Chapter 137: A Bumper Harvest of Chinese Cabbage [3rd Update]
"Your Majesty, Madam." The steward of the manor welcomed Xiahou Song's family, and after receiving them, he arranged for the others.
"Let's go and see the cabbage." Xiahou Song said. Although it was a bit far from the capital to the manor, he was not so tired when he thought about the cabbage harvest.
"Yes." The steward did not say anything to let Xiahou Song and the others take a rest first, but took the two of them to see where the cabbage was planted.
Xie Yuruan's manor is quite large, and the fields are probably several hundred acres. The seeds she brought back certainly cannot be planted on all the land. The cabbage is only planted on three acres of land now.
After Xiahou Song and Xie Yuruan arrived at the vegetable field, they saw a lot of big cabbages in the field. Xiahou Song looked at the cabbage in front of him, squatted down and patted it, saying, "This cabbage is really big, one must weigh two or three pounds, right?"
"When are you going to harvest it?" Xiahou Song asked the steward.
"Your Majesty and the Queen are here, so we can harvest now." The steward said respectfully.
"Well, harvest now." Xiahou Song said happily as he looked at the three acres of land full of cabbages.
"Yes." The steward responded, and then ordered someone to call the people from the farm to come and harvest the cabbages.
Xiahou Song and Xie Yuruan were the emperor and empress, so they didn't need to go to the fields with them, but the couple also tried to harvest a few cabbages themselves.
Xiahou Rui and Xiahou Wan also came. Xiahou Wan was only a year old and couldn't walk steadily, so she didn't go to the fields. Xiahou Rui followed his parents, and he felt a sense of accomplishment after trying to harvest two cabbages.
The people on the farm worked very efficiently, but it was already afternoon when Xiahou Song and Xie Yuruan came, so in half a day, they only harvested one acre of cabbage, and the remaining two acres were not caught up.
"How many kilograms?" Xiahou Song asked people to weigh as they harvested, and count the yield per mu after one mu of land was harvested.
"Your Majesty, this cabbage yields 8,000 kilograms per mu!" The person who counted the yield of cabbage said excitedly.
"How much did you say?" Xiahou Song said in surprise, "Is it really 8,000 kilograms?"
"It's true, Your Majesty, I calculated it clearly, the total weight of these harvested cabbages is 8,417 kilograms!"
"Hahaha..." Hearing the man's answer, Xiahou Song laughed happily, "God bless Daxia!"
"God bless Daxia!" Others also followed suit.
Xiahou Song was very happy. After having people put the cabbage into the warehouse, he told the steward, "Harvest another mu of cabbage tomorrow, and keep the remaining mu of land for seeds."
"Yes." The steward responded.
That night, Xiahou Song's family ate dishes such as mutton stewed with cabbage and cold cabbage, and also tasted other ingredients, sweet potato leaves and pumpkin leaves.
Now the sweet potatoes and pumpkins are not yet ripe for harvest, so what can be eaten are their leaves. The leaves of sweet potatoes and pumpkins grow quite lushly, and picking them up as vegetables will not affect their harvest, so Xiahou Song and his family have tasted new vegetables.
"This sweet potato and pumpkin are really good. I didn't expect that their leaves can be eaten." Xiahou Song said while picking up vegetables for Xie Yuruan, "Zitong, try this pumpkin leaf."
Xie Yuruan thanked him, tasted a bite of the pumpkin leaves and said, "This pumpkin leaf is indeed delicious."
"By the way, Your Majesty, the Chinese cabbage is harvested now, so after half a month or a month, the radish should also be harvested." Xie Yuruan said.
"Really?" Xiahou Song asked, "This radish, its yield should not be low?"
"I heard from the person who gave the seeds to me that the yield of radish is also several thousand kilograms."
"Hahaha... Such a high yield?"
"Yes."
"Really, God bless our Great Xia!" Xiahou Song said happily.
Xie Yuruan saw that he was happy, and she was actually very happy too.
Although she hinted at the beginning that she should not invest any feelings in an emperor, Xiahou Song has been very good to her in the past four years. She has been the only one in the harem for four years. How can she not be moved by him?
Xie Yuruan looked at the handsome face in front of her, and thought about how good he had been to her over the years. She secretly said to herself that it was okay to fall in love with him. As long as he was good to her, she would not be unworthy of her love.
If one day he did something to let her feelings down, wouldn't it be better for her to take back her feelings? Even if that day would be painful, she could do it.
Xie Yuruan's thoughts turned a hundred times, but there was nothing strange on her face. The couple ate while talking to their two children. The warm atmosphere of the family of four did not look like that of the royal family.
After seeing the harvest of cabbage and radish, Xie Yuruan yearned for the magical hotel she had been to before. She knew there were many things there.
So on this day, Xie Yuruan came to the hotel again.
"Miss Xie?" Chen Wenjiu, who happened to be sitting on the sofa in the hall, was surprised to see Xie Yuruan coming out of the reception room.
She didn't expect Xie Yuruan to come. The Queen of Daxia hadn't come for a long time since her last visit. She thought this guest would only come once, but she didn't expect to meet the Queen again today.
Xie Yuruan saw Chen Wenjiu and greeted with a smile, "Manager Chen, I'm here again."
Chen Wenjiu nodded and said, "It's rare for Miss Xie to come here. Our hotel has developed a lot of projects recently. Miss Xie can have a good time."
Chen Wenjiu asked Xie Yuruan to sit down, and then introduced her to the small garden and fitness square of his hotel, so that Xie Yuruan could play more in his hotel and spend more money.
Xie Yuruan listened to Chen Wenjiu's introduction. While listening, he sighed in his heart that there were so many interesting things in Xianjia. He was very glad that he could come here.
"Manager Chen, I came here to tell you that the seeds you gave me before have been planted and harvested. Although they are only Chinese cabbage and radish, the harvest of these two vegetables is very good. I Looking forward to the sweet potato and pumpkin harvest.”
"I'm still thinking about whether I can exchange more seeds with you, Manager Chen. I want more people in our country to grow these high-yielding varieties." Xie Yuruan said seriously.
"Of course." Chen Wenjiu nodded and said, "How much do you want? I can buy it for you here."
Chen Wenjiu had previously considered that Xie Yuruan's side would need a lot of seeds. Of course, she also thought that other planes would also need seeds? It's better to get a lot of seeds through Li Zeping and others, and then they can sell them to guests from other planes.
For example, in the interstellar plane, although the plants there are not extinct, there are many novel plants that are not found on the earth, but some plants on the earth are not available there and can be sold to them.
There is also the apocalyptic plane. Now that they have communicated with the hotel, they actually need some seeds to plant back. After all, the food resources there are really scarce.
There was also the Great Xia Dynasty plane. After she knew that it was an imaginary ancient time, she thought that there would be a great need for many of their seeds.
Therefore, the hotel has prepared a lot of seeds. If Xie Yuruan wants to buy them, she can bring out quite a lot.