Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 469: The Zhao Family Village

Lian Fang Zhou pretended not to notice and said: “Ah Jian is an outsider and you are my brother, how could he stop me from going to find you? Why would Ah Jian do such an unreasonable thing?”

“Oh, Sister.” Lian Ze was secretly disappointed.
It seemed that he had wasted his time, nothing had happened between the two of them!

Lian Ze did not know how to hide his emotions so his disappointment and frustration were written all over his face.
Lian Fang Zhou almost laughed out loud when she saw it.
Making a sullen face, she said: “Don’t make a fool of yourself next time!”

Lian Ze mumbled a soft ‘oh’ again.

Ah Jian shook his head and smiled at Lian Fang Zhou: “Don’t tease him.
Since he’s back, let’s go down again.”

“Alright, let’s go!” Lian Fang Zhou agreed, her expression immediately returning to normal.

Lian Ze was speechless, looking first at Ah Jian and then Lian Fang Zhou, not sure if anything had actually happened between the two…

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A few days later, Liu Jia suddenly came to Lian Fang Zhou’s door.  Her family was getting more and more prosperous now and he couldn’t help but look around, tsking in praise.
“Miss Lian is really good, comparing this year to last, it’s a really big change! If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would almost suspect I’d come to the wrong door.
Look a this big yard, so many houses, servants, and even a new house being built! Tsk, tsk, it’s really amazing, amazing!”

That boy, Yang Huai Shan was not blessed and the Yang family was not blessed either, Liu Jia thought to himself.

Lian Fang Zhou was a little embarrassed hearing all this praise and smiled, saying: “Brother Liu Jia made a special trip from so far away, so you wouldn’t have come this far just to praise me, right?”

Liu Jia patted his head and laughed: “No, I was just so impressed, I forgot about the serious business! Hey, you can’t blame me, who wouldn’t be surprised to see such a change.”

He smiled and put away his joking tone.
“Didn’t you ask me to find some suitable land? Now I have a place in my hands and it’s not bad.
There are ready-made houses in the yard which can be directly moved into without any repairs.
About 30 or 40 large and small houses.
The main house is also ready made.
The paddy fields are a total of 560 acres, 120 acres are high quality and the rest are average.
The dry land is about 300 acres of slopes, it’s all concentrated.
You were the first person I thought of when I got it! Oh, and the location is near Hekou village on the outskirts of Yuhe county.
We can travel there in no time!”

Liu Jia explained the situation very clearly in one breath and Lian Fang Zhou was satisfied.
If this farm was really as he described, it was a really good place!

Buying hundreds of acres of land was a trivial matter for her now.

 However, he seemed to have overlooked the most crucial issue.

She smiled at Liu Jia but before she could ask, he, seeing that she was satisfied, smiled and said: “The owner is known to Miss Lian, it is the Zhao family.
The richest family in the county.”

“The Zhao family?” Lian Fang Zhou repeated, startled.

The Zhao family and the Lian family did not have the same standing in society but after Zhao Ru Jun’s bad luck, everyone had more or less heard about the matter between Lian Fang Zhou and Zhao Ru Jun.
As a land steward, Liu Jia knew even a little bit more than others.

However, he did not show anything in front of Lian Fang Zhou and explained with a nonchalant smile: “Master Zhao’s business has had some problems and the Zhao clan is pressing step by step.
Hehe, Miss Lian, you don’t know how messy the Zhao family is now! But Master Zhao pressed the gourd and floated the scoop, he doesn’t have time to take care of it.
This is only the first! The price is low, with cash it’s a good time for Miss Lian to buy it!

After the county magistrate’s collapse, Zhao Ru Jun’s disappearance, and Su Jing He’s actions in the dark, the Zhao family was in chaos.

Lian Fang Zhou smiled calmly.
“Okay, let’s go see it tomorrow! I’ll buy if it suits me.
I don’t want to take advantage of others and fish in troubled waters, I’ll just buy it at market price.
Only one thing: I don’t want to get involved in any trouble with the Zhao family.
The land deeds and documents must be handed over to me clean and free of any disputes! And those servants, I do not want them to stay.”

Actually, Liu Jia had thought too much.
Lian Fang Zhou didn’t have any taboos about whether to buy or not.
Zhao Ru Jun was Zhao Ru Jun and business was business.
She only cared about whether it was suitable or not.
As for whether it was from the Zhao family, what did it matter?

Having already seen the land, Liu Jia knew that it was a good place.
He knew in his heart that Lian Fang Zhou would want it as soon as she had seen it.
“Don’t worry, Miss Lian! It is a clean place, I would never have suggested it otherwise.  It is really good and you will be satisfied when you see it tomorrow.
As for those servants, if you don’t want them, presumably Master Zhao does not want them either.”

Was it difficult to deal with a few servants? The Zhao family could either take them back or send them directly to the slave traders and the matter would be finished.

Lian Fang Zhou agreed with a smile and Liu Jia left.

The next day, Lian Fang Zhou, Lian Ze, Ah Jian, and Steward Qin went to see the Zhao farm in Hekou village.

Master Zhao also sent a steward and one of the villagers, Xu Shi, to show them around.
Since Lian Fang Zhou was upright and wanted to buy it at market price, Master Zhao was very move.
His steward was very polite and honest, telling them everything they wanted to know.

Lian Fang Zhou and the others looked the fields over and were indeed very satisfied.
The land was fertile, the water source was sufficient, and everything worked well together.

In previous years, the tenants had planted crops here.

The houses were neat and tidy with many flowers and shrubs.
There were not many people, only two families, but they were all working to clean and tidy the village.
Some were running errand and reporting jobs in case the tenants needed anything to do.

Xu Shi knew that the land was going to change ownership and was a little gloomy when he thought of the future.

Seeing this, the Zhao family’s steward smiled tentatively and said: “These two families have lived in this village for five or six years and are the most law-abiding and honest people.
They don’t run around and chew their tongues! If Miss Lian thinks it’s okay, keep them.
Trained people are better than untrained.”

Lian Fang Zhou looked at Steward Qin.

Steward Qin knew that she was moved so he asked the two families a few questions.
Feeling that they were indeed honest, he smiled at Lian Fang Zhou: “If you think it is good, let them stay.
If in the future, they are not good, then deal with it then.”

The two families immediately turned pale and dropped to their knees to show their loyalty: “These servants will never dare to provoke right and wrong! They will never talk about what they should not care about and never touch their hands on what they should not touch! Please let us stay, Miss!”

They had also heard about the situation of the Zhao family.