Chapter 12: Wanting to go out

“I’m afraid that one day my father, mother, and elder brothers will all be like my grandfather and abandon me. The thought of that day coming is like my heart being roasted by fire.”

Hearing this, Sister Li hurriedly comforted, “Miss you don’t need to worry about this, they love Missy because of the blood relationship, but they love you, Miss, because of your love for more than ten years, that’s real and true, no one can erase it!”

“Missy more than ten years are living in the countryside, there is no learning and no culture, just entered the house these few days is still well disguised, but not the bones are carried, sooner or later to reveal the cloven foot, now is only just recognize each other, because of the deficit, Mrs. young master to Missy naturally more tolerant, and so on the time has gone by, this tolerance will be worn out.”

Sister Li analyzed the pros and cons for Wei Qingwan.

Wei Qingwan shook her head, “If she is really as you say, coarse and brutal, I would not be so worried, but I saw Wei Qingruo’s performance at the dinner table, not like the general mountain women that coarse, you said that kind of situation may not happen …… “

Sister Li had a worried look on her face, “Miss, don’t always think in a bad direction, don’t worry about it, I’ve seen Missy’s true colors these past few days when I was teaching her the rules, and I’m sure that her well-behaved appearance in front of the master and madam were all faked.”

“Really?” Wei Qingwan couldn’t help but feel happy in her heart.

“It’s true!”

“Sister, I also know that I shouldn’t expect my sister to be bad, it’s that I’m just too scared …… I’m like a floating duckweed in the pond nowadays, and I don’t know where I’ll float to if I’m not careful …… “

“The old slave knows, Miss you have a good heart, if it is not recently Miss suffered too much aggression, will not be this way to think of others. Miss you don’t worry, some things old slave will do for you, don’t need you worry sad.”

“Well ……”

Having been comforted by Sister Li, Wei Qingwan’s mood was slightly better.

And then she fell asleep under the ministrations of Sister Li and Cui He.

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Early the next morning, Wei Ruo went to Yun’s and told her about her idea of going out.

Just planting some crops inside the yard was not enough for Wei Ruo.

For one thing, more experience was needed for space upgrades; for another, she needed to earn more capital for her own life to ensure that she had the ability to survive after leaving the Wei family.

So Wei Ruo now needed to find a way to expand her industry, first she had to go out.

As a lady of the house, one could not go out easily, and if one wanted to go out one had to have permission from the mother of the house.

“Where does Ruo’er want to go?” Yun didn’t get angry and patiently inquired.

“I’d like to look around the county and see the villages and fields there, I wonder if it’s convenient?”

“There is no problem with the surrounding mountain villages, but you can only go to the northwest, you can’t go outside of the southeast city, and even less to the seashore, those godless Japanese invaders don’t know when they’ll run out and cause trouble. How about this, our family has a terraced mountain in the north of the city, you can go there to take a look.” Yun explained.

“Yeah.” Just what she wanted.

“Would it be all right if I accompanied you in a few moments after I’ve read the ledger?”

“Don’t bother, I’ll just go by myself.”

“That won’t do, Ruo’er, you’re a lady of the house now, you can’t just run around anymore, and although the city isn’t as dangerous as the outside of the city, it’s still not safe enough for you as a girl.”

“Then mother will find someone to follow me, no need to personally accompany me to such a troublesome place, mother has to be busy with a large family, I can’t delay mother any longer and make her suffer.”

It would be inconvenient for Yun to follow along when she wanted to run errands.

Yun: “Ruo’er really understands and knows to care for my mother.”

Uh …… she didn’t actually mean that.

“Mother let me go by myself.” Wei Ruo said.

“Well, I also know that you’re not quite used to life in the mansion yet, so it’s fine to go and look around, but you can’t run around, okay?”

“Good.”

After receiving Yun’s approval, Wei Ruo hurriedly prepared to go out.

Yun sent a carriage, a Sister and a guard to accompany Wei Ruo.

That Sister was the other of the two Sisters who had gone to fetch Wei Ruo in the first place – Sister Zhang.

When she learned that Wei Ruo was going to run to the countryside again, Sister Zhang’s heart muttered.

What’s wrong with this young lady? Haven’t you spent enough time in the countryside? How come you’ve gone back to the palace as a government lady and you’re still thinking about the countryside?

If it stays like this, not to mention going to the capital later to be laughed at, even in Xingshan County, also fell into the other official family wives and ladies of the laughingstock!

Although the heart of the evening class reluctant, but in the way is the lady’s request, Sister Zhang had to do, see Wei Ruo face is also hanging smile.

Wei Ruo rode the carriage out of the city, and after leaving the northern city gate he could see the rolling hills in the distance, almost all of which had been reclaimed as terraces.

Xingshan County is bordered by the sea in the southeast, and most of the wasteland outside the city is saline and unfavorable for cultivation, so the residents living there make a living by fishing, and now that the Japanese are rampant, the fishermen have fled into the city.

The northwest side is hilly, with many hills and slopes and little arable land, so the industrious people reclaimed terraces and planted rice on the hills.

However, terracing requires more labor than plowing and is much more difficult to grow.

Therefore, even after so many terraces were reclaimed, there was still not enough food to go around.

The carriage turned to a small hill and stopped, Xiu Mei helped Wei Ruo out of the carriage.

Sister Zhang pointed to the small hill in front of her and said to Wei Ruo, “Eldest Miss, this is Steamed Bun Mountain, the property of our school captain’s residence.”

“All this one mountain?”

“Yes.”

“Anything else?”

“No, the school captain’s house has been in Xing Shan County for but five years now, and its base here is still a bit thin. But your grandfather was a loyal uncle in the capital, and the family’s base is much farther from this.” Sister Zhang replied.

Sister said with a face of excitement, in fact, Wei Ruo heart face is clear, Wei family’s old family base has long been consumed almost, only an empty shell of the Earl’s House left.

Wei Mingting is still considered competent, do from the sixth rank of the lieutenant, the small family can also set up some industries, unlike his two older brothers, will only lose the ancestors left behind the industry.

“I’ll go around.” Wei Ruo finished speaking and walked along the path under the mountain.

Sister Zhang had no choice but to follow.

After walking for a while, Sister Zhang felt strained, so she couldn’t help but mutter in her heart.

What the hell is this? How far do we have to go?

This old bone of hers oh!

Seeing Sister Zhang’s strain, Wei Ruo asked her to go back to the carriage to rest first, but Sister Zhang refused, she was not worried about Wei Ruo.

I don’t know what this country girl will do, and I don’t want to be implicated when the time comes.

After walking for a while, Wei Ruo stopped in front of a barren mountain that was still uncultivated.