Chapter 274 – Does Ruo-er have a solution?

“Mother please speak.” Wei Ruo vaguely guessed something.

“It’s like this, recently Taizhou Province and even the whole of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have suffered from a sudden drop in temperature, and several crops have been frozen to death.” Yun said and sighed, her face staring at the clouds of sorrow.

“Daughter has heard some of it.” Wei Ruo replied.

“Yes, you are most concerned about farming, since you know these things.” Yun said.

Wei Ruo didn’t answer, waiting for Yun to continue on.

Yun looked at Wei Ruo, after thinking for a moment, and then narrated: “Our family in Taizhou Province, two properties, one is in the Xingshan County, you also know, that the mountain I planted sweet potatoes, one is to come to the capital city after the purchase of the field, and now they are affected by some of the two parts of the folded thirty percent.”

I don’t know if it’s because the people under Yun’s hand are not managing it properly or what, but the percentage of crops damaged on the Wei family’s fields is higher than Wei Ruo’s own fields.

This Wei Ruo is not surprised, after this wave of cold wave, can keep 70% in Taizhou Province are considered good.

Yun then asked Wei Ruo: “Ruo’er now have a way to get some more seedlings?”

Sure enough looking for her was about the seedlings, Wei Ruo hadn’t guessed wrong.

“Mother, there’s no place I can get you seedlings at this time of year, and even if there are seedlings that haven’t been divided into seeds yet, they’re definitely frozen today.” Wei Ruo replied.

She really didn’t have any extra seedlings left, the batch on the Prefecture’s manor was already the last batch, and it was planted so late in order to wait for the wheat to be harvested.

There wasn’t enough of that batch to grow in their own fields to even out for others.

Hearing Wei Ruo’s reply, Yun’s eyes flashed with disappointment.

“Ai, so it can’t be helped.” Yun sighed.

“Uh-huh.”

Yun said again, “Does Ruo-er know if there is any remedy for those sweet potatoes? Is it too late to divide the vines and plant them again?”

Sweet potatoes do not need to advance seedling like rice, cuttings vines can live, and sweet potatoes are not lack of vines, Yun’s know the earliest in xingshan county planting sweet potatoes people also often cut the vines to sell, can see the sweet potato vines cut off some of the growth of sweet potatoes have little impact.

I just don’t know if re-cuttings of vines today will grow as well as earlier cuttings.

“Managing it properly should be no problem.” Wei Ruo replied.

The sweet potatoes she had planted on Xiaoyang Mountain and the ones she had recently planted on the sandy land near Stone Village were the same, folded a bit, and the only reason they hadn’t become a problem was because Wei Ruo knew exactly how to remedy the situation.

With Wei Ruo’s remedial measures, as long as the subsequent weather is normal, basically will not have too much impact on the sweet potato harvest.

Hearing Wei Ruo’s affirmative answer, Yun felt slightly relieved as she spoke frankly to Wei Ruo, “Ruo-er, the cold wave of the past few days has had a great impact on the Taizhou Prefecture and even the entire area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the imperial court has paid great attention to it, and I heard that a minister of the Imperial Court has been sent specially to inspect the area.”

“Uh-huh.” Wei Ruo’s expression was faint, and her answer was simple.

“According to this situation, my mother is very worried that this year’s yearly schedule will not be better than last year’s, and by the time the grain is not harvested, I’m afraid that there will be another mess.” Yun’s face was full of worry.

On the one hand, there is the possibility of renewed fighting at any time, and on the other, the unpredictable weather.

If things go on like this, not only will the ordinary people not be able to cope, even families like theirs will be hard hit.

“Uh-huh.”

Wei Ruo of course knows what Yun said about these situations, last year’s year course is not good, the grain harvest is also just the whole year’s temperature is low, not enough light, the wind does not adjust to the rain, the extreme weather is in the autumn harvest after the emergence of.

However, this year it’s only just after the end of the year and the extremes that have directly impacted agriculture in a big way don’t bode well.

However, towards Yun, Wei Ruo did not say anything more.

Yun looked at Wei Ruo’s scowling face and added: “Ruo’er, you’ve always had a lot of ideas in this area, do you have any good methods to help everyone increase some food production?”

“I don’t know too much, I don’t have a particularly good method for now.” Wei Ruo politely refused.

“It’s also true that this is a natural disaster, a big problem that the court can’t even solve, how can it be solved by a woman like you saying it can be solved, it’s mother who overthinks.”

Yun was a little disappointed, but also feel reasonable, the eldest daughter can improve the soil to get the seventh prince praise is already a very lucky pile of things, do not see everything has a law.

Thinking of this, Yun’s will not stay Wei Ruo much, “Just, this matter mother think of the idea again, you just come back from class must also be tired, first go back to listen to the pine garden to rest, wait for the evening meal and then come over.”

“Uh-huh.”

Wei Ruo left Cang Yun Yuan and quickly walked back to Listening Pine Yuan.

Just after stepping into the courtyard door, Wei Ruo instructed Xiu Mei, “Meimei, early tomorrow morning you help me go and ask Mr. Wang for a leave of absence, I intend to set up another manor.”

“Miss is buying another manor?” Xiu Mei asked.

“Well, these months the Four Treasures, the brine store, the grain store and the cooperation with the Drunken Immortal Residence have earned me a lot of silver, enough for me to buy another manor.” Wei Ruo said.

Wei Ruo has just saved a thousand taels in her hand and wants to replace it with land so that she can grow more crops.

One is because this time to buy the manor is good to buy some, two now this time to buy the manor and have the opportunity to get some more food out, the more bad the annual process when Wei Ruo think it is even more important to find a way to get more food to, this is not only money, but also the life of the manor!

“Miss, you want to buy a manor no problem, slave girl is afraid that you can’t manage over, Yu steward tube that two thousand acres of land is almost enough, nurse and Uncle Xu side to take care of also more, more you have to find another person.” Xiu Mei said.

“For the manor this time around, we don’t employ long laborers, we use sharecroppers and collect rent like most other manors.” Wei Ruo said.

Hiring long laborers was relatively troublesome to manage, but Wei Ruo could change the crops she planted at will, making it convenient for her to engage in trial plantings and experiments on the manor.

Direct collection of rent is relatively much simpler and easier to manage, and many large families with many fields use this method.

“That’s good, as long as it doesn’t tire Miss, anything will do.” Xiu Mei never questioned Wei Ruo’s decisions, she was just worried that Wei Ruo was too overworked.

“This you don’t worry, your family lady I love money, but more cherish life, have to stay alive in order to spend money properly, life’s greatest sorrow is nothing more than people die money is still there, I’m not such a stupid person.” Wei Ruo said.

“That’s good!” Xiu Mei laughed.

In the evening, after Wei Ruo finished reading the account books for the past few days, she stretched her back and when she looked at the dim oil lamp at the corner of the table, Wei Jin Yi’s appearance suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.

Handsome and absolutely beautiful face, cold and detached expression, but a pair of gentle eyes.

I wonder how Ergo is doing today.

After thinking for a moment, Wei Ruo took out the letter paper and put up his pen to start writing the letter.