Chapter 297 – The Person with the Largest Grain Reserve in Ten Miles and Eight Villages

“It seems like you’ve already organized the people, that’s just as well, I just happen to have some things for you guys to do.” Wei Ruo said.

“Young East Master please command.” Although there was a million reluctance in his heart, Zhao Hai had to agree, they were the people of the East Master, listening to the orders of the East Master was the most important thing they should do.

“You don’t seem very willing?” Wei Ruo asked.

“I wouldn’t dare.”

It’s a dare, but it’s also a definite reluctance.

Wei Ruo lightly laughed, “In a moment, there will be six truckloads of wheat coming over from Yunan Farms, so you’ll take the people from your organization to move the wheat.”

At those words Zhao Hai was dumbfounded and raised his head, looking straight at Wei Ruo.

A face that was already mute was directly no different from a log at this moment.

“Young master, you say …… wheat …… wheat?”

Wei Ruo’s words stunned Zhao Hai into a stutter.

“Yes, six carts of wheat, there are people in the manor who know how to make pasta, right?” Wei Ruo asked.

Not a lot of pasta is made in the South, and not everyone necessarily knows how to make it.

Zhao Hai still hadn’t recovered from the last news that had shocked him, and in the face of Wei Ruo’s next question, he still looked dumbfounded and didn’t answer for half a day.

Xiu Mei said, “What are you waiting for? Young master is asking you, someone in the village knows how to make pasta, right? Don’t go back to the farm and not know how to make it into food after you’ve distributed the wheat!”

“You’re really going to give us wheat?” Zhao Hai was still in a bit of disbelief.

“It’s not given for free, when the fall harvest comes, I’m going to take back an equal amount of rice.” Wei Ruo said.

Although they are tenants on their own manor, but such a large scale gift of grain Wei Ruo will not just do it.

Sometimes it’s hard to be a good person, and if you give it away with no strings attached, it’s inevitable that one of the recipients will be greedy.

Zhao Hai was still lost in thought when the underlings of the manor ran to inform: the Yu Steward of Younan Farm arrived at Caili Farm with a caravan right away.

“Steward Zhao, get your men to move the wheat.”

Wei Ruo’s voice managed to call back Zhao Hai’s thoughts, and he nodded his head blankly before running quickly in the direction of the manor’s main gate, calling out for people as he ran.

When they saw the six large carts of wheat parked in front of the farm’s entrance, Zhao Hai and the rest of the people from Picking Hedge Farm were too excited to speak.

Steward Yu walked over and said to Zhao Hai with a smile on his face, “Steward Zhao’s, the wheat has been delivered, so quickly arrange for people to move in.”

“Yes, yes, move the wheat, move the wheat!” Zhao Hai said excitedly.

Wei Ruo walked slowly to the main entrance, and when Steward Yu saw her, he was busy going forward to greet her, “Dongjia.”

Wei Ruo nodded, then said to Zhao Hai, “Steward Zhao, this is Steward Yu, from today onwards, things in the manor’s accounts will be managed by him in a unified manner, but your stewardship will remain unchanged, and the monthly payment I give you will not change, after that, I will have other, more important work to arrange for you.”

Zhao Hai is a naive person who is naive and willing to work, but he is not suitable to manage the accounts.

For the sake of convenience, Wei Ruo planned to hand over the accounts of both farms to Steward Yu for unified jurisdiction, as for Zhao Hai, there was a better place for him to shine.

Zhao Hai nodded, “Listen to the Young Master’s arrangements.”

“Now you go and inform the tenants in the manor that I’m going to send wheat, you let them line up to come and collect it, sign and press your handprint after collecting it, and just wait until the fall harvest to pay an extra twenty pounds of rent up.” Wei Ruo explained Zhao Hai.

“Alright, I’ll inform down here.” This time, Zhao Hai reacted quite quickly, and immediately ran down to follow Wei Ruo’s instructions.

After Zhao Hai left, Steward Yu lamented, “The farmers of this Cai Li Farm are blessed to have met you, East Master, and don’t have to sell their mansions and sell their children like the other families out there.”

“Just think of it as me doing business, advance them some grain and you’ll have to ask for it back later.” Wei Ruo said.

“The proprietor is being modest again.” Steward Yu smiled.

Immediately after the Yu steward also lamented: “Nowadays, this ten miles and eight townships, the warehouse grain rich, I’m afraid that only the proprietor of the house you, other families, are stretched to the limit, some landlord family although the Gu their own is not a problem, but come up with the grain to share share tenants is by no means possible.”

Wei Ruo of course know that nowadays this Taizhou province, food with her like this sufficient family is not much, afraid that even the official granary does not have Wei Ruo so much food reserves.

Wei Ruo is not going to sell grain now either, and along with that, the grain stores in Xingshan County have recently closed down.

“Don’t say this outside, let’s just do our best behind closed doors.” Wei Ruo instructed Steward Yu.

“Don’t worry, proprietor, I’ll just lament a few words in front of you, not to mention outside, I won’t bring myself to say anything about the people under my hand.”

“Well, come on, let’s go into the manor and finish the day.”

After Wei Ruo finished speaking, he and Steward Yu entered Cai Li Farm together, and immediately afterward began to distribute wheat to the tenants who had come to receive it.

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At the same time, the school captain’s residence, Cang Yun Yuan.

Yun was fretting over the ledger.

Last year, the earnings of the manor is not very good, the store is also a loss, originally thought that this year can be better, the results of this year so far, the manor on the situation is not optimistic not to mention that, the store also lost a lot of money.

And just now she also received a letter from the capital side, saying that the big brother at home drunkenly beat people out of the matter, the house sold the fields, for a number of silver to set things right.

In this case, the capital side can’t give them subsidies this year, and may even be unable to take care of themselves.

Although her husband’s salary has increased now, after arriving in the capital, the house has also added two subordinates, and the daily expenses and usage have also been raised a bit.

The eldest son is at the Academy and spends even more.

Yun rubbed her temples, no matter how she did the math, she wouldn’t be able to fill the food vacancies this year.

And to buy food, with the current price of food, the financial situation of the House is very tight.

I really don’t know what to do.

This year just purchased a new field, but I do not want to this has not been a few months, because of store losses, weather changes and other reasons, even to the point that I do not know how to run down the situation.

After half a day of fruitless reading, Yun pushed the ledger aside and tried to change her thoughts when she glanced out of the corner of her eye at the teabag placed in the corner of the table.

Yun looked out at the tea bag.

It was a gift from Mrs. Xu when she came to visit a few days ago, a black tea that had recently risen in popularity in the city.

If the marriage between Ruo’er and the Xu family can be accomplished, with the help of the Xu family, the Wei family’s current predicament should be solved, right?

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Wei Yi Chen waited in the mansion for a long time and finally waited for Wei Qing Wan to return to the mansion.

After the boy who was sent to wait at the door came to report, Wei Yi Chen quickly walked to the entrance of Wang Mei Yuan and asked Cui He to call Wei Qing Wan to the entrance of the courtyard.

“Big brother is in such a hurry to find me but what is so important?” Wei Qingwan softly inquired.