Chapter 217 – Chulan’s Trial

Moreover, at that time, Chu Lan could not easily trust anyone, even Yuan Zhengqin, who was the governor, Chu Lan could not trust him.

In contrast, Fan Chengxu is a bit more trustworthy.

Because Fan Chengxu is half an outsider, behind him the Fan family is what Chu Lan is not clear, but Fan Chengxu himself is an anomaly, from the time when the two were studying together, he is a whole day only think about how to do business to earn silver people.

Although Fan Chengxu and many of the Prince with the study of the industry but never with any of the Prince close, unwilling to get involved in any struggle, and Chu Lan is not close.

There was a time when Chu Lan, Fan Cheng Xu and the other princes who went to school together were playing Flying Flower Order together, and each of them took the pronouns; Qing Yuan was the pronoun that Fan Cheng Xu took at that time, while Zong Yu was Chu Lan’s pronoun.

Therefore, Fan Chengxu not only recognized Chu Lan’s handwriting, but when he saw that the signature was Zong Yu, he also immediately determined that the person who wrote the letter was Chu Lan.

Because the letter only said the matter of borrowing money, Fan Chengxu pondered over it and kept it quiet, only sending the silver check over and providing what help he could.

As Chu Lan had expected, Fan Chengxu had not informed anyone, including his high-powered uncle.

After thinking for a while, Fan Chengxu took the box of jewelry.

“My humble servant bows to His Highness’ grace.”

Fan Chengxu, who had received his thanks, quietly waited for Chu Lan’s later questioning.

He knew that if it was just to “pay back the money”, Chu Lan would not have made the trip himself, and since he had come, he must have other things.

But Chu Lan didn’t mention it, and Fan Chengxu didn’t take the initiative to ask.

After a long moment of silence, Chu Lan asked, “Have you gotten any news regarding my attack this time?”

“Your Highness forgive me, that’s all I know about your injury, before I received your letter, I only knew that you were attacked and disappeared, I didn’t know the rest.” Fan Chengxu immediately brushed aside his involvement.

“As the local snake of Taizhou Prefecture, there should be quite a few eyes and ears here.” Chu Lan said.

“Although I’ve been in Taizhou Prefecture for some years, my mind is mostly spent on doing business and I don’t really know much about other things.” Fan Chengxu replied, dripping with water.

“Then who do you think could have possibly put the hit on me?” Chu Lan asked again.

His pair of sharp eyes scrutinized Fan Chengxu, as if he wanted to see some kind of break in Fan Chengxu’s body.

“Your Highness, I wouldn’t dare to speculate on a matter of such magnitude?” Fan Chengxu laughed, still dripping with water.

“Then do you know that someone recently presented a copy of Duke Xu’s handwritten suicide note from that year to the Emperor, which is expected to overturn the case for Duke Xu.” Chu Lan suddenly mentioned a name that no one had dared to mention publicly for a long time.

“Lord Xu’s handwritten suicide note? How can? This is the past eighteen years, when the Duke Xu’s house was copied and turned upside down, to have a suicide note how will wait until now ……”

Fan Chengxu showed a surprised expression.

Fan Chengxu added, “Besides, it’s been eighteen years since then, and all the people related to the Duke of Xu Mansion are only left with white bones, who else will overturn the case for the Duke of Xu Mansion?”

“Don’t forget that back then, Empress Xu even gave birth to a child in Jing’an Temple.” Chu Lan said.

“Your Highness don’t joke, the Ninth Prince was buried on the Dragon Ring Mountain west of the capital, and the Emperor even built a special Emperor’s Mausoleum for him.”

This treatment is only the ninth prince has, before the premature death of the prince also have, but all do not have this treatment.

“But recent rumors are that he is still alive.” Chu Lan said.

“That’s unlikely ……”

“Impossible, something has happened.” Chu Lan said.

“This straw man doesn’t know.” Fan Chengxu could only smile.

Chu Lan looked at Fan Cheng Xu’s appearance and knew that he couldn’t ask anything.

Then he turned and left.

It was only until Chu Lan left that Fan Cheng Xu helplessly shook his fan and sighed, “What a trouble, I’ve come so far to hide, how can trouble still find me here?”

He only cared about making money, Chu Lan wanted to pull him into the water he was not going to foolishly follow and jump down.

At that time he received Chu Lan’s letter he had no choice but not to help, which is why he contributed money and effort again.

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On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, spring begins.

The weather is warming up and a new year of farming will begin.

When Wei Ruo arrived at the manor, the manor had been busy all morning.

Steward Yu smiled and explained to Wei Ruo, “Last year everyone was almost starving and freezing, this year they are determined to plow well and want to have enough to eat, so when the temperatures warmed up a little, they started working, and now the ground has been turned over, just waiting for the proprietor to give you the word.”

“Last year’s improved and fertilized land, this year and then spend some more effort to all the whole into a rice paddy, after two months will start to do rice paddy ready to sow seedlings, this year may still be colder than in previous years, so earlier time to plant.” Wei Ruo commanded.

Wei Ruo in the outskirts of the capital city of the manor is mainly divided into two parts, the original good land has a thousand acres and later the new purchase of the soil is not so fertile land, this part is also almost more than a thousand acres.

The original one thousand acres of good land, nine hundred acres are planted with her new wheat seed, now the growth is still good, last year’s snow did not affect them too much, just wait for April and May when the harvest can be.

There are also a hundred acres of good land planted with cold-resistant vegetables – rape, radish, cabbage, etc. Except for the days of heavy snowfall, some can be picked daily.

The back of the acquisition of more than 1,000 acres of fields since last year has been doing the work of improving and fertilizing, and now it is almost done, and when the ground has been turned, leveled, and irrigated, it will be used for sowing rice.

“Planting too early I’m a little worried that the seedlings won’t grow well, and these temperatures aren’t too high today.” Steward Yu said.

“Don’t worry, I’ll ship some good grain seeds over, you plant them according to my instructions and there won’t be any problems.” Wei Ruo was confident.

“Good.” The proprietor was so sure, Steward Yu had no more doubts.

After spending the morning at the manor, he returned home in the afternoon, and before his butt was even warmed up, Cui Ping came over to invite him.

“Missy, Madame asks you to come over.”

Wei Ruo guessed that it would be possible that Yun was again annoyed with her move to run outside.

These days because Mr. Wang Caiwei has not yet returned to the Taizhou Mansion, she has not been to the Tianqin Garden class, coinciding with the beginning of spring, Wei Ruo will be free to go to the manor to arrange matters.

Wei Ruo didn’t ask much and followed Cui Ping to Cang Yun Yuan.

Upon entering, Yun greeted Wei Ruo with a smile on her face as she sat down beside herself.

“What did mother seek me out for?” Wei Ruo asked.

“It’s like this, last year your father was promoted to an official position and received some rewards, together with the dowry for my mother, he was able to come up with seven to eight hundred taels of silver, and my mother would like to use this amount of silver to purchase some more properties in the Prefecture.”

Yun also has a brain, with silver to buy property.

Their family is just that one manor in Xingshan County, which is definitely not enough.

meso- (chemistry)