Chapter 137 The Emperor Returns to Beijing
Chapter 137 The Emperor Returns to Beijing
The rest of the Su family continued to harvest the remaining rice. Su Qing's family had planted twenty acres of spring rice! Every time the Su family harvested an acre of rice, Master Liu would have the accompanying Si Nong transport the rice back to the Su family for threshing and weighing!
Su Qing brought Aunt Fang and Chun Tao to prepare lunch for everyone! Today, Su Qing made everyone some noodles with soybean paste, and also braised pig intestines and pork! After the pig intestines and pork were braised, Su Qing fried the meat sauce! She also shredded cucumbers and carrots and blanched the washed bean sprouts!
Let Chuntao go to the fields and call people back for dinner!
Su Qing rinsed the cooked noodles, scooped them into large bowls, poured meat sauce on them, and added shredded cucumbers, shredded carrots, bean sprouts, chopped green onions, chopped braised meat and braised pig intestines! Just looking at it makes your mouth water!
A quarter of an hour later, everyone came back!
"Everyone wash your hands and eat! Plenty of food!"
Everyone could smell the aroma as soon as they entered the yard! Perhaps after a long day of hard work, everyone was starving! They unceremoniously grabbed their large bowls and slurped the food!
"The noodles made by the girl are so delicious!"
The emperor was also eating with a big bowl and enjoying his meal, and his majesty was completely gone!
As he ate, Lord Liu said, "Princess, the food you cooked is so delicious! This old minister is truly blessed!"
Some strong men finished a bowl and then filled another one! Everyone was very satisfied with the meal!
The emperor finished a bowl and seemed to be still unsatisfied. "Qing girl, give me another half bowl! I'm still not full!"
Eunuch Fu'an, standing nearby, glared at his boss and muttered, "The Emperor has never eaten so much before! He used to only eat a small bite in the palace! Today is the first time he's eaten so much!"
"Okay, Your Majesty!"
Su Qing poured another half bowl for the emperor! After everyone finished their meal, Su Qing poured everyone a bowl of sour plum soup to help them get rid of the greasiness. The sour plum soup was made with spiritual spring water. After everyone drank it, they felt full of energy and all the fatigue was gone! Then they went back to the fields to harvest rice!
This went on for five or six days, and the Su family finally finished harvesting their twenty acres of rice! They'd threshed the rice, too! They began drying the rice, packing it into sacks after drying. The yield per acre was also revealed! The emperor was delighted and ordered the court to fund the purchase of high-yield rice seeds, promoting them nationwide at twenty wen per jin! Su Qing's family harvested nearly thirty thousand jin! They sold the rice for over five hundred liang, which Su Qing gave all to her grandmother, Old Wang!
Su Qing arranged for Ying San and Ying Si to bring some people to deliver the thresher to the village chief of each village, and the village chief would coordinate and arrange for the villagers to use it. Su Qing asked them to use it carefully, and if it broke down, each village would pay for a new one next time!
After receiving the threshers, each village chief led the villagers in kowtow three times toward Su Qing's home! This year, all the villagers in Yun'an County will have a prosperous year! Besides paying taxes, they will keep some for themselves to eat and use as rice seeds! Every household will make a lot of money!
The villagers of Yun'an County have truly become prosperous! Every one of them is smiling from the bottom of their hearts!
Emperor Fengyuan's incognito trip yielded a bountiful harvest, a truly rewarding experience! High-yield potatoes, high-yield double-crop rice, and even blueprints for a thresher!
He immediately drafted an edict and gave it to Eunuch Fu'an to announce: "By the providence of Heaven, the Emperor proclaims: Princess Ding'an Su Qing, for leading all the villagers of Yun'an County to prosperity, submitting high-yield potatoes and high-yield double-season rice, and obtaining machine drawings! This has greatly enhanced national strength! This is a great achievement! I grant you a golden medal of immunity from death, as well as a quantity of gold, silver, jewelry, and silks! This is my decree!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Long live the emperor!" Su Qing knelt down to express his gratitude and accept the order!
Then, Eunuch Fu'an announced the second imperial edict: "By the providence of Heaven, the Emperor proclaims: 'Wang, the wife of Su Dazhuang of Sujia Village, Yun'an County, has been meritorious in educating her granddaughter! She is hereby granted the title of First Rank Consort! This is hereby decreed!'
Old Wang was stunned on the spot. Su Qing quickly pulled Old Wang and said, "Grandma has received the imperial edict!"
Old Wang quickly thanked him, "Thank you, Your Majesty! Long live the emperor!"
Old Wang was very excited! At such an old age, she was able to enjoy the blessing of her granddaughter and was even given the title of First Rank Imperial Concubine. This would last her a lifetime!
The emperor packed up and prepared to return to Beijing!
Su Qing prepared a lot of food for the emperor to take away! "Qing girl, take more of your fruits, cantaloupes, watermelons, and fish fillets. A little is not too little! A lot is not too much! The more, the better!" Emperor Feng Yuan said shamelessly!
Su Qing rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, I understand, Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, let's leave at nightfall! Flying a plane during the day is too conspicuous!"
"Okay, just do as you say!"
By the time of Xu, it was already dark! Su Qing boarded the helicopter with the Emperor, Lord Liu, and the accompanying Dragon Guards!
Su Qing flew out of Sujia Village and headed towards the capital!
The Emperor was overjoyed along the way! Finally, at the beginning of the morning hour, Su Qing landed the plane over the Imperial Palace in Beijing! The drone of the plane disturbed the Emperor and all the civil and military officials who were attending their morning court session in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The Emperor, in turn, led the others out to see what was going on!
When he came out, he saw his unfilial son coming out of the big iron box!
The Emperor ran over curiously, "My son!"
This sound frightened Emperor Fengyuan so much that he staggered and almost fell off the plane's gangway! Eunuch Fu'an hurriedly supported the emperor!
"Your Majesty, please be careful!"
The emperor stood up and walked down step by step, "Father, you almost scared me to death and I fell down!"
"You deserve to be thrown down. Who told you to go out and play for so long under the pretext of being incognito? I haven't sent any letters to ask you to come back! Leave all the messes in the palace to me!"
"Father, you are wronging me!"
"I'll wait until I finish harvesting the high-yield double-season rice, and then ask Qing to fly me back. I'm afraid you'll be tired!"
The Emperor rolled his eyes at Emperor Feng Yuan! "You said this is a plane?"
"Yes!"
Lord Liu and the Dragon Guards have all disembarked from the plane! "Greetings to the Emperor!"
"No need to be polite!"
All the civil and military officials in front of the Empress Dowager also stepped forward to salute the Emperor, "Your Majesty, this old minister pays respect to you!"
"Everyone stand up!"
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At this time, Su Qing used his lightness skills to jump down from the plane, "Hello, Your Majesty!" Su Qing said mischievously!
"Oh, you girl are trying to scare me to death!"
"Girl, I want to take this plane back with you this time! Let's go to Yun'an County!"
"Sure! I'll be leaving in a minute!"
"Your Majesty, please arrange for someone to unload the things from the plane!"
"Alright, Dragon Guards, bring all the stuff down! Also, bring down a basket of rice so we can show you, my dear ministers, what does high-yield double-season rice look like?"
"Yes, I obey!"
When the dragon guards brought all the things down, the emperor was stunned. Wow, it was all food! Huge baskets of watermelons, peaches, apples, and so many other foods that I couldn't even name!
"Huang'er, are you going to Sujia Village to rob? Bring so much food with you!"
The emperor smiled awkwardly and said, "I am bringing some gifts to you, father and mother!" The emperor lied without blushing!
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