Chapter 446: It’s time to take care of a few things (2)
A Blessed Daughter
Chapter 446: It’s time to take care of a few things (2)
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“You just don’t want to admit your senior brother is better than you!” Xu Zhengyong retorted.
“Whether you’re better than me is one thing,” Xiumei shot back, “but I am the senior sister and you are the junior. Don’t mix up right and wrong.”
At that point, Wei Ruo and the nanny exchanged knowing looks. There was no need to listen further—they were clearly about to dive into yet another endless argument about who outranked whom.
Wei Ruo sat off to the side with the nanny, sipping tea and chatting leisurely.
“Nanny, after the New Year, you’ll have to help me keep an eye out for someone suitable. You know what I have in mind,” Wei Ruo said.
She knew that once the New Year passed, some things needed to be put on the agenda.
She had already discussed her plan with the nanny before, but the nanny had never been very supportive.
For everything else, the nanny backed her unconditionally. But for this, the nanny had always hesitated.
The nanny sighed. “Miss, don’t rush this matter. Waiting another year or two isn’t a big deal. Maybe by then, Yong’er will have really achieved something.”
“I know. But it’s never wrong to plan ahead. We shouldn’t let ourselves be too passive.”
The nanny nodded helplessly. “I understand. I’ll keep an eye out.”
Just then, in the middle of bickering with Xiumei, Xu Zhengyong suddenly popped over and said, “Sister Ruo’er, look—Meimei is so fierce. No one will want her in the future. Why don’t you betroth her to me? I’ll take her as my wife!”
Before Wei Ruo could respond, Xiumei’s fist flew over.
“Xu Zhengyong! Do you have a death wish?!”
Xu Zhengyong laughed. “How is that looking for death? Didn’t we already bow to heaven and earth back when we were little?”
“Stop talking nonsense! That was playing house! And you even have the nerve to bring it up!” Xiumei was so furious she wanted to sew his mouth shut.
Wei Ruo and the nanny exchanged a look and very tactfully turned away, continuing their own conversation.
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In early spring, when March brought warmth and blooming flowers, the farmers all became busy again.
At Xiaoyang Mountain in Xingshan County, the estate was once again planting sweet potatoes this year. Wei Ruo had already entrusted the estate’s management to Agui and Xiaoba.
Thanks to last year’s promotion of sweet potatoes, many mountain fields in Xingshan County had begun planting them as well.
And Wei Ruo was not stingy—she taught everyone that sweet potatoes could be mass-propagated by cultivating vines and planting cuttings. So anyone who wanted to grow sweet potatoes only needed to buy a few sweet potatoes as seed stock and raise the seedlings themselves.
The medicinal field she managed together with Xie Yingying had a long growth cycle, so there weren’t any major returns yet.
The Xie family’s servants in Xingshan County were still taking good care of it. By early summer, they might be able to harvest a batch.
If they managed to harvest, the profits would be excellent, since medicinal herbs were in high demand.
Over in the prefectural city, the laborers working on Wei Ruo’s estate had begun their early-to-late days of hard work.
Plowing, raising seedlings, irrigating, weeding—there was a mountain of work waiting to be done.
The wheat fields also required attention. The wheat had grown lush and green, a sight that filled people with joy.
The laborers were full of motivation. Their master treated them well—fed them, clothed them, gave them comfortable places to live. Anyone with even a shred of gratitude knew they should work hard in return.
And even those without much gratitude had enough sense to feel pressure. There were plenty of struggling people outside waiting for a chance to work on this estate. To keep their jobs, they had to work diligently.
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