Not to mention Mrs. Qiu's plan, when the day was agreed to go to Zhuangzi, Tian Minyan took Ji Xiangqingzhi and a woman to drive a carriage out of the city.
Qi Shiqi was already waiting there at Shili Pavilion. It was Rexia at this time. He did not ride in a carriage, but rode a horse. A tall horse with a shiny black body. He was followed by a long guard, including Yang Guan.
in it.
Tian Minyan lifted the curtain, the two looked at each other, hooked their lips, Qi Shiqi got on their horses and drove their horses.
Although the two of them were interested in each other, they did not have a marriage contract. In this era with many rules, it was not easy to travel together openly, so they met at Shiliting.
However, Qi Shiqiduo had a foresight and asked the emperor for a favor in private. If someone brought this matter up in the future, he would have a response so that Tian Minyan's personal ethics would not be said to be bad. If it was really known, that would be
The two of them were doing things according to the order. Zhuangzi also planted cotton, didn't he? In the euphemistic name, they inspected the people's livelihood on behalf of the emperor.
The village of Qi Shiqi is a hot spring village. It covers an extremely large area, is close to mountains and water, and has a beautiful environment. It is an excellent place to go.
After the carriage traveled for nearly two hours, it arrived at Zhuangzi. Someone had already greeted them at the door of Zhuangzi. When they saw Qi Shiqi and his entourage, they quickly stepped forward to greet them and salute them.
The carriage drove into Zhuangzi and was taken to the main courtyard. It was already past two o'clock and the sun was setting. Naturally, it was impossible to go horseback riding. On such a hot day, one might suffer from heatstroke.
"Go and freshen up and drink some cold water first. I'll take you for a walk later." Qi Shiqi looked at Tian Minyan, whose cheeks were flushed with heat, and said with a smile.
His gaze was very hot, and Tian Minyan felt even hotter. She coughed, snorted like a mosquito, and led the two girls into the yard.
I think Qi Qi Qi's arrangements were very thoughtful. When a few people entered the courtyard, a lady in charge came to listen to the instructions. Tian Minyan asked Ji Xiang to fetch water to cleanse her face, and washed her face with cool water.
A plate of delicious fresh fruits has been laid out.
"Miss, Aunt Zhao said that this watermelon has been soaked with well water and is ice cold. You should try it quickly to get rid of the heat." Qingzhi smiled and picked up a cut piece of watermelon and handed it to Tian Minyan.
Tian Minyan was also afraid of the heat, so she took a bite and her mouth was full of melon sand. It was cool and very sweet. She smiled and said: "It is very sweet, you can try it too."
Ji Xiang and the others looked at each other. They thanked Tian Minyan first, then each picked up a piece and ate it standing on the edge, saying, "It's really sweet."
After eating two pieces of melon in succession, Tian Minyan felt that the heat had dropped a lot, so she walked to the porch, built a tent on her eyebrows with her hands, squinted at the sun in the sky and said, "It's really hot this year.
It was a lot hotter last year." Just looking at it, a tinge of heat rose up from the ground in the yard, as hot as a giant steamer.
"No, it's only the end of June now. It's really July. I don't know how hot it will be." Jixiang also said something, and then sighed: "I just have pity on those who farm, but don't let there be a drought."
Well, it hasn’t rained in more than a month.”
Tian Minyan frowned, pursed her lips and thought for a moment, it is indeed true, if there is a drought, the people will suffer from famine again.
If the heat is really going to continue like this, she needs to make some preparations in advance. But the book she read in her previous life didn't mention any mention of drought. But she couldn't remember it, because the butterfly effect she caused also
Many things are different.
After resting for a while, Qi Shiqi sent someone over and said he would take Tian Minyan for a walk.
Tian Minyan wanted to see how the water in Zhuangzi's fields was, so she agreed. In order to avoid suspicion, she also brought Jixiang.
"The sun is strong, put on your gauze hat." Before going out, Qi Shiqi handed over another gauze hat. The thin skein of gauze just reached the neck and was very breathable. Tian Minyan was very touched by his careful and considerate attitude.
Fan.
Since Qi Shiqi was visiting Zhuangzi, he would not be alone. Naturally, the head of the village would personally lead the way and tell interesting stories about Zhuangzi along the way.
Zhuangzi divided the upper and lower villas into upper and lower villas. The upper villa is naturally the main courtyard. Together with the back mountain hot springs, other people are not allowed to go there. Once discovered, they will be driven out of the villa.
Xiazhuang is inhabited by farmers, who have built houses in a scattered manner. It is almost noon, and there is very little smoke from the chimneys on those houses. It is time to cook lunch.
Xiazhuang diverted a stream from upstream. The water was clear and half-grown children were playing in it. Seeing Tian Minyan, the boudoir lady, at the village head, Manager Liu was afraid of a collision, so he hurriedly sent people to drive them away. After all, some children were
Completely naked.
As if aware of Qi Shiqi's gaze, Tian Minyan's face felt a little hot. She moved her eyes away and simply asked: "Manager Liu, is there just such a stream in Zhuangzi? Is it enough for farmland irrigation?"
Manager Liu was taken aback for a moment and replied hurriedly: "There is only one stream, and there are canals in every field ridge, but it is enough for irrigation."
Tian Minyan pursed her lips, stood by the stream and knelt down, lifted up the gauze of her gauze hat and looked into the stream carefully, but she frowned.
Seeing her expression, Qi Shiqi asked with a sullen face: "What? Is there something wrong?" He knew Tian Minyan and would never ask these questions for no reason. She must have thought about it when she asked this.
Tian Minyan looked at the water marks on the grass by the stream, but did not answer Qi Shiqi's question. She just asked Manager Liu: "The water in this stream used to be more shallow, right?"
Manager Liu didn't understand what she meant, but he was very surprised, so he asked, "How does Mr. Huimin know? This stream was very deep in previous years, but this year it is much shallower in summer. It must be because the weather is too hot."
reason."
Tian Minyan frowned deeply, stood up, and walked forward, as if thinking about something.
After walking along the field ridge for a short time, I saw an old farmer digging the field ridge with a hoe to divert water. Tian Minyan walked over and asked politely: "Old man, are you still busy?"
When the old farmer saw the luxuriously dressed people with dark faces in front of him, he became a little wary. He took two steps back and looked at Tian Minyan and his party warily.
When Manager Liu saw this, he wanted to step forward to explain, but Qi Shiqi waved his hand to indicate that he was not allowed to speak, and he retreated into the distance in shock.
"Don't be afraid, old man, we are not bad people." Tian Minyan lifted her gauze hat and revealed a sweet smile.
"What's going on?" When the old farmer saw that Tian Minyan had a beautiful face, he was stunned for a moment and asked.
"Old man, it's really hot this year. We need a lot of water in these fields."
Seeing that they were talking about farming, the old farmer's eyes became less wary and he said, "No, in summer we have to water every day. The fields are irrigated in the morning and dry in the afternoon."
Tian Minyan's heart thumped when she heard this, and her heart became colder and colder, but she smiled and asked a few more questions, and then said: "Old man, it will be noon soon, go home quickly, don't get too hot."
"Hey." The old farmer responded with a smile, but he was thinking in his heart, where could such a noble person come from, so good-looking and kind, that people would fall in love with him upon seeing him.
After walking a few steps, Qi Shiqi saw Tian Minyan's solemn look and asked, "What on earth is going on?"
Seeing that the person behind her was a few steps behind, Tian Minyan pondered for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid I need to send someone to the water storage area upstream to check the water level. It's unusually hot today, and I'm afraid..."
She didn't say everything, but who is Qi Shiqi? He heard everything she asked just now, and then thinking about this year's hot summer, his face darkened and he said: "You mean?"
Tian Minyan looked into his eyes and nodded. She was not afraid of others, but of drought. It was already the end of June, and the rice was already heading and growing, and it would be harvested soon. If it withered at this time, this crop would be terrible.
It's useless.
Qi Shiqi's face was as dark as water. He thought for a while and said, "Let's go to other places for a walk."
Tian Minyan nodded, and both of them looked a little solemn. Drought is no joke.
Manager Liu saw that the expressions on the two people's faces were different, and when he thought of Tian Minyan's question, he couldn't help but turn pale.
After walking in such a circle, many farmlands were extremely dry. Some fields dried up quickly even though they were filled with water. Qi Shiqi's face was already dark.
The sun was getting stronger and stronger, and even though Tian Minyan was wearing a gauze hat, she felt like smoke was coming out of her head. She was so sweaty that she wished she could soak in cold water.
Qi Shiqi was also so hot that he was wet with sweat, so he walked back. Before he reached the gate of Shangzhuang, he saw several people gathered around the road and they didn't know what they were doing.
Tian Minyan and Qi Qi Qi looked at each other, and Qi Qi Qi glanced at Manager Liu. The latter immediately stepped forward to ask questions and came back to report soon.
"Back to my lord, a peasant woman has fainted."
Comatose in this weather? Tian Minyan frowned and was about to step forward.
Qi Shiqi indeed pulled her and said with a stern face: "Let them go."
Tian Minyan smiled and said, "It's okay. I'll just take a look. Maybe I have heat stroke."
Even so, Qi Shiqi was still worried, so he accompanied her there and asked people to evacuate those who were surrounding her.
I saw a peasant woman in her twenties or thirties lying on the ground, her face was pale, and she would twitch from time to time. He touched her skin and it was extremely hot. Tian Minyan checked her hands and feet and there were no wounds. She understood in her heart. Then she looked at her slightly.
The swollen belly is actually pregnant.
"She's suffering from heatstroke. Take her to a cool place and get some water." Tian Minyan ordered in a calm voice.
Manager Liu sent someone to carry the peasant woman to the foot of a tree and fetched water. Tian Minyan took out a handkerchief and soaked it, telling the man to avoid it. She then unbuttoned the peasant woman's shirt and wet the handkerchief.
I wiped my neck and forehead to cool down.
After such repeated physical cooling, the peasant woman woke up after a while and looked at Tian Minyan with some confusion: "Who are you? What's wrong with me?"
"Sister-in-law, you have heatstroke. Where is your home? I'll have someone take you back." Tian Minyan said with a faint smile.
The peasant woman struggled to get up, and Ji Xiang hurriedly helped her. At this time, an anxious voice came over.
"Dazhu Niang, what's wrong with you?"
Tian Minyan looked back and saw a man running over quickly with a hoe. Ji Xiang hurriedly stood in front of Tian Minyan to avoid collision.
"It's okay." Tian Minyan said softly.
"Dazhu's father." The peasant woman called out weakly when she saw the man.
"What's going on? Didn't you let your family go? Why did you end up here?" The man dropped his hoe and asked urgently.
"She had heat stroke, and it was my lady who saved her," Jixiang explained.
Manager Liu then said: "This is the Lord of Huimin County, why don't you kowtow to the County Lord?"
The men and the others were stunned. Then they saw that Tian Minyan was gorgeously dressed and had an extraordinary temperament. Then they heard that Tian Minyan was a county king. They knew that she was a noble person, so they knelt on the ground and said hurriedly: "Thank you so much, Mr. Huimin, and thank you so much for saving my life."
"Nothing, it's just a piece of cake. Go home and have a rest. This sister-in-law is also pregnant. She needs to ask a doctor to take care of her and take care of her." Tian Minyan said with a light smile.
"Yes, yes." The man nodded hastily.
Tian Minyan nodded to Qi Shiqi who was standing beside him, and said to Jixiang: "Let's go too."
The man and his wife watched the few people leaving, and felt happy in their hearts, saying: "Fortunately, I met a noble person, otherwise..."
But Qi Shiqi heard this sentence with sharp ears and said jokingly: "You have become someone's great benefactor unintentionally."
Tian Minyan smiled slightly and said: "I didn't do anything. It's so hot today, so heat stroke is not surprising. If it's still this hot in July, I guess more people will suffer from heat stroke." As she spoke, there was a hint of heat in her tone.
Faint worry.
Qi Shiqi remained silent, and only asked the captain beside him to go upstream to check the water level. If the water level dropped too much, it would be really bad.
After returning to the yard, the two of them went back to the house to freshen up, change into fresh clothes, and ate ice-cold mung bean soup. Only then did they feel that the heat had dropped a bit.
Because the weather was too hot, all I had for lunch were simple and refreshing side dishes. After taking a nap, Tian Minyan was invited to the yard where Qi Shiqi was. Seeing that Li An, the chief follower sent by Qi Shiqi, had returned,
I couldn't help but walk up quickly.
"Say it again." Qi Shiqi saw her coming and asked her to sit down, then moved the ice-covered mung bean soup on the table towards her.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Li An clasped his fists, glanced at Tian Minyan and said, "My subordinates went upstream to detect the water level there. It is at least half lower than before, and the water diverted to other streams and rivers has also dried up.
Be quick, if it doesn't rain again, I'm afraid..."
"Li An, do you think the water can last until the summer harvest?" Tian Minyan asked with a frown.
Li An was a little embarrassed and couldn't answer. He had never farmed before, so these speculations were unpredictable.
Qi Shiqi also saw his dilemma, so he asked him to go down and said: "Li An doesn't understand this. He will have to send an old farmer to see it. I will ask Manager Liu to take someone to see it."
Tian Minyan nodded and reminded: "Your Majesty, remember, we are just going to detect the water level, so as not to cause panic among the people." Once the people know that there may be a drought, the water will not be enough to support the summer harvest, and there will probably be a rush to intercept the water.
, in this case there will inevitably be physical conflicts.
Qi Shiqi didn't know why, so he nodded and said, "I have a sense of discretion."
The two talked for a while, and then Jixiang came to the peasant woman who had been rescued by Tian Minyan and brought a basket of eggs and local products to express his gratitude.
Tian Minyan saw Qi Qiqi raising her eyebrows, shook her head and said, "After all, he is an honest banker, and he will remember a little kindness in his heart."
Qi Shiqi curled his lips and said, "Let's go and see what good stuff it is."
