The Farm Girl's Charismatic Fortune-Chapter 46 - 44
Chapter 46: Chapter 44
Chapter 46 -44
The Ruo Family members swiftly went about their tasks as arranged by Granny Lei.
Ruo Shui and Ruo Chuan, pushing two large carts of zizania, hurriedly entered the city, hoping to sell the zizania as quickly as possible so they could return home and harvest the rice. There was so much to do at home, a mountain of chores awaited their attention.
Ruo He also left for the manor to report for duty. Although he wanted to stay and help at home, this was a job Xuanbao had found for him, and he couldn’t let Xuanbao break faith with anyone.
Granny Lei took a few of the younger children to harvest peanuts and sweet potatoes from the field first.
Mrs. Liu packed two baskets of meat, zizania, and sorghum, left a portion for Mrs. Jian, and then hurried back to her maternal home.
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Ruo Jiang, with his inconvenient legs, was in charge of turning the wild boar meat slaughtered last night into cured meat, sausages, and seasoned sausages.
The strips of cured meat had already been salted the night before, and just needed a quick blanching in hot water before being hung up to air dry.
Sausages and seasoned sausages were more troublesome as they required chopping up the meat and stuffing it into the casings.
The casings were made by scraping the inside of pig intestines clean, leaving only a thin, transparent membrane behind, which Granny Lei had already prepared the night before.
Mrs. Jian came to Ruo Jiang’s side, helplessly speaking, “But how can a dream convince anyone? If I really dare to go back to my maternal home and tell them, my sister will know and advise me to divorce you again.”
Mrs. Jian’s father was an Advanced Scholar, working as a Master for a wealthy family. Her marriage to Ruo Jiang was considered marrying up, but ever since the old patriarch of the Ruo Family passed away and Ruo Jiang’s leg was broken, the Ruo Family had been going downhill day by day. The Jian Family had been advising Mrs. Jian to divorce and remarry.
They even mentioned that Zhou Shi, wife of the eldest Ruo Hai, had remarried and was now living very well.
Mrs. Jian, however, had never agreed to it and had even reduced her visits to her maternal home.
Ruo Jiang knew of Mrs. Jian’s dilemma and took her hand, “You haven’t been back to see them in a long time, so just take it as a visit to your father and mother. Don’t say too much, just tell them that monks from the temple have predicted a heavy rain in a few days that will affect the harvest, and suggest they harvest their rice early. The Lord County Magistrate already has a plan, so I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about.”
Mrs. Jian shot Ruo Jiang a glare, “I know you believe it too!”
Ruo Jiang touched his nose, smiling, “I believe it because Xuanbao said so. Haven’t you said that Xuanbao is a true treasure? After she started talking, didn’t things change at home? Besides, there has always been the saying of Lord Literary Star interpreting dreams. How would you explain that? What if it’s true and you end up regretting it?”
Ruo Jiang didn’t tell Mrs. Jian that Xuanbao had been taking the opportunity to touch his lame leg and their third brother’s eyes at night.
He had found that after Xuanbao touched his disabled leg, it hurt less when he walked, and their third brother was able to see clearly on his own walk back from the village head’s house last night.
And when he copied books at night, he felt as if he was possessed by Lord Literary Star, his thoughts flowing like a spring. He believed that if he took the imperial examination now, he might even achieve the rank of Top Scholar.
He knew all these were because of Xuanbao, but such things couldn’t be said, and the brothers had already tacitly thought of ways to cover for Xuanbao.
Jian Rou, true to her name, was gentle in disposition and had been persuaded, “Then I’ll go back for a visit.”
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On another front, Granny Lei led Xuanbao and a few grandchildren to harvest the peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Heading towards the vegetable plot required passing by wetlands, where many people were already cutting zizania.
The villagers, seeing them, warmly called out, “Granny Lei, are you here to cut zizania too? Come over to my place, I still have room.”
“Granny Lei, come here, my zizania is the fattest and the water is shallow.”
“Aunt Lei, come to my side….”
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Faced with everyone’s enthusiasm, Granny Lei smiled and declined, “I’m not here to cut zizania, I’m heading over to the vegetable garden.”
The other villagers already knew that the Ruo Family was buying zizania for the high price of twenty coins per pound.
This price was worlds apart from what the Governor’s Office was paying, so everyone hoped to sell to the Ruo Family.
Thus, as soon as they heard she wasn’t there to buy zizania, they quickly said, “Granny Lei, does your family still buy zizania? I’ll sell the ones I’ve cut to you, the best and tenderest, just for you!”
Daniu’s mother said, “Aunt Lei, nineteen coins a pound at my place, selling to you!”
Baocai’s grandmother added, “Aunt Lei, mine also for nineteen coins!”
Old man Zhen called out, “Eighteen coins at my place!”
Although Old man Zhen had broken his leg, he still came out because he was too bored at home; he just didn’t go down to cut the zizania himself but watched Zhen Yi cut, urging her to go faster.
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Everyone began lowering their prices, scrambling to sell to Granny Lei.
The few families who had heard began to panic, all watching Granny Lei, thinking that once the villagers quoted the lowest price, they would also reduce theirs.
Granny Lei shook her head, refusing, said, “We only need a thousand catties, we can’t take any more, that’s already agreed upon. You should sell to the Governor’s Office instead!”
It’s true that time reveals a person’s heart. When the Ruo Family had several dozen mu of fields, they would treat everyone equally, hiring a day laborer for each family to help manage the fields, and they paid better wages than anywhere else. But now she wouldn’t.
She only interacted with families worth her time, to avoid buying trouble.
After saying this, Granny Lei took Xuanbao and strode away, too busy to waste time chatting with them.
Baocai’s granny couldn’t help but spit in disdain, “Pah! What’s so great about that, if they won’t take it, then I’ll have Baocai’s dad sell it at the city’s tavern! We’ll steal her business!”
Danius’s mom nodded, “Exactly, what’s there to be arrogant about, you’d think selling that thousand catties of zizania would make you rich! Let’s hurry up and harvest more, sell it cheap to the tavern, make sure they won’t take from their family!”
Old man Zhen agreed, “Right, steal all their business…”
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Many villagers had this idea in mind, to sell to the tavern and steal the Ruo Family’s business, so they became even more enthusiastic about harvesting zizania.
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The Ruo Family’s peanut and sweet potato fields together amounted to only one mu; half was planted with peanuts, half with sweet potatoes, and the edges were sown with soybeans, sesame, and a few sunflower seeds, all surrounded by a fence. Underneath the fence, even the goji berries were planted; in short, every bit of land that Granny Lei could utilize was planted with something.
Ruo Xuan was the first to run out to the field, then flitted about the furrows like a butterfly in a vegetable garden, her little hands waving energetically.
By the time the Ruo brothers chased after her, what they saw were lush peanut vines, sweet potato vines, and sunflower heads as big as washbasins.
They were all stunned!
This was their peanut field, surely they weren’t mistaken?
They had only weeded this land about seven or eight days ago, and the peanuts and sweet potatoes looked nearly lifeless!
“Granny, are these our peanuts and sweet potatoes? Did an Immortal cast an Immortal Technique on them? How did they suddenly grow so well?” Ruo Hang exclaimed in astonishment.
“Talking nonsense! I fertilized them, now hurry up and pull out the peanuts! What’s all this fuss about!” Granny Lei glanced around, thankfully everyone was busy cutting zizania, no one was around.
“Granny, our peanuts are growing so well this year!” Ruo Zhou picked a peanut plant by hand, exclaiming happily.
The peanut plants were densely packed with peanuts, each one big and full.
Heaven, he never knew one peanut plant could produce so many peanuts!
He had thought the peanuts hadn’t matured yet as it wasn’t time; in previous years, even if their family’s peanuts were harvested a few days later than others, they were sparse, barely pausing any full ones, essentially just enough to save for seeds.
“Granny, look how big the sweet potatoes are, they’re poking out of the soil, so thick! I think they’re thicker than my leg, Granny, hurry up with the hoe, I want to roast sweet potatoes,” Ruo Xian jumped excitedly in the furrows.
“Granny, these sunflower seeds are so full! Will we have plenty of seeds to crack open this New Year?” Ruo Hang gazed up at the sunflower heads drooling.
Granny Lei, worried about being discovered, quickly said, “Save the chatter, or I’ll sew your mouth shut with needle and thread! Get to work!”
“Yes!” The children responded and busily went to work.
Ruo Zhou, being tall, picked the three sunflower heads first, and then he and Granny Lei started hoeing the sweet potatoes.
Ruo Hang, Ruo Bo, Ruo Xian, and little Ruo Xuan were tasked with harvesting the peanuts.
So when Xuanyuan Que arrived, what he saw was a dirt-smudged, mud-covered Little Xuanhua.
Ruo Xuan felt a little nervous upon seeing Xuanyuan Que, What’s the Divine Lord Xuanyuan doing here?
Did he know she used an Immortal Technique against the brave General?
Or did he find out she drew the wild boars in with her Spiritual Power, nearly causing disaster to the villagers’ crops?
Or did he know she revealed the secrets of heaven to the Lord County Magistrate?
Or did he find out she used an Immortal Technique to ripen the peanuts…
She’d done so many misdeeds, she didn’t know which to confess to get leniency, the principle of resisting or yielding!
