Chapter 138 – More Silver Is Better Than Less

Wei Ruo first took Xiumei out to go to the nanny, the nanny side has helped Wei Ruo purchased a batch of wheat seeds, now being stored in the warehouse before the storage of sweet potatoes.

There is a lot of empty space in the warehouse these days because of the large number of sweet potatoes being shipped out.

Wei Ruo asked Xiu Mei to guard the door, and he himself dawdled in the warehouse for a long time before coming out.

“Meimei, you take Gui and Xiaobachi to take these bags of rice seeds to the south of the city and distribute a little bit to each family, with special instructions that these rice seeds are of good varieties, and that this amount may not be enough for all of the paddies to be planted, and the remaining insufficient portion will then be replenished with the common grain seeds over there.” Wei Ruo instructed.

In a short period of time, there were only so many space rice seeds Wei Ruo could get, and she was afraid that if she waited any longer, the patience of the people in the south of the city would wait for the light.

Wei Ruo could also very well understand their anxious feelings, if they missed this year’s planting time, it would mean that they would have no food supplies for the coming year.

“Good.” After Xiu Mei got Wei Ruo’s instructions, she instructed the two of them, Gui and Xiaohachi, to help transport all the grain seeds to the car.

A Gui and Xiao Bachi both showed some reluctance, especially the slightly older A Gui, who moved for a while not to do it, said indignantly, “Miss Xiu Mei, our miss is so dedicated to the things in the south of the city, but it turns out that there is no miss’s share of the rewards for the merits, it’s too exasperating.”

It turns out that A Gui and Xiao Bachi have already known about the court’s reward for the work done in opening up the land in the south of the city, and they have followed Wei Ruo for these days, getting paid and rewarded for their work, as well as a lot of benefits.

They naturally couldn’t be happy when Wei Ruo was aggrieved.

Xiu Mei sighed: “One size does not fit all, Miss started to do the opening of the land is not to take credit, but in order to allow more suffering people to eat. If someone treats Miss unfairly, they can’t implicate the innocent people in the south of the city, can they?”

Gui and Hachi looked at each other, they were both convinced.

Xiu Mei continued, “You guys don’t worry too much, you guys are so considerate for Miss, Miss will be very happy to know that, others can’t understand Miss, and laugh at Miss’s basket, we as Miss’s people should understand Miss and support Miss.”

Gui said, “I understand, Hachi and I will do a good job for Miss.”

The duo no longer had a problem with it, and moved quickly to load all the rice seeds in the warehouse.

The oxcart pulling the rice seeds followed Wei Ruo’s carriage out of the south city gate.

Outside the city gates, Governor Qian was also there, and seeing Wei Ruo appear, Governor Qian was surprised and embarrassed.

After hesitating for a moment, Governor Qian still brought people to Wei Ruo’s carriage, and through the curtain of the carriage, Governor Qian said to Wei Ruo, “Miss Wei, you’ve come to deliver rice seeds to the people in the south of the city?”

Wei Ruo said, “It’s not a gift, it’s a sale.”

It was originally a gift, but when I saw Governor Qian open his mouth and ask, it became a sale.

“This ……” Qian Zhixian smile a little stiff.

“I heard that Mr. Qian didn’t get a lot of rewards this time, and I heard that he is expected to be promoted when the next year’s harvest is good.” Wei Ruo sat in the carriage and said unhurriedly through the curtain.

“Thanks to Miss Wei’s blessing.” Qian Zhixian also knew in his heart that if it wasn’t for Miss Wei’s family making this incident, this promotion of his wouldn’t have come so quickly.

“Since this is the case, why don’t Lord Qian do another good deed for the people of Xing Shan County, these grain seeds will be bought by Lord Qian and given to the people who are opening up the land in the south of the city, what does Lord Qian think of it?”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhi Xian Qian said stiffly, “I should should should. How much silver Miss Wei wants to sell with me, I’ll take it all.”

Qian Zhixian apologized to Wei Ruo, he got the other party’s benefits, and now he really shouldn’t let the other party contribute money and effort to add to his political achievements.

Wei Ruo also did not talk nonsense with the Qian Magistrate, and directly opened the price: “Two hundred taels of silver.”

“Two hundred taels?” Governor Qian was clearly shocked by this price.

A few cartloads of wheat seeds will be sold for two hundred taels, which is a bit too expensive!

“If Qian Zhixian thinks it’s expensive you can not buy it, but let me remind Lord Qian that this time has already missed the time when wheat is usually planted, plus the weather is cold and early, it’s not very easy to plant this batch of wheat ……”

Wei Ruo said half of his words, and left the rest to Qian Zhixian’s own brain.

At the words Qian Zhi Xian’s heart stuttered.

If the wheat can be planted, he can report to the head in the middle of next year, on the contrary, if the wheat does not work, and then the rice is affected, and finally failed to complete a large area of the harvest, then he may be promoted without hope!

Qian Zhixian quickly changed his words, “Two hundred taels is not expensive, I’ll let someone go back to the mansion to fetch the silver!”

“I believe that Lord Qian is a man of his word, then I will first thank Lord Qian on behalf of the people of the south of the city, I will first have these wheat seeds distributed.” Wei Ruo said.

“Good, Miss Wei has worked hard.” Governor Qian was filled with a grateful smile.

This Miss Wei certainly doesn’t have to worry about him backing out, because what he bought with these two hundred taels is not only grain seeds, but also Miss Wei’s ability.

Wei Ruo led people away, Qian Zhixian long sigh: hey, this thing really can not be blamed on the Wei family Miss, change him he is also not happy.

But he was also confused about the matter, how did he know what was going on at the top.

Wei Ruo took Xiu Mei, Ah Gui and Xiao Bao to distribute the wheat seeds to the people of the city’s southern open fields, and explained matters related to their planting, and asked them to use hole sowing, concentrate on fertilizer, and keep the depth of the sowing the same.

Such sowing requires more labor-intensive methods, but is conducive to higher yields.

Regarding Wei Ruo’s instructions, the people in the south of the city all remembered them firmly, and no one dared to be interestingly slack.

Whether or not they can have a good harvest next year is all counting on Miss Wei! If Miss Wei asks them to do it, they can’t go wrong!

Wei Ruo busy also got the two hundred taels of silver sent over by Qian Zhixian.

After finishing the things in the south of the city, Wei Ruo returned to the city and saw that the time was still early, so he first went to the Four Treasures.

The milkmaid presented the new ledger again and told Wei Ruo the good news.

Although Wei Ruo had taken out a lot of supplies for the relief of the affected people during this period of time, the total was still profitable.

Those things that were procured in advance and used to specialize in selling to the powerful and wealthy still sold at a good price, allowing Wei Ruo to make a hard profit.

“Miss, this is the account book of Xu Ji’s grain store, these days, the business of the grain store is much better than that of Four Treasures, the sale of rice and charcoal is especially good. The sweet potatoes, except for the ones you took to relieve the affected people, miss, and the portion you requested to be left behind as reserve grains, the rest were all sold out.”

This recent situation, even the original wealthy families have begun to scrimp and save, the four treasures sold in the store without Xu Ji grain store sold things more real, business is not as good as Xu Ji grain store is very reasonable.