The morning sun shines on the field, depicting brilliant colors on the earth.

Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu and others got up and washed up, tidy up and went out. The shopkeeper had already brought breakfast.

Looking around and unable to see Xu Ping's shadow, Fu Bi asked, "Why don't you see the county marquis?"

The shopkeeper held the plate and smiled, "My official got up early in the farm and had already had breakfast and went out! There were also official Fang and official Cao who came yesterday, who also went to the field together."

Fu Bi and Ouyang Xiu looked at each other and shook their heads. I wonder what Xu Ping and his men went to the fields early in the morning. Could it be that there was a beautiful scenery outside?

Li Wei stayed in the garden and was regarded as the place of Xu Ping to entertain these people.

After breakfast, Wang Gongchen said to Li Xu: "Last night, Sun Qilang told me that I would go to the pond outside the village to catch a few fish to eat today. You can go with me later. There is still one month before the palace examination. You don't need to work too hard, you have to rest your mind. Otherwise, you will be exhausted now and you will be troublesome."

Li Xu replied respectfully: "The official is right. When you are free to catch fish, you can also read the articles I have written and give some advice."

When Wang Gongchen was the top scholar, he was only one year older than Xu Ping when he was a Jinshi. Now he is only in his early twenties. Li Wei has always been respectful and a little embarrassed to be respectful and said, "I will tell you all the time, even if you take it with me."

A poor child was able to be guided by many high-ranking Jinshi, and a top scholar in the previous record gave him patient analysis. Li Wei's treatment has long surpassed that of many children of aristocratic families, and no one in this class can compare with him.

When Xu Ping provided him with such conditions, Li Wei felt pressured. Not to mention losing, it was unreasonable to be too low. The staff in the editorial office, including the top scorer Wang Gongchen and Liu Han in the eighth year of Tiansheng, and the top scorer Wang Gongchen and Liu Han in the fifth year of Tiansheng, and the top scorer in the fifth year of Tiansheng, Xu Ping asked all of them to give advice to Li Wei at home. This treatment was unprecedented.

After breakfast, Wang Gongchen said to Ouyang Xiu and the other two: "Uncle Yong, it's rare to come to the countryside farm once. How can you not see the wildness of the countryside? I agreed with Sun Qilang that I would go to the pond to catch fish today and come back to have a whole fish banquet. There is a lot of wild game in this farm. I heard that making fish is especially good, not inferior to Jiangnan. You have been away from home and traveled north for so many years, don't you miss the scenery of your hometown?"

Ouyang Xiu was a little moved. Although his life was hard when he was a child, his widowed mother tried her best to raise himself, but the scenery of his hometown was in love. Going to the river to catch fish is a long-lasting memory, and it is naturally good to see it in the capital.

Yin Zhu next to him said, "I just heard that Deputy Envoy Xu and his friends went out first. Could it be that they also want to go and see the fish?"

"No, they have been people-friendly officials who have been for many years. They advised farmers to take them with them. They are used to going to the countryside to see the farmland first. The farmland is bumpy and not convenient to walk. What's so good about it? We will be out of office in two years. At that time, there is time to see it, so why bother yourself now?"

Wang Gongchen was young and was thinking about playing tricks, so he did not follow Xu Ping to the field. What is good about farming? Lu Duan, the prime minister of Taizong, had a famous saying: "Farming and asking servants, weaving and asking servants." The officials who are omnipotent, can they understand everything else?

Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi looked at each other and said to Wang Gongchen: "June, how can we be a guest? How can we ignore the face of our host? So what if we go to the farmland to see? The world of farming should be paid special attention."

When Wang Gongchen heard that they said this, he was not good to say anything, so he had to say to Li Xu: "You don't have to follow us anymore, just follow Sun Qilang with your article first. What kind of farming is not farming, wait until you pass the Jinshi first. Since these officials are going to go there later, it's a good thing to give you more people."

Wang Gongchen's relationship is much closer to Xu Ping, and he speaks and does things casually. He is like his own family, so he is not polite or not. However, when others talk about it, they have to follow everyone.

Asked a farmer to take him out of the garden and walked towards the farmland not far away.

It is close to the river, with many ponds, and all the rice fields are blooming. It is not the season for transplanting rice, and the fields are filled with water. At first glance, it is full of scenery in the south of the Yangtze River.

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

Fu Bi and Yin Zhu were not so sentimental, and whispered: "It is said that Deputy Envoy Xu is good at managing farming. He only looks at the fields in his village, neat and orderly, and there is no idle place. He is indeed a person who is familiar with farming. The rice fields in Kaifeng Prefecture have been spread all over the years. I heard that it started from this village, which is also a good deed."

The rice fields in Xuping Village have been harvesting year by year, which naturally makes the surrounding farms envious. In addition, the official affairs department of Fujie County and Town have been vigorously promoted, and have also grown in scale in recent years. Even some ministers and powerful officials in the court saw business opportunities and began to buy open land around the capital and learn from Xuping to build a farm. It was in its infancy.

In other words, everything spread slowly in this era, and it only opened in a few years. There are still many open spaces in Kaifeng Prefecture. If you wait for the large-scale sale of farm tools for the new farm, it will probably not take long to go to the fields.

Ma Jiliang, who was causing trouble for Xu Ping, was not going well in recent years. Without Xu Ping's actions, other officials pressed him to the ground and beat him up. Last year, he did not even succeed in resigning, and even seized official titles, he no longer had the arrogance of the past. The Ma family retreated, so naturally only the Xu family took over. Xu Ping's farm had been pushed to the bank of Huimin River, occupying the land between the Jinshui River and Huimin River.

The roads in the farm were specially repaired, reaching the level of the mechanized farming road in Xu Ping's previous life. They were maintained and were quite convenient to walk, and there was not as much bumpy as Wang Gongchen said.

After walking for more than a mile, I saw Xu Ping and a few people standing in the field, with the surrounding tourists, and I don’t know what they were saying.

The group walked up quickly and arrived at the ground. After seeing Xu Ping, they saw the situation clearly.

This piece of dry land has long been flattened, and the soil in the ground is broken like noodles. I don’t know what to plant, but small ridges have been formed in the ground, straight and neat, making people feel comfortable to watch.

I saw a small basket of peanuts carried by the shopkeeper next to me soaked peanuts. Mei Yaochen said, "The peanut beans have sold quite well in recent years. There are also people in Luoyang City, and it is very good to use them to serve wine. Why? So it turns out that it is planted like this?"

Xu Ping smiled and said, "Yes, this thing has been soaked, it is best to have small buds."

The other people nodded in a vague way. How could they understand the technical details of what kind of seeds are germinated?

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

Wang Gongchen turned his head and saw two shopkeepers around him planting seedlings on the ridges, and asked curiously: "What is this? It's not sowing seeds, but planting seedlings."

"Watermelon." Xu Ping said lightly. To be continued.
Chapter completed!