened. At this time, it is not yet the season of rice planting, and the fields are full of water, and at a glance, there is a beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River.

Ouyang Xiu and Mei Yaochen are both from Jiangnan, and when they saw the familiar scenery, they couldn't help but think of their hometown, but they couldn't see enough.

Fu Bi and Yin Zhu didn't have so much sentimentality, and whispered: "It is said that Deputy Envoy Xu is good at managing agricultural affairs, just look at the fields in his village, they are neat and orderly, and there is no idle land, and he is really a person who is familiar with agricultural affairs." Kaifeng Mansion has been full of rice fields all over the years, and I heard that it started from this village, which is also a good deed. ”

The rice fields in Xupingzhuang have been harvested year after year, which naturally provokes the covetousness of the surrounding granges, coupled with the vigorous promotion of the official affairs of Fujie County and Town, and it has also had a scale in recent years. Even some ministers and magnates in the imperial court saw business opportunities and began to buy vacant land around the capital, learning from Xu Ping to build farms here, which was in the ascendant.

That is, everything is spreading slowly in this era, and it has only been the beginning of a few years, and there are still a lot of vacant land in Kaifeng Mansion. If we wait for the large-scale sale of farm tools for the new farm, it is estimated that it will not be long before there will be no idle fields in the four fields.

Ma Jiliang, who was looking for trouble for Xu Ping back then, had not had a good time in the past few years, and without Xu Ping making a move, other officials pressed him to the ground and beat him. Last year, even Zhishi did not succeed, and even won the official title, and he has long lost the arrogance of the year. The Ma family retreated, and naturally only the Xu family took over, and Xu Ping's grange had advanced to the bank of the Huimin River, occupying the land between the Jinshui River and the Huimin River.

The roads in the grange are all specially trimmed, reaching the level of Xu Ping's previous life machine cultivation road, and they are well maintained, and it is quite convenient to walk, and there are no potholes as Wang Gongchen said.

After walking for more than a mile, I saw Xu Ping and a few people standing in the ground in front of me, surrounded by Zhuang guests, and I didn't know what they were talking about.

The group walked forward quickly, and when they arrived in the field, they greeted Xu Ping and saw the situation in the field.

This area is all dry land, which has long been leveled, and the soil is as broken as a face. I don't know what to plant, but there are small ridges in the ground, straight and neat, and it makes people feel comfortable when they look at it.

Seeing the small basket of soaked peanuts in the small basket carried by Zhuang Ke next to him, Mei Yaochen said: "This peanut bean has been selling well in recent years, and there are also people in Luoyang City who sell it, and it is very good to use it with wine." Why, is that how it was planted? ”

Xu Ping said with a smile: "Yes, this thing has been soaked, and it is best to have small buds." ”

The other people nodded as if they didn't understand, how could they possibly understand the technical details of what bubble seed germination.

A few people stood aside with peace of mind, watching the banker busy, preparing various tools.

Wang Gongchen turned his head and saw that the two villagers around him were planting seedlings on the ridge, and asked curiously, "What is this?" It is not a sowing seed, but a seedling. ”

"Watermelon." Xu Ping said lightly. (To be continued.) )