Chapter 281 – Taking over Caili Farm

Lu Yuhong going to study at An Zhou Academy wasn’t just as simple as it appeared, he also had a mission – to help Chu Lan find the Ninth Prince.

Because according to all the previous clues, that Ninth Prince should be in the Jiangnan area if he was alive.

“Xu Guo Gong case overturned can never be a coincidence, behind the scenes there must be someone to push the waves, just is not yet clear who did it.” Chu Lan asserted.

Originally the emperor on the late Empress Xu can not forget, Xu Guo Gong case overturned, the nine princes if still alive, the result can be imagined, the situation in this court is bound to skyrocket changes.

“Hey, I can’t figure this out anyway, I’ll help you find it if you let me, I don’t care about the rest.” Lu Yuhong waved his hand, pressing down on things that took so much of his brain.

“Uh-huh.” Chu Lan naturally knew that Lu Yuhong couldn’t hear any of this.

And it was because he didn’t care about that that he was willing to talk to him.

Being in his position, it’s hard to surround yourself with someone you can know and trust ……

Thinking of this, a figure suddenly surfaced in Chu Lan’s mind.

That afternoon, he sat idly with him in the courtyard of the farmhouse basking in the sun and sipping the secret tea that was only available at his place.

Thinking about this, Chu Lan changed to the tea house attendant, “Do you have any winter melon tea here?”

The squire shook his head in bewilderment, not knowing what winter melon tea was.

Chu Lan was a bit disappointed, “Stand down.”

Lu Yuhong came energized: “Winter melon tea? What’s that? Is it good?”

Lu Yuhong’s interest in eating was far higher than his interest in the strife in the court.

“It’s good, you just can’t drink it anywhere else.” Chu Lan said.

“Then where can we drink it, let’s drink it!” Lu Yuhong was full of curiosity about things he hadn’t tasted.

“Let’s wait until we have the chance, that place isn’t something you can go to just because you want to.” Chu Lan said.

“There are still places within this Taizhou Province that your Seventh Prince wants to go to that he can’t?” Lu Yuhong said suspiciously.

“Uh-huh. There.” After saying that Chu Lan’s eyes moved to the window, looking towards the East Lake, pondering.

It’s not hard to get into that place, but it’s hard to figure out how to be welcomed and invited in.

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The government office side is in full swing, Wei Ruo himself is not idle.

That day fancy Fei Tongjian’s manor Wei Ruo let Xu Zhushan intervene to buy it.

Tongjie Fei is a man of elegance, and named his manor house Caili Farm.

Wei Ruo think this name is good will not change, and incidentally to their original manor also gave a matching name: Younan farm.

This manor also had a name before Mrs. Yuan gave it to her, it was called the Yuan family farm, so the plaque was withdrawn when it was handed over to Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo was also lazy and didn’t give it a new name after he joined.

This time it was thanks to the blessing of this second manor that it got a decent name.

In this way Wei Ruo had a total of three farms in Taizhou Prefecture, the Xiaoyang Mountain Farm in Xingshan County, the Younan Farm covering two thousand acres of land (one thousand acres of good land gifted by Mrs. Yuan, with a thousand acres of subsequent purchases and expansion), and the Caili Farm, which had just purchased one thousand acres of land.

Ninety percent of the small Yangshan farm more than sweet potatoes, full of sweet potatoes last year’s harvest is very substantial, as long as the normal harvest this year, sweet potatoes fill a few warehouses is not a problem, but also can produce a whole lot of sweet potato additional products.

Younan farm original one thousand acres of good land this year after harvesting wheat for rectification and fertilizer, after the acquisition of one thousand acres of field because of the more barren, Wei Ruo spent a period of time for fertilizer improvement, and now can also be planted. These two thousand acres of fields now have eighty percent planted on the rice, the remaining two percent waiting for Wei Ruo’s taro seed.

The situation of the just purchased Caili farm Wei Ruo already has a general understanding, the soil fertility is not enough, and this year’s seedlings also froze and died quite a lot, requiring Wei Ruo to make adjustments and arrangements.

In addition, Wei Ruo has a piece of sandy land in Baima Village next door to Stone Village, which is now contracted to the people of Stone Village to help her grow sandy sweet potatoes.

Wei Ruo nowadays already had more fields than the school captain’s mansion, if Yun knew that her daughter had so many fields outside, she didn’t know if her jaw would drop in shock.

Wei Qingwan always feels that Wei Ruo wants to compete with her for favor, if she knows that Wei Ruo doesn’t need the favor of the Wei family at all, I don’t know how she would feel.

After Wei Ruo took over the Cai Li farmhouse, he first met the people in charge on the farmhouse.

Wei Ruo had come as Xu Worui, and as the owner of the farmhouse was Xu Zhushan, the people in the manor took it for granted that she was their young proprietor.

Wei Ruo checked the book of accounts of the manor, and it is true that there are a bunch of problems, but they are all things that Wei Ruo has understood before, so there are no surprises.

The farm was full of tenants, who, according to the original regulations, had to pay a rent of one hundred pounds per acre per year.

In previous years, when the harvest is good, an acre a year can produce three to four hundred pounds of rice, pay the rent of one hundred, the rest is enough to feed and clothe the tenant family for a year.

But from the previous year, the harvest has sharply reduced, last year’s acre yield was less than two hundred pounds, even if the Fei Tongjian family gave everyone some rent exemption, but also did not completely solve the problem.

This year, a wave of cold wave, and to the original in the pumping rice seedlings froze most of the dead, resulting in the farm up and down the clouds of sadness.

Wei Ruo looked at the account book after inspecting the situation, directly ordered to command down: “I understand the situation, you command down, let the tenants in the head of the manor seedlings all shoveled.”

Hearing this, the Caili Farm’s Steward’s directly stared wide-eyed, wondering if there was something wrong with his ears.

Caili Farm’s Zhao Steward relative to the Yu Steward younger quite a bit, looking at the appearance of thirty years of age, is in his prime, with a beard, tall and sturdy body, tiger back and waist, a look of no shortage of strength.

“Young Master, this won’t do! This is absolutely not okay! The remaining seedlings are the farmers’ only hope for this year! If we pull them all out, we won’t have a chance to live! They’ll all starve to death!” Steward Zhao hurriedly discouraged.

“Do as I say, if we do as I say and can’t feed everyone this year, I’ll pay out of my own pocket and send two hundred pounds of rice and two hundred pounds of noodles to every household.” Wei Ruo made no nonsense and directly gave her promise.

This time, Steward Zhao was confused, his not-so-large eyes glaring round.

Their previous proprietor had been a very benevolent person, and would give everyone free rent in the year of arrears, but they had never heard of a proprietor who wanted to give food to his tenants, which was simply unheard of!

“Or do you think these leftover seedlings will allow the farmers to grow enough food to last them until next year?” Wei Ruo asked.

Steward Zhao shook his head repeatedly.

“Can’t just do as I say, my Younan farm is not far from your place, I don’t know if you’ve heard about my farm’s wheat harvest before, if not, you’ll just make a run for yourself some other day, go to the granary over there and see how much wheat is loaded in it.”