Gu Yuanbai forced him to listen to the whole ten days of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn.
Say it repeatedly, keep saying it. Sitting on Xue Yuan's back during the day, he was talking while he was doing push-ups. Xue Yuan never knew that the sage could say that.
Apart from saying that, Gu Yuanbai also took him down to the ground.
The cherished grain seeds were planted in a heavily guarded area in the palace, and Gu Yuanbai had to visit every day. He and Xue Yuan stepped on the mud, and the mud on their hands and body was also splashed, because Xue Yuan had been following Gu Yuanbai's buttocks, and he even had Gu Yuanbai's dragon boots on his face. of mud.
"Go over there," Sheng Shang, who was bending over to look at the seedling, turned his head and glared at him, "Don't get so close to me."
Xue Yuan swayed back and took a small step back and looked left and right, "Sir, two of the three plots have already sprung up, how come there is still no movement at all?"
The smiling Gu Yuanbai's eyes became worried. He looked at the quiet piece of land and sighed, "It's probably dead."
"What is that field planted on?"
"Potato," the most fertile land was used, and the most meticulous farmers were taking care of it, but it still hadn't been planted. "When the seeds reach Daheng, they should have dried up and died."
Potatoes, no one knows its benefits better than Gu Yuanbai.
He was really uncomfortable, but he looked at the sweet potatoes and corn that had grown seedlings and smiled again.
Satisfied, already worth it.
Once sweet potatoes and corn are successful, then Daheng should usher in a major population growth.
Xue Yuan pondered for a while, "It's okay to die, at least..." He said implicitly, "When the name 'potato' spreads out, scholars and scholars have to ponder the method of naming the saint again."
Gu Yuanbai: "..."
Do you have any opinions on the name of the ancestors
But Gu Yuanbai thought about the previous kang bed, and then thought about the name Tudou. If the potato really survived, if the literati wanted to write a poem to praise the potato, wouldn't it become "Praise the Potato" again
Cough, what should the history books say, Daheng Emperor Gu Yuanbai personally named it the word potato
Compared with the elegant style of the previous emperor, the names such as "Yulang Peak", "Twisted Flower Porcelain", "Zaowuhuaxi Furnace", the emperor Gu Yuanbai is really down to earth.
It's not that it's bad, it's just that the literati who want to praise the saints really can't do anything.
Gu Yuanbai turned his gaze back nonchalantly, "The name is not important, what matters is its value."
He sighed again, "Once potatoes can be fed, one mu of land will be two or three times as much as millet."
The average yield per mu of millet in the Tang Dynasty was 330 jin per mu, and the same level was achieved in Daheng. Potatoes are a high-yielding crop. In modern times, ordinary planting methods can also yield 1000 jin per mu. Gu Yuanbai is not sure that it was planted in ancient times. How much potato yield can be achieved per mu, but Daheng's land is fertile and the weather is good year after year, it should not be less than eight or nine hundred catties, right
Xue Yuan's pupils shrank, and he turned back suddenly to look at the motionless potato field, "Two or three times?"
He understood the importance of these potato fields in an instant, but in the next moment after he understood, Gu Yuanbai's deep disappointment surged up in his heart. Under the joy and sorrow, Xue Yuan said stiffly: "Holy, is the seed really dead?"
Gu Yuanbai said regretfully, "It should be dead."
Xue Yuan was speechless, so distressed that he couldn't breathe.
"Simply sweet potato and corn have already grown seedlings," Gu Yuanbai gently touched the sweet potato seedlings beside him, "these two things are no less than the yield of potatoes."
Xue Yuan felt that he could breathe again. He looked at these little seedlings cherishly, half-talking and laughing, "As soon as the sage said this, I know why the sage kept talking about them for days, these little seedlings are indeed more important than me."
This is sour.
Gu Yuanbai glanced at him, "Let's go, it's time for lunch."
Xue Yuan followed him and said slowly: "The sage knows so much, and I have to learn more from the sage. The sage, give me a kiss?"
Gu Yuanbai walked faster, Xue Yuan saw behind him and smiled: "Your Majesty, you are full of ideas behind you."
"Nothing," Gu Yuanbai frowned and glanced back, "I'll clean up after I go back."
But Xue Yuan grabbed his arm, and the two walked behind the hidden tree before Xue Yuan whispered, "I'll wipe it off first, and a lot of mud splashed on my waist and buttocks. It's too conspicuous."
Before Gu Yuanbai could speak, Xue Yuan squatted down, took out a handkerchief from his arms and wiped it carefully. Gu Yuanbai held back expressionlessly for a while, but still couldn't hold back, "Xue Jiuyao!"
Xue Yuan let go of the soft meat and put away his unruly hands. He stood up without changing his face, and took Gu Yuanbai out from behind the tree, "It's all dried up into mud, it's better to go back and take a bath."
Gu Yuanbai snorted softly, "I've been dishonest all the time, but luckily I've become General Xue's son, otherwise I'm afraid I'll become a rogue who doesn't know where to go."
When Xue Yuan heard what he said specifically, he couldn't help showing a deep smile, "If I were a rogue, I would be the only rogue saint."
Gu Yuanbai said casually, "I'm afraid you won't even be able to see my face."
Xue Yuan frowned, and after a long time, he nodded slowly, "It's because of General Xue."
*
As soon as the two returned to the palace, the eunuch from the Hundred Beast Garden came to report that the two adult wolves that Xue Yuan gave to Gu Yuanbai were about to die.
Gu Yuanbai was stunned for a moment, and before he could change his clothes, he followed the eunuch to the Garden of Beasts. The two wolves with their fur covered in white and gray were lying powerlessly on the ground. As soon as Gu Yuanbai and Xue Yuan approached, they whimpered from their throats. Their eyes turned with difficulty. No sound.
They lived twelve years and died of old age today.
Xue Yuan lifted Gu Yuanbai and comforted him in a low voice, "Your Majesty, let's find a place to bury these two wolves."
Gu Yuanbai was still a little stunned, "Okay."
There are also two wolves in the Garden of Beasts, the little wolves who have been sent to the palace since they were cubs. Gu Yuanbai watched silently as Xue Yuan pulled the two wolves out, and watched the eunuch dig a pit to bury the wolf corpse.
These wolves were wild and unruly, but they were extremely obedient by Xue Yuan, and they were always by Gu Yuanbai's side. These wolves brought a lot of trouble to Gu Yuanbai, but they also had a lot of fun.
He and Xue Yuan took them for a walk in the evening when they were free, and often put their lips together in the four pairs of green wolf eyes that glowed with horror. But in the blink of an eye, two of them were old enough to die.
Tian Fusheng comforted him and said: "Sacred, these two wolves have never suffered any hardships. They eat and drink well every day, and they are also favored by the sage. There will be no regrets in this lifetime."
Gu Yuanbai sighed, but before he could finish his sigh, Xue Yuan covered his mouth, "It's not good to sigh often."
"I just have some regrets," Gu Yuanbai said, "after all, they have been with me for several years."
Xue Yuan let go, and the two slightly younger wolves beside him walked over to Gu Yuanbai and carefully licked his fingertips.
The dust falls to the ground, and the green leaves follow the wind. After the two wolves were buried, Gu Yuanbai walked back with Xue Yuan in silence. Halfway through, he suddenly sighed with emotion: "I only felt a little sad before, but now that I think about it, they still walked together."
"That's good," Xue Yuan inserted his fingers between Gu Yuanbai's and intertwined with his hands, "I will do the same with the sage."
Gu Yuanbai smiled, "That won't work. My body is much worse than yours, and the dark wounds on the battlefield have almost no effect on you. How can you die of old age at the same time as me?"
The same is true. In the web drama adapted from the original book, it seems that Chu Wei died first, and Xue Yuan lived alone for twenty years.
Xue Yuan is really the proud son of heaven, and no one else can match it only in the aspect of longevity. Gu Yuanbai's eyes fell, and every time he thought of the pair of Xue Yuan and Chu Wei in the original text, he would feel extremely uncomfortable.
Only Xue Yuan's obsession with him, which can be said to be possessed, can offset such discomfort.
His voice was so low that it was blown away by the wind, "You can live for a hundred years, but I can't."
Even these lives were snatched from the hands of the King of Hell.
Xue Yuan's face was ugly, but Gu Yuanbai didn't see it. It wasn't until his gloomy voice sounded that Gu Yuanbai raised his head to look at him, "Does the sage think I will live alone?"
Gu Yuanbai thought quietly, after your originally destined good brother died, wouldn't you live alone
"Have you forgotten what I said to you?" Xue Yuan's eyes were cloudy. He touched the soft flesh on Gu Yuanbai's lips, thinking that this mouth was going to spit out something that made him sad again, and he was going to give it to him again. He stabbed a few knives, "I told the sage that if you die, the minister will block your Huangquan Road first."
After he finished speaking, his words softened suddenly, and he pleaded, "Yuan Bai, believe me."
Gu Yuanbai opened his mouth and was about to say "I believe" when Xue Yuan lowered his head. His forehead was against Gu Yuanbai's, and his hands were holding the saint's face. Gu Yuanbai could see his face at a glance. In the bottom of his eyes, he saw that his eyes were already a little red.
Xue Yuan murmured, "I can't live without you."
Gu Yuanbai's heartbeat began to speed up, he lowered his eyes, quietly feeling the warmth at the moment.
"I want to be with you forever," Xue Yuan's nasal voice began to be strong, "Why do you always not believe what I say. I only want you, I just want to be with you, when I wake up every day and see you for the first time , you don't know how happy I am. If the day you finally sleep in the ground, I just want to hug you and sleep for a long time. I live alone? Gu Yuanbai, how can you say such cruel words."
After a long time, Gu Yuan pursed his lips, "I remember what you said, you don't want to die then, I have to give you a glass of poisonous wine."
Xue Yuan relaxed and even kissed him more than a dozen times, "I will chase after you even if you die, don't let the ghost next to you touch you."
Gu Yuanbai was happy.
I can't help but wonder, why in the original text, Xue Yuan lived well to the end of his life after Chu Wei's death
*
One month and one month passed, and the land where potato seeds were planted did not move for a while. Gu Yuanbai was already sure that potatoes would not be able to grow. He put away the last expectation and completely focused his energy on sweet potatoes and corn.
The farmers served the seedlings carefully. In mid-August, when the sweet potatoes and corn finally reached maturity, on a sunny day, the farmers took the farm tools, swallowed in the eyes of the saint and the crowd, and dug out the mud. something underground.
The author has something to say: There is no love between the attack and the receiver in the original text. In the original text, Xue Yuan did not die with Chu Wei, but lived leisurely. I will elaborate on this later~