diskusbooks Chapter 367: The 5th Prince Farming
Chapter 367: The 5th Prince Farming
Luo Yu used a program to create some watermelon seeds from the real world. Since he had nothing to do, he might as well plant some watermelons in the palace.
It would be a lie to say that she wasn't sad. She might as well find something to do to pass the time.
If he is really despicable, she can only be shameless. After all, no one owes anyone anything.
She spent the whole morning looking for suitable land for planting. After finding a satisfactory piece of land, Luo Yu called a few eunuchs to go to Xinghua Village outside the palace to get some fermented chicken manure fertilizer. She planned to fertilize the two hundred square meters of land.
The lackey brought his wife and his lackeys to help till the land.
Perhaps it was too lively, and the news spread among the palace maids and eunuchs. After noon, His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince knew that Miss Luo Yu was preparing the land to plant watermelons.
Luo Yu took a hoe and a shovel and prepared the land herself. After a morning, the grass and stones in the field were almost cleared, but the soil was not yet loose. She went back to have lunch, took a nap, and then went out to continue her farm work.
Qin Bingrui had said before that he would come to help, but now that growing watermelons is so interesting, he decided to get more seeds and ask the Flying Tigers to plant watermelons that mature in autumn. Then he could promote this variety of watermelon and make it the best fruit in Beijing.
It just so happens that there is some idle land in Xinghua Village that can be borrowed for use!
Luo Yu was hoeing the ground and realized for the first time that farming was more difficult than surviving in the wild.
Her waist was too thin, and bending over to hoe the ground easily caused back pain. Half an hour later, she had only hoe less than fifty square meters.
It's a pity that the passion just now was gone after just half a day. How sad!
She squatted beside a small piece of hoed land, fanning herself with a fan, and beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on her forehead.
Four secret guards stood under the tree, watching the girl calmly as she was asking for trouble.
"Hey, you guys are so heartless. Do you have the nerve to watch me suffer alone?"
As soon as Luo Yu finished speaking, a clear young man's voice was heard: "Miss Luo Yu, I will help you farm."
Luo Yu looked up and saw the very handsome and elegant Fifth Prince standing before her. He grinned and said, "Fifth Prince, why are you here?"
"Since you didn't come looking for me, I had no choice but to come looking for you. Didn't you say not to wait in vain?"
"..."
He knows how to apply what he has learned.
"Miss Luo Yu, why do you want to farm?"
"I plan to grow watermelons. Then we'll be able to eat big, red, sweet watermelons. They'll definitely taste much better than the watermelons we have now."
The fifth prince listened with great interest.
Suddenly, he remembered something and asked, "Then why do you insist on planting it yourself? There are so many people in the palace, you can let them plant it."
"I want to personally verify whether it can be successfully grown. If it can be done, I can teach farmers how to grow it!"
After saying this, she stood up and handed the hoe to the little prince, "Since the Fifth Prince has nothing to do, why don't you experience the fun of farming?"
The fifth prince was much happier when he took the hoe than when he took the sword.
"I will help Miss Luo Yu finish planting the land today."
Luo Yu grinned and patted his shoulder. "Then I'll leave it to you, Your Highness the Fifth Prince. I'll go rest for a while. Be careful when you hoe the ground, don't dig your feet. Oh, and make sure the ground is soft and deep, so you can add chicken manure as fertilizer later."
The fifth prince thought that he spent several hours practicing archery every day. Compared with that, hoeing the fields was a piece of cake.
He thought so, but the hoe in his hand did not obey his command. He dug too deep and the thick soil that had been pressed for who knows how many years could not be turned over.
With a little more effort, the soil turned over, and he almost fell over. The second hoe went down and almost hit his toes. The eunuch next to him wanted to hoe the two acres of land for the fifth prince himself.
Luo Yu was drinking tea on the side. He had some prepared pastries in his bag. He ate a few more pieces to replenish his energy. Although the weather was hot, it was very cool sitting in the shade of the tree.
Under the scorching sun, the fifth prince plowed about fifty square meters of land and was so tired that he was gasping for breath.
The two men toiled for over an hour on just two hundred acres of land. Luo Yi sighed and feigned concern for the Fifth Prince, saying, "Is hoeing the land very hard? If you can't keep going, then don't do it. How about I plant only half of it for now and leave the rest for later?"
The Fifth Prince wanted to rest for a while, but upon hearing Luo Yu's words, he immediately shook his head: "I can still hold on. After all, I am a prince. If I say I can't hoe the land, how can I have the nerve to say I sympathize with the hard work of the common people who work on the land?"
"Oh, our Fifth Prince is such a sensible child. He seems to be able to sympathize with the suffering of the people."
After saying that, Luo Yu poured a cup of tea and handed it to him.
The fifth prince, Zhu Chengzhi, took the teacup and drank it all in one gulp. He looked at Luo Yu very seriously and said, "I am not a child. In two years, I will be of age. I will have my own palace and fiefdom. Then I can work hard on my own land like ordinary people and ensure that the people in my fiefdom can live a good life."
Luo Yu was surprised and asked, "Do you really think so?"
Seeing her surprise, the Fifth Prince was also very surprised: "Could it be that Miss Luo Yu doesn't believe what I say? Do you also think that I will be like my uncle? Is it that if someone in the family makes a mistake, everyone else should suffer? Is it that because there is a bad person in the family, no one else deserves to be a good person?"
Luo Yu was stunned. This topic was really serious.
"I don't know. When you reach a certain age, you'll understand what to do. Good and bad are relative. If you truly want to be a saint, don't worry about what others think."
"But when I was lost, no one showed me the way. They would only secretly blame my mother's family and insult me, saying I was a bad kid. No one would listen to my explanation."
"Then don't explain!"
Luo Yu chuckled, "Look, everyone says that Miss Xia and I are witches, don't they? If you care too much, you will be angry to death sooner or later. If a person wants to become strong, the prerequisite is to make yourself strong inside, fearless, and move forward according to what you believe in the right path."
"Then, how can we become strong in our hearts?"
Luo Yu touched her chin. This question stumped her.
"First, dig the ground, dig well. If that doesn't work, do all the things ordinary people do every day. Then I'll give you five or six cents a month, and all you have to do is figure out how to survive."
"Okay, I must dig all the ground today."
"..."
Luo Yu, of course, couldn't stop the young man's determination. She squatted in the shade of a tree with several secret guards, watching the Fifth Prince work on the farm. The eunuch beside the Fifth Prince couldn't stand or sit, unable to help, and could only pace back and forth anxiously under the scorching sun.
Luo Yu would occasionally hand him a wet handkerchief to wipe his face, and then hand him some cold tea and pastries. The fifth prince's face was flushed, perhaps because of the sun or because he was too shy. Every time he was fed, he worked harder.
Zhu Jinyou, who was not far away, saw this scene and did not look for Qin Luoyu. After hesitating for a while, he decided to leave first as a respect.
Song Si followed behind Prince Ning and muttered quietly: "It turns out that Miss Luo Yu is really a treacherous villain."