sbdcsierra Chapter 184 The Domineering Concubine Chen 4
Chapter 184 The Domineering Concubine Chen 4
Royal study room.
The people the emperor sent out to look for sweet potatoes and potatoes brought back good news.
"These are the potatoes and sweet potatoes you brought back."
The two secret guards knelt on one knee and saluted.
"Your Majesty, yes, this is what we found according to your description."
"But the locals say this potato is poisonous and inedible. As for the sweet potato, the locals don't even know there's fruit underneath..."
The emperor looked for a long time but couldn't figure out what was going on.
He asked someone to find Bai Miaomiao.
Bai Miaomiao came quickly.
She squatted down and took a closer look. The two bags brought back by the secret guard were indeed potatoes and sweet potatoes.
She didn't expect that the emperor would actually ask people to bring potatoes and sweet potatoes.
As long as these two crops are promoted, people will no longer have to worry about not having enough food to eat.
The emperor saw Bai Miaomiao squatting on the ground and staring at the thing in front of her, and couldn't help but ask.
"Miao Guiren, you said this potato thing is edible, but some people reportedly got poisoned after eating it. What's going on?"
When Bai Miaomiao said there were crops that could yield thousands of gold coins per mu, the emperor sent people to look for them with the mentality of giving it a try.
But now that it has been found, they say it is poisonous. How can the emperor not be anxious?
Bai Miaomiao explained patiently.
"You're talking about this. The reason those people were poisoned after eating potatoes is because potatoes contain a natural toxin. This toxin is mainly found in potatoes with purple skin, sprouts, and immature potatoes. As long as you avoid these, you'll be fine."
The emperor was skeptical.
"real."
"Of course, if Your Majesty doesn't believe me, you can give me a few potatoes and I'll cook them into a dish. Then Your Majesty will know that what I said is true."
When Bai Miaomiao saw potatoes and sweet potatoes, dozens of ways to cook them came to her mind.
The emperor did not answer, but turned his gaze to the two secret guards and asked them how much they had brought back this time.
The secret guard came back and said he also weighed 200 kilograms.
The secret guard also wanted to bring back a batch first to see if he had found the wrong ones. If not, he would bring back the rest.
When the emperor learned that this time they brought back 200 kilograms of potatoes and sweet potatoes each, and that another batch was on the way, he immediately had no worries.
He took five for Bai Miaomiao, each weighing no more than half a pound.
Bai Miaomiao did not disappoint him and made all five potatoes into dishes.
Fried potato pancakes, spicy and sour potato shreds, stewed pork ribs with potatoes, braised chicken with potatoes, garlic potatoes.
Later, another dish, candied sweet potato, was added.
Five potatoes, five dishes, one sweet potato, one dish.
Whether it's the appearance or the smell, it looks very appetizing.
The pork ribs stewed with potatoes taste soft and sticky.
As the emperor tried dish after dish, he became more and more satisfied with this thing called potatoes.
Sweet potatoes are also good, they taste sweet.
I have tried the delicious sweet potatoes and potatoes.
He was reluctant to eat the rest, so he ordered people to plant all the potatoes and sweet potatoes he brought back in the imperial farm.
For fear of mistakes, he sent Bai Miaomiao to the imperial farm to help.
Bai Miaomiao didn't want to go. Although her modern family was not very wealthy, she had never worked in the fields.
The potatoes and sweet potatoes were all bought ready-made, so what was she talking in her sleep about asking her to plant them?
The reason she suggested that the emperor look for potatoes and sweet potatoes was simply because she had read modern novels and the heroines in those novels relied on these to gain a foothold in the feudal dynasty history.
As for asking her to do the planting, her major is not suitable.
But under the emperor's trusting gaze, she couldn't say what she didn't know, so she could only go ahead and take it one step at a time.
She thought that as long as she could grow these two crops well, she would definitely be close to becoming the queen.
For convenience, she discussed it with the emperor.
The two of them discussed it and announced it directly to the public.
"Miao Guiren offended the Emperor in the Imperial Garden and was confined to reflect on her mistakes for six months."
Although there is no queen in the palace, there is a queen mother. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, the concubines in the palace have to go to the queen mother's palace to pay their respects to her.
Of course, they are under house arrest, but those who are seriously ill do not need to pay their respects.
House arrest was Bai Miaomiao's idea.
She felt that half a year would be enough time for her to grow potatoes.
When she comes back again, she will no longer be Miao Guiren. Forget about being the queen, but at least she can be a royal concubine.
Her abacus was jingling.
Little do people know that there is a saying that goes, "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it."
For the emperor, a position like this is just a matter of a word.
He can choose from any taste below that of a royal concubine.
But he didn't know what Bai Miaomiao was thinking for the time being.
At the same time as it was announced that Bai Miaomiao was under house arrest, she had already been secretly sent out of the palace.
By this time, people should have arrived at the imperial farm.
Bai Miaomiao has the emperor's support and although she doesn't know how to farm, she thrives in the imperial farm.
She spoke in a series of words, and the people in the imperial farm were stunned.
They thought she was worthy of being sent by the emperor and had great abilities.
In just a few days, those who originally did not accept him began to admire her.
Everyone in the imperial farm wrote down her every word in a small notebook and pondered over it over and over again.
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As soon as the news of Bai Miaomiao being under house arrest came out, the concubines who liked to go to the Imperial Garden to meet the emperor by chance suddenly became quiet.
I stayed indoors to reflect on my mistakes for half a year, but when I came out, the opportunity was gone.
They don't want to lose the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds.
Unlike others, Fuling received the news that Bai Miaomiao had left the palace.
The emperor told her the news himself.
The emperor asked her to help cover up the news that Bai Miaomiao was not in the palace.
She was stunned for a moment when she heard the emperor say this news.
She suspected that there was something wrong with the story she had received from him.
Isn’t it said that the emperor loved Bai Miaomiao so much that he couldn’t help himself, and finally even disbanded the harem for Bai Miaomiao?
However, from her observations during this period, she did not see that the emperor was deeply in love with Bai Miaomiao. Instead, she felt that the emperor liked her a little.
Why do you say that?
Of course, it was because the emperor came to her Yaohua Palace very frequently.
If she didn't know that he was the emperor, Fuling would have thought that they were just an ordinary couple.
The emperor saw Fuling staring at him and thought there was something dirty on his face. He reached out and touched it, puzzled.
"What's wrong? Is there something dirty on my face?"
"No, I just think it's a bit weird!"
The emperor frowned.
"Strange, what's strange about it?"
Fuling didn't want to discuss this issue with the emperor, so she stiffly changed the subject.
"No... Oh, by the way, I remember Concubine Miao never farmed before. Would it be inappropriate to let her go to the imperial farm?"
The emperor waved his hand and said indifferently.
"Then you guessed wrong. Concubine Miao is no ordinary lady, you know? The soap used in the palace now, and the French fries I sent to you a few days ago, these were all thought up by Concubine Miao. I believe farming would be no problem for her..."
The reason why the emperor has so much confidence in Bai Miaomiao is because Bai Miaomiao is usually active.
Of course, the most important things are sweet potatoes and potatoes. Bai Miaomiao said this herself. The emperor naturally thought that since Bai Miaomiao knew about potatoes and sweet potatoes, she must also be able to farm.
Fuling felt that staying in the harem every day was too boring, so she discussed with the emperor that she wanted to go out of the palace to have some fun.
The emperor disagreed, so she settled for the second best and said she would go to the imperial farm to take a look.
Bai Miaomiao has been out of the palace for a month, and she wants to go and see if Bai Miaomiao has grown potatoes and sweet potatoes.
After hearing this, the emperor thought about it for a moment and agreed.
It just so happened that he was planning to go and see Bai Miaomiao's achievements in the past month. In the past month, he was busy dealing with court affairs and had no time to pay attention to Bai Miaomiao.
Now that the difficult affairs in the court have been dealt with, he has some free time and is preparing to take some time to go out of the palace and take a look.
Now that Fuling also wants to go, he certainly has no objection.
The two men changed into casual clothes, took a carriage, and left from the north gate in a low-key manner.
The carriage swayed along the way as it headed out of the city.
The imperial farm is not in the city, it is in the mountains and forests ten miles away from the city.
This place is beautiful with green mountains and clear water, and it is especially beautiful in spring when everything comes back to life.
The nearest village to this place is half an hour's walk away.
Except for a short period of excitement at the beginning, Fuling suffered the rest of the journey.
It’s okay to get carsick in modern times, but I didn’t expect that she also got carsick in ancient times.
The little face was so pale that it looked scary.
Ugh~~
The emperor came to her with a kettle in his hand, looking worried.
"Cousin, are you okay?"
Ugh~~
"No...it's okay!"
Before setting off, Fuling was afraid of getting carsick, so she just drank some water.
I can't vomit even if I want to.
All that can be vomited out is acid water.
The emperor opened the lid and handed the kettle to Fuling.
"Cousin, drink some water and relax."
Fuling took it, took a sip to rinse her mouth, then drank two more sips. When she felt better, she straightened up.
The steward of the imperial farm received the news and hurried out of the farm with his men.
"Your servant greets His Majesty, may the Emperor be blessed with good health and happiness!"
"Your servant greets the Imperial Concubine. May the Imperial Concubine live forever!"
The emperor stood with his hands behind his back, looking majestically at the people kneeling on the ground, and said in a cold voice.
"Flat body."
Led by the butler, the emperor and Fuling walked towards the place where sweet potatoes and potatoes were planted.
The housekeeper never stopped talking along the way, praising Bai Miaomiao the whole time.
The general meaning is that Bai Miaomiao, as a noble person, does things personally...
The emperor occasionally asked something interesting, and the butler became even more excited when he heard it.
Fuling didn't say a word, but followed the emperor silently, half a step behind him.
When Bai Miaomiao heard that the emperor was coming, she no longer looked for you and immediately went back to her room to pack and dress.
She put on some internet celebrity makeup, enlarged her already big eyes, made her eyebrows more upturned, and put on bright red lips, completely changing her look.
If she was pretty before, she is now bright and beautiful.
She thought she was bright and beautiful.
In the eyes of others, her image at this moment was particularly strange.
But they couldn't tell what was strange about it.
Seeing that the emperor didn't say anything, Bai Miaomiao thought that the emperor was bewitched by her, and felt even more proud.
She first bowed to the emperor, and only after the emperor asked her to stand up did she raise an eyebrow at him.
From beginning to end, she simply ignored Fuling who was beside the emperor.
Fuling didn't care either, she was happy to watch the show.
How could the emperor let her stay out of this?
He held her fair and soft hand, tilted his head and looked at her with a smile.
"Cousin, what are you thinking about?"
"I miss you, cousin."
"I knew that my cousin still had my cousin in her heart."
The emperor said this very naturally.
Bai Miaomiao, who was being ignored, was very unhappy. He looked Fuling in the eye for the first time.
I thought: This should be what is often called a supporting actress in novels, not to mention that she is quite pretty.
It's an old problem. Women who travel through time like to think of themselves as the heroine, and everyone else is just the vicious female supporting characters who stand in her way.
Bai Miaomiao was no exception. After she traveled through time, he thought she was the heroine of this world.
As for the male protagonist, she looked around and felt that the emperor was the most suitable. Both his appearance and figure were unique to the male protagonist in the novel.
In her original world, she herself was plain-looking, so when she read novels, she liked to read those with plain-looking heroines, which made her feel more involved.
Although she felt unhappy, she still smiled and bowed to Fuling.
"Your humble servant, pays homage to Her Majesty the Imperial Concubine!"
"Miao Guiren, this isn't the palace, so there's no need to be so polite."
"Your Highness, etiquette cannot be abolished."
The emperor didn't want to listen to Bai Miaomiao's nonsense, so he interrupted what she was about to say and got straight to the point.
"Miao Guiren, it's been a month since I asked you to come to the Imperial Manor. Has there been any progress?"
"Your Majesty, this way please."
Led by Bai Miaomiao, Huang and Fuling came to a farmland. The field was green and lush, and it looked very pleasing to the eye.
“Is this a potato or a sweet potato?”
Bai Miaomiao pointed to the large piece of land on the left and said with a smile.
"Potatoes are grown here. They will be ripe in two or three months."
The potato maturity period is 3 to 4 months. If the environment permits, it can be planted twice a year. Of course, in some places, it can be planted three times a year.
In addition, potatoes have a high yield. Once they are promoted, the people of the Dayou Dynasty will no longer have to worry about going hungry.
Sweet potatoes have the same short growth cycle and the same high yield.
"The land on the other side is planted with sweet potatoes."
"Whether it's potatoes or sweet potatoes, the requirements for planting them are not high."
The land where potatoes and sweet potatoes are grown does not need to be very fertile, just land is enough.
However, different lands will yield different yields.
Bai Miaomiao's explanation was very logical.
Even the emperor, who didn't know how to farm, thought it made a lot of sense. No wonder the manager of the imperial farm praised Bai Miaomiao so much when she first entered the farm. She really did have some skills.
Although Fuling knew about these things.
But I didn't want to waste time, so I pretended to know nothing and listened to Bai Miaomiao's explanation curiously.
Seeing Fuling's expression, Bai Miaomiao was full of disdain in her heart, but she did not stop talking and continued.
She thought to herself that she was a time traveler and the knowledge she possessed was incomparable to that of these natives.
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