Man Bao handed over the horse to the attendant and got into Ming Da's carriage.
Because the weather was getting hot, Mingda's carriage was hung with light curtains, and Chang Yu and she were sitting cross-legged in the carriage, drinking tea and eating snacks.
Seeing Man Bao drilled in, the two of them immediately gave her a hand and said with a smile, "We didn't know where to find you."
Man Bao said: "I have been waiting for you outside the city gate early in the morning."
She looked around and exclaimed, "Your car is really big enough."
The carriage is pulled by two horses, so it is naturally much more spacious than Manbao's green cloth carriage.
Man Bao discussed with the two, "Should you go directly to the Yongzhou Palace, or go to my Zhuangzi first?"
Mingda said: "I asked the prince's brother, the palace is on the other side of Yongzhou, we have to go to your Zhuangzi first to get to the palace, so we will go to your Zhuangzi to settle down, and then go to the palace in the afternoon."
Man Bao cheered up, "That's great, now there are wild fruits to eat on the mountain, we can go up the mountain to pick wild fruits."
"What wild fruit?"
"I heard from my elder brother that there are pears, but they are very sour. You can pick them off and eat them with sugar."
They have never eaten like this before, and it sounds very novel.
Neither did Man Bao, "My nephews ate it like this, and I want to try the taste too."
The prince didn't want to go at first, he still wanted to go hunting, but they all passed by, and he didn't feel at ease to let the two younger sisters pass by alone, so he followed along.
As for Prince Gong's opinion, no one asked his opinion.
The ceremonial guard was not small, and there were many guards accompanying him, so the head of Pu Village and the people in the old Zhou's village were alarmed from a distance.
Mrs. Liu and the others only received news that the two princesses would come, but they didn't expect His Royal Highness to come as well, so they hurried to the side of the road to meet them.
The prince didn't like red tape, so he asked Eunuch Wu to go ahead and dismiss everyone, and pointed to Bai Shan to lead the way.
"What do you want the princesses to play?"
Bai Shan: "...we want to go up the mountain to pick wild fruits."
The prince frowned, "What's so interesting about picking wild fruits?"
He turned his head to look at the small mountain forest, and frowned even tighter, "I'm afraid there is not even a rabbit in such a small mountain?"
Ming Da got out of the car and came over hand in hand with Man Bao. Seeing so many people, he said to the prince: "Brother Prince, you go to the palace with the third brother first, leave our people to us, and wait for us to play later." Go when you're tired."
Man Bao also promised the prince, "We will personally send the princess to the palace."
The prince glanced at her, then looked around, pointed at the fields on both sides with his whip, and asked, "Is this your job field?"
Man Bao responded.
The prince dismounted and went to the field to see the situation.
The wheat in the capital grows slower than theirs in Mianzhou. After all, the snow melts a little later, so even though the ears of the wheat have picked out at this time, the wheat is still green and there is no sign of hooking. months to harvest.
In the farmland next to it, there are rice plants that have just been planted. It is still a little loose, but it is quite green, and it should have grown well.
At this time, when the majesty blows, the water in the farmland will sparkle, reflecting the green rice very beautifully.
The prince stood by the wheat field and looked around. After a while, he squatted down to look at the wheat. He also reached out and pulled a wheat ear to check it out. Just take a look."
In case the gang in the household department always say that he doesn't recognize the grain and doesn't know the suffering of the people.
Hmph, it seems that he doesn't plow the field every year.
The prince went directly to the ridge, Man Bao pulled Ming Da and Chang Yu to follow, Bai Shan and Bai Erlang also followed.
Naturally, the officials of the Eastern Palace and the guards of the imperial army who came out followed suit.
It's just that the field ridge is small, and at most two people can only walk side by side, so they lined up in a long line.
Prince Gong, who was sitting on the horse, gritted his teeth, finally got off the horse, and led his men to follow.
The guards wisely let him go first, but in order to protect the prince's safety, two people still walked in front.
Mingda and Changyu supported Man Bao's hand and walked carefully on the ridge of the field. Seeing how careful they were, Man Bao smiled and said, "It's very flat here, you can walk casually, don't be afraid."
Changyu looked at the grass under her feet and some saplings that reached her waist, then frowned and said, "It's so dirty."
After finishing speaking, he wanted to stretch out his hand to break the sapling in front of him, but the prince slapped him on the back of his hand quickly. He glanced at her and said, "This is Sang Miao."
Man Bao, who was about to stop him, nodded repeatedly, and said to Chang Yu, "This is for silkworms to eat, and the spun silk can be used as your clothes."
Changyu looked down at his clothes, and muttered, "I know... I, I've seen a mulberry tree, it doesn't look like this."
Mingda laughed and said, "What we saw was a mature tree, which is somewhat different from a sapling."
The prince walked forward and saw a mulberry tree planted far away on the ridge of the field. He nodded slightly, "It saves some land."
From a distance, he saw some people pulling weeds or fertilizing the fields, so he said to Zhou Man, "You are lucky, the tenants you get are pretty hardworking."
Man Bao said: "I work with them in this job field. The more they gain, the more they will share. Naturally, they will devote themselves to it."
The prince nodded, and continued to look down, along the ridge of the field. After seeing the field, he came to the dry land. Most of the dry land is bean, and there is very little grass in the bean field. This is rare, and the prince was surprised. raised an eyebrow.
He lowered his head and took a closer look, and he was sure that these were beans, and there were indeed very few weeds in them, so he turned his head and asked Zhou Man, "Are these lands run by your tenant farmers?"
Man Bao nodded, who else could they have
The prince walked around the dry land with his hands behind his back, then looked at Zhou Man with a smile and said, "That's right, you have a good command. I have seen so many lands, and they are the fields in the Huangzhuang. Sometimes I need to deal with the father's inspection. Will pull the grass so clean."
He wasn't sure that Zhou Man would do this face project in front of him. She didn't reward her for doing it well, so it wasn't necessary.
Mingda and Changyu's four eyes were full of confusion, but Bai Shan's three nodded in agreement. They all came from the village, who wouldn't know
The work in the field has always been wheat and rice first, and when these two kinds of work are done well, beans are the only ones.
And people always like to rank beans in different ranks. The beans in the fattest fields are weeded first. If there are not enough people, most of the beans in the dry land are not weeded. Basically, the beans and weeds are beautiful together. .
It is indeed a hardworking person who can pull out the grass in the bean field so clean in the early stage.
The prince nodded in satisfaction, continued to walk down, and then returned to the road. He wanted to encourage Zhou Man to leave the two younger sisters for now, but when he turned his head, he saw the man on the other side of the road. A piece of field, he had already looked away, and felt that something was wrong, so he turned his head to look again.
He even deliberately walked to the side of the road to look down.
Not to mention Man Bao, even Bai Shan and Bai Erlang raised their hearts nervously.