Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 603 - 601: Chubby, You Need to Lose Some Weight

Chapter 603: Chapter 601: Chubby, You Need to Lose Some Weight

The people of the Great Tang are truly passionate and exuberant, especially those in Chang’an City.

Every year around the Cold Food Festival, both sides of Qujiang Pool are densely packed with felt tents. There are spirited young gentlemen on spirited horses, radiant farm girls, fragrant carriages with luxurious curtains, all amidst a cacophony of laughter and joy.

The saying goes, "Everywhere in the spring city flowers fly, the east wind eases the willows during the Cold Food Festival."

Lin Wanwan chose not to join the bustling crowds, but the spring outing spot she picked for the princes was perhaps a bit too secluded.

By the time Li Tai ate his third slice of steamed pear, he could no longer sit still. It was rare for him to leave the palace; what fun was there in staying in the countryside estate to watch flowers, grass, and even his sisters play the lute and write poems?

Even for playing mahjong, you need four players!

"Le’an, I want to go for a walk by the water. When I passed by earlier, I saw a huge thing standing by the river and was quite curious." Li Tai couldn’t sit still and directly asked to go out.

Lin Wanwan naturally had to satisfy him: "That’s a tube cart for irrigating the fields."

The group planned to go out, and went to the treehouse to call out young Qingyu and young Li Zhi. But the two little ones were playing exuberantly in their own world and didn’t want to leave.

"Mother, Zhiniu said he doesn’t want to go out; I’m staying with him, we’re playing house now."

Zhiniu? In such a short time, young Qingyu was already calling Li Zhi by his nickname?

Sure enough, in a child’s world, there’s no distinction between status; it only takes five minutes to become good friends.

Young Li Zhi, whose entertainment was rather lacking, was dazzled by the endless array of games young Qingyu came up with, and didn’t want to leave at all.

Since the two little ones weren’t interested in going out, Lin Wanwan and the others gave up too.

After all, the two were in the estate, surrounded by palace maids, guards, and eunuchs, with at least a dozen people around them, so there was nothing to worry about.

Since they were in the countryside on her own land, Lin Wanwan didn’t wear a veil when going out, just boldly taking Li Lizhi and Li Zhi out with her.

Li Lizhi hesitated for a moment before deciding to not wear a hat like Lin Wanwan.

Leaving from the front gate of the estate, after walking about twenty meters, they arrived at the riverbank. The east side of the river was full of country paths and large fields, while the west side, where Lin Wanwan and her group walked, was a widened gravel road, which Lin Wanwan had paid to expand.

To become rich, first build roads; this investment is necessary. Besides, it wasn’t her only expense; there was Li Lizhi’s private money in it, and at the time, it was said to facilitate the transport of soap and soap from the Soap and Music Workshop.

The three of them, accompanied by a crowd of servants, walked along the riverbank lined with willows that Lin Wanwan had transplanted from modern times. Sunlight filtered through the shade, casting changing patterns on their faces and bodies, like a playful child playing hide and seek with them.

The air was completely unpolluted, the sound of birds and fragrance of flowers filling their ears.

In the fragrant April day of the human world, the spring breeze gently caressed, green waves of wheat surged in waves, and joyful songs floated from the depths of the fields.

People of the Great Tang have a special love for singing and dancing, with a heart for performances from top to bottom. They sing when they eat, when they bid farewell, when they’re happy, and even when they’re sad, singing when they welcome, and naturally when they farm!

Even clothes full of patches can’t hide the farmers’ fervent hearts. With rare favorable weather this year and having such a great master, they looked forward to better days every day, so they couldn’t be in a bad mood.

Potatoes had long been planted under Sun Chuyao’s instruction, and after the Qingming Festival, the potato vines began to be planted.

Though the farmers of Mozhu Village still doubted these unfamiliar vines and shoots, due to the presence of the Soap and Music Workshop, regular wages, and benefits like leftover soap and detergent, they had developed a blind trust in the Village Lady Le’an who owned the estate.

If you can’t resist, then enjoy it.

Moreover, Village Lady Le’an wasn’t the sort to act recklessly.

She stood by the river, gesturing where to place a tube cart for watering the fields, and then the cart was made and truly showed remarkable efficiency in irrigation, saving everyone a great deal of effort.

Fetching water and watering, trip after trip, was a life-draining task.

Chubby little Li Tai couldn’t walk a few steps without sweating all over, panting a little.

He glanced back among the servants, and a Kunlun slave, carrying a uniquely designed chair, stepped forward and kneeled on one knee before Li Tai.

Just as Li Tai was about to climb onto the chair on the Kunlun slave’s back, Lin Wanwan sourly commented, "Oh dear, what’s this Kunlun slave up to? Underestimating us? Thinking we can’t even walk a few steps? It’s laughable, I could walk from here to Chang’an City without even taking a breath."

Caught red-handed, Li Tai instantly withdrew his hands and feet, feeling that Lin Wanwan was making an insinuation against him, and the evidence was more than obvious.

Thin-skinned as a teenager, he didn’t want to lose face in front of the bright young lady, so he pushed the Kunlun slave away, irritated: "What are you doing? Get away, I’m not sitting on it!"

The Kunlun slave innocently apologized and then retreated.

Lin Wanwan genuinely thought Li Tai needed to lose weight, as getting chubby sealed off his good looks!

After just a couple of steps, he wanted to slack off; how could his health improve this way?

Historically, Li Shimin, who doted on his legitimate sons, because he worried about Li Tai’s weight and the effort it took for him to walk, even permitted him to take a palanquin to court!

For the children born of Empress Zhangsun, Li Shimin almost couldn’t wait to hold each one in his hands! 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Fortunately, the group wasn’t far from the tube cart; once they got there, Li Tai surreptitiously took a big breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a silk kerchief.

"Here, Prince Wei, this is for you." Lin Wanwan handed Li Tai a neatly folded pure cotton handkerchief.

"What is this?" Li Tai curiously took it, unfolded it, and saw a peculiar but inexplicably cute embroidery on it. "Is this a handkerchief?"

"Yes, and it’s entirely woven from Gaochang cotton, excellent for absorbing sweat, much more useful than silk kerchiefs, give it a try." Lin Wanwan took the opportunity to promote her cotton by-products.

"A kerchief made of Gaochang cotton?" Li Tai was extremely curious. Chang’an had cotton, too, but mostly grown for ornamental purposes in gardens, and no one had thought of using it for weaving.

Cotton would inevitably become the leading industry in Mao County. Historically, thanks to Huang Daopo, the Yangtze River Delta region became prosperous through cotton.

But now Lin Wanwan had already brought cotton seeds and weaving technology to the Great Tang in advance, doing what Huang Daopo did back then.

The Jiangnan region—especially Mao County, was about to witness better days.

Once the cotton industry chain was on the right track, coupled with the fertile land resulting from the completion of Ta Mountain Dam, along with the various high-yield crops Lin Wanwan relocated, it would be hard not to prosper.