The playboy county magistrate

Young Master Li had a gloomy face, water was still dripping from his head, and his moon-white robe was covered in ink, as if he had been splashed with it.

Lady Zhang, the wife of the Marquis of Chengen, who is also Li Xuanzhi's biological mother, was feeding koi in the garden when she saw this scene and was startled. She lost her grip on the fish food and dropped the bowl and the fish food into the lake, instantly smashing three of her favorite koi, which floated to the surface belly up.

At this moment, Zhang Shi didn't care about feeling sorry for the koi fish and hurriedly walked towards Young Master Li.

"Jing-ge, what's wrong with you? Weren't you on your day off, going to a poetry gathering with your colleagues and friends? What happened to you?"

Despite his gentle and refined demeanor, Li Xuanjing, the eldest son of the Marquis of Chengen, has always been cold towards his stepmother, Zhang.

She never called Zhang Shi "mother," and she wouldn't even call her "stepmother."

If it's unavoidable, they'll address her as Madam Zhang in front of outsiders, but directly call her Auntie in front of family members.

This is one of the reasons why the original owner of this body and her eldest brother Li Xuanjing did not get along, and also one of the reasons why the original owner was willing to degenerate herself in order to highlight the excellence of her eldest brother.

The original owner did this so that his eldest brother would know that he was unwilling to compete with Li Xuanjing for the position of heir to the Earl's Mansion, and even less willing to fight with him for everything in the family.

I only hope that my eldest brother won't be too prejudiced against his mother. After all, she is the mistress of the Earl's Mansion, so please give her some face.

The Earl's family had quite a few children, but all the babies born to the concubines in the back courtyard were girls.

It's strange, but in this generation of the Chengen Earl's Mansion, there really were only two brothers, Li Xuanjing and Li Xuanzhi; the rest were all girls.

Everyone says that the second wives are ruthless and scheming behind people's backs. Those concubines were also pregnant with boys, but they were born as girls. It's estimated that they took some kind of shady drug to change the sex of the child.

Some say that only daughters born out of wedlock can grow up, while sons don't live to adulthood. It was all done by the second wife, who could erase all traces afterward, and to this day, no one has been able to find fault with her.

Li Xuanzhi really wanted to shrug and curse those who spread rumors as idiots.

If such a miraculous medicine really existed, every family would be full of sons, so why would there be any need to favor sons over daughters?

Furthermore, whether a child is a boy or a girl depends on the genes the man gives him, so what does that have to do with the woman?

The fact that the events at the Chengen Earl's Mansion could be embellished and spread so far outside suggests that someone must have been behind the scenes stirring things up.

Young Master Li Xuanjing was already furious, and seeing the annoying woman openly feigning concern while actually just watching the show made him even angrier.

"Get out of here! You hypocrite."

Li Xuanjing was furious, his teeth grinding together.

I don't know what happened, but ever since Li Xuanzhi left the capital for the remote Fuyu County, I haven't had a single day of peace.

Either the carriage shaft broke halfway through, or the seat cracked, and he ended up sitting on a hunting trap hidden inside the seat.

Last month, I was on sick leave at home and lay in bed for a full twenty-one days before I could get up.

The Hanlin Academy was a prestigious and prestigious place. I had only been in office for a short time before I took leave. Now I have been dismissed from the Hanlin Academy and sent to the Ministry of War, which has the most trivial matters and where you can be blamed for anything.

He was clearly a civil official through and through, yet he always found himself arguing with a group of military generals. No matter how much he sparred, it was all in vain; he talked until his lips were sore, but they treated it all like a fart.

If you encounter someone with a short temper, they'll start hitting you at the slightest disagreement.

He finally didn't have to stay home to recuperate, but then he fell down again, and his colleagues mocked him for being a spineless coward, a useless piece of trash who couldn't lift a finger.

Most importantly, I don't know which bastard said that he, the eldest son of the Marquis of Chengen, is not as good as his own spoiled younger brother!

Now that this woman has seen me in this disheveled state, who knows what kind of stories she'll tell me!

Just then, Marquis Chengen, Li Dehai, who was the father of both Li Xuanjing and Li Xuanzhi, appeared in a menacing manner.

Li Dehai has been unusually irritable lately, and his mood is extremely bad.

I had finally recovered a bit from the incident of my second son leaving the capital for Fuyu County, but I never expected that my eldest son would start causing trouble right away.

Being relentlessly mocked and ridiculed face-to-face by his long-time nemesis, Li Dehai's emotions were completely ignited.

Especially after returning home and seeing that his eldest son was even more disheveled than his mortal enemy had described, he went up and slapped him.

"How could my Li family produce such a useless piece of trash like you!"

Meanwhile, far away in Fuyu County, Li Xuanzhi, who had just handed over the affairs of the medical clinic, was unaware of what was happening at home in the capital and was in a good mood.

When I'm in a good mood and full of energy, I want to find something to do.

"Tang Zheng, go help unload the medicinal herbs and keep a record of the inventory. Uncle Wang, let's go find the village head to distribute vegetable seedlings to the people. Of course, our yamen will keep some for ourselves. As the local official, I also need to grow vegetables in the yamen's backyard myself!"

As native Chinese people, farming is an excellent tradition ingrained in our bones.

He used to have no opportunity or land to grow vegetables, so he could only use his phone and computer to grow vegetables.

Now that he had the opportunity for real combat, Li Xuanzhi was so excited that he rubbed his hands together.

Everyone says that food tastes better when you cook it yourself, so wouldn't vegetables that you grow yourself taste even better?

Li Xuanzhi's initiative has always been outstanding. Before the village head even arrived, he had already found his favorite vegetable seeds and seedlings, picked up a hoe, and run towards his private vegetable patch in the yard.

Just as Wang Bo was about to chase after him, the village head arrived. There was nothing Wang Bo could do; he couldn't let the village head handle it all by himself. So he stayed where he was and handed it over to the village head, leaving Li Xuanzhi to do whatever he wanted in his private vegetable garden.

Li Xuanzhi thought to himself: It's just farming, how difficult can it be!

Then--

Holding vegetable seeds in his hand, with a few seedlings piled on the ground, Li Xuanzhi looked at the small vegetable patch beside him and hesitated for a long time before taking any further action.

Li Xuanzhi had a lot of thoughts on his mind.

Before planting, do we need to plow the land first?

How do I plow the land? And do I need to make ridges? How do I make ridges?

Should we plant seedlings first or sow seeds first?

How much of this vegetable seed should I sow?

……

When Uncle Wang returned after seeing the village head off, he still saw the same vegetable garden unchanged and his second young master standing there blankly.

Uncle Wang gave Li Xuanzhi a very indulgent smile, took the hoe leaning against the wall next to him, rolled up his sleeves, and went to work.

Li Xuanzhi then came to his senses and carefully observed how Uncle Wang was turning the soil, his brow furrowing deeply.

"Uncle Wang, your plowing method is wrong. You've only turned the soil over; you haven't created ridges. If it rains, the vegetables will spoil. You see, you have to do it like this!"