Happy peasant girl

Chapter 39
"Senior Brother, Junior Brother didn't lie to you, haha!" Lu Zhiming said triumphantly like a child, in front of several Senior Brothers, he always acted a little childish.

"No, no! Junior brother, you really picked up a treasure this time!" The simple two poems made Zhang Xian look at Lin Qingxi with admiration.

"Of course, this girl is not only talented, but also an expert in farming. The seeds of the foreign race were planted by her." Lu Zhiming said with a smile.

"Really? Girl, is what your master said true?" Zhang Xian was even more shocked now.

"Returning to Master Uncle, it's right! The tomatoes in this basket are planted from the seeds bought from Hu merchants." Lin Qingxi hurriedly lifted the cloth covering the basket that Lin Qingfei had been carrying all the time, Then he took out three big and red tomatoes and handed them to Lu Zhiming, Zhang Xian and Huai's hands.

"This is called a tomato? Do you eat it by biting it?" Huai asked curiously.

Lin Qingxi nodded and said: "Master, this is all cleaned, just eat it with a bite. In addition, you can also eat it with soup or stir-fry. There are many ways to eat it."

As soon as Zhang Xian and Lu Zhiming heard what Lin Qingxi said, they immediately took a bite of the tomato, and the sweet and sour juice spread out in their mouths, and then the sweet feeling spread all over their bodies. They had never eaten it before. Something so fresh and delicious.

"Xi'er, these tomatoes are really delicious!" After taking one bite, Huai fell in love with tomatoes ever since.

"Master, I'll bring you some more from Xi'er in a few days!" The first wave of tomatoes was reserved for seeds, but the second wave will soon ripen. Lin Qingxi sees that the Huai family likes to eat them, I plan to deliver two more baskets in a few days.

"Girl, you can't treat one more favorably than another. Whatever your master gives you, the fifth uncle will also have it!" After a tomato fell into his stomach, Zhang Xian began to feel jealous of Lu Zhiming. His apprentices could only write and draw, but they didn't People will farm.

"Fifth Master, don't worry, Xi'er will definitely give it to you too!" Lin Qingxi saw that Zhang Xian's scrutiny of her was no longer there, and instead he felt more intimacy, so she naturally got close.

"Senior Brother, you just ask my apprentice for something. It seems that you don't have a meeting gift yet? I heard that you went to the coastal area, but you didn't bring any good things back?" Lu Zhiming knew that Zhang Xian was leaving Beijing this time to visit friends. Well, his senior brother has a lot of friends, and there are many capable people and strangers among them, maybe he has something good in his hand.

Zhang Xian was stumped by Lu Zhiming's words. He never liked to wear superfluous things on his body, so he didn't even have any jade treasures.

"Brother, you also know that I don't like to wear anything except clothes. If you want to talk about good things, well... I'm afraid it's just the small half bag of beans that I worked so hard to get for my teacher. "Zhang Xian said with some embarrassment.

A year ago, Fanbang’s tribute fruit included two dishes of fan beans, and the emperor gave Huai Shao one of them. As a result, Huai Shaozhi liked to eat this kind of beans, but they were not easy to find. My friend searched for more than a year, and found a small half bag at the risk of finding it.

"Uncle Wu, Fandou... what is it?" Lin Qingxi also knew that it was not good to take the liberty to ask such a question, but she was really itchy, knowing that her favorite peanut is also called Fandou.

Zhang Xian, Lu Zhiming and Huai's all saw the light in Lin Qingxi's eyes when he talked about "Fantou". Does she know something, or is there another reason?

"Shunzi, go and get the half bag of beans I found for my teacher!" Zhang Xian shouted loudly to the boy outside the door, since Lin Qingxi wants to know what a bag of beans is, let her see for herself .

Soon, Zhang Xian's servant Shunzi came in with half a bag of beans in his arms. After putting down the bag, he obediently left the room.

After Zhang Xian opened the bag, Lin Qingxi saw clearly what was in the bag, and she was overjoyed that it was really peanuts.

"Xi'er, do you know this thing?" Lu Zhiming understood the expression on Lin Qingxi's face.

"Master, this is called fandou, also called peanut and groundnut. It can be eaten raw, boiled, fried, and oiled!" Counting the ways to eat peanuts, Lin Qingxi held back the saliva at the corner of his mouth , this is her favorite food.

Looking at Linqingxi's little greedy cat, Zhang Xian had a lot of doubts in his heart. Isn't it very strange how an ordinary eight-year-old peasant girl would know so many foreign things?

"It was your well-informed old man who told you again?" Lu Zhiming asked, and also explained Zhang Xian's doubts by the way.

"Well, the old man said, and if a peanut is planted in the ground, if it is taken care of well, it can produce fifty or sixty peanut kernels like this. The peanut kernels of the fifth uncle are all very plump, and they are also full of fruit. It can be used as seeds, and it seems to be enough to plant half an acre of land." The quality of the ancient peanut seeds is unknown, and Linqingxi didn't dare to say so much all of a sudden.

However, she somewhat forgot that these peanuts are not for planting, but for giving away to others.

"Xi'er, can you grow it?" Mrs. Huai also knew that Huai Shaozhi had been thinking about this kind of fan beans. If Linqingxi could grow it, then the old man would not think about it day and night in the future.

"I... can try!" Lin Qingxi, who wanted to say "yes", changed his words.

But as soon as Lu Zhiming and Huai's heard Lin Qingxi's hesitant voice, they actually guessed that this girl must be able to plant it, but it's hard to say it to death.

"Brother, you can keep half of these beans here, and take the other half back to your mentor. Next year, I will personally send a sack to his old man." Lu Zhiming is very confident in Lin Qingxi, and his apprentice is better than he imagined. I know more.

Zhang Xian did not answer Lu Zhiming's words, but looked at Lin Qingxi with deep eyes and asked: "Girl, if I leave all these beans to you, can you let your master eat them in advance?"

"Yes!" Linqingxi didn't hesitate this time, because she also missed peanuts very much and wanted to eat them sooner.

"How do you do it?" Zhang Xian continued to ask.

"It's fine to use a greenhouse. If Uncle Fifth leaves the peanuts to Xi'er, Xi'er promises that he will grow the peanuts and let the master eat peanuts in advance." Lin Qingxi raised her little hand and swore.

Zhang Xian didn't ask what a "greenhouse" is. He would save this question to ask his junior. It seems that this time the junior not only found a good apprentice, but also found a lucky star.

However, Zhang Xian never expected that after Lin Qingxi and Lin Qingfei happily left with Fandou, what Lu Zhiming and Huai Shi told him about Lin Qingxi's increase in grain production would make him Shock is still shocking, could it be that this farm girl disciple Lu Zhiming recruited this time will be the lucky star of the entire Chu country?
(End of this chapter)