Chapter 544: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 544: Hidden Malice (3)
Chen Ji acted swiftly. As soon as Du Shi left the study, he dispatched two groups of people. One group headed south, traveling a thousand miles to Liuyang Village to inquire about the Mo family’s situation. The other group discreetly took away all the servants who had accompanied Du Shi that day for interrogation...
Meanwhile, Mo Yan, who was busy transporting boxes of gold into her hidden space, had no idea that her family was being targeted. Seeing the valuable items piling up under the jade platform, she clapped her hands in satisfaction.
Besides a box full of gold, there were five medium-sized wooden boxes filled with ten-tael silver ingots. Most of these silver ingots were the profits from the rice shop over the past nine months, with the rest coming from dividends from the timber business, selling herbs, wild game, and leftover funds from building the house, totaling around eight thousand taels.
The remaining boxes, large and small, contained various treasures, rare furs, and precious fabrics, all of which were New Year's gifts from Xiao Ruiyuan last year.
Initially, Mo Yan had wanted to return these priceless gifts to Xiao Ruiyuan. Later, when their relationship took a certain turn, she mentioned during one of their meetings that he should take them back. However, Xiao Ruiyuan said nothing, simply staring at her with those icy eyes, as if daring her to bring it up again. Afraid of the severe consequences of provoking such a domineering person, Mo Yan immediately fell silent. She couldn't bear the potential repercussions of angering him.
Unable to return the gifts and not wanting to explain them to the straightforward Mo Qingze, nor let him know about her relationship with Xiao Ruiyuan, she hid everything in her space.
As long as she didn’t have the bad luck she had in her past life where the space got formatted, there was no safer place than the space to store her valuables. Mo Yan felt completely secure hiding all her belongings there.
Half an hour before dinner, Mo Yan picked up a sickle, ready to harvest the ripe rice, when she heard a knock on the door and Li Yan's voice: "Sister Yan, Grandpa Ding is here to see you. He looks very anxious!"
Grandpa Ding was a villager Mo Yan had hired to take care of the lowland and terraced rice fields. He was honest and diligent, tending the rice fields so well that Mo Yan rarely had to worry. He usually only sought her out to pay for labor when it was time to weed or deal with pests.
Upon hearing this, Mo Yan quickly put down the sickle and stepped out of her space, opening the door and running to the front, clearly worried that something had gone wrong with the rice fields. After all, the rice would be ready for harvest in less than a month.
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This time, Grandpa Ding came with a "problem" with the rice, but it was a good problem!
"Young Mistress, good news, great news! The rice in the lowlands and terraces has all filled out with grain, just as you said. Each grain is full; it's a new variety, a high-yielding new variety." Seeing Mo Yan come out, Grandpa Ding stood up excitedly, speaking incoherently.
When they initially planted the seedlings with such wide spacing, the young mistress had said it was necessary for the new variety. He had been skeptical at the time, but now those seedlings had grown densely. Without the proper spacing, they might have suffocated, just as she had said.
He had thought that this would only save some seed, but to his surprise, the rice heads that emerged were more than three times longer than the old rice he had planted before. Although everyone suspected that this new variety was extraordinary, he still worried that the heads wouldn't fill out properly, leaving most of the grains empty.
For days, he had patrolled the fields tirelessly, dreaming that the heads would fill with grain. Unexpectedly, they actually did. He inspected every field thoroughly and found that almost every rice head had only three or five empty grains. This meant that the yield from these rice heads would be three times that of the old rice. Calculating this, each mu of paddy field could produce over a thousand jin of rice, an unprecedented amount
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