Looking at the thin land deed at the bottom of the box, Su Bai's surprise was no less than Su Hua's, and her voice even trembled slightly, "Hua'er, that damn Zaozhuang you mentioned, it really arrived?!"

"Zaozhuang? What's Zaozhuang?" Su Erlang was frantically deveining a mantis shrimp when he heard the question and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Can you eat this Zaozhuang?"

Su Dalang glared at him, "Eat, eat, all you know is eating! Why don't you eat yourself?"

Despite saying that, her little hands deftly peeled two mantis shrimps and put them into Erlang and Chunhua's bowls.

Chunhua smiled and said, "Thank you, big brother."

While eating shrimp, she couldn't help but glance at the small wooden box in Su Hua's hand. She also wanted to know if Zaozhuang was safe to eat.

If you could eat it, wouldn't it taste even better than these big crabs and shrimp?

Zhao, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but chuckle. She did know a place called Zaozhuang. Before she got married, she would go with her parents to pick up rice ears in the fields of Zaozhuang every autumn after the harvest.

Of course, the rice ears they picked had already been picked by the villagers; a family could only pick a few pounds at most in a day.

However, Zaozhuang belonged to the eldest daughter of the prefectural magistrate's family, so how could it possibly be given away?

So she just shook her head and smiled, without saying a word.

The two brothers, Su Erhu and Su Sanhu, stopped peeling shrimp and crabs and looked at Su Hua curiously.

Only Su Dahu and Qian Shi showed no reaction.

The former understood perfectly, while the latter was too surprised to react in time.

Su Hua swallowed the shrimp and crab noodle soup in her mouth, and without keeping her in suspense, smiled and nodded, "Zaozhuang was the prize set by Liu Yuxian at the Hundred Flowers Banquet yesterday, and I just happened to win it. Zaozhuang is located in the neighboring Wangjia Village."

As soon as the words were spoken, Zhao, who had been so composed just moments before, was the first to lose her composure. "Is it really that Zaozhuang from Wangjia Village?!"

Apart from Su Dahu and the three bewildered siblings, the rest of the Su family members were utterly horrified.

"My goodness! I heard that Zaozhuang has two hundred acres of fertile land, plus fifty acres of mountain land for planting jujube trees, and a huge lake too."

"Good heavens, so much land! If we were to buy it with silver, the amount of money needed would be enough to crush a person to death!"

"Among all the villages around here, Wangjia Village is the best-off. There's a jujube orchard in the village, and every year they can earn a lot of money by transplanting rice seedlings and harvesting rice for the orchard. They never have to go out to work and risk their lives for money."

"Now this entire estate belongs to our Hua'er! The Meng family has two hundred acres of land and is called 'Little Master,' so what should we call our Hua'er, who's a complete fool..."

Su Hua was overjoyed that Zaozhuang was finally in her grasp when she heard this "idiot," and her lips twitched.

If this weren't her own third brother, she would have given him a gentle, large hand...

She wiped her mouth and stood up. When she looked up, she saw the servant driving a blue cloth carriage away quickly from behind the fence outside the courtyard. The black horse tail swung in the air with the momentum of an Olympic discus.

I don't know what instructions Liu Yuxian gave.

The way the man and his horse were so eager to get going was as if a pack of vicious dogs were chasing them.

In no time at all, they disappeared without a trace.

The Su family eats breakfast early, and it's not yet Chenshi (7-9 AM). There's still more than an hour before the Su family goes to Qingshui County to sell spicy hot pot.

With a wave of her hand, Su Hua led her family to Zaozhuang.

Because Su Sui was not fully recovered, and Zhao Shi had previously been to Zaozhuang, she took the initiative to stay and take care of her. After thinking about it, Su Bai Shi simply sent Qian Shi and the three little girls to stay at home to look after the house.

After all, villagers would be coming to build houses later, and it wouldn't be convenient to leave Zhao alone as a woman.

Although Ms. Qian was somewhat unhappy, she thought to herself that Zaozhuang was already hers, and it wasn't far away, so she could visit it whenever she wanted.

Going there now might mean having to work, so it's better to stay home and eat more shrimp and crabs. These are precious things; every extra one you eat is a bonus...

North of Shanghe Village is Wangjia Village, and further north of Wangjia Village is Zhaojia Village. The three villages are not far apart.

In addition, Mo Bao was extremely fast on his feet, and arrived in Zaozhuang in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

At this moment, six blue cloth carriages were neatly parked on the side of the road in front of the manor.

The carriage windows were half-open, and people outside could clearly see that each of the first three carriages carried five or six people: elderly people in their fifties or sixties, men and women in their twenties or thirties, and toddlers as young as four or five.

The last three carriages were filled with all their belongings, packed tightly together: food, blankets, bundles, and even pots and pans... everything was there.

On the shaft of the first carriage was the servant who had come to Old Su's house this morning to deliver the land deed.

Su Sanhu figured they'd met once, so he figured they were acquaintances and decided to go up and say hello, "Hey bro, how were you this morning..."

But as soon as he opened his mouth, the servant kicked the horse in the belly.

"drive--"

A line of six horse-drawn carriages clattered as they headed out of Wangjia Village.

The dozens of people in the carriage looked at Su Sanhu and his family with utter indifference.

Su Sanhu, unable to avoid it, ended up with a mouthful of horse rear end dust. "What's wrong with everyone here? Why are they looking at us like we're their enemies?"

Su Hua shrugged, "Isn't it just about seeing your enemy?"

"What? Why?" Su Sanhu was completely bewildered. "Apart from the guy at the very front, we've never even seen him before..."

Su Dahu watched the carriage drive away, his gaze deep. "They must be the managers of Zaozhuang."

The steward of a wealthy family's estate, far from the master, was essentially a half-master within the estate. Not only did he hold a high position, but he also made a lot of money from it.

Now that the estate is in Hua'er's hands, they will have to be relocated to another place, whether for better or worse, is unknown.

"Can't you look at us like we're your enemies?"

Su Sanhu nodded thoughtfully, "But how did you know, brother, that these people were the managers of the manor?"

Su Dahu smiled and said, "Among these twenty or thirty people, there are not only able-bodied men, but also old people and children. All of them are wearing fine cotton clothes, which are clean and without a single stain. They are obviously not ordinary farmers."

Furthermore, the three old women wore numerous ornaments on their hands and in their hair, including jade bracelets and gold hairpins, and they looked at people with an arrogant and haughty air. What else could they be but the stewards of the estate?

Su Sanhu was stunned. In just one glance, he could see so much.

"Big brother is really smart."

“I just see more and think more, that’s all. How can that be considered clever?” Su Dahu shook his head and looked at the girl who was already striding into the manor. “If we’re talking about cleverness, Hua’er is the real clever one. She won this big manor from Liu Yuxian step by step with her own abilities.”