Chapter 467: A visit to the distillery for inspection (1)

A Blessed Daughter

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“Mother, I’ll be sitting for the provincial examination this autumn. I don’t want to be distracted by other matters,” Wei Yichen said quickly.

“All right, all right. I won’t bring up your affairs for now,” Yun Shi agreed. “But you don’t need to worry about your sisters either. Even if we don’t always get along, she is still my own flesh and blood. When it comes to marriage, I will certainly do my best to choose a good match for her.”

She continued, “Previously, I felt that with Ruo’er’s temperament, it would be hard for her to marry into a high-ranking family, so we could only look for a proper scholar or a farming-and-studying household. But now it seems she has her own good fortune. That makes me very happy.”

Wei Yichen had nothing more to say, so he let the matter rest.

Mother and son chatted casually for a while longer. Seeing that Wei Yichen looked tired, Yun Shi told him to go back and rest.

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After returning to Tingsong Courtyard, Wei Ruo immediately went into the study to write letters.

First, she instructed the people at the estate to stay alert for bakanae disease*. If any problems were found with the rice seedlings, they were to inform her at once.

*Bakanae disease is a fungal disease of rice.

Second, she wrote to her nanny, urging her to follow up on the matter she had mentioned earlier—helping her look for potential marriage candidates.

The Assistant Magistrate’s wife’s attitude that day had served as a warning, making her realize she needed to move faster.

If, as Yun Shi believed, no prominent family truly wanted her, she could still delay things for another two years. But if a family like the Xu household took an interest in her, Yun Shi might very well set her marriage in stone. That would put her in a very passive position.

“Miss, are the cases of bakanae disease you saw today the same kind we encountered in Huzhou Prefecture two years ago?” Xiumei asked.

Wei Ruo nodded. “The symptoms are the same.”

“That’s really deadly,” Xiumei said worriedly. “The weather has been bad these past two years, no favorable winds or timely rain. Yields are already low. If this happens again, there’ll be no telling how much grain we’ll lose.”

“In the next few days, I’ll make time to look around the surrounding areas,” Wei Ruo said. “I’ll persuade those I can. If they won’t listen, there’s nothing more I can do. I’ll just do my best.”

Though she had been turned away by several farmers earlier that day, Wei Ruo still wanted to give it another try.

After all, this was a matter of saving lives. If the harvest failed, many people would die.

Xiumei nodded. Back then, when the young miss tried to persuade people in Huzhou Prefecture, she had also been cursed at by many at first. At that time, the miss was only ten years old. No one believed her, and the insults hurled at her were extremely harsh.

Fortunately, there were still some sensible people in the end. After listening to the miss and carefully inspecting their seedlings, they confirmed that there were indeed problems and chose to trust her judgment.

Among them was the village head of Mojiazhai. At his strong urging, Mojiazhai replanted their seedlings that year using the miss’s late-rice variety. As a result, Mojiazhai enjoyed a bumper harvest that year, while several surrounding villages suffered total crop failure.

Over the next few days, whenever Wei Ruo found the time, she went to the villages near the prefectural city under the name Xu Heyou. Whenever she noticed something amiss, she would speak with the local farmers.

The situation was much the same as what she had encountered years ago in Huzhou Prefecture—if anything, it was even worse. Being cursed at was unavoidable; being chased out of a village with carrying poles was considered mild treatment.

Wei Ruo did not take it to heart. She said what needed to be said and did what needed to be done, doing her best and leaving the rest to fate.

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