chapter forty-five – the famous mr. woman

After the soil improvement was over, Wei Ruo instructed Sister Zhang, Ah Gui, and Xiao Ba to level the land and then store water.

After the land was straightened out, Wei Ruo once again came to the wasteland south of the city, while also bringing over a large bag of rice seeds.

When Wei Ruo handed a bag of rice seeds to Sister Zhang and asked her and Ah Gui Xiaohachi to go and plant the seeds, Sister Zhang showed a hesitant expression, and after thinking about it for a long time, she opened her mouth to advise Wei Ruo once again:

“Eldest Miss, forgive the old slave for asking one more question, is it really possible to plant rice at this time of the year? Why don’t we switch to some other crops? Anyway, as long as we can grow it alive, other crops will be fine.”

“Just plant this, you guys don’t worry, this rice seed is a late rice seed, it’s what I brought back from Huzhoufu, someone has already planted it over there, this time of year is just right, it won’t grow out of it.” Wei Ruo had a firm attitude and was confident.

“Really? There are still such grain seeds?” Sister Zhang was astonished.

“It is true. But this matter you first do not publicize, just take it to plant, when the seedlings grow well, and then report up more convincing.”

If this were to be put aside in the past, Grandma Zhang would never believe it, but now the situation is a little different, she has a little more trust in Wei Ruo, although she still thinks that some of the ideas of the young lady are too heavenly, even those old farmers who have been planting for a lifetime will not agree with their young lady’s ideas.

Gui and Hachi didn’t think about it that much.

Ah Gui said, “If Missy says it’s okay, we’ll listen to Missy!”

Hachi also said, “Yes, we’ll plant whatever Onii-chan tells us to plant!”

The rest doesn’t matter, anyway, Missy treats them well, gives them good food, fills them and their families up, and following Missy is the right thing to do!

Wei Ru instructed the two, “You learn and memorize well, after this land is made successful, the subsequent development of other wastelands will be done, and at that time, there will be more long-time workers that will need you two already experienced in teaching to pass on the experience of improving the land to the others. And the subsequent work of managing and leading these people will all be left to you as well.”

Doesn’t that make the two of them foremen from now on?

Ah Gui and Xiao Bachi excitedly promised, “Don’t worry, Missy, we’ll do it seriously!”

The two men turned out the rice seeds and got down to business.

The sowing process is not troublesome, and when the seeds have grown into seedlings, the work involved in transplanting them is a bit more involved.

If they could successfully grow into seedlings, it would also mean that Wei Ruo’s soil improvement had succeeded by a large margin.

So now they only needed to wait for half a month to find out if Wei Ruo’s soil improvement was effective or not.

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After Wei Ruo had tossed around in the fields for a few days, he had just gotten a free day when he was called by Yun to talk again.

The content of the conversation is still the same old stuff, to Wei Ruo as early as possible to the south of the city wasteland will be arranged to the people under the hand to do, he went to the governor’s residence to go to school.

Because she had already been pushed once, this time when Wei Ruo tried to delay again, Yun had already stopped giving her a chance and told her to get ready, and that she would arrange it for her in the next two days.

Seeing that the delay couldn’t go on, Wei Ruo didn’t say anything else and agreed to Yun’s arrangement.

In the evening, Wei Ruo went to the dining hall and had a late dinner with the crowd.

After the evening meal, the people sat together as usual to sip tea and chat.

Wei Yi Chen also reported some of his reading progress for the day to his mother as usual, and Wei Yi Lin would also speak with Yun about what had happened to him at the academy.

Wei Qingwan didn’t talk much on weekdays, but today she mentioned something with a desire to speak, “Mother, the Xie family has hired a female gentleman, said to be the renowned Mr. Wang Caiwei.”

Yun’s eyes were all the way up, “Really?”

Wei Yichen and Wei Yilin both showed surprise as well.

Wang Caiwei is a famous talent in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, born of a scholarly family, the family has deep roots, but unfortunately, the family has fallen.

Without the backing of her mother’s family, Wang Caiwei is still pursued by many sons of the world, only that they are all concubines instead of being explicitly married.

A proud Wang Caiwei was naturally unwilling to be a concubine, and finally chose to marry a poor showman.

Because of her hard life, Wang Caiwei began to teach for the rich and noble families.

Although she had fallen from grace, Wang Caiwei was renowned for her talent; there were countless families who wanted to hire her as a female teacher in their homes.

It is said that Wang Caiwei’s last proprietor was the Ruan family of Qiantang, and the late old master of the Ruan family was the last chief minister!

And now, the Xie family in the north of the city had actually invited her!

It seems that the matter of the Xie family’s rise to power is not empty, and all the signs have been revealed.

“Well, it’s true, it was Zhilan who told me.” Wei Qingwan answered with certainty, “Zhilan also said ……”

“What else did she say?”

“Zhilan said that her mother now wants to arrange for her to go to the Xie family and listen to school with Miss Xie.” Wei Qingwan lowered her head and whispered.

“Let alone Mrs. Qian having such a mind, if the Xie family had invited Wang Caiwei, I would have had to think of a way to get you over there!” Yun said.

Although the female gentleman in the Qian Zhi Xian’s family nowadays also has some talent, it is only relative to ordinary people, and that can’t be compared to the famous Wang Caiwei.

If she were to be Wang Caiwei’s student and return to the capital in the future, it would be something that could be envied when told!

Hearing this, Wei Yi Lin busily said, “Then Mother, you should go and talk to Mrs. Xie’s family and let Sister go! Sister is very talented and gifted, that lady gentleman would love to teach her!”

Wei Qingwan also looked at Yun with an expectant face, expecting Yun to help herself to talk to the Xie family and arrange for her to go to the Xie family to listen to Mr. Wang’s lessons.

“I’m afraid …… that the Xie family won’t agree ……” Yun murmured.

Their friendship with the Xie family was not deep, they had only met a few times on such things as prayer cruises, for example.

“Mother, just ask for your sister, or we can send more gifts to the Xie family!” Wei Yi Lin said innocently.

“Ask me of course I will ask, as for sending gifts, which is so easy, this gift has to be sent to the heart of the person is good, the general mundane things Xie family may not look at.” Yun’s thoughts turned a hundred times.

In a room of five people, four of them were pondering on how to get the Xie family to agree to Wei Qingwan taking classes at the Xie family, only Wei Ruo was sitting next to her, calmly sipping her tea.

When she put down her teacup, suddenly Wei Yi Chen turned his head to look at her.

Four eyes met, and Wei Ruo saw an apology in Wei Yi Chen’s eyes.

Apologize? What is he sorry for?

When the tea was over, Wei Ruo left the dining hall and headed for Listening Pine Court, Wei Yi-chen chased after him and told Wei Ruo about what had just happened, “Ruo’er, I’m sorry.”

“Sorry for what?”

“We only mentioned the matter of letting Wanwan go to Xie’s house to listen to Mr. Wang’s class ……”

“Oh.”

“Ruo’er, it’s not that we didn’t expect you, it’s just that Mr. Wang her requirements for students will definitely be higher than the average gentleman ……”

“I’m not qualified enough right?” Wei Ruo helped him finish what he hadn’t said.