Chapter 147 – Going to the capital city to do business

The small face was fair and the bright eyes were clear.

In a trance Wei Mingting can not help but think of his daughter’s playful, cute and lively appearance when she was small.

In front of him, a sweet-smiling little girl ran towards him with a smile on her face, shouting “Daddy”.

Wan Wan was also white and cute when she was a child, only every time she saw him she was a little timid and cautious, even her voice was small when she called out to her father.

If it was Ruo’er, she should not be afraid of him, and would still pander to him in a dignified manner.

It’s just a shame that, as fate would have it, he missed out on all this after all.

“Father?” Wei Ruo realized that Wei Mingting was looking at himself out of his mind.

Wei Mingting came back to his senses and realized that he had lost his temper.

“Ruo’er ah, my father doesn’t know how to thank you.” Wei Mingting’s heart roamed with warmth

“Father doesn’t need to thank me in this matter, Ying Ying and I are not just sending these herbs for father’s sake, but also for the sake of the entire army and for the people of Xing Shan.” Wei Ruo replied.

With a thousand is Wei Mingting or something else really has no relationship, as long as it is not what treacherous villain, today this medicinal herbs Wei Ruo and Xie Ying are going to send.

“No matter what, the Anti-Japanese Army owes you and Ms. Xie a debt of gratitude, the injured generals owe you a debt of gratitude, and my father owes you a debt of gratitude as well.” Wei Mingting’s tone was solemn.

“Father let’s talk about these words after the war is over, I know you guys still have to be busy, so I’ll leave you alone for now. I’ll send you over once Ying Ying and I have organized some of the remaining herbs.” Wei Ruo said.

“Good, be careful on your way back.”

Wei Mingting admonished, then reluctantly watched Wei Ruo walk out of his tent.

###

After Wei Ruo gave the medicinal herbs to the Anti-Japanese Army, he didn’t continue to care about this side of the Xingshan County, and departed for the capital city with Mrs. Yuan.

After arriving at the Prefecture, Wei Ruo stayed in Tian Qin Yuan under the arrangement of Mrs. Yuan.

After arriving here, Wei Ruo was free of constraints and didn’t need to come as carefully as he did when he was in the school captain’s mansion.

Early in the morning of the second day after staying there, Wei Ruo took Xiu Mei to the manor.

Wei Ruo met Xu Zhushan, as well as the stewards of the manor.

Stewardship is a man in his forties, surnamed Yu, body shape some Luo pot, face thin, but people look quite honest and decent.

Uncle Xu came a few days, this steward did not rely on Uncle Xu honestly hide something from him, respectfully accompanied him to do his work, from this point can also be slightly seen in this person’s heart.

Xu Zhushan has already mapped out and smoothed out the situation on the manor during this time.

Wei Ruo called the two to his attention and asked them about other lands in the neighborhood.

And then Wei Ruo commanded, “In this way, you help me to understand, there are nearby to sell the land, pawn the land, we collect all.”

“Miss, you’re taking over a large area of land?” Steward Yu was a bit surprised.

“Well, repossess the land.” Wei Ruo had a firm attitude.

“But miss, the weather has been bad lately, the grain everywhere is not harvested, and now this land is collected for fear …… that it is not suitable.” Steward Yu reminded.

“It’s fine, as long as the price is right, we’ll just go ahead and collect them.” Wei Ruo naturally knew this, but she had already thought about doing so as well.

Now that grain production has decreased, it is the time when the price of land is low, Wei Ruo intends to take advantage of this time to purchase more fields and expand his industry.

And Wei Ruo happened to have that one hundred taels of gold in her hand, and had that capital to buy the land.

“What about the …… manpower issue? Miss, if you buy the land, you will inevitably need more manpower.” Steward Yu asked again.

Now these people on the estate only have enough to manage the fields on their estate, and with more land, there will not be enough manpower.

“Hire the poor peasants who have lost their land, the stragglers.” Wei Ruo said.

“Employing poor peasant stragglers?” The steward was a bit surprised.

The poor peasants are not so bad, but the stragglers are a bit surprised.

Steward Yu thought about it, but still said to Wei Ruo, “Miss, the stragglers live in no fixed place, it’s difficult to figure out their details, it’s not easy to manage them, and it’s easy to make a mess ……”

“I know it would take a little more effort and the pitfalls would be greater than just hiring locals who know what they’re doing, but I’m willing to make the attempt.”

Wei Ruo was of course considering inviting out, willing to do so was definitely thought out, even if it would be relatively difficult to manage and prone to some mistakes, she didn’t want to kill all the stragglers in one shot just because she was afraid of such trouble.

Because these are the people who are most vulnerable and most in need of having a breadwinner.

“Alright then, I’ll go and open up and arrange it up.” Steward Yu immediately set out to do so.

Wei Ruo and Xiu Mei followed Xu Zhushan and toured the manor again, Mrs. Yuan gave this manor, the land is indeed better than the average, fertile soil, now the soil renovation has been completed, and will soon be able to plant the new wheat seeds Wei Ruo brought.

The elders who plowed the farms at this time had many opinions about sowing wheat at this time, and they felt that wheat planted at this time would most likely be difficult to grow well.

Although they didn’t believe it in their hearts, the stewards did the work they were told to do.

Wei Ruo has no opinion on this, after all, it is indeed past the usual time for wheat sowing, and it is only natural for them to be worried, as long as they can do the work in their hands well.

Wei Ruo worked on the manor for two days, arranging all the things that should be arranged, and then he took Wei Ruo to the streets of the capital city to wander around.

It looks like you’re wandering around, but you’re picking out the right store.

Originally, to open a store in the Prefecture, a foreigner like her with no background might not be able to get it done even if she had the money, but she had the backing of Mrs. Yuan, so she was spared that weight of worry.

Although the sky is so high and the emperor is so far away here that the people in the School Captain’s Office won’t know about it, but just to be careful, Wei Ruo wears a drape hat when she goes out.

After all, as a daughter of the clan, it was reasonable to be interested in farming, but to open a store on the street was no longer reasonable.

The two of them shopped for two days, and Wei Ruo finally took a fancy to the two side-by-side stores near the Drunken Immortal Residence.

The store wasn’t cheap, but Wei Ruo felt the location was right for the price.

Wei Ruo loves money, but as long as it is worth spending she will spend it without stinting, shedding the child to catch the wolf.

One of them, Wei Ruo, was planning to open another branch of Four Treasures.

These supplies, surely, are better sold in places where the scholars and the powerful gather and where there are many students, and the Prefectural City must be better than the County City.

Only then, she would have to find a way to expand her papermaking workshop.

Four treasures of the other three Wei Ruo is not their own workshop production, but Wei Ruo contacted other stores for procurement, the amount of goods tube enough; only this paper is their own production, limited production.

So has always been four treasure Zhai sell paper are limited, and as far as possible to ride on other products to sell, in order to increase sales.