Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 769
On the second day, the tenant farmers harvested the rice normally, and Du Jinning took Jin Gonggong and Wu Shangshu to see the corn.

It was the first time for Wu Shangshu to see corn as a crop.

He asked curiously: "How many catties per mu can be produced by this kind of crop?"

"According to the planting situation in Gui Province in the past years, the general yield is three to four stones per mu." Du Jinning said, "The yield varies from region to region. We won't know how much we can harvest in this field until autumn."

As she spoke, she ordered the servants who followed: "Go break a dozen pieces of corn, and let Eunuch Jin and Wu Shangshu taste it at night."

"You can eat it at this time? Don't wait for autumn to mature?" Eunuch Jin asked curiously.

"The corn at this time is the tenderest and most delicious, but it can't be stored..." Du Jinning introduced the characteristics of corn to him, and Eunuch Jin was looking forward to it.

However, he is the eunuch next to Zhao He, and he knows how to show his loyalty best. He said: "Our family dare not let the emperor eat things that the emperor has never tasted before. This corn is not necessary tonight. Lord Du, let me break it." Serve dozens of corns, let our family bring them back to Beijing tomorrow for the emperor to taste."

"What Eunuch Jin said is true." Wu Shangshu also said hastily.

Du Jinning was helpless, but also afraid that these two, in order to set off their loyalty, said that as a courtier, she did not put the emperor first, and she didn't know how to pay tribute to the emperor as soon as she had any good things.

She had no choice but to explain: "In fact, this kind of corn has been planted in Guangxi Province for 20 years. It is estimated that when it appeared, the governor and prefect of Guangxi Province offered it. Maybe the emperor even tasted it. It is tender to eat. Fortunately, when I was old, I ate corn, which was very rough and hard to swallow. In Guangxi province, these corns were usually eaten by poor families who could not afford rice. It is estimated that the first emperor didn’t like it, so he didn’t ask for tribute.”

Eunuch Jin and Wu Shangshu were a little embarrassed.

Eunuch Jin is in his thirties, entered the palace when he was twelve or thirteen, and has been in the palace for almost 20 years.Not to mention Wu Shangshu, a man in his sixties is an old man from the Ministry of Industry.Even if the late emperors didn't take the matter of officials from Guangxi province to offer corn to their heart, they couldn't show that they didn't know about it, otherwise they didn't care about state affairs.

But they really don't know this.

But the words of loyalty just now made it appear that they were ignorant.This is really flattering on the horse's leg.

"But Eunuch Jin and Master Wu said so, so let's not eat the corn." Du Jinning said, "As for the corn dedicated to the emperor, it will be freshest when it is picked tomorrow morning. I will trouble Eunuch Jin then." Take it back to the emperor."

Well, now I have nothing to eat and talk about, and Eunuch Jin has taken on a troublesome matter.

You know, it is not an easy task to bring food from outside the palace into the palace for the emperor to eat.In case something was drugged on the way to hand over it, Eunuch Jin who sent the thing into the palace would not be able to save his life.

This time, Eunuch Jin regretted that he had said that extra word just now.Oh, what kind of loyalty is there!

But the trouble didn't stop there.

Du Jinning also knew that delivering food to the emperor would take a lot of responsibility, so she simply said to Eunuch Jin: "In order to ensure the safety of the corn, should Eunuch Jin go to the corn field with the officials tomorrow morning to pick corn?"

She pointed to dozens of acres of fields: "Such a large cornfield, when the time comes, you can choose an area at random and let the guards you bring pick it, so that it will not go through other people's hands, which is more reassuring."

Eunuch Jin wanted to die now.

From the capital to Runzhou, he rode in a carriage for a whole day, and he still remembers the bumpy feeling; thinking about going back to the capital in such a carriage for another day tomorrow, he felt apprehensive, thinking about having a good time tonight Get some sleep so you can deal with tomorrow's hard work.But I don't want to get up early to break the corn.

In order to get to the capital before closing the city gate, he had to leave early tomorrow.It can be imagined from this that tomorrow it is estimated that they will have to come to this corn field in the dark.

At this moment, he wished he could tell Du Jinning not to send corn to the emperor.

But can he say it?cannot!Can he refuse Du Jinning's proposal?also can not!He didn't even want to break corn for the emperor when he got up a little earlier. The matter got to the emperor's ears. If the emperor didn't need to do anything to him, the chief executive of Eunuch Wu would immediately remove him from his position. Reuse him.

He showed a smile uglier than crying, and said, "It's so good."

Seeing Eunuch Jin's constipated face, Du Jinning was in a good mood.

Wu Shangshu looked amused, and said: "I'm getting old, and my legs and feet are not good, so I won't hold you back. I will trouble you two to work hard tomorrow morning."

After making an appointment to arrive at the field tomorrow, everyone returned to Zhuangzi from the cornfield.Eunuch Jin and Wu Shangshu returned to the garden where they lived, while Du Jinning returned to her small courtyard of Zhuangzi.

In the past two days, in order to entertain these two people, she has not returned to the city for two nights.And of course it was the same tonight.

On the second day, as expected, the stars were still hanging in the sky, Eunuch Jin was woken up by the little eunuch he brought, washed up in a daze, and met Du Jinning at the intersection, supported by an imperial guard One foot to the cornfield.

For the sake of his own life, he couldn't let Du Jinning lead the way.After arriving at the cornfield, he walked around the ridge for a while, and then he pointed to a cornfield and said, "Let's just go here."

Only then did a bright light appear in the sky.

After breaking the corn and returning to the garden for breakfast, Du Jinning sent Eunuch Jin and Wu Shangshu and his party out of the city.

A strong man who had been waiting at the gate of the city for the past two days saw Du Jinning appearing at the gate of the city and waved goodbye to Eunuch Jin and the others. He hurried out of the city on horseback and ran to the northwest.

After running for more than 100 miles, he found Qi Muyuan who was living in an inn and said, "Master, those people have left."

Qi Muyuan raised his head from a pile of files, glanced at him, and quickly cleared the table: "I'll go there now, you rest overnight and go tomorrow."

This nursing home is not Liu Gao, Ma Biao and others who often follow Qi Muyuan.When Qi Muyuan came to investigate the case, he needed to disguise himself, so naturally he couldn't bring someone who would be recognizable at a glance.So he brought two nurses who usually don't go out very much, one is Weidong and the other is called Xiu Yongxing, and let them make a disguise.

The guard named Weidong watched Qi Muyuan tidy up in astonishment, and pointed to the westward sun outside: "Young master, go there at this time, and it will be dark before you get halfway. Even if you arrive in Runzhou, you can't enter the city gate. "

Qi Muyuan waved his hand: "It's okay, if you can't enter, stay at the city wall overnight, and enter the city early in the morning."

He was short on time, and he could spend as much time with Du Jinning as possible.Furthermore, he had doubts in his heart, which he had been suppressing all the time.Now that he thought the answer would be revealed soon, he couldn't wait any longer.

If Eunuch Jin and Wu Shangshu hadn't suddenly gone to Runzhou, he would have gone straight to Runzhou after investigating the case, and it would be impossible for him to stay here and write the dossier.

(End of this chapter)