Chapter 229: Chapter 228 Learning from Experience
“Brother-in-law, as a fellow villager, don’t you wonder about their planting thods? A visit wouldn’t hurt, and it might even bring benefits to your hotown!”
Zhong Xingwang made this suggestion, and Mr. Mo agreed, deciding to take ti off from his side job in a few days to have a look around the Ye’s estate.
“Younger brother, have you written to our family?” Mrs. Mo began to show concern for their household affairs again.
“Yes, I’ve already sent a letter back to Big Brother and Sister detailing the situation here at the appraisal institute. If you want to write ho, just write the letter and I’ll help you send it!”
With that said, Mrs. Mo agreed and wrote a letter to her parents.
Mr. Mo also took this opportunity to write a letter to his family back ho, noting down his address here and giving it to his younger brother-in-law to send back.
If they rembered, it would be quite convenient for them in the future; they could ask the Tang Family to help send their letters or go to the official postal station themselves.
The next day, during his teaching, Mr. Mo noticed no major changes from the previous days in the other students’ instrunt learning, except for Tang Shunyan, who had made rapid progress compared to the two days before.
As a teacher, he didn’t feel it appropriate to ask Tang Shunyan who had been giving him pointers, only assuming that Tang Shunyan had diligently practiced over these two days and thus made progress.
A few days later, Mr. and Mrs. Mo went to the Ye’s estate for their part-ti work. This ti, Tang Shunyan couldn’t join them again as he was held back in the courtyard by ng Zhaojun.
ng Zhaojun’s sudden unannounced visits every three days greatly annoyed and irked Tang Shunyan.
This overbearing young lady truly made it difficult for him to heartlessly refuse her or to leave her in the courtyard ignored while he forcibly went to the Ye estate.
He was still threatened by sothing she had said—if he went to the Ye family’s place, she would follow him.
Tang Shunyan still rembered the scene a few days ago when ng Zhaojun persistently questioned his little sister Ru i, which made the little girl cry.
He didn’t want such a scene to happen again; even thinking about it made him feel pained.
When Mr. and Mrs. Mo were on their way to the Ye’s, they were accompanied by Zhong Xingwang and his entourage, and Mrs. Mo brought along her maid.
Having arrived at the Ye’s, which was fabled among the villagers, Zhong Xingwang saw a construction typical of a wealthy rural household—modest in size but imposing in style, the house was relatively new, likely built within the last two years.
He also truly understood that having a timber mill in a village was significant. The road they traveled was quite broad, a sign that Bushen Village had convenient transportation.
He discovered that one could also reach the Imperial Capital from Bushen Village, though perhaps through more secluded areas, yet it was a rapid route to the capital.
Zhong Xingwang had also heard that certain escort agencies choosing routes for transportation preferred easiness, fearing the risk of banditry that might befall them in the mountains, which is why fewer people took this particular route.
Only the stronger escort agencies would dare to travel this way. Moreover, when they last ca to the new county, they did not take this route, which speaks for itself that even the Tang family’s housekeeper wouldn’t dare to use it.
Upon their arrival at the Ye’s, only Hongji, the male head of the house, was out, reportedly working at the timber mill at the edge of the village.
Today, the guests at the estate also included a young master. Ye Shuzhen, who was yet unmarried, saw the handso and elegant young master disembarking from his horse. As he slowly approached, her face flushed red, and she stared fixedly.
Ye Shuzhen had no other thoughts; she simply blushed and felt shy in front of the opposite sex.
She was soone already engaged and soon to be married, not daring to have a wandering eye when eting a rich young master.
In this respect, she still had a bit of self-awareness, knowing that her status was not a match!
In the courtyard, there was a young girl who stared intently at him. Zhong Xingwang remained unaffected and knew she must certainly be one of the Ye family’s young ladies.
Ye Shiqi and her four elder sisters, along with their mother carrying their little brother, t the teacher. Through the introductions by the two teachers, they knew that the young master was the teacher’s brother.
From this Young Master’s speech, it was clear that it wasn’t just an act of rich deanor; his behavior seed to have been cultivated from a young age.
It appeared that there was a story behind the two teachers, raising the question of why a rich man’s daughter, who beca a teacher, would marry and her brother would also co to this place.
They did not feel it appropriate to inquire about the identity of Mr. Mo, nor to probe into the couple’s background, knowing only that they were hired by the Tang Family and were introduced by Mrs. Tang’s relative.
When his elder sister and brother-in-law were teaching the students musical instrunts, Zhong Xingwang did not insist on being taken to the estate by the Ye family mbers, but rather wandered around leisurely without any particular direction.
He returned to the Ye family’s courtyard before lunch, and after eating, accompanied by his elder sister and brother-in-law and led by the Ye couple, they set off to visit their estate.
They also heard that not far from the village entrance, they had built an estate, which was still under construction.
Previously they hadn’t paid much attention, only aware that there were people building houses beside the road.
Zhong Xingwang observed all along the way, just as he had in the morning, noting again that, thanks to the good irrigation and climate, crop planting in Bushen Village was very successful.
The agricultural produce was almost the sa as their own in the Imperial Capital, and the farrs’ planting techniques were not much different.
Mr. Mo observed very carefully, having already seen the rice paddies planted by the roadside from the carriage, knowing that this place didn’t have the flat plains like the North, but had better irrigation and climate conditions.
So areas had farrs growing rice in terraced paddies, small in scope, but thanks to the good irrigation, they were also able to grow rice.
It wasn’t like the North where there was more dry land, and where sorghum was more commonly grown.
In Bushen Village, the mountainous land could even support the cultivation of sugarcane, sweet potatoes, and cassava among other crops.
This demonstrated that the wealthy lives of farrs in places with good climate and irrigation in the South were well-founded; as long as they weren’t too lazy, the farrs lived more prosperously than they did.
Even so, Mr. Mo never considered moving his family and relatives from his hotown to the South, unless there was chaos from war or they needed to flee due to difficult tis. No matter where they were, ho would always be better than drifting elsewhere.
Being a stranger in a strange land, it would be inconvenient for elderly parents and relatives accustod to their hotown to live elsewhere.
Only if he had the capability to bring out his family from the hotown, and had property in the South to provide them with stability and a happy life, would he consider such a move.
When they arrived at the Ye Manor, Zhong Xingwang noticed that the Ye’s estate was distinct, different in both its crops and architecture from their own family estate.
Together with his elder sister and her husband and guided by the Ye family, in the intense midday sun, they experienced a sensation in the Ye Manor that the heat of midsumr could not take away.
Instead, there was a cool breeze, and they were able to eat fresh lons in the estate—delicious musk lons, cantaloupes, cucumbers, tomatoes, and even pineapples.
There were also lychees and longan fruit, but they had already passed their season.
So of the lon patches had been replanted with rice, and the rice seedlings were growing well.
He also took special note of the mountain where, in addition to fruit trees, there were poultry and bees being raised.
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