Long Yue stepped forward, looked at the tiger skin, and said lightly, "This tiger skin is nice!"
"Hehe, thanks to the Young Master’s praise! Thanks to your blessings, I still have one more at ho. If you don’t mind, I’ll send it to you later?"
The middle-aged chubby man grinned with an oily face, his sly and flattering smile was very annoying.
However, he was attentive to details while speaking, using the phrase "if you don’t mind" to give Long Yue face.
But, would Long Yue want his tiger skin?
It’s really ridiculous; if she wanted, even the stars in the sky, the Pri Minister and her grandfather would get them for her!
"What’s your monthly salary?"
Long Yue glanced at the tiger skin, flipped it over, and casually asked.
The chubby man instinctively replied, "Five hundred cents!"
"Five hundred cents a month? Do you have elders or children at ho?"
"Yes, yes, I’ve got an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child at ho, it’s very tough!"
The chubby man thought Long Yue would reward him with a raise, his face trembling with joy.
"Really? Elders and children at ho?"
"Yes, yes!"
The man nodded like a pounding onion, only to be slapped in the face by Long Yue.
"Slap! Ridiculous, with elders and children at ho, not enough grain to eat, where did the money co from to buy such expensive tiger skin? Just by your size, did you go up the mountain to hunt tigers?"
It’s laughable, her Pri Minister might have a chance, but him? Deceiving ghosts!
The chubby man was probably stunned by Long Yue’s slap, holding his face without responding for a while. When he ca to his senses, Long Yue had already pulled out his tiger skin and threw it in his face!
"Sleeping on duty, neglecting your duties, oppressing the farrs, skimming off their wages, just on these two counts, I can send you to governnt to stand trial!"
"Thud! Oh, Mistress, spare !"
The chubby man was so frightened he fell to the ground. He was just a small steward; how could he dare to offend General Cao’s granddaughter? Just based on their blood relations, even ten of him wouldn’t equate!
So he cried and begged, snot and tears flowing as he pleaded for rcy, just to hope she’d spare him this ti.
"I truly have an old mother and young child at ho, Young Master, please be lenient! I will rember your kindness for a lifeti..."
He knocked his head heavily on the ground, tears streaming down, appearing very sincere.
Long Yue looked at him coolly, human nature is selfish.
He only cared for his wife, children, and old mother; did he ever think about those farrs he oppressed and skimd, they also have families to feed?
Looking like this now, it’s just a show for her to see, who knows what curses he might harbor against her in his mind?
"You may escape death, but cannot escape punishnt! I may not send you to the governnt, but you must return the money and grain you’ve skimd!"
"What?"
The chubby man looked up and was dumbfounded.
Return the skimd money and grain? It’ll kill him!
"It’s not much, I’ve roughly calculated, just ten taels! This is still considering the days you’ve worked for the Cao Family! Whether to go to the governnt or to pay the ten taels of dirty money, that’s up to you!"
Long Yue flicked her sleeve and sat steadily on a chair beside him, looking at him coldly.
She had already calculated, judging by his outfit since she ca in, ten taels was his maximum limit; less and she’d lose out, more and he wouldn’t be able to afford it, ten taels was just right.
The chubby man looked conflicted, glancing at Long Yue secretly, pondering whether to resist? But thinking of her being General Cao’s granddaughter... how bad could her skills be?
He didn’t want to die!
A small person’s thoughts are this simple, if there’s room for resistance he absolutely won’t back down, but if he can survive, he absolutely won’t act recklessly.
He resented in his heart but could only grittingly accept his fate: "Alright, I’ll... I’ll give it to you!"
He took a deep breath, painstakingly took out a purse from his bosom, hands shaking, poured out so silver, and counted, ten taels and a few hundred cents.
Not much, not little!
"Get out!"
Such a person, Long Yue certainly won’t leave in her fields, keeping him would be a rat turd, ruining a pot of porridge!
As for whether this chubby man would bear grudges against her? Does she need to care about such a small person’s thoughts? Ridiculous!
After taking the silver and driving away this unruly steward, Long Yue again looked at these farrs, finding their gazes full of gratitude, but a few showed looks of doubt.
Those few stared at the broken silver in her hand, probably wanting to know if this silver...
Just now Long Yue said, it’s dirty money?
The farrs are very simple and sincere, which is exactly what Long Yue liked.
She placed these broken silvers on a chair in front of her, saying, "Sirs, this is the surrendered dirty money, later we’ll distribute it evenly by head among you! Since it’s called dirty money, I won’t keep a cent of it, I’ll do as I say!"
As soon as she said this, Long Yue saw these farrs hesitate for a mont, then all kneeled before her.
"Madam... Madam, such kindness!"
"Madam, such great grace and virtue, we... we can only repay with our lives!"
"..."
The farrs are straightforward, without fancy words, but sincere gratitude from the heart.
Long Yue ca this ti originally to discuss with the farrs about switching to planting dicinal crops, which required so convincing, but seeing the current situation, it was no longer necessary.
It’s really like falling asleep and soone delivers you a pillow, the arrival of this Steward Pang was tily, not only establishing her authority but also winning hearts; things will proceed much smoother.
"Everyone, don’t be formal, the reason I ca this ti, besides checking the farm’s situation, there’s another matter regarding planting."
"Madam, we’ve prepared for spring planting, after this batch of soil turnover, we won’t delay sowing, Madam can rest assured!"
A sturdy farr smiled at Long Yue, his skin was dark from years of wind and sun, but his teeth shone brightly when he laughed.
Long Yue shook her head, "This ti we’re not planting rice, but sothing else. Follow ."
"Sothing else? Not rice, are we to plant lons and fruits?"
The farrs perplexedly followed Long Yue to the field edge, seeing a big cartload of sacks.
"Here are seeds of dicinal crops, from now on we won’t plant grains, just dicinal crops!"
"Madam, these dicinal crops... can’t be eaten?"
"Yeah, not planting grains, what will we eat?"
The farrs’ thoughts were very simple; they wanted to eat, so they naturally thought they needed to plant food, what is planting dicinal crops?
Long Yue said: "You may feel that planting dicinal crops isn’t as good as planting grains, right? But have you thought, people can starve to death from lack of food, but what happens if they fall ill?
Without grains, we can still fish, hunt in the mountains, pick fruits in the forest, we won’t starve! But if one falls ill and there’s no dicine, they’d just have to endure it, what would be the result?"
"Afraid they won’t survive..."
A farr murmured.
Long Yue said, "True! They won’t survive! At that ti, parents will lose their children, the elderly burying the young, wives losing husbands, left lonely in empty rooms, children losing elders with no one to care for them! Sirs, ask yourselves, do you want to see this scene? Do you?"
"No, we don’t!"
"Absolutely not!"
The farrs’ emotions were stirred, so shook their fists and shouted loudly.
Long Yue smiled, knowing this matter was settled!
User Comments
0 comments from readers