Chapter 232 – What if I made a mistake?

These people looked at Wei Ruo with hostility.

A look of surprise appeared on the faces of several of the ladies who saw this scene.

Looking at the villagers in front of him full of hostility, Wei Ruo once again explained: “Your seedlings may have got malignant seedling disease, they show the symptoms of malignant seedling disease: leaf sheaths are long, the color of the leaves is yellowish, the pitch of the nodes is large, and the nodes are slightly curved and exposed outside the leaf sheaths. If not treated in time, it will affect your harvest this year. It’s not too late to replace seedlings and re-seed them.”

“You talk nonsense you scare people! What evil seedling disease? Where did you hear that from?” The initial old man asked angrily.

“I read it in a book that talks about farming.” Wei Ruo replied.

That was all she could say, not that it was the knowledge she had gained from her previous life that it was an infection from a plant pathogen.

“Nonsense! I’ve been farming for thirty-eight years! Never heard of the bad seedling disease! I don’t care what you read.”

Several other villagers nodded.

“There is nothing wrong with what Uncle Jiang said, farming is our farming family’s business, it has nothing to do with you, and it has nothing to do with your books. Just don’t come and curse us.”

“You’re just a little girl, why do you speak so viciously? Cursing us for not having a good harvest this year, you’ve got to be more virtuous!”

Under the angry gazes of several villagers, Wei Ruo got up and left, returning to the group.

“Ruo’er, what’s going on?” Yun inquired with concern.

“It’s nothing, keep walking.” Wei Ruo said.

“Qingruo, they didn’t hurt you, did they?” Lady Tongzhi came forward and passed a concerned gaze to Wei Ruo.

“Thank you for your concern, ma’am, I’m fine, it’s just that I have some differences of opinion with them. Let’s continue walking.” Wei Ruo said.

Upon hearing this Mrs. Tongzhi did not ask any further questions.

After Wei Ruo left, the few villagers pointed at Wei Ruo’s back and cursed and said something.

When they arrived at the homestead of Mrs. Tongzhi, the long-time workers here were also busy in the fields.

Wei Ruo similarly observed the seedlings in the field, and then found the same situation in the manor house as in the field outside.

Wei Ruo looked at Lady Tongzhi beside her again and said to Lady Tongzhi after pondering for a while, “Madam, I think that this batch of rice seeds all have some problems, and the seedlings thus raised may have been infected with diseases.”

Mrs. Tongzhi looked at Wei Ruo and remembered what she had just said to the farmers outside.

After contemplating for a moment Mrs. Tong Zhi said, “I am clear about the accounts on the farm, but I don’t know anything about how the crops in the fields grow well, how about this, in a moment I will call out to the steward on my farm to come, and trouble Miss Qingruo to talk to him about how to dispose of these bad seedlings and how to remedy the situation.”

Wei Ruo looked at Lady Tongzhi with some surprise: “Lady doesn’t doubt what I said? What if what I said is wrong?”

Mrs. Tong Zhi laughed: “First of all, you have no reason to intentionally say this kind of lie, for you, at this time, such as right, can not get half a point of benefit, such as wrong, but also suffered a pass of embarrassment for nothing. Secondly, even if you are wrong, what is the harm? Although I do not know a lot about farming, but I know that now the time is still early, it is not too late to replace the seedlings, change a wave of effort is not much, also do not need me to do it myself.”

Mrs. Tongzhi’s words increased Wei Ruo’s favor towards her.

At the same time Wei Ruo also breathed a sigh of relief, “Then in a moment, ma’am will take me to meet the steward of the manor, and I’ll go over the remedy with him.”

“Uh-huh. Trouble.” Mrs. Tongchi said.

When Wei Ruo finished talking to Madam Tong Zhi, Yun pulled Wei Ruo over and questioned her in a small voice:

“Is it true about what evil seedling disease? You’re not making it up, are you? Or maybe that book you read about rice is unreliable, how can you get it wrong?”

Wei Ruo said, “You can rest assured, is a mistake, the loss is also my people, Tongzhi lady want to annoy is also annoyed me alone, will not involve you and Wei family.”

“What are you talking about? You are the first daughter of the Wei family, your every word and action represents the Wei family, when can you make such a clear distinction?” Yun was dissatisfied with Wei Ruo’s words.

“Even if you can’t tell the difference, there’s nothing you can do, the words I’ve already said, you can either choose to believe me for once, or continue to be frightened.” Wei Ruo said.

Anyway, there was no taking back what was said, and even if Yun didn’t believe it, she couldn’t change anything now.

Upon hearing this Yun was a bit dissatisfied but there was really no way to take Wei Ruo.

She was dissatisfied with her daughter’s attitude towards herself. She is her mother, ask her a few questions and she will explain properly, such a posture, really some do not put her as a mother in the eyes.

Is it wrong for a mother to ask her daughter a few questions?

If not for the presence of so many outsiders today, Yun would have had to speak to her properly!

While Yun and Wei Ruo were talking, Mrs. Tongzhi had already asked someone to go and call over the Manor’s Stewardship Sister.

And then Mrs. Tongzhi really let the stewardess come to ask Wei Ruo for advice about the broken seedlings.

Wei Ruo then spoke with the stewardess about how the seedlings might have gotten sick and needed to be replaced, and also about how to re-select and re-nurture the seedlings to avoid such a situation from happening again.

The Stewardess Sister was Madam Tong Zhi’s confidant, so she was naturally able to figure out Madam Tong Zhi’s mind.

He carefully and meticulously noted down what Wei Ruo said, and said that he would seriously follow what Wei Ruo had explained.

After the small interlude, the crowd wandered around the Xu family’s farmhouse for a while, and then they drank tea inside the pavilion that Mrs. Tongzhi had arranged in advance.

Said the trekking compassionate agriculture, but want to know, are all the brocade used to eating the powerful family of the female family, it is impossible to really let them tired, that is, more walking is also not too line.

So this trip is more of a formality than a practicality, but it’s just a way to make a name for yourself.

Wei Ruo since is aware of this reasoning, so see the crowd in the walk but a tea after sitting down again is not strange.

Wei Ruo followed the crowd and sat down leisurely, sipping tea and basking in the sun, looking at the scenery in the meantime.

And then Wei Ruo saw the crowd of An Zhou scholars steering past in the distance.

It looked like they were having a riding competition, and the venue was the open space of this farmhouse of the Xu family.

They set up archery targets in the clearing, rode by, fired their bows, and saw what they could shoot the most accurately, thus dividing the scores into good and bad.

Wei Ruo was watching, Mrs. Tong Zhi said to Wei Ruo half-jokingly, half-jokingly, “Just now when I had lunch I heard that they were planning to ride and shoot, and it just so happened that there was open space on the farm, so I let them practice in the open space. It happens to be just the right time to show everyone a good time and relieve their boredom.”

“Uh-huh.” Wei Ruo answered.

And then Mrs. Tongzhi pointed to the man in green clothes among the crowd and said, “The one in green clothes riding a brown horse is the canine son, who is now studying at Anzhou Academy like your elder brother, and is also going to take the countryside examination this fall.”

meso- (chemistry)