Farmer’s Wife Has Magic Skills

  Chapter 595 595. A hundred acres of fertile land (33)

  There is a river called Yuanjiang River on the outskirts of the capital city. This river has clear water and many fishes. The surrounding mountains and rivers are picturesque, exquisite and beautiful.

   Along the river, there are more than a dozen artificially dug rivers. The artificially excavated rivers are semicircular, inlaid to the riverside, like ears. These rivers are where merchants raise pearls.

   According to the terrain of the river, farms are built one by one, and the scenery is unique from the top to the bottom.

   Among them, the Zhou family’s farm is the largest. The river dug is four meters wide and more than 500 meters long. There are thousands of mussels in it, which are carefully fed by the staff every day. It is one of the most profitable businesses of the Zhou family.

  When the doorkeeper saw the master's house, he immediately greeted him courteously, "Master."

   Zhou Xiangfu got off his horse, "Go and tell the steward to come see me."

  The boy quickly responded, "Yes, sir."

  While they were talking, Chu Qingzhi also got off the horse. She took a look around. It was a good place with beautiful mountains and clear waters and fresh air!

  Zhou Xiangfu approached Chu Qingzhi politely, "Miss Chu, please come inside."

  Chu Qingzhi nodded and followed Zhou Xiangfu into the farm.

Artificial rivers are distributed in the farm. Not long after entering the farm, Chu Qingzhi saw a clear river flowing slowly. The bottom of the river was covered with emerald green river grass, and the river grass was covered with mussels. mouth to eat.

  Some people by the river are picking up some dead mussels into wooden barrels, preparing to use them to open pearls.

   I don't know who suddenly called out "Master", and then everyone looked over, "Master."

  Zhou Xiangfu gestured to them to keep busy, and then took Chu Qingzhi to the river, "Miss Chu, please take a look at why those mussels died?"

  Chu Qingzhi took out a dead mussel from the barrel and looked at it, "Where is the place to open pearls? Open these mussels. After opening, the cause of the disease can be seen more clearly."

  Zhou Xiangfu immediately said, "Take these mussels and open them."

   "Yes." The clerk didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly picked up the wooden barrel and went to the place where the mussels were opened. Chu Qingzhi and Zhou Xiangfu followed the clerk and walked over together.

   At this time, the steward who was notified by the buddy ran over, "Master, why are you here suddenly?"

   "Bring a genius doctor to see the mussel's disease." Zhou Xiangfu said again, "In the future, collect those pearls that can't be polished into jewelry, and I will send people to pick them up regularly."

  The steward should hurry up.

  The buddy opened the dead mussels one by one. Many mussels had pearls, but they were still very small. Zhou Xiangfu was very distressed to see them. If they grow up safely, how much will they be sold for?

  Chu Qingzhi took out the gloves from the bag, put them on, and knelt down to check the cause of the mussel's death.

   Checked a few and she knew it.

   According to the flesh color of the dead river mussels, it can be seen that they were all killed by foreign parasites.

  She asked, "Did the guy put a new batch of mussels in the river recently?"

  Zhou Xiangfu hurriedly asked, "Isn't it, Manager?"

  The manager’s brow was dripping with sweat, and he was very nervous, “Yes, every time we open the mussels, we will put in a new batch, otherwise the mussels will not be raised in time, and there will be no mature pearls.”

Chu Qingzhi said, "There are a lot of parasites in the mussels. The mussels you released this time contain new parasites. If you mix them into the original mussels, the mussels cannot adapt and die. "

  Zhou Xiangfu admired secretly in his heart, several doctors with good medical skills did not see the problem, but Chu Qingzhi diagnosed the problem just by looking at a few mussels, so he must be friends.

  He said, "But this is not the first time to release new mussels. Why hasn't there been such a problem before!"

   "The new mussels released this time are not from the same place as the new mussels released before."

  Zhou Xiangfu looked at the steward with sharp eyes.

  The steward knelt down with a "plop", "Master, it's my fault, it's my fault. I was greedy for cheap and collected a few mussels of unknown origin. I didn't expect such serious consequences."

  Zhou Xiangfu took a deep breath and settled the account later. The top priority is to save the remaining mussels. "Miss Chu, do you think there is any way to save the remaining mussels?"

  If there is no way, the mussels in the river will definitely suffer countless casualties and suffer heavy losses.

   "Where is the study, I will write you a prescription, follow the instructions in the prescription, and the remaining mussels can be saved."

  When Zhou Xiangfu heard this, he let out a breath of relief immediately, "Miss Chu, this way please."

  The steward felt grateful that he had been pulled back from the edge of the cliff, and that there was a way to save him, and he would be spared a little bit of punishment.

  Miss Chu is simply a bodhisattva who saves suffering.

  He quickly got up, followed to the study, and tried to take the crime and meritorious service for a while.

   Came to the study room, Chu Qingzhi wrote down a very detailed prescription, "Treat according to the prescription, and from tomorrow onwards no mussels will die for no reason."

   Zhou Xiangfu took the prescription with both hands, looked at it, and handed it to the steward who followed, "Hurry up and grab the medicine. If there is another mistake, you will pay me for all the losses."

   "No, no, no, I will do my job well." The steward took the prescription and scrambled to get it.

  Zhou Xiangfu saluted Chu Qingzhi gratefully, "Thank you Miss Chu." He said and took out one hundred taels of silver bills to Chu Qingzhi.

  Chu Qingzhi received the bank note, and then said, "Master Zhou, can you do me a favor?"

   "Miss Chu, please tell me."

   "I need two people to help me pick up crabs." It's fine if you don't see the plump crabs in groups by the river, but if you see them, Chu Qingzhi doesn't plan to let them go.

   "Okay, I'll arrange it right away, but is that food edible?" Zhou Xiangfu asked suspiciously.

   Don’t people eat river crabs in this era?

  Chu Qingzhi tentatively asked, "Has Master Zhou ever eaten crab meat?"

  Zhou Xiangfu asked in confusion, "Is there any meat in the hard shell of the river crab?"

  It seems that besides eating fish, the development of river seafood is still lacking. "Yes, but relatively few."

  Zhou Xiangfu still couldn't accept the idea of ​​eating river crabs, but it didn't affect his help, "I'll get someone to help Miss Chu pick up river crabs right away."

   "Trouble."

  After a while, the staff helped Chu Qingzhi pick up four buckets full of river crabs, put them on the carriage, and Chu Qingzhi took them back to the city.

  …

   Royal Study Room.

  The young emperor held his forehead with one hand, and looked very headache, "Tang Aiqing, please help me find a solution."

  Time passed quickly, and it was time for the draft every three years. The emperor only wanted to be with the queen, and he didn't want to accept a concubine.

  The emperor was really tired of fighting against the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty alone.

  Tang Jinghong was also helpless, "Your Majesty, I can't think of any good way."

  The emperor suddenly thought of a candidate, put down his hand, and stared straight at Tang Jinghong, "Why don't you go back and ask Chu Qingzhi, if she can help me solve the problem, I will reward her with a hundred acres of fertile land."

  (end of this chapter)