"In the past, after harvesting the wheat fields, most people would burn the stalks as firewood. Though straw is flammable, it doesn't burn as well as firewood. People believe that applying organic fertilizer enriches the soil, but... Shanru thinks that instead of doing so, fermenting straw with organic fertilizer to use as manure is the real way to enrich the land."
Bai Qingyan nodded: "Good... if this time you increase the harvest of the rice paddies and also the wheat fields, then you will have done a great service for the people."
If Zeng Shanru truly succeeds, such a contribution... would deserve a title of nobility.
In this way, Nanny Tong would also see the fruits of her labor.
Zeng Shanru hurriedly responded: "Shanru is simply doing what is my duty; I dare not take credit for it!"
