Chapter 53 – The Seedling Grows

Surprisingly, Wang Caiwei didn’t criticize Wei Ruo and Xie Ying’s choices, instead, she sat them down and then began to give them a lecture.

Wei Ruo was originally listening to the lesson does not hold much hope, but Wang Caiwei teaching is not her imagination in the boring appearance, she will be quite vivid with them to tell allusions to tell the story behind the text, but also from the text itself to do the appropriate expansion and correlation.

Originally wilted Xie Ying was also like playing chicken blood, staring with two eyes, listening to extraordinarily fascinated.

Especially when listening to Wang Caiwei talk about large-scale wars in history, Wei Ruo felt like Xie Ying was going to jump up and go to war with someone.

In the morning, it was the two of them teaching together, and in the afternoon, Wang Caiwei arranged for the two of them to learn an art each.

Burning incense and tea, flower arrangement and painting are the most popular four arts nowadays, and the big girls learn at least one thing. Wang Caiwei let Wei Ruo learn to make incense and incense, let Xie Ying learn to hang paintings.

Wang Caiwei’s arrangement Xie Ying was full of satisfaction Wei Ruo did not know, she herself was still very satisfied with the content of the course that Wang Caiwei had picked for herself.

As the day went on, Wei Ruo felt pretty good, and it was quite a bit more interesting than she had expected.

During this time, Mr. Wang also talked about some rules, compared to Sister Li’s stereotypical explanations, Mr. Wang’s explanations were like spring rain, which made it easier for people to receive.

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After a few days like this, there were new developments in the south of the city, and Wei Ruo had to take leave from Mr. Wang to deal with the south of the city.

After fifteen days of rice-planting, the seedlings in the experimental field in the south of the city have grown green.

During this time, Sister Zhang would report to Wei Ruo every other day about the condition of the seedlings.

Watching the seedlings grow vigorously, Sister Zhang also became active from her initial reluctance.

Reluctant at first because she thought Wei Ruo was fooling around, when she saw the seedlings growing lushly, it dawned on Sister Zhang that this eldest young lady from the countryside really did have a pair of brushes!

“Eldest Miss, I estimate that we can start raising and planting rice seedlings in the next two days, but we still need you, Eldest Miss, to go and look at it before we can finalize it.”

Sister Zhang didn’t dare to just make up her own mind now and had to consult Wei Ruo.

“You go and report this to mother.” Wei Ruo said.

Although only the seedlings have been successfully raised and the rice has not yet been officially harvested, it is enough to show that the saline land improved by her can already grow rice normally.

Wei Ruo needed to report this result to Wei Mingting, but she couldn’t go directly to Wei Mingting right now, so she could only report to Yun first.

Sister Zhang immediately complied and ran to Cang Yun Yuan to report the good news.

When Sister Zhang reported to Yun, Wei Qingwan was also in Cang Yun Yuan and was chatting with Yun.

After hearing Sister Zhang’s words, Yun was pleasantly surprised, “Really? It’s really done?”

“It’s true, this month the old slave has been watching, that seedling ah, grows well! Lush and green, the old slave is not exaggerating at all, this seedling grows even better than the ones we planted on Steamed Bun Mountain in the north of the city!”

“That’s great! I’ll immediately send someone to inform His Lordship!” Yun hurriedly said.

Yun hurriedly called the guard, Jinghu, and explained the matter to him.

Looking at Yun’s agitated and excited appearance, Wei Qingwan on the side couldn’t help but change her expression.

“I didn’t expect my sister to really succeed, it’s really great.” Wei Qingwan said.

“Yes. If it does come to pass, this matter will be a great help to your father to the entire school captain’s house.”

Yun didn’t notice the downturn in her daughter’s demeanor and was immersed in this excitement.

She said to Sister Zhang immediately afterward, “Sister Zhang, go get Ruo’er over here.”

Sister Zhang busily said, “Madam, apart from asking the old slave to report the matter to you for information, the eldest young lady also asked the old slave to ask Madam that she is ready to make a trip to the south of the city, and that if the seedlings are growing appropriately, they should be put away for transplanting.”

“Right, oh, the timing of this seedling transplantation is important and can’t be delayed, then I won’t delay her from doing her business.”

“Exactly.”

“But we have to let His Lordship take a look at the growth of the seedlings nowadays before we can do so; if we planted the seedlings, we wouldn’t be able to say whether they were planted from the wasteland in the south of the city or whether they were shipped over from somewhere else.”

“And what does Mrs. …… think should be done about this?”

“You let Ruo’er wait for a while, and when her father replies to the letter, if he has time, let him go and see it at once, and it would be better if he could bring along Governor Qian; if not, let Ruo’er carry on transplanting rice seedlings according to the original plan.”

“Good, then the old slave will go and report back to the eldest miss first.”

“Well, go ahead.”

In this matter, Yun greatly respected Wei Ruo’s decision.

Not a moment later, Sister Zhang came back again, bringing back Wei Ruo’s meaning, “Missy said that she’s first going to go to the south of the city to check on the situation with the seedlings, so if there’s any news from the master’s side, she can have the master go directly to the south of the city.”

“Just do what Ruo’er wants.” Yun said.

With Yun’s approval, Sister Zhang went back to resume her orders with Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo, accompanied by Sister Zhang, rode out of the city in a carriage.

Seeing the rice planting field with excellent growth, for which Wei Ruo is very satisfied.

Gui and Hachi, who were in charge of plowing, also looked unusually happy.

Good seedling growth means it may bring a good harvest, which is undoubtedly good news for Xingshang County, which has been suffering from poor harvests for several years.

“Missy, what are we going to do now, are we going to start seedlings?” Gui inquired.

“Wait first, let’s see if my father wants to come here to look at it, you guys go ahead and reclaim the wasteland next to you now, if this place becomes a success, then the reclamation of the other wastelands will also be on the agenda soon.” Wei Ruo explained.

“Yes!”

Gui and Hachi were energized and immediately took action.

Wei Ruo went to check out the neighborhood again.

After about an hour, Wei Ruo saw a large group of people coming towards him.

From a distance, Wei Ruo saw Wei Mingting riding at the forefront, his armor was still on, he should have rushed over directly after receiving the news and didn’t have time to change clothes.

Immediately after that, she saw Governor Qian and Chu Lan, who had come along with Wei Mingting.

Qian Zhixian will come to Wei Ruo can be expected, the success of wasteland improvement on the Qian Zhixian is also a political achievement, he is bound to be on the heart.

But Chu Lan was outside her expectations. Seeing his figure, Wei Ruo frowned slightly, instinctively resisting having too much contact with this person.

In no time, the large troop arrived in front of Wei Ruo and the others.

Wei Ruo brought Sister Zhang, Ah Gui, and Xiao Bachi forward to greet them.

Wei Ruo bent down slightly and saluted, “Greetings to Lord Father and Lord Qian.”

As for Chu Lan, he himself didn’t reveal his identity to the public, so it was no wonder Wei Ruo didn’t salute him.

“There’s no need to be polite.” Wei Mingting’s voice couldn’t hide his excitement.

When he came over he saw this lush and vibrant rice paddy beside Wei Ruo from afar.

This verdant green is an enviable contrast to the barren land that surrounds it.

The others who followed Wei Mingting along were also observing Wei Ruo’s rice paddies from a close distance.